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Welcome back to show Joe the podcast where I

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Sarah introduced my Joe or my Joe Joe My friend

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Joe to show Joe anime typically for girls a genre

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I'm quite familiar with, and Joe is not as much,

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so I'm showing him shows I've seen. We just finished

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watching The Rose of Versailles, and now we're

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back to Chihaya Furu, one of my favorite animes

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ever. And hopefully Joe can see why more in season

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two. How are you doing, Joe? With the show or

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just in general? In general. We'll get to our

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thoughts on the show here in a minute. I'm good.

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I don't really have, I feel like, what's happened?

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I've had to watch a lot of movies. I've watched

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a lot of movies. Yeah, we'll talk about one of

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those later too. We will. We will talk about

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one of those later. But what I actually, what

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I was doing just before this is I have started

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to play Couture 2, The Sith Lords. Oh, I saw

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that. I'm so excited. And I had started playing

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it. Right, because I'm playing it along with

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podcast and then I started listening to some

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of the podcast and they informed me in that podcast

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that Kotor 2 is like very broken in terms of

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like the game is just like not patched correctly.

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Oh, are you playing on Steam or Switch? I am

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playing on PC. I bought it with GOG. And the

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way to fix it is to download. an enormous number

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of mods including the Sith Lord's restored content

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modification which is a huge collection of things

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that they fixed because apparently there are

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things that are missing that are just like you

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know what i did encounter one big bug while i

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was i played most recently on the switch and

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for the most part it was fine there's one thing

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where it's like oh that definitely is not correct

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but PC version like didn't have controller support

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on Steam, which is dumb as hell because it's

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a game that originated on consoles. So I never

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played my coffee on PC. Yeah, apparently there's

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like the entire end of like companion quests

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just don't trigger correctly. Lots of other things

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that just like aren't in it. So that's what this

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mod fixes. I think the Switch version actually

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includes part of this mod in it. So anyway, I

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had to. I think as the port. to switch. Yes,

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I had to install an enormous number of mods that

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do things like fix animations and fix doors and

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lots of other stuff. So you're having a great

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time so far. And then I had to replay up to where

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I was. How far have you gotten? I had not gotten

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very far. I was like at the beginning, like when

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you wake up in the little mining station or whatever,

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I was like, I will say the mining station kind

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of takes a long time. It's like a long, very

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long. I'm playing, I'm trying to play like a

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meathead kind of guy. I'm trying to play like

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a hambo where like I'm nice and I have some charisma,

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but my intelligence is bad and my wisdom is bad.

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Boy, oh boy, I got plus three strength and I'm

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one shotting everything. Okay, very nice. All

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the droids ain't smashed to smithereens. These

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mining droids ain't shit. They like introduce,

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they keep being like one upping. It's like, ooh,

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these ones have shields. I bet that's going to

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make a difference. Nope, I still one shot it.

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Are you? Playing as a woman. No, I'm playing

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as a guy this time. I played okay I was gonna

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say what's his face in the culto tank is all

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like oh Oh, is he okay? Yeah, so that's what

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I'm doing. I am Max Gaines That's my character's

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name Max Gaines, okay Well, I am excited for

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when you finish that and we can do a bonus episode

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talking about it. Yeah Yeah, so that's fine.

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We'll see how that's going. Yep, other than that,

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I bought a bunch of stuff. Nice, Joe's a shopaholic

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for anyone new here. Where those price increases

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hit, you know? Yeah. And I won't buy anything

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ever. But yeah, that's what's going on with me

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for the most part, I feel like. Not that much

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else. It's the summer. Until you start saying

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something and then I'll remember some other stuff.

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Oh yeah, okay. Then I'll go. OK, what's up with

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me? Yeah, what have you been doing Friday? We

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had like a work event and a local like indoor

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mini golf bar place. And then the younger crew,

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we all went out afterwards. So that was fun to

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hang out, you know, drink. Sometimes when I drink,

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one drink will be enough for me to be like, well,

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my lips feel kind of numb and blah, blah, blah.

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And then that night I had like seven drinks and

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was like pretty fine. Except for I did When I

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was in the bathroom going to sit down, I did

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like headbutt the lock on the door. So I have

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like a big bump on my forehead that hurts a lot.

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But yeah, that was fun. And I went to my mom's

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yesterday and swam in the pool. She has the new

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tiny ass, like less than two pound Chihuahua

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puppy right now. He is cuter in person, he's

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not very photogenic. And Cricket was very mean

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to him, as I knew she would be. So I had to be

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on a helicopter parent making sure she didn't

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murder my mom's new puppy. And then we played

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Catan and I almost won, so nearly did. But yeah,

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that was fun because my family is loud and we're

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all just screaming over each other. So yeah,

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so I keep re -listening to our last episode where

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we were talking about the movie because I just

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every time I hear us laughing then I get to laugh.

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Oh man, that was, if you guys haven't watched

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it, listen to that. You should go listen to that

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episode. It's the previous episode before this.

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Even if you didn't watch The Rose of Versailles

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with us, good episode and we were just kind of

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losing our minds by the end of that. Yeah, so

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that was a lot of fun. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm still

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reading the manga a little bit, but I. Oh, yeah.

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I'll have more to talk about later. OK. I have

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not made very much progress. OK. Gotcha. Gotcha.

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I'm slow rolling everything right now. We're

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good. Yeah, I guess that's pretty much it. Oh,

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I did. I was talking to one of my coworkers who

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had had a friend in town as he was looking to

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move from Austin. from Columbus, Ohio, and I

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was like, why is he moving out of Columbus? Like,

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what's the cons? And it sounds like basically

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he just like wasn't connecting with anyone, friends

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and romantically wise or something. So it's a

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barren wasteland dating scene, I guess. Is that

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true? Is it going to be better than Austin? Is

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Austin the land of opportunity? I feel like it's

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not. I mean, a lot of young people are moving

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here. I guess it's just no one that I like kind

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of thing. Or they're all too young for me or

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something. I don't. Yeah. Well, oh, no, this

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is not a podcast subject. Never mind. I overshare

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about my deep personal life. No, that's not throwing

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up here. I'm going to start reading my social

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security number off here. One, two, three. No.

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Yeah, that's all I got. Yep, yep, yep. I feel

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like I should have more but I kind of don't.

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I bought an air fryer. I used it once. I'm going

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to use it more I guess. How exciting is that?

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People with air fryers are very excited about

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having air fryers. I'm not that excited about

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it. I'm just like whatever. How's the new mattress?

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New mattress is fine. It's pretty good. It's

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better than the old mattress. The old mattress

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sucked. Nice. Nice. What do you do with the old

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mattress? I'm still having weird back problems.

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It's just sitting in my apartment waiting for

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me to take it out and I'm too lazy to do it.

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So. Maybe next week, I'll throw it away. Throw

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it away? Yeah. That magic sucks. It's like, it's

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like sinking in the middle. Well, okay. Here

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in Austin, it's like, just put it on your curbside

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and someone will come take it. That's throwing

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it away. Well, it's being repurposed. Because

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like, people drive through neighborhoods looking

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for people who've put out like old desk chairs.

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Oh, okay. Side tables. I don't think people are

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going to do that for this mattress. No? Okay.

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No. This is not out there. Just drive up to just

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strap that thing to your little sedan. Find the

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homeless person and be like, it's your lucky

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day. Here's my old, uncomfortable mattress. You

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can't give a homeless person a mattress because

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then they can't move around. Well, oh well. You'll

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figure it out. You're smart cooking with mattresses.

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Yeah, I already have a solution. I'm going to

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throw it away. I know what the solution is. It's

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not that complicated. Okay. Well, that's been

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resolved. I'm sorry. I can't repurpose a foam

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mattress that has extended its life span for

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too long. Well, that's enough about our very

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boring lives right now. Anyway. Did we get to

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Chihayafuru? We started season two of Chihayafuru.

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Oh God, that doesn't sound like you're super

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excited. Yeah. Joe! We're back in it. We're back

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in Chihayafuru. Yay, we're back in Chihayafuru.

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Yay. Joe! So I'm devising a plan where we can

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start doing four episodes per episode. Oh my

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God, Joe hated it. I didn't hate it, it was fine.

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And I was like, ah, this is fun. This is nice.

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I don't really know. You're like, you're kind

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of hinting that this is the season where it activates.

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Mm -hmm. Well, I just said maybe because I don't

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clearly remember the season. But do you think

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any show we would have covered after Rosa Versailles,

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you just would have been bummed that we weren't

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talking about Rosa Versailles anymore. Is that

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part of it? Yeah, that's that's definitely part

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of it. So maybe this is good. This is like getting

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drenched in cold water. You know, this is what

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you want, I guess. Oh, here we are. Here we are.

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Getting ready for it, okay. Uh, sure. So let's

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go into Shihayafuru. Shihayafuru, season two,

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episode one is called So the Flower Has Wilted.

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We open on the Karuta team practicing as we,

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the viewer, try to remember everyone. This is

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what I was doing when I was watching this. I

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was like, oh god, I forgot all of these characters'

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names. As a reminder, at the end of last season,

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the Carter Club was tasked with recruiting five

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more members or they lose their like practice

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room. So they are like all thinking about that.

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And kind of says that she doesn't think they

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should do demonstrations tomorrow because that'll

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just scare all the first years away, because

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also it's been another year at school. So their

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second year is now. And they play very intensely

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and that would be offending to newcomers. Right.

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So they have to they have to recruit new people

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in a way that doesn't scare everybody. We'll

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see how this goes for them. Everybody but Chihaya

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agrees and Hanna says that she'll handle recruitment.

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She's the business sense girl, so she's got this.

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Who knows what's up, what the people want. We'll

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talk about if she's really got this or not. The

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scene turns quiet as Chihaya tells Taichi that

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she hopes that new members will learn to love

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Karuta as we get a montage of stuff that happened

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from last season. Oh, God, I know. I was like,

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here we go with the childhood flashbacks. Oh,

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again, how many times have you freaking seen

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these scenes? Load -bearing flashbacks. Ugh.

