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Alright Jason, I think I have the most important question about all of anime that I've ever asked you right now.

I'm excited.

Why is the Akira slide so cool?

Because it's on a motorcycle.

Can you imagine if you tried to do that on a horse, you'd break its legs.

Well, I don't want to hurt any horses.

Look, I am not endorsing horse pain.

I feel bad that I've started out the podcast with this.

But I am endorsing motorcycle pain because I think it just looks cool.

I think because you think if a real writer would do that, they would flop over.

But the fact that it's kind of day, right?

It is kind of day.

I think it's just like, I don't think anything had been done in animation quite like that up until that point.

Okay, important follow up question.

What is cooler, the Akira slide or the web slinger horse falling from the ceiling in across the spider verse?

Well, I mean, that's what you want to compare to a boat horses and that was the first thing I thought of.

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