It's October.
Spooky season is here.
And to get you through the scary season, is none other than your absolute favorite podcast
show, Joe, with your co-host Sarah, that's me and Joe.
I'm the ghost of Joe.
I have before the terrible fate.
Oh, let's tell me what happened to you.
I am deceased for four weeks only.
I'll be back to normal.
Oh, man, I never get the Halloween cereal.
But I always see it because I don't eat cereal anymore.
So I'm like, this is probably a waste if I bought this.
But I'm kind of like, ooh, look at all these.
Frank and Barry is where that is my favorite, the trio.
But you like Dracula, so you should get Count Dracula.
Yeah, I should get Chocula.
I do like chocolate the best out of all of those.
Maybe I will anyway, you know, I can make terrible financial decisions for no reason.
It's only like, actually, cereal is expensive now.
Everything is expensive.
The kind of ease of ruins.
Yes.
There's a shitty knockoff version of these like Halloween gimmick cereals.
Yeah, maybe.
Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, I've had stuff happen to me.
I've had an eventful.
Oh, call us call us good because I had like almost nothing.
Oh, yesterday I got surgery on my finger.
They cut it open and took a thing out of it because I had growth or sister something.
And like, it was not like.
Cancer is anything so it's totally fine, but they did do it, which was pretty neat actually because they was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to like cut this V because it's at the joint of the finger.
So it's like, they got to cut like a like fan out from it.
And then they were like, and I didn't they didn't put me under right.
They just numb my hand.
Oh, my God.
So I'm like sitting there.
I'm like talking to the nurse because like they had like a nurse like hang out with me while I was doing it.
And we're just like, you know, talking about like, oh, where are you from that kind of thing.
And I can just hear the doctor being like, this bone's kind of sharp here.
That's kind of weird, right?
Yeah.
So my bones are sharp.
Oh, you were awake.
Oh, my God.
I like it was chill for me.
Just my blood games drawn, let alone freaking hand being cut open.
I mean, I couldn't see it.
They had like a shield of I can't watch them do it.
It was just it was fun.
I mean, it was it was actually turned out to be pretty cool.
I don't know.
I like medical stuff.
Like it doesn't bother me like needles.
Like I watch myself get poked with needles because I'm like cool.
Okay.
I'm like stressed out just thinking about that.
Yeah.
So now my, I like, you know, my hand is like wrapped up or my finger is wrapped up in a little cast.
Are you all your friends going to sign it?
No, it's not a hard gas.
It's just like wrapped.
It doesn't mean I have like one gigantic fat finger that is on my index finger,
which makes it hard to type, which means that this episode's because I wrote them after I got the surgery.
I use using the voice office dictation function.
So it may be really weird.
Let me tell you dictation, not good at figuring out show's name is show and not the word show like show and tell.
It's actually just pretty bad with all the names.
So instead then.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
So we'll see how what it's like when I read it.
So are you like Wolverine from X-Men origin so instead of the blades,
he has like bones coming out of his hands as his little claws.
It's not coming out of my hand.
It was just, it was just, you know, he looked at my joint and he's like kind of protruding there on the bone.
That's weird.
I'm going to take a little sample and we can run it and make sure nothing weird is happening.
Oh, okay.
Well, we got a little sample.
Keep us posted on that.
So that was, that's my big, that's my big life update is like a finger surgery.
Pretty neat.
And in other news, let's see, I finished, I finished all of armored trooper bottoms.
I did it.
I watched all the OVA's.
I have consumed all the bottoms content.
Cool.
So you don't have to hear about it again.
Did you go see whatever that movie is in theaters?
Dude, I convinced so many people to come with me.
No, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's tomorrow.
Okay.
So this is the first show that's going to be on Wednesday and it's showing on Sunday.
So this is the first Gundam, like mobile suit Gundam from the seventies compilation movie
where they just kind of like cut the episodes of like the first, like third of the show
into like a movie compilation.
And I think maybe they added some new animation.
I don't know.
Uh, but I have, I'm going to that on Sunday.
So I'm going to that tomorrow.
And I have fixed like four other people to go with me.
And I don't know if they're going to like it or not.
Probably not.
So I'm going to be watching so many movies in the next two days.
Oh, I'm seeing a movie on Tuesday.
Oh, what you get?
What you watching?
Uh, it's called my old ass.
It's some like comedy thing, but we'll see.
It's mostly just an excuse to hang out with my work friend who is hard to pin down.
Oh yeah.
That's nice.
Yeah.
It will be nice.
Girl time.
Yeah.
The fried pickles at the Alamo draft house are incredible.
You must have the Alamo draft house, right?
I do miss the Alamo draft house.
We have some cool like independent theaters here, but they don't, they're not like,
I'll have you know.
Is this public information yet?
I don't know.
You can like break it in the air.
No, I'm going to look it up.
Okay.
It's still here.
There are a couple of ones here.
Okay.
They're not quite as like tongue in cheek funny, but they offer some cool like movie
select.
Well, you'll be happy here.
Sony has acquired Alamo draft house.
Oh, am I happy about that?
We'll see.
Are they going to wash it out?
I don't feel like Sony acquisitions.
That's what my concern is.
Maybe they'll just have faith that they're doing it right already.
Um, I just do not change the menu.
I love that menu.
Oh, we'll see.
Um, right.
At least my 18th birthday, I think we went and saw spaceballs because they play like
old movies like that sometimes, which is fun.
Yeah.
Um, oh yeah.
Movies.
I haven't seen one quite some time.
Have an Alamo in Indianapolis.
Go there.
I don't.
What are you working at?
Don't maybe lock you up.
Oh my God.
Okay.
Let me think of things that are been full in my life right now.
Uh huh.
Freaking on Thursday morning, I woke up to the sound of like a.
Crowing rooster or something.
In my apartment complex.
Okay.
Like North Austin area.
I'm like, that's not right.
Is it like someone has a dog that just sounds like a chicken.
And then that night I saw a chicken hanging out on one of my neighbors
balconies.
Like what the hell?
I found the culprits.
Should they be doing that?
I reported them.
So.
Wow.
I don't want to be woken up everybody by God damn chicken.
Yeah, that's fair.
Oh my God.
Um, and I put in a complaint for my neighbors that like party every like
once a month until three in the morning and wake me up.
Um,
Nice.
Get them.
Lived
They form directions and then turn back to the Red Sea.
I get an amendment from myself every week.
loves me. I don't know.
I guess everyone else just treats them terribly.
I'm like, why would you do that?
They're here fixing your stuff.
They do kind of important stuff.
This is like the benefit of renting is that I don't have to fix these things.
Right.
So and I know they go in and out of the leasing office, so I should be fine.
I think they even fix my carpet thing for free.
They might not have. I don't know if they reported that or not, but they love me.
And they look.
Yeah. Well, my apartment is certainly memorable.
With both. Yeah, that's pretty, you know, interesting.
Yeah. Interesting neighbors.
Yeah. Oh, God. Don't.
Because I've lived up to complex before in a different part of it.
But I'm like, I don't know what's happening.
I started to think someone might just straight up not be going to the dumpster
and just throwing their trash out their patio or something.
Because I'm like, why is all this trash coming from?
So I'm going to be like looking at the freaking if it's like mail,
I'm going to look at the address and see if it all is the same apartment.
That is this trash coming from because pissing me off.
Like it bears me to be an apartment complex.
Those are just litter everywhere.
Yeah. My neighbors are weird, too.
Sometimes like it doesn't happen that often, but like I have had very
bizarre things happen to me in this apartment complex.
And I live in a kind of nice apartment complex.
Yeah. Why is this happening?
People just like get door dash and it just gets left out there for like.
Oh, that's right. I saw that.
Why would you buy? Why would you buy this?
What are you doing? Yeah.
Because people get like milkshakes and it just sits out there.
And it's like, I look at the next day and it's still there.
I'm like, what's happening? I remember seeing that.
Yeah. Because my complex is expecting to get this food.
Old and individual buildings, but yours is like one of those new ones
where it's all internal. Yeah.
So. Yeah.
And one time I was going to say when I stayed there,
your neighbors were like rearranging furniture or something in the middle of the night
because they are so noisy.
Oh, yeah. I just kind of tune it out.
There was a lot of time when I would hear like somebody under me or something
have like a domestic dispute every weekend.
Oh my God, somebody, but it was just yelling.
So I don't know. I know.
I've also been like my last apartment that I was in.
I was like, what is like the chick?
Like a week after I moved in, she basically like had her car full of random
crap and moved out and I was like, OK, good, they won't be fighting anymore.
She's gone.
Yeah. Yeah. I know.
I've had like because my apartment complex said, oh,
if you hear loud party people, just call the cops next time.
I was like, that seems drastic.
Like, yeah, that's like a step up.
Yeah. But and yeah, I've heard like I'm just like, who talks to each other like that?
I have never raised my voice, but I'm also a quiet, angry person.
I see silently.
The worst thing that's happened to me, my apartment complex,
I think I've probably told you this before is it's like a big building, right?
And it's also mostly inside, which is nice, because in the winter,
it's like, oh, I can just like take a walk through the building, right?
And like, I'll do it because I work from home.
So it's like, I just need to go take like a five minute break
and I'll just like go walk around.
