Hello, everyone, and welcome to Shoujo, the anime
recap and discussion podcast where I, Sarah,
introduce my friend, Jo, here to Shoujo anime,
which is anime typically targeting girls. And
so I've seen it. And Joe has not as much so.
And his name's Joe and we're seeing Shojo. So
Shojo, best name ever. I haven't, I haven't compliment
given us a pat on the back in a while for that
one. So let's just throw that in there. Yeah.
So sup Joe. Before we jump into Chihayafuru,
the current series we're covering, let's. Um.
Was it shoot this? No, shoot. Yeah, that's right.
It's a shit. That's what that's what they say.
I don't know why they say that. But some some
people do say that. OK. Old, old men say old
men. We're turning into the old men podcast.
It's it's Pride Month. So we're going to. Oh,
yeah. I don't know, I didn't have a transition
for that, as to why we'd be old men in that case.
I guess we're dating ourselves by doing that.
It's some year in the future, who knows? In 10
years, when you're listening to this. Well, bury
recordings in a time capsule. That's right, yep.
Because apparently people, I don't know, there's
some dumb like, oh, anime's gonna be banned in
Texas, so I'll just bury it for... in the woods
for children to discover like they did with porn
in the 80s. I'm so like. We're going to ban anime
in Texas. It's like more nuanced, but it's probably
just bullshit, but I feel like. Maybe they should.
Why do I have to move to Ohio? Maybe that's good.
Yeah. You know, anime. You know, some people
have been saying it's maybe a mistake. So who
knows? No, I think it's like just anime that
like have basically anime with anything that
could be interpreted as like minors wearing skimpy
clothing, which is like a lot of cutesy girls.
Yeah. So if your skirt's too short, I don't know.
I don't know. This is probably just all like
amic. But whatever. I'll find a way. I don't
do anything illegal, but I can start. That does
remind me that I did listen to like a little
thing on a podcast I listened to called NeverPost
where they talked about hentai on the Internet
and how it doesn't really fit in anywhere because
it's not like It's explicit, but it's not like
pornographic in like the traditional sense So
porn websites regulations can't really take it
because you have to do things when you like put
stuff on porn websites like prove It's you who's
posting it But for animation, it's like how do
you prove that this that you animated this you
have to like show them like a time lapse of you
drawing it and stuff like that. Like it's really
hard to do that stuff. And like normally you
also need to have like written, you know, approval
from all of the like actors in it, but it's like,
okay, how do I get approval for? Oh man. Or cartoon.
Like what are we doing here? So like it just
doesn't fit into stuff. Yeah. I don't know. It
would have been just that it was something that
was sold in like the adult section back in the
day, but online. distribution and streaming of
it does seem, I don't, I mean, I don't know very
much about anti, but like, it's not like a dying
breed or anything. No, they make a lot of it.
It's just like one of those things where, I mean,
even like the weird stuff you associated with,
like the tentacles thing, it's that to get around
regulation about what can be shown and what can't
be shown. That's why it's tentacles. It's all
a really weird thing and it is apparently still
weird and still a thing. Yeah, I mean it's like
it's mostly a problem of like how do you monetize
it effectively like you can get it on sites But
the question is like can you get paid for it?
Can you? You know get into their little like
partnership programs or whatever like that's
the part where it just doesn't pay off as much
Which is why I think they still like in practice
sell it on like DVDs and stuff like that Just
get a VPN, what are you doing? No This thing's
so complicated. It's totally legal. I know, because
the Love Island podcast I used to listen to,
they would like try to do it, you know, the legal
way. So they would try to use VPN, but they always
said it sucked. I mean, for some streaming, it
can. Like I have a VPN service and I use it to
watch like. Um, well, cause like a lot, like
a lot of times like streaming platforms that
don't like have stuff in the U S have it in Canada.
So I'll just connect to Canada and then I'll
watch it. It's easy. Allegedly. I would never
do that. Copyright lawyers. Also, if you're a
copyright lawyer, stop listening to this. I don't
like you. I think I have one on my, uh, we have
one for. Oh yeah. I mean, that makes sense is
your, your company that has a copyright. I would
understand that. Don't listen to my podcast.
