Wasn't that opening jingle so cute and catchy and got you all amped up to listen to your
favorite anime podcast show, Joe?
Here's your host Sarah. That's me. Introduces my friend Joe.
That's me. Are we playing a new song?
No, I just didn't acknowledge it. I just tried to think of a different intro.
Introduce my friend Joe. Just show Joe anime. You guys have heard this spiel before. So that's
a cat. Let's see before we get into the episode. We'll catch up. We're recording a little early
because I am going to my first like ren fair thingamabob tomorrow morning with some friends
that I have met kind of once from Bumble has a BFF feature. So I like match with a girl
who had started this discord of all these chicks in the area of similar interest. So I like
win. Yeah, I went to like a game night with them once and this will be the second time
I do something with them. But I figured I'm going to try something new. So hopefully I'm
not like melting in the sun and angry and something.
It's like we're a big hat. Here's the problem.
Hats. That's that's restricting the, you know, heat escaping out of my head. So it gives
you know, covers my skin. But then, you know, it makes me hotter by wearing a hat like a
sun hat, like just like a big brim light hat. I don't have that. I'm lounge on the beach.
I've got like, like kind of cowboy hat that I wear for my Dr. Grant cosplay and I've got
like bucket hat and all cats. We'll see. I don't know. Yeah.
Carry around a parasol. I should do. Oh, boy. It's fine. I know. I know. Am I going to be
the only person dressed normally? No. Everyone's gonna be like, Oh, that hell's wrong with
that chick. Okay. Other than that, not much else new. That's different from last week.
I will say I've been hardcore playing Horizon Zero Dawn on my steam deck this week trying
to finish it so I can play for Ben West. And I'm playing Frozen Wild, the DLC for the
first time. So that's something new. Yeah. That's what I've kind of been doing. How about
you, Joe? You've got anything more exciting to report? I watched a movie. I watched an
anime movie called The Empire of Corses. I've never heard of it. Which is a it's a 26.
No, 2015 science fiction action horror anime. Okay, that's none of those. Well, it's just
an action show. It's like it's a story that takes place in a world where like Frankenstein
happened. He may he reanimated the you know, he made his monster or whatever. And then
that technology to like bring people back to life is like wide scale adopted amongst
all of the like major powers. And so you have zombie people basically doing like manual
labor and also being soldiers and like all this other stuff. And it takes like the story
is of this guy who like tries to bring his friend back to life. But it's like actually
trying to like construct the soul. And like he has this but opposite very much. So it's
very similar like in that kind of planning or like the context for it. And like he has
to go get Victor Frankenstein's notes so he can learn the true essence of the soul, that
kind of thing. It's like ridiculous. It's like an insane. It's mostly just like a bunch
of action. It's like very action heavy. It's like crazy. Is it good? I don't know if it's
good, but it is pretty entertaining. Did you watch this of your own volition or was this
a group watch? This is a group watch. It's pretty good. It's like a fun. It's like a fun action
movie, you know. Okay. I feel like most of the anime movies I've watched have been Sue
jibbly, but there's been a few rando ones. Yeah, I mean, good ones like what's the name
one, whatever that your name, your name is good. But this really is our one. I think my
mom got it for me for like Easter one year or something, which as a grown adult, my mom
is still trying to get me a damn Easter basket. And she does like little knickknack gifts
that for each of us, but you know, whatever. And I normally either get or as a kid, I get
like a shitty like Rugrats Gameboy game where it's like she like knows that I like that
show. So she gets me to gain not knowing that games face off shows are typically bad, but
it's sweet. But this movie, I don't know if you've heard of it. It's called the satellite
girl and milk cow. And it is the most bizarre, strange movie ever. It's so weird. Oh, man.
Wow, I'm looking at a picture that's a cow. Yeah, it's like a girl from space and a dude
who turns into a cow. It's so weird. That sounds like a pretty good premise. No, it's
bizarre. Oh, man. That's funny. Also, I guess I never finished Porco Roso. I didn't like
that movie. Porco Roso is fun. Okay, see, I'm just a shallow or a fun. They're just like
it's like watching a show, but it's a movie. This was crazy. This was the animation studio
that did like the first three seasons of Attack on Titan. I guess that changed. Why did that
change? What change the studio making Attack on Titan? I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. It was popular production stuff. You know, maybe that's why there's such
long breaks in between. It moves. It moved over to Mapa at some point, I think. You really
do lend our podcasts all the credibility because you like pay attention to that stuff. You
pay attention to animation studios and all this. I don't know, conceptual and all I can
do is chime in with like, oh, when I was in Japan or I mean, I'm just looking this up.
Her hair is done. Yeah, I don't know. I don't understand how this stuff gets made and why
you would switch animation studios like midway through. I mean, if they did suck or if it's
a living nightmare, I guess. Well, I mean, if not the product, but maybe working there
sucked. Oh yeah, it sounds like working at all of them sucks. That's true. It kind of
just sounds like like I follow on animators on like Twitter and stuff. And it kind of
just sounds like really rough working conditions. Although people are like, it's doing I love
and it's like, geez, I wish doing what you loved was better. Sustainable. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That's too bad. Yeah. Yeah, I know, right? Like any I mean, I work at a game studio,
but maybe just from like the last place I worked at and the people there. But I'm like,
steer clear of anyone who's worked in the game industry or is into film and stuff because
they're just going to be super into like themselves and think that, you know, treating people terribly
is the cost you must pay to make a good thing. It just seems. Yeah, I mean, I'm on the rare
good end of things that I've seen the bad mildly. I'm sure it's so bad and big, big places.
Yeah. That's what I did. Watch the anime movie. That's all you've done in the last week.
And I did other stuff. Nothing else in note or relevant. I mean, like, I'm so watching
Macross. That's really good. I'm watching Victor Gundam. That is all right. I don't know.
I'll go into more of that later when like stuff starts happening. I'm only like a third of
the way through those. Cool. And then do you want to get, I guess, just get into it? We've
got so good about trimming our andering discussions in the beginning. Now it's at the tail end.
We need to. Yeah, well, we're going to have a lot of talk about these episodes, I feel like.
Yeah, I mean, lots of notes. Oh, good. Oh, boy. Okay. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I have. I wanted to follow up on whatever happened with that high dive class action thingy.
I don't know. I don't think. Oh, no, you better follow up. Demand.
Let me see. Hi.
Dive class action. Let's see if we can take time. Oh, I guess. It's been like two months. I don't know.
Maybe I'll hear about it again at some point. Maybe. Who knows. Okay. All right. Sorry. Back on track.
That's okay. I mean, you know, we can talk about it. You know, I did my taxes last weekend. You want to
talk about that? No, I don't even want to think Joe. Don't even get me started. Like, I think I just
file mine wrong every year. I'm probably like paying when I should be getting money back. I'm just too scared to not.
It's like, if I'm paying for something, then at least I'm not like, you know, being. They're not going to arrest you.