So I'll just like put it headphones and walk around.
And one time I like walked out of the stairwell
and just like open the door and turn the corner and I stepped in dog poop
inside the building on the floor that's carpet.
That is awful.
Someone's dog just like taking just like a poop on the floor
inside the apartment complex and they didn't do anything.
So I had to like go and clean off my shoe.
It was like, that's about right.
I know. I believe this happened.
No one picks up here and it's yeah.
I was inside the building.
I'm like, I guess this is I don't look at the ground when I'm walking inside.
But maybe I don't know.
Like it would have been.
No, it was like a large land mine.
Yeah. But it was like right outside the door.
So it's like I opened the door and stepped out and stepped in it.
I'm like, what the heck is this?
I don't know.
Maybe some jackass is like letting their dog just free roam in the hallways
and then come back or something.
Gross.
Well, you would think your place would be more like strict.
The stuff my my place is like old dumpy apartment.
So it's like to be expected, but yours is like new and working people are dumb.
Yeah.
You look just morons.
I don't know. Sure.
And speaking of morons.
So I've talked about there are a lot of I don't know if it's
a lot of them.
It's like.
She gets called an idiot by her end.
So that's true kind of.
And then yeah.
Well, let's let's let's talk.
All right.
We'll get into skip beat.
Yeah. Stage 10.
Stage 10.
OK, so once again, I do have to
preface that I didn't do his dictation for this.
Mm hmm.
Uh, you know, I'm reading through it right now because I didn't really have
time to read through it because I was like in between because when they
numbed my hand, it like, you know, you know, it numb my finger, but I also
numbed it like the next two fingers.
So it's like I really just couldn't use my hand yesterday.
Now I probably could.
But at the time, it's just like it wasn't able to do anything.
That's like I got a.
Uh, God, what's the cloud when they take a sample?
I got like my skin cancer.
I had like a biopsy done and like my whole half of my head felt.
Excuse me.
Felt numb.
I was like, oh, like half my head's numb from this one little spot on my
forehead. It is wild.
It feels so weird.
Yeah.
So your hand is useless.
So my hand was useless.
Now it's better.
Now I can feel the other two fingers.
So it's just a big one and I can't.
No sense.
It doesn't make no sense.
It's just not the greatest of all time.
It's okay.
I can fill in if there's any like weird.
I like have this.
Like the the vets of skippy are so ingrained in my mind.
I am confident even if I didn't watch the anime, I could like discuss
the parts we're talking about because I read the manga.
So and hmm.
Okay.
Well, I guess getting back into the little thing.
Should I talk about a voice actor and skip beat?
Okay.
Who's it going to be?
Moko.
Yes.
The voice of Moko is Risa Hayami.
Zoo.
I like the name who I can't find like I talk again.
A lot of credits, but there's a lot of credits for characters that
like don't have names.
So I guess the biggest one is from Basilisk.
She was the voice of Kaguro.
I've never seen Basilisk.
So I don't know, but that's 16 episodes.
So that must be somebody important.
That's like a ninja guy and some pretty girl.
Right.
I feel like yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Their second like known for credit on IMDb is Naruto as ninja
dot star village ninja two episodes.
So she appears to do a lot of work.
That's like side stuff.
Right.
So like she's in Chihara Furu as Shinobu's grandmother.
Okay.
What?
Oh my God.
I love Shihara Furu so much.
It's my favorite one of my favorite enemies ever.
We shall cover it one day and then we'll hear Moko.
Man.
The ancient Magnus is bright as Stella's mother.
So maybe like mom coded here.
I guess she's kind of like angry scolding sounding.
She's in Watamote as Tomoko's mother.
Oh my God.
Okay.
She's in tight cast.
All the mobs.
Have you watched that show?
It's kind of funny.
I gremlin girl.
It's like a total dweeb.
I think it's one of those things that like I'll see gifts
of or like screen caps of but I don't like watch it.
I haven't seen the episode.
Yeah.
The ancient Magnus bright thing might be one week.
That's show Joe.
I think I think so.
I've seen that.
I don't know.
Big skeleton guy is not very cute.
Not doing it for me, but you don't like the big the big
scary man cow head guy.
No.
Uh huh.
Um, do you turn to see what else is some of this stuff?
I've never heard of never heard of mischievous kiss or
by the way, this is a star.
One thing, but yeah, this is a this is one that she appears
in more episodes and other stuff.
She plays a character or she plays several characters
in Pokemon that I don't recognize.
Not polygon like Ren.
Not not poor you go on.
That's awesome.
Imagine being the poison poor you gone.
Don't kick ass.
Good.
So good.
Okay.
But still active.
So there's always.
Yep.
Cross overs.
Man.
Yeah, she appears to still be active.
So plenty of opportunity anyway.
Skip Beach stage 10 is called the blue of her palm.
We open on an angry moco getting out of the stretch
Hummer limousine that they were in last episode, which
I guess was a stretch Hummer by the way.
It wasn't just a limousine.
It looks terrible.
Yeah, it looks awful.
Um, moco gets off and storms off as Kyoko calls out to her,
but she doesn't turn around and we get some internal dialogue
that shows that moco was frustrated because she has
underestimated Kyoko up to this point and consider her a rival
now as the OP plays after the opening.
President Lori tells Maria that it's time for her to go
because this is around the time that she receives an email
from her father that she should actually respond to this time.
Maria is somewhat worried about what she's going to say.
So she asks Kyoko what she talks to her dad about Kyoko
informs Maria that her father isn't around anymore.
Um, and Maria apologizes and Kyoko is like, oh, it's fine.
Like don't worry about it.
It was a long time ago and then Maria is like, well, okay.
So like if your dad's not around, what do you talk to your mom
about and Kyoko thinks about her mom and how she abandoned
her as a child and doesn't say anything and Maria is like,
Oh, is your mom also not around?
Yeah, and Kim says no, she's around, but like, don't worry
about it.
Then Kyoko leans down and gives Maria some advice saying that
she should tell her father to come visit her.
And if she says that her father will certainly come.
Maria is concerned that if she does that her father could die
in a plane crash, but Kyoko reassures her telling her that
is that that won't happen because she is going to pray
for his safety.
Then Kyoko tells her that she will give her a human shaped
candle so she can pray for her father's safety and reveals
that she thinks that Maria has been trying to get into occult
stuff, not so that she can get written to fall in love with her,
but so that she can make her father love her again.
And we get a flashback which reveals that that is the case.
Maria leaves and Kyoko thinks that her and her father will be
able to mend their relationship because they both equally are
invested in doing so, which is not something that can happen
if only one person is invested in a relationship kind of like
the way that all of Kyoko's relationships have been to up
to this point.
President Lori asks Kyoko if she's really got permission
from her parents to become a celebrity like she said she did
when she signed up for the audition.
And if she didn't actually do that, then they're going to need
to get her mom's approval before they can go forward.
And he says that, you know, if there's some like family issues
that she has, she should bring it up with him and they can figure
out something to do, you know, together or whatever.
Then we cut to a future point where President Lori is standing
in his penthouse suite thinking about what Kyoko said after
that flash or after that and we get a flashback to the same
conversation we were just in.
Kyoko tells President Lori that her mom does not care where
she is or what she's doing.
So with that in mind, does she really need to get her parents
permission to do anything back in the present?
President Lori thinks to himself that he couldn't ask any
follow up questions after that point and then wonders that if
her performance today and like the play rehearsal where she
said it is possible for a parent not to love her child is like
actually based on something personal that's going on in
her life.
Any thoughts about this scene?
Move on to the next huge chunk of text.
Yes.
Okay, in the manga, the President's like he says that he
said not necessarily to Kyoko in response, not that he just
didn't ask anything else, but he kind of said like, oh, maybe
we can find a different way to do it.
So slight differences.
I mean, at least because this is like there's so many moments
in the show where it's like, okay, this is I like remember
this page because it's like one of the like super high detail
like pretty full page images like and they've done a pretty
good job at making them look the same except for this one
where she like looks because they see it looks like sad and
then there's like a little music shift when she's talking to
the president and I feel like they the animation didn't linger
on her face long enough to like indicate it's just like a weird
shift in tone.
Kind of yeah.
Like I get I get what's going on in this scene where it's like
oh President Laurie has to learn about Kyoko's stuff.
But like in terms of what's happening here, this guy sucks.
I hate this guy.
Like who cares if she gets approval for her parents?
This does not matter.
She already told you that she did.
So you have plausible deniability.
Oh my God, she's also already 17 or whatever.
So like it's not like this is going to matter for very long
anyway.
Yeah, I'm still mad that he didn't pay his tuition and then
he's like, oh, did you not actually get your parents permission?
Like what are you a cop?
Go away loser.
Gotta hate this guy.
Oh, President Laurie.
I mean, he doesn't do anything, but it's like why even bring
it up like this?
Yeah, you could bring it up in a much more compassionate way
than being like, oh, you might be in trouble.
Like fuck off.
I don't like him.
Okay, I need this this story to end with her becoming the new
president.
Well, maybe Laurie dies in a plane crash.
Oh my God.
Maria has been through enough.
She doesn't even leave her grandfather the same way she
lost her mom.
He went to a plane.
He take like a freaking submarine or some weird.
Yeah, that's true.
He would do some weird like that.
