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Okay, all right. Yeah, we're starting right now. Welcome,

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show Joe listeners, new and old, like make new friends, but keep the old one.

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Are you in the other school? So what is this talk to my mind? It's like a Girl Scout song.

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So if you're you guys know the drill, if you've been here, if not, I'm Sarah with my friend Joe

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showing him show Joe anime, though, you know, show Joe to Joe, showing Joe Joe Joe Joe.

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Showing it to me. Perfection of an name. And so we're talking about skip beat. We'll be

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wrapping that up soon. Two more two more episodes after this one. Oh yeah. Oh, we said we were,

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wait, no. Was I supposed to watch three episodes this time? Did you not watch three episodes?

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No, I watched three. I wasn't sure. Okay, it was. It's three this time and then two and then two,

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because there's seven. There's seven, not including the ones we watched this time.

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Okay, well, I was supposed to be very disappointed in you. No, I just kind of remember if we

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okay, not that that would be the biggest problem ever. But first, let's catch up. Let's howl around.

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What's up, Joe? You want to talk about your sick Halloween get up from

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the other day? You were like a wizard. My what? You're a wizard in the discord. I went to Ren Fair

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yesterday and I dressed up like a wizard and went there and I well, I was there. I upgraded my belt

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and I got a little belt thing that has it's now I can drink. It was the last day of Ren Fair here

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in Ohio and I went to it. That's fine. I had to affair and then it was like with people. I didn't

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know that well. So it's like, I don't want to take forever looking at every stall. So I didn't look at

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them any things. If I was alone, I just would have been there all day looking at the things to buy.

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That is mostly what you do. I had a lot of drinks also because you know,

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hammered wizard. That's right. I'm there. It was good. Watch some people juggle some fire.

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Is that going to be your next endeavor? No. No. I don't have any desire to juggle fire.

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You call yourself a wizard. Do they perform? Do they do performances like that?

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Well, I would just make the fire and juggle itself. Cricket, I can't with you right now.

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Oh, she wants to get on the desk. Cricket, I'm recording right now. Leave me alone.

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Yeah. So wizards, you know, I've been reading a Wizard of Earth, so I finished the second

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through the third book. Oh, yeah. Are there? There's like six or seven, something like that.

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So I'm like halfway through all of them. Right. Yeah, they're pretty short. This one took forever

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to read because I didn't like it that much. So I was really slow and it was, it took a long time.

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Dang, this one you talk about gender roles or anything. It super did not. It's more about like,

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oh man, everything in Earthsea sucks. If only we had some young kid become the promised king,

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we all wanted everything would be good. And it's like, and then he does that.

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Kind of, kind of, but not even in like a cool way. Oh, he doesn't even get to have like a

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cool sword fight or anything. It's very much like about some wizards have been going off trying to

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like obtain immortality. And by doing that, they have like cut themselves and the world off from

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their connection to magic. So like magic is fading in the realms. The wizard Ged has to go help

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with the help of a young prince to go solve it. And it is really drags. I don't know.

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How old is Ged at this point? He's book one. Oh, he's an old man. Yeah. Yeah. He's like,

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he's like, it is 60 or something. He's like, yeah, yeah. Elder statesman Ged. And he gives,

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he gives, he gives some speeches about the world and how you should not intervene in things and

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just let them play themselves out, which doesn't really match what they do in the book, particularly.

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But I guess that's our words of wisdom from Ged. Ged sucks as an old man is what I'm saying.

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I don't like old Ged. He's boring. Yeah. Maybe he's just a smidge of the memory loss or no.

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Nope. He's just, he's just an old guy now who's just lame. Okay. Doesn't take any risks. Doesn't

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care about anything. Yeah. Gonna be a grumpy old man. No, I'm gonna be awesome. No. Why do you

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think, do you think I'm going to be that? I think people are going to think you're going to be like

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that just because I imagine your voice, but old like, geez kids. Uh huh. Is that what I sound like?

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Oh, yeah. I know. I don't know. Nothing you say sounds like that. It's just that your voice sounds

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like that. But my voice doesn't sound like that. Well, I'm gay. Anyway, how long have we been friends?

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Like how long have we been friends, Sarah? Like 12, 13 years or something. Well, 13 years. You know,

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most of my friends, uh, aren't scared of my voice after 12 or 13 years.

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Most of the time they just realize that this is just how my voice sounds and they're not like,

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Oh, I'm so angry about everything. But that's because your other friends don't annoy you like I do.

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It's true. Most of my friends don't get me to get in Boulder's gate and then decide to play with

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the other people. No, I know. Abandoning me. I can't believe this. I haven't. I haven't though.

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Oh, you like spent so much time playing by myself to play it and then you just start

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playing with other people like it doesn't even matter. Like our play through. Just because

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the children hate me when our play through. I mean, you have to abandon the entire run. Okay.

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We'll put them back. It's fine. Or we'll just kill them all with the goblin.

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Um, yeah, that's an option. Maybe the redemption. I certainly don't because we haven't played it.

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Because you're going to play dragon, dragon age of veil guard or whatever. Yes, I am. I am going

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to do that. Um, well, it's like been weird. Like I don't have anything to play this week until it

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comes out and I didn't start any new play throughs. I was just thinking it'd be fun to have a four

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person run at some point because I feel like then there's lots of banter and stuff, but

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we can still play ours too. I mean, it will be fun. It's just going to be a

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super hard time organizing to be able to play at the same time. Can you imagine?

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Yeah, I know. It's going to be. We're going to have to listen. Journey.

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You have to be okay with putting dates on calendars. Okay. It's not going to work unless

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you put dates on calendars and times to play on calendars. You got to be able to stick to a

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schedule or else it's never going to happen. Okay. Every time I'm like, we should schedule the next

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time we play ballers game three, you're like, I don't want to do schedules. Let's just do it

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whenever. And then we never do it. Okay. See if there's more people that have expectations of me.

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Okay. Because we've been friends for so long, you know, longer feet that feel the need to

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impress me. You could just let me know what's possible. Yeah. Yeah. This is what my voice

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sounds like this when I talk to you. Oh my God. Anyway, what have you been doing, Sarah?

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Okay. So last night, I just finished all of Windbreaker that's out, which is only

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13 episodes. It's that one that Jenny was saying I should try because it's got a bunch of hot

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dudes fighting. So I did. It's like, Oh, the one she told me I wouldn't like.

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It's fine. I don't know. I don't think you'll like super hate it, but I don't think you'll love it

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either. Like I like the because I write I also watched like most of season one of Blue Lock,

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which is that soccer, that weird ass soccer one, which apparently the animation plummets and

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quality in season two. And there was already parts of this one that I was like,

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but I because I like God, I didn't like the protagonist of that one. So by comparison,

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the guy soccer from Windbreaker is way more likeable because he's like a delinquent that

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everyone's been scared of. So anyone anytime someone compliments him, he gets all blushy and

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that's cute. But I don't know. It's kind of have weird pacing. It feels maybe because it's just

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a 13 episode season. But yeah, the pacing feels a little strange. Also, you know, it's weird when

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just no one has parents. There lies when you're in high school like no one there's no also I'm

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like, OK, because it's like a school delinquent protecting their neighborhood is the premise.

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And I'm like, I have never seen them actually do anything school related at school. They're just

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talking about fighting at school, but not there's like not a teacher to be found. Like this is

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an abandoned school or functioning school. I can't tell. But watching both those shown in was

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making me think like, damn, I really can't there be like it could be a show in. But it needs to be

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more like female protagonist shown in or like like in Hunter Hunter, there should be like a female

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party member that's like a main member and not just like not like a bleach or like they're around

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and they're cool. Hold on. I get to know them. Are you saying there's a main woman in Hunter Hunter?

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No, I think there should be. Oh, OK. I was just the one that came to mind is a quick example,

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because it's a smaller cast. But like. Is it? Yeah, there's just like the four main dudes.

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I feel like the cast of Hunter Hunter is like enormous because they introduce a thousand characters.

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Well, they're like the ones mostly mostly. Well, who cares about the Arya or whatever, but like.

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You'll fuck that nerd.

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OK, other people your own age. He is married. Am I supposed to believe he's like 19? I don't believe

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it. Yes, it's like the whole joke of his character.

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Because I feel like he doesn't get any screen time or at least not from what I saw.

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He's just gone. He's just gone. He's just gone because I'm kicking and then he's bye bye. Yeah.

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He's a protagonist. Yeah, like. Why'd you watch Windbreaker then?

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Well, why'd you watch Windbreaker, the show about hot dudes punching each other?

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I know, I know, right? I don't know. This is what watching it made me want this.

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But and then I'll try to look up good, like kind of action series with female leads.

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And they're all from like the late 90s. Yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, maybe like Kill the Kill.

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Kill the Kill. I don't know if you're going to like it. Well, no, I see part of it with the

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skimpy get ups and stuff. Yeah, it's like tits out all the time. It's like really a lot in a way

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that I'm like, I shouldn't watch this. Yes. So like, don't say it right. They can only be a lead now

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if it's like that. That's not. I don't think that's true necessarily. Right. Like let's be real. Most

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of the show is coming out now is super mid. It's all. Yeah, Freerun's great. Watch Freerun. What

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are you doing? I need to watch that. But is there like action in it or is it just like sad? Oh,

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my friends are dead. So it's not sad. It's not a sad. All my friends are dead. Like slower,

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like the pacing is slower. There are actions in it, but it's not going to be like every episode

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is like big explosive action. Just watch older anime. Older anime is good. Yeah, I know. I like

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add it. There's one called like Golden Cami or Cami. Golden Camus. One thing. Yeah. That one.