They're going to come after me. It's not like a huge deal. Oh, God. Well, because, oh, well, the streaming, right?
That's a different thing at the word. Oh, that's right. And then bringing health insurance. I have like a FSA situation.
So that's like a whole ordeal. And oh, God, at least for the first like time these last two years, I've only had one place
award to worry about. Because I've always had like a bajillion jobs every year. Oh, boy. Oh, and then student loans and
math. It's so confusing. Like, even not, it's like, I'm not even having to do math, but like trying to comprehend
what they're trying to ask of me is very difficult.
Oh, all right. Well, that positive note, maybe we should get into the episode.
Yeah, let's take take my mind off that.
Okay. Okay. Angelic layer episode 17 is called I choose you. Misaki shows in person.
That's what it says on my Plex server. What actually shows up in the things says I've made up my mind on you. The one
Misaki selected, which is not as good.
I feel like that's closer to what it was for me. Like, they get wordy with these.
When they do a whole sentence, it's not that good. Okay. So at the top of this episode, I'm going to make a correction.
This is actually a correction for next episode, but it comes up this episode. So here we go. So up to this point, I have been
calling Shuko's friend, Sekiko, because that's what I thought her name tag said. In the episode after this one, Shuko
actually says her name and her name is Yuko, not Sekiko. Wow.
But it's the same kanji. It's the same exact spelling that spells Sekiko and Yuko. And Sekiko was the first result when I
searched it. So that's what I said. So like, you know, my bad. How am I supposed to know that?
All credibility gone.
I didn't check the wiki. And that is, and I also, so all the other names are right. So we're, you know, Fuji Mori, that's good.
Inada, that's good. Also, Inada is her husband and that's her also her last name. So I could have just said Inada for her too.
Just in case anybody was wondering about that. So I don't think anyone was, but just in case one Angelic Layer enthusiast
fanatic time to long someday.
When you hear Yuko, just think Sekiko. A name that belongs to nobody.
Alright, episode 17. We open on Katara and Misaki on cleaning duty. Katara asks Misaki if she wants to see him do karate again
next Sunday, but before she can answer, Tamiyo like slams him to the ground, but really aggressively.
Wait, wait, this is where my slideshow comes. I wanted to show everyone.
Okay.
Sorry. Okay, so yeah, he's like talking to her all blushy, blushy.
That's just a picture of him talking.
Oh my God, he's getting his neck right. Dude, she destroys him. Oh my God, he's dead.
If you're listening to the podcast, I don't know what to tell you. She's like, she, she.
I'll post these photos.
She gets his neck in the crook of her elbow and she like slams him down.
Oh my God.
She like slams him. It's crazy.
Not doing well. Yeah, I'll post these to Instagram. I'm going to try and do this from now on.
Yikes. Okay. Anyway, don't interrupt my thing.
I'm sorry.
I got to find where I was.
She says that they're going to be busy having a party to celebrate Misaki's win at the tournament instead so we can't go on a date.
This surprise is Misaki who doesn't know anything about this.
They both tell her that she should do her best and become champion.
But then Hadoko shows up suddenly and says she won't be able to make it through nationals at her current level.
And then she explains that nationals uses like a round system like in boxing where like the match starts and then you play for three minutes and then you take a break and then you play for three months.
Or something. Also, you need a second on your team that can like help you strategize and repair your doll in between rounds and stuff.
And it would be good if she picked someone that she got along with.
We transition to Shoko and Shuko talking on the phone and Shoko tells her about the party for Misaki.
Shuko asserts that she's going to meet Misaki properly before nationals.
Then we cut to Misaki assembling a scrapbook of all her memories of the tournament.
And then we do another cut to Hadoko in pajamas watching old tournament matches and typing on her laptop.
Kataro comes in and asks if Misaki asked her to be her second yet and Hadoko says no not yet.
Then it's the next day and Tamayo, Kataro and Hadoko all arrive at the Shoko residence.
They have a ton of food and all five of them eat together.
Hadoko says that she knew Misaki would win because she could gauge her the best.
Kataro asks she's chosen her second yet and Misaki is about to ask Hadoko before she can finish the doorbell rings.
Shoko thinks it might be Shuko so she opens it but is surprised instead when it's Ringo who like does a party pop or like a right in her face.
Ringo brings over a bunch of gifts and is all around just like being extra and all over the place.
Also she has a hamster living under her hat that she named Misataro after Misaki.
This is a plot critical hamster by the way.
Then the doorbell rings again and we get a montage of visitors.
Sai and Kaede arrive together with gifts and Ojiro arrives with a bouquet of roses and then they all hang out.
Hadoko remembers that she has something to give Misaki and leads to go get it.
Ojiro asks Misaki if she's chosen a second and she hasn't.
Hearing this, Ringo volunteers just as Hadoko enters with her laptop and Misaki kind of like hesitantly agrees to consider it.
Ojiro also volunteers and everybody else says that they'd be happy to help out too.
Misaki says she's still gonna think about it and wonders where Hadoko went.
Hadoko thinking she got rejected goes and sulk's with her laptop in another room.
We cut to Shuko looking at a picture of Misaki.
Ichan enters and they talk about how hard Shuko has been working.
Shuko then apologizes to the picture of Misaki and says they're almost done with her work and she can see her soon.
And Ichan frowns having a way of hearing this.
He suggests that she call her on the phone, you know like a normal person,
but Shuko doesn't think she can like keep it together on the phone.
And then she leaves saying she's gonna go see Misaki, much to Ichan's surprise.
We cut back to the party where Kaye and Blanche are doing like a ventriloquist comedy routine,
which is pretty good actually.
Hadoko is sad and gets up to go to the bathroom.
Katara follows her and asks her what she's gonna do about Misaki.
And Haruko says that like she's not gonna do anything because it's just Misaki's choice.
When she comes back, she comes back to a scene of Shirahime and Wizard playing some kind of like weird game
where they hit each other with like a cartoon hammer.
Because it turns out Ojiro brought a mini-layer to give Misaki as a present
so that she can practice at home.
And Hadoko's like, yeah, that's cool.
Ojiro asks what the prize for winning the hammer game should be
and Ringo jokes that Misaki should have to kiss the winner, much to Katara's protests.
Sai interjects saying that she wouldn't want to be kissed by a woman because this show hits me.
Then Ojiro suggests that the winner should get to be Misaki's second.
Outside, Shoko has driven up to Shoko's apartment but hasn't gone in yet.
Back at base, Yuko asks...
I'm sorry, yeah, Yuko asks Ichon where Shoko is and he says that she's visiting Misaki.
Yuko asks why he didn't go with her and he says that she wanted to go alone
and then Yuko's like, obviously she wanted you to come with her, dude.
Like, go hang out with your girlfriend and Ichon is like surprised by this.
Back at the party, Ojiro is kicking everybody's ass at this weird game.
He asks if there are any more challengers after he beats Sai, I think.
Or no, he beats Ringo. He beats one of them.
Katara looks at Hadoko but she doesn't say anything.