He takes like a rowboat.
Yeah.
So I guess this is the end of the Maria arc.
Like this is the actual end of it.
Yeah.
So maybe we should talk about it here.
Yeah.
Any final thoughts?
See her a bit more just kind of around.
But yeah, I mean, well, right.
We don't see how her father is going to respond.
So we don't actually know if it's going to be all fine and
dandy or maybe he continues to be the worst dad.
But yeah, I mean, I like Maria.
She's quite the intense seven year old.
Yeah.
Very pretty mature.
I do think it's like cute to be like, oh, you were actually
into a cold stuff because you're trying to get your dad.
Yeah, that was trying to curse your dad into falling
in love with you again. That's pretty also makes sense to why
she thinks you can like curse people to do positive things.
You know what I mean?
She's like, I'm only thought about it in negative ways.
Yeah.
She's like, I don't think you can curse somebody to fall in love
with you.
And she's like, no, you you definitely can.
I also like that this is like the first instance where this
is going to happen basically at the end of the last episode
we cover where the Kyoko gives somebody advice and like cool.
So what am I supposed to do?
And she's like, oh, I don't I don't know.
Yeah.
I don't actually I don't actually deal with this myself,
but I just know this is what you're supposed to do.
Well, she should realize by now that the love me sections
basically her just hearing trauma and she needs to follow
through.
Oh yeah, like the love section is the answers that we now
talk about is like emotional labor or thing that doesn't
like compensated at all.
And it's also a thing that's like delegated to women most
of the time and now she has to do it without any real compensation
and also the entire section is made up of women.
Oh man.
Crazy.
That's true.
I can't believe it's not a dude added to the department at
some point.
Yeah, but we haven't seen any sensitive guys in this show.
I wonder who knows.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, he's the most like he's kind of just observant.
You know what I mean?
Like you never know.
Yeah.
It's hard to say me, but he just pays attention.
That's true.
It is showbiz.
I wonder if we will kind of sucky dudes there probably.
That's true.
There also are only like three male characters in this show.
So, but I you know, I wonder if I saw a Sawaara.
I like him.
But he's not sensitive.
I know I do like him.
He's just like a dad.
I'm just like, oh, it's the dad guy who had just like works a
job.
Yeah.
There's a good moment with him and later.
Yeah.
We covered.
Okay.
I'll get back to it then.
We got to Kyoko sitting in the stairwell and she's looking
at her blue rock gem again.
That she always that always calms her down and she thinks
about how it always calms her down.
She's like, I love this rock.
It always calms me down after thinking about my mom behind
her.
Mr. Sawaara shows up and he's like, oh, hey Kyoko and he
ends up startling her so much that she drops the rock like
down a hundred flights of stairs.
One of those stairwells that like coils or whatever.
So there's just like a big hole in the middle.
Yeah.
We cut to the rock sitting at the like on the ground floor
and who would pick it up?
But Ren Saruga himself, he just leans over and is like, oh,
what's this?
And then red turns.
Yes.
Ren turns to see a very frantic Kyoko rushing down the stairs
with like her broken leg and everything.
And she's like ramming herself into the wall because she can't
stop her momentum.
Kyoko shape holes in the wall for.
Yes.
She's bashing lots of walls in these episodes.
He asks her why she's in such a hurry and she says that she
dropped her purpleish blue stone that she keeps calling
corn.
Instead of giving it to her, he just kind of watches as
she searches around frantically for it, shouting the word
corn.
Mr. Sawaara follows down or follows her down carrying her
crutch and asks if she named the stone corn and Kyoko says
that she didn't name the stone corn, the person who gave it
to her was named corn.
And then we get a flashback in the flashback.
A tiny Kyoko tells us that when she was a young child, she
would often cry and like be sad.
But a local boy would make her feel better and we get an
image of her running to like the bank of a riverside where
the boy is waiting for her.
But the boy's face is entirely cast in light so we can't
make out who it is.
His name is corn and he gave her a stone when he had to go
away as like a memento of him.
Ren hears the story and is very touched and also intrigued.
And upon hearing it, he bends down and pretends to find the
stone on the ground even though he just had it in his pocket
the whole time.
Kyoko's relieved to have recovered the stone and Mr.
Sawaara thinks to himself that he's never seen her smile
quite so genuinely before as she has now when she has
corn with her.
Ren asks her if she used to live in Kyoko and Kyoko looks
shocked that he would ask that question and also that it's
true, she did live in Kyoto.
We get the eye catch and then we cut back and Kyoko says,
yes, I did used to live in Kyoto and Ren tells her that
those stones are mined there and are often sold to souvenirs.
She's shocked to learn the news that her precious stone is
actually just some souvenir you could buy in a shop.
And Ren tells her that she's very gollible and maybe she
should stop being so gollible because you know, unscrupulous
men can take advantage of her if she doesn't like if she
just believes what they say.
Then he comments that because he just made that up.
It's not actually mine.
Kyoto.
He just told her that story and then she immediately fell
for it.
And that's why you say, oh, right.
Then he's like, oh, wait a minute.
Did that guy you hate?
Did he trick you because you're so gollible?
And then like, did he dump you and Kyoko is pissed off that
they're even having that conversation.
She's very angry, but decides not to say anything because
every time she talks to him, bad things happen.
So she just decides to keep her mouth shut.
Ren admonishes her saying that if there are going to be
rumors or people are talking bad about her or saying stuff
about her, that she has to be able to deny them vehemently
or else she's not going to make it in show biz because she's
going to have a bad reputation because everybody just makes
up rumors about everybody else all the time because show
business is terrible.
And honestly, she should already know that, you know,
she should deny rumors and she shouldn't have somebody
explain it to her.
This makes Kyoko even angrier and she decides that she's
just going to exit the situation.
So she turns away and just walks off and thinks to herself,
how she's just going to avoid red in person from now on to
avoid situations like this.
And are you going to, and she does a gesture.
We don't see.
She doesn't do the gesture in the scene, but she does.
She does give me thumbs down while walking away.
Yeah.
So that's what they depict is like what she ends that
encounter with is a thumbs down.
But in the manga, it's like a gesture that maybe means like
F you in Japanese or something because it's like in the
manga, she like has her forearm like up with like,
and then as this shoes like pushing her other sleeve
backs, I don't know what like that means, but like it's
like a show it up yours kind of thing.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Not just a thumbs down, like you're no.
Yeah.
It's like a thumbs down.
Clearly like she's flipping them off, right?
Yeah.
Basically.
Yeah.
We cut to Ren sitting in his car thinking about stuff as
Yashiro shows up and he's like, Hey man, you seem to be
zoning out and Ren tells him that he's been thinking about
stuff, including how like Kyoko has changed like she sure
has changed and we get a cut of her walking down the hallway
as she does the gesture.
This is where we get the cut of the gesture.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Then he thinks to himself that after all, maybe he's the
one that's changed and we get the big reveal that it turns out
that he was corn from the flashback.
It's Ren.
Ren is corn.
Best name ever.
Why was his name corn?
It gets explained.
I don't know that gets it.
We get to the point where it gets explained in the anime back
and I'll probably do like a, he was like kind of answer
unanswered questions, maybe at the end of our coverage that
gets answered in the manga.
Okay.
Sure.
But what do we think about this reveal?
Well, I knew it was coming.
What do you think?
I find this to be unnecessary and kind of ridiculous.
I will say it is.
We'll like learn more about what the relationship between the
two of them at that time was and it's kind of more of like
Kyoko's weird like delusions.
So like there's more funny parts that come from it.
I guess it's just like, it's more of just like a, you know,
I like their relationship that you don't need to add that they
were all so child friends to this.
You know what I mean?
Like it just seems like unnecessary to like throw some
tropes in there.
And why doesn't she recognize him?
Yeah.
And why is his name not corn?
And why isn't his name corn?
That's not a real name.
You don't know that.
He was.
His name.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
So we'll see how it plays out, but I kind of grown at this a
little bit.
Really, we got to like make him part of her backstory.
I guess.
Just be a guy she met is part of her backstory that the other
main male needs some connection to her past as well.
Yeah.
I mean, like you can see how much she's grown.
Like, I guess so or something.
I don't know.
It just feels like because he's already seeing how much he's
growing in real time, right?
Like, I don't know.
I just, I don't know what this gives you.
Like it feels kind of goofy and I don't know what advantage this
gives you in terms of like the relationship.
I will say it's more like reveals more about rents past than
hers.
Like it's a little blip kind of in her.
It's more like a peak at his background, which there's.
Yeah, which you'll never find out.
Oh, okay.
It does feel like this just gives him the excuse to eventually
fall in love with her kind of thing.
Well, it's better than falling in love with Maria.
Less likely get that child predator late.
Oh yeah, that's true.
That's true.
He doesn't have a lot of, well, I'm sure he has many prospects.
We don't get to see any of them on screen.
What?
Ladies throwing themselves at him.
Yeah, you'd think there'd be some love.
There'd be some rivals or be some people trying to take the
throne here, but I don't see it.
The throne of his lap, you know, is unattainable.
He's everyone's cause I hire.
He just, I do like how Red just kind of seems to like not like
any of the people around him.
It's just all very shallow interactions.
Yeah, he's just so into work.
He just likes doing the work.