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That was actually they animations knew, but I was like, I've seen like a.

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Yeah, the chicken is really doing that. Okay. God damn it. Okay. Well, 12, the 12 kingdoms. I want

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to try watching that then. The 12 kingdoms. I don't know if that. I mean, she does some stuff.

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I'm like, she's not like the badass character. You know what I mean? Why aren't there badass chicks?

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Man, dude, watch Ghost in the Shell. You can like the major. It's a stupid outfit in season one,

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but you know, it's a scary one though. Isn't it? It's like, no. Why? I don't know. Ghost in the

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Shell is not scary. Ghost is in the name. Stand alone complex is like a police procedural,

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but it's like. It seems very difficult to keep track of what's what. You want to watch 12 kingdoms,

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this thing from 2002? Maybe. I know it's fine. It's just old. I didn't think you like old stuff.

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No, no, no, no. Things. That's not true. I like fishy. Guy Yugi and Akazook and Chacha and

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true stuff. I feel like Shojo's prime was the 90s and that might be true.

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I'm rewatching code. Gios and Collins cool. She blows people up.

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Oh, guess what, Joe? What? Something exciting and anime related happened. Okay. Well,

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it's a new under, you know, ongoing situation. We'll see if it was a one time thing or not. But

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but I went to the dog park on Friday night and there's this chick whose dog kept trying to

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hump my dog, but at least she was trying to keep it off of my dog because there's like three dogs

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going for lemon and none of the other people were trying to stop them. But this chick was like calling

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his name and his name was Yeager. And I was like, now is that like after the alcohol or after attack

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on Titan? And she said attack on Titan. So then we started talking about anime and like Lopsa,

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things in common. And I, you know, I think she is checking out the podcast and I got her name.

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I didn't get her number or anything, but maybe if I see her again, I'll have a dog park friend.

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Dang, you can score with your dog. Yeah. All that time you were like, Joe,

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you should get a dog so you can pick up checks at the dog park here. You did it.

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Yeah. You finally done it. Well, her dog was trying to hit hit up my dog.

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Yeah. I mean, I'm not the biggest meat. You know, I'm in your just gorgeous and no one can

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keep their paws off you for thing. It's tough being popular. It's like three dogs coming for her at

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once. My God. But yeah, so that was like a fun, exciting thing. Also bad news. It's hot again.

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It was a bloke. Damn it. I know I saw someone post on the Austin subreddit talking about like,

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I can't do this anymore. Look, there is no fall. It's just summer. And I was like, word.

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But that's okay. There's our, there's my like, ah, Texas socks. Get me out of here segment of

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everybody. Please enjoy the part of the show where Sarah complains about the place she lives.

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But doesn't do anything about it. I like my job. I like it. Only thing.

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I'll try to find some action anime for you to watch that have women in it.

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Yeah. Like either because there's ones that are like just there to look at or like

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we never get to learn anything about. And that's annoying. Like I want like a main squad,

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female character. I'm looking at like a wrinker rules list. I like Claymore. If there was more

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like Claymore, which is a bunch of bad ass ladies doing stuff without it being like perverted.

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In any way, that'd be ideal. Okay. What are you saying? Oh, nothing. I'm just looking

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at a list. We'll find something for you. Okay. Oh, oh, and there's another one recommended to me

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by my avid anime watcher from my board server called vampire princess me you,

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which is another older one. I don't want to kind of close to me. I'll check that out. But yeah. So,

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but yeah, so I've been in like an anime finally. I'm like in an anime. What? Well,

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it's all about to be obliterated by Dragon Age. But until then for the next couple of days,

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one week anime. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I haven't watched that much anime, I guess. So watching my stuff.

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So watching. Wow. You can't watch the show. Man, you don't even know how many episodes you're

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supposed to watch this week. All right. No, I watched the right amount. Yeah. In the show.

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These are good episodes. So why don't we talk about that? Okay. I guess I won't talk about the rest

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of my stuff. Yeah. No, you know what else? Tell me, tell me. Did you knit a cool scarf?

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No, I didn't knit a cool scarf. We can we can move on. It's okay. I don't know.

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You're devastated. You and I. Yeah, I'm devastated. I'll have more to talk about next week. I don't

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always watch stuff every week and I feel like I should. You know what I mean? I'm like, I'm just

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like, I'm still just watching more. Oh, this was the news. One of the things I'm watching

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is Run Away Space Idiom, right? Which is like old. It was Tommy No made this after Gundam

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got I think after or before at the same time. I anyway, old mech anime from the 80s. So I guess

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it was after Gundam famously got canceled. Guess what, Sarah? What? It has dinosaurs in it episode

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whatever I just watched. That dinosaurs. Okay, so they do exist. There are dinosaurs in the anime.

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There were a couple of dinosaurs. We got to watch them have a fight and then some of them got blown

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out. Oh, no. I missles. Now now. And then they attacked a bunch of people and then that's it.

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Yeah. But there were some dinosaurs in Space Run Away Idiom. So we got some dinos. Okay. Nice.

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Okay. That was my news. That exists. Okay. Breaking news. Yeah. Let's jump. 40 year old

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anime. Let's jump. Why you got to watch the old stuff, you know, you would have missed

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they don't put dinosaurs in new anime. I have a dinosaur for it. Yeah. Space Run

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Away Idiom got it in episode like six or something. All right. Well, speaking of shows that don't

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have dinosaurs in them skip beat zero dinosaurs this week. Really just a terrible string of episodes.

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Bad pick. In terms of dinosaurs. Yeah. Let's start with the voice actor. I looked at the voice actor

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for Asami. Everyone's favorite producer milky herself. No. Don't say that. They didn't say it.

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She is voiced by a Yumi Tsudamatsu, who is the voice of

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karaoke Hikafune in bleach thousand year blood war, which is the squad zero member who has pink hair.

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Oh, the little munchkin one. Oh, no. No, the one that makes the film. Okay.

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Yeah. Squad zero is like the new one they introduce. All right. The lame characters.

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Yeah. Oh, you don't like them. I like the one that's so she's cool. Oh, the rest of them. I can

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take her leave. Yeah. I like the one who yeah. I like the of course I like the one who sews.

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Oh, my discords continue. She also plays Belmereo Winston in Mobile Suit Gundam,

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the witch from Mercury, who's like, I think, let us moms former assistant or something.

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She also plays Astiria toward Deiken in Mobile Suit Gundam the origin. So a couple of Gundam hits.

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She plays someone else in double. Oh, I didn't write that down. She plays Mayu Hisou in fate zero,

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who is another assistant to a main character. I am. So she's really good at playing assistants.

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She plays a character named Hokuto and what looks like Naruto filler because I've never

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seen this character before, but there's like six episodes of it. So there's so many filler possibilities.

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And then she has like a thousand credits as a bunch of moms in a bunch of different shows. So she

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is she is assistant and mom typecast. She's a mom and great pretender. She's a mom in Psyche K.

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She's a mom in way of the house husband. She's the mom in a pathic area diaries.

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She's a mom in my home hero. She's a mom and goddess cafe.

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Terris. I'm just I'm literally just going down to the list now.

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Okay. But she's in a boss role for Skitbeat.

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Finally, I feel like a lot of these voice actors are like very much typecast and then

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Skitbeat is like the exception to the what they're normally are like, like mocos voice actors

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normally being a mom too. Yeah, that's true. Well, famously no moms and Skitbeat so far.

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Only the shadow of a mom looms large, but we don't actually get to see one.

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Yeah. And then the plane crash for Maria's mom.

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Moko never talks about her family. Rind doesn't talk about his family. We got nothing.

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But I guess we got some of shows shows mom shows mom still out there somewhere.

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Yeah, she's alive. You think they like wondered what happened to him now that he's on TV?

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Like they know he's on TV. He didn't change his name.

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I'm assuming I mean, obviously they put the clues that he ran away and he probably had

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been talking about like I'm going to be famous one day as a kid. So I'm sure they

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did. Yeah. Are like disappointed that he's successful with that because they want him

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to take over the inn, which wouldn't have been good. He would have been bad. Just

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he would have been terrible. I will apparently do shit at the end anyway.

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Oh, that's true. That's true. The ladies to start the show.

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Yeah. Anyway, that's not what these episodes are about.

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Skitbeat stage 19 is called last rights. We open on Kyoko getting pissed off about

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show. She hates his guts. But remember is that Asami asked her to portray her character as having

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the heart of an angel right up to when she kills shows character. So she has to like

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be angelic all the way through the murder. She doesn't think she could do it though.

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She imagines Riddens scolding her and then tries to think about how she can do the role.

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She tries calling Moko, but she's unavailable. So she leaves a voicemail.

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She decides to call it right instead, but she has to leave a voicemail for him to.

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She thinks about trying to like info dump everything into the voicemail, but she's like,

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that's going to sound dumb if I do that. And instead just leaves like a vague

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member like a message being like, I need to ask you something. And then like she gets cut off

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because she took too long to record a message. Moko calls her back. It is mad because she

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thought it was an emergency because I guess Kyoko also like gave her like a meek vague message.

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Kyoko is happy that Moko was worried about her and thinks about how she feel if Moko got tangled

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up with a bad guy like this, like the sister in the angel. Their friends video did not.

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Sisters, but yes, they're not sisters, but she was already picturing Moko as her sister. So,

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you know, Moko is like, I'm still on the phone and stop spacing out. And they go to ask Moko for

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help with the role and tries to explain the scene to her elsewhere. Mimori is reviewing footage

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where shows character kisses her hair, which I don't know. Is that her way? Not even her hair.