Listen, I don't dislike you as a person. Don't
listen to my podcast. OK. Go listen to something
else. Don't worry. They're not. Yeah, quite OK.
So yes, Shoujo anime may be what we're covering,
but that does not mean we're keeping our content
sugary sleep. I literally thought you were about
to say the next thing we're going to watch is
hentai. I'm like, I'm sorry, are we? What's happening
here? No, no, absolutely not. No. No. Although
there is. No, OK. Hold on, there's what? Oh,
I was going to say there's like a smutty Jose
manga that I bet there is as they have like a
short little like tiny, as short as little anime.
Episodes, I think I saw. Uh huh. Okay. Yeah,
so I guess... I don't know. It seems like it's
all just the gross dude stuff, but maybe there's
some lady hentai out there. Lady targeted stuff.
I bet there is, yeah. Anyways. I bet there is.
Yeah, anyway. My dad came to visit me. Yeah,
how was that? So I was hanging out with my dad
for like... Five days a week or something like
that. It was good. Just had to go around a couple
of places. It was kind of awkward because like
he left on Monday, which is like the day because
that was his last day. I guess he left on Tuesday,
but like everything's closed on Monday. So it
was like not a very like fun day particularly.
That's just like when a lot of stores are like
like restaurants and stuff are closed. They just
had the weekend and stuff like that. It's like
Monday and Tuesday for. Is it? OK, I was going
to say. My favorite sushi place does that on
their clothes on Sundays, but the only place
I know of here that's really closed on Mondays
is one animal shelter. I used to work at Yeah
stuff closes on because they'll don't want to
be open on Sunday. So they'll close on like a
Monday or Tuesday or so See that makes sense.
Yeah While he was here we watched all four John
wick movies, uh -huh. I had number four before.
It was good. It was interesting watching them
all kind of in a row because you can really tell
like when things started to shift or like what
each movie added in terms of like shifting. OK,
like the focus of it. All I know about this movie
is that in the first one, we're avenging a puppy,
which I love. I don't know. I've never seen any
of that. You think so? OK, what do you think
Rina Sawayama is in? Is there like a - She's
in the last one. Okay, see, I - I guess you probably
can't watch them out of order, huh? Uh, I mean,
you could, but nah. It's not as fulfilling of
a - No, it's not really gonna - I mean, yeah,
not really. You probably could. I've heard only
good things, so. I just don't like to do shooting
stuff movies. They're typically very boring to
me. Well, this is like all about action choreography
like stuff. Oh, okay. so basically like if you
like you should watch the first one if you like
what they're doing there you should keep watching
the rest of them because it's just like more
of that but escalating gotcha okay um sweet okay
well uh any any what else are you up to any anything
else um i mean i tried to get your dad to watch
anime with you no my dad was not gonna watch
anime with me i don't think yeah My mom never
does well either. I was able to get my grandpa
too. Oh. He watched all of the first season of
the original Full Metal Alchemist anime with
me. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, I know, right?
Yeah. So that was me. What have you been up to?
Do you have anything fun over the weekend? Yes,
well, yes. OK, so I went to DreamCon in Houston
this weekend Well, I got there Friday morning
and left Sunday afternoon, but basically there's
this player who goes to a bunch of conventions
and has a large scale demo operation for VR.
And one of the games that they have for people
to try out is Walkabout. And so since it was
nearby and he offered a badge and hotel and stuff,
I was like... Heck yeah, I'll go. You know, it's
only like a two and a half hour drive. You know,
I'll just go and like talk, you know, chat up
people about Walkabout for a bit. And then the
rest of the time I can kind of like go explore
the convention. Turned out they were super understaffed.