I don't know.
It's interesting.
Yeah.
Anyway, we cut to some point in the future where both Kyoko and
Moko are now in the acting class that they have to pay for
themselves.
I hung up on that.
Yep.
They participate in the class.
However, Moko has been avoiding Kyoko for some time and Kyoko
wonders why because it's been like weeks since she's talked to
her.
Kyoko thinks it's over in an elevator and then two guys get
on and as a reflex from trying to avoid Ren all the time,
she's like ducks out real quick.
And both the guys think that's really weird.
Kyoko is annoyed that now her reflexes have like forced her
just to like divert all of her commute away from anything that
has people.
And she just like got off this elevator, which didn't want to.
And she's like, dang it.
I need to like figure out a way to like fix my routine.
She walks past Mr.
Sawara who is talking on the phone about how they need a
replacement for somebody.
And he looks over at her and thinks that he's going to have a
request for the love me section to fill the slide.
We cut to Kyoko bursting into the love me section locker room
to find Moko who was drinking water and she like spits it all
out because she's surprised.
No, because it's bringing Kyoko enters the room saying her first
name without.
She also calls her can I.
Yeah, she's like, can I my friend is like, excuse me.
You can call me by my name.
Yeah.
And Kyoko thinks to herself how she always wanted to do that
because she's never been able to have any girlfriends growing up
in high school or anything because everybody was always jealous
of her relationship with show.
And like they all hated her.
They were they were all resentful for her for it.
Moko is like, what are you doing?
What's going on?
And Kyoko tells her that they have a TV job as we do a cut to
Moko telling the producer of the show that the love me section
will take on any job.
And then we see Kyoko being thrown into a chicken costume.
Bow the chicken.
We learned that the replacement job is for Kyoko to be the
chicken mascot of this TV show named Bow because Moko refuses
to do it because she's a serious actress and can't do gigs like
wearing a chicken mascot costume.
Kyoko.
No.
I mean, Kyoko seems willing to do it, but is also worried
because this is her first time ever appearing on TV and Moko is
like, you don't even have any lines.
It's like you don't have any lines.
All you got to do is gesture.
It's fine.
If somebody talks to you, just wing it, whatever.
And then they drag Kyoko off to be on TV.
Because she's a chicken.
Okay.
Moko thinks to herself that she doesn't want to be friends with
a rival and that this will free them both up to pursue their own
careers separately.
The show starts and it turns out it's some kind of like musical
interview show called
Kamagure Rock and it's also hosted by like some musicians and
they interview musicians and there's just like a chicken mascot.
I don't really understand it.
Yeah.
It's like a trio called Bridge Rock that are from LME.
I guess they're kind of up and coming group.
I assume they're musicians, right?
Well, like, why do they have time to host a show like this?
Like shouldn't they be like making music and performing and stuff?
It is weird to be like, it's a music show, but also the hosts are
also musicians that are active.
You know what I mean?
They have to have like the MTV like shows or whatever they
interview people, but like the people hosting that were just
like TV hosts.
It's Jockeys, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe they're like that.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know that explicitly says they're musicians.
I feel like it's just like they're just some group of boys
who are famous.
Just assume.
Don't exactly know what they're famous for.
Yeah, maybe they're also like.
But like why would they be a group if they're not performing?
Yeah, there's three of them, which is a lot of hosts.
That's weird.
Well, whatever.
This is the first episode of the first guest on the show is none
other than show Fuwa.
It's show.
He's here.
Yeah, Kyoko sees this and freaks the hell out.
We get a cut to backstage and we learn from a discussion with
Mr. Soara that the sponsor of the show is a big show fan.
And that's why he gets to be the first guest.
Mr. Soara thinks that because Kyoko is such a big show Fuwa fan
that she's going to be freaking out under the costume and she better
get a cut to Kyoko, who is a freaking out under the costume
because she hates show so much and thinks this maybe is the
perfect opportunity to like humiliate him since she's in
disguise and we'll be able to get away with some stuff.
A stagehand brings her a giant basket of eggs and tells her to
you know, bring it out to the hosts because they are requests
and questions from the audience that they're going to ask
show and she sees as the perfect opportunity for her revenge.
Yeah, Patty, get it girl.
Love it.
She gives like a little she gives like a little model.
I guess she brings them out being like I bring the the
the ingredients for your downfall show.
These are the footprints of destruction.
It's very funny.
She has like squeaky shoes because this is like a big chicken
outfit.
It's like rotund.
It's cute.
Cute chicken.
It's pretty good.
She brings them out and the interview asks show if he likes
to watch TV and he says no, he doesn't really like to watch TV.
This pisses off Kyoko because she was always annoyed by how
much he enjoyed TV, even though it wasn't very good.
Even her at the time with her blindness could tell how like
lame it was that he was.
Yeah, she brings out the eggs and thinks this is the moment
that he is going to get his show gets his first question and
the question asks what his real name is because the audience
member who wrote it heard a rumor that he had a funny name.
Show freaks out because this isn't any like this isn't even
information he entered in on his application or is like
public in any way.
So how would somebody know that he had a funny name?
We got to Kyoko looking menacing because she has replaced
the questions with personal questions that show just not
want asked about him.
She thinks to herself that shows real name is show tarot written
in simple Chinese characters, which I guess is embarrassing
or something.
I don't know.
I didn't really understand that.
I don't think that was the thing they mentioned in the
manga.
So I don't know what those I just thought tarot was such like a
basic like almost old school sounding name like tarot.
I feel like that's the older not current name ending.
Yeah, I don't know.
I just it's hard to believe that that would be embarrassing
though.
I mean, but whatever.
I mean, you know, they're like children.
They're like, I don't know.
I don't know.
So sounds cooler, I guess.
Yeah.
She waits for his answer, but instead of giving a like I'm
saying what his name is.
So gets very serious and says his old name.
Is something he gave up when he entered.
So like show biz.
And that's his ticket to admission into celebrity and fame is to
shed himself with his old name.
And if he were ever to speak his true name, he would no longer be
able to speak his true name.
So he's like, I don't know.
I don't know what his name is.
And so he's like, oh, I don't know what his name is.
And thus he cannot do it.
And the audience eats this up because they love how dramatic
it is.
Kyoko is dismayed that the show that show gave such a good
answer and falls to her knees and defeat.
But then she thinks to herself that this is open.
This is only the opening salvo of a series of challenges that
will destroy him.
She declares that he is about to enter the depths of hell as we
cut to credits.
She gets to be pissed off.
It's great.
I love angry Kyoko.
That's right.
I feel like the egg chicken premise is kind of lame.
But I guess Japanese
Japanese shows
game shows are all kind of kooky like that.
Huh?
It's so weird because the show,
the hosts are just
normal.
It really does feel like an MTV
interview thing, right?
Like the Japanese version of the show.
And it's like, you know,
it's like a real hard time.
And the logo is like kind of
like 90s grungy.
But then it's just Kyoko
with a chicken outfit.
Bring it out eggs.
Yeah, weird.
I wonder if the duration of
it isn't an hour time
slot.
I don't know.
I don't know like with how much is happening.
I'll go on to the next episode
because we kind of just pick right off.
Skitbeat, stage 11 is called
the true face of the storm.
We open on show wondering how somebody could have known
to ask him a personal question like that.
And Kyoko, as Kyoko looks on menacingly.
The next request is from an audience member
saying that she heard a rumor that
show used to play badminton in middle school
show once again is surprised
and irritated that somebody appears to know
something about his past and keeps writing
into the show about it.
And then the next request continues.
He was not in
the club.
And also in the manga, he's like
why is it he's starting with I heard a rumor again
like like makes it
go my god.
The request continues saying that they
that show should show off his badminton skills
by playing a game.
The hosts are like, well, that's fine, but we don't have
any of that stuff. And then Kyoko just brings out
a racket so that
show and Kyoko dressed as a chicken can play
a game and declares that whoever
loses has to do an embarrassing thing where
they like strike an animal pose and spin around
three times and say some stuff.
Did you watch this on Crunchyroll?
Yes. Did you see a problematic
subtitle situation when show
yes refer. OK, yeah, I was like, why
is happening?
This show is old. It used to listen.
People used to just say that it's from 2008.
Listen, I would say in the manga either.
He just calls it lame.
Yeah, my god.
I mean, this is how much like.
Language has changed in the time.
Yes, I feel like you could like
just change that easily enough.
Like maybe they should be betting old
subtitles
on their platform.
Yeah.
I mean, it feels a little
in character that show would say this because he
that's true.
I guess so.
Anyway, she brings out the stuff to play badminton
and now they got a problem.
And so they're
her with 36 lands
and him zero.
Yes. And they yeah, because it turns out
that Kyoko is playing against
show a lot
as kids and she always beats him.
So she's like, finally, I'm going to make him.
He's going to have to do this penalty
for losing.
And also he will suck at badminton, which
will maybe embarrassing for him.
And we get a subtitle
that says thus begins the badminton
match out of nowhere.
Kyoko is confident in her badminton skills
because she's won a lot of games against show up to this point.
The match starts, however,
and show is actually putting up a pretty good
front and Kyoko is somewhat surprised.
Why is he still good at badminton?
What's happening in the manga?
