Ben Lindbergh

Like I could probably just list all the anime that I've watched in my life

very quickly, you know, not counting anime-inspired or anime-adjacent, you know, Avatar and Blue-Eyed Samurai and stuff like that, but... This is a good starter anime.

Yeah, I mean, I watched Fullmetal Alchemist back in the day.

I watched some Cowboy Bebop, love Miyazaki, you know, love like Suzume and Your Name and some baseball anime.

Gretzany, Money Pitch is a favorite of mine, but I wasn't like... Ooh, you're into baseball anime.

Which ones?

Goretzany is the one that I really like the most.

Than actual baseball?

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

But the point is, you don't have to have a long, extensive history of anime to jump into Fury, and maybe it'll be a gateway to you for other shows, or maybe you'll just love Fury, and that's fine too.

But that's the thing, you'll recognize...

Other things that you love in Freerun, you know, we're talking about Lord of the Rings and it reminds us of this and that.

And you talked about it as like the RPG comp, just the JRPG, you know, as a gamer, that's something that there are just echoes of that everywhere here.

And I guess it's tough to untangle the influence of RPGs from D&D or from Lord of the Rings, but like this is, it's essentially an RPG.

It's kind of, you know, it reminds me of

RPGs that I played around the turn of the century, like Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2, and it's, you know, Dragon Quest and Trails.

And it's so clearly inspired by that because, you know, you're in a party and you're wandering around an overworld, basically, and you're

You're stopping at inns and you're going to towns and you're loading up on your supplies.

And then you're going into the field and you're having random encounters with monsters.

And then there's like a battle theme that kicks in, you know, and you're taking turns to attack.