So I ended up like just working so much. But
I did still manage. So I didn't like attend any
panels or anything. Um, but I was able to go
to, uh, the like vendor artist alley, which,
uh, was a little small, which is probably for
the best for my wallet. Um, but yeah, it's so
for anyone who doesn't know dream con is very
much like, uh, I guess it was started by a group
or was it RDC world or something. Um, But basically
it's like very much kind of a like black communal
or community nerdy stuff And it's had like a
bunch of different or it's been to a bunch of
different cities So I'm not sure if it's just
like a constantly traveling one or if it's just
still trying to find its home But it's the best
Energy, I would say I've seen at a convention
one I loved because everyone was cosplaying older
anime. So it's like I recognize things a lot
more I saw a lot of Soul Eater cosplays. I saw
a lot of Inuyasha cosplays. Really? Let's see.
Yes. That's weird. OK. I know. I was like, this
is great, because normally just people just get
their crappy little Amazon, you know, like. Oh,
we're going to need them. OK, sorry. No, demon.
Well, like Demon Slayer. Whatever is the most
popular thing right now, right? Yeah. So I, yeah,
it was really cool to see. I'm trying to think
of there was like a doodle bob, like from Sponge
Bob, the little doodle bob. So you have like
a giant pencil, you know, like things like that.
And so it was fun seeing all that. I guess Meg
Lee Stallion was supposed to be there. I didn't
get a chance to see because I don't I'm not understanding
in lines. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, just a
very, like, people were, like, excited to be
there and talk to each other, because sometimes
that feels like cons, like, it's, you know, oh,
we're a bunch of awkward little nerds who don't
like talking to each other. Yeah, I mean, like,
having like a TV show you both like isn't exactly
a huge conversation starter, it turns out, all
the time. Yeah. but yeah, so it was exhausting,
but I had a good time and Yeah, so I'm back from
that Love Island starts tonight The US one and
then UK starts like a week or two after So there's
gonna be like a lot of Love Island in my future
and I wish they would like not overlap though
I really need them not to so I can like space
it out. Gotta be over the summer though. Big
Brother will start in July and then that'll get
me through October with Reality Show and then
Survivor will have a winter season I guess so
I will have I'll have like a week where there
wasn't a Reality Show for me to watch live and
then I'm on season like 14 maybe of Survivor
rewatch and I'm like nearly to the point where
I remember watching in high school so it'll be
interesting to see how much I can remember from
those but I'm like in love with the last season
I watched Cook Islands okay it's like one of
the things there's like Definitely not something
that would happen on really TV today, but they
like had four tribes at the beginning of different
ethnicities. So there's like the Caucasian, Asian,
Hispanic or Latino and African American tribes.
And I was like, OK, survivor. Let's see, but
but my The like a k -pop I will not know he's
too buff to be a k -pop idol But this super handsome
Korean guy who is so nice You know and he won
Yeah, so I'm like yeah, okay. Hopefully he comes
back for some like All -star Uh, there's only
been one so far. Okay. And you're on 14? But
I was looking at upcoming seasons. Yeah. So I
think maybe around 16 or 17, there's another
one, but it won't be called All -Stars. There,
no. Oh God. There's one like fans versus favorites
as a season coming up. So I guess it's just going
to be some, it's probably going to be some like
here's the veterans. They'll be your drive, you
know, leader, show, blah, blah, blah, something
like that. And. Well, because I feel like high
school was around the stride where you kind of
had like professional reality TV people. There's
still some people like that. Yeah. Although I'm
starting to learn because they just write because
Survivor 50. Comes out next year, I think, and.
They've been, like, hyping it up the past couple
seasons of, like, vote on this part of what the
game's gonna be, you know, immunity idols or
no immunity idols. And so they've been, like,
hyping up season 50 seasons before it happens,
and they just dropped the cast announcement.
And some people are like, oh, I'm surprised so
-and -so wasn't on there. And I guess it looks
like... I mean, obviously it's like... Uh, TV
is not going to be like, treat you well kind
of industry, but I guess a lot of producers on
shows are like, Oh, if, or at least it seems
to be the case with Jeff Probst, maybe the host
and producer or survivor that if you went on
other reality shows, then you weren't really
considered unless you were like a super favorite
person. Cause I don't know if it's like, Oh,
You already went and did your thing. So no need
to bring you back for this, even though that's
what fans would want is like kind of icky feeling.
