So, Okada-san basically super double ultra recommended that I watch this drama that I skipped over last year called...
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So, Okada-san basically super double ultra recommended that I watch this drama that I skipped over last year called "Yuusha Yoshihiko to Maoh no Shiro": "Yoshihiko the Hero and the Castle of the Demon King: A Low-Budget Adventure". He said it was awesome, and there was no way he could recommend it to me enough.
Turns out that even then he totally under-conveyed how fucking awesome this show is. There are two series, I actually watched the entirety of the first and am looking into the second.
It's basically a low-budget late-night drama about heroes in a Drgaon Quest-esque RPG world. Every episode the Buddha shows up and gives them their next quest, and pretty much from one end to another the thing is filled with IMMENSELY quotable gags and references.
Plus, it stars some pretty famous people (well, in Japan anyway). The hero Yoshihiko is the actor who plays the samurai nephew of the main guy from 13 Assassins (one of the few who survives).
Here's some stuff that happens:
* They go to the job-changing shrine to pick up a second class. Due to an accident, Yoshihiko accidentally changes his class to IDOL, and joins a fantasy idol group. The other three are then suddenly joined by a Level 99 Playboy who accidentally changed his class to HERO in a lottery.
* All of Mereb the magic-users spells are low level cantrip crap. The most useful one in the show is "SWEETS", which makes people suddenly want to eat something sweet. Other spells include one that makes you feel a breeze, one that makes your chin stick out, etc.
* Each season there is one scene where they enter someone's house, walking in a marching order behind Yoshihiko, who basically opens all their drawers, and smashes all their barrels and pottery looking for loot.
* The towns they visit are often populated by townspeople running around doing one simple action over and over, who say one single thing over and over.
* The speeches by the Buddha are always awesome. He is, for me, the new "quiet man in the corner who gives the quest". I totally want to run a game where he gives out quests.
* "It's... ... ...my pocket katana."
* Almost every single episode a new bandit shows up to fight them, and is always thwarted by their own circumstances: The bandit's mom/wife/etc shows up and lectures them, in extraordinarily painful detail.
* Yoshihiko's sister follows them around, and we only see her for like 20 seconds at the end of every episode. Every episode she appears to have, in the time from the last episode, lived a pretty crazy lifestyle (broke out of prison, became a female yakuza boss, etc)
* Murasaki (Purple) the female thief has some pretty useful powers, but her knife is a collapsible stage prop. "If you stick someone with it all the way to the hilt, it still sticks out a tiny bit, and that part hurts. A little."
* There are a few resurrections in the show. Apparently, you can spend less money to resurrect a hero... partially.
* The "Invincible Shoes" are a pair of gold-painted CROCS. "Be very careful Yoshihiko! See this crocodile mark here? If it doesn't have that mark, it's likely a knock-off brand."
* Every time the party fights a very powerful monster... well, the show really hams up its low budget: Those scenes turn into crappy flash animation sequences that last about 20 seconds.
Japan finally has its Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And it's two seasons long (about 11 total hours).
Probably the coolest thing about this show is that almost everyone I know (at work, etc) has at least watched one episode. Usually because they were up late, they turned on the TV, this show happened to be on, and they were like "WTF is this??? It's super low budget and silly, but kind of awesome", and most tried to watch more episodes from there.
The Hero Yoshihiko and the Demon King's Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgAyRl_Ut8k
So, Okada-san basically super double ultra recommended that I watch this drama that I skipped over last year called "Yuusha Yoshihiko to Maoh no Shiro": "Yoshihiko the Hero and the Castle of the Demon King: A Low-Budget Adventure". He said it was awesome, and there was no way he could recommend it to me enough.
Turns out that even then he totally under-conveyed how fucking awesome this show is. There are two series, I actually watched the entirety of the first and am looking into the second.
It's basically a low-budget late-night drama about heroes in a Drgaon Quest-esque RPG world. Every episode the Buddha shows up and gives them their next quest, and pretty much from one end to another the thing is filled with IMMENSELY quotable gags and references.
Plus, it stars some pretty famous people (well, in Japan anyway). The hero Yoshihiko is the actor who plays the samurai nephew of the main guy from 13 Assassins (one of the few who survives).
Here's some stuff that happens:
* They go to the job-changing shrine to pick up a second class. Due to an accident, Yoshihiko accidentally changes his class to IDOL, and joins a fantasy idol group. The other three are then suddenly joined by a Level 99 Playboy who accidentally changed his class to HERO in a lottery.
* All of Mereb the magic-users spells are low level cantrip crap. The most useful one in the show is "SWEETS", which makes people suddenly want to eat something sweet. Other spells include one that makes you feel a breeze, one that makes your chin stick out, etc.
* Each season there is one scene where they enter someone's house, walking in a marching order behind Yoshihiko, who basically opens all their drawers, and smashes all their barrels and pottery looking for loot.
* The towns they visit are often populated by townspeople running around doing one simple action over and over, who say one single thing over and over.
* The speeches by the Buddha are always awesome. He is, for me, the new "quiet man in the corner who gives the quest". I totally want to run a game where he gives out quests.
* "It's... ... ...my pocket katana."
* Almost every single episode a new bandit shows up to fight them, and is always thwarted by their own circumstances: The bandit's mom/wife/etc shows up and lectures them, in extraordinarily painful detail.
* Yoshihiko's sister follows them around, and we only see her for like 20 seconds at the end of every episode. Every episode she appears to have, in the time from the last episode, lived a pretty crazy lifestyle (broke out of prison, became a female yakuza boss, etc)
* Murasaki (Purple) the female thief has some pretty useful powers, but her knife is a collapsible stage prop. "If you stick someone with it all the way to the hilt, it still sticks out a tiny bit, and that part hurts. A little."
* There are a few resurrections in the show. Apparently, you can spend less money to resurrect a hero... partially.
* The "Invincible Shoes" are a pair of gold-painted CROCS. "Be very careful Yoshihiko! See this crocodile mark here? If it doesn't have that mark, it's likely a knock-off brand."
* Every time the party fights a very powerful monster... well, the show really hams up its low budget: Those scenes turn into crappy flash animation sequences that last about 20 seconds.
Japan finally has its Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And it's two seasons long (about 11 total hours).
Probably the coolest thing about this show is that almost everyone I know (at work, etc) has at least watched one episode. Usually because they were up late, they turned on the TV, this show happened to be on, and they were like "WTF is this??? It's super low budget and silly, but kind of awesome", and most tried to watch more episodes from there.
The Hero Yoshihiko and the Demon King's Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgAyRl_Ut8k
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