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Welcome back to Shoujo, the anime recap and discussion

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podcast where I, Sarah, introduce my friend Jo

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to Shoujo anime series. Our current series that

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we're covering is Chihayafuru season two, episodes

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four through six. Uh, and so if you guys haven't

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started watching it yet, you know, watch that

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and then get back to us here. Or if you're just

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here to listen to us two randos talk about the

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things we've been doing in our lives and then

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aren't here for the anime. Well, we do recap

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it. I don't know how, I don't know how good the

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recap is if you don't watch it. That's a good

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point. I feel like Chihaya Fever specifically

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is a little bit harder because I'm like, anyway,

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they play Carter and it's like, that's like 10

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minutes of animation, but I just say that in

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one line. Yeah, it's a much more visual, like,

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not dialogue heavy or dialogue that helps to

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pick the scene. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we're.

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We're here on a three -day weekend. Yep. I had

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a four -day weekend. Wow. Yeah. We have a Friday

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of the month off, and so if there's an already

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long weekend, we'll put it on that to make it

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longer. I never do anything fun with my long

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weekends. I just do more of the same. But that's

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still nice. That's not bad. What have you been

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up to for your long weekend, Joe? Or just your

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previous week? I keep hanging out with people,

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but everybody wants to get dinner, so I keep

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getting dinner. But then I have all this leftover

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food and then I just can't eat it because everybody

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keeps on like, I'm going to get dinner tonight

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or something. Like, why do I keep getting dinner?

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Am I like? And then my dad's going to come visit

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me in a couple of days. And so like, we'll be

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going out to eat then. So it's like, I'm never

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going to have time to eat any of this food. It's

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going to just go bad in my refrigerator. You'd

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have to eat all of it at the restaurant. Just

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bring it with me. Just get a little salad. Hey,

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can you reheat this for me? Thanks, guys. Yeah.

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Yeah. So for some reason that keeps happening.

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So I've gone out to eat a lot and will continue

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to do so. I watched it. Chapter two. I have a

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friend that I was watching for the first time.

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No, this was the second time. So I watched we'd

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watched part one like forever ago, but I'd already

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seen it. I'd already seen both of them for some

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reason. And then we watched chapter two. It was

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my first. It was my second time seeing it. I

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didn't like it the first time because it's a

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long movie. And I don't like how it doesn't really

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stand up on its own and it keeps doing flashbacks

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to kids stuff that you didn't see in the first

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movie because that it just like doesn't really

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work as a story without any of the kids stuff,

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which I thought was weird. But I was pretty impressed

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with everybody's with all of the acting of like

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you have to act like this kid did. You have to

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like vaguely kind of look like and then act like

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the way they did. And I think they did a pretty

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good job, especially Stan. With Bill Hader in

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it, right? Yes. Yeah, I watched those as well.

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I like the first one a lot. It's because it's

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very similar vibes to Stranger Things or I just

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like seeing kids in like an era I didn't get

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to experience and then cool like eerie things

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happening at the same time as fun. I couldn't

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hang with Stranger Things for some reason. I

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watched the first season and then I started watching

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season two and I'm like, I can't do it. I would

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say just the first ones, you know, the first

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one's really good. So, yeah, if that's all you

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watch, that's fine. TV shows too long. Yeah,

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it's it's too it's too much. Well, I feel like.

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Well, is it like only like more serious shows

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like that that go too long? Do we like it when

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like little sitcoms go longer? Because those

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are just smaller usually shorter, like 30 minutes.

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Are they? No, I mean, like season length. Oh,

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I mean, a number of episodes. I guess so. Like

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there's something about hour long TV shows where

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if it's not cut in a way that's like interesting

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or like they're not really putting all into like

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creating like a like a specific vibe or like

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doing some kind of interesting character work.

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It's just it's excruciating for me. Like, there's

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some shows I can watch and I'm like, OK, this

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works. Yeah, because if you watch the ones that

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are like, oh, everyone likes this one. Like if

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I watch Mad Men or if I watch The Sopranos or

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if I watch, you know, something that's like acclaimed

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or whatever, I'm like, oh, this is great. I can

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watch an hour of this. No problem. Like I could

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I could watch two episodes of these in a row.

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But if I watch just like whatever hour long TV

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show on Netflix, I'm like, this is painful. This

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is painful to me to watch. And it's like. If

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I'm like someone's one, he's like, watch a show

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with me and we do a whole episode and I'm like,

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we need to stop. They'll like put on the next

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one. I'm like, no, I need to like get up and

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go do something. Yes. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So

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I don't know. I don't know what that's about.

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You know, something about I don't I don't know

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what about the show is, but it's like some shows

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I can sit through the whole thing and there's

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other shows I'm like, I cannot believe. This

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is this long. Well, some people don't have like

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a lot of hobbies and there's TV shows. They're

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only hobbies. So they need to take up more time.

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But it's not good. This is the thing. It's like

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the TV show is just like it feels like it's just

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wasting a lot of time. Yeah, you know. But I

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don't know. I don't know how to describe why

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I'm not into it. Like this happened when I was

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watching the live action one piece with like

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my friends. I wanted to watch that. And I'm like,

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this show is so boring. Yeah, yeah. I mean. It's

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based off of action series and action is supposed

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to be fast paced but And if you stretch it out

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with if you stretch it out like loopy Yeah, it

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Isn't as good. It's not although I guess I mean,

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yeah, the episodes are short But also half the

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episode at the beginning of one piece is recapping

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So is that still happening in one piece that's

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coming out now? Well, did they so okay notoriously

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a problem? on certain arcs. So some arcs go just

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fine. Like, I'll watch stuff with, like, one

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pace or whatever where they cut it down. And

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some of those just, like, are not that changed

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from the original. But some arcs especially are.

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So, like, Dress Rosa, for example, extremely

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cut down, like, extremely long, terrible, like,

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just... One pace. Yeah. Where do you watch? What

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is that? It's like a fan done thing. You can

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find that somewhere. But yeah, so that one extremely

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long and like overdoing it. Wano apparently also

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like a lot of the newer ones are extremely long.

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And that's because like you need to give yourself

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time to catch up with the manga or like to have

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some runway for that. And also you got to make

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this every week. So you can't make that much

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new animation every week because the time schedule

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is crunched. So they end up. Don't know not having

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that much new stuff per episode. It's kind of

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brutal. It's bad. I don't People have been better

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about this newest one. So I'm assuming it's not

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happening I've stopped watching the anime like

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a long time ago, and I'm just reading it got

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Gotcha. Gotcha. I don't know. Well and anything

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else going down in Joe town? I don't think so.

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I thought I can really remember I guess I'm playing

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some games. I'm almost done with thousand times

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resist. I'll probably talk about that when I

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finish it, though. OK, I have a game to recommend

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you that seamlessly transitions into what I've

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been up to. OK, that game fantasy life I've like

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for months been like, oh, when this comes out,

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we should play it together. I don't know if you'll

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like it, but like I am. I. It's so I don't know

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if it's addictive, but like I just like. playing

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it like it's comforting to play and because it's

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like cozy but it's got combat and it's got um

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like a plot and stuff in a world to explore and

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you're super adorable and i just can't stop playing

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it i have it on my steam deck and so i like have

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survivor running on the tv and then i have the

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game music off and i'm playing that while i'm

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watching survivor so i get to like multitask

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and It's so I like because you can do multiplayer.

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I haven't played with anyone yet, but it's just

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so cute. And I don't I'm trying to think if it's

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like grindy, like you wouldn't have to grind

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to progress in the story. It's more so I think

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if you like want to because you have like these

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different professions, basically. Yeah, like

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cook or. blacksmith or, uh, you know, like a

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mercenary and stuff. And so you like can level

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up those to unlock better skills and stuff. But

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like, I don't think it's necessary to do that,

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to go through the story really. So it's more

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optional, but, ah, I'm loving it. Fantasy life.

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I think it's fantasy life. The girl who steals

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time. Yep. That's what it looks like. Yeah. Uh,

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so that's what I've been mostly doing this week.

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Uh, I saw the movie Friendship last night, uh,

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with. Oh, dear God. Is it Rob? No, Rob. No, I've

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never heard of this. It's got it's got. Oh, Tim

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Robinson. Yeah, him. Um, it's not playing in

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all theaters, and I can tell you because it's

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a weird. It's a weird one. It's weird. I. Did

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not. Do you not like it? Do you like Tim Robinson?

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I do like actively hate it. Well, I've never

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watched anything he's been on, but I see all

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the clips from that one sketch show thing he's

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on, and those are all really funny. But it was

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like almost scary. I was like, is this going

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to turn into like a horror movie or something?

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Because it was just bizarro. I should see this.

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Should I see this? I'd be interested to hear

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your thoughts on it. Maybe you like it more than

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I do. Maybe I will. Yeah, it's got the kid from

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Shazam, the one who's the friend who turns into

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Adam Brody in his transformed version. Okay.

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Yeah, so I saw that. Yeah. Oh, I did an interview

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for work, my first like little interview kind

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of with the press thing. Oh, that's exciting.

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So that was cool. I know, right? I think I posted

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a link in the Discord. But yeah, I thought that

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was fun. And then also, I got invited to be a

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part of a panel at TwitchCon. So maybe if that

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works, I'll do that. Because then I'll be like,

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oh, look at me freaking talking. Talking. Yeah,

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so I'm like. Maybe I'm getting more recognition

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for my work right now. That's good. Do you feel

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like doing this podcast has helped you talk a

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lot? I think so. I think the streaming has helped

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a lot. Because I'm trying to think like in college

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and stuff, you know, doing like presentations

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and stuff was not like ideal for me. You know,

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but yeah, I don't know. I guess in like recent

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years, I've. Or I'm like so confident in like

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knowing like the work we do that's easy to talk

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about. But yeah, I definitely think so. The like,

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you know, the kind of like, you know, in the

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I like live stream because then I don't have

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to edit it. And it's just like, I just got to

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make sure nothing terrible happens during it.

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And then editing is like, you know, if you mess

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up, you can change it. But because I like apparently

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there's questions. Like, I had a time to look

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up, but I didn't get those in time. So I was

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just winging it. But I think I did pretty good.

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I do, it is hard when you watch it and you say

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like, uh, or um, a lot and it's like, uh, that

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thing, that, yeah. You just have to get used

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to that. I've like given so many press like doing

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a PhD or whatever. I've gotten like so many presentations

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on things that now I can just like, yeah, I'll

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just go up and say stuff. It's fine. Like, whatever.