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And then we get the new opening. What did you

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think of it? I thought it was unremarkable. The

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song was fine. But I kind of I was like, oh,

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the transitions are good in the opening. Like

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everything's very smoothly. Yeah, it's I guess

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it's smooth. I like the first season opening

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better. I don't think any of them like super

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resonate with me, but then was nice to look at.

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All the kimono patterns are nice. Yeah, they

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have patterns. But this was not it was not doing

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much for me. Anyway, we come back from the OP

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and we cut to school. We get a new character

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who is broken up through email, I guess, because

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that's what the kids use. She's like, this sucks.

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They have mobile phones. Why can't they text

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message? Why is everyone emailing each other?

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I think that was just like the thing that caught

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on. Never understand. I'm assuming it has something

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to do with like, oh, text messaging plans are

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expensive, but email is free. I assume it's something

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like that. This isn't that old of a shock. Whatever.

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Yeah, I think it was just like that in Japan.

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Anyway, she gets broken up with the email. She's

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like, this sucks. I'm going to make up for it.

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I'm just going to have to date the hottest guy

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ever. We jumped to a school assembly for the

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first years where the school clubs like pitch

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themselves to gain new members. I guess they

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just do that with like a big assembly where like

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everybody goes up there, which sounds like it

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would be really boring to attend. Oh, that's

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so true. Yeah. The girl from before is like,

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is here. We learned that her name is Hanano Samire,

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and she's on the lookout for hot guys. She has

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like a notebook. Yeah, she's studious in her

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romantic ambition. Sumire is a cute name. I like

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it. Yeah, she usually becomes the best character

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in the show. Justin and Taichi Chihaya get up

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on stage in Hakama and introduce themselves to

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the Karuta Club. Kana, I really just wrote Hana

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all over in my notes. Poor Kana. I don't know

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why I did that. Kana is like, ah, this is a great

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plan. We sent out our two hottest members to

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vaguely explain what our club does. Taichi proceeds

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to vaguely explain what the Karuta Club is, and

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then Chihaya tells the crowd that she doesn't

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have a lot of friends, so she wants to have 100

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new members instead. Everyone's like, wow, that's

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weird, but they find it endearing because she's

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hot. Back at the Karuta Club, they await the

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new recruits. Taichi's like, who's going to mentor

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them? But Chihaya insists to everybody that it's

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going to be her. She's going to do it. And everyone

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else is like, why would you want to waste your

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time doing that? Suddenly, there's a knock on

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the door, and a ton of girls are here to join.

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Chihaya is driven to tears at the new recruits,

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and we see that Sumire is among the girls, and

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Chihaya reads her name wrong because she can't

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read kanji because she's a child, and Tai Chi

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has to come correct her. Oh my god, it's so embarrassing!

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Chihaya! It's very sad. Oh my god. And yeah,

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I like that Sumire is measuring up Chihaya like,

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gosh, she's hot, clueless, and dumb, enemy! Enemy

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to women! Sumire sees Chihaya and is like, oh

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no, she's pretty clueless and dumb, every guy's

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dream girl, I must defeat her. Because Sumire

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is an icon and I love her, she's so funny. She's

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like, I gotta keep Tai Chi and Chihaya away from

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each other, which good news, that is not going

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anywhere, it seems. Oh, that's right, yeah, no

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worries there at all. Yeah, the club starts to

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give an opening speech of like, hey, this is

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the car to club, blah, blah, blah. But Sumire

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interrupts and asks if Tai Chi has a girlfriend.

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Kana is like, no questions from the freshmen.

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And Sumire sees that she has big boobs and is

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like, ooh, another enemy. Another chick that's

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kind of high. Predictably, none of the recruits

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have any cards to experience. Fortunately, Chi

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Hai has printouts of all the poems and tells

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everyone to try to memorize them. And then Kana,

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who I've spelt her name wrong another time, who's

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decided to be a hard ass for some reason, tells

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them all that they need that they're going to

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have a test in a week. And if you haven't memorized

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all 100 poems by then, you'll fail. And Chi Hai

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is like, isn't that kind of rough? But Kana says

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no. Hana. I'm just going to do a replace all

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real quick here. Basically, Hana, it, you know,

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feels responsible for kind of managing the club

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now that the teacher lady's busy with tennis

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and she's the one who's, you know, well behaved

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and wants to make sure that everyone else is

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as well. And basically, like, it's very clear

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the motives of most of these people are not pure.

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So it's like, let's just thin the herd a little,

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cut the people out who aren't really in it make

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it easier on everyone. Yeah. We're going to see

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how this works out for them. Then she and she

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did do a practice match to show all the recruits

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like what this game is. And all the recruits

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are like, wait a minute, this is a game about

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slapping cards. What the hell's going on? Hey,

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we finally get like a tutorial on how this game

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works. You don't really get that in season one.

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You get that over the course of every episode

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very slowly. Yes. Sumire says, wow, that sounds

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really hard of a game to play. Can't we just

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play like Bozu Mikuri, which is like a different

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card game you can play with Karate cards? That's

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way easier because it's just like you just look

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at like whatever symbols on it. All the other

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recruits think that's funny, but some of them

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reassure the club that they'll try to remember

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some of the poems and then everybody leaves.

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Jihai is like, well, I guess that's not totally

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unexpected, but hey, there's like 20 recruits,

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I'm sure we can get some of them to understand

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Karta, but the rest of the club is unconvinced.

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Taichi tells Shihaya that she should be focusing

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on her individual play instead of mentoring newbies

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So maybe you should like go to the Shiranami

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Society instead of practice and then Nishida

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pipes up saying if they need to go to the high

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school tournaments soon So they should all be

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like prepping as a team for that And he's like,

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you know Tai Chi, I know you're not like an A

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rank or whatever, but we can't all just go rogue

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and Tai Chi gets mad at him. And then Kana says

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that she can handle the training them. So you

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could just let her do it. But then Satobu says

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that technically they only need to recruit members

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to keep the room. So it doesn't actually matter

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if they play or not. We could just like let them

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hang out. Who cares? Chihaya says no, and she

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insists that they have to teach the recruits

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how to play. And then she realizes that everybody

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in the team has different priorities as people

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often, you know, individuals. Yeah, everyone

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has a different idea of what what the club should

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be. We cut to. Sumire, whose sights are set squarely

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on Taichi, she says that her above average looks

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make her the perfect typical Shoujo main character,

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which is incredible. It's an incredible scene

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where she's like, I could be the main character.

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Chihaya is a hot chick who could be my rival.

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It's like I'm like writing the story. In class,

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Nishida and Chihaya exchange notes where she

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tries to convince him that they should actually

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try to teach the recruits, but he doesn't agree.

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Elsewhere, Tai Chi thinks Chihaya should be dedicating

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herself to her own play, not teaching the newbies.

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How's she ever gonna make Queen if she's got

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to teach a bunch of people some stuff? After

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school, the club meets again. Again, Chihaya

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volunteers to train the new members, and we get

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a reveal of everyone's priorities. Here's everyone's

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priorities. Tai Chi, he prioritizes reaching

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Master and Queen level matches. Kana's priorities

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are just proper etiquette, meaning she like wants

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everybody to like look the part and act the part,

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I guess. Satomu's priorities are the practice

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environment, which mostly just means he just

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wants to keep the room. He doesn't really care

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what we do with the recurrence, like whatever.

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Nishida cares about winning the high school championship

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for some reason, and Chihaya... decides that

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her priority is Tai Chi reaching rank A, which

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like rankles him for a second as he thinks that

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Chihaya cares about him. But then she keeps going

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and says, we should also win the team, the high

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school team and individual championships in each

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class. And also we should train all the first

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years. Basically, I want everything. Everybody

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thinks that's very greedy, but they all go with

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it because she's the mascot of the show. We transition

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to Chihaya teaching all of the girls that are

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the recruits. And also there's one guy here who's

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blonde. Back at the cards club. while Chi Hai

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is teaching the recruits. Tai Chi asks the rest

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of the team if he could go practice at the Cardo

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Society on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and she's

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just like, yeah, man, it's cool. And then he

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just leaves. So I guess it's cool. I guess we

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don't have to worry about the team tournament.

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We cut back to the, like, training that Chi Hai

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is the, I guess, like the class, like the new

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recruit class. Sumire isn't interested in learning

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from somebody who isn't Tai Chi, so she ducks

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out. of class after being inspired by one of

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the poems. She like reads one of them and she's

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just like, I should be pursuing love instead

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of doing this stupid, instead of this bullshit.

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I'm going to leave. Don't let your dreams be

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dreams, kids. And Chihaya is moved by her passion

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as she makes up some dumb excuse to leave. Yeah,

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because Chihaya is stupid. Sumire sees Taichi

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and follows him to the train platform. She tries

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to flirt with him, but he is not interested.

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She tries to be more direct and is like, wow,

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Taichi, you're so popular. I bet a lot of girls

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ask you out all the time and Taichi says, you'd

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be surprised. Anyway, I'd rather pick my girlfriend

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than the other way around. So there's that. Anyway,

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you're cute, Sumire. I'm sure guys ask you out

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all the time. And then he gets off the train

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to leave. And Sumire is like, damn, that seemed

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definitive. This sucks. But you know what? I'm

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not going to let my dreams be dreams like those

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poems say. And then she chases after him as we

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cut to credits. Yeah, it was a cool line. He

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said something like, I want to choose the girl

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I'm going to devote myself to. Ah, he is very

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dreamy. Tai Chi, you're so Pretty. Here for the

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eye candy. Sumire, best character now? Unfortunately,

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the person, Sumire is easily the best character

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now. Well, I still like Tai Chi. I mean, the

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fact that, like, it's, like, he says this line,

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like, it's a cool guy thing to say, but then

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it's like, Tai Chi, you picked Chihaya. Bad pick.

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Unfortunately, I know who you are, and I know

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who you picked, and I think you made a mistake.

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For real. We also get a little scene, I forgot

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to put this in the summary, where like, back

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at the training camp or whatever, Chihira just

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annihilates everybody throughout the practice.

