Trash Taste Podcast - How to NOT Buy Anime Figures | Trash Taste #4

Episode Date: June 26, 2020

Joey (TheAnimeMan), Garnt (Gigguk) and Connor (CDawgVA) travel to Akihabara for an Anime merchandise buying challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I really want you guys to smell my finger. No, I'm not smelling your finger. Please, please. Get that shit away for me! Which is nose in it. Oh. What's up you salty salmon slices? Welcome back to another episode

of the Trash Tastes Podcast. I'm sorry, what? Yeah, you heard. What was that? What's that? That's gonna be, every time I host an episode, that's gonna be my thing. Alright. That's gonna be the new intro.

That's a thing, now. Chote a minute. We didn't discuss this beforehand. I was thinking of the first. I'm like that ship like two weeks. That's the best you came up with. It's gonna slap. Hey man, give me some time, right?

I'm working on it. Well, welcome to the Trash Tastes Podcast, the show where we talk trash about a taste and anime. I'm your host for today, Joey, and joined, as always, is Gart and Connor. Yo. So this episode is, I guess, the first special episode. Yeah, yeah. Spinoff episode.

If you're being linked from our main channel videos, hello. Welcome to the podcast. But if you haven't seen our main channel, channel videos, do we want to explain what we did? Do you wanna go ahead? Oh yeah, sure. So basically on our main channel, we decided to do like a little fun challenge

where as you can see, our backdrop is a little bare bones. This is a big table. This is a big table that has a lot of potential space to be filled up with some weeby shit. So what we decided to do is we decided to venture out into the Weeblan itself, Akihabra in Tokyo, which is like known as like heaven for Otaku's essentially. And we decided to challenge ourselves

to see how many figurines, or I guess anime merch we can buy with a $500 budget, or about $50,000 yen, if you convert it to yen. And instead of just going out and making it like a vlog kind of thing, we decided to turn it into a challenge where we fight each other for it. Let's make it challenging and let's make, let's put some stakes on this piece.

Let's make it a relaxing experience of shopping into stressful hell where you buy shit, you don't want to meet a dumb set of criteria. Out of the money in our pocket. Yeah, exactly right. So essentially we gave ourselves a number of challenges. We had some small challenges that we did in the four anime stores that we went to

in our main channel videos. Again, if you wanna check it out, go check it. You'll miss a lot of context if you don't watch that video. But if you haven't seen it and you refuse to for some reason, you'll still be fine to watch this podcast. So basically we all have scores already from challenges that we did in each store, which is probably on screen right now.

You'd know that if you watched our videos, but here are all our scores. But it's not the final score, like any good Mario Party game, right? It doesn't matter how many stars you end up with. It's all about the final count. It's all about the bonus stars. And this episode is essentially where we go over the bonus stars, as well as show each other what we got.

Because right now, we don't know what the fuck each other got. No. We maybe got like a few glimpses as we like passed each other passive aggressively in each of the stores. But right now, we have no idea what the other person bought. So that's what we're gonna find out today. So we have a bunch of overracking challenges, right? Yes. So we have some that are like pretty obvious, like who spent the most

on a single figurine, what was else? Who bought a figure from the most popular series? Which you lose a point if that's the case. Normie Award. We'll go over every challenge at the end after we've finished showing everyone what we've bought. But for now, I just wanted to ask you guys, we just filmed it yesterday. Yeah. How did you guys find the experience? I mean, I found it super That came out, like I haven't started editing the video yet as I'm recording this episode, but I can already tell that video is gonna be so fucking fun to watch.

I feel like it's just fun. Like that's like the only way to, you can see I'm having fun in it, because it was just, I mean, he's like a kid in a candy store, right? Like we always go to these stores. It's a very expensive. Exactly.

We always go to these stores and being able to like film in there with permission, you know, we wanted to do it professionally as well. We didn't Logan Paul with the shit. You know what I mean? We got permission because we respect. We respect.

Yeah, we got all, promotion from the stores and it's just great because you kind of just got to let loose in the store. I mean, some of the stores there were people in there, so I was still trying to be respectful. Right, yeah, yeah. You know, like, animate, there was no one else in that story. No, no, just for us.

We got in, like, before the story, yeah. Yeah, so. When we left the store, there was like a massive queue. A people trying to get in. I was like, oh, I feel kind of bad right now. That's so bad. Then we just come out, just like, with all our crap, just being like,

yeah, you guys have to lay. Look at these peasants. Ugh. Oh, my God. But yeah, like a lot of the stores were like very happy to have us. I mean like, Army, Army made us like sign that like little thing. Yeah, it was crazy. If you ever go to Army Army in Akihabra, look out for our little plaque.

Yeah, we have a trash taste like plaque. Are they gonna hang that up? Is that what they... I assume so? Yeah, they should, they should. I hope so. I really hope so. But like, no, but all of the stores were super freaking cool.

They were very, very supportive. So first of all, big shout out to all the stores that did give us permission to film there. Yeah. But yeah, without further ado, I think, we should go over what we bought in each store and judge our, as the name suggests, trash taste on figurines and other anime merch.

So let's just jump right into it. I want to jump right into it. Before we jump right into it. Oh my God. Let's just hold off on the jumping for a second. I want to discuss, so did you guys have any strategy going into this game or into this challenge even? I said I did in my main channel video,

but in retrospect, I didn't. If I win, it was all planned. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I lose, I was just having a fun time with the boys, you know, I think that's, okay, to be 100% honest, I like had some idea, but I think it, my strategy was just see what you guys are doing, because if you guys are trying to go off all the challenges

and I could see you guys are paying attention, like, okay, I was gonna, but if I knew that, because I could tell some of you, weren't, you know, some of you, weren't paying as much attention to the challenges as others. I was like, okay. The only challenge that, I paid in mind to was the only one that I remembered,

which was the, whoever gets closest to $500. Which is worth two points. Yeah, which is worth two points. So I'm like, I have to prioritize that. Because that two points is big. Two points is big, but like I remember, because I couldn't even remember all the challenges that we agreed on.

So I went into the day being like, okay, this one's an obvious challenge, this one's an obvious challenge. As I went into more stores, I was like, I am not keeping track. I am running out of money. I don't know what's happening. When I was in animator, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna do this in this store,

I'm gonna do this in that store. And then I hit the second store, I'm like, what the fuck am I doing? I was so short-sighted on like the challenges that I had to do in that store. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck the other challenges. So I need to get this.

To put it in perspective, we got two challenges for every store you probably saw in the video. So which is the total of eight points that we could get. There's 10, 11 points up for grabs in the overarching challenges. So, I mean, if you do really well on the overarching challenges, it might not fucking matter. Yeah, exactly.

And like, we're already, close for Tom, yeah, yeah. Like maybe like one or two points. I'm eight, seven, six. Yeah, so that's a two. So right now I might be losing, but like any good Mario Party game, I can always come back right at the end.

So, uh, yeah. Just jump right into it. Now we just jump right into it. All right, no, no, sorry. Animate. We started with anime. Anime. I didn't, I didn't buy much in this store.

It was the first one. I didn't wanna pull the trigger. Okay, so here's the, here's the thing about animates. I didn't know how much I should buy. We're just revealing right now? Or what do we do? I mean, who wants to go first? I mean, okay, can I go first?

You're the host, you're the host. Okay, I'll go first because I only bought one thing at anime. Oh, okay, okay, so. So one of my challenges was to get a made in abyss figurine. Yeah. Couldn't find it, not even, not just in anime, any of the stores, I couldn't find it. So I lost the point for that one. But I figured, you know what, I'll get something

like kind of cool and kind of niche. So I got, uh, Hyakimaru from Dororo. Oh, wow, damn. I didn't even know they made figures. I know. It's a nendroid of Hyakimaru And I mean, Doroto was so fucking awesome. Like, I love me, my Tezika Osama stuff,

and I love Dorot. And I was like, you know, I like my nendroids too. So yeah, you know, I'm not bad. It's really, really cute. I mean, we'll probably figure out the pose of it somehow, but- Yeah. It's the stressful thing about nendroids, you just have to, you gotta pick one pose

and that's never, we all know it's never gonna change from that pose. They're all, so finicky as well, but once you've like nailed it, you're like, hell, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, so that's the only thing I got at anime. Because, yeah, I got a few things out of anime.

Okay, okay. So I had two challenges, right? And I think I got fucked over, over some of the overarching challenges by just animated itself. Really? So, so, okay. Let's go ahead. So the first thing, the first challenge was to buy a Deku figure

from Aheer Academia. Oh yeah, yeah. So as we all know, one of the overarching challenges was the word, the person who buys a figure from the most popular series gets deducted to the point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's my Deku figure. I was actually getting

worried, right? Because there weren't many like figures in... No, that was an anime. Yeah, it was really varied in anime. So the only thing I could find are nenderoids. And so my second challenge was to ask a store clerk in Japanese to recommend me a figure. Okay, yeah, you had to pull a summi-my-mas-kin.

