Welcome back to show Joe the podcast where I
Sarah introduced my Joe or my Joe Joe My friend
Joe to show Joe anime typically for girls a genre
I'm quite familiar with, and Joe is not as much,
so I'm showing him shows I've seen. We just finished
watching The Rose of Versailles, and now we're
back to Chihaya Furu, one of my favorite animes
ever. And hopefully Joe can see why more in season
two. How are you doing, Joe? With the show or
just in general? In general. We'll get to our
thoughts on the show here in a minute. I'm good.
I don't really have, I feel like, what's happened?
I've had to watch a lot of movies. I've watched
a lot of movies. Yeah, we'll talk about one of
those later too. We will. We will talk about
one of those later. But what I actually, what
I was doing just before this is I have started
to play Couture 2, The Sith Lords. Oh, I saw
that. I'm so excited. And I had started playing
it. Right, because I'm playing it along with
podcast and then I started listening to some
of the podcast and they informed me in that podcast
that Kotor 2 is like very broken in terms of
like the game is just like not patched correctly.
Oh, are you playing on Steam or Switch? I am
playing on PC. I bought it with GOG. And the
way to fix it is to download. an enormous number
of mods including the Sith Lord's restored content
modification which is a huge collection of things
that they fixed because apparently there are
things that are missing that are just like you
know what i did encounter one big bug while i
was i played most recently on the switch and
for the most part it was fine there's one thing
where it's like oh that definitely is not correct
but PC version like didn't have controller support
on Steam, which is dumb as hell because it's
a game that originated on consoles. So I never
played my coffee on PC. Yeah, apparently there's
like the entire end of like companion quests
just don't trigger correctly. Lots of other things
that just like aren't in it. So that's what this
mod fixes. I think the Switch version actually
includes part of this mod in it. So anyway, I
had to. I think as the port. to switch. Yes,
I had to install an enormous number of mods that
do things like fix animations and fix doors and
lots of other stuff. So you're having a great
time so far. And then I had to replay up to where
I was. How far have you gotten? I had not gotten
very far. I was like at the beginning, like when
you wake up in the little mining station or whatever,
I was like, I will say the mining station kind
of takes a long time. It's like a long, very
long. I'm playing, I'm trying to play like a
meathead kind of guy. I'm trying to play like
a hambo where like I'm nice and I have some charisma,
but my intelligence is bad and my wisdom is bad.
Boy, oh boy, I got plus three strength and I'm
one shotting everything. Okay, very nice. All
the droids ain't smashed to smithereens. These
mining droids ain't shit. They like introduce,
they keep being like one upping. It's like, ooh,
these ones have shields. I bet that's going to
make a difference. Nope, I still one shot it.
Are you? Playing as a woman. No, I'm playing
as a guy this time. I played okay I was gonna
say what's his face in the culto tank is all
like oh Oh, is he okay? Yeah, so that's what
I'm doing. I am Max Gaines That's my character's
name Max Gaines, okay Well, I am excited for
when you finish that and we can do a bonus episode
talking about it. Yeah Yeah, so that's fine.
We'll see how that's going. Yep, other than that,
I bought a bunch of stuff. Nice, Joe's a shopaholic
for anyone new here. Where those price increases
hit, you know? Yeah. And I won't buy anything
ever. But yeah, that's what's going on with me
for the most part, I feel like. Not that much
else. It's the summer. Until you start saying
something and then I'll remember some other stuff.
Oh yeah, okay. Then I'll go. OK, what's up with
me? Yeah, what have you been doing Friday? We
had like a work event and a local like indoor
mini golf bar place. And then the younger crew,
we all went out afterwards. So that was fun to
hang out, you know, drink. Sometimes when I drink,
one drink will be enough for me to be like, well,
my lips feel kind of numb and blah, blah, blah.
And then that night I had like seven drinks and
was like pretty fine. Except for I did When I
was in the bathroom going to sit down, I did
like headbutt the lock on the door. So I have
like a big bump on my forehead that hurts a lot.
But yeah, that was fun. And I went to my mom's
yesterday and swam in the pool. She has the new
tiny ass, like less than two pound Chihuahua
puppy right now. He is cuter in person, he's
not very photogenic. And Cricket was very mean
to him, as I knew she would be. So I had to be
on a helicopter parent making sure she didn't
murder my mom's new puppy. And then we played
Catan and I almost won, so nearly did. But yeah,
that was fun because my family is loud and we're
all just screaming over each other. So yeah,
so I keep re -listening to our last episode where
we were talking about the movie because I just
every time I hear us laughing then I get to laugh.
Oh man, that was, if you guys haven't watched
it, listen to that. You should go listen to that
episode. It's the previous episode before this.
Even if you didn't watch The Rose of Versailles
with us, good episode and we were just kind of
losing our minds by the end of that. Yeah, so
that was a lot of fun. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm still
reading the manga a little bit, but I. Oh, yeah.
I'll have more to talk about later. OK. I have
not made very much progress. OK. Gotcha. Gotcha.
I'm slow rolling everything right now. We're
good. Yeah, I guess that's pretty much it. Oh,
I did. I was talking to one of my coworkers who
had had a friend in town as he was looking to
move from Austin. from Columbus, Ohio, and I
was like, why is he moving out of Columbus? Like,
what's the cons? And it sounds like basically
he just like wasn't connecting with anyone, friends
and romantically wise or something. So it's a
barren wasteland dating scene, I guess. Is that
true? Is it going to be better than Austin? Is
Austin the land of opportunity? I feel like it's
not. I mean, a lot of young people are moving
here. I guess it's just no one that I like kind
of thing. Or they're all too young for me or
something. I don't. Yeah. Well, oh, no, this
is not a podcast subject. Never mind. I overshare
about my deep personal life. No, that's not throwing
up here. I'm going to start reading my social
security number off here. One, two, three. No.
Yeah, that's all I got. Yep, yep, yep. I feel
like I should have more but I kind of don't.
I bought an air fryer. I used it once. I'm going
to use it more I guess. How exciting is that?
People with air fryers are very excited about
having air fryers. I'm not that excited about
it. I'm just like whatever. How's the new mattress?
New mattress is fine. It's pretty good. It's
better than the old mattress. The old mattress
sucked. Nice. Nice. What do you do with the old
mattress? I'm still having weird back problems.
It's just sitting in my apartment waiting for
me to take it out and I'm too lazy to do it.
So. Maybe next week, I'll throw it away. Throw
it away? Yeah. That magic sucks. It's like, it's
like sinking in the middle. Well, okay. Here
in Austin, it's like, just put it on your curbside
and someone will come take it. That's throwing
it away. Well, it's being repurposed. Because
like, people drive through neighborhoods looking
for people who've put out like old desk chairs.