And I guess MTV is also, I think folks get a
hard, or at least the challenge cast. It just
seems like they very much play favorites. And
so you get, even if you're like a fan favorite,
you still can like be set up for failure within
the game. Production doesn't like you. So yeah.
Uh, yeah. Okay. Uh, maybe we should talk about
some anime now. Yeah, I guess we could do that.
Oh, okay. I guess. I guess we could talk about
Chihaya Fury Season 2. I listened to the last
episode right before this. Uh -huh. And then
I listened to our coverage of the Rosa Versailles
movie again, because that one is always extremely
funny. I get owned in those episodes from last
episode where I was like... One, I was like,
I'm sure the thing about having five recruits
doesn't matter. And also, I'm like, surely they're
going to do some kind of training arc and we're
not just immediately going to go into more tournament
play. Mm hmm. It's not what happens now. I'm
here to report that is not what happens in these
three episodes. Yeah. We open on Chihaya being
bummed about losing the high school tournament
her sister is like what you're still on about
Carta I didn't even know you still did that.
What's up with that? Her name is Chitose. It
took me a while to remember that. Chitose says
that if you can't get results, you don't have
talent. She says, obviously projecting. She looks
at some of her haters on social media posts and
tells her mom that she's going to cut back on
work as a model. slash TV personality, I guess,
to go to college because she probably doesn't
have what it takes to be an actress. Jihaya thinks
about if she can accomplish her dreams or not
as the OP plays. Well, we get her sister back
and her sister back. I was kind of hoping you
would have like because I didn't read all the
comments left online, but I'm like, it wasn't
funny to read through those. Yeah, I didn't do
that. No, you're good. And yeah, let's. Go ahead.
We return to literature class where an old man
coughs into my ear over and over and over again.
And it's a scene that feels like a million years
long. He tells the students that they must pass
a test or they're going to have to write 20 short
poems. Then he goes to Shihaya just in the middle
of class and tells her that she only recruited
two out of five members. So they're going to
have to share the space with the concert band
club, which is a club and not a class, which
confuses me. Nishina's like, Chihaya, you gotta
stand up for us. He can't just give away our
class, but she totally folds, just apologizes
and begs to keep the room till nationals. And
the teacher, I guess, agrees. I hate this man.
I hate their teacher. I hate this old man. Keel
over and die. Oh my God, Joe. In the hallway,
we see that the concert band has so many members
and stuff that they have to store things in the
hallway because they're out of space. We cut
to the Carta team telling their coach that they
want the concert band to use the second floor
to store their stuff. And the coach is like,
I mean, we don't really have to. Like, he just
said that, but we could probably strong arm him.
Like, I got it. But Chihaya says that they feel
bad for the concert band club. Also. You know,
if they make a lot of noise, that would help
them prepare for situations when there's loud
noises while they're playing. And maybe it would
be good to, like, have some distractions. So
everyone's like, oh, Chihaya, this is actually
a selfish request. We thought you were being
altruistic, but it turns out you were trying
to use this to your own benefit, which honestly,
in this case, I think is fair. I think Chihaya
is in the right here. Yeah, I mean, they should.
How could they expect anything else from her?
She's just trying. be a glass half full kind
of gal. Yeah. She's got to have the pep energy
as the as the team mascot. Yep. It's correct.