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It's not even her hair. I still take what she can get. I guess. Yeah, for real. Asami asks

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show if he's ready and then goes over his stage directions. Kyoko comes out and is looking pretty

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serious, showing Asami are like, you're good, but Kyoko just walks off. She thinks about

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her conversation with Moko where she asked her what takes she had on like what the angels feelings

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would be like. What would I be thinking? Moko tells her that if she were the sister angel,

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she would hate her enough to kill her. And Kyoko reminds her that like the angel would die if she

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was with the devil. And Moko says that she would have already accepted that by now and it shouldn't

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be Kyoko's character's business to interfere. The scene starts and Kyoko sheds a single tear as

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she thinks about how she'd want to save Moko even against her wishes. She puts her hands on

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show's neck and thinks that even if Moko hates her, she must do this. White angel feathers scatter

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off of Kyoko as she strangles show. And as they fall to the ground, their color fades to black.

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The music kicks in. Show, however, isn't thinking about his stage directions and said he's just

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looking at Kyoko, who's crying for real. He forgets to close his eyes and falls off the tower,

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which was his one stage direction to do. The camera stays on Kyoko as she pulls her hands

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from her crying face to reveal an evil face has to signify that she has fallen from grace.

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Good. It's good. Good. We get more of the music. The music messed me up because I realized the

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song is like a literal description of what is happening in the scene. It was a music video.

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And so I don't think it was Ashley playing. I think it was just playing. I feel like it was

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just playing in show's mind and they specify that in because right there's no feathers,

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what they're doing. That's just effects in his mind as well. Oh, yeah. I have any special effects

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going right now. And this was just as good as it's unclear, which is pretty fun. See, elsewhere,

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Rin checks his voicemail when he sees he missed a call from Kyoko. Yashiro is like, that's weird.

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Rin never checks his phone at work. Rin listens to Kyoko message where she kind of just vaguely

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asked him for help and then decides to call her back. And Yashiro is like, well, this is totally

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unprecedented. Back at the shoot, they have to do the scene again. Kyoko is still in character crying

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and she apologizes to the rest of them. She was relieved to learn that she's just crying as part

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of her role because he can't handle her actually crying. Asami explains that they're going to

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reshoot the part of the scene because she wants to keep show's shocked reaction to the crying in

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the first take. But they need to get the rest of it because show messed up the stage directions.

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Kyoko feels like if she were a better at acting, they could redo the whole scene. But Asami says

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that she was actually like great, like way past expectations. So Kyoko is happy about that. Back

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to the director seat, Asami explains to her assistant that they knew to reshoot show's part

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because the way he looked at Kyoko in the scene implies that he was in love with her

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and not memory. So that's bad. On set, Kyoko taunts show for not getting his scenes right and

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he gets mad. The shoot ends. Mamori comes to see show, but he's not interested. He wishes that

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Kyoko came to visit him instead. Mamori cries and shows like fine whatever and he goes and like hugs

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her. She overheats and gets rushed off. Kyoko sees this as like, oh, what? You like hug girls that

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cry now? You never did that for me. And show thinks back to when they were a kid and he didn't know

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what to do when Kyoko cried. And the manga, sorry, and the manga, the author makes a note that

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because he's like just frozen deer and had life looking at her crying as a kid. And the author

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kind of indicates that he like is trying to think of something to say, but he knows that he has a

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good because both his parents love him. So that it would be cheap coming from him to try to console

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her about her mom. And that and then a note like, oh, he's thoughtful in his own way. He has like the

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kind of in the flashback, but we don't get that. Yeah, I don't know. We just want to show here.

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Jerk. Yeah. He looks away and Kyoko tells him that's why she stopped crying in front of him.

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And she would go somewhere else to cry. Then she thinks about a guy she would cry in front of

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who's corn from the riverside. Remember corn show interrupts her flashback and is like, well,

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where'd you go cry then? And Kyoko tells him to butt out and then she gets a phone call.

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She answers it and it's Ren. Ren's like, hey, you good? I've been trying to reach you and she

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apologizes, but realizes that he must have been worried about her to to call her back so many

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times, which makes her happy. She's about to tell Ren all about today when show who overhears that

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she's talking to Ren Saruga, his bitter rival, takes the phone and tells her that she got to

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start in his music video and then he hangs up. Kyoko is furious and shows like, why are you mad?

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And Ren thinks to himself that that must have been show who answered the phone as we cut to

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credits for. Nope, I just lost my train of thought. Fuck. You said the last two.

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Ren thinks to himself that must have been show on the end of the line.

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So in the manga, when she picks up and is talking to Ren and show realizes that and

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he's like, or after he hangs up on Ren, he's like, what? Why are you even talking to him?

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Don't you're used to just you hated him so much in the past, like, because she used to talk show

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up about how much he sucked to boost his own ego. So he thought she genuinely didn't like Ren at

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the time. So he's like, why the hell are you talking so friendly with him? So we've reached the end

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of this thing. It feels like we're going to try to rehabilitate show a little bit in a way that I

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am not interested in. Yeah. Well, sadly, like this era, like right now, stuff is all about revenge.

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And like, there's no redemption for shitty characters. But like, back in showdown now,

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it was like, you know, everyone has their own things causing them to act like this, blah, blah,

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blah. So I do like that. Like a lot of the web comics nowadays are like, I'm a ruin that guy's

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life for real, like because you ruined mine. But yeah, because we like the revenge

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Yoko. So we don't want him to do anything that would deter the revenge train.

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Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's working on Kyoko particularly, but like we like the audience have

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to spend time on this is like annoying. I mean, there's a contrast that's going to happen here

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between show in Ren. I mean, this is the last time we see show really. But there's conflict with Ren

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because he is not. I don't know. Should I just wait till we get into it? And we talk about the

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fact that he is like not a loving person in like a more possessive romantic sense. And that's like

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apparently his weakness. Yeah. Yeah. Show is doing that and like the gets jealous kind of thing.

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I mean, that's how they're contrasting these two things. And that's what's being shown here.

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The thing about that is like the problems with show isn't that he doesn't know how to comfort

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Kyoko when she cries. The problem is that he's just a shitty boy. He's just like a terrible

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person who doesn't like treat other people like respectfully at all. And it's just kind of all

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around a like narcissistic asshole, which has really nothing to do with being able to comfort

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people that are sad. Remind me after we finish these episodes, I want to ask us to answer a

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question regarding the world of hippie. Okay. Okay. Or I will forget. Okay, cool. But yeah,

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I guess if we want to our next arc, right away here in episode 20. Episode 20.

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Is this where we get the new opening randomly, like right at the end of the show? Yes.

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We get a new opening with five episodes left to the show, which makes me think that they didn't

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assume they were going to get canceled. I really, I really thought they probably thought there was

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going to be more seasons of this. Damn. Do you want to talk about the intro? Do you like the

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new intro? What do you think about the new intro? I don't like it. Like I thought the intro and

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outro for the first set was like decent. At least song wise, like the intro and outro was good.

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This one, the song's kind of whatever. It's more laid back. But I don't know. I don't really like

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the visuals for it. Also, Moko is like in a bunny girl suit. Okay. I was about to say this because

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like I do like the song a little bit and it's like, oh, it's like fun or whatever. But then there's

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like a slide show at the very end that shows a bunch of characters in like what I assume is like

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their opposite kind of role or whatever. Cause like one of the things that shows in, he's in like

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the bad mitten outfit or whatever, right? The thing that he hates. And also like Ren is in like a

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romantic suit thing or whatever, which we learned this episode is like his weakness.

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And like we see it starts with Kyouko being in like a business outfit, which I mean,

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guess that she's like too goofy or something. But then Moko just in a bunny outfit and I'm like,

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is Moko like, is there like a future arc where Moko has to be sexy and is uncomfortable with it?

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Cause like that's a weird thing to do. I think you're reading too much into this. I think it's

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just like a bunch of costumes because they act. So there's just a bunch of characters and different

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getups. And no, that does not happen to Moko. Thank God. Okay. I was wondering, like is that like

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a future episode? No, I don't know. Yeah. I just always assume. Yeah. I mean Alice is also in

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like a cheerleader outfit, which I'm just like, all right, I don't really know what that has to

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do with anything. Who? Alice. Alice. Yeah. The president's daughter or whatever. Grand daughter.

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That's not her name. It's her name. It's Maria. Oh, why did I say Alice? I don't know.

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Who was that? Yeah. Maria. I don't know. Didn't we talk about somebody named Alice

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at some point? Oh, that's from, that's from Angelic Lair. Okay. Did we like Alice? I don't remember.

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In Angelic Lair? No. She was like the freaky tall girl that was pissed that boys didn't like her

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or something. No, she was the sister. Oh, the punk ass little cheer sister. No, actually Alice is

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the sister's angel who shows up at the end of the manga and isn't in the show at all, but it's like

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the final boss of the manga. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Oh, man. Okay. So if you

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haven't watched or listened to our Angelic Lair coverage, you should listen for the

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yeah. So I'm getting small blonde girls confused. Anyway, yeah. So you know, opening is fine. Yeah.

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Stage 20 is called the invitation to the moon. We open on Kyoko telling an embarrassed moco

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about how she thinks about her and her acting and moco is like, stop saying that, stop telling me

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about how you were like imagining me while you were acting. The bear is saying, I wrote down Alice.

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Maria calls out to Kyoko and she sees her and she sees her and Rin as the new OP boys.