Oh, okay. Side tables. I don't think people are
going to do that for this mattress. No? Okay.
No. This is not out there. Just drive up to just
strap that thing to your little sedan. Find the
homeless person and be like, it's your lucky
day. Here's my old, uncomfortable mattress. You
can't give a homeless person a mattress because
then they can't move around. Well, oh well. You'll
figure it out. You're smart cooking with mattresses.
Yeah, I already have a solution. I'm going to
throw it away. I know what the solution is. It's
not that complicated. Okay. Well, that's been
resolved. I'm sorry. I can't repurpose a foam
mattress that has extended its life span for
too long. Well, that's enough about our very
boring lives right now. Anyway. Did we get to
Chihayafuru? We started season two of Chihayafuru.
Oh God, that doesn't sound like you're super
excited. Yeah. Joe! We're back in it. We're back
in Chihayafuru. Yay, we're back in Chihayafuru.
Yay. Joe! So I'm devising a plan where we can
start doing four episodes per episode. Oh my
God, Joe hated it. I didn't hate it, it was fine.
And I was like, ah, this is fun. This is nice.
I don't really know. You're like, you're kind
of hinting that this is the season where it activates.
Mm -hmm. Well, I just said maybe because I don't
clearly remember the season. But do you think
any show we would have covered after Rosa Versailles,
you just would have been bummed that we weren't
talking about Rosa Versailles anymore. Is that
part of it? Yeah, that's that's definitely part
of it. So maybe this is good. This is like getting
drenched in cold water. You know, this is what
you want, I guess. Oh, here we are. Here we are.
Getting ready for it, okay. Uh, sure. So let's
go into Shihayafuru. Shihayafuru, season two,
episode one is called So the Flower Has Wilted.
We open on the Karuta team practicing as we,
the viewer, try to remember everyone. This is
what I was doing when I was watching this. I
was like, oh god, I forgot all of these characters'
names. As a reminder, at the end of last season,
the Carter Club was tasked with recruiting five
more members or they lose their like practice
room. So they are like all thinking about that.
And kind of says that she doesn't think they
should do demonstrations tomorrow because that'll
just scare all the first years away, because
also it's been another year at school. So their
second year is now. And they play very intensely
and that would be offending to newcomers. Right.
So they have to they have to recruit new people
in a way that doesn't scare everybody. We'll
see how this goes for them. Everybody but Chihaya
agrees and Hanna says that she'll handle recruitment.
She's the business sense girl, so she's got this.
Who knows what's up, what the people want. We'll
talk about if she's really got this or not. The
scene turns quiet as Chihaya tells Taichi that
she hopes that new members will learn to love
Karuta as we get a montage of stuff that happened
from last season. Oh, God, I know. I was like,
here we go with the childhood flashbacks. Oh,
again, how many times have you freaking seen
these scenes? Load -bearing flashbacks. Ugh.
And then we get the new opening. What did you
think of it? I thought it was unremarkable. The
song was fine. But I kind of I was like, oh,
the transitions are good in the opening. Like
everything's very smoothly. Yeah, it's I guess
it's smooth. I like the first season opening
better. I don't think any of them like super
resonate with me, but then was nice to look at.
All the kimono patterns are nice. Yeah, they
have patterns. But this was not it was not doing
much for me. Anyway, we come back from the OP
and we cut to school. We get a new character
who is broken up through email, I guess, because
that's what the kids use. She's like, this sucks.
They have mobile phones. Why can't they text
message? Why is everyone emailing each other?
I think that was just like the thing that caught
on. Never understand. I'm assuming it has something
to do with like, oh, text messaging plans are
expensive, but email is free. I assume it's something
like that. This isn't that old of a shock. Whatever.
Yeah, I think it was just like that in Japan.
Anyway, she gets broken up with the email. She's
like, this sucks. I'm going to make up for it.
I'm just going to have to date the hottest guy
ever. We jumped to a school assembly for the
first years where the school clubs like pitch
themselves to gain new members. I guess they
just do that with like a big assembly where like
everybody goes up there, which sounds like it
would be really boring to attend. Oh, that's
so true. Yeah. The girl from before is like,
is here. We learned that her name is Hanano Samire,
and she's on the lookout for hot guys. She has
like a notebook. Yeah, she's studious in her
romantic ambition. Sumire is a cute name. I like
it. Yeah, she usually becomes the best character
in the show. Justin and Taichi Chihaya get up
on stage in Hakama and introduce themselves to
the Karuta Club. Kana, I really just wrote Hana
all over in my notes. Poor Kana. I don't know
why I did that. Kana is like, ah, this is a great
plan. We sent out our two hottest members to
vaguely explain what our club does. Taichi proceeds
to vaguely explain what the Karuta Club is, and
then Chihaya tells the crowd that she doesn't
have a lot of friends, so she wants to have 100
new members instead. Everyone's like, wow, that's
weird, but they find it endearing because she's
hot. Back at the Karuta Club, they await the
new recruits. Taichi's like, who's going to mentor
them? But Chihaya insists to everybody that it's
going to be her. She's going to do it. And everyone
else is like, why would you want to waste your
time doing that? Suddenly, there's a knock on
the door, and a ton of girls are here to join.
Chihaya is driven to tears at the new recruits,
and we see that Sumire is among the girls, and
Chihaya reads her name wrong because she can't
read kanji because she's a child, and Tai Chi
has to come correct her. Oh my god, it's so embarrassing!
Chihaya! It's very sad. Oh my god. And yeah,
I like that Sumire is measuring up Chihaya like,
gosh, she's hot, clueless, and dumb, enemy! Enemy
to women! Sumire sees Chihaya and is like, oh
no, she's pretty clueless and dumb, every guy's
dream girl, I must defeat her. Because Sumire
is an icon and I love her, she's so funny. She's
like, I gotta keep Tai Chi and Chihaya away from
each other, which good news, that is not going
anywhere, it seems. Oh, that's right, yeah, no
worries there at all. Yeah, the club starts to
give an opening speech of like, hey, this is
the car to club, blah, blah, blah. But Sumire
interrupts and asks if Tai Chi has a girlfriend.
Kana is like, no questions from the freshmen.
And Sumire sees that she has big boobs and is
like, ooh, another enemy. Another chick that's
kind of high. Predictably, none of the recruits
have any cards to experience. Fortunately, Chi
Hai has printouts of all the poems and tells
everyone to try to memorize them. And then Kana,
who I've spelt her name wrong another time, who's
decided to be a hard ass for some reason, tells
them all that they need that they're going to
have a test in a week. And if you haven't memorized
all 100 poems by then, you'll fail. And Chi Hai
is like, isn't that kind of rough? But Kana says
no. Hana. I'm just going to do a replace all
real quick here. Basically, Hana, it, you know,
feels responsible for kind of managing the club
now that the teacher lady's busy with tennis
and she's the one who's, you know, well behaved
and wants to make sure that everyone else is
as well. And basically, like, it's very clear
the motives of most of these people are not pure.