This is dumb that she's the captain. She absolutely
does nothing that would require that name. But
that's like a real position right like I know
It's like it's a position. It's not like Tai
Chi is the actual as the president or whatever
The card is the mascot. Sorry. Yes. She is The
card a club meets and the concert band is making
a bunch of noise on the second floor moving stuff,
but they put up with it Later she high goes home
her dad's like, oh, hey, you were in the paper
and he shows her a article about them losing
the finals But she is not into it because she's
mad that they lost but then her mom gets an idea
The next day at the Carter Club Samira is able
to beat two out of three of Tsukuba's brothers
They tease her and she gets mad then Tai Chi
shows up and she snaps out of being mad and starts
to be sweet immediately because she's great After
practice, Tsukuba talks to Samire saying how
fun playing Carta is, and Samire is like, what
are you talking about? Playing Carta isn't that
fun, it's kind of a huge pain, and I also don't
win very often. I'm only here for Taichi, because
she's serious about love, as everybody else is
about Carta. Even though she's not really in
love with him, because she doesn't know him.
Listen, she just needs to stay in the show. I
don't care. I don't care what her excuse is.
She needs to be in the show. She needs more airtime.
I don't care. Well, we haven't had anyone on
the main cast leave the show, so I'm guessing
she'll be here forever. That's true. But like,
is Nasheeda really still in it? Only when they
need something new to talk about, then they give
him a problem. We cut to Chihaya and her mom
going shopping, because we get to hang out with
Chihaya's mom. I wish I knew what her name was.
Mom. Yep, at least she's a she. I mean, she doesn't.
Well, get to it. At least she acknowledges fast.
Yeah, Chihaya isn't into shopping until her mom
brings her to Kana's parents shop. Her mom talks
to Kana's mom because she's brought another thank
-you gift for helping out with the Karda Club.
Chi Hai is like, wait a minute, you've been giving
her thank -you gifts for helping out with the
Karda Club? And her mom's like, well yeah, obviously
she's like helping out a lot. But Kana's mom
says it's fine because she's basically using
Chi Hai and Tai Chi as like walking advertisements
anyway, so this is kind of benefiting me mostly.
Kana's mom starts to return to work, but then
Chihaya's mom says that they should buy Chihaya
her own Hakama. Kana comes out to see her mom
and Chihaya's mom and Chihaya looking at fabric.
She tries on a purple one and her mom is shocked
that Chihaya knows how to wear a Hakama. She
tells Kana mom that she thought that as long
as her daughter had something to do, she'd be
fine. Even though her grades were bad and she
sucks at everything. And yeah, and she's into
that weird bear mascot that we only sometimes
acknowledge. Yeah, daddy bear. Yeah. Yeah. But
then she's like, oh, it feels like I've been
kind of ignoring my daughter this this whole
time if I'm only now getting her Hakama. Yeah,
I think. But then she insists that she wasn't
ignoring her and that she believed in her card
playing the whole time. Oh, laying her mom off
the hook, just like everyone does for her. I
mean, they've been fine since then. I guess they
only just started making a scrapbook. Well, she
only just started getting her name in the paper.
All right. OK, I guess finally she's accomplished
something. Did you ever get in the newspaper
for anything at school, Joe? No, no. I mean,
like the Dean's List or something, but. Oh, if
my parents were. Happy about that. I was like,
oh yeah, I was not in sports. I just kept my
own newspaper. No one kept it on my behalf. It's
just like, look at me. Anyways. Kada and Chihaya
go on to try more stuff. Kada's mom tells Chihaya's
mom that it's all good. It's hard to give your
kids space to learn and grow. Later, Chihaya
and her mom leave. She got the expensive one,
the purple one that she tried on earlier, which
I really liked, so goodbye. Her mom thinks that
she can wear it to nationals, but she's not going
to because it's way too hot. At home, Chihaya
plays along with a recording of last year's Queen
game. Her sister comes into her doing that and
is like, oh, I guess you're back to normal. And
then she decides that she's going to try to be
an actress again because the inspiration. Because
it's cool. Because that textbook and the garbage.
She throws it away. Dude, those things are expensive.
Resell that. Come on. I guess it's not as dramatic
if you just go and sell it online. I guess. No,
not at all. It's like when people throw their
antidepressants off of a bridge or something
like, I don't need this anymore. And it's like,
guys, you really should do that. It's not how
you deal with that. Let's see. Uh, the Carter
club is studying again and upstairs, the concert
band starts playing. Uh, everybody comments that
they're playing sucks and kind of starts humming
and she's like, Hmm, sounds kind of frenetic.