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Yashiro Rin and Maria all greet Kyoko, but Rin doesn't in a way that makes her think that he's

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mad at her. She thinks it's probably because of show. So she apologizes and he's like, oh,

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no, don't worry about it. I'm more concerned about whether or not you ruined the shoot with your

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revenge plot or not. And Yashiro and moco are like, revenge plot. What are you talking about?

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Kyoko says that she didn't sabotage the shoot with revenge, but then thinks about how she only

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did the shoot to like for her revenge plot to like make progress. So she says that she did the

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shoot because it seemed like so much fun. Rin does not buy this. He gives a noticeably hostile

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energy, but tells her that it's all good. We got to moco being like, well, that whole interaction

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was really weird. Meanwhile, Kyoko is like cowering in a corner and like becoming a crying

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little squirrel over it. Moco turns. Yeah, because she's like, oh, no, Rin's mad at me.

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Moco turns to her and asks her what's the deal with the revenge of Shofua. Like, what was all

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that about? But Kyoko is reluctant to tell her. So moco gets mad at her elsewhere. Yashiro is like,

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Rin, you need to stop being upset because it's freaking everybody else out. Like I'm having

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to console other people because you're giving off negative energy. You have to deal with whatever

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you're mad about with Kyoko like today. After work, moco. Funny little bit where it's like

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this little cheapy version of how like death's fair eyes and yes, I was crying. Yeah, we are.

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We are all in on like the rent is smitten. It's over for after work. Moco corners Kyoko in the

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break room and demands that she tell her about Shofua. Somewhere else, Yashiro threatens to

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break Rin's phone if he doesn't tell him about Kyoko and show. And we learned that any piece of

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technology Yashiro touches is destroyed by his bare skin in 10 seconds. But we cut away before

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either one can answer. I think this is like, like your sweat can be acidic. You know what I mean?

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Yeah, my mom has that. She like, like, up the couch by putting her foot on it over and over again.

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Yeah, but usually it's like over time, like over like a month or something. The fact that it's

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10 seconds is crazy. He has to wear gloves. I mean, I guess it makes sense why his phone is

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always in the shop or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I love you. So very odd quirk. Yeah, I got some Yashiro

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thoughts. Some time later, Mr. Sohara takes a phone call from Queen Records about Kyoko.

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He thinks to himself that this is like a Cinderella story. He calls Kyoko and tells her

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that she landed a role on the TV drama and she tells the bosses and they're happy for her.

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She thinks about calling Ren, but remembers that he is still mad at her. We jump to Ren,

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who is visiting President Laurie in his ridiculous mansion. Laurie gives him a new

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phone because Yashiro broke the last one. Laurie asked him if he's involved with any women and

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Ren says no. Laurie scolds him for being so distant with everybody around him. Then he tells him

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that his talent can only cover up for his weakness for so long and Ren's like, what weakness? And

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Laurie says that he's bad at acting like he's in love. Back to LME, Sohara explains to Kyoko

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that Asami recommended her to the TV show director and the director was impressed. Kyoko is grateful

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that she gets that she keeps getting chances to grow as an actor. Then Sohara tells her that Ren's

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also going to be the lead role in this show and Kyoko freaks out. We cut to Ren, who thinks about

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Laurie telling him about how he sucks at acting like he's in love. Yashiro asks him about Kyoko

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because they're driving in a car together. Yashiro notes that Kyoko is the only one that's able to

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rough his feathers, but Ren continues to deny everything. We jump to Kyoko. She thinks about

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her conversation with Kyoko after she explained her backstory with Sohara. Kyoko asks Kyoko if

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she's mad at her motivation, like it's revenge. And Kyoko is like, what? Who cares? It doesn't matter

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what your initial motivation is for stuff. You have talent enough to do that job. So who cares?

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And then she's like, even when you get revenge, you can still keep going. So it's not like this

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is literally the only reason why you're doing this. And she knows that she seems to genuinely

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enjoy acting, so it's all good. Then Moko speculates that Ren is mad at her because like he's just

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jealous. Kyoko has a, I have this written down, Cheezoo style freak out about it.

404
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And listen to our coverage of Kimi Nitoroka to understand that. Oh yeah.

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Moko is like, look, he's either jealous or like, I don't know, he could tell you were lying and

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maybe he's mad that you lied to him and Kyoko decides that it's the latter.

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Back with Ren, he tells Yashiro that Kyoko is a high schooler and he's 20 years old,

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so we can't have healings for a high schooler. That would be crazy. Yashiro says that girls

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grow up quickly, especially showbiz girls. So he should snatch her up before anybody else does.

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And at this point, I'm like, hmm. Okay. Yashiro, no. Also, the visual of this is like a,

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Oh, okay. That was a bad cut. Astral, Dakin Kyoko in profile, like curling up. And I'm like,

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what are we doing? Okay. It's a better transition in the manga. But yeah, that was a bad, I remember

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thinking at the time, like, oh no. Bro, he just came out and said it. He's like, listen, the age

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gap isn't a problem. Yeah. Well, also maybe Yashiro is just like, oh my God, I've never seen

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Ren show any interest in anything. So I cannot let this die. Like,

416
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:01,840
he feels like responsible for making this happen for Ren. Yeah. I like, okay. Okay. There's a way

417
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we can talk about it. We hate him now. There's a way to deal with this. It is like, the way that,

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like, you know, age gaps around this age and like grooming and stuff actually happen in real life.

419
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It's not this, like this is not the way that it happens in real life. When you think about,

420
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you know, 20 year olds dating 16 year olds or whatever.

421
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Like this is a fantasy, right? Like this is, this is fiction. This is not realistic at all.

422
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So in the like fiction of this world, it kind of makes sense. Like I understand where he's

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coming from here. Even though like, literally what is being said is like, Oh, girls are mature.

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Don't worry about it. Which is like, you know, the exact excuse every like creep pedophile uses

425
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when they date somebody super young. So the optics are horrible. And it does. I can't help but wonder.

426
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I mean, they could have just made Ren 18, right? Yeah. Like there didn't have to be this age gap.

427
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Like what does the age gap do for you? Like, like when you write these characters,

428
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I guess just haven't been a more established veteran. Well, because he's well, they're like,

429
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the author's giving them so many reasons to deny or not accept the possibilities because they're

430
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both like reluctant to be close to people emotionally. So it's just like, Okay, cool.

431
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I have all these reasons why we can't be together. Thank God, I don't have to worry about

432
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:33,520
this becoming a thing. Yeah, but like, I feel like it could have done different things.

433
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I'm just assuming it's a very different mentality in Japan. And this isn't as alarming to them as

434
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it is to us. But like they comment like they go out of their way to comment on it. Yeah. Like this

435
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is a reservation that Ren has, you know what I mean? Like I feel like there is this is not like a

436
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:54,240
typical thing. Right. We know Ren's not raised in Japan. So he's probably from a place where it

437
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isn't normal. And everyone else is like, ah, whatever. I don't really know. Because again,

438
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they're having this like this is a conversation for the audience too. Right. Yeah. I mean,

439
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that's like going over it. I mean, again, I understand that there's like the fantasy stuff

440
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:14,000
of like dating an older guy, like, you know, in Sailor Moon, she is like a middle school or

441
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whatever. And like Damien, like he goes to college at some point, right. And that's just like the

442
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fantasy of like being a young girl that like dates it like dates an older guy, right. But that's

443
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also not a thing that comes up in Sailor Moon. They don't have conversations about that. And here

444
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it's like being addressed, which makes me feel like I'm supposed to be thinking about it. I think

445
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:37,840
you just overthink. I well, you okay. I'm not overthink, but I may not just like

446
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space good at when I'm watching this. But like, I don't know when I because I first started reading

447
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this, I was probably 15. I mean, it took a long time for me to get accumulate the manga to know

448
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that this is part of the plot. But I don't remember being thinking anything really about it.

449
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But they do make him seem older than I feel like they make him seem older than 20, even though

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but like, I mean, they could have done it. You know what I mean? Like they could have made him

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19 and just be like a child actor or whatever. So he's just been in the business for so long,

452
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,640
right? Like, I mean, you could do anything like it's not. But it's the fact that it's being like

453
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brought up by Wren, which makes you think that it's going to come up again later,

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especially if they start getting more intimate in any meaningful way. You know what I mean?

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Like he can't publicly date a 16 year old. No. No, I don't. Yeah, probably not. Well,

456
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he can't date anyone or else everyone's gonna be pissed. All the ladies who are fans. I mean,

457
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I guess, but like he especially can't date somebody who's 16. Yeah, I don't know. It was

458
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:46,720
surprising. Because then and then Kyoko just becomes Wren's girlfriend and not her own star.

459
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That would be the biggest problem. She would just be the girl that Wren's dating and not Kyoko,

460
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:58,000
the actress. I know, but I mean, like early in her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just saying that like

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the the way that this is brought up by Wren and like the complete dismissiveness of Yasha row

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about it makes me think that this is going to come up again, because I don't think this is

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like a satisfactory answer for Wren. No, it will. And so I'm just surprised that this was

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addressed at all. Like they could have just never said anything about it, right? Yeah.