Wait, what did he recommend you? Okay, he recommended to me. Edward Elric, no! No! No! No, no, you've totally lost. I was like, I was like, wow, my God, you've, one, you recommend me the figure from the one series

I haven't seen yet. You haven't seen it. Oh my God, and two, you've just made me also lose a point by recommending to me, I checked, I checked for the fourth most popular, anime series on Mao. So I can't make a little bit. Wait, because you, I see the price there,

that's 48 bucks, right? Yeah. How much do you spend on these two? Are they both 488? This one says 4888 and this one says, that was like about 500 and, no, 52 bucks. Yeah, you got, you got, this one will be a little bit more expensive.

You got done dirty by that man. Yeah. I was like, in the video I was like, oh, thank you very much for recommending for me. And inside I'm just like, I can't believe you've done this. And I bought one more thing, which cracked me up. Yeah.

Which is an Ishtar Flushy. It's fatish tar. Oh, that's kind of cute. It's kind of cute. I like it. I like that. Yeah, from fate. Yeah, wait, what the f-what the fuck?

I think that's a, what is it? It's called Sum. It's like a giant Sum-Tum, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's the thing is all right. That's so cute though. That's cute. Yeah, that's gonna look to see.

So how much did you spend in anime, I know, overall? $120? Jesus, I only spent. Wait, was this $30 bucks? Yeah. Oh my God. I only spent $48. Yeah, so I also spent $48 bucks on my red blood selfies.

Oh, I was looking at that one. Yeah. My two challenges were get a female figure and get one from a show that you watched recently. And I watched like a few episodes like two months ago, so. Why didn't you get in the Nesco figure? I saw you, I'm like, mother, If I didn't want to lose a point.

Yeah, I didn't want to get the Normie Award. And I knew that Demon Slayers of the most normal, whatever the ranking says, I would have lost the Normie Award at heart, you know what I mean? And plus, you know, I don't wanna risk it. And also I thought, you know, it's kind of a cool figure, you know? Yeah, yeah, it is.

If we have Neziko, it makes us look like fake anime fans. I'm just saying, right? Now, get the fuck out, man. Nesco's best imoto of last year. I mean, I think Gahn has like fulfilled that prophecy with these two, right? Literally the boomer of antitude here. Tell me about why Nezuko is, you know,

I've gone like how many episodes and I've not talked about emotos yet. And you are taking this chance away from me. Just give us some time. You're like, God's gonna get there. Yeah. I was thinking we just put it in the front for now. Okay, we'll just gather them in the front for now.

That was very aggressive. Okay, for the record, I hate nendroids. I think nendroids are like stressful purchases. And we have four goddamn nendroids. Because you have to pose them, right? And the whole selling point of a nendroids, I'm probably never gonna be sponsored by Nendroid ever. The whole selling point,

of a nendroid is that you can move it, but tell me everyone who wants a Nenroid, when have you changed the pose of an Nendroid? I've changed it a few times. Let's lie. I've never changed it. Yeah, he's lying. I've changed it because I'm sponsored by goodsmog.

Thanks guys. Is it stressful? And then you gotta worry about the box and the little things and I just. I sometimes like, where I'm just like, I look at the little parts and I'm like, I wanna change it eventually. And then I do and I'm like, okay, I'm glad I kept on.

Okay, actually, before we go on, yeah, question to you guys, what do you do with a figure box? Do you bin it or do you keep it? Oh no, I store it. I store it. Shit man, I ripped that shit over. No!

No! Even after living in Japan where the box is like half the value? Because yeah, the mentality for me is like, if I eventually like possibly get like, you know, I lose interest. I'm gonna sell this figure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, fuck off, you're not gonna, you're gonna sell this figure. That's me, I taught. Like this guy, I'm like, oh, maybe I can sell this Jojo merch. You don't know, fuck. You're never gonna sell that Jojo much. Okay, okay, but he's the other thing.

I do, right? What helped me at my last place is that it makes moving house so much easier if you keep the box. That's true. Because you, like I usually, what I do, at least with figurines, right, is like I throw out like the plastic like mold.

Yeah, I don't even do that. I don't even do that. See, I thought the plastic mold. It just takes up so much space. But the thing is if you chuck out the plastic mold and you flatten the box, then when you like move house, you can just open the box up again.

Glad right it is. I'm too lazy for that. You save so much time and money and like possibly like the risk of like ruining a figure in mid-move and like that saved me so much trouble when I moved to my current house. So that's why I hold on to it.

Okay. I say it's for repurposing. It's like it's not. Solid purchases though overall. Yeah, I think they're gonna look great. The next story. My favorite anime full metal albums. I recommend you guys watch them.

Your favorite character from your favorite anime. Oh my God. But the next store we went to was A-stop. I spent so much money. Okay, before we get to A-stop, what was your guys' strategy with A-stop? Okay, A-stop is probably the store

that I go to the most just casually. So I knew I really had to spend time just like looking around. Because there are so many figurines at A-stop that I legitimately have never seen anywhere else, even though they're technically secondhand. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna aim for those. And I think I got a pretty decent selection.

decent solution. Because for me, A-stop was the most daunting shop, right? Because, okay, so in my challenge, I had to squat 10 times before getting entering the sword. That was not a challenge. That was easy to do. And my second challenge was an auto-lose because I had to buy the most expensive figure,

which we found out was like a thousand bucks. So I knew I was gonna lose that. So I was like, I was going into A-stop, just not trying to complete any challenge, but just trying to like buy figures that I like. That's nice. Yeah, yeah, follow your heart. Yeah, so I kind of went fucking mental in a stop.

I filled up my piece of paper. No, no, no, no. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah, same here. Okay, so, like, I'll, because I, like, with ASOP, there are so many figures and so many display cases that you don't remember which figure you saw where. So my strategy was just, if I see if, if I see a figure I like, I'm gonna write it down.

Right. And maybe I'll cross it out later. I fucked myself over so bad doing that because I was just like, I remember seeing you like halfway through and I filled up my entire shoot. And you hadn't even had, you didn't even have a piece of paper. I was still looking for like stuff. So I was just going, okay, that one, okay, write down, write down, write that.

And then I got to the end and then I couldn't remember which figure was which. So I was true, I had that. He was like, is it this one? I think I'm like, I think it's, I'm like, yeah, I think it's like, maybe that. Yeah, so he was like basically trying to choose between my children.

So I'm like, what the fuck am I crossing out right now? I'm like, I have no fucking clue. Wow, okay. Yeah. Because, yeah, like for me like a stop, I knew If I wasn't careful at A-stop, I was gonna go absolutely ham at A-stop, as I usually do just like casually.

So I'm like, okay, there are still two stores left. We're not even halfway through this challenge. So I have to like limit myself as much as possible at A-stop. So I only bought three things. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. At A stop. How many do you get? I can't remember like, five, six?

I mean, you'll see. Do you wanna go first then? Yeah, I'll go first. And then you can take it in turn, show them one off each. Yeah, yeah. I decided to like kind of go for like, Smallish one. So my two challenges was, the first one was really easy.

I had to go up to the store clock and ask if they had Bokinopiko merch, which they said they didn't, thank God. Did they know what it was? Well, the guy was an English-speaking stuff, so he's like, is that the one where the two guys fucking? You'll see it in the video. But the other challenge was really easy.

It was just pick a figurine that either myself, Garn or Connor likes. So obviously, I went with, with the one that I liked. So, that was bullshit, by the way. Mine's still in Glad Rap right here, so I gotta unwrap this shit. But I obviously got my goddamn Wifu.

Fucking Monogathory. Of course it is. Oh, of course it is. Look, if, look, I'm gonna be on this show casually, like all the freaking time. So of course, I needed to get my wife of Shinobo. I actually don't even have this one at home. So I guess, I guess I'm gonna go,

I'm just gonna go next now because of course I followed my heart as well. Oh my God. We've got Monagathri as well. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Oh, God. No, my wife.

So yeah, I knew Joey would get a Shinobu figure because I saw so many boxes that were just purely Shinobu and I'm just like, get that shit out of me. Get that shit out of my face, man. You might need to like hold it up to the camera because they might have been to sit, especially with the boxes in the way actually. Yeah.

So I mean like what I tried to do at A-Stop was at the beginning, I just tried to get, I just tried to note down as many figures as I could for under 20, 20 bucks because I feel like anything over, anything over 20 bucks was like kind of risking it in terms of. I mean, especially if you're buying like seven figurines exactly, exactly.

So this one's, I don't have this figure yet because it's short hair Sanjegahara. Oh, that's cute. Dude, I personally find the short hair Senjahara's figurines so much nice and the long-haired one. There was so many good Sanja Gahara figurines so it like hurts me that I had to buy the cheapest one.

All right, boys. You want to see what I bought then? Yeah, go for it. This is a, I think it was a 900 yen sword out online figure. You didn't even get like the good sword online one. It was the cheapest sort on line figure because you know if you're gonna buy garbage, why you can like, why care about which, you know,

like terrible item it is? It was 900 yen I think and it was the cheapest sort online figure. Oh damn, okay. Was this for a challenge? Yeah, remember I had to shout, I freaking love S AO while buying an SEO figure. I will say that that, that, That shout, wasn't a shout to it.