It's like, sheer will
is keeping him from
not like he's like, I don't want to
look lame. So I must for the first
time ever be able to return
of Ali.
Yes. I mean, it seems like they play
like he like he has basic skills
or whatever. He just can't do like anything
advanced. Well, I'm like,
how good could how good could she be
if he's pretty bad and she's able to beat
him. She never would have gotten good enough
to beat anyone better.
I mean, she isn't a chicken suit.
Disadvantaged.
He's stroking there.
Yeah, it's a huge disadvantage.
The fans watch this and are also surprised
that she's not going to be able to beat
him. The fans watch this and are also surprised
that shows good at badminton and they start
eating it up and they love it.
Kyo-ko's dismayed that this is not making him less
popular. She tries to pull out the big guns and does
her special move. She kind of like spins the
racket and then lobs the shuttlecock real high
in the air. Kind of likes like the
sun gets in your eyes and we get a flashback
of show of her doing this to show his kids
and he could never return it. And she says that
she invented this mood so that she could
make it harder for him because he was complaining
that it was too easy. They just like rally back
and get brown hair back in the day.
And he had brown hair.
It turns out that show is getting this flashback
in real time and he like
zoned out so he thinks he's going to lose
the match but it turns out that Kyo-ko
accidentally lost because she hit the
shuttlecock so hard it got stuck in the
ceiling light. Is that the name for it?
I've never heard it before. Isn't just a
birdie?
A birdie.
No, that's a type of
shot and golf where you
know what
you never heard shuttlecock?
No! Racquetball
ball.
What's it called?
Racquetball badminton.
Badminton? Is that what I...
Yes.
Birdie? I call it a birdie as a kid.
Hmm.
Got racquets and birdies.
Okay now this is saying shuttlecock.
Okay. Yeah, it's called a shuttlecock.
I hate it.
Wow, is it because it has the word cock
in it? Stop!
She has a chicken though.
No! Moving on.
Say shuttlecock right now.
I already said it once.
Move on!
Your mother's listening.
Oh my god, this is what it's
called. It's an Olympic sport.
Yes, badminton is the
Olympic sport. I don't watch the Olympics.
The summer Olympics just happened.
Well, I didn't watch.
Except for when that one guy pulled out
a Yu-Gi-Oh card. Get it, my dude.
We love anime references at the Olympics.
Yeah!
Anime is cool now.
Look, continue.
They cut to commercial
and show things that the only person
who would know his name and knows that
he hates badminton
could be Kyoko.
It's gotta be her, right? Cause they'd have to know
me from like
middle school.
And also, they'd have to know I play badminton.
I only ever played with her.
He tries to go confirm his suspicions.
I know.
He tries to confirm his suspicions.
However, he's stopped by his manager who says
they need to like do make up or something.
He has to go do something and he's dragged off
before he can make contact with her.
Soko! The manager.
Uh-huh.
If anyone's a child predator.
That's true. She's the closest
to reality.
Backstage, Kyoko gets in trouble
with the producer for changing up the script
and he's like, listen, if you pull that again
we're gonna take you off the show.
Kyoko wonders why despite her best efforts,
show is coming off looking better than before.
And she's the one who's getting in trouble
and like, might get
fired from the show
if something doesn't change.
You're totally changing
the format of a show
live up.
Girl, obviously.
Your pet.
Yeah, this is like an insane thing to do
but she's like, why am I getting in trouble?
They're still on break
and Kyoko is forced to serve
tea to show what she hates doing.
Show
sees that it's the chicken serving him
and asks the chicken if
they're a boy or a girl and Kyoko does not answer.
Because of this show just tries to pull off
the mascot head so he can see for himself
but he isn't able to get it all the way off
and Kyoko starts to wrestle with him
as he tries to
take the head off.
She's pecking him to death and they spill it on the floor
and she ends up on top of him
in what would be a romantic pose
where she's pinning him to the ground
except she's wearing a giant chicken suit
and also she hates him.
Kyoko can't get up
because of the giant chicken suit
it's unwieldy so she starts flapping her wings
trying to shift her weight
but she can't do it
and show pushes her away by putting his hand
on her chest in the exact same place where her
like boob would be
so it's kind of like he's feeling her out.
He comments that normally
it's guys in these suits because like
any woman that would get in a mascot suit
must not be attractive enough to just be on TV themselves
and Kyoko gets pissed.
We got to cut to Kyoko
in a cage because she's been banned from the set
because apparently she tried to choke
show after he said that.
She did say she's going to kill him.
Kyoko is angry that she got in trouble
and then banned from the set
even though the second time
that she had a scuffle with show it was his fault
she didn't even do anything
but she figures that it's just the way how things
work because he's a famous celebrity
and she's an upstart and has no clout
so you just need to have clout in order to like
get away with stuff
otherwise you'll get blamed for everything.
She resolves to become a celebrity in her own right
as she watches the show
do the part of the show where he gives a concert
because there's still like a music themed
show after all.
The show ends without any further incident.
Kyoko leaves but is depressed that she was the one
that
got banned from the show
despite the fact
and despite the fact that she hates show
she actually thought he looked kind of cool
when he was giving on his concert which annoys her
that she even thinks that and she's like
bash her head against the wall
being like what is wrong with me
chicken suit shape holes in the walls
yes
after the show
show tries to figure out who was in the chicken suit
but nobody knows because Kyoko was a last minute
replacement for the normal actor
he thinks to himself that it doesn't matter
if Kyoko's trying to catch up with him in show biz
because she'll never make it ahead of him
we come back to Kyoko who's lost making her way through
this building she tries to figure out where she is
and she runs into Ren Saruga
who's looking rather sad sitting by himself
she wonders why he's looking so sad
but decides that she should leave because she doesn't want him
figuring out that she's in a chicken suit
she tries to sneak away but her feet makes
these big squishy sounds because she's in
a mascot costume
when she walks so he immediately notices her
he looks over at the mascot and is relieved
and asks if the mascot can possibly help him out
Kyoko tries to get away
but she's also intrigued as to what Ren
could possibly want from a mascot
she disguises her voice and says that
she'll try to help him out
and he asks her for a cell phone
because he didn't bring his
and she's like oh, actually I don't have my cell phone either
and he goes back to being sad
she asks him why he doesn't just borrow his manager's phone
and Ren's like oh yeah, well my manager has a phone
but it's in the shop today
which is an extremely funny thing to say
did people used to send their phones to the shop?
I guess so
it's just like oh, his phone is in the shop
ah, the past
she tries to figure herself why he would want to borrow a stranger's phone
when it's not like he'd have
anybody's number saved in a stranger's phone
or anything
and then she looks down to see that there's a script next to him
she pieces together that the reason he needs a phone
is so that he can use
the dictionary or search function
built into it because he needs to look up a word
that he doesn't know
she asks him if he needs a phone to look up a word he doesn't know
and that's why
he needs help and he immediately denies it
with a pleasant smile and she looks at that and says
aha, that's the smile you give to people
when you're lying to them
because you're embarrassed that you don't know a word
in your script
and Ren's like nope
that's definitely not what's happening and she's like
oh, it certainly is, I know it because
well, she doesn't say this
but she knows it because this is the thing that he said
to her last episode about having to deny
anything that's embarrassing otherwise
people will start rumors about them
Kyo-Koo keeps pressing him on his fake ass smile
and then Ren suddenly gets very serious
and she thinks that she's pissed him off
but instead he says that
he's like
how could you tell that I was lying
she feels bad that she made him mad
and starts apologizing saying that she only said all that stuff
because she kind of hates him for that
but sorry anyway
Ren sees her apologize
and thinks it's funny and starts laughing
and she's like oh, you're not mad and he's like no, I can't be mad
at somebody who would genuinely apologize to me like that
it's also kind of funny to hear somebody
telling me that they hate me to my face instead of just doing a bunch of backhanded compliments
or whatever people normally do
Kyo-Koo thinks that maybe she's
misjudged Ren and maybe he's like a lot more mature
than she thought
and she starts to think back to the conversation
that had it earlier where she denied being dumped
by show and like being tricked by
show and thinks to herself that maybe
she should try to atone for like
being rude to him earlier
by helping him out here
so she tries to convince Ren to let her help him
Ren
relents and lets Kyo-Koo help him out
but he still doesn't know that she's in the chicken
costume so he thinks just some chicken
man is helping him
he explains the problem
which is that the script got changed last minute
and now he has to say a different line
than he had before but he doesn't know
like exactly what to do here
he says that the line he has to say is
in response to somebody saying that they were
dancing to somebody else's tune
and his response is to say that that
must have been rough
but his issue is that he doesn't know how to deliver the line
because he doesn't know what kind of tune that person was having to dance to
like was it jaunty
or was it frantic
depending on what it was I'm going to have to say it different
Kyo-Koo finds all of this extremely funny
because he doesn't understand that that's like a phrase
this is like a Japanese phrase
that he just doesn't get
I guess because he's lived overseas
they use like a different word
so it's not as apparent
as it is here
but yeah
it's a funny misunderstanding
because I guess Ren has been out of the country
for a while
she burst into laughter
and Ren gets embarrassed
she apologizes and said that this is a phrase
but
before she could explain what the phrase means
a door opens and some lights
pour out from like a stage where somebody is on stage
doing a thing and she's reminded of the performance
of
show on the TV show that she was just on
and because she remembered
something about shows she gets sidetracked and thinks that she always loses focus
whenever show comes up
and it pisses her off because
she can't do her normal job
whenever she thinks about him
I think that
