Welcome to show Joe the podcast where we experienced no audio issues ever.
We didn't just spend hours trying to correct Joe's mic and then my mic
crapped out like it went from him to me but we're back.
We're back baby and ready to go through Skitbeat some more with you guys.
I'm Sarah, Joe here.
We're both exhausted from our ordeal.
But we're here happy and excited to talk about Skitbeat.
I'm so excited to talk about Skitbeat.
Well, at least it's a show about rage.
We can just channel our rage through and that's the other parts.
Oh, my God.
But first, oh, yeah.
Other than the mic thing, what else has been going on in your life, Joe?
I don't even know what I like.
This is the last hour is like wipes out all of my memory.
Everything what happened in the last week?
Oh, did your finger cast go removed yet?
No, I still have the stitches in my finger.
Oh, right. You were wanting to rip them out yourself.
Yes, they're very annoying.
It doesn't hurt anymore.
I was taking painkillers for a while.
Now I don't have to.
Now it's just like, oh, if I like move my finger, if I try to move my finger
too much, it'll be like, you got stitches in there, man.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I do have stitches in there.
What did I do this week?
You saw the movie.
You saw the Gundam, whatever.
Yeah. Yes.
I did see the Gundam, the first Gundam compilation movie,
which went further than I thought it would go.
OK. It goes past the Garma dying.
I thought it would end at Garma, but it goes past that to like them
traveling to actually don't remember.
But we go past on the mom, which was surprising.
I feel like that's pretty late in the show.
It's weird to me to know that Gundam got cancelled.
And then these movies were so popular that the franchise got revived
because I feel like the movies are hard to follow because you're taking
like 14 episodes and shoving it into like a two and a half hour movie,
right, which like has the runtime of what, like seven episodes.
So you're like cutting it in half.
So a lot of it just doesn't make as much sense.
I mean, it kind of does, but they skip over a lot of stuff.
And like some stuff doesn't hit as well as the show.
But to know this is the thing that made it popular is weird.
Like the abridged version is the thing that brought it from the brink of death
back to life.
Well, I guess at that time, it would have been hard to watch the episodes
all together unless you purchased it.
And maybe people just want to do that.
So this is a way to see it all with one sit down.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I forgot that it's like you just have to watch it every week.
And if you miss a week, then your screw.
I guess. Yeah.
It's like pretty, yeah.
I mean, I guess it makes sense.
I like a lot of cartoons growing up for like us.
We're all episodic for that reason.
I know that's why I was one.
It doesn't matter.
Just thinking, yeah, about this, like yesterday about Pokemon
and how you could just pop in any episode.
It's all self-contained.
So it doesn't matter if you're watching it week to week, which works
because kids are definitely less likely to be like, let me sit down
at the same time every week to watch this thing.
Although I did do that for Avatar, the last airbender,
but I was a middle schooler by then.
Yeah, I remember when I was airing.
It's hard, though.
It is.
Because it's definitely times like I couldn't watch stuff
because it's like, oh, I had to go to a family thing.
Or like, I just forgot.
Grounded and you can't.
So, you know, you used to have to make your whole life
around watching a TV schedule.
And now you don't ever have to think about anything.
No, any.
Now the expectation is that you watch everything all in one
sitting, which is crazy.
And I hate doing it.
I never do.
But that's like how they assume everybody watches everything.
I think that's a bad way to watch stuff.
Yeah.
Like, I like the space.
Reality shows.
I watch them the next morning.
So that's how I like start my day by catching up rather than like
watching it when it comes out.
But still not all together, but I'm so tired.
So tired.
I've also let's see.
I also started watching.
I started.
I finally started Gundam Wing.
Oh, God.
Wearing it, baby.
The one people saw, the one that came to the US, the Tuna.
Me.
Uh-huh.
Gundam Wing.
Hey, it's also the one that's meant to appeal more towards women.
Oh, is that true?
Kind of like we have.
Are the boys better looking or something?
Yeah.
They're all let me send you a picture of these Gundam boys.
OK, I'll be the judge.
I feel like I just saw a thing that Henry Cavill wants to be in the live
action Voltron series.
I don't think they should make a live action.
I don't think they should make a live animated series, I think, which was OK.
Anything ever.
Yeah, that was the animated.
And also that one was crazy.
Well, I listen.
This podcast I listened to called History of the 80s to episode of Voltron
and how basically they took several Japanese shows and just mushed them
together and renamed it.
Yes, the Voltron.
That's why. Yes.
This is why this is the same reason why you can't watch Macross
because it became a Robotech here.
I know. Apparently what everybody says is that Robotech fucking sucks.
Well, I was going to say Robotech's a lame name.
It's pretty terrible.
Yeah, go through these boys.
Oh, number themed.
But. Uh-huh.
OK, I don't love.
No, they don't want me.
First off, the guy with the weird, like almost Mohawk, but flat
and in front of his face, like a spiky pompadour.
That looks like.
And then there's a boy.
There's a guy wearing like writing paint or like
old oneies military pants where they poof out the cat or the thighs.
And then this guy.
A little tiny Marcelle duo.
The split the slick back ponytail.
Not working for me for the guy with the black hair.
This is so.
Do his hands like at these outfits.
You don't like these outfits?
They're like, listen, they're like the back street boys, right?
The one on the far left is like fearless.
You know what I mean?
He doesn't. He is fearless.
I'd be so embarrassed to have that hair.
The second guy is the main guy we hang out with who is like,
yes, he's very distant, you know, makes it hard.
The one in the middle is like the fun one.
He's the fun one.
He like jokes around.
Yeah, he has a good time.
And then let's see why.
But well, meaning is that this guy.
Disinterested, you know.
Wolfie is so far he's kind of just sexist.
But he is like the warrior one, you know what I mean?
OK, he's like that.
I mean, he's sexist.
Yeah, he's like, I mean, he's sexist in the way that like a
when I can't fight a 14 year old boy would be like he's going to get owned.
You know what I mean?
Like, I mean, so it's set up to get like annihilated.
Good, like soccer.
And then the last guy is like a rich is like the rich boy is like the rich
nice guy. Yes, like the noble.
Is he a foreigner too?
Well, they're all from the colonies, so I don't know.
But the main you want to see the main chick?
I feel like yeah, show me.
I'm ready.
I should just give you that.
So you just surrounded in a harem of mediocre boys.
OK, first off, these boys are not mediocre.
These are the least mediocre boys.
They are all like trained, ridiculous killers and are like insane.
They're all like insane people.
OK. Except for the like the rich boys, the one who's kind of normal.
So far, everybody else is like a psycho almost.
Let me see.
Yeah, I'm them wing ending.
I mean, duo is fine.
He's pretty normal.
Here's the ending where that's just like
Raleigha going on like a rich girl safari.
She's great. I love her.
Listener, if you want to listen along this, we're watching Gundam wing ending.
It's just love.
She's not that she's like looks like she's got rod up her ass.
Like.
Stick to the going through it.
OK, she looks very she's a serious.
Yes, she's very rich girl, Stern.
It's good.
I like really the bully.
OK, she looks like I bought episode seven.
So who knows? Seven out of like 50.
So things could go in any number of directions.
But so far, pretty good.
OK, whatever.
She's she's not ugly, but she she doesn't like
feel super personable.
But maybe that's just her journey is to become last.
Why? That's why she gets along so well with hero,
the guy who shows up and then says he's going to kill her
if she keeps interfering with his mission.
My God. OK.
And let me tell you, she keeps interfering.
OK. It's good.
If you say so, I'll take your word for it.
And that's the US finally got on board, I guess.