That was a, in Japanese culture, that was like full, you know, that was, come on. Okay, okay. I freaking love S.A. No, it was louder than that. It was like, it was just like, I freaking love his a, yeah. It was like a gradual, like, building volume.

Let's get this boy out of here. Okay, the other two though that I bought, I think is super freaking cool because they're two figurines that I postly really wanted, but also, it just like really, really. Yeah, we're saying over that, Jay. We just get the shabry.

I think it goes without saying, don't listen to the audio only of this. It's gonna sound probably horrible. Okay, guys, just to open my box over here. No, no, no, no, no, this is box opening ASM. Okay, but let me show you the other two I got, okay? This second one I got is Shonen Jump. Oh, that's so cool.

Okay, that's pretty fuck, that's all. That's really cool. Like, I'd never seen this before and I'm like, I was like, does this count as a figurine? Probably does. Yeah, it's a piece of, you know, solid... I mean, I love Shonen Jump, and that's gonna look so cool. on like the shelf or stuff like that.

That's, I think if we had a coolest item award, because I didn't know if we could get a coolest item because we have to all agree. Yeah. Yeah. But I think we can all agree this is the cool of the coolest figurines. Yeah.

And the other one I got is also pretty cool. It's puck from berserk. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, look how tiny this guy is. How much was that? This is 980 N. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because every berserk figure I saw was so expensive.

Yeah, yeah. Like there's a few figures in the store that I found. Like Nanachi, the little Nanachi figure, Nanachi was like 250 bucks. Oh yeah, no, the made in abyss stuff is so expensive. Yeah, yeah, because it's so hard time. So even if I got that made an abyss thing at a stop,

I probably still wouldn't have been able to do it because I'm not gonna spend $250 on a Nanachie. Angel Bees. So I got Yuri from Angel Beats. She was, I can't remember how much, but it was between 10 and 20 and 20 bucks. That's so cute. There's one figure that I didn't get.

I of course put Sagari down. I of course put Sagri down. I of course put Sagree down and you see in my video when I'm like trying to figure out which figure was which and I was like just crossing out figures. The realization when I had crossed out Sagri was just like my heart fucking sank man. My heart sank when I was like oh oh no,

I crossed off Sagery, how could I? Oh my God, don't look at what I'm unboxing. I mean, I mean that's this is essentially all I bought at A-Stolp. I think I spent, I didn't even spend $100 a day stop. I think because yeah, I spent 9,900 140 yen at A-stop because this shunnen jump one was 5,000 yen. Which is kind of expensive, but not too bad.

I mean, I just try to get Cinderays. You got another ishtar? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a double ishton. I forgot her. I think it's like Merrim, Merrim, Meduddin or something like that. Yeah, yeah.

It's probably written on the ballpark. I don't know, I don't wanna say I've bought the single best figure. But are you going to- What can you say? Look at this $30 Mike Wazzowski. That's actually so cool. That's actually like, no joke.

That's a, that's a good figure, right? I actually love that. I know, because I saw Mike Wazowski. I heard you shouting. And I was like, Mike, what are you doing here? So I have, it was a $30 purchase and I just wanted to make you guys laugh, you know. I, can I see that? That's a good figure, right?

It's a good figure. It's well made. I love this dude. You put this up here. I love how like the base is the Monsters Ink logo. Yeah, it's so cool. I bought it for a troll, but I actually thought it's not bad for 30 bucks.

No, that's actually, I think our audience can appreciate that. That's so cool. I kind of, I love that. The da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's Toy Story, right? No, no, that's more. Do you have any more figures, Connor? I have plenty of more figures.

I mean, I'm all out, so I'm just gonna watch you guys. You keep talking. Hell yeah! Megumin, my Wifu! She was a cheap, I think she was like 19 bucks. Megamin, some Megamin figurines. It's a pretty big figure. Like the form factor of this box is pretty deceiving.

That's one thing I've noticed about Megamine figurines. Some of them are like way cheaper than what they should be. It's hard to tell the difference between an $80 Megamon figure and a $20 mega. Because like, you know, with some of the popular characters, there's like so many different prices. Yeah, yeah. With some of the popular characters, because I think I was about to buy, I was going to buy darkness as well. Because I thought Joey was going to buy Megamon. I thought about it, but I'm like,

I don't need to and I reckon one of you guys is gonna buy on. So hold on, hold on. What? Nobody bought any Jojo figures? Oh, wow. It's funny you asked. Oh, thank God.

Thank God. Thank God. Okay, I would just like to preface that that was not a scripted bit. That was totally just coincidental. Because we were just showing figures and I remember thinking, I say in the video, okay, Connor's gonna buy Jojo figures.

I don't need to buy any Jojo figures. So if you didn't buy any, I would have been like, how did we go an entire fucking I'm a fucking trip to Aki Harbor without buying any Jojo. I bought multiple Georgia figures actually, because of course I did. Okay, good, good, on brand.

So this is the figure that I've actually never seen before. This is the- Oh, I saw that. Oh, I'm just destroying my set right now. This is the crazy diamond, uh, J-Jo figure, and it's the one of the special colored editions actually, I think, because there's a normal colored version. And I've never seen this figure before,

and I've never seen it listed anywhere or anything, but there was two of them in the store, funny enough. It was only like 19 bucks. For 19 bucks, that's a nice figure. And if you've seen Jojo figures, you know, they- Some of them look absolutely. They charge a lot more for a lot less. And for, it's tragic that like a 20-buck figure

for the special color edition is like way better than I paid 120 bucks. Also, like the thing with Jojo figure is that's like a double-edged sword is that like some of them just look like absolute ass. Some of them do not look like the characters. No, at all. It's kind of tragic because it's like one

of the most influential and popular series in Japan and they do them dirty. But it's a good figure, I mean, that's a beautiful figure, right, boys. We can agree on that, right? That is a beautiful figure. All right, boy, shall I show my next figure that I bought? I bought a lot of those stuff. I think I bought 10.

This is... Oh, dude! I was going to buy that! I knew he was, because before we left the store, right? And I don't know if we got this on camera. I don't think we did, but Joey was like, I was gonna buy this figure, and he pointed to the booth where I got this figure.

And he was like, oh, I must have been in the different booth. And I was thinking, I bought the board that. The moment I looked over, it was like a comic. I looked over and it was just gone. And in my head, I'm just like, someone bought it. It is. How much that cost?

It was like 30 bucks. Oh shit. Look how cool that is for 30 bucks. It is so cool. It is not standing up, I'm realizing now. Maybe the Cape. Oh, that's like, that's all the Cape. For 30 bucks.

I know. That's pretty fucking good. And like how often do you see Akira figurines? Never, never, never. That's really cool. That was a fucking steel. Yeah, okay. Absolutely.

That's very cool. Oh, now it's standing up. Yeah, I guess now it just... Oh, no. There we go. You got one? Yeah, I got one. This is my last figure.

Um, so I, of course I wanted to fill this channel with some degeneracy. Oh, what the fucks you buy? I think I know what you bought. Just the question is how much was I willing to spend on it? Okay. And this figure... What's in the box? What's in the box?

Oh, no. I just have a... Are you kidding me? Yes. Reza? Really? Yes. Yes. Oh my God.

Do you wanna know how much I spent on this figure? I think I walked past it and I think I remember it being way over my budget. How much? This was $170. John, what the fuck! Okay, that's kinda hot though. When I saw it, I was like, I gotta get this.

Cause you know, you know what I mean when it's just like, help me budget this correctly. When I was going through the sheet, I was like crossing off figures and Sidney was like, just get rid of the fucking high school DXT figure. I'm not getting rid of the high school DXT figure. She stays, Sydney, you leave. No, I walked past this figure in my video

and I was like, I would get this if it wasn't $170 because I didn't want to go overboard. But the moment I saw it, I'm like, one of these fucks is gonna buy. That feel when I realized that I don't have the most expensive figure now. Yeah. Brace my heart. All right, so you see what I got?

Yeah. He's a wing. Let me put that together. Oh, this isn't two parts. Okay. So I was trying to put that together under, underneath the table, it's pretty hard. Oh, it's, oh it's magnetic, okay.

Yeah, because you have to dole like this. Ah, okay, okay. Yeah, what's, what is this? Oh shit. Okay, is this a, is this the dragon from slime? It is indeed, and it comes with more parts. Holy shit, I didn't realize that we, that slime would be representing this much.

Because honestly, like, I didn't put too much thoughts into what I was trying to buy. There we go. Holy shit, this came with so many. Oh, I'm so glad, I'm so glad you got Rimmeroo. So this was actually- Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. Wait until we build it, but like, this was a two-in-one figure.

I don't know if that counts as me buying two figures or one. If it's a two figures. I mean, that's technically one, right? No, no, because they're not actually joined. Yeah. They were sold together. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. So guess how much I paid for these two?

So you guess. 20 bucks? A little low, bro. I pay 30 bucks. the both of them. Okay, okay, that's great. Because I originally said that I originally had a Merrimmed figure and a Rimaru figure,

which was 35 bucks. Was it just Rimuru on his own? No, no, it was like a bundle. With the Dragon? No, no, it was just Rimrior on it. Oh, okay, okay, okay, with Merrim. And then I decided to go against that

just to go from Merrim. So I'm glad that we don't have a single, like, character that's like overlapped. Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised, because I thought- I thought at this point we would at least have, like, some dupes of some characters, but we've miraculously somehow

gotten around that. Why is his head not going in? What the fuck? This wing is not going in either. But yeah, he sold me a faulty thing. I'm joking, it was very nice. So is that everything you bought Connor? No, there's way more.