when the door opens there's like a check on stage
and then it starts playing music
like the opening song
so I think they must have inserted
whoever
the person who sings the opening song
for this anime as a character in the show
in that moment
oh that's cute
I think that's what it is
that's really fun I like that
because
she just gets lightheaded
and REN
she gets lightheaded
and REN
she gets lightheaded and says
no don't take this chicken head off
I got fired today
and I want to wear this chicken outfit for as long as I can
REN says
if you get too attached to a job you're never going to make it big
and she's like oh well
I bet you never got fired from a job
and REN is like oh no I got fired
I got a ton of jobs when I was starting out
for not following directions
and ignoring the director
he lists about a bunch of times and he got fired
Keiko was like oh wait this was hard for you at the beginning
and REN's like
yeah it is like that
and then she asked him why he never talks about it
I bet if you went on a tv show
and talked about how hard it was starting out
that would definitely be a good interview
REN just kind of shrugs
and she's like what were you trying to save face
so you could make it big in Hollywood or something
and he just kind of shrugs again
because yep he is trying
spent a lot of time in America
was going to Hollywood and he's like a big shot actor
and that annoys her
that he's being so like stuck up
to clarify
she's basically saying
weird I would think
that a big actor like you would
if you had struggled so much that would have come out now
that you had a
pass like that
so why hasn't that
she's like well maybe you weren't
basically saying oh were you trying to be an actor
in Hollywood and not here in Japan
and that's why we don't know about that here
and then he shrugs doing an American gesture
to kind of like be like oh you got me
kind of
deflecting
like he did when she asked
how he knew about
Kyoto
so he just deflects a lot because she's very easily distracted
I see
I watched this scene three times and I still didn't really understand it
so I was like okay
yeah
some things I think
I feel like maybe the author relies on a lot more
or especially with
the script thing
there seems to be a lot of Japanese
based references that don't go
aren't as clear when it's translated
and stuff so it kind of goes over her head a lot
so it's not
I guess everything is more complex
that's being covered in the show anyways
than a normal show Joe
because it's
people and industry
and then stories within these things
are acting out so it's like a lot of different
moving pieces to keep track of
yeah well there's
it's like if you were like
a Japanese actor and you want to go to Hollywood
is that like the equivalent of you like selling out
like I don't know what that means you know what I mean
what is the implication of that
think
that being big in Japan
you're only big in Japan
versus if you're big in the United States
and you're like known worldwide
so
that would be like a more coveted
thing is to be an actor in
America rather than here
but like is there a like if you're like
aiming to be that is that like
I don't
what does that look like upon us
I don't think that's been implied
in the show at all I don't know if that's the case in reality
but the show doesn't seem to make it seem that way
okay
sure yeah anyway
Kyoko leaves and she
wanders around some more and finally finds her bag
and is about to like leave the set
but then she runs into red who comes up
and says thank you chicken man for helping me with
my lines today and she is impressed that he would
thank somebody so genuinely she starts to think that maybe
she was wrong about him and maybe she got to know him better
she would like him more
and also maybe she should have thanked him because
she doesn't feel so depressed about show anymore
she heads home with resolve that she will do her best
even if she gets hired
or even if she gets fired from some things
because that's just how it is as we cut to credits
credits
these are so long
I'm just gonna
I'm gonna blast through it
okay skip beat stage 12 is called her open wound
we open on Kyoko coming out of the
set of the TV show still dressed as Beau the chicken
because she's been made a regular on the show
as the host explained that they got such an outpouring
of support for Beau on episode one that they demanded
her comeback
the producer still doesn't like her though
because of what she did in the first episode
so he just ignores her all the time
and she resolves that she will become so good
and important that even he cannot ignore her any longer
as we played the opening
we cut to Kyoko walking in the
LME lobby
like not dressed as a chicken anymore she's just normal
thinking that she needs to prepare for tomorrow
when she catches sight of Ren Saruga walking in
she thinks to herself that if she dressed up
like Beau the chicken she would run up and tell him
that they made him a regular
and Ren would probably be happy for him
or for her
but she's not so she's not going to do that
she thinks to herself that
she does want to thank him for like helping her out
getting your confidence back and stuff
and maybe because she likes
she's like seeing him
being a cool guy instead of being a jerk when she's
dressed up as the chicken
that maybe she would want to spend some time with him or something
and maybe like he isn't so bad
while she's thinking this Ren turns
and makes eye contact with her and then starts
beelining towards her
she gets freaked out because
he has the smile on his face that he always has
when he's secretly angry about something
and she starts to very quickly
walk the other way so that he's just chasing after her
as they both are fast walking down the hallway
she tries to retreat into the girl's bathroom
before she can make it
Ren catches her up to her and is like oh pretty rude for you
to run away after you make eye contact
and she's like oh yeah sorry
and he's like I bet you're thinking that I'm like a pretty
lighthearted because I'm just like all good
that I can greet you after you were so mean
to be the last time you saw me
and she's like uh that's not
what I'm thinking and he's like mmm and she's like
alright yeah I was thinking that
because I guess he just came to tease her
for this he just like came up to her
and like mess with her
Ren's manager Yashiro sees this
and he's like what are you guys doing
Ren makes some excuse
in the manga he really plays up like
what are you doing
are you harassing a girl in front of the
woman's bathroom
the woman's bathroom
he's like horrifying
Ren makes some excuse about how he's like teaching her
how to greet people properly or something
and Yashiro is just like alright well you need
to not do that in front of the women's bathroom
they all walk through the parking lot together
Kyoko wonders why Ren keeps teasing her
all the time even though he was serious
with her when she was bowing the chicken
why is he different when I'm a woman
and she asks Kyoko why she's here
and she says that she's doing a job
for the love me section
and does not want to tell them about being a chicken
and then they ask her why she's
not wearing her love me uniform
and she says that it's kind of embarrassing so she doesn't really want to like stand out
when she's just walking around
Ren then corrects her saying that she should
want to stand out at a TV set because that would
land you better jobs in the future
people can like remember who you are
if you want to be successful in showbiz
you should try to stand out as much as possible
and Kyoko thinks that he's trying to
give her some advice and that's actually kind of nice
for him to do
Ren and Yashiro give Kyoko a ride home
and during it she tells him that she's actually going to try out
for an audition for a commercial tomorrow
Ren tells her that she's definitely going to try to stick out
tomorrow if she wants to like
land that role so she's prepared to do that
and then he tells her to do her best
as he drives off it's the next day
and Kyoko goes to the audition on the way up
she sees one of the actresses get comforted by one of her friends
and thinks to herself how she wishes
she had friends growing up but didn't because of show
then she thinks about how maybe
Moko could have been her friend
except like recently she's been avoiding her
nonstop so I guess that's not happening
she gets to the door of the audition and pauses for a second
to think about what she's going to do
and right then the door opens and like
smashes her in the face and she falls down on the ground
on the other side of the door
is a blonde woman who looks like
or no who looks at Kyoko on the floor
and Kyoko apologizes and the blonde woman just turns
behind her to tell the person behind her
that she should just go home because we all know
who has the talent here and who's going to win the audition
yeah and the manga she's like
you're welcome for opening the door
like for you
um
Kyoko is a really good superman
yeah Kyoko is pissed because she got ignored
and also this woman just bashed her in the face with the door
and then realizes that the person that the woman
the blonde woman is talking to is actually
Moko who's also here for the audition
the blonde woman continues saying that
she always gets the main roles while Moko
always plays the chump roles so that's what's
going to happen this time see might as well just give up
we cut to this blonde chick being served
by like three handsome butlers because I guess
she's like a rich popular girl named
Erika which is like a
European name
which is also interesting
um some of the other actresses comment that they've seen her
before and that she's the daughter of some
famous CEO
Kyoko wonders what's up with this chick
and Moko
is like a flashback of Moko telling Erika
that
she has talent in acting when nobody else is around
and Erika is like oh what do you mean by that
it doesn't really seem like Kyoko
really knows what that means either
like the back and forth like basically the
responses oh you're just good at acting
when no one else is around it was like what the hell
does that mean
then Kyoko gets annoyed that Moko didn't say hi to her
even though they're like she's the closest thing she has
to a friend and she's like hey how come he didn't say hi to
me your best friend and Moko's like
why are you saying you're my best friend you're not my best friend
you're like my rival at best
so I'm ignoring you
um Kyoko is like why would we be rivals
with me we're like
best buds we're both in the love me
section
Moko is like I'm not being best buds with you
uh nearby Erika hears this
um that like
Moko considers Kyoko her rival and suddenly
takes an interest in her and
her and her butlers comment on how
Kyoko looks like
she's poor and is not very impressive
which also pisses Kyoko off more
yeah they really
dig into this in the manga
where it's like
she it's clearly she
brings to carries bag
every single day
can you believe it like oh it's really funny
it's only got one bag
yeah
uh the audition starts
but the director isn't there
Kyoko comments that it's not very encouraging
but Moko counters that this actually may be
like good because it'll make
the first round something that's actually fair
all of a sudden out of nowhere Erika