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Yeah. When they practice cards. They basically

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do like where it's all 100 poems and it's three

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of them versus her. I think they said she took

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all the cards. She took all of the cards. I don't

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know why this is a nightmare. Anyway, that was

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the end of episode one. We're back in it. We're

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back in Chihayafuru. Karuta is happening, baby.

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They're recruiting members. They got a lot of

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members through the power of being hot. That's

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right. It's a strong power. None of them give

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a shit about Karuta because of course not. Because

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it's incredibly unpopular. The barrier to entry

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to play this game is insane. Being like, you

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have to memorize a hundred poems in a week. I

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would be like, well, I'm not joining this club,

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obviously. Yeah, that is insane. And I feel like,

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I don't know, just just start playing it and

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get into it. And then you'll be motivated to

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memorize it. Like making them memorize first

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is like not the best choice. I mean, none of

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them did that, I feel like. Right. It doesn't

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even have them memorized. I just freaking know.

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Yeah. So I did not think they did a very good

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job recruiting people. I think they're really

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bad at this. I was surprised by how bad Kana

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was at this. I do. Kana is one of my favorites.

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I normally like her, but I feel like she's taking

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huge L's this episode. Well, we'll see if that

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continues to be the case in these other episodes.

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Do you have any any final thoughts about episode

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one? No Arata yet? Yeah, the thing that I remember

00:23:27.829 --> 00:23:34.829
about season two is Sumire. Having someone normal

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who's not just enchanted somehow by this bizarre

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game. We get the best quote of all time. And

00:23:41.230 --> 00:23:44.730
she just says it as it is. Next episode. Yeah.

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Yeah. Let's get to it then. Let's hear that quote.

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Yeah. Okay. It's not, well, it's like a scene,

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I guess. But it made me feel very stupid. A lot

00:23:53.730 --> 00:23:55.470
of these, I feel like I just get owned watching

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Chaya Fever all the time. And I got owned in

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episode two. Episode two is called As My Love

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First Came. We open on Sumire just like tailing

00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:06.599
Taichi because she's just like following him.

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She sees that he's going to the Karuta society

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and is destroyed. She's like, Karuta again? There's

00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:15.160
no end to this stupid card game. Yeah. At the

00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:17.180
Karuta society, Taichi tries to play against

00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:19.720
Tsubaguchi, who's like the ace from their team

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before, I guess. But the guy who lost the Masters.

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Yeah, from the society who, yeah, he lost and

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I think he got third in the Masters or something.

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Yeah. Yeah, he like didn't make it to like the

00:24:30.670 --> 00:24:34.190
final round. Yeah. But I guess he just got a

00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:36.210
job as a high school teacher. But for some reason,

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his class is only eighth grade girls and he hates

00:24:38.769 --> 00:24:42.049
it, I guess. No, no, it's that he's like, oh,

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there's only eight girls in my class. Like he

00:24:45.549 --> 00:24:49.470
wished it was more girls or just creepy. Oh,

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I thought his class was only girls. But now more

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basically. Yes. This is a bad, that's a worse

00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:58.140
joke. I thought it would be funnier if it's just

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like for some reason my entire class is just

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girls and I don't know what to do. Oh, I hate

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.920
that. Ikki. Yeah, don't love that. Well, good

00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.339
news is that we don't have to talk to him. Tycheek

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convinces him to play and they just play, ew.

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Sumire spies on the Carta Club and is like, I

00:25:16.259 --> 00:25:17.539
can't believe these people actually play this

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complicated ass game. She watches them play and

00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:22.180
can't believe that a hot guy like Tycheek would

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play this weird, this weird game. She's so funny.

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Dr. Harada shows up behind Sumire and is like,

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.079
hey kid, what's up? You want to join the Karate

00:25:31.079 --> 00:25:33.339
club? I can teach you the ropes. And Sumire is

00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:35.299
like, well, actually, I was just wondering what's

00:25:35.299 --> 00:25:37.259
fun about this game. I don't really get it. And

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:40.259
Dr. Harada is like, you know, I've been thinking

00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:42.980
about that exact question for like 45 years.

00:25:43.099 --> 00:25:44.900
I don't really know what's fun about this game.

00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:47.799
I just keep playing it. And Sumire is like, what?

00:25:48.109 --> 00:25:51.269
And then the scene ends, and I am like, I have

00:25:51.269 --> 00:25:53.549
been owned again. I keep wanting to know what

00:25:53.549 --> 00:25:56.490
is fun about this game. And the answer is that

00:25:56.490 --> 00:25:59.910
nobody knows. It just has a stranglehold on everyone's

00:25:59.910 --> 00:26:05.150
psyche. You know? It's like an intellectual contagion

00:26:05.150 --> 00:26:06.410
where it's like, when you think about a thing,

00:26:06.549 --> 00:26:08.410
you just can't stop thinking about it, you know?

00:26:08.589 --> 00:26:12.390
It becomes your obsession. You don't know why.

00:26:12.899 --> 00:26:15.380
I can't believe the scene happens. I can't believe

00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:18.660
you're doubling down on not explaining or wanting

00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:21.140
to explain why everybody likes Caritas so much.

00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.660
I guess they show it to you in the show, so I

00:26:23.660 --> 00:26:25.740
don't really need to explain it with words. But

00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:27.980
I feel like you could also explain it with words

00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:31.279
sometimes. A mystery to us all. Forever? Even

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:33.059
you, who's watched the whole show? Is it still

00:26:33.059 --> 00:26:36.640
a mystery? Well, I'm like, it's fun. Even though

00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:39.480
I'm bad at it. But I never get to play it because

00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:41.579
no one plays it with me. So I don't have the

00:26:41.579 --> 00:26:44.119
time to get to know. In the evening, she tries

00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:46.059
to show her mom and her sister something she

00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:48.279
drew, but they both hate it. Back to that. We

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:49.940
see your sister, sister mentioned. Remember,

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.599
she has the sister who I thought was going to

00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:53.579
be important. And it just wasn't because they

00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:56.779
solved all their problems immediately. I guess

00:26:56.779 --> 00:26:58.960
so. I feel like she's got to come back. Right.

00:26:59.420 --> 00:27:05.980
Right. OK. Oh, I barely remember. OK. The next

00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:07.980
day, Chihaya comes to the club early to help

00:27:07.980 --> 00:27:09.839
clean the room and Kana is touched. But then

00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:11.640
she realizes that she's cleaning the room wrong

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.019
and gets mad at her. Kana sees Chihaya's drawing,

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:17.160
which are a bunch of different shirts designs

00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:19.920
for like the like the updated shirt design team.

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:22.859
And she also hates all of them, which I feel

00:27:22.859 --> 00:27:24.359
is kind of mean. They didn't look that bad to

00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:28.539
me. Oh, they're bad. I didn't. I wasn't into

00:27:28.539 --> 00:27:32.259
it. But I guess I don't know high school. I mean,

00:27:32.500 --> 00:27:35.759
high school shirts. are supposed to suck, so

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.259
I guess it's fine. Yeah. Anyway, at Newbie teaching

00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:41.960
class, Chihaya has lost over half the recruits

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.660
on day two. She's like, dang, is it because I

00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:46.940
just crushed them in practice matches and that

00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:49.680
was most of the teaching? Maybe I shouldn't have

00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:51.680
done that. And she begins to doubt that she can

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.119
actually get these kids to like this game. Later,

00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.720
Sumire is walking home with some friends. Since

00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.140
Tai Chi isn't teaching them a karta, they're

00:27:59.140 --> 00:28:00.619
all going to quit because they are just here

00:28:00.619 --> 00:28:03.200
for the hot guy. but because he's not there,

00:28:03.259 --> 00:28:04.539
they're going to join a different club with different

00:28:04.539 --> 00:28:06.839
hot guys. And also, Karyto's way too hard to

00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:09.660
learn. They go to McDonald's, and Sumire is like,

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:11.819
wow, these new friends of mine sure are boring.

00:28:12.779 --> 00:28:16.279
It's so funny. I love her. She's like, I made

00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:18.440
all these new friends, and they're lame. The

00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:20.839
only thing they had in common is drooling over

00:28:20.839 --> 00:28:24.500
Tai Chi. Those ones have given up now, so. She's

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:27.519
like, I got to get a boyfriend stat. I'm just

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:30.299
gonna be bored out of my mind. She randomly starts

00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:32.200
reciting one of the poems out of boredom when

00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:34.079
she sees something that reminds her of one of

00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:35.519
them and they're like, what are you doing? And

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.460
she's like, nothing. I'm not doing anything.

00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.980
Shut up. It's the next day and at training camp

00:28:41.980 --> 00:28:45.140
there's just that one blonde kid. His name is

00:28:45.140 --> 00:28:49.259
Tsukuba and a crying Chi Hai introduces him to

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:51.579
the rest of the team because she has lost her

00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:55.420
entire roster. This is all we got left. This

00:28:55.420 --> 00:28:58.039
is all we got left is this one kid who didn't

00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:00.339
say anything. She's disappointed that everybody

00:29:00.339 --> 00:29:02.079
else quit, but the rest of the team basically

00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.619
expected this would happen, so they're just like,

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:05.759
oh cool, you retained one person? That's incredible.

00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:09.819
Suddenly, Sumire comes in. She's like, hey guys,

00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:11.480
no one was in the classroom, what's the deal?

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:13.519
And Taichi grabs her hand and thanks her for

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.059
coming back. She's like, he's like, oh thank

00:29:15.059 --> 00:29:17.480
God, we got more than one weird kid. And she

00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:19.180
is like smitten. She's like, oh my God, the hot

00:29:19.180 --> 00:29:21.400
guy is holding my hand. They set up a match for

00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.799
the first year to play. Kana notes that Sumire's

00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.079
nails are long and that she should clip her nails.

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:28.140
But Sumire's like, am I gonna clip my nails?

00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:31.079
I like maintain my nails, they look nice. It's

00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:32.880
not like I'm going to be trying that hard anyway,

00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:35.680
so who cares what my nail length is? They start

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.460
playing, and in the middle of reading, Sumire

00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:39.519
says, wait, so she can check her makeup, and

00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:42.359
she leaves. Connor drags her out into the hallway,

00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:44.579
and she high follows after. All the guys are

00:29:44.579 --> 00:29:49.500
like, is this like a girl thing? Maybe we should

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:53.059
just not worry about it. And then Nishida apologizes

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:56.190
to... Tsukuba and we find out that he's weird.