465
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:20,160
Yeah. Well, like I said, it's just a tool for them to like if they become attracted to each

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other, like reasons not to be like forbidden love, whatever, because Shoko's in it for revenge. So

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she doesn't want to get sidetracked from that. Wren, we don't know necessarily his motivations,

468
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but he does have some particular things driving him and what he does. So

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I think in theory, neither of them wants anything to disrupt those goals. So this is just like

470
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the age thing is a tool to postpone. Whatever. Okay. We're dwelling on this too much. Okay. I mean,

471
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,760
this was like the most interesting in the episode, but okay. Anyway, Kyoko feels bad for trying to

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deceive Wren and decides that she's going to apologize next time she sees him. The elevator

473
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opens and he's right there. Yashiro is like, wow, this is just like fate because he is shipping

474
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them together so hard now. Kyoko panics and forces the door closed. Wren and Yashiro get another

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elevator and Yashiro says that maybe she knows that he likes her and will like avoid him now.

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But then the elevator door opens to a crying Kyoko who a thousand apologizes to lying to Wren

477
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earlier. This is called a dog goes back. The one where you're like on your yeah,

478
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,640
yeah, like on your knees and like sitting and you like bow forward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

479
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:46,400
Yeah. Prostrating prostrate. You're bowing. Anyway,

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Wren, Yashiro and Kyoko all carpool home. Kyoko explains her backstory to Yashiro. Kyoko apologizes

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to Wren again and he doesn't say anything for a while. Then she asks him why she didn't want him

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to know that she was doing it for revenge. She says it's because she didn't want him to lose faith

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in her. Kyoko clarifies that she wasn't thinking about show while she was acting and Wren says he

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believes her and flashes a smile at her. Kyoko decides that now that she's made up with Wren,

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she can do the drama. No problem. Wren on the other hand thinks about his predicament with

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Laurie, who doesn't think Wren's up for the role as we cut the credits. Yeah. Yashiro is a little

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fangirl. Yashiro needs to calm down. He's just so busy being his manager. He has nothing.

488
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:41,440
He probably has like no personal life. So he's like, this is the most exciting thing that's

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00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,640
happened because Wren is so boring. And like Laurie said, no drama around him whatsoever.

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Maybe he's not even like that busy. Like, you know, when Kyoko was doing it,

491
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she kind of just like, I didn't really do anything. He kind of just does it all himself.

492
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:59,200
So maybe he's just bored. Yeah, maybe. And Yashiro, write some fanfic, do something.

493
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:07,440
Get into romance novels. He'd be into them. Yeah. Stage 21. Oh, do you have anything else?

494
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:15,680
Nope. Nope. Oh, stage 21 is called The One Who Deserves To Be. We open on Kyoko getting her script

495
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for the show. She's having a good time reading the scripts where she's going to play like the

496
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rich girl's sister. So she could be a rich girl and a sister. That's fun.

497
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:34,560
Okay. Look, what is, okay, I feel like, oh, rich girl, ill gross snobby is like our mentality here.

498
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Kyoko has some like fantasy built up in her mind of what a rich girl should be like. And it's very

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elegant and like, like with the chick from the half that she got her like broken for helping.

500
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:54,160
Oh yeah. Like a million episodes ago. I don't remember. Yeah. That she thought was like that.

501
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,560
I'm like, I don't know why she's built this kind of narrative in her head that they're like,

502
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like a bolt. Well, she's, we know that she's into fantasy, right? Like she was really into like

503
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elves or whatever. So maybe she's into like the like romantic princess kind of stuff. I mean,

504
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:14,080
she likes to swan princess clearly. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like maybe that's her picture of like a

505
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rich girl. You know what I mean? Like, I guess basically a rich girl is just a noble girl,

506
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but in modern day. Yeah. That's, that's how I read it. So she's like into it.

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While walking, she runs into some guy crying on a like while wearing a white suit.

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She sees this around a corner and then Yashiro comes out to bring him some coffee and Kyoko

509
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wonders what's going on. She grapples with the idea of an adult man crying as we learn that the

510
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man is named O'Gata, who's the director of the TV show that she's supposed to be on. He and Yashiro

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talk about how Ren accepted the role in the show, but O'Gata is worried because President

512
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Laurie doesn't approve of his casting. There's something going on when she sees O'Gata and

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then she thinks he's like a, like he's gay. I don't know. No, she just thinks he's very like,

514
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he's pale and you know, very like soft spoken. So just feminine in her mind. Not that he's gay,

515
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:17,360
but just that she hasn't. Well, she also is from the country. And so I assume there's not as many

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00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:24,800
like she's never met like a metrosexual man before. Yeah. Yeah. So she's any kind of a feminine man.

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Yeah. Blows her mind. Well, she also grew up with a show who like probably was trying to sell her

518
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:39,360
on him being like the most macho guy ever. I don't feel like show is the most macho guy ever though.

519
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:46,720
Well, no, but I feel like he would think he is personality like temperament wise. I guess so.

520
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I don't know, like stubborn and loud and I mean, he definitely isn't crying, right?

521
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:58,720
Right. It was it was interesting. This part I was like, all right. Okay. Let's see.

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He doesn't approve of the casting. We could we get a cut away to Ren and Laurie discussing the show.

523
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Laurie is against it because Ren has never been in love and thus cannot perform the role correctly.

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He asks Ren if he's ever had true feelings for any of the women he's got out with and Ren cannot

525
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answer back to Kyoko. Oh, God is worried that if Ren can't do the show, the reboot won't surpass the

526
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original show, which is like his whole goal. Kyoko comes out and Yashiro is like, oh, hey, Kyoko,

527
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:27,280
what are you doing here? And she says that she was already eavesdropping. But since she's casted

528
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the show to she wants him to like fill her in so she knows what they're talking about.

529
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And Yashiro finds this funny because Yashiro just loves Kyoko now. We cut back to Ren and Laurie.

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Ren says that he's genuinely cared for and treated the women he dated well. But Laurie

531
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:46,640
speculates that they all ended up leaving him because he couldn't ever really fall in love with

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them or make him feel special. Laurie tells him that those women broke up with him not because

533
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they actually wanted to break up, but because they wanted him to get jealous or be possessive

534
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or give any indication that they were special to him at all. But Ren always just took that as a

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sign that they wanted to move on and then let them. Laurie accuses him of being closed off and

536
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because of that, he can only perform a facsimile of being in love instead of having the actual

537
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:14,400
genuine emotion to call upon. Ren leads the meeting and hears Kyoko crying from like five

538
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,880
stories below him. We move to her and we find out that she's sad because she thought she was

539
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:23,120
going to play the role of a sweet younger sister, but actually the role is for like an envious,

540
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,760
mean younger sister who's going to try to break the main couple up because apparently she didn't

541
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:32,240
like watch the show. She doesn't want to play a mean character, but the director clarifies that

542
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her role is super important to the story and only Kyoko has the skills to play it.

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Ren shows up in a surprise to learn that Kyoko is also cast in this show. The director explains

544
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that when he saw Kyoko in shows music video, he knew that she could outdo the role from 20 years

545
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:52,480
ago because Kyoko was just so wicked and evil in that video. She's perfect. Kyoko does not

546
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,600
like hearing this and is like, I don't know if I want to do this role anymore. But then the director

547
00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:00,000
panics and says that he can't have Ren and her back out. Ren decides there and then in there

548
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,560
that he's going to do the show regardless of what President Laurie thinks Kyoko's heart

549
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,600
starts racing at the idea of being in a show with Ren. He reaches his hand out to her and she

550
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,840
takes it, deciding that she's also going to be in the show. The director is pumped up.

551
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,760
A time skip happens and we cut to some scenes from the TV show. We learned some things about

552
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:23,280
this show like it's called Dark Moon, which is a cool name and also in English. Whereas the original

553
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:30,320
was in Japanese. Yep. The title of the episode makes sense. Yes. Yeah. The title makes more sense.

554
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,560
The setting is like a high school. So Ren has to pretend to be a high school teacher,

555
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:39,040
which is pretty funny. I guess he looks too old to be in high school. I mean,

556
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:45,600
well, we'll learn more about the plot, but like, oh, yeah, it's kind of a parallel of what's going

557
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:51,360
on where he's like older and then his co-star is like a high school girl, but they kind of

558
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:58,000
are into each other. So he has to be young enough for it to be like acceptable on the TV show.

559
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:07,920
So, oh, see, maybe it's all right after all. Well, well, you see where that could go.

560
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:13,840
Okay, I see. We learned like a little bit about this show. We also learned that oh,

561
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,520
God, the director is the son of the original show's director. So this is like a personal

562
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:24,880
thing for him to outdo his dad. Shoko, show's manager, sees an interview on TV for this TV show

563
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,200
and is surprised to see Kyoko on it. She's like, oh my God, it's Kyoko. She thinks it would be bad

564
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:33,440
if Shosa, Kyoko and Ren starring together in a TV show. So she has to distract him from seeing it.

565
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,280
We cut to a shoot of the show. Some extras are complaining that the girl cast as Mio,

566
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,920
Kyoko's character, is an experience to speculate that she got special favors to land the role.

567
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:47,040
Kyoko walks up in wardrobe and snaps at them and they run away. Ren and Yashiro show up and are

568
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:52,800
surprised by how different Kyoko looks. Her character is like, she's got like a long, straight,

569
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,960
black hair. And then there's this large scar on the left side of her forehead because like part of

570
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:03,520
her character. She saw a cow. She saw a cow. Saw a cow had a giant scar on her forehead. Yashiro

571
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,920
compliments her saying that she really has the hateful aura she needs for playing Mio. It's the

572
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:14,080
perfect, which Kyoko does not appreciate. She tells him that she's actually been having a hard time

573
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,080
figuring out how to play the character. Ren is surprised because like she's been really good

574
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,800
at the like hate or attitude. And it seemed like she was really into the role. And Kyoko thinks

575
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,480
about her acting skills and comparison to Ren and thinks that she saw it's a long way to go.