So he asks Misaki to borrow Hikaru so he could give it a shot.
He gets ready and Shoko asks Misaki who she like actually wants to be her second.
Misaki hesitates and Shoko tells her that she's just like her mom in that way
but Shoko always eventually makes the decisions for herself.
So like, just hang in there, kid.
Katara and Ojiro start playing but it's the first time Katara has ever played Angelic Layer
so he can barely get Hikaru to move around.
Right before Wizard is gonna hit her with a hammer,
Ringo's hamster vaults off of Wizard and runs away.
Then we get a montage of everybody looking for the hamster.
Katara is about to check a room but he stops when Misaki tells him that it's her room
and that she and Hadoko will check it instead.
They spot the hamster behind a desk and they try to trap it but it runs under the bed.
They then both crawl under the bed and Misaki uses the opportunity to ask Hadoko to be her second.
She agrees and they catch the hamster.
Misaki announced to the group that Hadoko will be her second and everybody agrees that that's a good choice.
Then they all jokingly assign themselves other roles for Team Misaki as the doorbell rings again.
Shoko answers it and is surprised to see Shoko.
Back in the party, Misaki reflects on all the good times she's had making real friends through Angelic Layer.
Shoko, now in crutches, sees her in the other room having a good time and decides to leave.
Shoko asks her why and Shoko says that she wants Misaki to see the hamster.
Misaki sees the version of her that's been trying her best for the last seven years,
not just showing up randomly at a party.
Shoko is just glad that she made a decision so she lets her go.
The doorbell keeps ringing and Misaki eventually goes and answers it.
It turns out it's Alice and Madoka and then a bunch of other random people.
Alice hands Misaki some flowers and says that she won't lose to her again.
Then Ojiro comes into shot to reveal that he posted a flyer at the practice arena to come and party.
Everybody has a big party as we cut to credits.
So I guess Shoko and Yuko, so their names rhyme.
Shuko and...damn it, are you serious? I didn't even think about that.
We have Shoko and Shoko and Shoko and Yuko. Come on!
It's like they knew one day we'd be struggling.
Ugh, god, the show. Why do they have to do that?
Okay, yeah, I have a lot of notes.
Okay, me too.
Good stuff is up to the side.
Yeah, so in the beginning, whether they're outside sleeping and...
Well, first off, sorry, I should have waited till now to do my little pictures, so...
Did you forgive me?
Yeah, that's fine.
But Karate is like the word.
It's the code word for date.
Want to go on another date with me?
I don't think Misaki understands that.
No, well, she starts blushing. She knows.
She knows. What's up?
Oh, man. Yeah, okay.
Yes, I will definitely post these photos to Instagram and our website.
I think I'll try doing this so everyone can kind of get a peek at what the hell we're talking about.
You get a peek at Katara getting choked out. She's like dying in this screen cap.
Well, it's like something you wouldn't notice because the animation took quickly,
but I kind of saw glimpse of it and I was like, wait, then I rewound and I was like...
It's like an in-between thing.
Yeah, okay. So freaking... a toko just rolling up.
Just shows up.
You're not going to make it the way you are now.
Basically just talking her down like Si was the last episode.
No, I mean, this is not like she's like, listen, you're not going to make it as you are now.
You need to understand they randomly change the rules at nationals.
Why do they keep changing the rules?
I guess to make it more interesting.
Well, essentially we learned...
It's like such a ridiculous thing to do.
It's going to be in rounds.
To be in rounds, you have a second, which is like a person you talk to over the radio,
which we see next episode.
Like consultant kind of.
Yeah, like your coach, like your boxing coach.
It just turned into boxing.
Mechanic too.
Yeah, also your mechanic. Like what?
Yeah, but yeah, toko first bring it up and then be like,
oh, you should probably pick someone who knows you well.
And basically she's just like, hint, hint, pick me.
And then very confident that that's going to happen because she's freaking already doing her homework on
Hikaru and all her stats and stuff.
Oh man.
I mean, she's right. Who else are you going to pick?
That's what I mean. Yes.
Ringo, she's better twice.
Yeah.
Ringo.
Don't just assume things just because you're...
Oh my God, Ringo brings a bunch of presents and they're all just Ringo things.
They're all just her own works.
Oh my God.
It's so funny.
Oh, Ringo's great.
You can't buy me love, Ringo.
Okay, I have some.
We get some good outfits this episode.
We get a toko and, or yeah, hot o'co and pajamas.
No, I hate her.
Oh, okay. I was going to say.
You don't like her pajamas?
No, I don't like her dress.
Like, she's just wearing plain-ass light dress.
Everybody's casual outfits.
These are the notes I have.
Tamiyo.
America's flag top with midriff.
Kataro wearing two shirts.
Hot o'co.
Dressed like an orphan.
And then Misaki was just normal.
No, hers is cute.
Hers is cute little like kind of vintage dress.
Yeah, she's like a...
It has like sleigh.
No, it has a collar.
Peter Pan collar.
Yeah.
The cuff.
Yeah.
Why is Tamiyo wearing an American flag shirt?
Well, I'll have you know that this is my bit where I talked about when I was in Japan
that one time.
There's like a whole district in Tokyo shopping district that's like dedicated to western
apparel.
It's like called America or something, but it's like all 90s like Disney sweatshirts
and stuff.
Oh, okay.
It's probably a pop feeler.
That's just very weird.
Like I...
Well, I kind of like how we're super, at least we see her super into Japanese culture,
but they seem pretty into...
Cause like Snoopy is the shit in Japan.
Right, but those are like mascots.
This is literally the flag of a nation.
No, I didn't, I went and there's just after Avengers Endgame came and they were like
blaring the theme songs throughout the streets with posters of it everywhere.
I was like, damn, this is like a Marvel theme park or something.
Okay, but that's like a franchise.
It's like a media franchise.
This is a flag of a country.
I don't know.
I like the vibe of her outfit.
Oh yeah, she was the most casual.
Yeah.
Tommy and those have to be like a normal teen.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Cause Tommy's just not wearing two shirts.
He keeps wearing two shirts.
Are you talking about where he does the slayer's?
The long sleeve under it?
That was like the thing.
That was the thing in the early 2000s.
Surely you did that at one point.
I did not do that.
He didn't do that.
Okay.
I always had style.
But yeah, I don't know if it's too hot.
It's not the best.
No, it's boring and she should be wearing a hat at all times.
Yeah.
It's just like a normal dress.
I mean, it's just like an orphan dress, but it's just because it's like white and it just drinks down.
Unremarkable.
Yeah.
There's like nothing on it really.
It's just like a.
Okay.
And then the part where Misaki's about to ask her and then gets like interrupted by the
doorbell.
Her toko like knows it's coming.
So she like takes a long sip of her tea first.
Okay.
Yes.
Tell me.
She's playing it cool.
She's like, I was like, how old are you?
She's not a five year old.
Look at me.
Yeah.
She's like, I'm an adult.
