This week, the boys: talk about finally leaving closed door cultivation after a long, chaotic break (complete with broken legs and hospital trips); gab about the current "golden age" of anime and donghua while dropping a ton of recommendations; argue over the messy ending and unresolved threads of Chainsaw Man Part 2; and ruminate on why Rich finally got hooked on ReZero, alongside deep dives into fantasy web novels/manhua like Beware of Chicken and Ultimate Son-in-Law.

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This week, the boys: talk about how "gruish" the survival/eldritch horror elements are; gab about the surprising amounts of humor peppered in between the brutality of the novel; and ruminate on the quality of the localization/translation done by Deathblade.

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This week, the boys: talk about how different the Protagonist is from other Korean novels; gab about the use of western fantasy tropes; and ruminate on the surprising brutality in Damn Reincarnation

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This week, the boys: talk about Sword Fingers/Starseizing hands; gab about Daomerges; and ruminate on IEATTomatoes detailed worldbuilding

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This week, the boys: talk about pragmatic main characters; gab about the depth of this story's world/character building and why it may have led to it being banned; ruminate on the application of Gu/the cultivation system; and listen to Richard struggle to explain it coherently without spoiling all of it.

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This week, the boys: talk about the profundities of farming and raising spirit beasts on mistake; gab about western takes on cultivation novels; ruminate on the more direct approach to romance in this novel

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This week, the boys: talk spirit beasts; discuss the connection to the first Soul Land; gab about Magitech & Hidden weapons; and generally gush about this novel/show.

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This week, the boys: talk about unfocused writing; gab about the problems with forced alter egos; ruminate on science fiction cultivation; and generally realize Rich didn't enjoy this book the way he tried to.

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This episode, the boys: winge about the conflicting genres; complain about the scattered plot points; and speculate on what will happen in the parts of the novel they refuse to read.

This show continues in memory of our brothers that have ascended to the next realm. We will miss you Bill & Seth, forever. Hopefully we will see you again when we pass our tribulations.

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This episode, the boys talk about Korean webnovel tropes; compare Solo Leveling to Seoul Station Necromancer; and genuinely complain about the way korean novels tend to end.

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