Yeah, we'll see.
We'll see how it sticks to landing or not.
Or, you know, six to the midpoint.
Who knows? Well, I got a lot of show left, but I'm having a good time with this one.
Better than G Gundam so far. OK.
All right. Anything else going on?
I watched a bunch of movies, like horror movies.
Yes, you recommend the recommendation.
I was going to say you recommended one last week.
OK, this is where you.
Yeah, I was going to say I need you to ask me.
So it's not like, oh, my God, Sarah, it's just like always being like, well, I.
I ask you questions sometimes.
I am replaying Life is Strange right now,
which I think I might finish it today or tomorrow.
But since the new one, Life is Strange Double Exposure
comes out on the 29th of October,
because I haven't played it since the first released over like 10 years ago.
So doing that kind of a short game, so it'll be quick to knock out.
And then I don't know what I can do until Vale Guard comes out.
But maybe you and me will play.
Oh, maybe we'll play some more walkabout.
You want to why don't you share your thoughts on walkabout pocket edition?
I played walkabout pocket edition.
Yeah, walkabout me, you all pocket edition.
I'm very good at it.
iOS app version that is cross playable with VR.
So I was in my headset while you and another friend played on your phones.
That's right.
It's kind of hard to get the hang of it, but.
I thought it was fine.
I mean, I'm not obviously I'm going to use the thing where you hold it like
vertically and you could just like pull back as opposed to like swinging my
phone around tap tap to put versus swing to put is it was good.
Yeah, no, it's fun.
Yeah. And we got we played through the wall
syncromic level and with those walkabout.
And I don't know.
Did I take you anywhere else?
Oh, yeah, we played on laser layer, but like my hardest course.
You all got annihilated for like 10 minutes.
Yep. Yes.
That also happened.
Yes, that was fun.
That's been like a work thing.
The pocket edition launch is doing quite well, although it is a paid app.
And I feel like the competition pool is much smaller in the paid app.
Charts than free to play by very much would rather just pay up front and be
able to experience the game fully than like all the freaking gotcha crap.
And other games.
I hate that so much.
And let's see what else have I been doing?
And Big Brother ends tonight.
And then what am I going to do?
What show is going to accompany me three mornings of the week?
You just got to lock yourself into a house with a bunch of strangers.
You you have to become the change you want to see.
Well, I did apply once like two years ago, but maybe I should apply again.
No, I'll really surprise.
I think what to be on Big Brother?
Yeah.
Hey, I hang out in doors all the time anyway.
I feel like I hate being around a bunch of strangers.
Hi, Mr. Musclehead.
Help me get ripped because I'm so bored.
I'll finally work out would be my plan.
No, I have a hard time holding my well.
Holding. I know.
I like have a high threshold, but once once I'm over you,
it's like very clear that I'm over it.
But I don't know.
I feel like I'd be a good liar and everyone was so sloppy this season.
I could lie to these fools.
Yeah, I think I mean, it's because I have such a like wholesome image
to a lot of people that they wouldn't anticipate it.
Like how girls on my cross country change that I listen to gospel music
when I was listening to like disturbed and stuff like that instead.
Yeah, but you didn't like swearing stuff.
No, I didn't swear then.
But I could I could I can revert back to that for the sake of the game.
Like you.
OK.
I don't know.
I feel like I'd be OK at some of the challenges.
I don't know what the challenge is.
A big brother like well this season, they cut a lot of them more physically
demanding ones.
And so there's a lot of competitions that I miss seeing
because they were more like endurance based and there's a lot less of those.
But those are those are fun.
I have a high pain tolerance.
I think I could do well in the endurance ones.
Is it like the is it like stand on top of this box for as long as you can?
And they do it for like four hours.
That's the survivor one, right?
Yes.
That's my only reference.
Let's see, there's there's one where you just it's called the pressure cooker,
I think, where you just had to hold the button.
Or like whoever holds their button down the longest wins.
And it like just goes on for like so many hours.
And some people accidentally slip up or some just are bored and or fall asleep.
Stuff like that. Or or they have to like that.
So they have to hang on this wall that like tilts back and forth.
And like you have these tiny little footholds and arm.
Or hand like like your boulder or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that.
You have to but you're facing out from the wall and then you get like blasted
with slime and and rain and so you're cold and it's like slippery.
A double dare challenge.
What is this?
Kind of.
But yeah, it's like whoever can hold on the longest goes.
And like you can always tell who's going to drop first.
But yeah, stuff like that I like.
And but if it's anything like let me do math, then I would fail miserably.
Well, yeah, so we'll see what happens.
I am watching Survivor this season.
Oh, OK. And then I saw that movie.
With my my co-worker, my old ass, I said it was going to be a comedy.
And then both of us were like sobbing at the end of the movie.
Oh, because it was so funny.
No, I was crying at the end.
I almost made it.
Oh, man.
It was at the end.
I did get my fried pickles, so that was excellent.
And yeah, I don't know.
It's supposed to start cooling off next week.
So then I'm just waiting.
I'm just waiting. We're almost there.
We're almost to a point where I can be happy fully.
My happiness for like a month or like two months.
Gages. So.
The fact that the weather, the fact that your happiness
is tied so much to the weather and you live in a place where the weather
is only good for like three months is like maybe not the best.
I know. I know.
One day, I swear to God, one day.
Uh huh. Well, I don't know.
In the next five years, I would say at most.
I should like not date until I move to what?
I don't want to get shackled down here.
Oh, I don't want to do anything.
Oh, man.
I would hate to I would hate to fall in love and have to stay in this.
And how? Yeah.
The worst thing that could ever happen.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah. Well, good luck.
But also play on love.
I never do.
So how hard can be?
Well, I never leave my house.
So it's pretty easy.
Uh huh.
But, you know, you need money to move.
So that's a problem.
You do need money to move.
So I got to figure that out and then.
Maybe. But yeah.
Just don't take any of your stuff.
Just go by yourself.
Skip. No, I'm taking the animals.
I'm taking my bajillion posters and my game.
Cricket in charge of your apartment.
I can't afford this apartment and another one.
Good.
It's true. OK.
Well, speaking of never falling in love with anybody.
Yeah, yeah. That's a bad idea.
Uh huh.
Should we talk about skip feet?
Let's do it.
OK.
Dange 13.
No, well, first, I'm going to give you a.
Oh, right.
Actor. Beep, beep, beep, beep, our favorite.
Voice actor.
Everyone's favorite segment.
I insist upon doing every time.
The voice actor for Shofua is Mamoru Miano.
It sounds like such a cute name.
Yes, who is known, who has played
characters such as Light Yagami and Death Note.
Oh, damn.
That's right.
And also has played
Ritara Okabe in Steins Gate. That's the main character in Steins Gate.
OK.
Also appears to be the main character
Ozamu Dazai in Bungou's Three Dogs.
I've never really watched that.
I've never seen that, but people like that.
Yeah, that's a bunch of pretty boys in it.
Got pretty boys.
Play somebody named Kuro Sakuragawa
in Inspector.
Oh, I just started watching that like two days ago.
I watched the first episode.
Yeah, it's kind of a weird ass.
I thought it was going to be cute and romantic, but now it's kind of like.
Here you are. Weird.
What's what?
Anyways, continue.
He plays Celian, Celian, Dent.
It's either a character named Celian or a character named Dent in Pokemon,
which is the like those. There's like three of those like triplets
that are different colors, and that's the green one.
OK, playing all three triplets.
No, he plays that one.
I think that's one that goes with Ash
because he's in 137 episodes.
OK, he's one of the partners.
Yeah, he must be one of the partners.