bounces up and introduces herself as the first person
in the audition and she like pirouettes
and does some ballet moves saying that she does stuff like this
and also
uh she's part of the
Koenji
yeah Koenji or something
Koenji okay great
um the dictation said this is the
Koen
Koenjo group so that's not right
basically like she's part
of some famous company
um the daughter of the CEO
I thought she works there
yeah which is her dad's company
um and she promises that the group's name
will be on their new product if they hire her
and it'll make it a big hit so basically
she's just bribing the judges right out the gate
um Kyoko and Moko see this
and Moko's like yep there she goes again
this is what she always does and Kyoko's like
she just relies on her family name and not on
like any talent for doing anything and Moko
comments that this is business and this is just how
it works I guess they turn back
to see that all the judges have basically completely
on board with being bribed um
and so I guess that's that but then all
the other actresses in the audition get pissed off
and start a ruckus and it all
breaks out while Moko and Kyoko just kind of
sit there we cut to some guy walking up
to the building they're in and it's clearly
the director who's showing up late as all
the other actresses are like leaving for
like the end of the first round they all
feel okay about the performance because I guess the first
round actually did end up happening um
so you know they got to do their stuff
um and he comes into the break room where
we find a sulking Moko
and Kyoko we get a flashback to the first
round of the audition where the
proctor introduces the theme for the first round
which is like a Q&A section over everybody's
sparkling youthful memories
because that is like related to the ad campaign
which is like for some sparkling water
or something so I guess it's like
youth water remember the good
times I don't know
uh when they ask Kyoko
about her sparkling youth memories
she answers that honestly
or she answers honestly saying that
she doesn't have any sparkling childhood memories
anymore because her entire life became crashing down
two months ago but then
she feels like an idiot for telling the truth she's like why
didn't I just make something up
all even two months wild
it's only been two months
making progress quick
it's so funny to be like you're at like a job
interviewing you're like oh what are some memories from your
childhood and you're like oh yeah my life like totally
fell apart two months ago so I don't know
um
Moko's answer
was to talk about how she was the lead role
in a play in the third grade
and Kyoko
comments that she said this in a way that didn't
seem very happy at all when she said it
Kyoko asks Moko if she's like giving up on making
it to the second round because it seems like she doesn't
like try very hard after that moment
and Moko says that she's already knows
how it's gonna end so there's really no point
Kyoko's like you don't know how it's gonna end
also the director wasn't even there for the first round
so like there's still plenty of opportunities to impress
them and then Moko explains that Erika
has added out for her ever since she beat her for the
lead role in the third grade play that she mentioned
earlier
and every audition they've had since them
she's made it so that
Moko gets eliminated in the first round every time
so much so that she wasn't even allowed in the drama club
yeah
she's like I couldn't even be in drama club
she kicked me out of that too
yeah they show more montage like
with imagery in the manga
where it's like
she's basically just pretending to be
uninterested in acting
so that Erika will get off her
and stop tuning into
what she's doing so she actually
acts without worrying about her
interfering
so Erika thinks she hasn't
been acting up to this point
and then she blames her
for her bad middle school
because she followed
Moko
because she wanted to
I don't know she's freaking following her
instead of going to the school she should have gone to
she like went to a worse one
for the sake of pastoring this one chick
it's bad
freaking annoying
Kyouko protests saying that
she can still impress the judges and then Moko tells her that
money is the only thing that makes the world go around
and thus she knows that the director will just get bought off
so there's nothing she can do
so it's basically already over
the director who's in disguise is sitting right there
listening to all of this and he is shocked
when Kyouko stands up and slaps Moko
and tells her that if she really thinks that money
is more valuable than her talents
do you really believe that?
Kyouko tells her that she can't give up
because she hasn't even tried everything yet
she needs to try everything
and she's like when I first joined L and M
I got eliminated first round
but I kept on trying
and now I'm here you can keep on doing it
because she is echoing the lines
from Chef Boss
Chef Boss
Taisho
Taisho, he's here
in the words of Kyouko
Moko realizes that Kyouko is right
she's never really fought for herself before
and she gets it in her head that if she can fight
then maybe she can act all she wants to
and doesn't have to pretend like she doesn't want to
to avoid Erika
and then the glimmer of hope
is beaming
she turns to
Kyouko and is like maybe I should fight
how do I do it, what do I do
and Kyouko realizes that she doesn't actually have an answer for what she should do
she's just like saying this
because this is what Chef Boss told her
Kyouko thinks about the advice that Ren gave her earlier
that she should try standing out as much as possible
she turns to Moko and says
listen I know how we can stand out
in a way that everybody will remember us
and Moko realizes what she's saying
and is like you can't be serious
and Kyouko is like oh I'm deadly serious
as they run
out of the room
meanwhile the director says to himself
he wonders what they're going to do
elsewhere Ren is sitting on a set for some kind of
film shoot
and the actress approaches him and apologizes
saying that she's holding them all up because she can't get the scene right
Ren comforts her telling her that she shouldn't be so worried
and
Yashiro sees this and is like
he's always so nice to people that are
like trying their best
but also the things Ren are saying
are extremely corny and he can't believe
anybody could really buy this
yeah it's bad
he goes over to talk to Ren and tells him
or like asks him why he was being so nice to Kyouko before
and Ren
doesn't seem to like realize that he was being nice to Kyouko
and Yashiro tells him that it's probably because
she's trying so hard like you always like people who try hard
Ren thinks to himself
and says that Kyouko isn't trying hard
because she wants to make it in show biz
because her motivations are bad
and Yashiro does not really understand what this means
and Ren tells him that
it's a good reminder that he should not be too nice to her
in the future and walks off
oh man, Haru sure is like
I don't mean it like that
this guy
he's determined
in his own way
it's a beautiful
it's the next day of the audition and
Kyouko have shown up in their love me uniforms
and everybody thinks it's weird
Kyouko tells her that they're in this together
and they're going to beat Erika together
and they'll make it through this as a team
and Moko's like
how can we be a team? This audition is only for one person
and Kyouko seems to just realize this
for the first time but she's like
it's okay because if I lose to you
then I know I will have tried my best
and it'll be fine because she has the warrior spirit
it's funny because
in the background when it like dawns on Kyouko
it also dawns on those two girls we saw earlier
who are clearly friends
auditioning in this
and they're like oh my god we didn't realize either
Moko
feels better
about taking on Erika now that she doesn't
feel like she has to do it alone
Erika shows up and sees the two girls wearing their outfits
and she's like what is wrong with you two
and then she goes on a rant about how much Moko ruined her life
ever since the third grade
and all that other stuff
in another room
the director announces a change to the commercial
and that they're going to change the way they're going to do casting
we cut back to the girls
as Moko tells Erika that yes
she did ruin her life in the third grade
but don't worry about it because
it will all come to an end today
she's going to set her free while her and
Kyouko radiate
energetic hate as we cut to credits
well
I mean they change
the director says they're now going to be doing
they're going to have two
actresses
they're changing like the commercial
so
I'm so sorry
listeners I'm sorry that it took me so long to say
dictation is crazy
this was
a little more than 6,000 words
oh my god
listen I was in the hospital
okay
or I was in the outpatient surgery
a day ago
come be some slack
no worries and yeah the next few episodes
are going to be good I really like this little
arc of the
audition it's good
so I'm excited for that
yeah
still liking the show
yeah we get the Moko arc
which is great because I love Moko she's great
yeah we'll learn more about her
as well this is just kind of the
letting Kyouko in
after like a month of ignoring her
once again
Kyouko gets to bond with somebody by being a hater
we can destroy
your like cartoonist childhood
bully who cares whatever we'll
fuck her up it's fine
yeah I like
them as a duo they're good
um
yes it's I'm still on board
for the like she's put into
the love me section and that mostly involves her doing jobs
about like being
contankerous with people and like
it's really just
stoking the fires of her hate
yes yes
so good
apparently still the emotional labor
department which is pretty funny
I know it's like when you see
people referring like
why pay for a therapist and I can just like unload
on my one friend
oh yeah
you're that friend Joe
I know
thanks for the free
emotional labor
sure
so good
I guess being both a chicken is just like a normal
request like hey be a chicken stand in
yeah so she's a regular on that show
I wonder how much probably does not make that
much but by popular
by viewer demand she was brought
back onto the show despite the producer
hating her
which is very funny it's very fun to be like
we love the thing where she played bad
with show played badminton with the chicken
mm-hmm
I guess I would also love that can you imagine
if you like this probably
I don't watch variety shows but like
I want to watch
like a Hugh Jackman
play like a soccer with a big
mascot or something like that would be funny
yeah that does sound fun
sorry I had a little internet
drop for a second there
that's pretty good but this doesn't help
I mean she's wearing a mascot costume
oh you there
yep I am now
although my computer is possessed
and keeps trying to open stream labs
this is
this is helping in the past I don't know why this happens
sometimes
it like really wants me to
login
yep no internet boo
doesn't help in ways are no right
oh my god my computer is possessed
I have it Elgat
I think if I streamed it I would try to
log in to that's so annoying
okay anyways
yeah or my stream deck
my elf got through
yep but yeah she's on TV now
I mean we can't see who she is