00:29:56.609 --> 00:29:59.329
He is strange. I do not like him. I'd rather

00:29:59.329 --> 00:30:06.470
he never be expressionless forever. Yes. In the

00:30:06.470 --> 00:30:09.170
hallway, Kana is like, what was that all about,

00:30:09.430 --> 00:30:11.029
Sabire? But Samira explains that she's trying

00:30:11.029 --> 00:30:13.470
to look good, obviously. Like, I got to check

00:30:13.470 --> 00:30:15.890
my makeup and stuff. I got to look hot. Kana

00:30:15.890 --> 00:30:18.170
tells her that it's vulgar and stupid to spend

00:30:18.170 --> 00:30:19.569
all of your time thinking about love. She's like

00:30:19.569 --> 00:30:23.460
a grandma. Like an old baby. Like the least like

00:30:23.460 --> 00:30:27.079
no fun allowed, Kana. Yeah, yeah. Samiri looks

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:29.160
up from her mirror and he's like, I'm sorry,

00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:31.940
what did you just say? Oh, literally all of the

00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:34.700
Karda poems are about love. I'm like, not even

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:37.539
here for Karda. I'm here for love. I feel like

00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:39.700
this makes sense. I'm trying to get with Tai

00:30:39.700 --> 00:30:41.759
Chi, guys. I don't know if you guys noticed this,

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.180
but I'm here to get with Tai Chi. And she got

00:30:45.180 --> 00:30:50.980
it, Kana. She just said that. It's so funny!

00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:54.720
Yeah, she's a very straightforward gal. This

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:58.059
is so good. Um, Severia takes her time fixing

00:30:58.059 --> 00:31:01.259
her mascara and Kana hates her. That's my note.

00:31:03.779 --> 00:31:06.859
Later, Tsukuba shows the team his Hokkaido cards.

00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.140
They're made of wood and are a variation of the

00:31:11.140 --> 00:31:13.299
game that only uses the second verses of the

00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:15.259
poem. So instead of saying the first verse and

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:17.200
then you hit the second verse card, they just

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.039
say the second verse, I guess. So you just hit

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:21.940
the card. He's like, I used to play this in Hokkaido

00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:24.299
growing up, but I was really good at it. But

00:31:24.299 --> 00:31:26.859
I hear you guys play first verse card here, so

00:31:26.859 --> 00:31:29.299
I want to be good at that, too. I'm ambitious.

00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:32.259
I feel like second verse sounds so much easier.

00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:37.000
It sounds like a much more fun game. Yes. So

00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.539
it's like, yeah, plop them. We learned that if

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:44.400
you smacked it, you could injure someone. That's

00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:47.279
true. It does seem like I don't know. We learned

00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.339
that Tsukuba is really elitist and doesn't want

00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:51.579
to learn from Tsutomu, who's rank C, but instead

00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:53.359
wants to learn from Taichi, who's hot and rank

00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:55.980
B because he's also into hot people, even though

00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:58.119
they're both guys. I don't think he's gay, but

00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:00.160
I don't know. Whatever. I think it's just like

00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.920
he comes from a very mundane looking family.

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.269
And so. and we get another thing next episode,

00:32:06.349 --> 00:32:08.569
but I don't know some weird thing in their family,

00:32:08.710 --> 00:32:11.250
which is like surround yourself with beautiful

00:32:11.250 --> 00:32:16.450
people if you can. Yeah, which OK. Practice dark

00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:19.369
and the newbies suck. So Cuba is doing a bunch

00:32:19.369 --> 00:32:22.930
of illegal moves in first verse Carta, but otherwise

00:32:22.930 --> 00:32:26.289
he's like not that bad, I guess. Samira has memorized

00:32:26.289 --> 00:32:27.970
some of the cards and is able to actually take

00:32:27.970 --> 00:32:30.029
one. Then Chihaya tells her to trim her nails.

00:32:30.109 --> 00:32:32.450
She's like, hey, I already told you that I'm

00:32:32.450 --> 00:32:34.549
here for Tai Chi and not for Karta. She says

00:32:34.549 --> 00:32:36.569
out loud while Tai Chi is in the room. And then

00:32:36.569 --> 00:32:38.269
she realizes that she just said that out loud

00:32:38.269 --> 00:32:39.750
while Tai Chi's in the room and gets embarrassed

00:32:39.750 --> 00:32:43.269
and takes off. It's so funny. It is embarrassing,

00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:46.690
but also, girl, we all knew. You asked if he

00:32:46.690 --> 00:32:52.390
was single last episode. That did the job. The

00:32:52.390 --> 00:32:54.549
rest of the crew tells Chihaya not to worry about

00:32:54.549 --> 00:32:57.349
Sumire, but Chihaya tells him that she wants

00:32:57.349 --> 00:32:59.710
new members so they can have subs, and she goes

00:32:59.710 --> 00:33:03.329
to like, she can have subs for the team tournament

00:33:03.329 --> 00:33:05.430
because last time they didn't, and Chihaya got

00:33:05.430 --> 00:33:09.690
sick, and that's why they lost. Anyway, she rushes

00:33:09.690 --> 00:33:12.089
off to find Sumire, but immediately runs into

00:33:12.089 --> 00:33:14.730
a chair and like, bashes her shin in like the

00:33:14.730 --> 00:33:18.109
funniest thing that happens this episode. So

00:33:18.109 --> 00:33:22.789
instead, Kana goes after her. is so severe. It's

00:33:22.789 --> 00:33:26.069
so much. It's extremely funny. Like, this is

00:33:26.069 --> 00:33:27.789
like a really good bit where she like says this

00:33:27.789 --> 00:33:29.769
motivating thing. She's like, no, we need to

00:33:29.769 --> 00:33:32.109
care and respect our new members so that we can

00:33:32.109 --> 00:33:34.089
have more people and grow the team. And then

00:33:34.089 --> 00:33:37.329
she immediately just eats it. It's very funny.

00:33:38.450 --> 00:33:40.890
Yes. While that's happening, does she just starts

00:33:40.890 --> 00:33:45.019
mentoring Tsukuba? Kanna eventually catches up

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:47.519
with Samire. She's like, Oh God, I can't believe

00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.400
I just said that. I mean, like I'm trying to

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.240
get him like get with him when he's like right

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.299
there in the room and kind of gives her a speech

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:56.539
about how emotions are harder to convey than

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:58.819
just blurting out words like she probably doesn't

00:33:58.819 --> 00:34:00.960
grasp your tooth, your true feelings based on

00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:03.660
one outburst. Come on, let's just go back and

00:34:03.660 --> 00:34:05.579
act like it didn't happen. It's not like the

00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:08.119
feelings are deep enough. There's there is no

00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:10.539
depth to the feelings. There is no depth like

00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:12.849
the space. You just think this guy is hot, which

00:34:12.849 --> 00:34:16.369
like, OK, fair. But also, what are we doing here?

00:34:16.590 --> 00:34:19.010
Well, going back, Kanna asks Sumire if she can

00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:22.110
teach her how to wear mascara and tells her that

00:34:22.110 --> 00:34:24.090
crying from embarrassment is the sign of a beautiful

00:34:24.090 --> 00:34:27.969
soul because they're friends now, I guess. Because

00:34:27.969 --> 00:34:33.250
I only have three eyelashes. That's true. Mascara.

00:34:33.750 --> 00:34:37.579
Oh, man. They make it back to the club. Samira

00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:39.639
says that she needs to memorize the poem, so

00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:42.320
she's going to do that instead of practice. And

00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:43.880
then she trims her nails and everybody's happy

00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.480
about it as we cut the credits. It's disgusting

00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:51.139
fingernail clipping all over the club. You know,

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:53.679
gross. So I guess Samira is on board for reasons

00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:55.860
I don't quite understand, but, you know, yeah,

00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:58.739
her heart's not quite in it. Yeah, well, it's

00:34:58.739 --> 00:35:02.389
better than. Sitting at McDonald's, I guess.

00:35:02.389 --> 00:35:05.929
That's true. Her alternatives are not good. Yeah,

00:35:06.150 --> 00:35:09.190
so at least she gets to look at pretty people.

00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:11.610
Yeah, like, you know, she seems to like the poems

00:35:11.610 --> 00:35:14.389
well enough. She, like, recites them. Yeah. Mm

00:35:14.389 --> 00:35:16.590
hmm. I don't know how that, well, it's going

00:35:16.590 --> 00:35:18.809
to translate to the slapping game of Carta, but

00:35:18.809 --> 00:35:23.030
we'll see. We'll see. So we get our two new members.

00:35:23.750 --> 00:35:27.820
Yep, yep. How are we feeling about them? I like

00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:30.760
one of them. I like one of them too. One of them

00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:33.780
is an icon who we love. And the other one is

00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:36.179
I don't like him. A little creep. A little weirdo.

00:35:36.260 --> 00:35:39.699
He's creepy and bizarre. He's like somehow they

00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:42.880
introduce a... We need our easy to draw characters.

00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:47.059
I guess. Somehow we introduce a weirder guy that

00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:48.940
I like even less than the other weirder guys

00:35:48.940 --> 00:35:53.599
that we've had. Pseudo and retro. Yes. Yeah.

00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:58.349
Well, I don't know. I don't know. It's just creepy.

00:35:58.510 --> 00:36:02.010
I don't like it. It's not funny. It's not funny.

00:36:02.250 --> 00:36:03.670
It seems like it's supposed to. I don't know.

00:36:03.730 --> 00:36:05.889
Like when we're going for humor. Oh, in this.

00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:11.050
Yeah. In this with this guy. So, yeah. We'll

00:36:11.050 --> 00:36:13.090
see if it gets in there. I guess they're kind

00:36:13.090 --> 00:36:17.150
of friends now. They can both bond over being

00:36:17.150 --> 00:36:19.909
feminine. Yeah. Yeah. Because she's like, I finally

00:36:19.909 --> 00:36:22.550
have. Oh, no, this is next episode. But she's

00:36:22.550 --> 00:36:25.489
like, there's finally a second female. Remember?