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Yeah. I've just done enough, given enough presentation

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at this point that I'm like, yeah, I'll just

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go up and say some things here. Try not to say

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I'm going to all the time. Try not to just stop

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talking. I have had times when I was giving a

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presentation and I'm just like out of things

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to say. I just stopped talking and I'm like,

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well, hmm. Uh, well, cause with the presentation,

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okay, cause right? I'm made of honor and so I'm

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going to have this made of honor speech at my

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sister's wedding. And my sister's like, have

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you prepared? And I'm like, I'd rather just wing

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it. And she's like, at least like have a bullet

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list or something. Cause I think it's more. Like

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doing a presentation. It's like you got to make

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sure you hit all the points and but I'm like

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Brain will just like skip a section and then

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I miss a part or something So I like just but

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also right where I interrupt myself constantly

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Yeah, and pivot to something totally different

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than never come back to the other thing. So I

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don't know. My biggest thing is like no embarrassing

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stories about her, you know Which is like, you

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know, I'm fond of all the stories where she's

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been clumsy or Uh, this or that, but, and I also

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don't like being super, like, feely, so. This

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is a wedding speech. I'll lean more into humor,

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but I don't want to be all like, oh God, I boohooed

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at my mom's wedding. I hope I don't cry at hers.

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You should just stand up and burst into tears.

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And that should be the whole speech. Uh -huh.

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God, we'll see. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

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Yeah, I've come a long way. like pre -subway

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job, like crippling anxiety doing interviews

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and stuff. And then once you're like on the job,

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I felt, you know, and I'm very much like, oh,

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you know, I got to do things. I'm a good worker.

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So like, then you just like put it in situations

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where you have to, you know, overcome for the

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sake of the job. And so I think just all the

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different jobs I've done. Yeah, comfort zone.

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Yeah, it's like. Yes, well cuz like I know I

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know someone who you know like I kind of grew

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up with and We were very similar as kids and

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now and now I see like oh if I hadn't really

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overcome it That's what I would have I would

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have been a much more reserved like smaller World

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around me, but I get I'm not that I'm like super

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going out and doing so but like No, I don't think

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I'm like super Like I This is character development.

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Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, and yeah, like the last year

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or two is like put me in situations where I had

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to like I have to address things I super don't

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want to and then Yeah, just the more you have

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to do stuff the easier it gets the next time

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Sorry, this is I don't know what this turned

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into That's good. We'll go through your resume.

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Get your career path planned out. We're having

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a little career counseling. I'm going to crush

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it at the Game of Life board game. I've only

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played it once. I'll demolish that game now.

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OK. I played a game called Smart Ass. That was

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fun because I like games where it's like I get

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to be a know -it -all. Sounds like the perfect

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game for you then. Or when we played when we

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play Pictionary, like. Uh huh. I think. OK, we

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need. I don't know. There's no Pictionary tournaments,

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but I think we're a good pair at Pictionary.

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Sadly, we weren't on the team that much. So it's

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be like, I know what it is, but I'm not on your

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team, so I can't say. I feel like it's like that

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when you play games like that, where it's like

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you always connect with the person who you're

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not on the team with. You're just frustrated

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the whole time. Well, because there's like very.

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You know, the straightforward things to draw

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to depict something. But then, like, you know,

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we consume very similar things. And so I feel

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like we, like, jump to a different thing to depict

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it than maybe a normal person would. Yeah, that

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may be true. Like the sirens. Yeah. I love that

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so much. I still have like a Fire truck or something.

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Joe drew like a like a mermaid. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Like a mythological siren. We all know this.

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This is common knowledge. Everybody knows that

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that's what a siren looks like. They sing little

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songs. I loved it. It's so funny. My family did

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not get it. The mast. Yeah. Lord. OK. Yep. I

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guess we have to talk about the show at some

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point, huh? Yep. Joe! How are your feelings about

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those episodes? Oh, I should have my notes out.

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I'm like 10. You should have your notes out.

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I'll tell you when we get through it. Just top

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line. Top line. What are your feelings? Fine.

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Fine. All right. All right. I guess we'll get

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into it then. On these fine episodes. But first,

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I'm going to talk about some voice actors because

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we didn't do that last time. And we have two

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new characters. I guess they're like the only

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two new characters. Huh. Is that true? Of note.

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Yeah, that's true. Of note. So the voice actress

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for Sumire is Megumi Han. She is the voice of

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Moji Soma. Oh, Momiji Soma from Fruits Basket,

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which is a little rabbit. Little tiger one. Yeah.

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Oh, no, you're right. J .K. No, you're right.

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I don't know. I haven't watched that far in Fruits

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Basket before. Also the voice of Akko from Little

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Witch Academia, the main chick. This is why I

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was saying that, like, you look at the IMDb,

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and it's like, oh, here are their top things,

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and then you scroll down, and it's actually,

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like, way bigger stuff that just isn't mentioned

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in their most notable stuff. The voice of Obado

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Ochiha in Naruto Shippuden. Oh. A pretty important

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kid. For Sumire? Yeah. It's a chickplank? I guess

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so. I haven't watched the Japanese version, but...

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I haven't either, but that's how it's listed

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on this. Okay. Yeah, big character. Big, giant

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character. Yup. Also, the voice of Gon Freaks

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in 2011 Hunter x Hunter. Oh, wow. I can't believe

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that isn't the number one thing. For real? That's

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what I scrolled down and I was like, what? That

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is peculiar. And for me, she's the voice of Salem

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Mass in Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin. Stop.

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So she's new sailor. OK. For the other one, Tsukuba,

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he is voiced by Miyu Irino, Irino, Irino. Sorry,

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I said that weird. Who is the voice of Haku in

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Spirited Away because we're doing kid voices

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also. Long, long tenure. He's the voice of Ritsu

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Kageyama, which is the brother in Mob Psycho

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100. He's the voice of Konshi Sugawara in Haikyuu,

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who's one of them. Oh. Do we know who that is?

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Wait, which character? Sorry, say that again.

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Konshi, I'm like searching it now so I can tell

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you who this person is. Sugawara. Oh, he's the

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gray -haired one. He's the gray -haired one.

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He's cute with the little like mole by his arm.

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Yeah, yeah, that's it. The second string. A setter.

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And for me, he's the voice of Sora in Kingdom

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Hearts. Just the whole thing. OK. So there we

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go. I guess. Oh, I mean, when you played that,

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you played, I'm assuming as a kid, you played

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the English version. Did you ever play through

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it with the Japanese? No, I don't think those

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discs had the audio for it. Oh, now the new one.

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Like I got it on PC. It probably does. But those

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originals did not. I don't think. Gotcha. I remember

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playing Final Fantasy 13 and there was like DLC

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where you could download the like Japanese. But

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it was like 30 gigs. I'm like, no, I'm not going

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to do that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So there we

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go. New characters get the voice actors who have

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longer resumes than I feel like some of the other

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ones we've had. So what? Maybe this is a bad

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pick on my part because I'm like, I really like

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watching Chihaya Furu. Maybe it's just not as

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good to recap. I mean the recap's fine. It's

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my bad. I just like, do we have any analysis?

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Like, we can just say what happens, but it's

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just like, yeah, we'll talk about it. All right.

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So Chihaya Furu, season two, episode four is

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called To Tell the People in the Capital That

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I Make for the Islands. It's a good name. I'm

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liking these poems starting from the ones from

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last season. Oh, yeah. We open on errata in his

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family praying at his grandfather's grave His

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dad is extremely dismissive and we learn that

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they had a bad relationship because he didn't

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care about carida This is apparently what also

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that's like hmm. I was gonna say if I had a kid

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and they didn't like video games I'd be like

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oh, dude. He just like does not care about grandfather

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like his dad's grave He's just like whatever

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is that his dad or is it his father -in -law?

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Do we know I'm assuming it's probably his No,

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it has to be his father, since he's like, he

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didn't like me because I didn't play, which you

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wouldn't hold that against someone who's been

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marrying into the family, I imagine. Yeah, that's

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wild. Apparently, this is also what instigated

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Arata moving to Tokyo in the first place. Arata

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tells his parents that he hasn't been messaging

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Chihaya and Taichi very much recently, and he

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thinks about Chihaya and how he wants to see

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her again. And then he tells his parents that

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if he wins the regional championship, he's going

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to ask them for a favor. Which maybe you'll be

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like, what could that favor be? Hey parents,

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can I be in season two of Chihaya Furu, please?

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Can I be a character that shows up? Well, I have

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a note, I'm like, cause who, he had bought himself,

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I can't remember, did he buy himself a phone

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or did Chihaya buy one for him? But he has the

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cutest, girliest little phone. It's like pink

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with like a cute flower, floral, like dust or

00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:07.259
wallpaper on it. Oh, does he? Or rather his phone.

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No. Yeah. I don't know. I don't remember. His

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parents are like, or his dad's like, if you don't

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message them, they're going to forget about you.

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And he's like, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure they're

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not. I'm pretty sure I cast a large shadow over

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them. Yeah. Pretty good. Like, dang. Yes. We

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cut to Dr. Hirata walking with two women from

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the Karate Society. They're going to cheer on

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the kids at the high school tournament. Dr. Hirata

00:23:32.109 --> 00:23:33.930
comments that Taichi is going through a rough

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spot, but he doesn't really know why. He has

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the skills to be Class A. It's just kind of weird

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that he hasn't made it yet. And then one of the

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women comments that she's seen Taichi play, and

00:23:42.349 --> 00:23:44.990
her diagnosis is that he's super unlucky. Poor

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guy. Which I guess is true. Was it? It didn't

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really seem like what his problem was, but...

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Well, right, when him and Nishida... Went against

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each other when they were both Class B. They

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had the luck of the draw thing and he didn't

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get his call. Yeah. So I think just that just

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like keeps happening to him. Well, and we see

00:24:02.859 --> 00:24:06.079
more examples of it in these episodes. That is

00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:09.380
ridiculous. Back at the tournament, Sumire presents

00:24:09.380 --> 00:24:11.660
Tai Chi with a bunch of cookies she made herself,

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but he tells her that he doesn't like to eat

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anything solid before a match and she's bummed.

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She's putting in so much work. You think she

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actually made them? Probably. She made it for

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Tai Chi. I guess so. Dr. Hirata shows up and

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tells the team that he isn't here for just them

00:24:25.990 --> 00:24:27.970
today. They're all like, what does that mean?

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And then he shows them the team, that team Mizusawa,

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coached by Tsuboguchi, the guy at the Card Society

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that wanted more girls in his classes here. Also,

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they're going to play in the next tournament.