No, it sounds more impassionate, which she says,
which is the word she high of Buddha. The word
that is the one that the card that she high takes
and also is the name, but it has a B instead
of an H. Don't, don't think about it too much.
She high is like, what's impassionate. what's
the word in passion have to do with the word
frenzies and kana is like what we're in the second
season of this tv show and you still don't understand
the meaning of the title and then kana explains
the meaning of the title which is that okay okay
is a historical word that doesn't have a fixed
meaning. It's like a decorator around certain
poems. But there are theories that it means impassionate.
But some say it means frenzied. Either way, it
means some types of intensity. In the impassionate
definition, it resembles a power and perfect
balance, while a frenzied definition is like
the opposite of that, out of balance. We learn
about this word for a long time. Yeah. Did you
like the fourth wall being broken? Well, no,
not quite. I always love the fourth wall breaks
where they're like, what do you mean? We're on
episode 13. You still don't know this? Yeah.
It's good. It gives it a surreal quality to the
show that already feels kind of surreal to me.
Uh huh. Yeah, surely goes into it. That's because
she likes poems, I guess. Entire words, just
lost meaning. We probably have that in English.
I just don't care about them. Listen if they
can't retain their meaning over time. They obviously
weren't that important. Oh That's yeah. I like
that survival of the hit is the fittest, baby
Or cake vernacular, what are we doing here? Knock
on the window. It's the concert band and they've
come to play a little concert for the Carter
Club as a thanks for letting them use the room
They all thank them and everybody has a good
time, even though they play way too many verses
of this song. But whatever. What do you think
about this? They come here and play the school
song. Stounding song. Oh, the school. Exciting.
The thing is. There's like a bajillion better
songs to play than your school. Your school song
always sucks. It's always some shitty ballad.
It sounds terrible. You know what I'm saying?
Well, they're trying to like be like a music.
Zawa card club or something. So it's very school
pride related. I hate that. You should go in
and play something hype. There are hype orchestral
songs. I'm the tiger. Now you should play some
hype stuff. You know what I'm saying? You should
play like the planets. You could play. You could
play Entry of the Gladiators. That's a good one.
That's the circus sounding song. You can play
some scary stuff Play like you play like Baba
Yaga, that'd be good You could play if you're
gonna play a long song You might as well just
play Bolero just have your have your snare drum
Just do that for 20 minutes or whatever that
songs that song is really good But also God playing
it must suck. Anyway, I've talked too much about
music We cut to nationals it's not we're at the
tournament hey guys Remember that training arc?
Me neither, Red Nationals. We have a cute scene
where they are hanging out at the little hotel
they're staying at and Sumire is about to go
to sleep in makeup because quote, you never know
what might happen at night out of a school trip.
But the coach is in the room with her and she's
like nothing is gonna happen and severe is like
this sucks What kind of trip has nothing happened
and I agree Sumire we should have had more We
should have had more we didn't have 30 more scenes
like this one where they're all just hanging
out You know how many we get in the next two
episodes zero Hmm yeah, I need her to become
the main character. I need her to usurp Chihaya
Now you say Haya will get by a bus or something.
She does try to put the work in though. So she
asked she Haya if she likes anyone, you know,
like, I have written down here like at night.
No, she says that you think about at night. That's
what she says. She is like, well, you know, sometimes
at night, I think I wish I had Shinobu's number
and the comments to get mad at her. They're like,
dude, we're talking about love, not like who
you're obsessed with. Um, but then she starts
thinking about errata. Of course. I cheese toast
we got the Tai Chi being toast walking in the
hallways. He sees she hi a calling errata on
the phone He won't be at the tournament for two
more days because his school doesn't have a team
So he's not shown up for the team competition.