So it's like, let's just thin the herd a little,
cut the people out who aren't really in it make
it easier on everyone. Yeah. We're going to see
how this works out for them. Then she and she
did do a practice match to show all the recruits
like what this game is. And all the recruits
are like, wait a minute, this is a game about
slapping cards. What the hell's going on? Hey,
we finally get like a tutorial on how this game
works. You don't really get that in season one.
You get that over the course of every episode
very slowly. Yes. Sumire says, wow, that sounds
really hard of a game to play. Can't we just
play like Bozu Mikuri, which is like a different
card game you can play with Karate cards? That's
way easier because it's just like you just look
at like whatever symbols on it. All the other
recruits think that's funny, but some of them
reassure the club that they'll try to remember
some of the poems and then everybody leaves.
Jihai is like, well, I guess that's not totally
unexpected, but hey, there's like 20 recruits,
I'm sure we can get some of them to understand
Karta, but the rest of the club is unconvinced.
Taichi tells Shihaya that she should be focusing
on her individual play instead of mentoring newbies
So maybe you should like go to the Shiranami
Society instead of practice and then Nishida
pipes up saying if they need to go to the high
school tournaments soon So they should all be
like prepping as a team for that And he's like,
you know Tai Chi, I know you're not like an A
rank or whatever, but we can't all just go rogue
and Tai Chi gets mad at him. And then Kana says
that she can handle the training them. So you
could just let her do it. But then Satobu says
that technically they only need to recruit members
to keep the room. So it doesn't actually matter
if they play or not. We could just like let them
hang out. Who cares? Chihaya says no, and she
insists that they have to teach the recruits
how to play. And then she realizes that everybody
in the team has different priorities as people
often, you know, individuals. Yeah, everyone
has a different idea of what what the club should
be. We cut to. Sumire, whose sights are set squarely
on Taichi, she says that her above average looks
make her the perfect typical Shoujo main character,
which is incredible. It's an incredible scene
where she's like, I could be the main character.
Chihaya is a hot chick who could be my rival.
It's like I'm like writing the story. In class,
Nishida and Chihaya exchange notes where she
tries to convince him that they should actually
try to teach the recruits, but he doesn't agree.
Elsewhere, Tai Chi thinks Chihaya should be dedicating
herself to her own play, not teaching the newbies.
How's she ever gonna make Queen if she's got
to teach a bunch of people some stuff? After
school, the club meets again. Again, Chihaya
volunteers to train the new members, and we get
a reveal of everyone's priorities. Here's everyone's
priorities. Tai Chi, he prioritizes reaching
Master and Queen level matches. Kana's priorities
are just proper etiquette, meaning she like wants
everybody to like look the part and act the part,
I guess. Satomu's priorities are the practice
environment, which mostly just means he just
wants to keep the room. He doesn't really care
what we do with the recurrence, like whatever.
Nishida cares about winning the high school championship
for some reason, and Chihaya... decides that
her priority is Tai Chi reaching rank A, which
like rankles him for a second as he thinks that
Chihaya cares about him. But then she keeps going
and says, we should also win the team, the high
school team and individual championships in each
class. And also we should train all the first
years. Basically, I want everything. Everybody
thinks that's very greedy, but they all go with
it because she's the mascot of the show. We transition
to Chihaya teaching all of the girls that are
the recruits. And also there's one guy here who's
blonde. Back at the cards club. while Chi Hai
is teaching the recruits. Tai Chi asks the rest
of the team if he could go practice at the Cardo
Society on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and she's
just like, yeah, man, it's cool. And then he
just leaves. So I guess it's cool. I guess we
don't have to worry about the team tournament.
We cut back to the, like, training that Chi Hai
is the, I guess, like the class, like the new
recruit class. Sumire isn't interested in learning
from somebody who isn't Tai Chi, so she ducks
out. of class after being inspired by one of
the poems. She like reads one of them and she's
just like, I should be pursuing love instead
of doing this stupid, instead of this bullshit.
I'm going to leave. Don't let your dreams be
dreams, kids. And Chihaya is moved by her passion
as she makes up some dumb excuse to leave. Yeah,
because Chihaya is stupid. Sumire sees Taichi
and follows him to the train platform. She tries
to flirt with him, but he is not interested.
She tries to be more direct and is like, wow,
Taichi, you're so popular. I bet a lot of girls
ask you out all the time and Taichi says, you'd
be surprised. Anyway, I'd rather pick my girlfriend
than the other way around. So there's that. Anyway,
you're cute, Sumire. I'm sure guys ask you out
all the time. And then he gets off the train
to leave. And Sumire is like, damn, that seemed
definitive. This sucks. But you know what? I'm
not going to let my dreams be dreams like those
poems say. And then she chases after him as we
cut to credits. Yeah, it was a cool line. He
said something like, I want to choose the girl
I'm going to devote myself to. Ah, he is very
dreamy. Tai Chi, you're so Pretty. Here for the
eye candy. Sumire, best character now? Unfortunately,
the person, Sumire is easily the best character
now. Well, I still like Tai Chi. I mean, the
fact that, like, it's, like, he says this line,
like, it's a cool guy thing to say, but then
it's like, Tai Chi, you picked Chihaya. Bad pick.
Unfortunately, I know who you are, and I know
who you picked, and I think you made a mistake.
For real. We also get a little scene, I forgot
to put this in the summary, where like, back
at the training camp or whatever, Chihira just
annihilates everybody throughout the practice.
Yeah. When they practice cards. They basically
do like where it's all 100 poems and it's three
of them versus her. I think they said she took
all the cards. She took all of the cards. I don't
know why this is a nightmare. Anyway, that was
the end of episode one. We're back in it. We're
back in Chihayafuru. Karuta is happening, baby.
They're recruiting members. They got a lot of
members through the power of being hot. That's
right. It's a strong power. None of them give
a shit about Karuta because of course not. Because
it's incredibly unpopular. The barrier to entry
to play this game is insane. Being like, you
have to memorize a hundred poems in a week. I
would be like, well, I'm not joining this club,
obviously. Yeah, that is insane. And I feel like,
I don't know, just just start playing it and
get into it. And then you'll be motivated to
memorize it. Like making them memorize first
is like not the best choice. I mean, none of
them did that, I feel like. Right. It doesn't
even have them memorized. I just freaking know.