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They grapple with this sudden challenger. We

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see team Mizusawa. It's four normal people and

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one weird girl. Tsubaguchi is like the has big

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new teacher energy is what I said here, because

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he's like all PEP. Oh, yeah. He's all jazzed

00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:01.640
up about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Totally mundane

00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:05.680
and then one one distinct character. Yep. Tsubaguchi

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wishes Taichi good luck, but Taichi is worried

00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.059
because he knows that Tsubaguchi is like going

00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:13.059
to take it super seriously. The other two women

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that came with Dr. Hirata give Taichi good luck

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charms, which confuses him because he is not

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aware that that is his problem is luck. Then

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Dr. Hirata tells him that an individual match

00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.599
is also a team match, which confuses Taichi.

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What could that mean? The next game starts. Taichi

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is paired against the weird girl. Chihaya's opponent

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is some guy who immediately hits on her. She

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gets all flusters, and we see that this is a

00:25:35.369 --> 00:25:38.490
deliberate tactic by Tsubaguchi. Not so much

00:25:38.490 --> 00:25:40.069
to mess with Chihaya, who's going to lock in

00:25:40.069 --> 00:25:41.990
as soon as the game starts, but really a tactic

00:25:41.990 --> 00:25:44.329
to mess with Taichi, which seems to work. Yeah,

00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:48.529
it's so good. Taichi clocks him immediately as

00:25:48.529 --> 00:25:52.109
the culprit for why that guy's doing it. Lots

00:25:52.109 --> 00:25:54.430
of people hitting on other people at this tournament.

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Yeah, that's true. Just kind of keeps happening.

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What's going on here? I'm surprised he hasn't

00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.400
gone against, because it's only Chihaya, or it's

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.799
only like guys hanging on girls. There's no,

00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:10.119
but we see how like, Hai Chi is popular with

00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:11.779
chicks. I'm surprised we haven't seen like any

00:26:11.779 --> 00:26:14.160
of his female opponents just be like, goo -goo

00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:16.220
eyes at him during a match or something. Yeah.

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This might be the only woman he's faced though,

00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:20.180
this chick who's like just being weird. I don't

00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:22.539
know. We didn't get to really see those first

00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:26.049
two games, so who knows. No, the game starts

00:26:26.049 --> 00:26:28.009
and we see that there's a new reader He sucks

00:26:28.009 --> 00:26:30.750
at his job though and keeps screwing up the timing

00:26:30.750 --> 00:26:33.009
to read and this is a problem for experienced

00:26:33.009 --> 00:26:35.549
players because they are used to the normal rhythm

00:26:35.549 --> 00:26:38.430
Taichi tries to encourage Satomi and Kana as

00:26:38.430 --> 00:26:41.289
they play Nishida and Shihaya are on their way

00:26:41.289 --> 00:26:43.450
to an easy win, but Taichi is having some trouble

00:26:43.450 --> 00:26:46.369
with his opponent She's super weird is doing

00:26:46.369 --> 00:26:49.150
like some like sorcery stuff or something. She's

00:26:49.150 --> 00:26:51.190
like casted spells or something He's like what

00:26:51.190 --> 00:26:53.869
is happening? We get her backstory about how

00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:55.789
she always wanted to become card a queen But

00:26:55.789 --> 00:26:57.490
she's weird and off -putting and nobody was into

00:26:57.490 --> 00:27:00.349
it like her but then like super Gucci shows up

00:27:00.349 --> 00:27:01.849
And she's like oh, there's somebody who cares

00:27:01.849 --> 00:27:05.640
about this how nice At one point we learned her

00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:08.000
name, I didn't write it down. Nah, not important.

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.940
She keeps taking several cards against Taichi,

00:27:10.059 --> 00:27:12.079
and it appears that she's just kind of guessing

00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.619
and getting lucky. Dr. Hirata notes that Taichi

00:27:14.619 --> 00:27:17.119
won't believe that his luck is just bad, and

00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.099
he's gonna always think that he's just unskilled

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:21.299
instead, which is gonna cause him to self -doubt

00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:24.859
and spiral. No, Taichi, no, you're so good. Taichi

00:27:24.859 --> 00:27:27.119
surveys the field. Chihaya and Nishida have decent

00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:29.799
leads. Only Taichi is lagging behind. He tries

00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.220
to come up with a strategy. while not thinking

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:34.039
about how everyone has more talent than him,

00:27:34.059 --> 00:27:36.319
which is incredibly sad. I still feel bad for

00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.279
Taichi. Everybody is just more naturally talented

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:42.900
than him. I know! No, he's very skilled. Like,

00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:46.180
his memory is incredible. That's a great asset.

00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:51.220
Uh -huh. We see that he's sweating a lot. It's

00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:54.460
because the AC unit above him is broken. His

00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:56.460
luck is truly the worst. We're really leaning

00:27:56.460 --> 00:27:58.319
into actually he's just been unlucky this whole

00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.400
time. I guess it's gotten worse. Well, they were

00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.960
in the Hakamas, which makes it even hotter. That's

00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:09.000
true. They were in heavy clothes. Dr. Hirata

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:12.319
and Tsubaguchi talk about the game and Tsubaguchi

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.920
explains that their strategy is to split Taichi's

00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:16.660
attention by having him try to lead the team

00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:18.799
while also playing against an opponent that relies

00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.720
on luck to sow self -doubt. It's all a master

00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:24.099
plan. And Tsubaguchi comments that in the master

00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:25.980
match, he didn't really try his hardest. So he's

00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:28.460
trying to make up for it now or in the master

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:31.539
qualifier match or whatever. Dr. Harada is very

00:28:31.539 --> 00:28:33.720
skeptical of all of this. I mean, it seems like,

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.660
you know, other schools, everyone but our team

00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:41.220
has like teachers or guides that like play the

00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:45.779
game. And that's and this team has like a very

00:28:45.779 --> 00:28:47.980
good player guiding, you know, like that seems

00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:51.559
like a big possible advantage. This almost works

00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:53.500
for me, but then I remember that all of the player

00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:55.579
matchups are basically random. So it's like,

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:57.539
you can't really have you can't really do this

00:28:57.539 --> 00:29:01.059
strategy matchup. No, I mean, I'm sure some teams

00:29:01.059 --> 00:29:03.660
are just like, we're just going to use the same.

00:29:04.429 --> 00:29:07.390
Yeah, but we know that Chai's team doesn't do

00:29:07.390 --> 00:29:09.470
that. So it's just random. So, like, all of this

00:29:09.470 --> 00:29:11.529
being a master player, it's like, it's not real.

00:29:11.569 --> 00:29:15.390
You kind of just got lucky. Yeah. Well, I don't

00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:17.609
know. You know, sports anime, they got to add

00:29:17.609 --> 00:29:20.509
as many potential aspects of it as possible.

00:29:20.509 --> 00:29:24.250
Yeah, I just don't know why they drew attention

00:29:24.250 --> 00:29:26.809
to that before. They literally have to make up,

00:29:26.809 --> 00:29:28.990
like, that retro can do divination in a later

00:29:28.990 --> 00:29:33.180
episode to make it make sense. That happened

00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:35.559
before. The fact that we have to give this kid

00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:37.859
a superpower in order for this to make sense

00:29:37.859 --> 00:29:44.400
is very funny. Anyway, let's see. Nearby, Sumire

00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.119
and Tsukuba are watching together. Tsukuba is

00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.000
absorbed in the match, but Sumire is distraught

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.519
that she can't get Taichi's attention. What the

00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.160
heck am I supposed to be doing here? She's like,

00:29:53.180 --> 00:29:55.299
it's been two months and these people it's like

00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:57.059
super obvious that Taichi is just in love with

00:29:57.059 --> 00:29:59.079
Chihaya, but Chihaya basically just isn't paying

00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:01.599
attention to him. Why is he so hung up on her?

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:05.640
We see their advisor show up to the match and

00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.019
the room is hot as hell Taichi is riding the

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:10.279
struggle bus in the heat and he gathers enough

00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.980
confidence eventually to ask for a towel and

00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:15.220
immediately all the women who came to watch throw

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:18.000
towels at him and to his left Chihaya has leaned

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.740
over Tsutomu to hand him a towel too. There's

00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:25.980
no way I'm like, uh I'm annoyed. I'm like Chihaya

00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:29.599
buzz off. You can't just like in the mo - Just

00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.609
in this moment You pay attention to him, but

00:30:32.609 --> 00:30:34.369
like, and then he's going to get hopes up and

00:30:34.369 --> 00:30:37.009
then nothing. She has like a big grid on her

00:30:37.009 --> 00:30:39.369
face, too. I'm like, you are such the mascot.

00:30:39.609 --> 00:30:43.170
I can't like not see. Yes, I got goofy little

00:30:43.170 --> 00:30:45.750
man. He picks someone. But she's paying attention

00:30:45.750 --> 00:30:47.710
to him because they're playing the game like

00:30:47.710 --> 00:30:50.609
she still considers it a team. Yeah. And so she's

00:30:50.609 --> 00:30:52.150
like, oh, like we're a team. Like I got to support

00:30:52.150 --> 00:30:53.990
my teammates or whatever. And it's like, oh,

00:30:54.009 --> 00:30:56.210
my God, he hesitates before taking the towel

00:30:56.210 --> 00:31:00.139
from Chihaya. And then thanks, everybody. Bro,

00:31:00.139 --> 00:31:02.339
she's not into you dude. She's just doing this

00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:05.319
cuz you know This is heartbreaking. He's never

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:09.339
gonna You have to save him He thinks about how

00:31:09.339 --> 00:31:10.880
he's embarrassed to lose in front of everybody

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.039
and how he'll have to push past that to get stronger

00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:16.779
He starts playing better and focusing more in

00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:19.140
his game while calling things out to his teammates

00:31:20.019 --> 00:31:22.119
Sumire sees that Tai Chi has locked in after

00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:24.180
receiving Chihaya's towel and decides that, like,

00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.119
she's seen enough, I'm just gonna go do something

00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.099
else. She goes to scout the next round's opponents

00:31:29.099 --> 00:31:31.200
instead, because she's like, I gotta do something

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:33.160
more useful than sit here and watch my crush

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.640
be in love with someone else, which is so true.

00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:39.099
Incredibly true. Tai Chi starts to clean house

00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:42.250
and takes five cards in a row. It's now one to

00:31:42.250 --> 00:31:44.690
six, so his opponent tries to do the tried and

00:31:44.690 --> 00:31:46.630
true strategy of lining up all of your cards

00:31:46.630 --> 00:31:48.750
and then just smacking them all at the same time.