Oh my God, do you want to try to assemble this? Yeah, yeah, give it. Look at that poor head. Oh my God, look at that. That's a, oh no, oh no, my, my, my figure gone. I spent money on that. But yeah, I thought, you know, I knew, I knew, I knew, falling apart.

I knew none of you were gonna get slime figure. So I thought, you know, I'll get it. Cause I thought also it's super blue. I thought that would look sick on the podcast. So like how much did you spend on all these people? We'll find out later because the store where I spent the most.

My God, I thought, when I finished, when I finished going through the store, I thought that I had at least bought the most figures in the store. Because I saw Joey's haul and I was like, I got this, I got this one. I didn't realize how many figures you bought. Yeah, you want to see my next figure then?

Sure. Oh yes. Let's go. Rohan Kishibe, Rohan. 17 bucks. What? 17. 17 bucks. And that face is not bad.

That's a damp, no, that is like one of the more accurate Jojo figures that I've seen. For Rocky's favorite as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is a nice figure. Dude, look at this boy. 17 bucks. That's a good fucking deal. That's a good fucking deal.

I can't get this fucking head on, man. We can get it to work. His head just does not want to come on. I have three more. Three more. Three more. Oh my god, give me the next one. I'll start packing it for you.

Yeah, I'm at the table. So I'm not gonna look at what it is, I'm just gonna start unpacking it. I know, right, it's so hard. Okay, go for it. We should give it to our producer, Maylene, to put together, right? Malene would you like to put together the figure for us?

Yeah, yeah, go on. Give it to Malin. Thanks, Maylene. Help me, Malene. All right, so my next figure, if you will. Oh, that was the Levi one. You were eyeing up. Levi sitting on a couch just doing Levi things.

Like I just thought, What's he holding? Like a handkerchief. Oh, okay, yeah. Just Levi sitting on a couch. I thought it would look so like nice on the set and also it's best boy Levi. Like course.

Look at it's a beautiful figure right? Yeah, yeah. That's actually really nice like small. It's expensive figure though. I'm not gonna lie. Really? How much was it? It was like 70 bucks.

Whoa. But I had to because like, it's Levi sitting down. I mean, come on. So was that the most expensive figure you bought at A-stop, then? At A-stop, yes. Okay, but not overall.

Not overall. Not overall. Okay, I don't think it matters because there's this. I didn't get to that. I think I got close to that. Yeah. So that's Levi sitting on it. I just think it's so cute.

I don't know why. I love it when figurines have like interesting bases. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it just makes it seem so much more alive. I love it. All right, we're still going with Conno's Hall. Like giving him a hand job under the table. That's like, it's just,

Next up. Boy, oh my God, that's cool. Jesus, that's cool. How much you think this was? I wanna say, $15? Yeah. Five bucks. What? Five bucks. Are you serious?

Did you guys not see this? No, no, no, because like the thing about, oh, oh, that is sexy. Yeah, so that's a bundle with that. Yeah, so that goes next to. We've got the whole slime bundle. Oh yeah, we do. Oh, yeah, shit. I got this for five bucks.

I thought you never see, like, I love it. I love it when they make figures of characters that aren't the mains. Yeah, yeah. Because they're always like really rare. They're normally super expensive, but the fact this was 500 bucks. Because they were like a billion Oscar figures,

a billion ray figures. Every single like even galleon. Yeah, yeah, exactly right. Is this the last one? It is indeed. Man, you are like... I think I might have won the most figures before. I think you might have.

Just taken a guess. You might want a single handle it with just this store. No, no, I think you've bought more figures in this store. than I have overall. Yeah, I think so too. Go on, don't look. Okay, I won't look.

I won't. I should have gone more ham at A-stop. No, because I was surprised with you. There was deals at A-stop, right? Ready boys? For the last figure, let me get these out of the way. Okay, I had them. This is my last figure.

Ooh. Aaron. Aaron. Nice. I just thought it was a cool figure. I think it was like 30, 40 bucks. I mean, you guys wanna have a look at that? Yeah, yeah. That was my final figure at A-stop. I think I got quite the fucking haul.

You did, you did. You did. Jesus Christ, I mean, I just can't get over this Rios figure. That is one of the nicest, I was eyeing this and I'm just like, do I commit to the podcast or do I just buy this for myself? No, that figure fucked me over for the rest of the day. But you know what?

It was worth it, damn it. It was worth it. That was like, look, now, from now on after this episode, you get to fucking stare at this beautiful thing in the background of every single thing. Why are we getting demonetized every episode? It's because of Riesce's fucking bare, like dump truck ass right here. Jesus Christ, demonetization.

What was that just that? All right, so with that giant hole, how many? Mike! Mike! All right, so let's go with the third. Wait, wait, how much did you spend at A-Stop? Are we doing? I mean, I spend less than $100 at A-stop.

My most expensive thing was the jump thing right here, which was 50 bucks. That's cool as shit, though. It is cool as shit. I spend 220. Oh my gosh. Oh shit. I need to check how much. Exactly I spent.

Because one of the challenges was whoever spends the most at a single store gets a point. What was, actually we can figure that. Yeah, we can figure that out. I also spent $220. Oh. A store. Tournament! It's going to go down to the tiny numerals now.

All right, but the third store we went to was K-books. Right. K-books, much like a lot of stores in the Nadjil Kaikun building. They sell figurines, but they also sell a bunch of other merch like figurines, plushies, just little knickknacks and stuff like that. So I don't remember, oh no, I do remember exactly what I bought. I bought two things. Yeah.

So, okay, so let's talk about strategy first. So what was your guys' strategy going into K books? This was the point where I started considering how much money I have left. Like, A-stop, it was like spend, spend. Because I felt like I was too behind at animate. Yeah, so I went ham and, in, a stop and then this is when I was like, okay, maybe I should start like being careful.

Oh no, I was the complete opposite. At this point, I had more than half of my budget left. Oh my, my God. So I was gonna go like big, big bucks boy on K-books and the Final Army Army store. So what did you buy? What you buy? I got two. So one of my challenges was to get

an estolfo figurine. Right. I don't know why super specific, but luckily I found one estolfo figurine. Didn't even come in this. Oh, god damn it. Because what happened, right? There was two. There was two, there was two.

Oh, definitely. He didn't find. Because, because we, we were walking past it and I saw the Estelfa figure. Yeah. And I was just, I was just like putting loads of other figures on top of that one. So I was like, Connor, kinda, look at this, look at this. And I didn't see the second one.

Yeah, there was another one, like right near it. So I like waited ahead and I watched him as he was going through it and he actually found another one for the one that you buried he didn't find. Yeah, I didn't know. This is the only one I found I'm like, thank God. Oh, damn it. He always got me with that conspiracy.

But then the second one I got, the second challenge was to find a card cap to Sakra figuring. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one, but I know that if I went to K-Books like six months ago, when like Sakra, the new Sakra was still, like hot and fresh in everyone's minds, I knew I would have found one. But so I gave up on that, so instead I spent big boy dollars

and got this really cool, your Jorsenki figurine. That's so cool. I'm like, I'm not a huge fan of Tanya personally, but this is a fucking cool. That's a Norton Figueroon. Yeah, like this was $132. Ooh, okay.

With an interchangeable head though. Great, can't wait to change the heads every day. Every episode we're changing the head. Oh my God, don't say that, we'll have to do it. We're gonna have to commit. But that's pretty much the only two things I bought. Yeah, because at this point, I was just trying to stay alive. A stopped, A stopped really fucking over.

Well, yeah, because you spent how much did A stop and then you also spent a shit ton of anime. Yeah, yeah. So I had, I think I budgeted it. Like I think I could only spend around 70 bucks or something or maybe less in each store. So I had to complete the challenges. So the first challenge was just getting a figure

from a Shonen series. Another micro-acetic. Oh my God. I mean, I already knew I'd lost at this point. So I didn't really, but what surprised me because I wasn't really familiar with K-books. So I didn't know what kind of merchandise they had. Yeah.

They did not have a lot. of Shonen figures at all. Right, it was between this one and a luffy one. And I just went for the cheapest one because I needed to- You wanted the challenge down. Yeah, I wanted the challenge down. Second thing was to buy something lewd, right?

That was not difficult as there was a gigantic hentai section. Like, I think like half of the store was just like 18 plus. So I'm like, this is big brain mode. Okay, what, what lewd thing can I buy? That's really cheap and can keep me on budget. So I brought Denghi.

Who'd you get? Who did you get? Oh my God. John Alter. Of course. I just, okay, I was more focused on finding a cover, which wouldn't get us easily, like, which just wouldn't get this video off the,

what am I talking about, demonetized, age-rescripted. That's big brain, YouTube, a boy moment. But I did buy one more. Okay. But I just checked it before we start recording. I don't think I can show. Really?