Yeah. So I did not think they did a very good
job recruiting people. I think they're really
bad at this. I was surprised by how bad Kana
was at this. I do. Kana is one of my favorites.
I normally like her, but I feel like she's taking
huge L's this episode. Well, we'll see if that
continues to be the case in these other episodes.
Do you have any any final thoughts about episode
one? No Arata yet? Yeah, the thing that I remember
about season two is Sumire. Having someone normal
who's not just enchanted somehow by this bizarre
game. We get the best quote of all time. And
she just says it as it is. Next episode. Yeah.
Yeah. Let's get to it then. Let's hear that quote.
Yeah. Okay. It's not, well, it's like a scene,
I guess. But it made me feel very stupid. A lot
of these, I feel like I just get owned watching
Chaya Fever all the time. And I got owned in
episode two. Episode two is called As My Love
First Came. We open on Sumire just like tailing
Taichi because she's just like following him.
She sees that he's going to the Karuta society
and is destroyed. She's like, Karuta again? There's
no end to this stupid card game. Yeah. At the
Karuta society, Taichi tries to play against
Tsubaguchi, who's like the ace from their team
before, I guess. But the guy who lost the Masters.
Yeah, from the society who, yeah, he lost and
I think he got third in the Masters or something.
Yeah. Yeah, he like didn't make it to like the
final round. Yeah. But I guess he just got a
job as a high school teacher. But for some reason,
his class is only eighth grade girls and he hates
it, I guess. No, no, it's that he's like, oh,
there's only eight girls in my class. Like he
wished it was more girls or just creepy. Oh,
I thought his class was only girls. But now more
basically. Yes. This is a bad, that's a worse
joke. I thought it would be funnier if it's just
like for some reason my entire class is just
girls and I don't know what to do. Oh, I hate
that. Ikki. Yeah, don't love that. Well, good
news is that we don't have to talk to him. Tycheek
convinces him to play and they just play, ew.
Sumire spies on the Carta Club and is like, I
can't believe these people actually play this
complicated ass game. She watches them play and
can't believe that a hot guy like Tycheek would
play this weird, this weird game. She's so funny.
Dr. Harada shows up behind Sumire and is like,
hey kid, what's up? You want to join the Karate
club? I can teach you the ropes. And Sumire is
like, well, actually, I was just wondering what's
fun about this game. I don't really get it. And
Dr. Harada is like, you know, I've been thinking
about that exact question for like 45 years.
I don't really know what's fun about this game.
I just keep playing it. And Sumire is like, what?
And then the scene ends, and I am like, I have
been owned again. I keep wanting to know what
is fun about this game. And the answer is that
nobody knows. It just has a stranglehold on everyone's
psyche. You know? It's like an intellectual contagion
where it's like, when you think about a thing,
you just can't stop thinking about it, you know?
It becomes your obsession. You don't know why.
I can't believe the scene happens. I can't believe
you're doubling down on not explaining or wanting
to explain why everybody likes Caritas so much.
I guess they show it to you in the show, so I
don't really need to explain it with words. But
I feel like you could also explain it with words
sometimes. A mystery to us all. Forever? Even
you, who's watched the whole show? Is it still
a mystery? Well, I'm like, it's fun. Even though
I'm bad at it. But I never get to play it because
no one plays it with me. So I don't have the
time to get to know. In the evening, she tries
to show her mom and her sister something she
drew, but they both hate it. Back to that. We
see your sister, sister mentioned. Remember,
she has the sister who I thought was going to
be important. And it just wasn't because they
solved all their problems immediately. I guess
so. I feel like she's got to come back. Right.
Right. OK. Oh, I barely remember. OK. The next
day, Chihaya comes to the club early to help
clean the room and Kana is touched. But then
she realizes that she's cleaning the room wrong
and gets mad at her. Kana sees Chihaya's drawing,
which are a bunch of different shirts designs
for like the like the updated shirt design team.
And she also hates all of them, which I feel
is kind of mean. They didn't look that bad to
me. Oh, they're bad. I didn't. I wasn't into
it. But I guess I don't know high school. I mean,
high school shirts. are supposed to suck, so
I guess it's fine. Yeah. Anyway, at Newbie teaching
class, Chihaya has lost over half the recruits
on day two. She's like, dang, is it because I
just crushed them in practice matches and that
was most of the teaching? Maybe I shouldn't have
done that. And she begins to doubt that she can
actually get these kids to like this game. Later,
Sumire is walking home with some friends. Since
Tai Chi isn't teaching them a karta, they're
all going to quit because they are just here
for the hot guy. but because he's not there,
they're going to join a different club with different
hot guys. And also, Karyto's way too hard to
learn. They go to McDonald's, and Sumire is like,
wow, these new friends of mine sure are boring.
It's so funny. I love her. She's like, I made
all these new friends, and they're lame. The
only thing they had in common is drooling over
Tai Chi. Those ones have given up now, so. She's
like, I got to get a boyfriend stat. I'm just
gonna be bored out of my mind. She randomly starts
reciting one of the poems out of boredom when
she sees something that reminds her of one of
them and they're like, what are you doing? And
she's like, nothing. I'm not doing anything.
Shut up. It's the next day and at training camp
there's just that one blonde kid. His name is
Tsukuba and a crying Chi Hai introduces him to
the rest of the team because she has lost her
entire roster. This is all we got left. This
is all we got left is this one kid who didn't
say anything. She's disappointed that everybody
else quit, but the rest of the team basically
expected this would happen, so they're just like,
oh cool, you retained one person? That's incredible.
Suddenly, Sumire comes in. She's like, hey guys,
no one was in the classroom, what's the deal?
And Taichi grabs her hand and thanks her for
coming back. She's like, he's like, oh thank
God, we got more than one weird kid. And she
is like smitten. She's like, oh my God, the hot
guy is holding my hand. They set up a match for
the first year to play. Kana notes that Sumire's
nails are long and that she should clip her nails.
But Sumire's like, am I gonna clip my nails?
I like maintain my nails, they look nice. It's
not like I'm going to be trying that hard anyway,
so who cares what my nail length is? They start
playing, and in the middle of reading, Sumire
says, wait, so she can check her makeup, and
she leaves. Connor drags her out into the hallway,
and she high follows after. All the guys are
like, is this like a girl thing? Maybe we should
just not worry about it. And then Nishida apologizes
to... Tsukuba and we find out that he's weird.