00:31:49.109 --> 00:31:50.890
It works for a little while, but eventually Taichi

00:31:50.890 --> 00:31:52.809
is able to take one before she can hit the cards

00:31:52.809 --> 00:31:54.509
because he's kept track of all the dead cards

00:31:54.509 --> 00:31:57.910
with his wild ass memory and then wins. After

00:31:57.910 --> 00:31:59.869
the match, Taichi returns the towels to the women

00:31:59.869 --> 00:32:01.789
and all the guys hate him for being popular.

00:32:02.150 --> 00:32:04.130
Taichi tries to return Sumire's towel too, but

00:32:04.130 --> 00:32:05.710
she thinks that she'll have to watch out for

00:32:05.710 --> 00:32:08.190
Chihai after all of this. Uh, because it turns

00:32:08.190 --> 00:32:10.329
out she is kind of paying attention to Tai Chi,

00:32:10.609 --> 00:32:12.430
which is pretty conditional as to whether or

00:32:12.430 --> 00:32:16.109
not they're playing Carta. Yep. Yep. Yep. God,

00:32:16.650 --> 00:32:19.940
she looks at their opponents. While we do this,

00:32:20.099 --> 00:32:22.000
Chihaya looks at their next week's opponents,

00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:23.740
which is Retro's team, as we cut to credits.

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.039
Oh, right. Sorry. I was going to say, Taichi,

00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:28.900
he should just never have ran into Chihaya again.

00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.200
That would have been better for him. Just doomed

00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:33.359
from the premise of the show. He should have

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:35.940
just not done that. You know, I'm like screaming

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:38.519
at the screen, like, don't get off here. Stay

00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.880
on the tray. Don't understand. Hang out with

00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.559
your lame girlfriend instead. She's kind of annoying.

00:32:47.399 --> 00:32:50.259
I just, I'm like, I don't understand the appeal.

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:53.299
You can find an earnest girl who, like, isn't

00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:58.660
a lunatic at the same time. But this episode,

00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:00.579
I mean, it's a Tai Chi episode, so I end up liking

00:33:00.579 --> 00:33:02.720
it, right? Like, you know, playing the individual

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.119
match where he needs to, like, focus on his own

00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.160
stuff and not worry about everybody else's is

00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.140
pretty good. you know, that end up being the

00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:12.319
individual match is also a team match or whatever

00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:14.059
the other way around. I don't remember how they

00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:16.440
said it. Yeah, we get a lot of Tai Chi time in

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.480
these episodes, so hopefully that means we're

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:21.380
leading up to him, like, succeeding. I can't

00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:23.759
believe his, like, his problem is that he's just

00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:25.740
unlucky. It's like, OK, not only does he not

00:33:25.740 --> 00:33:28.099
have that much talent, he's also unlucky. Like,

00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.440
we're just making things as bad as possible for

00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.700
him. You just have to believe in yourself, Tai

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:36.369
Chi. Guess but it's very funny to be like, oh,

00:33:36.369 --> 00:33:38.109
he's just gonna blame himself because he doesn't

00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:39.609
have luck But it's like what else he's supposed

00:33:39.609 --> 00:33:42.170
to do. You can't just like make yourself be luckier.

00:33:42.430 --> 00:33:48.609
Yeah, uh Cuz he was so cocky as a kid like and

00:33:48.609 --> 00:33:52.690
now he's so not I'm like, can we get like in

00:33:52.690 --> 00:33:56.329
the middle? Like just a normal person who like

00:33:56.329 --> 00:34:03.509
police is enough. So what? Okay, yep, Samir again

00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:07.319
He's so cute. Being a champion. Sorry. Yes. Yes.

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.880
I'm rooting for her. She is easily the best.

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:13.539
She's like, I can't believe that he's just in

00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:15.900
love with her and she just doesn't pay attention.

00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:18.599
I don't want to watch this. And I'm like, yeah,

00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:20.300
I don't really want to watch it. Yeah, that would

00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:25.199
be so awful to like experiencing, you know, experience

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.780
watching it. Oh, man. In person. Yeah. God. It's

00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:33.639
like a dude friend who like is aware of the world

00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.460
around them and isn't just like in, you know,

00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.300
like spoofy characters like Nishida and Satomo,

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:44.059
but like he needs a male Kana to like see what's

00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:46.519
happening and be like, hey man, you know, like

00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.650
you're doing, you know, he needs like a... He

00:34:49.650 --> 00:34:51.909
needs a confidant. Yeah, I mean he would right,

00:34:52.050 --> 00:34:53.510
but I feel like that's why we can't get one I

00:34:53.510 --> 00:34:55.030
feel like that's why all the guys have to be

00:34:55.030 --> 00:34:57.949
these like dopey little cartoony guys Yeah, I

00:34:57.949 --> 00:35:01.369
guess so, but yeah, I mean that is like another

00:35:01.369 --> 00:35:06.289
mature Yeah, there's only cartoony it's like

00:35:06.289 --> 00:35:09.329
we have the two beautiful people in the club

00:35:09.329 --> 00:35:12.150
and well and Sumire is like a normal -looking

00:35:12.150 --> 00:35:14.150
character too So you have three now and then

00:35:14.150 --> 00:35:16.150
kind of kind and then the other two are super

00:35:16.150 --> 00:35:21.010
cartoony So it's like I mean they do get serious

00:35:21.010 --> 00:35:24.849
moments despite being cartoony, but uh, I don't

00:35:24.849 --> 00:35:28.170
know They're all like casually friends, but he

00:35:28.170 --> 00:35:32.780
doesn't have like a phone to rely on Talking

00:35:32.780 --> 00:35:34.760
about their feelings or, like, shared secrets

00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:36.280
or anything. We're not getting anything like

00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.780
that. Just goddamn Canada. No. Why aren't we

00:35:38.780 --> 00:35:40.519
getting that? All three of these episodes are

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:43.019
just tournament time. Yeah. I want them to hang

00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:45.920
out. Yes. Maybe next time. I mean, already, compared

00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.280
to other sports animes, they get tons of time

00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.400
to, like, to spend time together compared to

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.260
other sports animes. Is that true? So this is,

00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:57.019
like, yes. How can that be true? How is sports

00:35:57.019 --> 00:35:58.699
animes something people like? There's literally

00:35:58.699 --> 00:36:03.099
no time. Who would like this? It's like half

00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:05.980
an episode. It's always tied to sports. There's

00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:08.079
nothing that exists outside the sport. I had

00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:12.179
a thought. I had a thought. Which is like, you

00:36:12.179 --> 00:36:14.280
know, I was thinking through last episode or

00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.239
like last of our podcast episode and being like,

00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:18.940
OK, so nobody can explain why they like Cardiff,

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.739
but it obviously has some draw. And at the end

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:22.619
of these episodes, it's going to draw in everybody

00:36:22.619 --> 00:36:24.760
and everyone's going to be all on board. It's

00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:27.599
less it's less operating like a hobby or like.

00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:30.360
Like an activity you just like to do and it's

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:34.280
operating more like a religion You know because

00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.260
it's like, oh, I don't know what's fun about

00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:37.760
it But you just got to do it like you just got

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.300
to keep doing it You just got to keep committing

00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:43.539
to it and that's like Just kind of how it's operating

00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:47.139
in my mind now. Well, we just need like normal

00:36:47.139 --> 00:36:51.980
people being playing. I just feel like no one's

00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:53.900
like a normal person. No, and they're gonna get

00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:56.940
less normal the longer this goes. Yeah. All right,

00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.119
should we go to the episode five? Yep. Episode

00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:03.699
five is called Be as Dear Now. These were the

00:37:03.699 --> 00:37:07.099
good old days. We open on Retro's team. PSP kid

00:37:07.099 --> 00:37:09.079
has been promoted to captain after pseudo left

00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.280
and he's like, well, since the top two teams

00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.139
advanced this year, I guess we don't really like

00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:16.239
matter if we win or not. And Retro is like. Oh,

00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:17.880
come on, man, we got to avenge ourselves from

00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:20.480
last year. But PSP kid is not convinced. But

00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.539
like, whatever, we got to play this game anyway.

00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:25.519
Also, Retro could do the divination so we could

00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.219
just like do counter whatever their lineup is.

00:37:28.460 --> 00:37:30.480
We jumped to Chihaya's team where Nishida is

00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:33.239
like, well, we advanced anyway, so I guess this

00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:35.039
game isn't that important. But then Chihaya says

00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:36.739
that if they're going to be undefeated from here

00:37:36.739 --> 00:37:38.639
on out, they can't lose. And Nishida is like,

00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:41.280
ah, all right, fine. Anyway, hey, remember two

00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:43.059
episodes ago where Retro said he had a secret

00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:45.199
weapon? What's up with that? She deters to look

00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.159
at Retro doing his divination and is surprised

00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.440
to see his sister is there with Retro. He remembers

00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:52.219
that she said that she got a boyfriend recently.

00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.940
Is it Retro? Is she dating Retro? Is this the

00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:58.260
secret weapon? This was pretty good. Yes. Did

00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:00.559
not come up as much as I thought it was going

00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.179
to in this episode, but it was still kind of

00:38:02.179 --> 00:38:07.639
funny. No, yeah, yeah. Minor details, but there's

00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:11.059
a slight payoff, I guess. Sumire mentions that

00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:13.340
while she was watching the other match last episode,

00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:16.599
she overheard PSP kids plan, which is basically

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:18.800
to try to beat Taichi and forget about Chihaya

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.599
and Nishida. This pushes off Taichi, Satomu,

00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.559
and Kana. Cause PSP kids like, we'll just line

00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:26.199
up our best guys against those three and just

00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:29.579
win. Taichi selects the order and Tsukaba tries

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:31.539
changing it again and Nishida's like, dude, what

00:38:31.539 --> 00:38:33.760
the hell? And they start arguing. Taichi has

00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:35.440
had enough though. And he says that none of the

00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.480
guys can start the sentences with but anymore.

00:38:37.820 --> 00:38:40.079
His mom made him do that. And now they have to

00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:42.000
do that too because it forces you to make better

00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:46.980
excuses and be less cartoony. Their opponents

00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:49.719
have two class A players, including a new first

00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.719
year, and the rest are all class B. Man, having

00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.380
an actual teacher, sir, is useful, huh? It's

00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:57.360
crazy how everybody else has coaches and we just

00:38:57.360 --> 00:38:59.559
are like five people. Actually, we're like seven

00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:02.480
people now. They start calling the like player

00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:05.019
assignments. We see Retro's team order is not

00:39:05.019 --> 00:39:07.239
correct because clearly Retro has sabotaged it.