The green guy. I remember I played.
It's like an X and Y, maybe or black and white.
I have no idea.
I guess. Also plays Taichi,
Mashima and Chihara Furu.
We love Taichi.
Yeah, he's so gorgeous.
We've got to watch that.
Maybe we should watch that next.
That's streaming for sure.
It's so good.
Plays Ryuji in Persona 5.
Royal and maybe just regular scroll down further.
Yeah. Well, this is a Ryuji stuff.
I have a dynamic range because some of them are like.
Soft characters and then so and stuff is like grumpy, angry,
bratty characters.
Mm hmm.
He's an Ignis in Final Fantasy 15.
Well, you don't play that in Japanese.
I mean, you're going. What is that?
It's like 15.
Is he the guy?
Ignis is the camera guy.
No, he's the he's the chef guy, right?
Which one is he?
He's like the fancy guy.
15 is where you're like the boys and you like go.
Oh, right. That's right.
The guy with glasses.
I think he's the guy with glasses.
OK, I played like an hour of that.
But OK, I see.
I was like, the names have some familiar.
Yeah, I played that game and I remember almost none of it.
Just another proudie dude as your protagonist, like.
We have already done cloud.
Let's like move on to something new, please.
And he's also Trollo in Hunter, Hunter,
who I think is like one of the big bads.
OK, anyway, dude's in a lot of stuff.
Yeah, plays a lot of boys.
Hmm. Anyway.
Oh, he's Ling in full metal
out of his brotherhood. Oh, Ling's cool.
Ling's great. Yeah.
Anyway, proficient.
Oh, my God, he's someone to double a Gundam double.
Oh, I haven't seen that one.
So I don't know who that is and nobody likes that Gundam.
But. Oh, yeah.
Anyway, OK, I'll stop.
Look, guys, so much stuff.
Holy crap. OK.
All right. Anyway,
she's getting me stage 13.
Stage 13 is called the battle girls.
We open on the commercial audition.
The director sprawled out on a couch,
props his feet up on a pile of money
that Erica used to bribe the others,
telling them to get this scrap away from him.
And then he says to that while they're at it,
they should tell Erica that he doesn't sell his talents cheaply
because he is extremely over the top about everything.
Erica takes the news that her bribe isn't going to work very poorly
and tells Moko that she'll just beat her with her superior talent.
And Moko tells her to bring it on.
For the next round, they have to draw lots to decide the audition order.
Kyoko is freaking out because she's sure she's going to draw a blank lot
and thus be eliminated.
And Moko is like, what are you talking about?
None of the lots are blank.
Stop being weird.
And then she pulls up the last two and they read 3A and 3B,
which is confusing to them.
The audition starts again and the director named
Ushio Kurosaki is introduced.
Kurosaki, Moko, what?
Yay, Kurosaki, like Ichigo.
Yeah, I like Ichigo.
I can't take it.
I was not when I, by the way, I did buy a bunch of Blue Rays,
anime Blue Rays recently.
A bleach for the best arc ever.
I got all the way through the Soul Society and Bleach,
which is only the first three volumes are like.
Season two and three are when they're in the Soul Society.
The first one is light.
The second one is red and then the third one is blue,
or at least the copies that I had.
Why didn't I keep those?
OK, yeah.
Why are you?
You know so much about this and you're acting like me,
saying it's like one of the best arcs ever is done.
I just didn't expect it from you.
I agree. It's a good arc.
It's because I have good opinions.
Yes, I have opinions.
Kurosaki sees Moko and Kiyoko in their outfits
and finds it very amusing.
And they both think he looks like a mobster,
like he's in the Yakuza or something.
The director makes a speech about how his commercials
are a work of art and they need to be impactful.
So he thinks of them as like making a quick drama
more than making an ad, which I don't, you know,
I watch Mad Men. I don't really know if I agree.
He explains that there will be two actresses
and they will be judged as a pair.
He says that for the audition,
they will have to do a scene where the two actresses
are going to have a fight between two close friends
over a guy for 60 seconds.
They all have 20 minutes to prepare.
Erika's pissed that it's going to be a duo now
because that means even if she does well,
her partner could blow it for her.
She protests that Moko and Kiyoko
being able to work together is unfair
because they're coworkers and probably already friends,
so their performance is going to have an advantage.
Kiyoko responds that although they are coworkers
and she considers the two of them friends,
Moko just started talking to her today.
So any friendship is totally one sided.
And Erika's like, what are you saying?
You guys are wearing matching outfits.
And Kiyoko's like, yeah,
we're wearing matching outfits.
Are you jealous?
And the director's like, all right,
we'll just make them redraw lots or whatever.
And Moko protests saying that she wants to stay
paired with Kiyoko and they'll just do their audition
without any preparation.
They'll just wing it.
Kiyoko's freaking out because she would actually like
to prepare something instead of wing it,
but she just has to sit in a room by herself
until their turn instead.
The director thinks this is a bold gambit
because only the talented and lucky are able to make it.
So I guess we'll see if they have those things.
We cut to the audition.
Erika just finished her audition trial
and the judges are impressed about how well she can argue.
Now it's Moko and Kiyoko's turn.
Kiyoko has no idea how she's supposed to play the scene
at all and Moko just tells her to just react
to what she's doing.
The clock starts under 60 seconds
and Moko and Kiyoko just stare at each other.
Kiyoko wonders if she's supposed to do something.
When all of a sudden Moko walks over
and slaps her across the face,
Kiyoko thinks to herself that she should slap Moko back,
but then she looks at Moko who is regretfully crying.
She falls to her knees and Kiyoko decides to apologize
to her instead and the scene ends.
The director is shocked.
Shocked.
He's shocked.
Moko then stands back up and thanks them all,
ending the scene.
One of the judge comments that they still had more time
and then the other actresses comment
that the scene was genius because they conveyed
both the anger of the argument and the strength
of their relationship all in a few moments.
We jump ahead to later in the audition.
Apparently there's another round
where the opposite partner has to lead a scene
where the two of them make up.
So everybody's preparing for that.
Moko thinks that with the performance she just gave,
she probably has got like a 50-50 shot
depending on how well this next part goes.
Then she thinks back to Kiyoko apologizing to her
after their performance for only thinking of the one line
to say when she's like, sorry.
Moko says that's what she wanted and maybe she had
just trusted Kiyoko to respond that way
because she had so much faith in her.
Erica comes over to taunt the two of them saying
that they have no creative ability
or ability to express themselves.
Kiyoko's in a different room, so Moko defends her in her stead.
She says that Kiyoko was cut from a different cloth
and she has no idea what she's going to do in the next round
because there's something wrong with her.
Erica's like, what does that even mean?
That's not even a compliment.
Also, why are you so calm when I insult you
but then you get all angry when I insult Kiyoko?
Elsewhere, Kiyoko is by herself
because she is not allowed to prepare with Moko.
She wonders how she's going to act in the next scene
because in real life, if she was fighting over a boy
with her friend, she would just give up
because she's already resolved to give up on love.
So instead, she just starts role-playing,
having a best friend with a folding chair
that she's sitting in.
It's so funny.
Erica, it's very funny.
She just starts to drink this.
Like she's prolly king with folding chairs.
So good.
Erica's been spying on her and she thinks that it's true,
that there is something wrong with her.
She sees her prolly king with a chair.
Kiyoko thinks about how she wants to be friends with Moko
and how impressive she was in the last round.
She wonders what she should do
because she has to lead this time.
We cut to the director talking with the other judges,
while walking down the hall.
They all think Erica and Moko are the strongest contenders
but the director thinks that Kiyoko
may still have some talent to show off.