576
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,960
Well, she is upset because they're like, wow, you're so in the role over. And she's like,

577
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:38,480
I wasn't acting. No, yeah, she's like this. It's very funny. But she's still bummed that she

578
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,680
doesn't like she can't figure out how to play the character. She looks sad. So Ren invites her to

579
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:47,040
have a chat. Yashiro leaves and happens upon the director and some strange woman talking to each

580
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:51,200
other. The woman demands that she must be present during Mio's scenes. And we learned that she was

581
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:56,160
Mio's actress in the original show. She claims that the character of Mio is tied up in her legacy.

582
00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:00,720
So she wants to make sure that Kyoko doesn't screw it up. The director is a huge wuss. And

583
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:06,240
let's her walk all over him. We cut to a flashback of a conversation between Kyoko and Ren. Ren

584
00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:11,840
advises that she think about the aspects of Mio's character that aren't explicitly written in the

585
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:18,160
script. Kyoko is shocked because Moko gave her the exact opposite advice. Ren explains there's a lot

586
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:22,640
of ways to play a character, even keeping the lines and stage directions the same. She should think

587
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:27,120
about Mio as a full character to inform her acting decisions. Kyoko thinks about this as she gets

588
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,280
into character for the take they're about to do, which is symbolized by her eye color fading from

589
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:36,800
Kyoko's golden eyes to Mio's blue eyes. However, she spent so much time getting focused that she

590
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:43,840
immediately messes up the scene. The woman from before named Iizuka scolds her. We learned that

591
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:49,840
Iizuka is playing the mom in the reboot, which is why she's here on set. Oh, God. He's like Kyoko now.

592
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:55,440
Dude, he's such a wuss. I was just defending you. I'm gonna suck. Well, if you think about it, if

593
00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:00,400
his dad was the original director and he was the kid at the time, then he probably was like

594
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,520
young and intimidated by this lady when she was playing Mio in the original, if he was on set at

595
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:11,200
all with his dad. Okay, I'm just gonna come out and say this. If your dad is a famous director,

596
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,800
I don't think you should try to be a famous director. I think you should try doing something else.

597
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:20,960
The freaking Miyazaki's kid tried to do it and he made the Tales from Earthsea the movie and he

598
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:26,000
hated it and he trashed his own kids movie like in the press and I'm like, why would you ever want

599
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:33,840
to do this to yourself? Oh my God. Don't do this. Bam. Take up painting or something. You know what?

600
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,360
Like there's other ways to express yourself that are going to put you in direct comparison

601
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:45,600
with your parents who may not appreciate your work. Bam. Roodle. Let's see. Okay. We're almost

602
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,200
at the end. Iizuka accuses Kyoko of not preparing for the role and decides to quiz her on Mizuka's

603
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,680
character. The director tries to step in, but Ren stops him because he's like, she's got this.

604
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:59,040
Which I don't know why he does that. Iizuka asks her a bunch of trivia questions about the character

605
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:03,120
and Kyoko gets them all right. But then Iizuka asks her why her character hates a specific

606
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:08,800
character, which turns out to be a much more complicated answer. Kyoko spends a long time

607
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,080
thinking about this and Iizuka thinks that she doesn't know and decides that Kyoko is unfit

608
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:18,000
to play Mio as we cut to credits. This lady. Yeah. I mean, the director needs to stop this from

609
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,360
happening being like, listen, I understand that you care about this character, but you cannot

610
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:26,160
interact with your coworkers like this. The show's supposed to run for a long time. She's like worried

611
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:31,840
that if this new Mio is bad, it reflects bad on her because this is like a iconic role in her

612
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:37,360
acting career. But if this new Mio is bad, wouldn't that just make her look better for when she had

613
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:43,840
done Mio? I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, wouldn't it reflect on her? Wouldn't the contrast

614
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,280
make her look bad? I mean, I think she actually just really likes this character as my guess and

615
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:52,240
just like once that, you know, I think she was just saying that. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, in

616
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,080
reality, it's like, I feel like if she was bad, it would make her look better by comparison. And

617
00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:02,000
she's also in the show so she can look good in her new role too. Yeah. We just got to put Kyoko

618
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,760
through the ringer. You know, she can't have any mentor figures. She always has to be like

619
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:12,720
castigated by somebody on her feet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is a big deal. This is like,

620
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:22,320
you know, like a long running, huge reboot of a classic show. This is a huge opportunity for

621
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:30,640
Kyoko to be in this role. And her promo clip for this show hasn't even gone out yet. So

622
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:35,120
like no one probably knows about her from any of the press regarding it.

623
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,480
Oh, yeah. Right. This was like a word of mouth recommendation.

624
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:46,160
Yeah. Which is cool. She didn't even have to audition or anything. She's got handpicked.

625
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:50,640
It's great. I love how Asami is like, oh, I know the biggest hater. You should definitely,

626
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:56,000
like, oh, you need like a young girl who's a hater? Oh, we got it. I got it. Yeah. I know. I don't

627
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:04,160
know what the like difference in time was. But yeah. So, so Asami and Ogata are like friends.

628
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:09,120
That's how he learned about Kyoko. What do you think their friendship dynamic is like?

629
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:15,840
Um, Milky and ours. Oh my God. Crying ghost. He's like a crying boy and she's like motherly

630
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:25,600
because she's typecast to play mom. Yeah. I used to have friends, I guess. And showbiz.

631
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,120
Oh, yeah. I know. It's all about connections, right? It's not what you know, do you know or

632
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:35,600
whatever? Yeah. Do you want to take a guess at what, how this is going to go for Ren? Because

633
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:41,840
Lori's convinced he's going to fail and have to be cut from the project. Because this is like a

634
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:49,280
romance dedicated role rather than the like brief ones. Yeah. I didn't matter. This whole Ren

635
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,280
problem is weird to me because it's like, oh, you're not good at playing romantic roles because

636
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:57,680
you've never felt it. But also it's like, it's acting, dude. Like I'm sure Ren's never wanted

637
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:02,960
to kill somebody when he'd probably play a killer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is the least

638
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:08,080
convinced I am that President Lori knows what he's talking about. Well, right. We don't know

639
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:14,400
anything about him. Like what is, how he's the head of this company. Like did he ever do acting or

640
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:22,800
just like what's, how much does he even know about acting? But that doesn't remind me. It

641
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:29,120
does remind me of what I wanted you to tell me, remind me to say at the end of this. Okay. First

642
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:34,480
off, at this point, it's like, damn, Ren should be a member of the love me section apparently.

643
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:44,400
And two, if you and I had been put into the love me section, what would be the reasons that we

644
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:52,480
would wind up there? Do you think like Kyoko just like refuses to love and Moko like looks

645
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:59,200
down on it? But like, I feel like I would be like, I don't know, imposter syndrome. And my problem is

646
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:05,680
I can't love myself for that would be my stick for being in the love me section. Oh, I can love

647
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:11,920
me if I don't love myself. Yeah. I'd probably have the same thing as I guess I have like the

648
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:16,480
red problem. I don't really know what Moko's problem is. I don't really remember what is it?

649
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:27,440
Well, basically, her acting is well, basically, right? She's like super harsh and cold and like,

650
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:32,480
I don't know if they explain it. Well, I don't know. She just thinks it's blame to be

651
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:38,640
so mushy about things and stuff like that. Or she sees it as a weakness, I guess would be hers,

652
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:46,960
or she doesn't value those feelings. Yeah. I feel like I have more. I mean,

653
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:51,520
Ryn's not in the love me section, although apparently he should be. I have more of the red

654
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,680
problem where it's like, oh, yeah, like you like people, but they're just never like you never do

655
01:03:55,680 --> 01:04:01,040
the you never perform romance correctly, I guess. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because it's like,

656
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:04,400
oh, I guess you just never felt it, right? Like, is that the thing? That's this thing, right? You

657
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:09,840
just like you've never felt it. Yeah, you can do it. But you've never like actually been it,

658
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,040
you know? And I guess it's the same thing. I like I've never been in love, but that doesn't

659
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:18,400
land in the love me section. So yeah, I guess Moko, sure. Or even Kyouko, I'm just like,

660
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:23,440
I don't need people to love me who cares. I'm acting. I'm an actor. What do you want from me?

661
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:29,440
The whole thing reminds me of, yeah. No, yours is going to be a continuation.

662
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,680
The whole thing reminds me of like, you know how there's like method actors or whatever,

663
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,400
and then there's all these other actors that come out and being like, what the hell's wrong with

664
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:42,400
these people? Just like, do the job. Just like act like what? Yeah. Why you got to be like this?

665
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:48,400
I tend to agree with those other ones being like, oh, yeah, I just show up and do my job

666
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:52,640
because I'm like a normal person that could do my job. Like, why are y'all, I don't have to like

667
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:58,800
pretend to be a guy for like six months. Yeah. Well, that's because this is basically an actor

668
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:04,080
sports anime where it's like you got to train or you got to like do something to get better.

669
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:10,560
You can't just be good as is. It's like skills some way. Like it's one of those things where it's

670
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:14,080
like you like you need to do method acting. I kind of feel like you don't. I kind of feel

671
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:18,480
like you could just do whatever. I mean, they're not like Kyouko's not doing method acting, right?

