I made my friend @killallyourfrendz watch Samurai Flamenco with me, and here's the highlights reel of their predictions and commentary:
TV news guy is going to bankroll an evil organization of villains to get more viewers
Masayoshi goes full villain
Masayoshi is in a coma (from episode 7 onward--later changed to "from the end of episode 1 onward")
"Yeah, I'd beat this guy up, too."
Episodes 8-10 (King Torture Arc)
The rest of the show will just be 10 episodes of “horrific clean-up” after the King Torture fight
King Torture will be Red Axe
Episodes 11-14 (Flamengers Arc)
It's a Truman Project situation: "they’re all in on the bit except for Samurai Flamenco and the cop”
"Mari should just become a villain"
"This is all shenanigans."
"We are just speed-running seasons' worth of content right now."
“All of these villains exist BECAUSE of them."
"I hope Mari gets her stride back and kills again. Or becomes a villain."
Masayoshi is in purgatory
Masayoshi has been sucked into a TV
Masayoshi is in a Jumanji situation
"How many decisive battles can there be?"
Masayoshi's grandpa put a curse on him and forced him to live out all the stories he'd ever written
"Is there even a girlfriend at this point? Is the girlfriend dead? Is he talking to himself?"
Red Axe is hiring people to fight SamFlam so that he can keep coming and saving the day
It's the Truman Show (again)
“This is a Pleasantville scenario, but instead of making the world better, they’re making it worse.”
Episodes 15-17 (Prime Minister Arc)
Mister Justice is just Red Axe in a new costume
The other Flamengers don't exist anymore: "They've left the Matrix"
I’d be like, “Isn’t it weird that this all started to happen after Samurai Flamenco showed up?”
They've reached a new circle of Hell
"Maybe… this is the police officer’s hallucination??"
“If you had just stopped being superheroes, we could have gotten out of this, but NO, you had to KEEP wearing the costumes and that’s why we’re IN THIS MESS.”
“This isn’t like a Matrix situation, is it?”
“He is in a hospital bed, unconscious.”
"OH OHHHH??? Oh no this is just, like, another fake out"
Episode 19-22 (Final Arc)
“Are we going to find out the girlfriend was King Torture this whole time?”
"This whole time Goto’s been living his own fucked-up Black Mirror horror story.”
"Masayoshi actually blew up his own apartment; he’s having a Goto moment right now."
“I thought we had just one delusional man to deal with, but really we have two.”
"Wanting to be a superhero: the original sin"
Masayoshi is the final villain (held onto this one right until the last episode lol)
“A middle school boy is trying to kill me, and the advice I got is that I need to fall in love.”