00:36:25.829 --> 00:36:30.130
Yeah, she does. Which is incredibly funny. Yeah.

00:36:30.809 --> 00:36:32.949
Yeah. I guess that's the like the crux of mostly

00:36:32.949 --> 00:36:35.469
what happens, right? She goes to the card club.

00:36:35.469 --> 00:36:37.849
She talks to Dr. Harada. She doesn't join, I

00:36:37.849 --> 00:36:40.510
guess. Dr. Harada doesn't know why card is fun.

00:36:40.769 --> 00:36:43.489
Yeah, basically, she's like, this is a weird

00:36:43.489 --> 00:36:46.989
game and the people play it are also strange.

00:36:47.909 --> 00:36:50.690
But at least they're interested. She's not wrong.

00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:53.949
Yeah. She's like, I have nothing else to do.

00:36:55.389 --> 00:36:59.530
Yeah, get a hobby, girl. Like, well, I guess

00:36:59.530 --> 00:37:02.610
this is the hobby, but how can you not have any?

00:37:02.789 --> 00:37:05.030
I don't understand. I mean, she's still after

00:37:05.030 --> 00:37:07.130
Tai Chi, right? Like, she ain't giving up on

00:37:07.130 --> 00:37:11.929
that. So, oh, yeah, probably. Well, to be honest,

00:37:11.969 --> 00:37:13.769
she probably stands a better chance with Tai

00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:15.949
Chi than Tai Chi does with Chihaya right now.

00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:19.480
So maybe it's not a bad gambit. That's right

00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:21.380
because we have the love triangle so we need

00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:25.380
like alternative options for whoever doesn't

00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:29.000
win a lot. Yeah Oh, man, what if what if a Rada

00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.239
falls in love with Sumire? There we go. Now we're

00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:33.719
getting complicated here. We'll talk about it

00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:41.610
once I have speculations of my own That would

00:37:41.610 --> 00:37:43.269
be great. I want what I really want is like a

00:37:43.269 --> 00:37:45.449
weird daisy chain of crushes that just lead to

00:37:45.449 --> 00:37:48.150
like disasters. This isn't like Nishida was kind

00:37:48.150 --> 00:37:51.429
of interested in Kana or something. Yeah, I think

00:37:51.429 --> 00:37:54.110
so. Not that there's been any action on that,

00:37:54.110 --> 00:37:57.889
but yeah. Yes. No, we really have gotten nothing

00:37:57.889 --> 00:38:02.349
with Satomu and Nishida this episode. We get

00:38:02.349 --> 00:38:05.269
some next episode a little bit, mostly from Satomu.

00:38:05.469 --> 00:38:07.869
Yeah, because he is your favorite character.

00:38:08.110 --> 00:38:10.849
Yeah, because he had the best match. Oh, that's

00:38:10.849 --> 00:38:13.150
right. Or interesting when you're not just perfect

00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:15.449
at the game. Yeah, it's more interesting when

00:38:15.449 --> 00:38:18.570
you have to say what your strengths are and your

00:38:18.570 --> 00:38:20.210
opponent's strengths are and kind of come up

00:38:20.210 --> 00:38:22.949
with a strategy. And like the scene just doesn't

00:38:22.949 --> 00:38:24.789
play out in front of you. You're like, I'm winning.

00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:28.170
I'm losing. I'm not fast enough. I'm too fast.

00:38:28.269 --> 00:38:31.030
You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, a little

00:38:31.030 --> 00:38:32.909
more dramatic. Yeah. Well, I guess we'll get

00:38:32.909 --> 00:38:35.889
more of that with our new players. Hopefully.

00:38:36.030 --> 00:38:38.900
I mean, like next time. Interesting ways. Yeah.

00:38:39.099 --> 00:38:40.440
Next episode, they start playing, but we don't

00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:43.099
really get into any of the games all that much.

00:38:43.420 --> 00:38:47.380
Yeah. Yeah. Let's get to it. OK. Episode three

00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:50.980
is called Feel Love Deepen. We open on Arata

00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:54.940
playing the Fukui Class A Championship. He loses

00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:57.739
to Murau, that guy from last season that had

00:38:57.739 --> 00:38:59.380
those siblings that he had to convince to play

00:38:59.380 --> 00:39:02.460
Karda again. Arata is annoyed that he got second,

00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:05.519
but is happy for Murau. A guy comes to congratulate

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.559
Arata on his second place and tells him that

00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.880
his, and Arata tells him that his next goal is

00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:11.260
in the high school tournament, because there

00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:13.000
are some people there he wants to play against.

00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:15.579
And we learned that it's time for the tournament

00:39:15.579 --> 00:39:17.780
because it's happening right now. We cut to the

00:39:17.780 --> 00:39:20.119
tournament, school tournament. We always cut

00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:23.179
to the tournaments. Yep. Always. This is like

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:26.639
just like a year ago in the show. Yeah, I think

00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:29.059
this is fine, I don't know. They get comment

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:32.980
in Tsutomu and then immediately cut to the tournament.

00:39:33.190 --> 00:39:35.409
That's true. Yeah. I guess that always happens

00:39:35.409 --> 00:39:37.170
because there's like very little time between

00:39:37.170 --> 00:39:39.769
like the beginning of a semester and the tournament,

00:39:39.889 --> 00:39:42.809
which is weird. But OK, like two months or something.

00:39:42.929 --> 00:39:44.349
It's like a weird scheduling. Yeah, it's like

00:39:44.349 --> 00:39:45.889
two months, which means like, yeah, if you get

00:39:45.889 --> 00:39:48.110
new recruits, you basically can't teach them

00:39:48.110 --> 00:39:50.869
anything because you have two months. Yes. Yeah.

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:54.449
Yeah, that kind of is a terrible setup. Right.

00:39:54.550 --> 00:39:56.190
You think it would be at the end of the semester,

00:39:56.190 --> 00:39:59.269
right? Or it's like the high school for the high

00:39:59.269 --> 00:40:01.800
schoolers. But it's just not. It's peculiar,

00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:05.480
I guess because their summer break isn't super

00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.780
long. So it's like, yeah, it's just the setup

00:40:08.780 --> 00:40:12.260
for not newcomers to have a chance. Yeah, like

00:40:12.260 --> 00:40:13.739
I guess it makes sense because like all of the

00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:15.360
experienced players have like bigger tournaments

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.679
happening later in the year. Maybe it just like

00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:20.239
got relegated because it's less important. I

00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.679
don't know. Anyway, we cut to Kanna's mom gushing

00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:26.199
over Tai Chi. She's like, oh, Tai Chi, you're

00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:28.159
so hot when you wear the Hakama. This is great.

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:30.300
This is great for business. You could be my poster

00:40:30.300 --> 00:40:33.059
child. Sumire is like, who the hell is this woman

00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:36.019
gushing over Taichi? But then Kana brings over

00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:38.559
Ahakama to Sumire and tells her that all members

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.239
must wear them. And Sumire is like, I thought

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:41.840
I was just sitting out. Why do I got to wear

00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:44.719
one? But unlike everyone else, though, Sumire

00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.400
is stoked to wear such a pretty outfit. She's

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:49.360
like, this rules. I love wearing cool shit because

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.179
she's great. Sumire is great. She continues.

00:40:52.780 --> 00:40:55.420
Episode three, by the way, I don't think we.

00:40:55.619 --> 00:40:59.369
I didn't say that. Oh, you did? OK, never mind.

00:40:59.750 --> 00:41:02.710
Feel love deepen episode three. Yep, yep, yep,

00:41:02.769 --> 00:41:06.989
yep. And this is where we get the like appreciation

00:41:06.989 --> 00:41:10.090
for a feminine member. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:41:10.130 --> 00:41:11.889
She's like, oh, finally another woman. And then

00:41:11.889 --> 00:41:13.829
we cut to Chihaya and there's a line. There's

00:41:13.829 --> 00:41:15.449
like a note pointing to her saying that doesn't

00:41:15.449 --> 00:41:17.989
count as a woman member or whatever. Yep, yep.

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:21.539
Very funny. Satomo and Chihaya are checking out

00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:23.840
the matchups. When suddenly a bunch of kids rush

00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:26.380
up to Chihaya, we learn that they're Tsukuba's

00:41:26.380 --> 00:41:28.199
brothers and their family is weird about hot

00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:30.440
people. We also learn that he hasn't told his

00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:33.340
family that he's like a benchwarmer because he

00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:35.119
joined this like two months ago and so they all

00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:36.960
think he's gonna play. Elsewhere, Nishida and

00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.780
Taichi learn that Tokyo gets to send two schools

00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:41.579
to nationals this year because I guess they had

00:41:41.579 --> 00:41:43.619
more entrants and like if you have a certain

00:41:43.619 --> 00:41:45.320
number of schools participating you get to send

00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.010
two. That's fun. Also, Retro is here and taunts

00:41:49.010 --> 00:41:51.130
Taichi. And then Retro teases that they have

00:41:51.130 --> 00:41:55.269
a new secret weapon to use. But who knows what

00:41:55.269 --> 00:41:58.869
that is? Yeah. And they also, Nishida and Taichi

00:41:58.869 --> 00:42:03.010
are like... You know, he's... I don't know who's

00:42:03.010 --> 00:42:06.329
weirder between Retro and Tsukuba, but hint,

00:42:06.489 --> 00:42:09.730
hint. That guy's weird. This guy's weird. Weirdos

00:42:09.730 --> 00:42:12.130
everywhere. It's just weird guys all the way

00:42:12.130 --> 00:42:15.920
down. Yep, you look so disgusted in like a little

00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.619
video thing. You look like like God I have to

00:42:18.619 --> 00:42:22.579
think about these fun Yeah, I like maybe the

00:42:22.579 --> 00:42:25.980
eyes he makes are fine, but the tongue is so

00:42:25.980 --> 00:42:33.579
Yeah, I guess it's like some mascot character

00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:36.320
does that I guess so and she hi I was like, oh

00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:39.119
my god, he does look like that character Yeah,

00:42:39.260 --> 00:42:41.079
so the tournament starts and shy returns the

00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:44.489
trophy from last year Tsukuba tries to change

00:42:44.489 --> 00:42:47.469
the play order so that he can play, but Nishida

00:42:47.469 --> 00:42:51.510
catches him, and him and Taichi scold him. This

00:42:51.510 --> 00:42:54.869
is wild how not a big deal this ends up being.