00:39:08.590 --> 00:39:11.250
Retro or no the player assignments are called

00:39:11.250 --> 00:39:13.190
out and no one is against who they thought they'd

00:39:13.190 --> 00:39:15.250
be against except retro who's up against Tai

00:39:15.250 --> 00:39:17.630
Chi essentially what retro did is put them like

00:39:17.630 --> 00:39:21.829
their top five in order against The other team's

00:39:21.829 --> 00:39:25.070
top five in order so it's all straight matchups

00:39:25.070 --> 00:39:27.489
PSP kid yells at retro and retro admits that

00:39:27.489 --> 00:39:29.530
he wanted to beat them in a fair fight not taking

00:39:29.530 --> 00:39:32.929
advantage of his ESP They all get into a little

00:39:32.929 --> 00:39:34.670
argument that's broken up by the sudden appearance

00:39:34.670 --> 00:39:37.579
of sudo He's not here to watch, though. He's

00:39:37.579 --> 00:39:41.260
here to be the reader. Sudo's back. Haven't we

00:39:41.260 --> 00:39:45.480
missed him? Your favorite character ever. I can't

00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.860
believe those guys. I need to get rid of some

00:39:47.860 --> 00:39:49.760
of these guys. The guys in this show are not

00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.820
good. Let me just say that. Truly. Tai Chi and

00:39:53.820 --> 00:39:55.340
Arata are like the only... I don't even like

00:39:55.340 --> 00:39:58.360
Arata that much. Well, they're like the only

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.760
detailed drawn characters, male characters in

00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:07.190
this show. I don't know. Is it like? I like.

00:40:07.610 --> 00:40:09.730
Yeah, those three are like the only good looking

00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:12.250
characters in the entire world in this show.

00:40:12.590 --> 00:40:15.389
It's crazy. No, Shinobu looks cool, too, I guess.

00:40:15.969 --> 00:40:18.250
I'm like, not many, very many characters get

00:40:18.250 --> 00:40:22.369
the detail. Guy characters that I like in the

00:40:22.369 --> 00:40:28.250
show, Tai Chi, Dr. Hirata. Yeah, I guess. Arata

00:40:28.250 --> 00:40:33.119
is OK. And Satomu is OK. There we go. Bad, bad

00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:36.159
lineup, bad guy lineup. Yeah. It's not feeling

00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:38.980
very shojo to me, you know? That's true. Well,

00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:43.219
I guess it's just it's all about the three. Is

00:40:43.219 --> 00:40:45.519
it is it all about the three or is it about mostly

00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.860
the two? And then like we see we see like a five

00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:52.860
second scene with Arata in every like two episodes.

00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:56.980
Well, I feel like the author is like team Chihaya

00:40:56.980 --> 00:40:59.960
Arata and then like Tai Chi is the champion of

00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:03.300
the people like we all have. Him and it's a feeling

00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:05.760
it's just not gonna work out for him. Well, we'll

00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.460
see how this game works out for him Retro's team

00:41:08.460 --> 00:41:10.719
is feeling the pressure from their old team leader

00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:12.760
pseudo being right behind them as he reads these

00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:17.159
out Chihaya's coach gives their team all husky,

00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:18.860
which are like this little band You can wrap

00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:20.719
around your shoulders to give your arms for your

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.460
movement in their clothes She is like, wow, our

00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:26.039
coach might not know anything about this game,

00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:27.719
but she's still trying to look out for us, which

00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.719
is nice. That's cute. Yeah. Taishi thinks about

00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:32.679
how Retro has been kind of in the same boat as

00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.139
him since being stuck in Class B. They both have

00:41:35.139 --> 00:41:36.679
been to a lot of tournaments together and haven't

00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.099
won. I'm sorry, you were going to say something?

00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.820
Oh, yeah, I was going to say, oh, she says like,

00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:42.880
oh, I put the finishing touches on these just

00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.280
now. I'm like, what do you mean? They're just

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.699
strips across. What finishing touch did you put?

00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:50.900
I don't know. Maybe there's something special

00:41:50.900 --> 00:41:54.420
about them. They're so cute, like embroidery

00:41:54.420 --> 00:41:57.940
or anything. I mean, they're purely functional.

00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:01.159
Yes. We see that PSP kid is up against Chihaya.

00:42:01.860 --> 00:42:04.619
The game starts and she starts losing. Nishida's

00:42:04.619 --> 00:42:07.260
opponent is the Class A first year who's also

00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:09.920
pretty good. In better news, Kana is doing surprisingly

00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:12.719
well because Sudo is a very precise reader, and

00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:14.639
we get backstory about Sudo learning to be a

00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:18.019
reader. And basically, to sum it up, if you understand

00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:20.199
a reader, you can beat any opponent basically,

00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:21.760
which is what the current master does. You know,

00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:23.360
if you can like figure out how they read the

00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:26.119
cards, you should do that. So Sudo became a reader

00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:28.219
to do that. I don't care about Sudo's backstory,

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.480
but this was like... you know, three minutes

00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.139
of screen time or something. She is still struggling.

00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.079
She keeps dwelling on her mistakes and practices

00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.920
cards that just got taken away. Retro team clearly

00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:41.679
has the advantage because they're all used to

00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:43.739
pseudo reading, except for Kana, who's doing

00:42:43.739 --> 00:42:47.000
really, really well at it. So that's not great.

00:42:47.900 --> 00:42:49.900
Their coach thinks about how Karuta is an equal

00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:52.260
opportunity game or gender, size and age don't

00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:54.579
matter. This kind of comes out of nowhere. But

00:42:54.579 --> 00:42:58.539
it's true, I guess. Yeah. Is it true? I guess

00:42:58.539 --> 00:43:02.750
it's true. Sure. I mean, there's probably advantages

00:43:02.750 --> 00:43:05.929
to like having longer arms and stuff. But but

00:43:05.929 --> 00:43:09.030
basically, like you can make up for those differences.

00:43:09.170 --> 00:43:11.309
Like this is, you know, this is like a sport

00:43:11.309 --> 00:43:14.329
where it's like a girl doesn't stand a chance,

00:43:14.329 --> 00:43:17.570
you know, because it's more strategic. There's

00:43:17.570 --> 00:43:19.750
so many components to it rather than just like

00:43:19.750 --> 00:43:21.449
athleticism. This is the thing that messes me

00:43:21.449 --> 00:43:23.550
up, though, where it's like, oh, this is a this

00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:26.070
is a game where like gender and age and that

00:43:26.070 --> 00:43:28.730
stuff doesn't matter, except we separate off

00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:32.840
the best card of players by gender and all of

00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:37.300
the best players are like below the age 25. So

00:43:37.300 --> 00:43:42.320
that's true. Is any of that true? I mean, Arada's

00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:44.900
Arada's grandpa was like an answer for a while.

00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.800
I think when he was older. Yeah. So I guess we

00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:50.769
just haven't seen it. Yeah. Suddenly, Nishida's

00:43:50.769 --> 00:43:53.489
game ends with him losing by 13 cards, which

00:43:53.489 --> 00:43:56.829
is a massive upset. And now Chihaya's team is

00:43:56.829 --> 00:43:59.269
in a bind. Nishida says he was distracted by

00:43:59.269 --> 00:44:01.730
his opponent's weird hairpin, which like wasn't

00:44:01.730 --> 00:44:04.329
even that weird. And also by the fact that his

00:44:04.329 --> 00:44:05.869
sister was there cheering for his opponents,

00:44:06.070 --> 00:44:08.030
which was pretty weird. So I'll give him that.

00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:12.030
Yeah, because he's been like, he hasn't really

00:44:12.030 --> 00:44:14.429
gotten a lot of like focus on him, but he's just

00:44:14.429 --> 00:44:17.130
kind of there to count as like a win for the

00:44:17.130 --> 00:44:21.690
team reliably. Um, so at least this is something

00:44:21.690 --> 00:44:25.889
different. Yeah losing. Yes Taichi surveys the

00:44:25.889 --> 00:44:28.969
field. Kada's match is neck and neck and Chihaya

00:44:28.969 --> 00:44:34.030
is losing by five cards. That's not good. Taichi's

00:44:34.030 --> 00:44:36.070
match is also close. So things are looking pretty

00:44:36.070 --> 00:44:39.309
bad for them. Chihaya tries to assess the situation.

00:44:39.730 --> 00:44:41.590
She is not fast enough to beat her opponent on

00:44:41.590 --> 00:44:45.429
speed alone. Because why couldn't she? Why was

00:44:45.429 --> 00:44:47.679
she not putting him on speed alone again? Well,

00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.719
cause she, Dr. Hirata is like, you can't, you

00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:54.059
need to, don't take cards with your speed. Kind

00:44:54.059 --> 00:44:58.139
of like a task for her, a challenge to like develop

00:44:58.139 --> 00:45:00.159
different skills rather than just that. Cause

00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.159
she would like make a lot of mistakes and stuff

00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:05.139
doing. And so like for the last, right. I think

00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:06.980
they say in the next episode, like the last nine

00:45:06.980 --> 00:45:11.599
months, she's been trying to be a more like a

00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:16.590
well -balanced player. And so. But now she's

00:45:16.590 --> 00:45:20.849
got to kick it into high gear and pull out that

00:45:20.849 --> 00:45:23.650
her old hat trick. Right. So now she needs to

00:45:23.650 --> 00:45:26.210
lean into her strength of listening and speed.

00:45:26.349 --> 00:45:28.070
And then she takes the car as we cut to credits.

00:45:28.369 --> 00:45:30.329
So she's just like holding back this whole time.

00:45:30.510 --> 00:45:31.949
I was like, not really. I wasn't really sure

00:45:31.949 --> 00:45:36.409
why she was losing so badly. Well, yeah, I guess.

00:45:36.489 --> 00:45:39.510
Well, maybe she's in her mind. She's like, oh,

00:45:39.550 --> 00:45:42.889
we're both going to. the next level anyway, so

00:45:42.889 --> 00:45:44.929
I don't know. Basically, it seems like she's

00:45:44.929 --> 00:45:47.349
treating it like a practice round rather than

00:45:47.349 --> 00:45:50.449
like in a competition that her team relies on

00:45:50.449 --> 00:45:53.190
her. So it's kind of a little selfish, like,

00:45:53.570 --> 00:45:55.869
you know, like, don't do that right now. Focus

00:45:55.869 --> 00:45:59.289
on the match you're in and not like, you know,

00:45:59.349 --> 00:46:00.889
like. Yeah, I mean, she was like, she's like,

00:46:00.889 --> 00:46:02.869
you know, she's like practicing after each one

00:46:02.869 --> 00:46:04.570
and everyone's like, oh, it sounds like you're

00:46:04.570 --> 00:46:06.570
not taking this seriously. But like, is that

00:46:06.570 --> 00:46:09.650
not taking it seriously? I don't know. Basically.