672
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:22,880
No. But like the way Lori is talking about being like, oh, well, you haven't experienced this,

673
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,360
so you're not going to be able to fake it is like, I don't know, man. You could probably just fake

674
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:34,080
it if you tried hard enough. Yeah, I guess. Well, also, you could maybe do fine, but this is like

675
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:41,600
a huge series launch, like I said earlier. So maybe it's like you really want the best and for

676
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:47,520
it to like really hit people for it to be better than the original, which was apparently really

677
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:56,080
good already. So like doing good enough to depict it, but not to overcome or beat the original,

678
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:00,960
I guess. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because like we've definitely seen like, I mean, like

679
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:07,440
Yoshiro talks about Ren like he's never like had human emotions before, but very clearly

680
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:12,720
is good like acting at a bunch of stuff, right? Like I think Ren could do the like melodrama

681
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,920
kind of role. Maybe this is like a much more like serious, like you're really supposed to feel the

682
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:23,440
chemistry between the two actors in the roles. But I don't know. Like it's hard for me to tell

683
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:28,480
what he would be doing different. Like how I guess we haven't seen him like act an explicitly

684
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:32,640
romantic lead, although it sounds like he's never really been one. Well, we haven't really seen him

685
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:42,400
actually act that much other than like very brief moments of like testing or things like that. But

686
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:50,960
we haven't seen like his whole portfolio of what he can depict. So, also, all we've seen him is be

687
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:57,440
like very serious looking in his acting. Like we haven't seen him express like joy really or

688
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:05,360
anything like that. And it seems like he does a lot of serious roles. Certainly not doing comedies.

689
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:13,520
Yeah. He is a robot man. He doesn't know if it's funny. I guess so. Interesting. So we've got

690
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:22,640
five episodes left. I don't remember how much into the dark, the dark moon arc this gets.

691
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:26,320
So is this like a big, I mean, I guess this is like a show she's on for a long time, right? So I

692
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:32,000
assume this would come up a lot. Yeah, this is like a longer running one. It's not like a short

693
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:39,520
spin. It's, it's, well, it's like, because it's a TV show, so it's filming over time. So it's like

694
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:44,320
at first it's going to be like everything happening in the books is going to be about this arc because

695
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,480
it's like figuring out how to do everything right. And then after that, it's like, it's around,

696
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:52,160
but like it's a thing you're just actively working on, but you still have other things

697
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:58,800
being featured. A lot wise, but for the rest of the show, I'm assuming it's going to be very much

698
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:05,040
like mastering the role of Mio and what's Ren going to do and stuff like that. Yeah.

699
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:09,440
Yeah. That makes sense. I mean, we have four episodes. So we have four, four episodes.

700
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:19,200
Anything, once we get to the last episode, any like unanswered questions from that were brought

701
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:26,800
up and not answered by the anime itself, I can address at the end for some closure for everyone

702
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,640
who's not going to read the manga, but enjoy the anime.

703
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:39,920
So yeah, two weeks time. Well, this is going to be interesting because, you know, I mean,

704
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:43,680
like we end on like a conundrum of Kyoko, but this seems like it's going to be a Ren arc. And

705
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:47,680
this is the first time we've really had an arc about somebody else. If it ends up being about him,

706
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,800
because like he has the major dilemma. She has the minor dilemma that'll probably be like

707
01:08:52,800 --> 01:09:02,000
that next episode. Oh, no, what? What? I forgot to say in my I'm going to I forgot to say in my

708
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:07,360
catch up is that Love Island Australia has just started a new season. So I do have

709
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:12,800
I do have some reality show to look forward to now. Well, that's good. Love. Yeah. I know.

710
01:09:14,480 --> 01:09:21,280
This cast is quite nice to look at. It's really hard to watch people kiss on TV, though, because

711
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:27,280
it's like, damn, that dude's like way too much tongue, like I'm horrified thinking about being

712
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:34,400
in that situation. OK, you don't have to picture it's you. Well, I just feel bad for the person

713
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:38,800
that's happening to maybe they're into it. They say it was a good kiss and I was like, oh.

714
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,920
People are into different stuff when they kiss. People like what? There's too much

715
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:48,880
coordination. And I'm like, all right, I don't possess the skill. Oh, definitely. Like they

716
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:54,880
definitely do multiple takes, right? I don't know. Also, why do they make them? It's like,

717
01:09:54,880 --> 01:10:01,680
I'm looking at it and it's like they're in Spain. It's like so hot. I'm like, why are they making

718
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:07,760
them all stand under the sun? It's got to be hours that they're filming this scene, like to get exactly

719
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:15,360
how they want it. I'm so stressed out about it. I bet it sucks. I'm fine. Yes. I think being on a

720
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:20,080
reality TV show would suck, probably. Well, they're all just want to be influencers. So this is

721
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:27,440
what you got to do. I guess. Work out for a lot of people, especially the end and then they're

722
01:10:27,440 --> 01:10:33,680
likeable. We'll see. There's one broad that I'm like, gross already. Anyways, this is.

723
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:40,800
It's broad over here. Like a 1920s gangster. Like what is this? I don't know.

724
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:50,960
I guess I don't know. Okay. Just in my vocabulary for some reason. That's all good. Let's see.

725
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:59,200
I guess anything skip related before we move into recommendations. I don't think so. I mean, again,

726
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:02,560
you know, it's the same thing I've been talking about before where it's like the love me thing

727
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:05,760
for Kyoko doesn't even seem like it's a problem anymore. It seems like it's become a problem

728
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:13,120
for rent, if anything. So I. Yeah. I mean, we get like brief glimpses of them doing love me work

729
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:18,960
here and there through these episodes, but it's just like assistant stuff. Like they shouldn't

730
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:24,800
be the ones doing it. Like, no, I just definitely feels like it's just a. It's just an opportunity

731
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:29,680
to put them in the outfits, which is fine. Yeah. Thinking of what we're hoping to be in those

732
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:35,360
outfits ourselves. Maybe we'll see if we can find any jumpsuits that are any quality at all.

733
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:40,560
Yeah. We may need to be like everyone find your jumpsuit. Don't worry about finding one that

734
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:47,360
works for everyone and just. They look similar patches to indicate we're the same thing.

735
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:52,560
I know because I was looking at the write up, which is that use loading site.

736
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:57,600
Sadly, that I'll have a men's section, but I was like, oh, well, I can just get it like a large

737
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:01,760
size and tailor it down. This is why I learned how to sell. Yeah. But these are like used ones.

738
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:07,440
So it's like only one stock of each. Oh, yeah. We'll figure something out. I'm not that worried

739
01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:20,960
about it. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Okay. Recommendations. Okay. I guess I'll go first. I have something I

740
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:27,040
can't talk about. Be pretty quick. And I'm like, I don't know how interested anyone can be in this

741
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:33,360
recommendation, but well, actually it's kind of relevant because Skippy is about celebrity culture

742
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:44,160
and stuff. And so I am recommending a podcast called Diving Board because we deep dive into like

743
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:49,760
celebrity culture on this podcast, which is something I have never paid attention to.

744
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:57,680
Like I never read magazines or things like that. But kind of listening to it retroactively, like,

745
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:02,640
oh, okay, this is like a thing that was happening when I was a kid. Like the episode I'm listening

746
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:08,800
to right now is about Nicole Richie, who was on that like, the simple life show with Paris Hilton,

747
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:16,640
where it's like to, you know, like rich girls go to a farm or something, a reality show, and

748
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:21,200
apparently it was very popular at the time. But it's just interesting listening to like the stuff

749
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:27,680
that goes on in these people's like what was going on at the time. Also like in our eyes today,

750
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:34,240
some of the stuff that they did to women and like the 2000s awful. So it's interesting to look back.

751
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:39,040
And it wasn't that long ago. And yeah, dude, if you ever watched like an old episode of like

752
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:46,000
America's Next Top Model. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. What are you saying?

753
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:52,400
She was not ready for COVID when everyone was rewatching all of those seasons. And then it's

754
01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:58,960
like, oh my God, this show is horrific. And this is the stuff they okayed to view. So who knows

755
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:06,160
what's happening that they didn't show. But yeah, this gal, she's just doing it by herself. And she

756
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:15,600
seems busy. So the episodes don't come out super often. But like a good host who yeah, I was,

757
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:20,000
I guess, someone who grew up in a small town. So she didn't have that much going on. So she was

758
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:30,800
super into this growing up. So it's, I don't know, she even had a guest interview with Flavor

759
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:37,360
Slave. Wow. So that's cool. I mean, she has a celebrity as a

760
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:46,960
interviewee. But there's like, we've done, there's like one about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

761
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:55,760
relationship. And like Brad Jelena and the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime show. So just kind of

762
01:14:55,760 --> 01:15:02,480
like, there's some, there's one, like, there's a whole series of episodes on Lindsay Lohan.