00:42:55.090 --> 00:43:03.889
He was just gonna swap himself in. So Tomu is

00:43:03.889 --> 00:43:05.989
like, you know, actually thinking it over, maybe

00:43:05.989 --> 00:43:08.170
we should redo the first order, like the order

00:43:08.170 --> 00:43:09.590
for the first match because they were just going

00:43:09.590 --> 00:43:11.250
to do the standard lineup, right? Of like all

00:43:11.250 --> 00:43:13.849
the people from last year. But instead, what

00:43:13.849 --> 00:43:16.329
they should do is they should swap Tomu out for

00:43:16.329 --> 00:43:19.510
Samurai. And then in the second match, we can

00:43:19.510 --> 00:43:23.389
swap Kana out for Tsukuba and like. I think we

00:43:23.389 --> 00:43:25.210
should do that, because according to my research,

00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:28.010
and he pushes up his glasses, our first opponent

00:43:28.010 --> 00:43:31.010
sucks against girls, and our second opponent

00:43:31.010 --> 00:43:33.949
is easily intimidated, which Tsukuba is good

00:43:33.949 --> 00:43:36.170
at, because he looks like a freak. And Tsukuba's

00:43:36.170 --> 00:43:37.829
like, oh, I can open my eyes and look like a

00:43:37.829 --> 00:43:39.530
freak. And he's like, yeah, but don't do the

00:43:39.530 --> 00:43:41.429
tongue thing. We all hate the tongue thing. Yeah,

00:43:41.530 --> 00:43:44.090
it's too much. Satomu says this. It's very funny.

00:43:44.769 --> 00:43:48.269
I would be like, oh, gross, if I was playing

00:43:48.269 --> 00:43:51.440
against him. Yeah. As long as Taiichi Chihaya

00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:53.360
and Nishida win every time, it doesn't really

00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:55.139
matter who the other two players are anyway,

00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:58.039
so just messing with the other team is good enough.

00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:03.599
Round 1 starts, and Satomu and Tsukuba are watching.

00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:07.380
Tsukuba asks Satomu why he gave him a shot after

00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:09.659
he was so rude and also illegally tried to change

00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:15.570
the play of the players. But Satomu thinks back

00:44:15.570 --> 00:44:17.809
to last year when he tried to leave midway through

00:44:17.809 --> 00:44:20.190
and says, I know how you feel, man. Just like,

00:44:20.210 --> 00:44:21.550
don't worry about getting better. You'll get

00:44:21.550 --> 00:44:23.789
better at your own speed because he's nice. This

00:44:23.789 --> 00:44:28.489
is kind of sweet, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Kana and

00:44:28.489 --> 00:44:32.449
Satomu are the the ones relate because they were

00:44:32.449 --> 00:44:34.630
in the same positions last year where they were

00:44:34.630 --> 00:44:36.829
like the ones that were a burden to the team.

00:44:37.070 --> 00:44:40.559
And so they're both. more sympathetic and understanding

00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:43.400
of how they feel versus the other three who are

00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:46.320
like super good and always have been. Yeah, that

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:48.079
makes sense. So, you know, it's like a nice it's

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:51.480
like a nice passing of the torch, I guess, in

00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:56.699
terms of how you get to be the loser. Yeah. Yeah.

00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.000
In the match, Samira is struggling really hard.

00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:01.900
She's like, I wasn't even supposed to participate

00:45:01.900 --> 00:45:03.500
in this tournament. I just came here to watch.

00:45:03.579 --> 00:45:05.960
Why am I playing? She's able to take her card

00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:08.380
after her opponent points it out to her as a

00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:10.420
method of flirting. And she's like, this is disgusting.

00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:13.719
I hate this. Yeah, it is gross because then she

00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.940
like puts she grabs and he puts his hand on her

00:45:16.940 --> 00:45:22.480
like, oh, I hate this. It's awful. She looks

00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:25.260
over at Chihaya's opponent who's getting obliterated

00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:28.539
as Chihaya wins by 25 cards because she played

00:45:28.539 --> 00:45:34.559
a perfect game. So get annihilated, dude. Sumire

00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:36.559
is trying to get motivated to get back into it.

00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:38.639
She says that she's memorized the cards now,

00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:40.420
so she should have like some hope of winning,

00:45:40.539 --> 00:45:42.460
right? Like theoretically, she should be able

00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:45.960
to take some of these. The round finally ends

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:49.800
and their team wins even though Sumire lost her

00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:53.929
match. I like them. She's like, I want to be

00:45:53.929 --> 00:45:56.710
taken seriously. I don't want to be treated differently

00:45:56.710 --> 00:45:59.170
because I'm a girl like Chiaya is. So that was

00:45:59.170 --> 00:46:02.909
like a good takeaway. Like Chiaya is respected.

00:46:03.230 --> 00:46:06.190
You know, she's not being they're taking her

00:46:06.190 --> 00:46:08.469
seriously and she wants to be good enough to

00:46:08.469 --> 00:46:10.650
force her opponents to take her seriously, too.

00:46:11.130 --> 00:46:13.380
Yeah. I do feel like a little bit like maybe

00:46:13.380 --> 00:46:15.880
Satomu set her up because he put her he put her

00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.320
against the weird guy team because she was against

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.219
the second round team. They wouldn't be they

00:46:21.219 --> 00:46:22.519
wouldn't be thinking that because they're mostly

00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:26.079
women on that team. That's true. Back at school,

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:28.820
the tennis slash car to advisor whose name I

00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:31.139
don't remember talks to the world's oldest teacher

00:46:31.139 --> 00:46:34.480
who's like the gross old man. who was like was

00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.320
the one that insisted that they recruit five

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.079
members. He asked if they were able to recruit

00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:39.860
five members and the advisor was like, yeah,

00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:42.099
they recruited 20 members and then just doesn't

00:46:42.099 --> 00:46:45.179
tell them that 18 of them quit immediately. Yeah.

00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:48.619
Yeah. You don't need to know. So I guess I guess

00:46:48.619 --> 00:46:52.800
that's the payoff. That plot point is resolved.

00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:56.440
Objective complete. She's there. She's like cheering

00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:59.119
for them, even though they're not her priority.

00:46:59.659 --> 00:47:01.079
Oh, yeah. She came back from like a tennis meet.

00:47:01.179 --> 00:47:02.659
And it's like, yeah, I got to go to the car.

00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:06.659
Yeah. Then the old man says that she hid in turn

00:47:06.659 --> 00:47:08.900
in her career sheet again. But the advisor says

00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:10.539
that they'll give her a little more time to figure

00:47:10.539 --> 00:47:12.400
out what she wants to do in the like in the future.

00:47:12.420 --> 00:47:14.059
And then she leaves to go to the tournament.

00:47:14.099 --> 00:47:16.780
I'm like, is this like the tax test where you

00:47:16.780 --> 00:47:20.559
have to like, why do they have to be so insistent?

00:47:20.579 --> 00:47:22.780
Like, tell me what because they could just totally

00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:25.179
lie. Yeah, I think it's like a it's like one

00:47:25.179 --> 00:47:27.260
of those because it's a career sheet. I think

00:47:27.260 --> 00:47:29.019
it's supposed to help you, like, recommend what

00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:30.659
you should do next. Like, oh, if you're trying

00:47:30.659 --> 00:47:32.559
to get into this university, like that would

00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:34.139
be good for this thing. Like, I think it's more

00:47:34.139 --> 00:47:36.579
of like a career planning thing. Yeah, she should

00:47:36.579 --> 00:47:41.019
just put number one queen of Carta number two.

00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:43.619
I want to go to the best school that has the

00:47:43.619 --> 00:47:47.179
Carta club. But didn't she do that? Coach and

00:47:47.179 --> 00:47:50.880
her teachers like that is not a job. Oh, yeah,

00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.739
maybe. I think she did that last like last year.

00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:59.840
Maybe. Well, her family is not loaded, but the

00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:03.139
current queen is like she can just find a sugar

00:48:03.139 --> 00:48:06.780
daddy. Yeah, I guess so. Tai Chi's wife. There

00:48:06.780 --> 00:48:09.380
you go. problem solved except that would be cursed

00:48:09.380 --> 00:48:11.599
it's like the current queen is like a it's like

00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:14.659
a sophomore like the current queen has the job

00:48:14.659 --> 00:48:16.679
that she wants i don't think she makes that much

00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:19.059
money off of it maybe she does i don't know we

00:48:19.059 --> 00:48:21.039
get some we get a little bit of shinobu at the

00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:23.340
end of this which i was excited about anyway

00:48:23.340 --> 00:48:29.960
um we cut back to the tournament it's match two

00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:32.619
and Tsukuba is super nervous because he's playing

00:48:32.619 --> 00:48:35.440
he's messing up pretty bad and is getting wrecked

00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.380
and to make matters worse it turns out he's up

00:48:37.380 --> 00:48:40.320
against the other team's best player because

00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.800
she's rank a who she's like he's playing yeah

00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:49.079
that while that's bad for Tsukuba that basically

00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:51.280
means that they're gonna win like their school

00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:53.380
is going to win because all of their best players

00:48:53.380 --> 00:48:55.280
are teamed up against all of the other team's

00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.239
worst players. So it's basically in the bag strategy.

00:48:58.900 --> 00:49:02.400
Yeah. But Sakuma is going to have it rough, I

00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:05.260
guess. Chihaya is like, hey, man, it's really

00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:07.139
lucky that you get to play an A rank player.