Maybe we could just show a blood picture and we can all get our reaction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe Moudan just put like a huge black screen over whatever Gant brings out. So I bought a Dachymachera. What? Where are we gonna put that?

I thought we could just like, hanging up on the wall. That was like the intent. We're not gonna be able to use this. Okay. Because I was like, I'd need to buy a Dacu-Makara. You're not me to buy a Dacu. Yes, I do.

Right, what did you get? What did you get? So I bought the cheapest what I could find. And like, it was in the section where there weren't many, like, the darky markers weren't all lewd. Right, right, right. There were some lewd, there were some weren't,

and they were all, like, covered up. Where are you going with this? So I couldn't, I couldn't tell how lewd the darky macras were. I just chose the cheapest one. Oh, wow. Oh, Jesus. Oh, no.

Oh, we're not gonna be able to use. Black all of that out, out of this. They sell that. Yeah. This wasn't, this wasn't even in the hentai section. Okay, can I ask? No. Can I ask, because you got

the cheapest one, how much was that? 40 bucks. What? And that's the cheapest one. That's the cheapest one. That's the cheapest one. Bro, I got like a Sands one at home that was like a tenor. Don't ask why.

So my two challenges were buy a Jojo figure and do the pose. Now I was really lucky that there was only one Jojo figure which I'll show you shortly. But the other one was by a wall scroll. Now there was a bunch of cheap wall scrolls like 400, five and I thought I should probably get one from a show

that I actually like like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I spent 10 bucks on a good three. Oh, hell yeah, dude. I love Katanagatri, it's one of my favorite shows. So, it's totally underrated. So many people haven't seen it as well. Everyone who has seen the show says it's fucking amazing.

Yeah, it is. It is. And if you haven't seen it, it's like, it's like, it's like a Quentin Tarantino anime. Yeah, it's so fucking good. People like, people who haven't seen it are just like, which season of Montagatry is this? It's nothing to do with the Montagatry series. It's amazing.

Yeah, it's amazing. And I, I mean, she's, she's wifey material. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was it. 10 bucks, I mean. Man, that's pretty bad memories of a cut. Yeah, I remember when I binged this show, you want to watch it again.

I don't know where I'm gonna put it. I got a Jojo figure. Of course. The Jojo figure. Which one though? Which one? Because I remember when you got the, when you got the challenge

and you were like, buy a Jojo figure. I was like this motherfucker. You got so lucky with the challenges. I did. The only reason why you got full points is because all of them was so easy for you. Except, okay, and the last door, which I'll talk about that.

That was a little annoying and so on. But yeah, so I got, Jordan O'Giovon, Golden Experience. Ooh. It's actually like, it's, okay, I'm not gonna lie. His face doesn't look like 10 out of 10 on it. Yeah, that's what you get with Jojo figures, but at least we got another Jojo figure.

Of course, nice, nice. So I'm the one who did all the hard work. So what's that three now? It's Rohan, Jorno and... And... Rishy Diamond. This is 66 bucks though. And that's like...

Do I say that? Yeah, yeah. And to be honest with you, 66 bucks is kind of like cheap for Jojo the more I look at this face, the more hilarious he gets. Just like look into his face. It's not how I would say.

We'll take a picture of this and show it on the podcast. It's not how I would describe as manga accurate, but it's, I mean, more like Kendall, but whatever, I'm not gonna get it. Yeah, that's all I bought at K-books. Okay, so we each bought two things like, oh no, you bought three. I bought three.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was just like, I just wanna get my challenges done. I got my challenges done and I was like, I'm just on a mission to demonetize this channel That was my mission. Don't why, it'll do that, natural. I was worrying because like,

I went into K-Books and Ami-Hmi thinking, like, I'm gonna buy a $200 figure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. K-books quickly ruined that plan, because of the challenges. So I spent 77 bucks on just my challenges. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then obviously I realized when I got to Ami-ami,

which we're gonna talk about now, yeah, I had challenges that I had to do as well. Yeah, yeah. So if you talk about Ami-A-A-M-A-. So for me, amy-ami was just, I was just trying to survive. I was, I think I, I think, I think it out I had like 60, I think $60 or $50?

What? Yeah, yeah. I was just, at this point I was just praying and hoping. Like, I'm wasted fucking $40 on a fucking pillow case. Like, why would you do that? Don't judge me, okay? It wasn't even part of the challenge. I know, I just wanted a ducky mackerel.

A guy who like gambles all his money is away, and he's like, I just don't understand why I got no money all the time, man. It sucks, dude. No, because like, I, because I knew this would be my only opportunity to buy a DocuMacra. Of course. Why does you want to buy one sir badly? I just, I just, I just,

because he's fucking part of trash taste, that's why. Look, it's called trash taste for a reason. We have a lot of, we had a lot of blank space in the background where we could hang one up, so I was like, Dacamauga, I think that's a good purchase. And now I bought one, wasted $40, can't even use it.

Fucking brilliant. We can't even hang it up, it's just gonna be a black bar in the video. I've got one at my house, I've got a pillow, the Dachymacra pillow, so. Really? I've got one of shoot-you-all-all also. But with me for Ami-Armi, this is where I spent

the most amount of money, because I had almost like, I think I had like two-thirds of my budget, still left, because I knew I've been into Ami-Ami before, not the one in Najjai-Kan that we went to, but there's another one in Aki-A-Bor as well. I mean, you can spend a lot of money. I've spent a lot of money there, and I know they have some really expensive figurines.

Oh yeah, yeah. But they have a huge selection as well. So I knew I was gonna find something hopefully good. I mean, that's before this Rias showed up and ruined my plans. But my two chance I believe was buy a plushy, a character plushy. Okay. And the other one, I don't remember what it was,

but I got a plushy, actually got two plushies. Okay. Because I needed to, you know, spend my money, yeah, yeah, exactly. So I got Mughal and-Hocoppo. Okay, cool. Because I love Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy seven remake recently just came out.

That's cute as fuck out of it. That's cute as fuck. Yeah, okay, all right, all right. Give out JRP, love us some love as well. So I got that and the most expensive figuring I got overall, because I didn't. Oh, more expensive than that? Oh, okay.

Okay. This is the most expensive. Did you buy this purposely to like finish? I bought this purposely to get as close to $500 as possible. Oh, okay. So this was not part of the challenge. Yeah. I got Tokisaki Kudomi from Data Life.

Oh, nice, nice, nice. I mean, again, this is kind of gonna be like Ries in the sense that like, possibly demonetize. Oh, that's hot. That's hot. That's hot. I know Toksaki figurines can, for some reason, so expensive. Yeah, I mean, she's a really popular dead alive character.

But this was a $141. Not as expensive at the rear, so I've already lost that challenge. See, okay. I may have overheard or saw what Joey was when he was buying that one. Yeah. And I thought all I gotta do is be $1,300. Yeah. And I literally just went over $1,300 on one expensive figure, which I'll reveal soon.

Okay, okay, okay. Because that was everything you bought? And that's everything I bought. Okay. Because for me, Ami Ami was a stressful experience. Not because of the story itself, the story itself is great, but because I saw my challenges, which was one, find an Evangelion figurine.

That was a lot harder than I initially gave it credit for. Really? Yeah, yeah, because I missed the entire figure section right at the back. With the max. Yeah, yeah, with the next. So I was just walking around. And there was one figure I found, which was $200. No, actually no way that I could buy that figure.

and I found another figure which was 50 bucks. No, no, 50 to 70 bucks. But that was over the tiny little budget that I had. Yeah, yeah, I fucked myself. You hate to see it. This girl fucked me so badly. Hey, I mean, she's a succu-y-vus. What can you say?

But luckily, I found an ask-a-pop figure. Oh, no! Why did you do a pop figure? Oh, why gone? Why would you buy a pop-vig, man? Because it was the cheapest, okay? I think this is gonna be awarded for the most normie, right in.

This thing right here. No offense if you like pop vinyl, but we are- No offense if you do like pop vinyl. Like, we say no offense. It's fucking ugly, dude. I gotta be nice. I fucking hate pop figures. Oh, Jesus.

How much you spend on this? 14 bucks. You know what it's like, it's like, it's like, you go to like, you come to Japan, right? you have all these amazing figures. You go for fucking pop. It's like going to like Germany and being like,

I want hot dogs from the can please. I want, I want not, none of that stuff. It's like going to Germany and being like, can I have an Asahi? Yeah, right. It's like, what the fuck? No, because, yeah, I'll give it for the challenge. Yeah, it was for the challenge.

Okay, they're like, like this, Ami Ami had a lot of good figures. Yeah, yeah. But I really, really wanted to buy. I just needed to go for the cheapest one. Okay. And then the second one, which I had no idea how to complete.

was by a furry and like 100% non-humanoid figure. And I was like, the only thing I could fucking think of was chopper from One Piece. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did not have any chopper figures. Oh, wow. So I was like, I've probably lost this. And then I was like, hmm, wait a minute,

there's probably, there's probably one thing I could twist and that's a Evie figure. Okay, okay, okay, that counts. I was like, okay, if I can't go the chopper route, maybe I can go the Pokemon routes. How the fuck are they spelled Evie on this? Evie. What's with that?