He walks in on Kiyoko who's examining the drinks
for the ad as she wonders if she'll be able to drink it
because it's carbonating.
She doesn't really like carbonated stuff.
He tells her that she better like drinking it
because if she can't drink the product,
then she can't be in the ad.
Kiyoko decides that she'll drink it
like her life depends on it in the next scene
and Erica overhears this and decides to steal that
for her performance.
The audition starts.
Kiyoko is freaking out because she told the director
part of her routine without thinking about it
so won't be a surprise anymore.
Maybe she should do something else, I don't know.
Moko sees her freaking out and gets angry
because she thinks that she's gonna like blow it.
She's like, did you not come up with anything?
Erica begins her scene by requesting a bottle of the soda.
Her and her partner act out a bizarre scene
where one of them sings and the other one dances.
Like the director's in new it so I guess it's fine.
Artistic. Art...
It was very weird.
I was watching this and I'm like, what is happening?
It looks better in the manga than in the...
I'm sure it did.
The director was into it though.
So I guess it's fine.
Then she drinks some of the soda
and hands it to the other signifying
their mended relationship.
The director is impressed that they incorporated
the product so well into their audition.
It's Moko and Kiyoko's turn.
Kiyoko walks out like a zombie and tells Moko
that she was planning on doing the same thing.
The director seems to realize that Erica stole her routine
because he saw her hanging out outside of Kiyoko's room
before he like went in to talk to her.
Moko tries to think of something to say
when the director's like, so you guys gonna start
or what, but she sees Kiyoko with some newly
founded fiery resolve as we cut the credits.
What's it gonna be?
She got her ax stolen.
Yeah, that bitch.
That's rude.
I know.
And the director knew it happened
and then didn't say anything.
Well, in the manga, it makes it more clear
that she like saw what she was planning
because in this, it just shows her seeing her holding the drinks
but not really talking about what her plan was.
But in the manga, it's much more clear
that she's hopping off Kiyoko.
There's kind of a lot of cutting.
Yeah, this I feel like this is it is a hard one to summarize.
I mean, even the manga, I think the manga works better
because then because there's so much happening in each scene.
But you're reading it at your own leisure.
So everything happening versus the anime
where it's all moving on and maybe you don't catch everything.
Yeah, this is quite the action packed.
There's always something happening.
Yeah, it is very funny that the Moko just slaps Kiyoko
out of nowhere, basically.
Well, it's like no one's going to have it.
Kiyoko did to her the fall the previous day
when she was all like, what am I supposed to do?
Money can't buy talent, blah, blah, blah.
And then Kiyoko slapped.
It's true.
So I'm assuming that might have been some inspiration for it.
That does echo it very nicely.
All right, should I roll to the next one?
Or do we have a guess that we should just like the next two episodes
are like a pair?
Yep, yep, yep.
Stage 14 is called The Secret Stamp Book.
We open on the director asking the two if they have anything prepared or not.
Moko starts to stammer, but Kiyoko says it's OK.
They're ready.
Kiyoko, radiating with rage, asks for the soda as the OP plays.
We return with Kiyoko holding both a can and a bottle of the soda.
Moko is like, what the heck?
We are sharing.
Like we're going to we're going to each have our own.
Kiyoko hands her the bottle and tells her to follow her lead.
The scene starts and Kiyoko sprays the can all over Moko.
Everybody is shocked because they're supposed to be like making up in the scene,
but it kind of feels like they're not if she's spraying the other one with it.
Kiyoko makes a serious face and gestures at her cheek and then says,
that's for slapping me.
Moko is impressed that she's able to like come up with that,
but doesn't really know how to react to that.
But then Kiyoko's face lightens and she says, just kidding.
Ha, I bet you thought I was serious.
Moko pieces together what she's supposed to do and is like, oh, you tricked me.
And then she tries to spray Kiyoko with her bottle,
but instead of it like spraying it, it kind of just blows up in her hand instead.
And she like, yelps.
Kiyoko has to try to stop herself from laughing at seeing Moko all flustered.
And Moko seeing Kiyoko almost laughing causes her to laugh.
And then everybody starts laughing.
Moko gets back in character and then asks Kiyoko if she will forgive her.
And Kiyoko holds up the can so they can bump their sodas together.
Like a cheer.
And then they both take a sip, like a cheer.
And then Moko ends the scene by saying, thank you.
The scene ends and Erica is stunned.
The other girl's comment that Erica's scene also ended with her saying, thank you.
But when Moko said it, it had more emotion.
So like get wrecked.
So that's right.
While this is happening, Moko and Kiyoko have to clean up all the soda
they sprayed everywhere, which I thought was pretty funny.
Yeah, it was good.
We cut to the judges room.
The judges are impressed that Kiyoko and Moko,
even though they're like, Moko was better.
The director thinks to himself that Kiyoko had to think of all of that
entire routine and like a matter of seconds, which is way more impressive
than anything else that happened.
Yeah.
But I guess the other judges don't know that.
Now they're kind of sucky judges.
They're kind of, yeah, they kind of, I mean, these are all guys that
were like just going to get bribed at the beginning.
Another judge comments is that he was surprised when Kiyoko asked for two sodas
and then immediately started shaking them both.
But I guess she had the whole thing planned out then.
We cut to Kiyoko, who's happy that her and Moko are friends now.
Moko is like resistant to saying that the results like, so being like, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, we're friends or whatever.
But also the results aren't posted yet.
So maybe you should just like relax.
Kiyoko says that Moko made it for sure.
And Moko comments that she's not the only one, like you also did very well.
The results are posted and Moko and Kiyoko got it.
So good for them.
The director asks Kiyoko to talk for a little bit as Erika looks at Moko and
thinks how she's been beaten by her twice now.
We cut to Moko and Kiyoko walking home.
Moko asks her what the director wanted to talk about.
And Kiyoko says that she, that he was asking if she planned the whole thing
with the can exploding more than the bottle.
Because, you know, cans explode more than bottles.
Moko realizes that Kiyoko intentionally handed her the bottle for that exact reason.
So like hers would spray more and hers would spray less.
Kiyoko is like, yeah, you know, right?
Like we all know this.
This is common knowledge about sodas exploding.
And Moko is both impressed and weary of her.
We got to cut to the director as he thinks that Kiyoko might just be the real deal.
We jump back to Kiyoko who's excited to be downtown with a girlfriend
because she never had any girlfriends in high school.
Moko thinks that she was the same way, but she doesn't say it.
Nearby Erica has disguised her butlers as like random dudes
to try to pull like an insurance fraud scam against Moko,
but it doesn't, it doesn't work.
There's more in the manga.
A lot more seems dedicated to them trying to interfere
and getting.
Oh, like cartoon hygiene.
This is the most like cartoon hygiene since been going on so far.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Kiyoko tries to play act being high school friends of Moko being like,
Oh, don't you think this dress would look good on you?
Blah, blah, blah.
Moko's like, stop doing that.
Like old me friends who act like that are shallow and fake and they talk to you.
Like they talk about you behind your back.
And Kiyoko was like, wow, did all of your friends do that growing up Moko?
And Moko was like, yes.
And Kiyoko says that that would make her her first true friend.
Isn't that great?
They get ice cream and Moko gets mint chocolate chip because she's the best.
It's such a good flavor.
She doesn't want to eat it though because it's high calorie,
but she does anyway and then she's mad about it.
Kiyoko gets some kind of like pink ice cream.
I don't even know what this would be like bubblegum, I guess.
Yeah, maybe.
Too strawberry.
Too bright to be strawberry.
You know, Sherbert.