00:49:07.219 --> 00:49:08.920
You get to like have some real experience with

00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:11.000
one of the best people here. And Tai Chi thinks

00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:12.739
that she's trying to cheer him up, but then just

00:49:12.739 --> 00:49:14.260
realizes that she's mad that she doesn't get

00:49:14.260 --> 00:49:17.440
to play her instead. Just pretty funny because

00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:20.619
everyone's like always what? They're just always

00:49:20.619 --> 00:49:24.119
like, oh, Chihaya development. Oh, wait, no,

00:49:24.260 --> 00:49:27.400
nevermind. It's funny. She's like, oh, she's

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:29.280
really being encouraging. Although I don't really

00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.039
know why she's saying he's lucky. And Tsukuba's

00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:32.400
like, I guess that's good. I don't really think

00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:34.000
that makes me lucky though. And then it's like,

00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:36.579
it doesn't. She just wanted to be the person

00:49:36.579 --> 00:49:40.090
who plays her. Sakuma tries to figure out what

00:49:40.090 --> 00:49:42.110
his main skill is when he thinks about how everybody

00:49:42.110 --> 00:49:44.489
else in the team has a skill and we get a flashback

00:49:44.489 --> 00:49:46.489
of him and his brothers playing second verse

00:49:46.489 --> 00:49:49.309
Karuta. Sakuma tries opening his eyes and yelling

00:49:49.309 --> 00:49:51.469
out really creepily and it kind of works but

00:49:51.469 --> 00:49:55.530
not really. We get another flashback where Satomu

00:49:55.530 --> 00:49:57.510
and Nishida tell him that he should focus on

00:49:57.510 --> 00:49:59.150
cards that start with the first letters in his

00:49:59.150 --> 00:50:01.409
name and there's a total of 18 of them so maybe

00:50:01.409 --> 00:50:03.289
if he could just like take all 18 of those cards

00:50:03.289 --> 00:50:05.349
you know he could give himself a pretty good

00:50:05.349 --> 00:50:09.079
lead. If they happen to be in the deck they have.

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:11.579
Yeah, right. If they're there. He can take one

00:50:11.579 --> 00:50:13.659
of them, but can't quite get the others. Meanwhile,

00:50:13.820 --> 00:50:17.300
Chihaya wins another perfect game. Then Taiichi

00:50:17.300 --> 00:50:19.500
and Toshida win their matches and secure the

00:50:19.500 --> 00:50:22.500
team the win. Tsukuba ends up losing by 13 and

00:50:22.500 --> 00:50:25.739
Satomu loses by two. 13 is not bad for being

00:50:25.739 --> 00:50:30.000
a newbie against a class A person. Yeah, 13 is

00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:33.340
not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. And also,

00:50:34.099 --> 00:50:37.349
I guess, I mean, Right. It's like kind of highlight

00:50:37.349 --> 00:50:40.869
Chihaya having a flawless round because she used

00:50:40.869 --> 00:50:45.409
to make a lot of reckless errors, but she's like

00:50:45.409 --> 00:50:48.130
really polished up her skills now. Yeah, she's

00:50:48.130 --> 00:50:51.969
just annihilating everybody. Yeah. Love it. Just

00:50:51.969 --> 00:50:55.070
not as interesting of a match. Yeah, well, we

00:50:55.070 --> 00:50:56.969
don't get to see her matches just like she wins

00:50:56.969 --> 00:51:01.000
by 25. It has like the same energy as like the

00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:03.019
master match at the end of season one where it's

00:51:03.019 --> 00:51:04.800
like you don't get to see his match. He just

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.940
wins. They're just like, yeah, but he wins by

00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:10.079
the same score margin as Shinobu's match. She's

00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:13.480
like, I hate that guy. They also wear the same

00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.780
Hakama like they don't switch it up for every

00:51:15.780 --> 00:51:18.019
tournament. I wish they like got to wear different

00:51:18.019 --> 00:51:24.099
ones. Oh, yeah. After the match Tsukuba's brothers

00:51:24.099 --> 00:51:26.219
congratulate Chihaya saying that she was super

00:51:26.219 --> 00:51:28.139
cool But then they also mentioned that their

00:51:28.139 --> 00:51:30.039
brother will probably catch up soon. So like

00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:33.920
yeah, the whole family's happy Then Chihaya invites

00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.260
them all to the Cardiff Society to like later

00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:38.699
not now result the tournament We cut away to

00:51:38.699 --> 00:51:40.599
Shinobu who's taking a phone call and we see

00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:42.239
that she has lost all the weight from before

00:51:47.269 --> 00:51:49.829
One of the coaches tells her that Arada is going

00:51:49.829 --> 00:51:51.650
to be participating at the next high school tournament

00:51:51.650 --> 00:51:54.050
and Shinobu is like Arada and then sees a vision

00:51:54.050 --> 00:51:56.489
of child Arada as we cut to credits. I didn't

00:51:56.489 --> 00:51:59.849
know here whether she hates him or she doesn't

00:51:59.849 --> 00:52:04.750
hate him. It was a glance of fondness, so probably

00:52:04.750 --> 00:52:10.050
just like a memory in her heart of like one of

00:52:10.050 --> 00:52:12.429
the few people to actually beat her kind of thing.

00:52:12.610 --> 00:52:16.199
And she's got high hopes of a good match. in

00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:18.719
season one, where I thought she was like a weird

00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:22.960
female clone of him. Yeah, that could still happen.

00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:26.239
Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. I feel like

00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:31.340
she is a potential part of the romantic interest.

00:52:32.179 --> 00:52:34.960
Oh, but she's such a little weirdo. I know. But

00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.340
for her, this is close to get the like someone

00:52:38.340 --> 00:52:42.000
maybe I want more Shinobu airtime someone. not

00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:44.780
on her level of parada. And there's not many

00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:48.179
people on that level with her. That's fair. She

00:52:48.179 --> 00:52:50.880
hates the king or the emperor or whatever. Everybody

00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.420
hates that guy. I love that everybody hates him.

00:52:54.699 --> 00:52:57.579
Yep. Oh, yeah. Well, there we go. So you think

00:52:57.579 --> 00:53:00.099
we could have squeezed another episode in here?

00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:03.059
You want to fly through this? I think that's

00:53:03.059 --> 00:53:06.719
fine. We'll see how it starts going. OK, so thought

00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:11.909
so far on how season two is starting. I mean,

00:53:12.170 --> 00:53:13.730
it seems to be pretty similar to season one.

00:53:14.070 --> 00:53:17.150
Yeah, at least there's less flashbacks other

00:53:17.150 --> 00:53:20.329
than episode one here. Yeah, that's true. I mean,

00:53:20.409 --> 00:53:21.650
you don't get all like the initial stuff like

00:53:21.650 --> 00:53:23.090
they don't have to set things up, which I think

00:53:23.090 --> 00:53:24.869
helps because we can just like focus more on

00:53:24.869 --> 00:53:26.949
like the stuff that's going to happen. I do wonder

00:53:26.949 --> 00:53:30.269
like what is going to happen in the episodes

00:53:30.269 --> 00:53:31.809
where they were doing that setup right? Because

00:53:31.809 --> 00:53:34.449
like they're going to follow, I think, the same

00:53:34.449 --> 00:53:38.900
general like Carta tournament schedule. It's

00:53:38.900 --> 00:53:40.820
like you have the high school team matches and

00:53:40.820 --> 00:53:42.119
you're going to have the high school individual

00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:44.699
matches, then you're going to have the whatever

00:53:44.699 --> 00:53:47.719
invitational. Yeah. And then that's going to

00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:49.920
be broken down by like individual ranks. And

00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:51.380
then you're going to go to the next thing. Like,

00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:53.599
I think that's going to mostly stay the same,

00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:55.500
like leading up to the master and queen matches

00:53:55.500 --> 00:53:57.539
again. Yeah. So like we kind of already know

00:53:57.539 --> 00:54:00.219
what the what the beats are going to be. So I'm

00:54:00.219 --> 00:54:02.400
interested to see what happens in between that

00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:05.239
stuff. Yeah. So it's got to be more character

00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:11.500
based. and hopefully less about Chihaya learning

00:54:11.500 --> 00:54:15.019
things from other people and more about the other

00:54:15.019 --> 00:54:18.440
members of the club. That's what I'm hoping for.

00:54:18.539 --> 00:54:21.400
I want more time with everyone else. Yeah, I

00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:22.659
don't know if we're going to get more time with

00:54:22.659 --> 00:54:25.059
everyone else. We want Taichi to get rank A.

00:54:25.380 --> 00:54:27.320
We want Taichi to get rank A. I feel like this

00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:30.400
is the season they have to really commit to Arada

00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:34.380
being a character. Yeah, for sure. You know what

00:54:34.380 --> 00:54:37.260
I mean? But like he just has no looming now.

00:54:37.619 --> 00:54:39.519
He just has no connective tissue to the rest

00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:41.159
of the story. Like we kind of just cut away to

00:54:41.159 --> 00:54:43.679
him sometime. But it's not like I care about

00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.920
any of our background characters. Yeah. Yeah.

00:54:47.139 --> 00:54:49.400
For the characters. Like they need to do something

00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:51.280
like put them in constant contact with everyone

00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:54.260
else. Well, maybe we'll have another cute like

00:54:54.260 --> 00:54:57.960
training camp thing. And that's the opportunity

00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:02.260
to have some romantic developments. Oh, dude.

00:55:02.420 --> 00:55:05.789
Yeah. Plot device. And like Sumire is trying

00:55:05.789 --> 00:55:09.289
to like get him and Chihaya together, because

00:55:09.289 --> 00:55:13.130
she's like, if you get Chihaya, then Tai Chi

00:55:13.130 --> 00:55:16.809
will be available. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's good.

00:55:17.409 --> 00:55:19.969
I can see that for sure. Yeah. And then like,

00:55:19.969 --> 00:55:23.650
you know, Tsukuba gets like lost at sea or something.

00:55:23.789 --> 00:55:27.269
So we just don't have to think about him. He

00:55:27.269 --> 00:55:29.829
drowns up a hot spring where the camp is. That

00:55:29.829 --> 00:55:32.579
would be great. Oh, he moves back to Hokkaido.