He is strange. I do not like him. I'd rather
he never be expressionless forever. Yes. In the
hallway, Kana is like, what was that all about,
Sabire? But Samira explains that she's trying
to look good, obviously. Like, I got to check
my makeup and stuff. I got to look hot. Kana
tells her that it's vulgar and stupid to spend
all of your time thinking about love. She's like
a grandma. Like an old baby. Like the least like
no fun allowed, Kana. Yeah, yeah. Samiri looks
up from her mirror and he's like, I'm sorry,
what did you just say? Oh, literally all of the
Karda poems are about love. I'm like, not even
here for Karda. I'm here for love. I feel like
this makes sense. I'm trying to get with Tai
Chi, guys. I don't know if you guys noticed this,
but I'm here to get with Tai Chi. And she got
it, Kana. She just said that. It's so funny!
Yeah, she's a very straightforward gal. This
is so good. Um, Severia takes her time fixing
her mascara and Kana hates her. That's my note.
Later, Tsukuba shows the team his Hokkaido cards.
They're made of wood and are a variation of the
game that only uses the second verses of the
poem. So instead of saying the first verse and
then you hit the second verse card, they just
say the second verse, I guess. So you just hit
the card. He's like, I used to play this in Hokkaido
growing up, but I was really good at it. But
I hear you guys play first verse card here, so
I want to be good at that, too. I'm ambitious.
I feel like second verse sounds so much easier.
It sounds like a much more fun game. Yes. So
it's like, yeah, plop them. We learned that if
you smacked it, you could injure someone. That's
true. It does seem like I don't know. We learned
that Tsukuba is really elitist and doesn't want
to learn from Tsutomu, who's rank C, but instead
wants to learn from Taichi, who's hot and rank
B because he's also into hot people, even though
they're both guys. I don't think he's gay, but
I don't know. Whatever. I think it's just like
he comes from a very mundane looking family.
And so. and we get another thing next episode,
but I don't know some weird thing in their family,
which is like surround yourself with beautiful
people if you can. Yeah, which OK. Practice dark
and the newbies suck. So Cuba is doing a bunch
of illegal moves in first verse Carta, but otherwise
he's like not that bad, I guess. Samira has memorized
some of the cards and is able to actually take
one. Then Chihaya tells her to trim her nails.
She's like, hey, I already told you that I'm
here for Tai Chi and not for Karta. She says
out loud while Tai Chi is in the room. And then
she realizes that she just said that out loud
while Tai Chi's in the room and gets embarrassed
and takes off. It's so funny. It is embarrassing,
but also, girl, we all knew. You asked if he
was single last episode. That did the job. The
rest of the crew tells Chihaya not to worry about
Sumire, but Chihaya tells him that she wants
new members so they can have subs, and she goes
to like, she can have subs for the team tournament
because last time they didn't, and Chihaya got
sick, and that's why they lost. Anyway, she rushes
off to find Sumire, but immediately runs into
a chair and like, bashes her shin in like the
funniest thing that happens this episode. So
instead, Kana goes after her. is so severe. It's
so much. It's extremely funny. Like, this is
like a really good bit where she like says this
motivating thing. She's like, no, we need to
care and respect our new members so that we can
have more people and grow the team. And then
she immediately just eats it. It's very funny.
Yes. While that's happening, does she just starts
mentoring Tsukuba? Kanna eventually catches up
with Samire. She's like, Oh God, I can't believe
I just said that. I mean, like I'm trying to
get him like get with him when he's like right
there in the room and kind of gives her a speech
about how emotions are harder to convey than
just blurting out words like she probably doesn't
grasp your tooth, your true feelings based on
one outburst. Come on, let's just go back and
act like it didn't happen. It's not like the
feelings are deep enough. There's there is no
depth to the feelings. There is no depth like
the space. You just think this guy is hot, which
like, OK, fair. But also, what are we doing here?
Well, going back, Kanna asks Sumire if she can
teach her how to wear mascara and tells her that
crying from embarrassment is the sign of a beautiful
soul because they're friends now, I guess. Because
I only have three eyelashes. That's true. Mascara.
Oh, man. They make it back to the club. Samira
says that she needs to memorize the poem, so
she's going to do that instead of practice. And
then she trims her nails and everybody's happy
about it as we cut the credits. It's disgusting
fingernail clipping all over the club. You know,
gross. So I guess Samira is on board for reasons
I don't quite understand, but, you know, yeah,
her heart's not quite in it. Yeah, well, it's
better than. Sitting at McDonald's, I guess.
That's true. Her alternatives are not good. Yeah,
so at least she gets to look at pretty people.
Yeah, like, you know, she seems to like the poems
well enough. She, like, recites them. Yeah. Mm
hmm. I don't know how that, well, it's going
to translate to the slapping game of Carta, but
we'll see. We'll see. So we get our two new members.
Yep, yep. How are we feeling about them? I like
one of them. I like one of them too. One of them
is an icon who we love. And the other one is
I don't like him. A little creep. A little weirdo.
He's creepy and bizarre. He's like somehow they
introduce a... We need our easy to draw characters.
I guess. Somehow we introduce a weirder guy that
I like even less than the other weirder guys
that we've had. Pseudo and retro. Yes. Yeah.
Well, I don't know. I don't know. It's just creepy.
I don't like it. It's not funny. It's not funny.
It seems like it's supposed to. I don't know.
Like when we're going for humor. Oh, in this.
Yeah. In this with this guy. So, yeah. We'll
see if it gets in there. I guess they're kind
of friends now. They can both bond over being
feminine. Yeah. Yeah. Because she's like, I finally
have. Oh, no, this is next episode. But she's
like, there's finally a second female. Remember?
Yeah, she does. Which is incredibly funny. Yeah.
Yeah. I guess that's the like the crux of mostly
what happens, right? She goes to the card club.
She talks to Dr. Harada. She doesn't join, I
guess. Dr. Harada doesn't know why card is fun.
Yeah, basically, she's like, this is a weird
game and the people play it are also strange.
But at least they're interested. She's not wrong.
Yeah. She's like, I have nothing else to do.
Yeah, get a hobby, girl. Like, well, I guess
this is the hobby, but how can you not have any?
I don't understand. I mean, she's still after
Tai Chi, right? Like, she ain't giving up on
that. So, oh, yeah, probably. Well, to be honest,
she probably stands a better chance with Tai
Chi than Tai Chi does with Chihaya right now.
So maybe it's not a bad gambit. That's right
because we have the love triangle so we need
like alternative options for whoever doesn't
win a lot. Yeah Oh, man, what if what if a Rada
falls in love with Sumire? There we go. Now we're
getting complicated here. We'll talk about it
once I have speculations of my own That would
be great. I want what I really want is like a
weird daisy chain of crushes that just lead to
like disasters. This isn't like Nishida was kind
of interested in Kana or something. Yeah, I think
so. Not that there's been any action on that,
but yeah. Yes. No, we really have gotten nothing
with Satomu and Nishida this episode. We get
some next episode a little bit, mostly from Satomu.
Yeah, because he is your favorite character.
