"Stupidity ahoy!"
—Their channel's slogan
Tsuki and the Video Master
. They're a pair of nerds that review anime and episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic on YouTube. They're also been known to do web commentaries they call "Let's Watch" for the latter, as well as episodes of the Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon, anime OVAs, Felix the Cat: The Movie, My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), and Rainbow Brite: The Movie. They've also been known to run live stream for many varied reasons, whether to stream anime, wrestling, or video games.
Their usual style is a vlog, but they have been known to veer into (partially) scripted Video Review Show territory as well. Overall, the series is peppered with full-on silliness, nerdy references, nerdy jokes, and, well... nerdy everything. They avoid the common Accentuate the Negative-style reviews, instead focusing on being positive.
The Otaku Ascended provides or discusses examples of:
- And Starring: Brony Comms, whenever they crossover with them. They've done this twice, once for the FIM episode, Best Night Ever and for a Sonic the Hedgehog OVA, though that was just Shadrow.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: No, this has not escaped their notice, and they point it out anytime they see it, such as in FIM where villains will be designed ugly.
- Book Ends: They begin and end each video with this introduction:"I'm Tsuki.""I'm the Video Master."
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Broken Aesop:- Commented on in My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), in which they point out that the witches are the ones who actually struggle and have to work together, whereas all the ponies had done up to that point was run Baby Lickity-Split out of town, so to speak.
- The moral of the movie was supposed to be "work together for a better future", or "buy our toys!".
- The Bully: Discussed in the FIM episode, Griffon The Brush-Up, where they talk about how bullies tend to be lazily written characters designed only to receive their comeuppance. Neither one is particularly fond of the archetype.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: More recent fans may be used to Tsuki sitting to the left and Video Master on the right will notice right away their positioning was inverted early on. Also, they hadn't come up with any of their usual greetings or other slogans.
- Face Palm: Tsuki hates the pun Fillydelphia in FIM. He does it so hard, you can hear it in the Let's Watch it turns up in.
- Frivolous Lawsuit: Most of their commentaries of FIM were flagged, despite the fact that the videos fall under Fair Use. Thankfully, they have a back-up.[[note](It was undoubtedly the work of trolls, since the two have also posted commentaries of earlier My Little Pony works, but those were allowed to stay.)[[/note]]
- Guilty Pleasure:
- They admit that Rainbow Brite The Movie is actually kind of enjoyable.
- Tsuki watched My Little Pony before it was cool. Crosses over with Just Here for Godzilla.
- Video Master loves the old Saturday Morning Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon, despite its Mind Screw and So Bad, It's Good tendencies.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In The Last Straw!, Tsuki attempts to shoot Video Master dead. Despite being just a few feet away, he misses.
- Let's Play:
- Tsuki ran one of a Super Mario Bros. 2 mod which replaced the Mario characters for pony characters on Brony Team LP's YouTube channel.
- They did a real one and it's F 3 AR or FEAR 3, CO-OP of course.
- Tsuki ran one of a Super Mario Bros. 2 mod which replaced the Mario characters for pony characters on Brony Team LP's
- Money, Dear Boy: They correctly guess this is reason for so many celebrities offering their voices to My Little Pony: The Movie (1986).
- Nostalgia Filter: They point out that the Felix the Cat and Rainbow Brite movies aren't that great, but it doesn't stop the two from enjoying them.
- Running Gag: During their live stream Let's Watch of Shin Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning, the chat made cracks about Madoka being Human Octavia, so the guys ran with it.
- Sanity Slippage: Apparently, if the Video Master spends too much time watching something, he'll end up thinking he's a character in it. As evidenced in one video when he spent all night watching old episodes of the Mega Man cartoon and ends up attacking someone ringing on his and Tsuki's doorbell.
- Self-Deprecation: Their own logo says "Stupidity Ahoy!"
- Video Review Show: Attempted a few times before they gave up and returned to being a vlog.
"Hi, I'm Tsuki.""I'm the Video Master."