00:55:32.980 --> 00:55:34.340
Do you think we're are we going to get like more

00:55:34.340 --> 00:55:36.579
anime trope things happening this season? Because

00:55:36.579 --> 00:55:38.559
we didn't really get that many last season. Yeah,

00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:41.860
I guess it's like it's a very peculiar premise.

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:44.539
There's a lot you have to set up for the audience

00:55:44.539 --> 00:55:47.179
to understand. And then like so many episodes

00:55:47.179 --> 00:55:49.900
of the first season are dedicated to the flashback.

00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.039
Oh, my God, I forgot it was three episodes that

00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:55.920
were just flashbacks. It was so long. Oh, man,

00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.900
that was rough. So I think we have more like

00:55:58.900 --> 00:56:03.860
wiggle room to like do more team building or,

00:56:03.860 --> 00:56:09.280
you know, more fun dynamics between everyone

00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.099
as they get closer with these new members. That's

00:56:12.099 --> 00:56:14.159
why I'm right. What were the episodes that were

00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.860
like, oh, finally, the show is here and immediately

00:56:16.860 --> 00:56:20.420
I went back to that was like where we got to

00:56:20.420 --> 00:56:22.480
see other characters stuff. So hopefully we just

00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:24.880
get more like that. Yeah, I think it was like

00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.849
that. I think it was the. Satomo versus Kana

00:56:27.849 --> 00:56:32.070
and Nishida versus Taichi episodes, which is

00:56:32.070 --> 00:56:34.489
still probably the best episode from last season.

00:56:35.090 --> 00:56:37.090
Yeah, for sure. Where it's like, here's all these

00:56:37.090 --> 00:56:38.849
people that play and here's how the personality

00:56:38.849 --> 00:56:41.489
affects how they play. And this is like, what

00:56:41.489 --> 00:56:44.489
is going on with that? Yeah. And there's like

00:56:44.489 --> 00:56:46.389
this isn't just a card game. It has multiple

00:56:46.389 --> 00:56:48.289
layers to it. And that's what's make it fun.

00:56:48.429 --> 00:56:50.349
But we haven't had we don't know what makes it

00:56:50.349 --> 00:56:52.110
fun. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know

00:56:52.110 --> 00:56:54.889
why people like it. I know what makes it fun

00:56:54.889 --> 00:56:59.369
to watch on screen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll

00:56:59.369 --> 00:57:02.230
see. But yeah, that's the first three episodes

00:57:02.230 --> 00:57:07.110
a season two Chihaya Furu. Yeah. Hopefully I

00:57:07.110 --> 00:57:10.650
know I'm like is if we did good in Rosa Versailles,

00:57:10.730 --> 00:57:14.039
our views are going to plummet here. because

00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:18.619
it's season two of a obscure show. Yeah. Well,

00:57:18.619 --> 00:57:20.800
looking at our metrics, not a lot of people were

00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.840
watching the Rose of Versailles either. So, yeah,

00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:25.460
I think we're just going to have to our next

00:57:25.460 --> 00:57:27.440
show has to be something that's like everybody

00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.800
loves this. Yep. Yep. Yep. I think we already

00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.039
got it planned out, actually. So, yep, yep. So

00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:40.199
yeah, but this will just lower stakes here. The

00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:42.300
French Revolution isn't going to happen in this

00:57:42.300 --> 00:57:44.219
TV show. No one's getting tuberculosis here.

00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.780
No one's getting tuberculosis. No one's getting

00:57:46.780 --> 00:57:49.239
blinded, probably. Oh, they swipe those cards

00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.619
pretty quick. Oh, that's true, yeah. Now, right?

00:57:53.179 --> 00:57:55.119
Sports, I'm like, we should just look at what

00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:58.280
are typical sports anime drama and then like,

00:57:58.659 --> 00:58:01.360
oh, someone's going to get... Injury, and then

00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:03.179
they're gonna happen to like you. It's gonna

00:58:03.179 --> 00:58:07.900
be just like Andre Where oh if you do this thing,

00:58:07.900 --> 00:58:10.739
you're gonna lose vision in the eye for oh my

00:58:10.739 --> 00:58:14.639
god. Do we think Tai Chi? Solution to not do

00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:17.019
it, but they're like I gotta do it for the team

00:58:17.019 --> 00:58:19.659
or something Like Tai Chi's gonna have to throw

00:58:19.659 --> 00:58:22.340
at some point to like save Chiaya somehow even

00:58:22.340 --> 00:58:24.099
though it doesn't make any sense in this context

00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:29.679
Yeah, something silly like that. Sacrifices must

00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:33.340
be made for Carta. For Carta. We're doing all

00:58:33.340 --> 00:58:35.579
of this for Carta. I'm so with Sumire, who's

00:58:35.579 --> 00:58:37.099
just like, they're doing all this for Carta.

00:58:39.059 --> 00:58:43.699
So I guess that's that today. Yeah. For the five

00:58:43.699 --> 00:58:47.280
people listening, what can they do for us, Joe?

00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:51.250
You should tell people to watch. I almost said

00:58:51.250 --> 00:58:54.550
Carta, like that's the name of the show. And

00:58:54.550 --> 00:58:56.449
listen along with this podcast around a pretty

00:58:56.449 --> 00:58:57.929
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00:58:57.929 --> 00:59:01.630
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00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.579
yeah, go ahead and do that. Thanks for thanks

00:59:34.579 --> 00:59:36.519
for sticking with us as we go through Chihaya

00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:41.079
Furu season two. Any lessons learned here? What

00:59:41.079 --> 00:59:43.440
did we learn? What did we learn? Did we learn?

00:59:43.539 --> 00:59:47.719
What did we learn here? If you're up against

00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:50.659
a better opponent, if you're up against a better

00:59:50.659 --> 00:59:52.579
opponent, maybe just start yelling and like looking

00:59:52.579 --> 00:59:55.239
weird, like opening your eyes like all beady

00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.619
eyed. Maybe that'll help. It's so against Japanese

00:59:58.619 --> 01:00:03.119
culture norms, though, to be like loud and boisterous.

01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:05.480
Yeah, just be normal outside of play. You know

01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:07.400
what I mean? Like you go into a game and you're

01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:08.940
just like a weird little guy and then you go

01:00:08.940 --> 01:00:11.800
back out and you're normal. That's the optimal

01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:14.659
right? Imagine if all of them did that like imagine

01:00:14.659 --> 01:00:16.960
if like Arata was just like a cool guy and then

01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:18.920
when he played he was like a little gremlin boy

01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:23.340
No, we can't ruin that perfect image of his He's

01:00:23.340 --> 01:00:25.760
like like water or whatever when she's like drinking

01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:32.440
it all up Dude we need to get more stuff like

01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:34.300
that. I need to get like more stuff. I can be

01:00:34.300 --> 01:00:36.599
like hollering about it. Oh, we'll see Yeah,

01:00:37.139 --> 01:00:41.079
our hopes are riding on Sumire Bring in the team.

01:00:41.480 --> 01:00:44.099
Sumire my favorite character carry the team.

01:00:45.219 --> 01:00:48.300
Save Tai Chi from Chihaya and also whatever else

01:00:48.300 --> 01:00:50.219
is going on with him in Arada, which also seemed

01:00:50.219 --> 01:00:52.440
a little bit, something's going on there too.

01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:57.320
Save him. Save our boy Tai Chi. Save our boy

01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.219
Tai Chi, Sumire, you can do it. The most pitiful

01:00:59.219 --> 01:01:01.820
character we have. You're our only hope. Even

01:01:01.820 --> 01:01:03.420
though he doesn't like you, it is very clear

01:01:03.420 --> 01:01:06.980
about him not liking you very much. Yeah. I know.

01:01:06.980 --> 01:01:10.530
I'm trying to think of like, any scenario. He's

01:01:10.530 --> 01:01:13.849
just been too, it's like just he's too fixated

01:01:13.849 --> 01:01:16.969
on Chihaya and he has been for like a huge part

01:01:16.969 --> 01:01:20.250
of his life. So I don't foresee him letting go

01:01:20.250 --> 01:01:22.570
easily. We'll see. I need Shinobu to be a main

01:01:22.570 --> 01:01:24.329
character. I need her to like, I think they need

01:01:24.329 --> 01:01:26.849
to have like a little training arc where like

01:01:26.849 --> 01:01:29.110
Arata is there and Shinobu is there and everyone's

01:01:29.110 --> 01:01:32.360
there and it's great. Yeah. I don't Yeah, maybe.

01:01:32.579 --> 01:01:34.059
Yeah, that's what we need. There's three seasons

01:01:34.059 --> 01:01:36.760
of Chihayafuru, so. That's true. We are going

01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:38.219
to have to cover season three. Are we going to

01:01:38.219 --> 01:01:40.679
cover season three immediately after this? No.

01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:44.119
All right. Well, thanks, everyone, for listening.

01:01:44.699 --> 01:01:47.519
I need to finish the second half of my pizza

01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:50.340
and then we're recording bonus episode for Jurassic

01:01:50.340 --> 01:01:54.090
Park 3. I look forward to hearing that. One day.

01:01:54.630 --> 01:01:56.670
One day. One day, you'll hear that. You might

01:01:56.670 --> 01:01:59.210
hear that before this. Now, you know, I'll probably

01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:01.170
take too long to edit it. I don't edit that fast.

01:02:01.309 --> 01:02:06.269
Be on the lookout. Follow for JP3. Woo. Until

01:02:06.269 --> 01:02:10.010
until next time, everyone. Bye bye. Slam them

01:02:10.010 --> 01:02:14.130
cards. Yes. Get slapping. Smack that. What's

01:02:14.130 --> 01:02:18.030
that Akon song? Smack that. On the floor. Yeah,

01:02:18.230 --> 01:02:21.369
that's what they do. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Wow.

01:02:21.670 --> 01:02:25.329
Okay, somebody make an AMV quick. Oh God. The

01:02:25.329 --> 01:02:29.769
Akon Chihayafuru. Holy sexy show. Alright, bye

01:02:29.769 --> 01:02:30.829
-bye everyone. Bye.