Yeah, because he had the best match. Oh, that's
right. Or interesting when you're not just perfect
at the game. Yeah, it's more interesting when
you have to say what your strengths are and your
opponent's strengths are and kind of come up
with a strategy. And like the scene just doesn't
play out in front of you. You're like, I'm winning.
I'm losing. I'm not fast enough. I'm too fast.
You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, a little
more dramatic. Yeah. Well, I guess we'll get
more of that with our new players. Hopefully.
I mean, like next time. Interesting ways. Yeah.
Next episode, they start playing, but we don't
really get into any of the games all that much.
Yeah. Yeah. Let's get to it. OK. Episode three
is called Feel Love Deepen. We open on Arata
playing the Fukui Class A Championship. He loses
to Murau, that guy from last season that had
those siblings that he had to convince to play
Karda again. Arata is annoyed that he got second,
but is happy for Murau. A guy comes to congratulate
Arata on his second place and tells him that
his, and Arata tells him that his next goal is
in the high school tournament, because there
are some people there he wants to play against.
And we learned that it's time for the tournament
because it's happening right now. We cut to the
tournament, school tournament. We always cut
to the tournaments. Yep. Always. This is like
just like a year ago in the show. Yeah, I think
this is fine, I don't know. They get comment
in Tsutomu and then immediately cut to the tournament.
That's true. Yeah. I guess that always happens
because there's like very little time between
like the beginning of a semester and the tournament,
which is weird. But OK, like two months or something.
It's like a weird scheduling. Yeah, it's like
two months, which means like, yeah, if you get
new recruits, you basically can't teach them
anything because you have two months. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah, that kind of is a terrible setup. Right.
You think it would be at the end of the semester,
right? Or it's like the high school for the high
schoolers. But it's just not. It's peculiar,
I guess because their summer break isn't super
long. So it's like, yeah, it's just the setup
for not newcomers to have a chance. Yeah, like
I guess it makes sense because like all of the
experienced players have like bigger tournaments
happening later in the year. Maybe it just like
got relegated because it's less important. I
don't know. Anyway, we cut to Kanna's mom gushing
over Tai Chi. She's like, oh, Tai Chi, you're
so hot when you wear the Hakama. This is great.
This is great for business. You could be my poster
child. Sumire is like, who the hell is this woman
gushing over Taichi? But then Kana brings over
Ahakama to Sumire and tells her that all members
must wear them. And Sumire is like, I thought
I was just sitting out. Why do I got to wear
one? But unlike everyone else, though, Sumire
is stoked to wear such a pretty outfit. She's
like, this rules. I love wearing cool shit because
she's great. Sumire is great. She continues.
Episode three, by the way, I don't think we.
I didn't say that. Oh, you did? OK, never mind.
Feel love deepen episode three. Yep, yep, yep,
yep. And this is where we get the like appreciation
for a feminine member. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's like, oh, finally another woman. And then
we cut to Chihaya and there's a line. There's
like a note pointing to her saying that doesn't
count as a woman member or whatever. Yep, yep.
Very funny. Satomo and Chihaya are checking out
the matchups. When suddenly a bunch of kids rush
up to Chihaya, we learn that they're Tsukuba's
brothers and their family is weird about hot
people. We also learn that he hasn't told his
family that he's like a benchwarmer because he
joined this like two months ago and so they all
think he's gonna play. Elsewhere, Nishida and
Taichi learn that Tokyo gets to send two schools
to nationals this year because I guess they had
more entrants and like if you have a certain
number of schools participating you get to send
two. That's fun. Also, Retro is here and taunts
Taichi. And then Retro teases that they have
a new secret weapon to use. But who knows what
that is? Yeah. And they also, Nishida and Taichi
are like... You know, he's... I don't know who's
weirder between Retro and Tsukuba, but hint,
hint. That guy's weird. This guy's weird. Weirdos
everywhere. It's just weird guys all the way
down. Yep, you look so disgusted in like a little
video thing. You look like like God I have to
think about these fun Yeah, I like maybe the
eyes he makes are fine, but the tongue is so
Yeah, I guess it's like some mascot character
does that I guess so and she hi I was like, oh
my god, he does look like that character Yeah,
so the tournament starts and shy returns the
trophy from last year Tsukuba tries to change
the play order so that he can play, but Nishida
catches him, and him and Taichi scold him. This
is wild how not a big deal this ends up being.
He was just gonna swap himself in. So Tomu is
like, you know, actually thinking it over, maybe
we should redo the first order, like the order
for the first match because they were just going
to do the standard lineup, right? Of like all
the people from last year. But instead, what
they should do is they should swap Tomu out for
Samurai. And then in the second match, we can
swap Kana out for Tsukuba and like. I think we
should do that, because according to my research,
and he pushes up his glasses, our first opponent
sucks against girls, and our second opponent
is easily intimidated, which Tsukuba is good
at, because he looks like a freak. And Tsukuba's
like, oh, I can open my eyes and look like a
freak. And he's like, yeah, but don't do the
tongue thing. We all hate the tongue thing. Yeah,
it's too much. Satomu says this. It's very funny.
I would be like, oh, gross, if I was playing
against him. Yeah. As long as Taiichi Chihaya
and Nishida win every time, it doesn't really
matter who the other two players are anyway,
so just messing with the other team is good enough.
Round 1 starts, and Satomu and Tsukuba are watching.
Tsukuba asks Satomu why he gave him a shot after
he was so rude and also illegally tried to change
the play of the players. But Satomu thinks back
to last year when he tried to leave midway through
and says, I know how you feel, man. Just like,
don't worry about getting better. You'll get
better at your own speed because he's nice. This
is kind of sweet, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Kana and
Satomu are the the ones relate because they were
in the same positions last year where they were
like the ones that were a burden to the team.
And so they're both. more sympathetic and understanding
of how they feel versus the other three who are
like super good and always have been. Yeah, that
makes sense. So, you know, it's like a nice it's
like a nice passing of the torch, I guess, in
terms of how you get to be the loser. Yeah. Yeah.
In the match, Samira is struggling really hard.
She's like, I wasn't even supposed to participate
in this tournament. I just came here to watch.
Why am I playing? She's able to take her card
after her opponent points it out to her as a
method of flirting. And she's like, this is disgusting.
I hate this. Yeah, it is gross because then she
like puts she grabs and he puts his hand on her
like, oh, I hate this. It's awful. She looks
over at Chihaya's opponent who's getting obliterated
as Chihaya wins by 25 cards because she played
a perfect game. So get annihilated, dude. Sumire
is trying to get motivated to get back into it.