763
01:15:02,480 --> 01:15:09,680
She was one of the like it girls that had a whole lot going on. Discuss. But yeah, just kind of

764
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:15,120
celebrity Hollywood, all that kind of stuff. So it's fun to look because I didn't look, I didn't

765
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:20,080
even know there's a feud between Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff at one point. But apparently there's

766
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:27,760
there was. And so yeah, it's just, there's only maybe about as many episodes that we have on our

767
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:37,600
podcast, but I quite like it. And so diving board, if you're in to stuff like that, you should check

768
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:45,040
it out. That's my recommendation this week. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to recommend it's, you know,

769
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:52,960
it's October. It'll be one day before Halloween when this episode comes out, which is a great time

770
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:58,720
to watch the cartoon mini series over the Garden Wall. If you haven't heard of this,

771
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:09,120
okay, I've heard good things. Maybe. Yes. Yeah. So this is a mini series on Cartoon Network. It's

772
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:14,160
about 10 episodes. Each one's like a little, you know, 11 minutes. So you could bang the whole

773
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:23,040
thing out in about two hours, you know, movie blank, essentially. It is about a pair of brothers

774
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:34,880
named Wurt and Greg that get lost in the woods, essentially, and are, you know, both on a quest

775
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:42,720
to get home and also are being dogged by some monster that lives in the woods. This is this

776
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,920
one on Nami. It's good. You know, if you've probably heard of this before, unless you're like,

777
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:50,080
not into animation in which case, maybe you haven't, you know, it came on Cartoon Network,

778
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:56,080
but it was very high production. The voice. Yeah. So Elijah Wood does the voice of Wurt,

779
01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:03,120
Holland Dean does Greg. There's also, you know, Christopher Lloyd does voices in it. Tim Curry

780
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:08,160
does voices in it. Trying to think of anyone else on this thing that maybe people would know.

781
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:16,160
Yeah. They quickly claimed very high. Yeah, it's like spooky. It's like kind of dark fantasy

782
01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:25,600
kind of thing. I believe it is based on vaguely based on actually, I'm not let me confirm it.

783
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:29,440
This is real before I say this because I think it might be vaguely based on the inferno.

784
01:17:29,440 --> 01:17:36,320
No. The season of the challenge. Yeah. I think it was based on the season of the challenge.

785
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:45,920
On MTV. Yeah. On MTV. Yes. No. Maybe it's something else. I think it's one of those like

786
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:52,400
based on one of those like classic stories like Dante is inferno. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Okay.

787
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:58,240
Yeah. So we get lost in the woods. It's like a folk horror kind of thing. It's horror for

788
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:02,080
children. So, you know, it's still a kid show. It's not like it's actually going to be that.

789
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:07,280
Although it is cool. Aesthetically, some of the things that happen in it are very like cool to see.

790
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:14,800
Yeah. We love growing ass adults watching shows intended for children here.

791
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:21,920
Yeah. Turns out they're good. Yeah. Listen, we live in a time when we try to pretend like stuff

792
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:27,040
that's for children isn't like, you know, the entire MCU, which are superhero movies intended

793
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:32,800
for children that we're just going to make adults somehow. And YA is super popular, which again,

794
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:37,840
for children, I mean, you know, it's for young adults, but it's still young adult. Yeah. Young

795
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:48,080
adult. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Maybe I need to watch the new season of Jurassic World Camp

796
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:53,200
Cretaceous. Maybe I'll recommend that next week. Or if Dragon Age failed, art goes well.

797
01:18:53,200 --> 01:19:00,880
I'll recommend that. So, yeah, it's like Halloween day is when that comes out. And then

798
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:09,280
I really hope it's good. Yeah. But yeah. But there's a hot character. So that'll be enough

799
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:14,800
of a driving motivation for me to play the game. I'm on the prowl of my character.

800
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:19,280
Okay. This doesn't seem to actually be based on anything.

801
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:24,800
Oh, the. Anyway. Fun fact, Eliza Wood likes Walkabout Mangle.

802
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:33,920
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The creator of this also wrote for like Adventure Time and

803
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:38,640
apparently in Gearbox Del Toro's Pinocchio most recently. Now check it out. You can watch on Hulu.

804
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:44,720
Okay. Nice. And what else should our viewers or our listeners do, Joe?

805
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:49,360
Rate is five stars. The show's over, folks. We did the episode and this is the part where we tell you

806
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:55,040
to if you enjoyed the episode, please rate is five stars on your podcast platform of choice.

807
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,920
Leave a little comment there for the algorithm. Always nice.

808
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:05,840
Or when that happens, I just got a weird campaign text. Sorry for the election. That's what the

809
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:12,800
campaign is for. Yeah. Anyway, do that and tell us. Tell your friends to watch this word of mouth.

810
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:17,760
Best way to recommend things even now in the world of algorithms. It turns out those algorithms suck

811
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:21,440
and nobody really engages with the stuff that they're presented because the algorithms are done.

812
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:25,280
So tell people to listen to this stuff. Tell them to watch Skip Beat. We're almost done with Skip

813
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:30,320
Beat. We got two more podcast episodes left. We're going to cover two episodes in these last two.

814
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:35,440
So next time we're going to watch 22 and 20. No. Yeah. We're going to watch 22 and 23 and then

815
01:20:35,440 --> 01:20:41,680
we're going to watch 24 and 25 in the final finale and then we'll be watching something else.

816
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:45,840
So it's a good time to jump in. If you want to give yourself some time to catch up on Skip Beat,

817
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:49,280
you'll have two weeks to do so. And then you can follow along with our next show,

818
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:54,320
which we will announce when we get closer to the end. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So if you're at the dog

819
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:59,680
park and you're like, Oh, is that dog named after an enemy character? You'd be like, Oh, yeah.

820
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:06,160
Love anime. There's this great podcast I listen to blah, blah, blah. Any opportunity arises.

821
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:19,360
Do it. Spread the word. And yeah. So I guess also, if you guys listen and you want to chat with us

822
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:26,320
or anything, either follow us on socials where we're on Instagram and TikTok, or you can join

823
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:33,280
the Discord link that is in our link tree, which is listed on our social platforms. So

824
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:38,240
if you want, you can join. The Discord is technically my Discord, but I have a section

825
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:42,720
dedicated to show Joestuff. So if you ever want to talk about the show's recovering or

826
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:48,160
have covered or want to recommend a series, you should check out the Discord as well.

827
01:21:49,440 --> 01:21:55,360
Boom. New segment. There we go. Okay. Yeah. What did we learn today?

828
01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:58,960
You know, it's hard for me to think about what we learned. What did we learn today?

829
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:04,640
Okay. Let's see. Feeling bad that you don't know how to comfort someone when you're crying is not

830
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:09,760
a redemption for your shitty boy attitude. That's not really, not really a lesson anybody needs to

831
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:20,720
learn. But don't date. Dude, all the only thing I can think of about Ren now is like,

832
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:25,600
you know, the beginning of Scott Pilgrim when it's like, Scott Pilgrim is dating a high schooler.

833
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:32,720
It's just Ren Saruga is dating a high schooler. Like that's what it's going to be. Oh my God.

834
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:39,120
He's not. Well, he's not right now. Well, if she had never gone to school,

835
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,160
well, then she wouldn't be a high schooler. She'd be a dropout. Maybe that's,

836
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,240
yeah, would that be better? I don't think it'd be better.

837
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,240
Probably good that she's going to high school. Although I like how it was like a whole plot

838
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:51,440
point that she's going to high school and then we don't see her go to high school. She's going

839
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:56,640
to high school in the manga. I mean, yes, it's just there's like no plots that happen around

840
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:02,640
high school. It's just, which is interesting. You think maybe something school related would

841
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:09,360
happen? Like maybe there'd be like a school play or something. There's a school full of actors,

842
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:15,520
right? Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, she must have friends at school, right? Like,

843
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:18,800
because she's just hanging by herself. Like I want to know what's going on. Yeah. No,

844
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:25,280
she's there for school. Basically, she's going to school with a bunch of people like show. So

845
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:29,360
why would she want to be friends with them? I wouldn't assume they're all like show. I'm

846
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:33,120
sure some of them are cool. Yeah. Well, we didn't learn anything about going to school.

847
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:41,360
If your skin melts electronics, don't use that as a threat to other people. Don't take your

848
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:46,160
friend's phone and then threaten to break it. Don't expect, don't press your songline to give

849
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:51,440
away information that's not theirs to give. Yeah. And then don't ship them to share.

850
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:57,360
Yeah. That's you. You know, if you're going to, if you're going to try to get involved in your

851
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:00,000
friends' love life, maybe you should try to wingman them instead of like

852
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:06,480
inadvertently sabotaging it all the time. Yeah. You know, maybe you should be a cool bro about it.

853
01:24:06,480 --> 01:24:12,080
Yeah. Also, if you have a friend who like absolutely adores you and she's not telling you

854
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:16,880
what to do, if you just say, I'm never talking to you again or I'm not your friend anymore,

855
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:23,680
that'll get them to get them to open up real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Don't break their electronics.

856
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:31,120
Hold your friendship hostage. That's so much better. Whichever lesson you want to take away,

857
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:37,040
whichever one applies for you, go with it. Strong arm your friends. They'll forgive you.

858
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:44,560
I don't know. It doesn't work. I've tried to be tell my sister like, please hang out with me

859
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:50,960
or do this thing with me. Nope. Never work. Yeah. She won't even come on the podcast.

860
01:24:50,960 --> 01:25:01,200
I know. Love cause the ones she super loves. Okay. We can call me some a kiss if it ever comes back

861
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:07,520
or Kadocha. Like those are the ones she really, really, really likes. Kadocha is like a hundred

862
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:14,800
episodes. I mean, there's, I know. I'm like, she's watched the one we're considering next. So I could

863
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:22,320
maybe bring her on. She's big time person. I'm sure having her as a guest is going to get

864
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:27,680
us a lot of new listeners. Oh, this person they never heard of. We've only like vaguely spoken

865
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:35,920
about. Yeah. It probably will, you know. Yeah. Okay. Remember, just strong arm your friends,

866
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:40,880
whatever. It's cool. It turns out their secrets aren't even that interesting and you probably

867
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:46,880
could have just guessed them. That's pretty interesting. But anyways, thanks for listening.

868
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:57,440
We'll see you next time. I've showed you caught and this is the end.