00:46:10.139 --> 00:46:15.159
We have PSP Kid makes a comment and Dr. Harada

00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:18.019
agrees, but basically she should be like focused

00:46:18.019 --> 00:46:20.440
in like in the match she's currently playing

00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.980
and like like working towards the next card and

00:46:23.980 --> 00:46:28.760
not just like dwelling on the card she just lost.

00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:31.340
Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. That seems like

00:46:31.340 --> 00:46:34.099
a more like she's analyzing the. the game as

00:46:34.099 --> 00:46:36.639
she's playing it versus like doing that after

00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:39.000
the fact. That feels like because then it's like

00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.800
you're distracting yourself from. Proceeding.

00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.920
I guess it's just kind of like it doesn't feel

00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.440
like a thing that she does. It feels like a thing

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.920
that Tai Chi does. That's true. Whatever she

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.260
was doing. I don't know. I was just kind of confused

00:46:50.260 --> 00:46:52.480
as to like what changed because it's like all

00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:53.739
of a sudden she started doing better because

00:46:53.739 --> 00:46:56.380
she's like, I'm turning on hearing mode. Super

00:46:56.380 --> 00:47:01.559
hearing mode activate. We also get like a freaking.

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.880
Guy talking about Kana's chest to her. Oh, I

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:09.519
forgot about that. Yeah. Booby girl. I'm like,

00:47:09.659 --> 00:47:12.960
this is like harassment. Yeah. What the hell?

00:47:13.980 --> 00:47:16.619
This tournament's full of, like, creepy guys.

00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:20.739
It's pretty bad. Yes. My God. Yeah, I don't have

00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:22.519
that many more things to say about this episode.

00:47:22.820 --> 00:47:25.500
I still don't like Retro's team. We didn't get

00:47:25.500 --> 00:47:30.500
to learn anything. OK, is... Is the new, the

00:47:30.500 --> 00:47:32.519
first year, the secret weapon? What's the secret

00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:35.079
weapon? OK, that's what I was thinking, right?

00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.019
The secret weapon is, well, there's three different

00:47:38.019 --> 00:47:41.000
possibilities. It's the new class A freshman.

00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:44.019
It's the fact that Nishida's sister is there.

00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:48.400
Or I think they have, where their teacher told

00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:51.420
them if they win, he'll take them to like Yakitori

00:47:51.420 --> 00:47:54.079
or they'll take them to like a big... Meat dinner

00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:56.800
or something which is like always the which is

00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:59.099
always like the incentive in sports anime where

00:47:59.099 --> 00:48:01.519
it's like Oh, yeah, we're gonna get you know,

00:48:01.739 --> 00:48:05.199
barbecue after this. We gotta do it guys kind

00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.280
of I don't feel like any of those things are

00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.199
a secret weapon I feel like the first year the

00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:11.699
new player is the only one that could be yeah,

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:13.760
but we didn't get to see his game. There's no

00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:17.360
focus on him. He wears kind of a weird hairpin

00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.610
and destroys Dishida Essentially, so I don't

00:48:21.610 --> 00:48:25.309
even know what he did. Yes Okay, I will say the

00:48:25.309 --> 00:48:27.389
good thing about this show is that like in a

00:48:27.389 --> 00:48:30.550
lot of sports anime there's You know, like each

00:48:30.550 --> 00:48:33.630
team you play has distinct characters and you

00:48:33.630 --> 00:48:38.150
learn and then like one match is like You know

00:48:38.150 --> 00:48:40.690
half a season or something, but then you get

00:48:40.690 --> 00:48:42.730
all the backstory of all these players on the

00:48:42.730 --> 00:48:47.329
other team which like I think It's a good thing

00:48:47.329 --> 00:48:49.949
here that we don't do that, because we don't

00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:52.809
have any, like, a lot of time with any of the

00:48:52.809 --> 00:48:54.969
teams, even if we play with them again. Like,

00:48:55.230 --> 00:48:58.030
we're very brief backgrounds on them, and then

00:48:58.030 --> 00:48:59.949
we get to move on. It's not like it's taking

00:48:59.949 --> 00:49:04.070
up a ton of time. They're not making the opening

00:49:04.070 --> 00:49:07.289
credits scene, you know what I'm saying? Like

00:49:07.289 --> 00:49:08.969
it kind of works and it kind of because it still

00:49:08.969 --> 00:49:11.110
does it right like cuz last episode we had like

00:49:11.110 --> 00:49:13.769
oh the weird girl is we get Like a little flashback,

00:49:13.829 --> 00:49:16.190
but it's so generic and nothing. I'm like why

00:49:16.190 --> 00:49:19.489
is this even here? Yep, so it's like yeah. Well

00:49:19.489 --> 00:49:22.489
just imagine it was either Are you think it'd

00:49:22.489 --> 00:49:25.130
be better if there was more time with it? I feel

00:49:25.130 --> 00:49:27.750
like you should either have something to say

00:49:27.929 --> 00:49:30.389
and make it interesting or just not do it. And

00:49:30.389 --> 00:49:32.389
it's like there's it's still kind of doing it.

00:49:32.409 --> 00:49:33.929
I mean, you're saying it's like, oh, yeah, this

00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:35.869
thing that sucks is not doing it that much, which

00:49:35.869 --> 00:49:37.829
is good. But like, you just don't have to do

00:49:37.829 --> 00:49:40.289
the thing that sucks. It is my opinion. I'm like,

00:49:40.289 --> 00:49:41.909
you don't have to give us backstory on this stuff.

00:49:41.929 --> 00:49:43.809
But I don't know. I don't. This is why I don't

00:49:43.809 --> 00:49:45.949
like sports anime. People like this. People like

00:49:45.949 --> 00:49:48.630
the the bad backstories of characters that don't

00:49:48.630 --> 00:49:53.789
matter. Uh huh. Yeah. Oh, last episode. Episode

00:49:53.789 --> 00:49:59.820
six called to set the. tatsuta river ablaze uh

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:02.079
we open on the game chihaya is starting to take

00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:04.679
cards again and she can hear the intonation of

00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.440
the first syllable Um that sudo is reading and

00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:09.559
guess the card because that's how she is good

00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:12.340
at taking cards quickly And sudo figures out

00:50:12.340 --> 00:50:14.400
that she's doing this because he's mr. Learn

00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:16.980
the reader guy now We were reminded through montage

00:50:16.980 --> 00:50:19.159
that this is shihaya's strength They like recap

00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:20.960
us from last season of like hey remember that

00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.639
one time satomu tells her that she has 21st syllable

00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:26.059
cards or whatever and it's cute Well, that's

00:50:26.059 --> 00:50:28.860
still that still matters. Um bsbk is starting

00:50:28.860 --> 00:50:31.539
to fall apart as shihaya equalizes the match

00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:34.719
So PSPKids starts playing really defensively.

00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.420
We jump to Satomu's game where he's wearing his

00:50:37.420 --> 00:50:39.840
opponent down. Last year, he got stomped by this

00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:42.780
guy by 15 cards, but this time he's doing way

00:50:42.780 --> 00:50:46.559
better. And Satomu takes against him even when

00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:48.380
he was covering a card. So that's how good we're

00:50:48.380 --> 00:50:50.260
doing, which is great because like... Yeah, I

00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:53.320
like the shout out to like the progress he's

00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:55.320
made by facing against the same player again.

00:50:55.340 --> 00:50:58.579
Especially because like earlier in the tournament,

00:50:58.860 --> 00:51:02.030
it's always like, oh... It's like three wins

00:51:02.030 --> 00:51:05.570
to two or something. Like, Satomu and Kana are

00:51:05.570 --> 00:51:07.309
not just, like, winning their matches normally

00:51:07.309 --> 00:51:09.730
anyway, still. Well, I think they just don't

00:51:09.730 --> 00:51:13.409
count on it. We just didn't super see, like,

00:51:14.150 --> 00:51:16.309
maybe there was a match or two where they got,

00:51:16.309 --> 00:51:19.110
like, four wins instead of just three. Yeah,

00:51:19.110 --> 00:51:21.289
but they haven't had any, like, triumphs yet.

00:51:21.309 --> 00:51:23.230
Because it's not like when you... Yeah, true.

00:51:24.090 --> 00:51:26.269
Right? Because I guess we haven't seen... I'm

00:51:26.269 --> 00:51:28.789
assuming each person plays through their entire

00:51:28.789 --> 00:51:32.360
match, even if it's... been determined that your

00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:34.380
team is going to lose because three people on

00:51:34.380 --> 00:51:36.099
your team already lost. It's not like you then

00:51:36.099 --> 00:51:38.599
end your game. You like finish it out. Yeah.

00:51:39.260 --> 00:51:41.920
Oh, yeah. I don't know where I was going with

00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:43.300
that thought. Oh, yeah. It's like, I guess you

00:51:43.300 --> 00:51:44.840
could just start throwing at the end if you don't

00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.320
care. Let's see. We're down to the last few cards,

00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:50.380
but all four are still playing and Nishida is

00:51:50.380 --> 00:51:52.880
like, oh, this is bad because if it comes down

00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.820
to luck of the draw, we're only going to win

00:51:55.820 --> 00:51:57.920
two out of four, which means we're going to lose.