She says that she's memorized the cards now,
so she should have like some hope of winning,
right? Like theoretically, she should be able
to take some of these. The round finally ends
and their team wins even though Sumire lost her
match. I like them. She's like, I want to be
taken seriously. I don't want to be treated differently
because I'm a girl like Chiaya is. So that was
like a good takeaway. Like Chiaya is respected.
You know, she's not being they're taking her
seriously and she wants to be good enough to
force her opponents to take her seriously, too.
Yeah. I do feel like a little bit like maybe
Satomu set her up because he put her he put her
against the weird guy team because she was against
the second round team. They wouldn't be they
wouldn't be thinking that because they're mostly
women on that team. That's true. Back at school,
the tennis slash car to advisor whose name I
don't remember talks to the world's oldest teacher
who's like the gross old man. who was like was
the one that insisted that they recruit five
members. He asked if they were able to recruit
five members and the advisor was like, yeah,
they recruited 20 members and then just doesn't
tell them that 18 of them quit immediately. Yeah.
Yeah. You don't need to know. So I guess I guess
that's the payoff. That plot point is resolved.
Objective complete. She's there. She's like cheering
for them, even though they're not her priority.
Oh, yeah. She came back from like a tennis meet.
And it's like, yeah, I got to go to the car.
Yeah. Then the old man says that she hid in turn
in her career sheet again. But the advisor says
that they'll give her a little more time to figure
out what she wants to do in the like in the future.
And then she leaves to go to the tournament.
I'm like, is this like the tax test where you
have to like, why do they have to be so insistent?
Like, tell me what because they could just totally
lie. Yeah, I think it's like a it's like one
of those because it's a career sheet. I think
it's supposed to help you, like, recommend what
you should do next. Like, oh, if you're trying
to get into this university, like that would
be good for this thing. Like, I think it's more
of like a career planning thing. Yeah, she should
just put number one queen of Carta number two.
I want to go to the best school that has the
Carta club. But didn't she do that? Coach and
her teachers like that is not a job. Oh, yeah,
maybe. I think she did that last like last year.
Maybe. Well, her family is not loaded, but the
current queen is like she can just find a sugar
daddy. Yeah, I guess so. Tai Chi's wife. There
you go. problem solved except that would be cursed
it's like the current queen is like a it's like
a sophomore like the current queen has the job
that she wants i don't think she makes that much
money off of it maybe she does i don't know we
get some we get a little bit of shinobu at the
end of this which i was excited about anyway
um we cut back to the tournament it's match two
and Tsukuba is super nervous because he's playing
he's messing up pretty bad and is getting wrecked
and to make matters worse it turns out he's up
against the other team's best player because
she's rank a who she's like he's playing yeah
that while that's bad for Tsukuba that basically
means that they're gonna win like their school
is going to win because all of their best players
are teamed up against all of the other team's
worst players. So it's basically in the bag strategy.
Yeah. But Sakuma is going to have it rough, I
guess. Chihaya is like, hey, man, it's really
lucky that you get to play an A rank player.
You get to like have some real experience with
one of the best people here. And Tai Chi thinks
that she's trying to cheer him up, but then just
realizes that she's mad that she doesn't get
to play her instead. Just pretty funny because
everyone's like always what? They're just always
like, oh, Chihaya development. Oh, wait, no,
nevermind. It's funny. She's like, oh, she's
really being encouraging. Although I don't really
know why she's saying he's lucky. And Tsukuba's
like, I guess that's good. I don't really think
that makes me lucky though. And then it's like,
it doesn't. She just wanted to be the person
who plays her. Sakuma tries to figure out what
his main skill is when he thinks about how everybody
else in the team has a skill and we get a flashback
of him and his brothers playing second verse
Karuta. Sakuma tries opening his eyes and yelling
out really creepily and it kind of works but
not really. We get another flashback where Satomu
and Nishida tell him that he should focus on
cards that start with the first letters in his
name and there's a total of 18 of them so maybe
if he could just like take all 18 of those cards
you know he could give himself a pretty good
lead. If they happen to be in the deck they have.
Yeah, right. If they're there. He can take one
of them, but can't quite get the others. Meanwhile,
Chihaya wins another perfect game. Then Taiichi
and Toshida win their matches and secure the
team the win. Tsukuba ends up losing by 13 and
Satomu loses by two. 13 is not bad for being
a newbie against a class A person. Yeah, 13 is
not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. And also,
I guess, I mean, Right. It's like kind of highlight
Chihaya having a flawless round because she used
to make a lot of reckless errors, but she's like
really polished up her skills now. Yeah, she's
just annihilating everybody. Yeah. Love it. Just
not as interesting of a match. Yeah, well, we
don't get to see her matches just like she wins
by 25. It has like the same energy as like the
master match at the end of season one where it's
like you don't get to see his match. He just
wins. They're just like, yeah, but he wins by
the same score margin as Shinobu's match. She's
like, I hate that guy. They also wear the same
Hakama like they don't switch it up for every
tournament. I wish they like got to wear different
ones. Oh, yeah. After the match Tsukuba's brothers
congratulate Chihaya saying that she was super
cool But then they also mentioned that their
brother will probably catch up soon. So like
yeah, the whole family's happy Then Chihaya invites
them all to the Cardiff Society to like later
not now result the tournament We cut away to
Shinobu who's taking a phone call and we see
that she has lost all the weight from before
One of the coaches tells her that Arada is going
to be participating at the next high school tournament
and Shinobu is like Arada and then sees a vision
of child Arada as we cut to credits. I didn't
know here whether she hates him or she doesn't
hate him. It was a glance of fondness, so probably
just like a memory in her heart of like one of
the few people to actually beat her kind of thing.
And she's got high hopes of a good match. in
season one, where I thought she was like a weird
female clone of him. Yeah, that could still happen.
Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. I feel like
she is a potential part of the romantic interest.
Oh, but she's such a little weirdo. I know. But
for her, this is close to get the like someone
maybe I want more Shinobu airtime someone. not
on her level of parada. And there's not many
people on that level with her. That's fair. She
hates the king or the emperor or whatever. Everybody
hates that guy. I love that everybody hates him.
Yep. Oh, yeah. Well, there we go. So you think
we could have squeezed another episode in here?
You want to fly through this? I think that's
fine. We'll see how it starts going. OK, so thought
so far on how season two is starting. I mean,
it seems to be pretty similar to season one.