I know how to play it cool.
And then as soon as it goes back, she's like, oh no.
Yeah.
He loves me because she's five.
Oh dear.
It's great.
Oh man.
And toko's great.
And then when we see Shuko and she tells each one, hey, I'm going to go see Misaki.
I was like, his face is so unchanged.
He doesn't believe it.
Oh yeah.
I don't believe it.
So unimpressed.
No, I believe it.
Shuko, I'm sorry.
I love, I do love how nobody, everybody thinks this is dumb.
I know.
Like, I, okay.
I have some words about the people at the party though.
Yeah.
Ringo is a menace.
She has the same outfit on except she has a top hat, which she reveals the hamster under.
Kyanne and Sai, they arrive together.
Not holding hands.
They're not holding hands.
They're holding gifts and then Sai is going to do some shit that's going to disappoint
me, but they're just wearing their normal uniforms.
Nobody is, they don't have casual wear for some reason.
And neither does Ojiro.
He's also just in a normal uniform, which is weird because when we see like at the very
end we see Alice and Monika and they both have casual outfits.
Yes.
Like they don't get a second outfit.
Oh, lazy.
Lame.
Animation.
Lame.
Yeah.
I guess maybe like they just wouldn't.
Maybe I don't know.
People are afraid they wouldn't be as recognizable or something.
I don't think they have other clothes.
I think that's all they got.
Maybe.
Kyanne, who's dad's a freaking CEO, probably just doesn't have any of her outfits.
Oh my gosh.
I could imagine Sai like opening her closet and it's just the cartoon thing, which is
the same outfit over and over again on hand.
100%.
That's a very hur thing.
Yeah.
She can't be bothered.
She's too cool to worry about what she's going to wear.
Oh yeah.
Sorry.
I was just like, Kyanne with the blanche puppeteering.
Oh my God.
That is so goofy.
Like it's great.
It's so weird.
Sai's seems kind of into it.
It's like very funny how Kyanne is like introduced as like, ooh, she's like the cool girl.
She's like nice.
And now she's like, yeah, she's super lame.
Talking through her doll.
It's great.
Oh, God.
It was funny.
They're commentary on Ojiro's bouquet is very funny because Kyanne is like a bouquet is
a standard gift for girls and Sai's like it's good because it doesn't last.
Yeah.
Why are you talking like this?
I hate flowers as they're depressing.
I'm depressing.
They're dying.
So it's not the flowers.
No, they're going to die regardless.
Oh my God.
I hate this is a lie.
It's inevitable.
You're a pet owner.
How is it?
Because the pets limbs haven't been chopped off and you know, put in a bouquet.
I don't they're depressing.
They're just sad.
I hate it.
If it's like a potted plant, sure.
Although my grandma got me one of those and I like utterly sucked at maintaining it.
I think it brought fruit flies into my place.
But it's the fact that counts.
Or cats will try to eat it or fair.
Like the pot over, you know, I just yeah, I'll take care of the animals and nature
can just do it.
Don't think I said it was funny when Ringo like volunteers to like, oh, I can be your
second.
I was like, don't you have to like be an idol?
And she's like, no, I cleared my entire schedule for the finals because I thought
I was going to be in it and not get eliminated round one of the qualifiers.
Yeah.
That is embarrassing.
She got wrecked so hard.
Like just like her entire schedule for the next month.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
I was like, when, okay, it's pretty exciting.
I wouldn't want to kiss her.
Oh my God.
I'm so mad.
Sorry.
This is the direct quote.
I certainly wouldn't be happy being kissed by a woman.
Shut up.
Well, Ringo does give her a face like, are you sure?
Listen, listen.
She's never interacted with another human, but she's been, she's been, she's talked
to one person her entire life.
She doesn't know if she wants to get kissed by a girl or not.
I bet she hasn't kissed anybody.
Yeah, true.
And then she's like, I don't know.
Could happen.
Maybe.
Yeah.
I could see that.
What the little, it's like a rock, paper, scissors game, right?
Jerry O'Grupe brings essentially a at home little practice layer which has got to be
so expensive.
It's not.
Oh yeah.
He said it was custom.
Yeah, it's not like a thing you can buy, but it's got to be so expensive.
And how did, he, he wasn't carrying anything, but okay, where'd that thing come from?
It was in his car.
And he puts a sign up at pithal princess saying, come celebrate at her house.
her house.
She has some insane stalker fans that now know she lives.
It's such an unhinged thing to do. Oh, my God.
She lives there. Are you saying it's so good.
That's safe. Yeah.
This weird hammer game they play, it seems like you play rock, paper, scissors
and whoever wins the game is like if you can grab the hammer and hit them on the
head with it before they can grab like a little.
Well, I think it's like what you over their head.
You're like you try to bonk them for they like can cover their head.
Yeah. Yes.
Which is very goofy.
I know I like I think this is a thing you can play like people play in real life.
And this is just like we're making the angels play.
It isn't that fun. Yeah.
And it is. It's fun, especially because like the hammer and the plate are like
enormous to be like hammers that make a squishy sound when you hit.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's like a little dot hammer.
Yeah. I can't believe I said that.
I'm so mad. I was like, OK, just because it's in the last episode, I was like,
oh, yeah, hey, they're like they're pretty gay.
And it's like, no, we got to say to the.
Don't I know I don't like women on site.
I don't want to be kissed.
Ew. Kissing is gross.
Shut up.
OK, it doesn't seem like when they're under the bed looking for the hamster
that almost is like a proposal because they're both fleshy.
And then the sockies like, well, you with me, you know, dot, dot, dot.
Yeah, I mean, it is. Yeah.
But yeah, they definitely do that where it's like an intimate moment.
Yes. OK. And then I have my next screenshot.
It's like it's like they're getting married.
Like it's like they're presenting to their family.
It's so funny.
This is like when they're like informing families that you're a couple is by,
you know, sitting across from them like exactly like this photo.
It's it's man.
Misaki and it's OK, they're both like sitting next to each other.
And this is when the sockies announced to the group that it's going to be her second.
And she's like leaning over and putting her hands on it.
And life like you're announcing that you're going to like get married.
And it's like ridiculous.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. And then OK.
But speaking of that, speaking of people who in relationships,
you go being like each time, why did you not go with Shuko to see Misaki?
You obviously like she was like, oh, I'll go by myself.
Dude, you should have gone with her. Come on.
Well, I don't think that they're a couple.
Like I think like she knows he's into her.
And I think everyone knows he's into her.
But I feel like she's probably just like everything else in her life.
She's like, I can't do anything but Jellicleyer until we.
Oh, she's like, I can totally see her like putting that off,
like maybe confess and she's like, I'll I'll let you know.
Oh, blah, blah, blah or something.
Yeah. Well, this whole episode is like you be decisive until you make a decision.
Freaking for real. Oh, my gosh.
And then, yeah, the last group of people coming with Madoka and Alice.
We've got we we've got Misaki Ryu from the guy.