Why they spelled it like that? I don't know, because I guess that's how they pronounce it in Japanese. Oh, I don't think they realized that there's a way easy spelling of Evie. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's cute. Okay, yeah, no, that counts. That counts.

Because when you pulled that out, yeah. I thought you were gonna get one of these. Yeah, yeah, because I didn't think those counted as a figure. Yeah, I thought I'd be like this. But I'm like, Evee's furry, it's non-humanoid, it's a figure. Shut the fuck up. I am getting that point. Okay.

Okay, that counts, that counts. Cause it was between like Evie and Mew two, I think. And I was like, I was like, EV's cute. Yeah, Evie's cute up. So yeah, what were the challenges that you had, Connor? I had buy three anime mugs or glasses. You had to paint on the ass because there were no sets or anything. Yeah, yeah. They were all like pretty expensive as well.

Yeah, it's by them separately. Yeah. And then it was also buy a figure that you think is trash. So where, how much budget did you have left at this point? 140 something. Oh, so you like balanced it out pretty well between the four stores. Yeah, because I basically spent nothing at anime. I spent 70 bucks at K-books.

So I kinda like did pretty good at budgeting, by accident. I didn't plan anything. I think not having challenges that fucked me over was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was definitely helpful. Yeah. The figure that I thought was trash was just this shitty Sanrio. I thought you were gonna go like ironic trash.

Yeah, yeah, no, it was like 220 yen as well, which might be the cheapest figure as well. That's probably the cheapest figure. I just, I don't, who the fuck is this Sanrio character? Does anyone know? Oh, I think I know it. You know, I know, I know the- What's your cool?

Oh, okay, I know Tamago one, the egg one. Oh, I like Tomog. Well, good, good-a-tahama. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And obviously, hello kitty, but I don't know. Okay, whatever. That one. Three mugs I bought from, I don't even know what they're from.

You wanna open them, I guess? Sure. That was 100 yen, luckily. Oh, okay. But every other mug was like a thousand yen. I've managed to find two for 600 yen. So we have more, mugs now for the podcast, which I guess.

Well, we'll drink from those, possibly, maybe never, I don't know. These are like tightly passed. Those are the mugs. So I did the challenges, cool, and then I had, and I was like so annoyed because the, there's a froppy figure, the one with like the cool comic book text. I saw that one, I saw that one. I had just enough budget to get that if it wasn't for this shit.

So I had to completely change my mind. I'm not saying the stuff is bad, but it ruined my plan. Just saying, So I had to go with the different, I mean, I guess you get what you pay for, right? That's all I'm gonna say, like, it's that. It's 100 yen for a reason, you know. What series is this?

I fucking know. I have no idea. Oh no, it's all characters on the back, which I didn't see. And then these are from some Atome game. Oh, yeah, they look like Otome games. I don't watch or play any Atome games. I know they're huge here in Japan, but... I mean for a female demographic.

I would just prefer Yowie, just straight If you had come out with a yowie, like mug, I think you would have won, like, coolest. Maybe, maybe. The final figure and most expensive figure that I bought. Right. Oh, C2. Oh, C2.

C2, C2, whatever, same thing. It's her like on the, like, that's cool. Dude, that's a dumb truck if I've seen. Ooh, that's an ass. That's what you see in the figure. I should get it out, so you guys can fully appreciate this figure. How much was that?

That was 130 marks. Honestly, worth every padding. Okay, so while they were opening these figurines up, I guess I just wanna ask you guys like, how was the challenge like overall? Like, do you have a good feeling? I have more stuff by the way. Oh, you have more stuff.

Okay, okay, okay, which is probably, oh yeah, we should open this while I should. Okay, okay. We should also preface as well that there is like consequences for the final scores and everything. Basically whoever has the lowest score at the end, like including the points that we got in our individual videos,

as well as the points that we're gonna add up at the end of this episode. Has to do some kind of punishment in a traditional, really sadistic Japanese way. We basically gonna be consuming something that we personally don't really wanna consume. With these two, because they're absolute pussies, they're gonna have to eat one packet of Naktor,

which is like Japanese fermented soybeans. It's disgusting. I love it. It smells horrible, okay? I love it, thank you very much. I grew up with it. So obviously I'm not gonna eat that if I lose. I'm gonna have to eat the spicy noodles

that I ate in my Jojo quiz video, which you can go check out on my channel. Yeah, but we're gonna find that out at the end of the episode once we've calculated all the scores. But I guess in the meantime as well, let us know down in the comments below. So far, what is the favorite figurine that you saw? It's my one, I know.

Most likely it's gonna be this one. I'm like so happy I bought that now because I bought it on pure instinct, right? Oh, of course. I wasn't trying to win the game. I didn't have any fucking strategy in mind. You were horny on Maine. I was just horny on Maine

and I just wanted everyone to see it. I love as well how the base is like married so you can like walk out of it. That's a good figure though. Ooh. Ooh. Look at that butt, dude. Look at that but.

Look at that competition. Just saying. Who has the bigger dump truck? Yeah, yeah. Now I know Gahn is gonna shit himself But the rest of my purchases were to get that even 500 bucks. Okay. So I just bought like a fucking, I don't even know what this is.

What is that? What is that? It's like an dawn up, I think or something. I don't know. Let me open this. A towel of some, some, this is- Of Anitone X-X-X. It was a hundred yen, a towel.

What is this show? That's the POV anime where like the cute girls like work out. Yeah, yeah. Oh shit, I remember. It's so bad. I love it. I got some scroll from some show. Wow, you really went like closed up on a rounder-old.

Did someone have like a challenge where you had to buy a war scroll? Oh, it was from a different. And trading cards for 210 yen. Wait, what trading cards? What is this? What is this? Oh wait, you can put something in here. Oh, it's probably for like tickets maybe, something like that, train tickets, maybe concert tickets? Maybe concert tickets?

It's, you know, if you don't want to, like, to know who is a weird movie, you know, you know, you know, know who is a weird movie, you just put this on them. It's like a tracking, you know. So yeah, that's everything that I bought and it came out to an even 500 exactly. Oh, are you serious? Bang on 500s. Fuck!

I did the exact, I had this footage of this in my video, which you guys didn't see. I went to the cashier and I went 10 yon over so I asked the guy, I'm like, no, no, take all the stuff out. I'm going back. And they were all so confused. They were like, what's he trying to say? I'm like, get rid of the stuff, I gotta go back.

So I went and found exactly. Exactly what it was. Did the maths on the spot? Went through my camera footage to find out what I spent at least school. Oh my God. To get exactly 500 bucks. I was like, I don't think there's anyone

that's gonna get close to $500 like at all. So I'm like, if I can get as close as I can to 500, then I think I'll probably won. So I think my overall price came to 49,840. So I was 160 yen off. Wow. Because for me, I was, after a stop, I had just stopped calculating stuff, man. You've given up. I was like, I'm probably gonna go bust.

I'm probably gonna go bust and lose the entire thing, but no, I actually, mine actually came out to 47,152. Yeah. Oh, we got it, we all really like this. That's how we, that's how we, we should probably explain that we are calculating it by dollars by just dividing by 100 from the D. Yeah, yeah, because that's roughly what it is.

Yeah. So I guess for the first challenge of whoever can get closest to $500, those two points are gonna go to Kahn. Hell yes, that means I'm in the lead. Holy fuck, those two points. Damn, I was so confident that I was like, I thought like both of you were gonna get like kind of what- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm like, no, dude, I'm 160, wait, I got this. You see, Jerry seemed so confident when we were filming that I thought he must have done the exact same thing as me and got like exact. No, no, because this fucker, he was like, I thought he'd planned everything, right? Yeah, same, same.

I talked to him off screen. He turned up smiling and everything. Yeah, I'm like, he's like, I got my strategy for each store. I'm like, I'm like, I did not. I did not. No, I was just bluffing you guys.

Honestly, like a good game of poker, you gotta be overconfir. You bluffed me into being exact with my money. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't know that you might have been exacted. Because I didn't think you were gonna like buy all this small shit to like get exact. I wanted to get those two points.

I don't want to eat fucking nato, Joe. No, do I want to. I feel pretty confident that I won't have to do now. Okay, well then that was huge. So let's go over the next couple of challenges. I think there's 10 left. So the second one is the most expensive figure. Obviously, that goes to Gahn and this...

So that was 160,000 yen, 167. Wow, so 170 bucks basically. Basically, $170. Mine was 1401. And then mine was 137. So gone gets the point for that one, I guess. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Next one is the cheapest figurine.

I got the 220 yen figure. Did anyone beat that? No, my one. I was Puck which is 980. Oh, mine was, I think, I can't even fucking remember. It was a thousand bucks. I noted it down, it was a thousand bucks. So even if I didn't buy that, I still had the even galleon.

Yeah, you still would have won with- So yeah, you still would have won even if it was like an animal. Okay, damn, okay, I'm looking pretty good right now. God damn, okay. The most, the lowest rated series on Mao. Okay, you guys, which one is yours? What's my number? It's like, I told me,

which is I think that mug and it was like 2,375. Okay, what's yours? Mine was a reason. Really? That's the worst? Yeah, it was like 17,400, 17, 17144. Okay, okay, on Mao. Well, give me the point because mine was berserk, which is 5,6807.