I guess.
Let's not let's let's not dwell on it.
Unimportant.
Think about what kind of ice cream Kiyoko would eat.
Kiyoko says that things are better when you're doing them with people that you
love.
It's just like magic, huh, Moko?
Like we're hanging out.
It's so great and the ice cream tasted better and it's all good.
She gets her playful shove just in time to avoid some kind of attack or
something that Erica does.
Yeah, this is not clear in the manga either.
Or I guess like they don't show Erica appearing before.
Before being shoved like she, I guess, tried to make a go at Moko, but since
Kiyoko was trying to shove Moko playfully, she ended up pushing Erica into the
fountain and she's holding like a mannequin or something.
She's holding a mannequin.
It's very weird.
I mean, she's hiding behind like basically a Colonel Sanders like mannequin.
It's all it's all very odd.
I don't know. The main point is that Erica ends up in the fountain, but then
she gets up and she's not wet at all.
So maybe this didn't happen.
And she says that if she ruins Moko's face that she can't be in the commercial
and Moko's like, are you serious?
You're going to like physically assault me for beating you in a kind of like a
audition.
And then she's like, you know what your problem is, Erica?
You never give things your all.
You always take shortcuts.
You need to do everything in your power to accomplish your goals, not just like
rely on bribery or whatever, which is a thing that or which is echoing the thing
that Kyouko told Moko a couple episodes, which also echoes the thing that chef boss
told Kyouko many episodes ago.
So there we go.
Chef boss MVP.
Then Moko tells Erica that she's from an upper class and only if she decides
that to like to give things her all by actually like stooping to her level and
like trying and like, you know, getting your hands dirty and like, you know,
putting in the work.
Then she will think of her as her rival.
Erica says that she will give it her all and then Moko and that Moko will be eating
those words and Moko gives a small smile being like, okay, let's see.
Let's see if you've got it, kid.
We cut to Moko and Kyouko riding the bus home and Kyouko gushes over how cool Moko
was for calling her out like that.
She's like, you even said the stuff I said to you before.
Moko's like, yeah, yeah, very, you know, good lines or whatever.
Kyouko says, this is great.
It's kind of like being best friends, right?
Moko's like, wait, kind of.
You just told me you were my first true friend like 15 minutes ago.
And then she turns to like complain about that.
And then she finds that Kyouko is asleep in her sleep.
She mumbles that her and Moko should give it their all at the commercial and Moko
thinks that Kyouko is a trustworthy partner and she gives her a 100 point stamp
because I guess they can give each other stamps.
I know.
It's a little weird.
Yeah.
It's wrecking the system.
Like you can tell their stamps constantly.
They're just be giving each other stamps.
We cut to Moko and Kyouko wearing what looks like schoolgirl uniforms as they
frolic around a field like playfully because they're filming the commercial.
Director Lori, Maria, Yashiro and Ren are also there for some reason.
And Maria decides to talk Kyouko up to Ren because she's like, you know, a good wingman.
They break for the day and Kyouko hangs out with Maria.
Maria explains that Lori invited Ren to the commercial shoot because he was
filming something nearby.
So he was like right over there.
Kyouko thinks that she is disappointed that she didn't get to tell Ren that she got
accepted into a commercial.
But then she's like, wait a minute, I'm not disappointed.
I'm avoiding that guy.
Why would I be disappointed about that?
Moko gets out of the dress in her love me uniform.
She teases Kyouko for still wearing her high school uniform.
She's like, oh, you want to live out the fantasy of being in high school a little bit longer?
Kyouko gets embarrassed and goes to change.
And Maria asks Moko why she would want to wear the uniform.
And she says that Kyouko dropped out of high school.
So she probably is like a little envious of regular high schoolers.
We see Kyouko in the band saying that she's happy to get a little taste of what being a high schooler is like.
And that she's going to give it 110% as we cut it to credits.
Commercial arc over.
Yeah, it's a short little one.
I feel like it was more dramatic in the manga.
So I really like it in the manga.
It was fine here.
It just feels short.
What was more dramatic about it?
No, I mean, I feel like manga can just be more dramatic with the all the little effects they use or like the quality of the art.
Are they like linger on things more or give it more context?
I feel like this was pretty good.
Like I was pretty dramatic when like her her scene got scooped and then she had to come up with a new one.
And I'm like, oh, what's she going to do?
What would I do?
I don't know what I would do.
Moko and Kyouko are friends now.
I think it's a good idea to get some setup for Kyouko wanting to go to high school, which is about to be relevant.
Yeah, it's good.
Next one is kind of a abrupt change of pace.
Yeah, more of our terms of like the pacing of stuff.
I mean, again, like I like this kind of arc because it's about like women's relationship with each other.
Yeah, yes.
Not everything revolves around a dude or.
Yeah, it's also about like trust and being like a team and stuff like that.
I know that's why like sometimes it feels like a sports anime in regards to the acting bits.
So that's fun.
We're ability is a thing that is highlighted.
Give that a lot and show Joe.
I mean, it does seem like Kyouko is obviously very talented, right?
Like she has able to do this stuff.
But it's all a little bit more like creative piece that she's doing.
You know what I mean?
Like it's the creativity piece that she's good at, right?
Yeah, like not just doing what's expected.
Right. But it's not even like, you know, how it's not like she has like a lot of
it doesn't have like a formal training.
She's not like a lot of good like fundamentals in the way that, you know,
Moko might in terms of like, oh, you can like raw talent, script real good.
Yeah.
She's not like informed by industry standards.
It's just her, her perspectives affecting the way she acts and not.
She studied the best ways to do it.
Yeah.
It's almost like it's, it's based on like understanding, right?
Like the thing that's impressive about her acting or whatever it's like the
scene itself conveys a lot of information in a lot of ways.
It's not so much that like she, like, you know, her like facial expressions or
whatever are, I mean, they are, but that's not like the main focus in the way
that it is for like Moko.
Yeah.
And she was like, oh, you were able to like get the sense of what being friends
is like while incorporating soda product placement.
And that's just good.
I like that.
Yes, it is good.
It's good stuff.
It's a good way of like showing that she is different than other people,
but in like, in a way that is still applicable to like the task in hand, right?
Yeah.
Yep.
Anything else or should go to the next little mini thing?
Stage 15.
Stage 15 is called together in the minefield.
These are such weird titles, man.
They are pretty weird.
It seems like something cooler is going to happen than what happens.
I mean, like, you know, what happens is fine.
But, you know, the last one was called the secret stamp.
Yeah, lame.
Which I guess is just because Moko gives her a stamp at the end of it.
Dope it.
Dumb.
Does, does Kyouko need to give Moko a stamp also?
Like does she also have a stamp book she needs to be doing?
She should have one.
We just never see her with one.
Sure.
We don't see her do any love me work.
That's your fuses to be a member of the love me section.
Together in the minefield,
we open on Ren getting a phone call from his department head telling him that
Yashiro is sick.
So instead he's asked Kyouko to fill in,
even though Ren probably doesn't need a temp or anything.
It's just a light shadow for the position for the future.
Ren hangs up the phone in size as we see Kyouko standing behind him as the OP plays.
After the OP we jump back to them and Ren tells Kyouko that she can go home
because she can't really help him with anything anyways.
She gets annoyed and says that she can be his manager under her breath
and Ren hears this and he gives this nice fake smile and says,
oh yeah, well if you insist I guess you can work hard for me then.
Cause he's a little shit.
President Lori swings by to talk to the department head who informs him that Kyouko will be acting as Ren's manager today.
He seems bummed because clearly he wanted to like talk to her or like give her a request or something.