Oh, yeah. The three angels.
He was in the background and that's a random chick from the class.
Yeah, sad to see there's no Maria there.
She makes a cameo next. Yeah, I know.
I was like, yeah.
Let's see. I have guitars being like a cool brother this episode.
Like, yeah, I work this episode.
That's right. Trying to make it or give sister who's so mean to him.
Some confidence being like, oh, I'll challenge
Ojiro at this game. I definitely can't win because she's not going to do it.
That was pretty good.
Pretty good. We like it.
We like it when Katara gets stuff to do and he gets to be a cool guy
instead of just being like a dude who gets out every episode.
He almost goes into Misaki's room and she like tackles him.
Oh, yeah.
And everybody.
He's supposed to know that.
Yeah, I know.
I don't. Yeah, I don't know.
Misaki talks about how she made all her real life friends through Angelic Lair,
the best sport ever. Mm hmm.
Oh, also, OK, so the part where Shuko is like, you know, like see,
she like comes inside.
She she brings crutches.
So she certainly she gets herself up on crutches to go see Misaki
because she is super draws herself there.
Yeah, she can drive, I guess.
Yeah, she could. Why wouldn't she be able to drive?
Well, I don't know.
Like if her feet are people and wheelchairs can drive cars.
They have they have cars I can drive.
I guess if it's yeah, maybe it's like a custom one or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they make cars like do that.
But yeah, she really doesn't want Misaki specifically to see her
in a wheelchair, which is interesting because like she never cares
any any other time. Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like she was just like hanging out outside.
Like it's just care of other people see her in a wheelchair
and specifically Misaki for some reason.
Maybe when Misaki was like three, she was she saw someone in a wheelchair
and she's like, mom, that's weird.
Why would and then she just.
Yeah, I don't think that happened.
It's just like this is an interesting thing where it's like this
specifically is the problem.
Well, we all know how I feel about Shuko, so I won't even get into it.
I mean, she decided like she makes a decision that she's going to see her
and like that's fine. And like, yeah, I'm OK with this.
I'm OK with this because it's literally tomorrow.
It's the next day. Oh, my God.
It's OK. She's going to see her tomorrow.
That's all I got for this episode.
Yeah, me too. Pretty good episode.
Fun to see everybody hang out.
I wish Kaye Day and Sai got casual clothes and also Ojiro.
Ojiro is just kind of a weird guy still.
Well, it is hard.
I guess he must have been wearing his uniform with the umbrella scene as well.
Yep. He's always a uniform.
I've ever seen him not in it.
Weak. People should be in casual clothes more often.
Yeah, they are.
Yeah, for the most part now.
It wasn't that many anime back then that were on top of it.
At least the main character has different clothes.
Yeah, Masaki's got an outfit.
That's good. Yeah.
Got a wardrobe. OK.
Episode 18 is called Lots of formidable opponents.
The much anticipated national tournament.
We open on Athena doing a bunch of dance moves.
Yuko comes in and asks Shuko why she hasn't gone home yet.
And Shuko asks for 30 more minutes and Yuko is like, OK, fine.
And then we get the reveal that her name is in second code to Yuko.
And I was like, oh, my God.
And then we also learned that she that Yuko has a son named Osamu.
And it's his birthday today.
And Yuko should go celebrate that.
But she says he's already asleep because it's 11 p.m.
Because she stayed till work at 11 p.m. on her son's birthday.
What's going on?
And she goes like, you should go home anyway because you're his mom.
And she's like, all right, so she goes home.
We get a cut to Masaki sleeping in a transition
to Shoko drinking on her couch, thinking about how Masaki and Shuko
are going to meet each other tomorrow.
It's the next day and we get a montage of the tournament getting started.
Tamayo and Kataru are in the stands.
Tamayo asks Kataru if he's jealous that Ojiro is with Masaki right now.
And then she does like a little comedy bit with Masaki and Ojiro.
Hand puppets she made because she's only up in her game.
An announcer calls the players in, but Masaki can't find Hotoko.
Ojiro grabs her hand and leaves her to the arena.
She asks him why he isn't worried and or like
nervous and he tells her to lick her wrist and then smell it, which she does.
And then he's like, no, that was just I was just kidding.
That was just a joke to like relax you.
We all go into the arena elsewhere.
Ogata is freaking out because Shuko isn't there.
Each hand in the gang starts scrambling as Yuko worries about Shuko's health.
In the tournament arena, Masaki is surprised to see Sai and Kaede standing with them.
Hotoko explains that the runner up Sai also gets a spot at Nationals
and that Kaede is her second, which means my ship hasn't sunk yet.
She's your second. Think about that.
I want you to think about that, Sai. I want you to think about your second.
God, the opening ceremony starts without Shuko.
We get shots of all of our old friends in the crowd
and then all the competitors are introduced and they all do their entry
angels into the layer of the thing where they say the little phrase
and then the angel throws in.
The announcer tells everybody that the champion will be introduced by video
and the crowd starts throwing stuff at him.
And then the real life Athena descends from the ceiling
and Shuko is revealed to be there in person after all.
Masaki is amazed to see the champion and everybody else is impressed to see her as well,
except for Sai, who looks bored.
Hotoko tells Masaki that everyone admires the champion because she's genuine and authentic.
The Queen of Queens ruling over all the Daes is Athena's Daes.
Shuuu, because they all call her Shuu, I guess.
We cut to Shuko returning to the control room where she runs into Yuko,
who's pissed for making her worry.
She asks Shuko how long...
Or she... Yeah, she asks Shuko how long she'd been practicing that little stunt last night.
And Shuko says, oh, you know, I was doing that up until like a little while ago.
And Yuko yells at her for pulling it all nighter.
Also, she's like her second, so that's that's who her second is.
She makes Shuko change into pajamas and then orders Ichon to make sure that she actually, like,
gets some sleep before a match she has to play pretty soon.
While they're on their way to, like, a bedroom, Ichon asks her if Masaki saw her.
And Shuko says that she did, but she didn't seem to recognize her,
which is fine, because she'll figure it out eventually.
Back at the tournament, we get the start of a fight between Shirohime and her opponent, Eagle,
who's wearing like a crazy looking hat that covers her whole head
and makes her look like a Cyclops.
Also, she has angel wings. This is gonna come up soon.
They start fighting in the forest.
Eagle is jumping all over the place on the branches, which Shirohime can't do because she's too heavy.
Shirohime punches a tree, which makes Eagle fall,
but then she uses her wings to grunt and to glide around and hit Shirohime from the air.
Over the radio, Kaede comes up with the plan.
After taking 50% damage, Shirohime goes into hyper mode and starts destroying the whole forest.
With debris everywhere in the air, Eagle loses track of Shirohime, who appears behind her,
and then she grips her face and slams her into the ground in, like, the most brutal fashion possible,
winning the match.
Hanoko says that Shirohime is also a first-gen angel, and Kaede told her how to use hyper mode,
because why not?