so this doesn't help her career but
she gets to be on TV
yeah I know it's kind of a big deal
being a regular on a TV series
it's just that she doesn't get
to promote her face or name
doing it
right nobody knows it's her
but it's good for her resume
or her portfolio
Joe can you hear me
what are you gone are you dead
I'm here
we're one out for
show Joe has Sarah
one day I can't hear you
one day
we'll appear back for
she's a ghost for the Halloween
episode
can you hear me
she's fading in and out of reality
yes I can hear you
okay
what is happening my computer is possessed
oh you could not just be here
oh no
I wonder if SkipBee's going to have any
holiday specials
like
continue
like how Kimi and Toki had some Christmas episodes
I hope it does
any other
thoughts or predictions
I was just saying that I hope that they have
some holiday specials in this show
oh
I don't know that there's a
dedicated Christmas episode
it is show Joe though
so you know
obviously Valentine's Day
will be a thing at some point but
yeah I don't think well I don't think you get
to see it in the anime
okay that's fine
I feel like the manga or the anime probably goes
to like the first maybe
uh huh
you might have sewn down a guy guy
dang it okay we got to wrap this
we got to expedite this
okay recommend
sorry yeah recommendations
uh you recommend something
I'm gonna recommend the book Pachinko
which is now
a show on Apple TV
I think that is well received
even though I'm watching because I don't have
Apple TV but it's
um let's see who writes this
book
Min Jin Li is the author
but basically it's like
the premise is
is kind of
it's like maybe the early 1900s
or something but this young girl
like lives in Korea back when
it's just one Korea and she's just kind of
like doing her thing
working for her mama in and you know
they're just barely scraping by
she has some kind of getting seduced by this
older businessman
she gets uh knocked up
and then
it's freaking out kind of and then this
random nice dude
who's offers to like pretend to be
the dad of the child
and he's like a officer
or
he like has to go work in Japan
because I guess this is when Japan starts occupying
Korea at the time
um
and so
she moves to Japan
and all the Japanese people are really
mean to them so they're Korean
uh and it kind of goes through a few decades
so we even get to like she ends up having
that kid and they end up having another
and they like survive
the freaking
bombing
and
kind of the fallout of that
and just like what it's like
being a Korean
uh in Japan at the time
they're traded very badly
and Pachinko comes in at some point
which is like a casino game
or something
uh but it's like it's really cool
uh I like it a lot
it's kind of I mean it's not the most
upbeat like happy
book
but it's interesting and a good read
and yeah read it and then check out
the the TV show
if you have Apple TV
apparently it's really good and that's my
recommendation
I'm recommending a movie I watched like two days ago
I'm gonna recommend They Live
which is a
sci-fi action horror film
John Carpenter from 1988
uh I'm pretty
there's a lot of famous lines and
scenes from it so you may have seen some stuff
uh before
it's about a
I guess a drifter
um let me just read the little thing
uh the film follows a drifter who follows
who discovers through special sunglasses
that the ruling class or aliens concealed
their appearance of manipulating people to consume
breed and conform to the status quo via
saliminal messages and mass media
and it's very ridiculous it's like a very goofy
movie
it's got Roddy Piper and Keith David in it
it's very fun
it's not super long it's like an hour and a half
uh Keith David
isn't that the guy who voices Captain
Anderson in Mass Effect
yes Keith David does a lot of
voice acting
there's also just been in a lot of stuff
like a ton of stuff
he's the bad guy and the princess and the frog
uh yeah so
very fun
very good movie it's like goofy
it's like ridiculous they got some
really good line reads in it
they have like a very long action
scene where Roddy Piper and Keith David
fight each other in like an alleyway
it's like ridiculous and over the top
it's great
so yeah it's horror it's horror season
so watch them this isn't like a scary
movie it's not even
really that much of a horror movie I guess it's just in that genre
kind of but uh you should watch it anyway
they live
they live and Pachinko
our recommendation this week
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I've decided to rank
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maybe we need to start networking
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well I
frequently played with tooth and claw so if I could
force them to do an anime
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I'm sorry
show about animal attacks
yeah okay
okay we gotta find
an animal attack somewhere in the history of anime
and then we can cover that
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we gotta do the research
um
gotta do the research
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so that's our
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and go here at that is
this episode is kind of a mess isn't it
but that's what you show up for
that's what you love you love everything
you know it's like we're like this American life or whatever
right like you really want to listen to that
no we're here you don't know what we're going to get
of course not
you want to listen to your two messy friends
Joe and Sarah talk about a show for like an hour
and a half because
we're talking about three episodes
it is getting longer
it's getting longer
uh yeah
it's why we only did two episodes for Angelic Layer
those were so long though
like again these these summaries have been
long just because I had to dictate it
but like normally the skipy ones aren't
as bad yeah
I look back at the Angelic Layer like
file sizes and they're enormous
I know and that's when I was like
neurotically editing it by hand
the entire time
um but
yeah I mean at least
if we do three instead two we get to
cover more series more quickly
um yeah well these are
also good like arc based I mean
yeah that's the problem where like the arcs
keep beginning and ending like
not at the point
you guys are just dying to hear
our thoughts on what happens
with this audition
they'll just have to stay tuned
yeah well it's just like because we had
because we had to finish the Maria stuff so we had a little conversation
about that during the summary and then we
did the entire show I'm a chicken
arc where we had a little conversation about that
and then we have the beginning of this next arc that isn't
finished yet and we had to talk about that so like
you know we've had to we have to talk
about three different arcs in this one episode
well I don't know if I call the chicken one an arc it's just more
like like it's like a mini arc
well it's between arcs does
everything have to be an arc
or is it just a buffer between the next one
okay I guess it's a buffer I don't know
it's like one half one and a half
episode one and a half episodes
that's like five chapters
yeah that's true
uh yeah god I really
recommend everyone check out the manga
it really
I feel like the humor
is so good in the manga
like the scene where
she sees Ren pick up
the stone and she's like on the ground
she like has her arms stretch out
and then like slingshots herself up to him
to get to the corn
the rock faster
like it's fine in the anime but
the author is
so good at making it so funny
in the manga
it's yeah
so Joe you should definitely check it out
I guess you can
just read the entire series somehow
that's true
binge read it
we'll probably do some cleanup of some of these
shows to like read the manga through it
like we should probably read the rest of Kimi Nii to know if it's on point
I'll read
if it's on point
I'm just like oh I gotta buy it
I'm a maniac I don't wanna
like I've already
I've already bought the first two volumes of Kimi Nii to
don't get I must finish the series
two of all you're not
in stars anymore
don't just get a
digital subscription is way cheaper
and you can like read it all in like one month
it's fine now you're the one telling me to get
physical copies of things
that's for like TV shows and stuff
because they keep taking them off
I mean I get yeah what you can buy
I don't know can you buy it like a digital copy
of a manga that you can like
download and save yourself
I don't know
they all subscription services now
I don't know listen you can get whatever you want on the internet
it's great
so do what you gotta do
to preserve media and also
you know pay for stuff
when you can
yeah I know
Sarah has some self control
I could not go to conventions anymore
I seriously
it's a problem
from conventions for sure
oh my god
okay well
I hope everyone's having a good
start to your October
be sure to eat all the pumpkin
scones and pumpkin bread
so good it's Han Solo season
where all the girls wear their riding boots with leggings
and their long sleeves with their little vests
so
look forward to that
I don't think I've seen anybody wear that
okay maybe that's only on college campuses
also it's too hot here it simply cannot
happen yet this time
tough
yeah oh man
don't worry guys
you're gonna be like wow Sarah sounds
like a new person now that the
temperatures drop it's gonna happen
oh my god life is so wonderful
and this is gonna be so different
yeah oh just a few more weeks
oh my god Bale guard comes out soon
ahhhh
and life is strange
the next one comes out okay
I have a lot to look forward to the next
few months
that's good my finger will be normal
so I'm looking forward to that
I don't think so apparently it's not normal
pointy in there
that's just because I have pointy bones
I've always had pointy bones listen
it's fine
uhhhh
you're not like slicing yourself open from the inside
I don't think so
not that I know of
okay
uh well anyway
I'm gonna go for everybody
ummm
don't give out advice without
solutions
nah that works out it actually works out
for you can give out advice just like wing everything
just don't just never think about anything
ummm
just become very memorable
don't name your children corn oh my god
if you're gonna come up with an alias for yourself
pick something better than corn
oh my god
you could have been like like ummm
like a man
or like she was a child
like uh
I mean pick a bit a better like
food item
ummm
you could have been like flour
or like
ummm pair
is that better pair
is that better than corn
uhhhh no not really
what about for cinnamon
sure that's better
ummm then you call him cinnamon
cinnamon
is that from spider-man
what
that's the guy from spider-man
he's like the jackass boss
at the bugle or whatever right
no no that's the actor
wait
what's that
you think it's jay jota jason
who's the actor
that plays in that's what I'm thinking
uhhhh and the new ones
oh and then the
the old ones
oh man
what a good cast
that character
I think he voices the character
in the video game
oh he does a ton of voices
that doesn't surprise me
he's cave johnson in pool
everyone boxback
season 3 episodes
the first 3 episodes are out
and I like them so far
there's lots more romantic elements
and I'm like
hyped
yay
okay
alright bye
thanks for watching