Yeah, at least there's less flashbacks other
than episode one here. Yeah, that's true. I mean,
you don't get all like the initial stuff like
they don't have to set things up, which I think
helps because we can just like focus more on
like the stuff that's going to happen. I do wonder
like what is going to happen in the episodes
where they were doing that setup right? Because
like they're going to follow, I think, the same
general like Carta tournament schedule. It's
like you have the high school team matches and
you're going to have the high school individual
matches, then you're going to have the whatever
invitational. Yeah. And then that's going to
be broken down by like individual ranks. And
then you're going to go to the next thing. Like,
I think that's going to mostly stay the same,
like leading up to the master and queen matches
again. Yeah. So like we kind of already know
what the what the beats are going to be. So I'm
interested to see what happens in between that
stuff. Yeah. So it's got to be more character
based. and hopefully less about Chihaya learning
things from other people and more about the other
members of the club. That's what I'm hoping for.
I want more time with everyone else. Yeah, I
don't know if we're going to get more time with
everyone else. We want Taichi to get rank A.
We want Taichi to get rank A. I feel like this
is the season they have to really commit to Arada
being a character. Yeah, for sure. You know what
I mean? But like he just has no looming now.
He just has no connective tissue to the rest
of the story. Like we kind of just cut away to
him sometime. But it's not like I care about
any of our background characters. Yeah. Yeah.
For the characters. Like they need to do something
like put them in constant contact with everyone
else. Well, maybe we'll have another cute like
training camp thing. And that's the opportunity
to have some romantic developments. Oh, dude.
Yeah. Plot device. And like Sumire is trying
to like get him and Chihaya together, because
she's like, if you get Chihaya, then Tai Chi
will be available. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's good.
I can see that for sure. Yeah. And then like,
you know, Tsukuba gets like lost at sea or something.
So we just don't have to think about him. He
drowns up a hot spring where the camp is. That
would be great. Oh, he moves back to Hokkaido.
Do you think we're are we going to get like more
anime trope things happening this season? Because
we didn't really get that many last season. Yeah,
I guess it's like it's a very peculiar premise.
There's a lot you have to set up for the audience
to understand. And then like so many episodes
of the first season are dedicated to the flashback.
Oh, my God, I forgot it was three episodes that
were just flashbacks. It was so long. Oh, man,
that was rough. So I think we have more like
wiggle room to like do more team building or,
you know, more fun dynamics between everyone
as they get closer with these new members. That's
why I'm right. What were the episodes that were
like, oh, finally, the show is here and immediately
I went back to that was like where we got to
see other characters stuff. So hopefully we just
get more like that. Yeah, I think it was like
that. I think it was the. Satomo versus Kana
and Nishida versus Taichi episodes, which is
still probably the best episode from last season.
Yeah, for sure. Where it's like, here's all these
people that play and here's how the personality
affects how they play. And this is like, what
is going on with that? Yeah. And there's like
this isn't just a card game. It has multiple
layers to it. And that's what's make it fun.
But we haven't had we don't know what makes it
fun. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know
why people like it. I know what makes it fun
to watch on screen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll
see. But yeah, that's the first three episodes
a season two Chihaya Furu. Yeah. Hopefully I
know I'm like is if we did good in Rosa Versailles,
our views are going to plummet here. because
it's season two of a obscure show. Yeah. Well,
looking at our metrics, not a lot of people were
watching the Rose of Versailles either. So, yeah,
I think we're just going to have to our next
show has to be something that's like everybody
loves this. Yep. Yep. Yep. I think we already
got it planned out, actually. So, yep, yep. So
yeah, but this will just lower stakes here. The
French Revolution isn't going to happen in this
TV show. No one's getting tuberculosis here.
No one's getting tuberculosis. No one's getting
blinded, probably. Oh, they swipe those cards
pretty quick. Oh, that's true, yeah. Now, right?
Sports, I'm like, we should just look at what
are typical sports anime drama and then like,
oh, someone's going to get... Injury, and then
they're gonna happen to like you. It's gonna
be just like Andre Where oh if you do this thing,
you're gonna lose vision in the eye for oh my
god. Do we think Tai Chi? Solution to not do
it, but they're like I gotta do it for the team
or something Like Tai Chi's gonna have to throw
at some point to like save Chiaya somehow even
though it doesn't make any sense in this context
Yeah, something silly like that. Sacrifices must
be made for Carta. For Carta. We're doing all
of this for Carta. I'm so with Sumire, who's
just like, they're doing all this for Carta.
So I guess that's that today. Yeah. For the five
people listening, what can they do for us, Joe?
You should tell people to watch. I almost said
Carta, like that's the name of the show. And
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Furu season two. Any lessons learned here? What
did we learn? What did we learn? Did we learn?
What did we learn here? If you're up against
a better opponent, if you're up against a better
opponent, maybe just start yelling and like looking
weird, like opening your eyes like all beady
eyed. Maybe that'll help. It's so against Japanese
culture norms, though, to be like loud and boisterous.
Yeah, just be normal outside of play. You know
what I mean? Like you go into a game and you're
just like a weird little guy and then you go
back out and you're normal. That's the optimal
right? Imagine if all of them did that like imagine
if like Arata was just like a cool guy and then
when he played he was like a little gremlin boy
No, we can't ruin that perfect image of his He's
like like water or whatever when she's like drinking
it all up Dude we need to get more stuff like
that. I need to get like more stuff. I can be
like hollering about it. Oh, we'll see Yeah,
our hopes are riding on Sumire Bring in the team.
Sumire my favorite character carry the team.
Save Tai Chi from Chihaya and also whatever else
is going on with him in Arada, which also seemed
a little bit, something's going on there too.
Save him. Save our boy Tai Chi. Save our boy
Tai Chi, Sumire, you can do it. The most pitiful
character we have. You're our only hope. Even
though he doesn't like you, it is very clear
about him not liking you very much. Yeah. I know.
I'm trying to think of like, any scenario. He's
just been too, it's like just he's too fixated
on Chihaya and he has been for like a huge part
of his life. So I don't foresee him letting go
easily. We'll see. I need Shinobu to be a main
character. I need her to like, I think they need
to have like a little training arc where like
Arata is there and Shinobu is there and everyone's
there and it's great. Yeah. I don't Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, that's what we need. There's three seasons
of Chihayafuru, so. That's true. We are going
to have to cover season three. Are we going to
cover season three immediately after this? No.
All right. Well, thanks, everyone, for listening.
I need to finish the second half of my pizza
and then we're recording bonus episode for Jurassic
Park 3. I look forward to hearing that. One day.
One day. One day, you'll hear that. You might
hear that before this. Now, you know, I'll probably
take too long to edit it. I don't edit that fast.
Be on the lookout. Follow for JP3. Woo. Until
until next time, everyone. Bye bye. Slam them
cards. Yes. Get slapping. Smack that. What's
that Akon song? Smack that. On the floor. Yeah,
that's what they do. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Wow.
Okay, somebody make an AMV quick. Oh God. The
Akon Chihayafuru. Holy sexy show. Alright, bye
-bye everyone. Bye.