So the department head gives him her phone number now because she has a phone now.
So I guess she just recently got a phone for the first time.
Ren has an interview and Kyouko complains that he, that she hasn't gotten to do any managerial stuff all morning.
She's just been like standing near him.
She figures that she'll get to do more stuff this evening because so far all she's done is like manage his calendar a little bit.
However, as the day goes on we get a montage of Kyouko as the manager where Ren won't let her carry her bag.
He will carry his own bag.
Two, he will shield her from his mob of fans.
And three, he will apologize for her when she like knocks some stuff over on set.
So basically he's like taking care of her instead of the other way around.
At the end of this montage Kyouko hears some girls gossip about how jealous they are that Kyouko gets to be Ren's temp manager.
But Kyouko just kind of feels like a failure like she hasn't done any managerial stuff at all.
Later that evening while driving home she notices that he's very tense.
So Kyouko apologizes to Ren for taking the job of manager so lightly.
Ren's like, I'm not mad about that, but Kyouko still thinks he is.
Kyouko's stomach starts to rumble and Ren says that they should stop and eat since they like have time and they haven't like eaten all day I guess he just noticed.
Kyouko thinks back to another time when Ren insisted that he wasn't angry and she thinks that maybe he's just that way.
Or like maybe he's just angry about something else all the time.
I don't know something's going on with that guy.
Ren asks what she wants to eat and she says anything is fine.
So Ren decides on boiled frog legs as they drive off.
Fried.
I feel like fried frog legs.
I've had fried frog legs before.
Boiled.
Boiled doesn't sound right.
That doesn't sound right.
It doesn't sound right.
You just went off end of a bag.
Stop Besidesang.
Now one time.
I don't know if you remember there was a girl whose an Danish and their school.
But I knew her from my Girl Scout troop I think as a kid.
I went to sleep over her house once and her parents had made frog legs for dinner.
So I didn't want to pick me up.
You ran away.
Oh, man, it scared me.
Oh, man. Wow.
Embarrassing for you.
I used to have like I would live.
I went to like sleep over at friends house, literally on the same street.
A few houses down and I would still be like home sick.
So I just walk myself home before going to bed.
Oh, a wussy kid back then in some way, regards.
It's a record back then.
Well, I feel like I was also bossy and a strong willed child.
But I think I was also very attached to my mom as a kid.
Like, like when I first moved to Texas and I had to go to second grade,
I think I was like crying as my mom left me on the first day of school.
Oh, that's sad.
Yeah. So, yeah.
And take your kids to daycare so they get used to being away from you.
Don't just drop them off at school and hope it goes well.
Anyways, back to skip anyway.
We come back to the acting department where the department head explains
that rent is pretty self-sufficient.
So Kyoko was mainly assigned to these managers so that like
Ren remembers to eat food and stuff.
He figures that if he's assigned a girl to be his tent manager,
then Ren wouldn't let her eat alone.
So he would join in too.
We come back to Kyoko and Ren.
They got hamburger steak instead because Ren was just joking about the frogwags.
Kyoko loves hamburgers and goes on about it for like a while.
It looks really good.
Actually, I've never had a burger before.
I've had a burger.
But I'm good.
I don't know what hamburger steak is.
How is that?
It's just like eating a hamburger patty as if it was steak.
OK, yeah. OK.
Ren remembers the past where Kyoko as like a little girl also loved hamburgers
because they were childhood friends, but only he knows.
Ren gives her an overly warm look and Kyoko doesn't know how to take it.
Nearby, some high school girls gossip about how the guy over there might be
Ren Saruga, but that girl he's with looks like some weirdo with her jumpsuit.
And isn't she around the same age as us?
Shouldn't she be in high school?
I guess she's a dropout and Kyoko gets pissed in her anger, shakes the earth
as she thinks about it.
It wasn't for show.
Then she would be a second year right now.
Yeah. And the manga, it's more like they reference her being like,
oh, is she like on a date with a sugar daddy kind of thing?
And like, oh, you'd be way more effective to be in a high school outfit
rather than that, if that's what you're trying to accomplish.
So a bit more shade thrown in the manga.
Yeah, a bit more like, oh, you're like trying to court pedophiles, huh?
Well, he is a labeled child predator in like episode five or whatever.
Yeah. And Maria is like a fantasy.
Let's see.
They leave and while driving, Ren asks her if she isn't in high school because of show.
Kyoko says that she was just a stepping stone for his career.
So now she's going to become a bigger star than him and force him to say that he was wrong.
Ren says that he sure she has her reasons, but as a fellow actor,
it's kind of upsetting that that's her motivation for like trying to become an actor.
Kyoko gets a phone call from President Laurie and he yells at her
because she's been trying to call her all day, but she's never had a phone before.
So she's like, does it know how to turn on the ringer?
I guess he tells her that he got her into high school
that alliterated she passes the entrance exam.
Kyoko is excited and says that she'll take the exam.
She's ready to go to high school.
She's ready to go to high school, which kind of seems like a step down for being in the entertainment industry.
But you know, I don't know.
Ren gets his makeup done for some appearance of all Kyoko starts studying.
We learned that her mother was insane and had like crazy expectations
and would only consider a 100% and acceptable grade.
As such, Kyoko was constantly told that she was an idiot, even though she was getting like A's on stuff.
While on set, Kyoko notices Ren clearing his throat a lot.
In the break room, she confronts him saying that he's been putting cream and sugar in his tea because he has a sore throat.
And he has a sore throat because he has a cold and Ren is like, come on.
I'm not like coughing or running a fever or anything. I'm fine.
And Kyoko insists and Ren says that if he wakes up tomorrow with more symptoms, then he'll say he has a cold.
But Kyoko thinks it'll be too late by then, but he just kind of walks off.
So we cut to the next morning.
Ren has a temperature of 101 degrees.
Ren is embarrassed and wonders how he could have gotten sick and Kyoko tells him that the department head told her that she got assigned to him
to make sure that he like eats and just like basically takes care of himself.
Then she calls him a failure as professional for not even being able to do that.
Ren is dismayed and Kyoko scolds him for not doing basic stuff.
Ren apologizes to Kyoko telling her that he should have just listened to her.
She thinks that he's actually very genuine and mature towards her, even though he doesn't like her acting motivations.
Then she realizes that the reason he's been so hostile to her up to this point is because he didn't like her motivations.
And maybe like it was all just a misunderstanding. Like he just didn't get why she was bad.
Ren still goes to set while sick.
Kyoko notices that there's a tanker there because they're going to film a scene in the fake rain.
So they got to like spray water all over everybody.
Kyoko is like, hey, Ren, being soaking wet is going to make your cold worse.
And Ren says that it can't be helped because the fake rain was his idea.
They shoot the scene, but Ren's co-star keeps messing up her lines and they have to keep doing a bunch of takes.
The director is like, ah, maybe we should just call for a break, but Ren says they don't have time.
He very sweetly encourages his co-star that she'll get it soon if she just relaxes.
Eventually they get the shot.
We got to Ren's dressing room where we see he has physically collapsed on top of Kyoko.
She wonders what she's going to do as we cut to credits.
Scandal.
What a crazy cut.
She's like, ah, yes.
He collapsed on you.
That must have hurt.
We don't even see it in action.
He's like a big guy.
Yeah, he's like huge.
Because I think she's, well, I feel like in the manga, they say he's like six, five or something.
Oh my God. He's so tall.
Yeah. Which is very not the typical height in Japan.
No.
You should have been in the NBA. What's he doing in action?
I don't know. That's why he's number one. I don't know.