Then, Shirohime dramatically points a finger at where the champion sits, challenging her,
because we're just doing actual pro-wrestling stuff now.
In the next match, Shuko...
uh, fights an angel that's dressed up like a bunny rabbit.
This goes about as exactly how you think it willed.
Athena is ridiculous and does ballet moves, and everybody gets all flustered because it's so beautiful.
Then, she does something that causes an electric discharge and starts approaching her opponent,
who tries to attack her, but Athena dodges it instantly like she's a Dragon Ball Z character.
Then, she picks her opponent up and does a backbreaker, which is also a pro-wrestling move, winning her match.
We cut to Hanoko and Misaki sitting at a bench at an amusement park, still in shock over Athena's fight.
Hanoko says that Athena looks even better than when she lost to her last year in the semifinals.
Misaki talks to her about, uh, how Athena got her into Angelic Layer in the first place,
as they go on some weird ride together.
Then, they promise to face Athena again together as we cut to credits.
Ooh.
What is going on?
Why are we just doing pro-wrestling now?
It's like, I mean, it's good. It's just like all of a sudden...
Yeah, um, good episode.
Like, I mean, Lops going on.
Uh...
Yeah, lots of action. I know you love that. I knew you'd love this episode.
Yes, I do love that.
See, two fights.
Save me from last episode.
You didn't like last episode?
No, no, last... Yes, it was fine.
Okay, it's friggin' the beginning where Shuko's telling Yuko...
Yuko?
Hey, you're his mom. What are you doing here?
Like, go be with your kid.
And I'm like, you are...
Ivercret, like, who are you to say that?
Yeah, but Yuko should actually go.
I mean, she's right. It's the thing.
Yes.
This is the thing.
Yuko understands how to be a good parent.
She just isn't doing it.
She just chooses not to be.
She's got hang-ups about it. These are real hang-ups, okay?
We're extending some sympathy to Shuko here.
You are.
I am.
You are.
Not me.
They shouldn't be at work at 11 p.m.
They need to go home.
Each one needs to make them go home.
For real?
Oh, man.
Uh, it's been a while since we got Shuko...
Yes!
Fuck.
Shoko!
Shoko drinking a drink.
Shaking.
I have that. That's my note.
Drinking a hard drink. Let's go.
That's right. That's right.
Knocking one back, my girl.
Talking to herself.
Lamenting the situation between her sister and her niece.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's gonna be tough.
I'm also there.
I'm also, like, knocking back one, thinking about it too, you know?
Let's see.
I was just eating pickles while I was watching this.
That's disgusting. I don't want to hear about that.
What?
At the... When they do the tournament stuff,
there's like a montage of, like, the...
Like, the chicks that dress up as an angel.
And then there's, like, one where the announcer guy
is, like, signing autographs in the light.
Yeah.
I have no problem with heights, which is very funny,
because he's, like, in that big chair that, like,
it's rotoscoped up and down and things like that.
Or, like, whatever gets lifted up and down.
So, just, like, that's pretty funny.
Yes. That was good.
And then freaking Tamoya with the puppet.
She's saying puppets.
Misaki puppet.
And then there's the Ojiro puppet.
She does little faces.
And she, like, has different-looking faces for when she's talking,
as each of them.
Like, she's got little stars in her eyes,
like, all 80s showjo dude talking as Ojiro.
It was really funny.
It's great.
I love that she prepped these in advance
for the photo of Katara.
God.
She must be thinking about Katara a whole bunch, huh?
Ah, yeah. You think so?
Are we ever going to circle back to that?
Probably not.
I don't know.
Oh, come on.
We have to.
We have enough episodes.
I don't remember.
There's eight more episodes.
Gotta come up again.
My next note is that all the daisies are women,
except for Ojiro, so...
Yes.
Who do you think- I was going to say,
who has more fangirls?
Psy or Ojiro?
I don't know.
Well, wait for his fight,
because, like, during Psy's fight, like, she or anything,
he gets hit and all the girls are like, oh, no, Psy!
Yep, yep, yep.
So we'll wait for Ojiro's fight
that I'm sure he'll have on screen at one point.
The fact that he makes Misaki, he's like, I know a spell.
Lick your wrists and then smell them.
He's so weird.
Like, I can see how he's related to Ichon now.
You saying about him?
You said he's so dense?
She's so dense.
It's like when boys try to tell you, like,
ooh, put your elbows together,
so you boob squish together, it's like that.
Okay, it's kind of not like that.
Well, essentially, like, let me talk to this girl
and make her do something to make herself, like, silly.
They're friends!
They were hanging out last episode.
So are they?
He gave her address out to the general public.
Ah!
Also, if people know that Shoko is her aunt,
then maybe she's got some crazy fans, too,
because she's a newscaster.
He can't just give their address out.
Ah! No regard for safety.
Okay, this is a cartoon.
I'd be one to worry about this.
I'm worried.
These are not things people would do in real life.
I hope so.
I sure hope so.
Speaking of things you shouldn't do in real life,
Shoko making everybody worried just so she can have
like this big dramatic entrance is so funny.
I was like, God, I wouldn't want her to be a champion.
She's so unreliable.
She's such a little gremlin, it's great.
Oh, my God.
Yes, we get to see Maria finally.
Yeah, Maria cameo.
Misaki doesn't know that Sai is going to be there.
Like, did you just not ask, like, talk about it
when you were hanging out the other day?
Yes, I, yeah.
So, yeah, there's more Sai action.
Sai and Kaine, tell me again.
Let's go.
Okay?
Sai-e-de!
When you two both challenge Shoko,
who it turns out is Misaki's mom.
I'm sure that'll be fun for everybody to learn.
You know, just think about it.
Like, who you came all this way with, Sai?
Just think about it.
Like, who's your second?
What does that mean?
She taught you, dude.
Dude, Sai, she taught you about hyper mode.
She's so into you.
Come on!
I like that the opponent is a gal.
Oh, my God.
A gal!
It's a gal.
There's like, okay, so there's girls who, you know,
okay, Japan being reserved and, you know,
being super pale, that's like what's considered attractive women.
But there's like a subsection of girls who are like super into tanning
and bleaching their hair and, you know, all this stuff.
And they're called like gals.
There's like the Japanese word for it.
I am unfamiliar with this.
It's like the, typically they're like the delinquent girls in class
or perceived that way.
Yaru is the, it's like a fashion subculture.
Oh, I guess the literal translation is English language.
English slang for the word gal.
But yeah, it's like, I don't know, you know, the kind of girls who
would wear piercings if they're not allowed to
or paint their nails and hide their skirts up.
There's a whole show called Super Gals.
I have a poster I'm looking at right now.
Maybe that's a show we'll cover someday.
It's like a whole thing.
They just kind of look cool.
Yeah, well, they're kind of like frowned upon by the general population
as being troublemakers or not.
They're so lame.
They remind me of a, what's that one group?
Twisted sister?
Is that the one I like dressed up like crazy?
The band?