No way. No. Oh, because it's not the manga. Oh, because it's the anime, not the manga. Hell yeah! What the hell yeah. It's the garbage anime, not the manga. I'm sure if I looked at what that fucking towel was,

the scores might be a little different, but I don't fucking know what it is, so I guess that's not fair. Point to me, baby. Let's go. Yeah, so the next was the most figures bought. In one store. No, overall, overall.

We did store and? No, we just did overall. Okay, well, I only bought seven. I had 14. 10. Okay, that goes to fine. I mean, I think I bought, you bought more figures in a stop. I filled up the thing

and I bought everything that I filled up at Acehob than I did overall. And I'm not gonna lie, I mean, you've a good selection, but I think my selection is pretty fucking strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, all three of our selections are really strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know about gone.

This figure's great, but the rest, look at, his selection is strong? You don't look, look, his selection is strong? Get out of here, get out. Okay, next one, most spent on one series. All of mine was separate, so I'm just gonna go off the base that this. I totally forgot about this one.

Yeah. Wait, what could it be? Wait, no. It was probably Jojo, right? It could have been Jojo, but it wouldn't have been. I spent a lot on like Attack on Titan and Jojo, but I didn't get anything near 160. She's just solo carrying these, these challenges for me now.

Well, that's the thing, right? Is that we made challenges that would reward you for being frugal with your money and buying little things. But also would reward you if you bought, if you did the gamble that paid off the most. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the gamble. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Because you had to guess, right? Because I was thinking in my head, would Joey buy a $200 figure? I was going to. Yeah, I thought both of you could. And I was like, maybe I should just give up on that challenge, right?

And just focus on everything else. Because like, when I saw her, I was like, I just wanna buy her because she was like a really unique figure. I saw tits and I thought I just, I saw titty and I didn't think, and before I knew it, I was writing down the number. Like, his wife was right there as well, but didn't matter.

It was funny because out of every figure I bought, this one that I didn't think about the most. I was like, I'm getting this figure. I'm not even gonna think about it. Oh my God. The most spent on a non figure. Well, for me it would be, I guess,

this quashi, which is 2,800. Mine is 1,100. Okay, mine was a ducky mac. Yeah, shit, he's been 40 bucks on it. I guess it paid off. Fuck! If being a degenerate, fucking save me in this game, I'm so fucking happy.

God damn it. All right, what's the next? All right, the next one is most spent in one store. How much did you spend exactly an A-stop? I spent 100. $197. What'd you spend? 22,380 yen.

Fuck! I spent 22,1190. Oh, come on, come on, come on. Come on, come on. Okay, here we go. Okay. Closest to 69. Closest to $69. This was the meme one. This was the meme one.

I don't know about this one. For me, it was the Sean and Jump thing, which was 4,980. Okay. Okay. Mine was, so I'm nowhere new. Mine was the Edward Elric one. Yeah.

Which was 5,299. I win $66, maybe. On the Grono Giovanna one funny. Oh, sure. So the one that I had no choice to buy got me another point. So sweet. Oh my God, I'm gonna fucking lose.

All right. Norma Awards. So whoever has the highest rank on Mal loses a point. I think I lose this, right? What did you go? Attack on Titan. What number is that higher than? Attack on Titan is number two, I think,

if I looked correctly. What's number one? I lost. Number one is death no. Death note. Okay, I'm definitely saved. Most popular. Yeah, according to my anime list, it's death note,

Shengeki No, Kyojin, sold it online, then full metal Alchemists. How did I not lose that one? Cause I saw my boy Levi. Where is he? Where is it? How beautiful he is. Like I couldn't look. Oh my God.

So I lose a point. So Connor loses a point. Okay, final one. Buying a hentai figure. Okay, okay, okay. So I mean, that's zero points for me, baby. I'm gonna argue. No, no, no, no, no.

Okay, here's why. I didn't realize this, but you can replace Reza's tits to be uncensored. Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know what that was until I opened it up. Those are just nipples. I didn't know, I didn't know, they came with interchangeable nipples.

Okay. Oh my god. Wait, how do you take those up? Is that the thing that's- Yeah, yeah. So I think- They're attached to the head. Oh my God.

I mean, I would like to argue that you buying the dockey marker already counts as like a anti-thing. But that wasn't a figure, but I think that unscensored nipples counts as a hentai figure. Because we can't show it. But is it though? Because it's high school DXD, it's not technically hentai. I mean.

If there's tits out though, is it a hentai figure? I mean, I would like to argue that if it's something we can't show on this podcast. Yeah, if it's something we can't show on this podcast, which I have two now. Yeah, exactly. Fucking degenerate right here. Two things.

Alright, fine. Okay, we'll give gone the point. Okay. This isn't a hent type figure. No, no, no. That's just culture. That's a cultural figure. Man, man, I'm so fucking glad I bought this figure now.

Dude, this single figuring clutched you the victory. Like, legit. Oh my God. Okay, and the total scores, were Connor with 12 points, got with 12 points, and I got seven points. I would have won this if I didn't buy the attack on Titan figures, by the way.

I would have won this if I was actually smart. I probably would have lost this if I didn't buy this one single figure. So it was also your downfall, but it also got you all the points. It got you more positives than negatives, this thing. Because when we were like going through all the challenges, because we had completely forgotten the overall challenges, and I was like, wait a minute,

I think this one figure could, be a lot of these challenges. Yeah. I'm like. I totally forgot we put hentai figure in there. I would have bought a shitty one if I, I remember. Because like, it would have been hard. Yeah, there's not many hentai figures. No, no, because all of the hentai figures

were like hundreds of dollars. Yeah, they normally are very expensive. I mean, you know, it's a very cultured either. I just like to point out that I over all of these like overall challenges, I only got one point. You hate to see it. And that was the fact that Puck is the lowest rated out of everything here.

Oh, I think the thing is right, is that he went all out with that. I was a bit more conservative, spread my money out, you know, and then you kind of bought shit that I liked. You went like mid-range, you were like, I'll just keep buying kind of expensive things, but not really. I was just like this shit, I'll just buy it.

This is what happens when you try to strategize and just, I would at least like the credit of probably getting the coolest. No, no, you, that's cool. That's cool. You can have that point, yeah, I'll have that point. You can have that point. I'll still not gonna win.

You can have that point. I'll take the pity points. Fuck you. I'll take all the pity points. This is such a nice figure. All right, well, since I lost, I guess I have to eat a horrible thing. I think our producer, Maylene brought something

which I'm not looking forward to eating. Oh, that already, I can't even smell it, but I can picture what it smells like. Thank you, Maylene, amazing producer. All right, well, my challenge has arrived. Hey, it's Thai. So what is this? It's pickled mudfish.

So apparently, according to our producer, this smells awful. And apparently it's just as bad, if not worse, than Seirsthrming, which is like pickled, I think it's like mackerel or something. It's that Swedish thing that all YouTubers eat. Okay. Do you wanna open it up and give it a smell there, Joey?

Yeah, I'll give it a sniff. Yeah, yeah. Is it just gonna like, I just saw that man go to heaven. I saw that man go to heaven. That smells like actual like poop. I said, like, that's the only way they described it. You went to heaven there. There's like, smell it.

I can smell it from here, man. Smell it, like, put his nose in it. Oh! Oh, what the fuck? This looks really bad. It looks and smells like poo. We're gonna vomit, bro. You are not gonna be able to peep that down.

I've smelled this before. Oh, of course you have its tie. Oh, jeez, it's fucking stinking up the off. Fucking eat it quick. Okay. I mean, we have no utensils, so I'm just gonna have to get in that. I think I've eaten that.

Oh my God. Have eaten it? Yeah. It's like, okay, so it's like really salted fish, right? So it's gonna be super, super, super, super, Oh, God, what the fuck? I'm just gonna grab like a piece of it, if you don't mind. Oh my, wait, show it on camera, show that piece on camera.

Show that piece on camera. Oh, Jesus Christ. Go, we've got to censor that, like, oh my God, this is all from you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, careful of the bones. Okay, is that enough? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don't get it on the microphone, please, please, God. What an appetite. How is it?

It sounds like I'm eating dirt. Oh. Oh, God, that's, oh. It's so salty. Yeah, it's just salted fish, right? It's so salty. Oh my god. I don't know why I'm leaking my finger.

Oh, oh. Give me some more, some more of that. Get this man some water. Oh, it's getting worse. No, because what kills you is the fucking aftertaste. The first few bites aren't that bad, but the more you chew it, the more like the flavors come out and the aftertaste just, just, it hits you,

And your breath is gonna stink for like a fucking way. Oh my, okay, I got it down. All right, well done. Oh my god, it's fucking stinks now. Hey guys! How are you? You should wash it down with the durian, I think that would be a good idea.

I think that would be a good idea. Seeing as you did lose pretty badly. Oh, I can still smell it. Maybe a durian will help. My finger. Maybe. No. Oh God.