00:51:58.460 --> 00:52:01.320
It comes down to luck of the draw in all the

00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:04.300
matches Retro's team starts moving their cards

00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:07.079
around to quote -unquote split their cards And

00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:08.980
what this means is that half of their team has

00:52:08.980 --> 00:52:11.199
one of the cards and the other two have the other

00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:13.019
half So if either card gets read they should

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:14.940
win two out of the four games which will let

00:52:14.940 --> 00:52:17.519
them win the match They spent a lot of time explaining

00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:22.219
this incredibly specific scenario So that means

00:52:22.219 --> 00:52:24.019
Chihaya's team will have to take at least one

00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:25.539
card from their opponent, which is basically

00:52:25.539 --> 00:52:27.619
impossible in order to win. Chihaya realizes

00:52:27.619 --> 00:52:29.340
this is the last moment and looks over to see

00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:31.920
Nishida blaming himself. Chihaya starts practicing

00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:34.099
swings to take from her opponent and then Taichi

00:52:34.099 --> 00:52:37.780
joins in and he in his head goes over all the

00:52:37.780 --> 00:52:39.920
remaining dead cards and there's one duplicate

00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:43.019
in the remaining dead cards. Retro sees this

00:52:43.019 --> 00:52:46.909
and thinks so hard about blocking Taichi that

00:52:46.909 --> 00:52:49.349
when the next card is red, he taps his card while

00:52:49.349 --> 00:52:52.110
defending it and faults losing the match. So

00:52:52.110 --> 00:52:54.289
now it's back to luck again because there's three

00:52:54.289 --> 00:52:57.989
and... It's two and one. A PSP kid tries to get

00:52:57.989 --> 00:53:00.070
out on it and starts practicing his swings too,

00:53:00.150 --> 00:53:01.869
because he's like, uh -oh, I might have to take

00:53:01.869 --> 00:53:03.889
Chihaya's card, and I can't just be defensive.

00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:07.130
The final card is... Practice swings are so embarrassing.

00:53:07.789 --> 00:53:09.849
Sorry. Taishi points it out in season one, but

00:53:09.849 --> 00:53:13.190
I'm like, that's so embarrassing. Oh, God. That's

00:53:13.190 --> 00:53:15.090
like, there's this thing in paintball where,

00:53:15.570 --> 00:53:18.090
like, I never did it because I was like, what

00:53:18.090 --> 00:53:19.610
the hell are you guys doing? But they would,

00:53:19.610 --> 00:53:22.980
like, hold their arm out, like... And like pretend

00:53:22.980 --> 00:53:25.800
it was the scope of their or the barrel of their

00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.000
paintball gun. I was like, oh, you guys look

00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:32.639
so weird. Like, what are you doing? Mm hmm. Shadow

00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:37.619
boxing. But it's but it's. Yeah. The final card

00:53:37.619 --> 00:53:41.119
is red. takes and then wins, Satomu's opponent

00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:43.639
takes and wins and he loses, and Shihaya and

00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:46.480
PSPKid both try to tap his card on his side.

00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:49.480
None of the spectators can tell who tapped the

00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.119
card first, and PSPKid says he took it first,

00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:54.239
but Shihaya says that they did it at the same

00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:56.039
time, and technically that means that the person

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:59.400
who cited it on wins, so she loses. After the

00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:02.199
match, Sudo asks PSP Kid if their team was the

00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:04.619
strongest, and he says no. He only moved because

00:54:04.619 --> 00:54:06.800
Chihaya did, and it was kind of just a luck anyway

00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.679
that he won. And Sudo uses that to encourage

00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:12.900
them, I guess. Chihaya tells him that that was

00:54:12.900 --> 00:54:15.199
a fun match, and then they all go home. Sumire

00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.480
breaks off from the group, and we see Sumire,

00:54:17.619 --> 00:54:20.460
Tsukaba, and his brothers join the car to society.

00:54:20.980 --> 00:54:24.780
Because religion, baby. Take First Communion.

00:54:25.659 --> 00:54:27.599
Chihaya and Taiji board the train together. Chihaya

00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:29.679
gets an email from Hirata asking if she had fun

00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:31.599
at the high school regional. She starts crying

00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:33.500
and thinks that this was the most fun she's had

00:54:33.500 --> 00:54:37.840
yet as we cut to credits. OK. I mean, because,

00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:43.719
right? First season, it's Nishida gets Kana and

00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:47.539
Satomo to go to his society. So at least this

00:54:47.539 --> 00:54:51.440
time, Dr. Hirata is getting some new disciples.

00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:54.980
I guess that's true. Good for him. They spend

00:54:54.980 --> 00:54:58.340
a lot of time this match describing splitting

00:54:58.340 --> 00:55:02.539
your cards. A thing that can only happen in a

00:55:02.539 --> 00:55:06.500
team game in which multiple people go down to

00:55:06.500 --> 00:55:08.800
the final two cards. This is just a scenario

00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:10.940
that almost never happens, right? They're acting

00:55:10.940 --> 00:55:13.880
like this is such like a known strategy. And

00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:18.539
I'm like, when would this ever happen? It's so

00:55:18.539 --> 00:55:19.940
unlikely. Well, that's true, because I'm trying.

00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:23.639
Is it? Cause right, we're seeing, we've only

00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:27.420
seen team matches in like the school system.

00:55:27.699 --> 00:55:30.119
Are there team matches outside of the school

00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:32.199
system or once you're not in school, there's

00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:34.679
no opportunity for team matches anymore because

00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:36.880
then it's like those kinds of matches wouldn't

00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:39.260
be broadcast. So people would never see that

00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:42.019
scenario happen. I don't know. It doesn't. I

00:55:42.019 --> 00:55:44.139
don't know. Weird. And then, of course, Tai Chi

00:55:44.139 --> 00:55:46.880
and Chihaya. And then she starts crying after

00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:49.679
freaking Errata. Oh, my God. She cries. She's

00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:52.079
like, I got an email from Errata and Tai Chi's

00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.340
doing his like sad boy look where it's like the

00:55:54.340 --> 00:55:57.019
hair is covering his eyes. He's like, read it.

00:55:58.900 --> 00:56:02.380
Just get just get wrecked. Basically, I. I think

00:56:02.380 --> 00:56:05.119
she's crying because she's, you know, a little

00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:07.119
discouraged that they lost when she wanted to

00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.880
win. But also, girl, then you should have been

00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:12.380
playing to win in your match and not playing

00:56:12.380 --> 00:56:16.559
to learn. Or pay attention. Yep. You know, some,

00:56:16.739 --> 00:56:19.179
I mean, yes, right, Tai Chi learns the lesson

00:56:19.179 --> 00:56:21.579
of like, it's an individual match, but it's a

00:56:21.579 --> 00:56:23.119
team match and blah, blah, blah. But Chi Hai,

00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:26.099
like, is super the opposite where he's worried

00:56:26.099 --> 00:56:28.099
about the others and she, like, doesn't look

00:56:28.099 --> 00:56:31.789
at them at all. Yeah. So there we go. That's

00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:33.269
the end of that's the end of this episode. How

00:56:33.269 --> 00:56:37.309
do we feel about it? Um, I'm I'm let's see. Um,

00:56:37.409 --> 00:56:39.269
yeah, I mean, it's fine. They don't have to.

00:56:39.429 --> 00:56:41.369
Well, now I'm like, if they don't bring a trophy

00:56:41.369 --> 00:56:45.860
is old geezer from the last. episode's going

00:56:45.860 --> 00:56:50.159
to be like looking into their club because they

00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:52.860
didn't get another win. It's like, oh, they didn't

00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:55.039
win this time and they don't have members now.

00:56:55.260 --> 00:56:57.239
We can super shut them down. I don't feel like

00:56:57.239 --> 00:56:58.960
that plot point's ever going to come up again.

00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:02.320
OK. I feel like that's such a cliffhanger that

00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:09.179
didn't really matter. Pay off. Yeah. Well, I

00:57:09.179 --> 00:57:12.539
guess. Hopefully Sumire starts getting good.

00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.179
I feel like last year it was like we had team

00:57:15.179 --> 00:57:17.420
matches and then the following day with individual

00:57:17.420 --> 00:57:19.619
matches for high school, but that didn't happen

00:57:19.619 --> 00:57:22.920
this time I mean they could just because the

00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:25.579
high school matches were by class right next

00:57:25.579 --> 00:57:29.880
time Yes, the individual matches are like so

00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:35.380
maybe hmm. I don't know But also, can you rank

00:57:35.380 --> 00:57:39.059
up from winning a school one? No. Or is the only

00:57:39.059 --> 00:57:42.820
right? Yeah. OK. Good Lord. Maybe it was maybe

00:57:42.820 --> 00:57:45.059
they would they just cut to the next individual

00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:47.400
match. And that's why it was confusing. I mean,

00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:49.639
I just misremembered. What? Well, basically,

00:57:49.780 --> 00:57:52.219
I'm guessing the next episode is going to be

00:57:52.219 --> 00:57:57.420
everyone's training, whatever. What can be the

00:57:57.420 --> 00:58:01.659
other component to that? Maybe some Sumire making

00:58:01.659 --> 00:58:04.679
moves on Tai Chi or I don't know because it has

00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:06.719
to be something other than just training. We

00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.739
can't immediately cut to the next one. We gotta

00:58:08.739 --> 00:58:11.599
have a fucking training arc. Come on. This is

00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:13.840
the only time in an anime I'm asking for a training

00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.460
arc. There's gotta be a full -blown... They gotta

00:58:17.460 --> 00:58:20.650
hang out. They gotta go to summer camp. Dr. Hirata's

00:58:20.650 --> 00:58:22.630
summer camp. We're all going to. Well, because

00:58:22.630 --> 00:58:25.230
what did they lose? They lost something that

00:58:25.230 --> 00:58:28.010
then they trained afterwards for because it wasn't

00:58:28.010 --> 00:58:30.829
because they they won this tournament last year.

00:58:30.869 --> 00:58:33.869
So what is it that they did that they made? I

00:58:33.869 --> 00:58:35.849
don't know. You're asking me to remember season

00:58:35.849 --> 00:58:41.070
one. There's not. OK. OK, well, we'll find out.

00:58:41.610 --> 00:58:44.570
Yeah, they got you. The show has to do some character

00:58:44.570 --> 00:58:46.349
work now. We did the tour. We did the tournament.

00:58:46.570 --> 00:58:49.190
We did it. Yeah. And we're only on episode six.

00:58:49.190 --> 00:58:51.730
You know, this is episode six. That's fine. Whatever.

00:58:53.110 --> 00:58:55.550
Re -matching is a bunch of characters that I

00:58:55.550 --> 00:58:57.710
don't care about. It don't matter. But we did

00:58:57.710 --> 00:59:00.829
it. That's great. Satomu and Kana are just as

00:59:00.829 --> 00:59:03.369
good as those guys are now. So that's good. So

00:59:03.369 --> 00:59:08.570
great. We need I need them. to have actual interpersonal

00:59:08.570 --> 00:59:11.789
drama soon that needs to happen. Hey, remember

00:59:11.789 --> 00:59:15.269
when Shinobu saw, like, a shadow vision of Arana?