Yeah, they look like twisted sister a little bit.
That's good.
That's fun.
Oh man, yeah, yeah, I like that.
Like punk scenes.
That's good. Yeah.
That's cool.
Each one does comment that like these wings are new because of now
with the arena that's in there, you can like actually get some height
and like fly around.
Yeah, people are adjusting.
Well, I like, yeah, like, oh, that's, that's not something she did at whatever game she was before.
It's nice to see that they're keeping up with everyone and not just focusing on whoever Masaki goes against.
They are the organizer of this whole thing.
So, right.
Um, when Shuko goes back and Yuko is so mad, it's so funny.
She's like fuming.
She's like, are you seriously, you made me worry about you and you stayed up all night doing this stupid little entry thing.
Come on.
She like makes her like put on pajamas and she gives her like a dolphin plush.
Yeah, it's cute.
That's pretty good.
Oh, okay.
More freaking Athena making up things you can do in a Jell-O-Clay or that other dolls can't do like freaking electricity now.
What is happening?
Yeah, I don't understand what's going on.
It's also good that Shuko is like, I want Masaki to see me at like my best being like my coolest and like Athena's totally acting like an anime villain here.
Yeah.
It's like, she does that electric discharge and then she's just like walking at an even pace towards her opponent, which by the way, she's funny like a weird bunny girl.
Like it's very.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, I was like, time's going to run out by the time you guys walk up that damn mountain.
Yeah, she she just walks at her right in this bunny girl is like trying to hit her, but also retreating the whole time and she just keeps walking forward until they make it all the way up this mountain and like the bunny is like exhausted and like like falling over and then like she tries to throw like one last punch that she like grabs her and throws her up and does a back breaker and then throws her down the mountain.
I'm like Shuko's probably across the villain.
This is like some villain stuff.
I don't think this is like heroic as you think it is.
This is really funny.
Yeah.
Oh man.
Okay.
Athena, I seeing her up close like this, her helmet, it kind of reminds me of the civilization who made the Star Forge and co tour like the shaped head like that.
It kind of made me think of them, you know, pointy heads.
I guess I don't really remember what they look like to be honest.
Okay.
You just played the game.
I know, but I don't remember.
I'm really barely in it.
And I guess, yeah, Hatoko had beached here, he may and you know, no matter who won between her and Misaki, they both would have wound up competing against each other even more.
Yeah.
Because and then who would her second be then?
I don't know.
Ringo should be stuck with Ringo.
And then they go on a freaking ride.
Okay.
Just like a theme park.
This is the most terrifying ride I've ever seen in my life.
This is not safe.
It's just like an open cart thing they're on with no theme park.
And it like plummeted.
It's like a drop tower.
Like you're in a hot air balloon.
You can fly out of it.
Oh my God.
And at first I was like, oh, they're in like a weird Ferris wheel.
That's kind of fun.
And then it just drops down and I'm like, bro, you're not strapped in.
That is not safe.
It's like the most terrifying.
This cannot be real.
Or like, I don't know.
Maybe it is because it seems very specific.
Where is this theme park?
I mean, I guess.
Like next to something.
Yeah, I guess it makes sense.
It makes sense.
Like entertainment complex would have like convention arena thing
and whole park next to it.
It's like integrated into the city.
It's just all right there.
I have a couple of other notes.
Just like real quick stuff.
O'drew second appears to be Fuji Mori, which is interesting.
Like the chick from the control room.
She's just doing her job.
That's fun.
The boss's brother, kid brother.
I mean, they seem to they don't know him.
They seem to hang out.
It's extremely funny how everybody is like swooning over Shuko
being the champion except for Si, who just doesn't care at all.
I will ask if she's.
Oh, Joe, here we go.
She doesn't like her because Kaede is swooning over her and says
that's her rival for Kaede's affection.
I would like that.
But it looks like she's she's just like she's she's like looking bored.
She's like got her hand like on her like chin.
She's just like zoning out.
Yeah. Okay.
I thought you were going to want to run with that conspiracy.
I mean, I like it.
Listen, I like it.
It's not what's happening, though.
It's just funny because it's like I don't like size.
Hold deal is just like she doesn't really care about it.
You like layer that much, I guess.
All right.
I forgot to like through my slides.
Yeah, we've got a picture of it.
I would take the pop it and then.
And then OK, I was going to say more like girls love implications
that freaking hotoco and the sake where they're talking.
And hotoco is like, oh, if I didn't know any better, I'd be jealous of it.
You know, all I can think about is Athena.
Oh, man, what's happening?
I mean, that's just cute.
That's I mean, they're just being cute.
Like this like this stuff.
Here's the difference.
The difference here is that this feels like a this feels like a more like
you're just like your close girlfriends.
You're just like joking around.
Whereas I'm more girlfriends than I do.
So I am inside.
She like you got like long shots of like your portraits over cherry blossoms
staring into each other's eyes.
This is not the same.
These are not the same thing.
OK, like there are different levels of like how much you're convincing me
that you like joke around, right?
Like like hotoco in the sake are just like joking around here like pals.
Like kind of inside or like crying back to back.
Come on.
Oh, so I guess it's hotoco lost to Athena last year in the semifinals,
which is wild.
Yeah.
Why don't we get to see these awesome flashbacks?
The show I want to see that makes me sad that we don't get to see
see the cut action anymore.
That's not like that.
There it is.
1718 there it is in the tank.
I know, look at us go.
And we got eight more episodes, four more podcast episodes.
Yeah, we're done with Angela Claire.
Pretty good.
Yeah, yeah.
You're liking it.
Yeah, I think it's I think it's I don't like know what we're going to do
for eight more episodes, though, because I feel like they've set up
the Misaki and Shuko meet each other thing.
But like there's too many episodes in between that for like nothing else to happen,
you know, yeah.
So we have some mini arc of things in the next like five episodes or something.
You know what we can do on the last episode, I can show you my shitty,
like 15 year old AMVs that are Angela Claire.
Oh, we should make an AMV.
Yeah, did you say you were wanting to do that?
You can make one.
We should do that.
Yeah.
In honor of our coverage of this.
Right.
I can't think of a song that would go good with this show.
No, we just play clips of us talking about a thing
and then the thing happening in the back.
That's not an AMV.
It's just that's just that's just a video podcast.
I feel like I feel like AMVs are, I guess they're still a thing.
They're still in my mind is like a 2000s thing.
Yeah, but they're fun still.
Make yourself a little.
That's the way I would discover new shows.
They'd be like, ooh, I like the look of that.
What is that show?
Pretty good.
I guess we want to go into recommendations of which I need to think of one like right now.
Can't cut this out.
I know.
Okay.
I'm going to recommend a little game called Walk About Mini Golf.
Oh my God.
It's just VR game.
And I know what you're thinking.
Mini golf.
That doesn't.
Is that really all that interesting?
Let me tell you.
It is.
It's awesome.
It's charming.
Fun with friends.
You know, you can play mini golf in all these cool environments.
