Ben Lindbergh

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.

And then sometimes there are dungeons and there are bosses of the dungeons and there are chests and there are

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'm just out of inventory space.

Got to leave it lying in the chest.

Yeah, but that's also because Frearin doesn't care at all about money, right?

She's not in this for... She's just in it for love of the game.

She just wants to collect spells.

Love of the spells, love of the Gormars.

And she is charmed the most by a spell that, like...