I feel like I never see an anime then talking about liking tall guys.
That's not really a thing that they mentioned.
So far, if I think about boys, if I think about all of the couples and all of the showjoes that we've watched so far, the guy has always been taller.
Yeah. I mean, I was taller than Sawako.
Yeah.
We're taller than Chizu.
Yeah.
Katara is taller than What's Her Face.
Oh no. Tomoyo.
Tomoyo. Yeah, he's taller than Tomoyo.
Every time the guy is always taller.
Well, once we watch Lovely Complex, that'll be the exact opposite because it's the whole thing in the show is that she's super tall and he's super short.
Okay.
Even though she's not that tall.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So, thoughts on this episode.
More about Ren than acting or anything.
More about Ren.
He's totally self-sufficient except for the fact that he doesn't do basic shit for himself.
Yeah.
Well, I can relate to him being like, I can brag that I've never been sick before because I used to be like, I never get sick.
And then you get sick and then, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he is very much like the boyfriend who's good at work but is bad at taking care of himself.
If only there was somebody to help him take care of himself.
Uh-huh.
Which doesn't really seem like Kyoko.
Like, I don't know. Kyoko's not like a caretaker particularly.
So, it's interesting.
Well, she's not. I mean, that's not her personality, but it is her background because she worked with that in the customer and all that crap.
I know she liked doing that though.
It seems like she's kind of annoyed that she would spend her life doing that.
Yes.
But that's instilled in her now.
So, like, Ren, 100% know it's her from the past. Like, he's in flashbacks of it.
So, how do we feel about him not saying anything about that?
Like, is that kind of weird to be like not saying anything about that?
Well, there's a reason.
I mean, if we think about what we know, she called him a different name.
They don't show his face, so surely that means he doesn't look like what he looks like now, and he's going by a different name.
Oh, is he witness protection?
Did you witness a murder?
But anyways, right? He doesn't want her to know it's him.
I hope you witness a murder.
Essentially.
Um, that's not very shojo, is it?
It's not, but he's mysterious. The guy can witness a murder.
Ah, okay.
Women, like, murder? They're all about true crime. What are you talking about?
I guess this was in the past. That was before that became popular.
Uh-huh. Um, maybe he thinks it's death.
Maybe. But yeah, so that's why he hasn't said anything.
He's also supposedly trying to keep his distance from her.
Oh, yeah. They're very bad at that.
Yeah. They're bad at avoiding each other.
I like how he's supposed to be keeping his distance, but Maria's like, hey, you want to go to this commercial shoot?
And he's like, sure, it's Coco's commercial shoot.
Yeah, I know. Um, see, I feel like in the manga they also say, or I don't know if it's in the future in the anime, we'll say this, but, uh,
Moko is also assigned to somebody's assistant manager. So there's an example of her doing love me work.
Oh, I wonder what that's like for her.
I'm sure it's much more professional.
And you don't think she's like knocking shit over on set?
No, no, I don't think so.
I could see her being like behind the stage, like acting out the scene as the scene's happening just by herself.
Oh yeah. She's definitely standing off the side being like, that person sucks.
Yeah, it should be me. Yeah.
Why can't this person remember their lines?
Oh yeah. She wouldn't piss at that lady.
Stop it.
It's so funny to be like, you got it. Like, oh, I'm sick.
Anyway, I got to film this scene where we're just getting blasted with water.
Okay. Also, I feel like what's the anime always talks about being wet and getting a cold? Is that real?
Oh yeah. No, this is a myth.
Okay.
It's a myth that like cold, I mean, cold weather like weakens your immune system.
So like being wet would do that, but like it's not going to be that if you already have a cold, you already have a cold.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, they're always like, make sure you dry your hair so you don't catch a cold and stuff like that.
That also is not true.
I'm like, what is happening? This just happened to me and I'm a human too. So I don't know what.
Yeah. There's a thing about it. Like if you're, if you're like, hair is wet for too long, you can like make you catch a cold or something.
Yeah. No, I definitely, I feel like I sleep better if I go to sleep with my hair wet.
Oh.
It's so good and and that makes my pillow cold because it's damp.
Yeah.
Anyways.
Yeah.
I guess she's dying. You think he's going to die?
He collapsed on top of her.
Again, another guy who's pinned her to the ground in an unromantic way.
Oh, that's right. Just like when she's in a suit.
I guess she was pinning him in that time.
Yeah.
So how do you think, what do you think is going to happen next?
I think she's going to have to nurse him back to health using her domestic skills.
Her domestic skills.
Yeah.
Is he going to like that? Or is he going to keep being mad at her for stuff?
I think we're 100% going to get to like, he's in a fugue state because his temperature is high and he's going to like say stuff about his child.
Like he's going to reveal that he knew her by saying some big cryptic stuff.
Yeah.
And he's going to be like, how did he know this? And then he's not going to say anything because it's a deep dark secret of what he witnessed a murder.
He's a big detective. He cannot talk about this.
That's right. Oh my God. Okay.
That's red facts story now.
How do we feel about Rem and Kyoko at this point? Do we feel like they're like romantic scale?
I think the romantic skills not existent for the most part.
Yeah, they're still on the red.
They have moments. Well, right, even if she has the moments where she's kind of blushy or like moved by what he says, she wouldn't admit that that has anything to do with romance.
She's like, I'm never going to fall in love again and all that. So she'll very much resist.
Well, to a certain extent, I can't really tell like what her, you know, when she's like, oh, I wanted to tell him that I like gotten this commercial as like a, this is the person I am both like trying to like prove myself to.
And also the person that like is I'm aspiring to be because he's more not good show, right? Like that's who she wants to be 100%.
Yep. As opposed to like somebody you admire as like a romantic potential.
I don't think that's that's really there yet. Yeah. Those first two things. Yeah, very much so.
She joined the business show, but is now like rowing and trying because of rent.
Yeah. It's not clear to me what's going on from his perspective. I mean, I guess it's probably really weird for him that this person from his past showed up.
This weirdo girl that he kind of found kind of you know, and he just like to tease and stuff is also someone from his past.
That probably freaks him out some, you know what I mean?
Yes. This big secret. He can't let it be her field.
And there's going to be relocated and changes identity again.
Keiko's going to go to high school. Yeah. Good at school, even though I did not think she would be like so good at school.
She does have kind of a like doofus energy, but no, she's like it's not like she has a lot of potential and a lot of things and just she didn't get to explore those things because of show.
That's true.
So and her mom not acknowledging that her God, what is very good, dude?
I'm so I'm worried that we're not going to have time to get to that part in the anime because like we're already halfway like this has the halfway point.
We only have 10 episodes left.
I guess exploring in the manga.
Oh, I'm sure. But I don't think we're going to get it because like I feel like the anime has to hit the romance stuff, right?
Has to pay off some of that a little bit.
I don't think we're going to get the mom stuff, which is too bad because that seems like the craziest thing that's going on in this show to me.
That's true.
So what?
It gets cute, right?
The dog. Yes.
Yeah. She's so cute.
What?
Why are you asking?
She's in my lap right now. She's so cute.
Oh, okay.
She's grumbling at me because she wanted to sit in my lap.
I see.
Oh, so cute.
Okay.
Well, should we transition to the next section?
Yeah, let's do a recommendation.
Okay.
I don't do you have one?
I do.
Okay, good. You go first.
But I never remember the name correctly, so I got to type it in real quick.
I'm going to recommend a what is classified as a psychological horror drama film.
I saw the TV glow, which is a movie from this year, 2024.
Bye.
Let me pull up some information.
Director Jane Schroenberg.
I don't think I said that right.