Like you could be playing on the Eiffel Tower or, you know, 20,000 leagues under the sea or in space and, you know, Shangri-La and
freaking Labyrinth, Jim Henson's Labyrinth.
All these cool places you play mini golf and you can play with friends.
There's great music and yeah, I hear the people.
My coconut, the folks behind the game are pretty cool too.
Especially their community manager.
Wow.
She knows what she's doing.
That's very good.
Someday, I know with the announcement of Wallace and Gromit, Joe said he might get VR.
So maybe the day will come in which we can play Walk About Me Golf together.
Possible.
Okay.
That's my recommendation.
Does that count?
Yeah, that counts.
That's fine.
Promoting my work.
That's good.
I think that's good.
I'm not going to do that because that wouldn't make any sense if I did that.
So instead, I'm going to recommend an anime movie because I watched an anime movie.
And now I'm going to recommend a different one.
Although the one that I watched was also fine.
I'm going to recommend the movie Crusher Joe, which is my profile pic on Instagram that has nothing.
Besides that.
I was like, I wasn't sure what that was.
Yeah, because, you know, Joe, it's like me.
Crusher Joe is a text based in the same like universe as Dirty Perry, which is like a another animation.
It's like pretty fun.
1983 takes place in space.
Basically, crushers are like kind of like odd job mercenary kind of guys.
And like this team led by Joe, they're like the Crusher Joe team get assigned a job to like carry or like curry something.
And halfway through, they get like teleported out of light speed randomly and all of their ship has been like rated and they like lost all the things and they've been captured by the military because it turns out there in like a sector that is restricted and they shouldn't be there.
And so they spend the entire movie trying to figure out what happened to them and why their shipment got stolen.
And it leads to great conspiracy and excitement.
And it's pretty much just like a really fun like action movie kind of thing going on.
That's like there's a lot of cool sci-fi stuff.
You get a lot of fun like retro future animation for, you know, like spaceships and computers and all this other stuff.
It's really fun.
It's like a good old like mystery heist action movie.
Nice.
Crusher Joe.
It's good.
Like spaces.
Like space battles.
That's right.
You like dude's name, Joe.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Pretty good.
I was like, I had it and I was like, oh, I'm like, I'm worried this is going to be like, I don't know, like I'm worried this is going to be like, you know, there's a lot of like old anime stuff that's like the humor is bad and it's kind of horny and gross.
None of that stuff happened really.
That's good.
There's like maybe one or two moments that were like, it's pretty good.
And like the, you know, hold it up.
A lot of old stuff doesn't hold up super well.
I was reminded again recently.
Of the part of Blade Runner.
Oh, I haven't seen that.
That is, that is, you know, people thought romance works and movies in certain ways.
And now you look at that and you're like, kind of just feels a little bit assaulting.
I feel like live action ages.
I mean, technically, like the animation could age badly or special effects, but like live action just depictions of how the, you know, world thought about certain things at the time do not age well.
Old stuff.
You can tell you can you can feel the age on it, but Crusher Joe's is pretty good job.
Sweet.
Before we go into Joe's pitch, I'm going to read some replies on our co-tour bonus episode on Spotify, because we said that if people did put things, I would say them.
You can reply on Spotify.
Yeah.
So I for each episode, I try to set a poll and then also a question where people can comment.
So I put for that episode, the question was, should Sarah force Joe to play Star Wars, the Old Republic with her?
No.
And Sam, which Artista said, absolutely.
And begrudgingly, like, playing with the hilarious.
Does it count?
And then Dene said, absolutely, she's shy.
OK, fine.
Listen, I'm not going to just because you both said I should.
No, did you watch the cinemast trailers?
I said, you know.
No, I didn't.
No.
It's so good, though. Hey, hey, and you can't bully me into playing an MMO.
What makes you play something first?
How about that?
We're going to play Pikmin.
We're going to play Pikmin together.
We're going to do that.
We mean, it's happening.
If I was going to force you to play a game, it wouldn't be Pikmin, but OK.
Force me to play it.
Freaking.
Oh, God, what is that game?
Everyone.
Helldivers, whatever.
I'm going to force you to play Helldivers.
It's got to be painful.
If you're going to be playing MMO, it's got to be something that's miserable.
A math game.
To doku.
Oh, my God.
OK, anyway, if you you can interact with us on Spotify as well, I guess.
If we set that up, which I don't know how to do.
But also while you're there, you can rate us five stars on your podcast platform of choice.
It helps us gain some like whatever with the priority with the algorithms that I think matters.
But really what counts is word of mouth recommendations.
So if you like the show and you have other friends who anime or shojo or listening to stuff, or they're just like, man, I'm at work and I just wish I had something to listen to.
And all of my podcasts have gotten their season ended.
Maybe send them our way. Recommend it. Show Joe to your friends and rate us five stars.
If you leave a comment on Apple podcasts, I might read it out on air and we don't have any new ones.
But if we do, I might read it out.
But yeah, so please do those things.
Tell your friends about it.
Interact with us on Instagram and let's see what else are we on?
Tiktok.
We have four more episodes of this show.
If you have questions or comments you want to submit to us, you know, at the end, you know, maybe in the last episode, we'll like if we have some questions, we can do a little Q&A.
Send those to...
Have you learned the Q&A yet?
No.
Show Joe pod at gmail.com.
Spell the same as the title and yeah, hit us up.
Send us questions there.
We're still waiting for that Sai and Kaya Day fan art.
We haven't gotten any submissions yet, unfortunately.
If you do...
We'll look them up.
We will reward you in some meaningful way someday.
I can't look stuff up right now because I might run into spoilers, but I will as we approach the end.
Okay.
Which we're doing.
So next episode, we'll be watching episodes 19 and 20 and that will bring us close to the end and then we'll have to watch something else.
I know I said maybe I'd give you guys an option, but I've decided I'm just going to be controlling and pick what we're doing.
So get ready for that big reveal.
You do not get equal voice here.
Someday, someday when there's enough of you timing in.
I don't care if you respond to a poll saying I should play a curatorial.
No, I'm not going to.
Okay.
Well, that's all folks.
Until next time, remember that just because you say you wouldn't want...
Girl, I was kidding.
Maybe have you really thought it through?
Have you really...
You gotta try it.
...really thought it through?
Don't knock it.
Yeah, don't knock it until you try it.
Yeah.
Maybe you can listen like, you know, kissing girls is pretty good.
You're second.
She's there to help you in all regards.
She can help you.
She can do a little ventriloquist bitch with her dogs.
It's endearing.
We love her.
Yeah, she's a little kooky, but you need that.
Oh, man.
Bye.
She does.
Okay, all right.
Okay, look, this might be our quickest recording ever, and we're not going to make that any longer.
The world.
I don't...
I may technically live in it, but I don't.
You should learn about the world.
You're about the world.
You say that you technically live in it, you literally live in it.
You're about to...
Oh, my God.
I did my taxes.
That's real enough for me.