00:59:15.329 --> 00:59:17.010
What's going on there? When's that gonna come

00:59:17.010 --> 00:59:19.809
up again? Yeah, because we... Well, maybe we'll

00:59:19.809 --> 00:59:23.150
get more time with him where he's, like, doing...

00:59:22.989 --> 00:59:26.050
We learn what his ask his request for his parents

00:59:26.050 --> 00:59:28.289
is which i'm guessing is the mood that i hope

00:59:28.289 --> 00:59:31.889
so So that he can be a character. Yeah, so but

00:59:31.889 --> 00:59:34.630
then tai chi's gonna be devastated. Let's watch

00:59:34.630 --> 00:59:39.610
tai chi be devastated. Oh, no, no We love tai

00:59:39.610 --> 00:59:45.570
chi we want the No, yeah Yep, uh, I don't think

00:59:45.570 --> 00:59:47.809
I have any other opinions about points about

00:59:47.809 --> 00:59:53.400
this so That's our coverage of Chiaya Furu season

00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:56.719
two episodes four through six. Next time we'll

00:59:56.719 --> 01:00:01.380
do seven through nine. We could do four episodes

01:00:01.380 --> 01:00:04.659
if we wanted. No, you're just like looking up

01:00:04.659 --> 01:00:07.860
at your ceiling like that. I have to do the summaries

01:00:07.860 --> 01:00:09.699
for all of these basically tomorrow. So we're

01:00:09.699 --> 01:00:12.699
just going to do three again. We can maybe switch

01:00:12.699 --> 01:00:15.059
to four. OK. I'm looking up at my ceiling because

01:00:15.059 --> 01:00:18.699
I'm just like, oh, my God. We got through it.

01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:21.519
So this is your favorite show. We got through

01:00:21.519 --> 01:00:24.760
it, you guys. This is one of your favorite shows.

01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:26.679
Is it still one of your favorite shows after

01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:32.059
we watched through it? I like watching it. Sports

01:00:32.059 --> 01:00:35.159
anime does have like a lot of things missing

01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:37.860
that I like, but also like it gets me hyped.

01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:41.739
So I just enjoy, like, Haikyuu, I like, yeah,

01:00:41.739 --> 01:00:44.159
when I'm watching it. That, like, I get, like,

01:00:44.260 --> 01:00:46.400
this excitement level that I don't get in, like,

01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:50.019
a lot of other animes. But so I think it's just

01:00:50.019 --> 01:00:54.480
better for, like, binging than it is to analyze.

01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:59.619
It's not holding up under our criticisms, but

01:00:59.619 --> 01:01:02.679
I do love watching it. I feel like it's not only

01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:05.039
that. I feel like every episode we come back

01:01:05.039 --> 01:01:09.650
and you hate Chihaya a little more. Okay, but

01:01:09.650 --> 01:01:12.369
I'm sorry? Okay. I feel like you really don't

01:01:12.369 --> 01:01:14.389
like her. Because even when she's being endearing

01:01:14.389 --> 01:01:17.070
in these episodes, I'm like, that's kind of cute.

01:01:17.250 --> 01:01:20.929
But you're like, God, Jihaya, just play the game.

01:01:21.869 --> 01:01:23.829
Stop being such a weird little freak. Oh, God.

01:01:24.590 --> 01:01:29.130
Yeah, I get... I've been, like, critical. Is

01:01:29.130 --> 01:01:31.250
she the protagonist I've been the most critical

01:01:31.250 --> 01:01:32.489
of, probably? Oh, yeah. I feel like it's not

01:01:32.489 --> 01:01:36.219
even close. I mean, I freaking hate... Marie

01:01:36.219 --> 01:01:39.219
Antoinette, but she's not really the show kind

01:01:39.219 --> 01:01:41.420
of also hates Marie Antoinette, so it's fine.

01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:49.380
Yeah, yeah. I and then she's what's her Misaki

01:01:49.380 --> 01:01:51.679
is just like a what? Nothing. She's just like

01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:57.199
a nice kid. Yeah, I guess I just I like one.

01:01:58.250 --> 01:01:59.829
Particular, because there's like a lot of series

01:01:59.829 --> 01:02:01.769
where I don't like the protagonist because I'm

01:02:01.769 --> 01:02:04.230
like, oh, I don't want the like, I'm a loser

01:02:04.230 --> 01:02:06.570
and become better over time. I want someone who's

01:02:06.570 --> 01:02:10.250
like badass by default. I was born different.

01:02:10.650 --> 01:02:13.070
I want like a protagonist that I like and then

01:02:13.070 --> 01:02:15.230
we get to go along with them for the ride and

01:02:15.230 --> 01:02:18.070
the ride isn't becoming a person that I end up

01:02:18.070 --> 01:02:22.090
liking. Like I want them to be. Likeable start

01:02:22.090 --> 01:02:24.250
as a person and then we see them in scenario

01:02:24.250 --> 01:02:28.210
like a normal person, please Yeah, I guess not.

01:02:28.210 --> 01:02:32.070
I'm just impatient. This is not a show development

01:02:32.070 --> 01:02:37.550
Now it's super duper not but I like a door Tai

01:02:37.550 --> 01:02:39.369
Chi so much The only guy who's kind of normal

01:02:39.369 --> 01:02:42.429
is Tai Chi and he has he just gets like red every

01:02:42.429 --> 01:02:45.860
episode It's like he's either losing car to games

01:02:45.860 --> 01:02:48.920
or she hires like crying about errata in front

01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:52.099
of him or Well, I guess he went right. He's winning

01:02:52.099 --> 01:02:54.619
in a lot of ways where it's like, okay He's well

01:02:54.619 --> 01:02:58.320
his family's well off. He's good -looking. He's

01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:01.539
smart Popular girls like him. So he's got like

01:03:01.539 --> 01:03:03.480
a lot going for him It's just that none of the

01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:05.900
things that he wants are like fulfilled by those.

01:03:06.099 --> 01:03:09.119
Yeah, which I guess is Good like makes him more

01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:12.340
likeable. But also it's like if he had everything

01:03:12.340 --> 01:03:15.880
then Oh, no. I mean, Tai Chi's great when he's

01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.059
like sad and pathetic. That's why I like him.

01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:22.099
Get wrecked, Tai Chi. Every episode, every time

01:03:22.099 --> 01:03:23.639
he's like something bad, I'm like, yeah, Tai

01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:27.139
Chi's sad. Woo! Well, I know at least our rankings

01:03:27.139 --> 01:03:31.760
for Chihayafuru will change after we finish just

01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:36.019
front the left. Can we just make Sumire already

01:03:36.019 --> 01:03:39.480
sprinting to the top? She just become the main

01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:43.159
but POV character, please. She's already applied

01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:47.139
to be the Shojo protagonist. Well, hopefully

01:03:47.139 --> 01:03:49.300
we get more time with her. Well, in the meantime,

01:03:50.380 --> 01:03:53.219
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01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:57.440
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01:03:57.440 --> 01:03:59.159
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01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:03.900
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01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:08.010
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did we learn anything? And,

01:04:08.010 --> 01:04:10.809
uh, split your cards, Dan. It feels like this

01:04:10.809 --> 01:04:13.530
is not a thing you'd ever, like, today we're

01:04:13.530 --> 01:04:15.429
gonna learn about splitting cards, guys, in a

01:04:15.429 --> 01:04:17.809
scenario that will almost never happen. Well,

01:04:17.869 --> 01:04:20.849
it's not even, like, every episode is a, like,

01:04:21.210 --> 01:04:23.530
Monster of the Wink format where we learn something

01:04:23.530 --> 01:04:26.250
new, but... It's just, like, I don't know. And

01:04:26.250 --> 01:04:28.250
will this ever come up again? Surely not. It's

01:04:28.250 --> 01:04:29.630
just really goofy to be like, and they all four

01:04:29.630 --> 01:04:32.449
matches go to the final card, the luck draw.

01:04:32.570 --> 01:04:35.090
And I'm like, really? All four of them? Nobody

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ever. Just like one, two in a row. At least Tai

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Chi won his, man. That's true. He just faked

01:04:39.250 --> 01:04:41.750
them out. That's pretty good. Right around. Yeah.

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I don't think I learned anything. If your sister

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starts dating somebody, maybe you should learn

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their name so you're not just caught off guard.

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Maybe you should care about who your sister's

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dating. Yes. How old? I'm like, how much younger

01:04:56.900 --> 01:04:59.760
is your sister? And how old is Retro? Is he like

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too old to be dating her? Like, ugh, I don't

01:05:02.420 --> 01:05:06.000
know. Like, because if she was like a year below

01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:07.960
Nishida, she would be a first year too. I don't

01:05:07.960 --> 01:05:11.860
know. Maybe she's just like a very unimportant

01:05:11.860 --> 01:05:14.420
plot device. I mean, if she's one year, that's

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one year difference, it's nothing. Whatever.

01:05:16.300 --> 01:05:19.739
I know that's true, but I feel like if that was

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the case, we would see her. And she doesn't like

01:05:22.019 --> 01:05:27.030
heart it. How'd they even meet? What? I don't

01:05:27.030 --> 01:05:29.869
know. I need the me cute. What happened? We saw

01:05:29.869 --> 01:05:33.670
her. She was just in like the she was like the

01:05:33.670 --> 01:05:35.889
little break because we had like the one random

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ass bonus, like just little short of the recap

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episode. And she was like in that. And that's

01:05:41.630 --> 01:05:43.969
the introduction of her. So she wasn't even actually

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like in the canon parts of the first season.

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Whatever. Yeah. Do that. That's fine. We didn't

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learn anything. Figure out who your sister's

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dating. In advance. Yeah. Yes. Care about your

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family. The Shia. That's why you lost so bad

01:06:03.699 --> 01:06:06.719
at the beginning. Uh -huh. That and swirly hair

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pins. All right. Yep. Well, OK. Thanks for joining

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us for this episode, guys, and catch us next

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week when we... Chuck, more Chihaya Furu. Joe's

01:06:23.949 --> 01:06:25.949
favorite. He's just gonna hear and get more and

01:06:25.949 --> 01:06:27.869
more excited about our character. I need Shinobu

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to show up. Where is she? Yes, we do. We do need

01:06:31.670 --> 01:06:34.489
our cool characters. I'm on Shinobu watch. Forever

01:06:34.489 --> 01:06:36.829
on Shinobu watch. Where is she? Why is she not

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in the scene? We need more snowman stuff. Every

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scene, I'm gonna ask where Shinobu is and why

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she isn't here. He has to be the mysterious rival.

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Yep. God, okay, whatever. Okay. Hey, bye. Bye!