This is an 824 distributed film.
It did pretty well in like whatever Sundance Sundance Film Festival, those things, you know, those like things that they do.
Or it's like, this is like a cool artsy film.
It's really interesting.
So it kind of follows this, this kid Owen as he like goes through his life where he as a, I guess like middle schooler and also high school.
Watched a young adult TV show called the Pink Opaque and he bonds with a fellow classmate, Maddie over watching it together.
They're both kind of social outcasts for a variety of reasons.
And so they are able to bond over this TV show.
This TV show is kind of weird.
It's kind of very like, because it's like a 90s throwback thing.
So it's, I haven't seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I feel like a lot of it is from that, but it's also feels kind of like the grassy kind of like other stuff with that nature of like the real like young adult, like teen, teen thing.
The CW.
This movie serves pretty well as like different like genre or like period piece stuff of like the 90s.
And then it also goes to like, you know, he gets older and he gets a job at like a movie theater.
And so like, you know, it goes through all the way through time.
It like goes through his whole life.
But Maddie, who he is bonding over, goes missing at a certain point.
And then she comes back with some very interesting news about this TV show that they watched and it's wild.
I really like this movie a lot.
I think it does a lot of really interesting things with the like questions it kind of asks and how the like allegory of what the pink opaque is going to mean plays along.
And it's very interesting.
It's hard for me to talk about this without like spoiling stuff because I walked into this movie knowing basically nothing.
I walked in this movie because I saw a blue sky post by somebody saying if you like House of Leaves, you would like I saw the TV glow and I'm like, I like House of Leaves, which is a book.
And they were right.
So if you like House of Leaves, you probably will also like I saw the TV glow.
It's cool.
I've never heard of either.
It's a, you never heard of that House of Leaves?
No.
It's a book.
It's cool.
Okay.
I haven't thought about the Minotaur and the Labyrinth.
Not really.
Maybe you should.
Well, I'll also do a, well, I'm going to do a scary movie since it's October.
It's my favorite scary movie ever.
It's part of the Conjuring Universe and it's Annabelle, the one about the doll.
And I don't know when did it come out?
Probably like 2010 or something, but it's so good.
First off, it's set in the 50s.
So everything's cute and quaint and the outfits are nice and the ladies really pretty.
And there's a cute ass baby in it and spooky shits going on.
And it's like really good because it's eerie and there's a few jump scares.
And it's like, there's this one scene that is so freaky where like, like goosebumps kind
of like the scene from this new alien movie with the offspring, but just like humanoid
things that aren't human being really scary.
And then there's a sequel that is even scarier, but I like the first one better.
But the sequel is good too.
And I really like the, was it Lorraine and Ed, the couple that all these stories are based off
because they're like real people who claim to be like, I don't know, exorcist or something.
But in the real story, supposedly, it's like a raggedy and doll that's cursed.
So it's like a cute little doll.
I'm not the creepy ass one that's in the movie.
But yeah, it's really good.
The Conjuring is good as well.
But none is the other one they've made.
And that one wasn't, I didn't like it that much.
So but the Conjuring and Annabelle have both been good series.
Lorraine and Ed Bobbitt.
Nope.
No, Lorraine Bobbitt is not the right.
Okay.
If anyone knows who that is, that's so wrong.
That's not her name.
I think it's the lady who like dismembered her shitty husband and, you know, the most
valued member a dude has to lose.
And what are you talking about?
Sorry, Lorraine and Bobbitt cut off her husband's penis and then threw it out her window.
I know, I piece that together.
Why are we talking about that?
And then the cops found it and they stowed it back.
Okay.
And then I made it back.
So that's why I made it back.
Because I said Lorraine and Bobbitt and that's her name.
I meant Lorraine, whatever.
Warrens.
The Warrens.
That's a couple from the movie.
Anyways.
Yeah.
So that's my recommendation.
Annabelle.
Super good.
Super spooky.
Not like overly gory by any means.
So.
Yeah.
It's just so good.
I was like, I'm not gonna date.
And this other.
Couple that.
We knew thought that my boyfriend was on a date with a different girl because they actually had put like makeup and straightened my hair and stuff.
So.
I think my.
Well, it's incredible.
Because they only saw me at people practice where I'm like grungy is how it grows and.
My hair's like up and pointing tail.
So that was funny.
That's so.
Yeah.
So.
I'm gonna go ahead and do my recommendations.
Now.
We.
Need you.
To do us a solid.
And.
I never know.
It always sounds like you're about to do the whole thing.
No.
No, no, you do it.
Okay.
Here I go.
Maybe.
Cause maybe you find the one doing it.
They'll actually leave reviews.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Okay.
So.
I'm gonna go ahead and do some reviews, which you can do on Apple.
Hot cast.
They mean a lot to us.
It's really helpful to us to read those and hear feedback.
And then.
If you can't be bothered to do that, you can also easily just drop a rating,
which is the stars that you can leave.
So if you give us a five star rating on Apple or Spotify,
it'd be much appreciated.
Oh, Joe.
Um, we are getting feedback on our YouTube videos.
Or I forgot to check those.
So yeah, check out our episodes.
We get some comments there.
Just kind of ask someone's listening to the episodes.
That's like a bunch of comments from a specific person.
But, um, so there you can even leave them on the YouTube channel.
If that's where you listen.
But yeah, we just want to.
Feel like we're not speaking into the void to no one but ourselves.
So it's much appreciated.
That's fine.
If you left us feedback and.
Um, if you enjoy listening to us, do us a solid and leave a rating and review.
Yeah.
That was good.
Okay.
You said the word.
More pleading than normal.
And please.
I'm begging you.
Yeah.
I need some reactions.
That's right.
I need validation.
That's right.
I need microphones to work.
That's right.
Yeah.
We were really, we struggled so much today.
Return this mic and it's going to be annoying to do.
It's so annoying to return things.
I like never return things unless I bought them physically.
The store nearby.
Such a pain in the ass.
But anyways, if you have a microphone recommendation,
that's something you could leave in our reviews too.
But otherwise.
We're going to wrap things up here.
We're both tired from our microphone or audio or deal.
And so yeah, I guess I hope you enjoy this episode.
And we'll get to see more Ren Kyoko action next week.
She can't push him up.
What if she's just like.
Well, she actually has a lot of strength from her anger.
So she can just channel that she could do anything.
You think so?
She might be overwhelmed by having Japan's hottest man on top of her.
Next episode.
Could you be her stuck under Ren the whole time?
It's like a bottle episode, but she's stuck.
What's a bottle episode?
It's an episode of a TV show where they like put everybody in one
place and they're like stuck like they're trapped in a bottle.
It's usually what you do to save money on an episode.
Okay.
That's like the episode of modern family where they're just doing
FaceTime the whole episode.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Well, yeah.
Hope you guys enjoyed.
Remember.
Don't make sure you don't go and water because you'll automatically
catch a cold.
Yeah.
I have that.
Superstitious colds are real.
You can get, you can get the caught and remember to eat food.
Oh yeah.
That's important to life food and go to sleep.
Don't just keep working all day.
Yeah.
Boo.
Gross bed.
Yeah.
All right.
On that note.
To the Lou.
Peace.
Oh, we didn't do our scary ghost stuff.
This.
You're supposed to be a ghost still.
I can be a ghost later.
Okay.
Oh, we're not done.
All right.
Bye.
Oh, I'm going to be in good mood.
Gotta act like I didn't just mess with a microphone for like three hours.
I bought that's expensive and apparently picks up all of the humming of all of the electronics
in my room.
Making it impossible to do anything.
It seems like a big flaw in the device.