Sticky fingers. Oh, stinky fingers more, Jesus Christ. Stinky, uh-oh. Oh, my God, it's actually getting worse. Oh, that smells vile. Like, you still smell, what do? I don't think, like, I've eaten a lot of weird foods in my life. This is easily the grossest thing I've ever had.

Yeah, yeah. I feel sorry for us. Can you smell it over there? Oh, oh, Jesus, you're concentrated. It's like the fucking. I think the smell is getting stronger. Yeah, we're in the fallout zone here. Like, my God.

This is like a nuclear blast. I'm like fine if I hold my nose because like I don't like smell the thing but the moment I get rid of. Oh! I can smell my own breath and it's fucking vile. Next time next week when we do the podcast Joe will still be smelling it.

Yeah, I really just hope this doesn't give me like an illness because we're like going on a trip tomorrow. Offending all Thai people right now. I mean like I hope I don't get like food poisoning because like we're going on a vacation tomorrow. Yeah. And I don't want to be sick. Oh God.

This Mike's gonna fucking stink. It's awful. It's awful. We're gonna have to like say it's my shit. We can open the windows and we finish this episode. Like Jesus. So now that the challenge is over, what are you guys as closing thoughts?

I'm glad I didn't eat literal shit. I mean, you know, the goal, the ultimate goal was, was the one not lose and become like this man. Yeah, yeah. Going through like the five stages of grief with his face. I'm definitely at the last stage. You know, we got to decorate the office. I think by a miracle, we got like some pretty good variation.

Yeah, and I honestly would love to do something like this again in future with another challenge where we can each go and film. I'm surprised that out of all the things that we bought, not a single person bought the same thing. Yeah, yeah, because that was the thing I was most worried about, right? When I, you know, pitched the challenge, I was, I, the thing I was worried about was like, what if we all just go for the same fucking figure?

Deku, 10 deco. I would like three of your finest decoos. Because, yeah, I had a lot of fun filming in the stores and I would love to do something like this again. I don't know if you guys enjoyed seeing the aftermath of all our different individual challenges and how we like approached it and everything. Yeah, I mean, I think it's to speak for all,

I think we had fun with every step of this process. So I really hope that it was reflecting in the video. I gotta ask you though, yeah, because this is your first time doing like a video filming in public, you know? I'm used to embarrassing myself in public. Like, how was it? I gotta know. It was hard.

It was so. We saw you struggling at the beginning. Hard, like, outside of animates, when I was filming my intro, I don't even know if you're gonna see that, because I'm thinking about filming, like, a separate intro anyway. But I was just, like, tripping over my words. I had no idea. Like, give me a script, great.

I can read off the script. If I just have to talk about my thoughts without any scripts, and like, a podcast is different in my mind, because I have people to bounce off. Right, right, right, right. Because when I'm looking at a camera, I'm like, um, hey guys, uh, yeah. I'm here outside of an anime.

And I'm like, oh shit man. Like someone trying to speak English for the first time. It's definitely a skill you learn, I think. Yeah. And I mean, I was awkward as fuck. I remember the first time I filmed in. Oh, God, yeah. I hated it.

Yeah. But I think I got used to it when I just hit, it was A-Stop. Animates, I was still like getting my feet on the ground. With A-stop, I was just, I think it was thanks to just the, thanks to the place as well, because I wasn't thinking about what challenges there were. I was just thinking about getting as many fucking figures

as I could. I did, I got a lot. Yeah, you certainly fulfilled that. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of fun. I think it as well as like a great environment, like when you get permission to film in a place and just go wild, it's so much. Because the original plan for this video was just to like, McGiver our way through.

Go-Pro, oh, undercover, you know. Under the chin, Gopher shot. Yeah. That would have not been that great. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, I haven't edited the video yet, but I think it's gonna be pretty pretty entertaining.

And you guys can let us know as well, like how you guys found those videos, how you found this episode. Hopefully you guys enjoyed watching me eat literal shit. This is easily the worst fucking thing I've ever had. I can still fucking taste it.

I really want you guys to smell my finger. No, I'm not smelling your finger. Like please, please. Can you do it at least for the podcast? No. Come on, just smell half the shit. I smelled that shit. Get that shit away from me.

I, I mean, I definitely, even though this was like, Logistical nightmare planning, speaking about logistics from episode one. This was like an actual logistical nightmare planning all this. We had to like bounce stores and it was short notice and everything like I would definitely be up for doing something where it's like three angles again

and it's a challenge that we conclude on the podcast. Because like you, like I'm not sure if you see in the video but by the time we got to Army Army, Army, I was exhausted. Like it was it was kind of like that feeling when you've just spent an entire day at a con working. And you're like, I've gotta do one more panic. Just a con in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm fucking, oh, we gotta have dinner? Oh, shit, I wanted to sleep. Like, I remember post-filming, I just went home and collapsed. Yeah, same, same. I didn't leave my bed. Yeah, I think we walked like 10 kilometers that day. Yeah, I checked my like stamp thing. Typical Tokyo, Dave.

True, true. You do a lot of walking when you come to Japan. Yeah, but I think. Okay, so what was the favorite thing you guys bought then? That's a good question. Easy for me. Easy for me. Instinctively, I want to say like, I mean,

That's a good figure. It's a solid figure, but I think the most interesting figure and like coolest one that I'm glad I bought was maybe the Akira one, which I thought was just so funny. Or the Levi one. Mike Wozowski though. That's such a good figure.

On I or not, that is a good figure. That's fucking good. And also the 500, I've got the name of the character for Shinji's dad. Gendo. Gendo. Gendo figure. The five, yeah. That's a good deal.

I think my favorite was definitely the jump. Oh, that's so sick. because it's so unique. I love unique figures. Yeah, yeah. There's so many figures that look alike. And who doesn't like jump? Exactly.

Yeah. That's just gonna, that is just gonna look good. Yeah. What is, okay, what's the worst figure you think? Each of us bought? The worst figure? Yeah, I gotta- Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree. This thing, what the hell?

Uh, I don't know, actually. I liked all the figurines I bought. Maybe that's why I lost. What's the worst figure you think I bought? The worst one you bought? Ooh, I mean, you bought so many. I can't remember. That's pretty, that's pretty bad.

Probably that. Yeah, your fucking monogatory one, that's kinda, excuse you. That's kinda trash taste if I do say. Do you want to smell my finger? Smell my finger. I have a registered weapon now right here. Oh, God.

Yeah, there's not much to say really. I feel like we've adequately roasted each other's purchases. Yeah, and I guess I wanted to give a shout out to all the stores we use. Oh yeah, absolutely. Because, okay, so disclaimer, we might have shit on like some of the things we bought,

but the stores were fucking great. Yeah, right. Yeah, really accommodating. Like if we showed on those figure, this isn't representative to the what we had, what they had at the store. Yeah, no. Yeah, because some of them were just,

we needed to buy stuff just to fulfill the challenge. I wish I could have bought something, but a pop figure for us. Army Army has so many good figures, okay? Army Army have so many good figures. But I had to settle for this. Yeah, all the stores were fantastic. And again, like, thank you guys

for like giving us permission on such short notice as well because we're a bunch of really loud YouTubers as you can tell. Yeah. the stores are right next to each other as well. So if you go, there's no reason not to go to it. Yeah. Yeah, they're all like, what, less than 10 minutes walking distance for one another?

Yeah, go on, sorry, I'm talking to you. Um, I completely forgot. I was gonna say now. Put the spotlight on you for no reason. No, I was just gonna say, yeah, and just thank you for letting us film that. Yeah, thanks for the stores. Links down below.

Yeah, and I hope you guys enjoyed this video and the main videos. Um, again, if you haven't checked out each one of our videos where we, you'll see, you know, all of our perspectives of how we came to buy all this amazing goods, then again go to the links down in the description below.

You can check out all three of our videos. And yeah, I guess look out for all of this stuff somewhere right here. Were you gonna shout out the Patreon? Yeah, I was gonna shout out of the Patreon. Go ahead, go ahead. We also have a Patreon now. This is a very expensive podcast.

We spent a lot, I'm joking. This isn't where the money would go. This isn't where the money's going. Okay, we did this challenge because we wanted to do this challenge. We wanted, we need just to the Patreon to keep the podcast running. Yeah, and that's pretty much it.

I mean, as you can tell, the editing is, you know, it's some damn good editing. Shout out to Mudan. Yeah, Mudan's for Editing. We wanna keep hiring him and we wanna just keep this all running like you said. Yeah, exactly. Keep it at the best quality that it possibly can. And your guys' support over on the Patreon

is gonna help us out a lot. Perfect, all right. I have no more words to say, boys. I can't say anything else. Joey, get the fuck away from me with that dirty ass finger that you have. I'm gonna harass you for the rest of the day. Can I do the outro because I don't want you speaking

anymore that you'd be to. Can I say one thing before, before you do this? out show. Is a callback to previous episode. I imagine that's what Jerry's finger smart like after he rated school days attend. I'm not over that.

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Bye. God. You could argue that Shonen Jump is actually not a figure, just saying like, I mean, then I would win. Look, I already lost, all right? Yeah, but I wanted to get the job. He's already dead.