He's just showing up for the individual matches
Tai Chi hears this and leaves because he gets
owned my boy who has done nothing this episode
It shows up for the last five minutes to get
annihilated. I'd love it when this happens Chi
Hai tells Arata that he should start a club at
his school, but Arata is like, I don't want to
start a club. I just want to get better. That's
a waste of time. But she's like, fine, I'll get
better too. And then I'm going to beat Shinobu
and we get a shot of the Omi Jingu as we cut
to credits, which is the temple that the tournament's
being held at. There's also the part where the
girls are talking, but she makes her take the
makeup off and we see a very Like, like basically,
she's pretty plain looking without her makeup
is the takeaway from that. Or she puts so much
makeup that she looks a lot different kind of
thing. Yeah. So I bet she is not wanting anyone
to see that. But. We still love her. We have
our champion of the show. I like her for her
personality and the fact that she's like a little
like a ridiculous cartoon woman. And also, she's
somehow still the most normal person there. Yep.
Yep. It's great. Yes. This was an episode that
was mostly about Chihaya and her mom, and I liked
that. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, yeah. There are some
nice in these episodes, like little takeaways
for characters, at least. More of these episodes
need to happen. Yep. Unfortunately, we just don't
get a lot of downtime. It'd be nice to get that.
More. These are the only episodes in this trio
that is like that. Yeah. Tai Chi gets obliterated
at the end here in a very funny scene. That's
like what we say at the end of every episode.
I know. It's so out of nowhere. They're like,
oh, Chi Hai, are you into anyone? Like. How has
Arata not come up yet for Sumire? I mean, I guess
maybe no one said anything. Oh, yeah. Actually,
wait, has Satomo and Kana even met Arata? Uh,
I feel like he was like, right. Cause when she
passed out at last year's national team, whatever
she brought, brought her over to him. So I don't
know if they were still like in the match. Yeah.
Well, they were like, they didn't, they didn't
go talk to him. So I don't think. Yeah. I don't
know. I think they've like seen him. They just
haven't interacted with him. Uh, I'm sure con
well, Connor has clocked what's going on, but,
uh, Yeah, we need to add like a most pitiful
character ranking once we finish. I mean, it's
just it's just Tai Chi every oh you mean across
all shows Yeah, yeah, I still feel like it's
just Tai Chi across the board. Who's gonna be
more pitiful than him? Well, not more, but I
mean Kazai Haya for a long time we were like
that poor boy cuz she's so dense and That's true
Yeah, so but then he started just being pitiful
on his own in season three. Oh, yeah And I felt,
I felt less bad for him at that point. Yeah,
no, Tai Chi is just a nice guy who's just getting
wrecked. Oh, I can't wait for Sumire to learn
about Arado. That's going to be good. She's going
to be like, this is my chance. That'll give her
like, yeah, extra like, yeah, like motivation,
like there's an opening, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
See, that's what I'm waiting for. Cause she just
doesn't really, all she does is like shallow
interactions with him. you know it's just they
don't have anything to talk about looking at
him i know so hopefully she like they learn more
about each other at some point yeah this will
be good i need them to like team up and go like
tail chihaya and errata on a date you know what
i mean like they're both wearing little disguises
that'd be fun that's the kind of things i want
disguise yeah oh she's like check out what i
can do with makeup Like totally different. Now
the Tai Chi would be too mopey the whole time.
Yeah. Maybe her and Kana maybe. Yep, that's all
I gotta say about this episode. It was pretty
good. Yep. Yep. And now we're back to it. Episode
eight is called What Shines Over Mount Mikasa.
We open on nationals. It's time for nationals.
Here we go. Tournament time. You thought we had
downtime? You're wrong. Nationals, baby. Chi
Hai is like... Wearing 10 cooling packs to keep
herself from passing out from the heat, but she's
like, it's cool. I'm not going to wear the Hakama
this time because I passed out last time. Sorry,
mom. You just got the Hakama though. Yeah. Also,
I feel like she got a purple one. I think she
would look better in red. I like the purple one
because I like purple. I feel like this con is
color. Yeah, but. Whatever. Anyways. Elsewhere,
Sumire has to stop. Tsukuba from taking creeper
pics of girls because I hate him. He's like,
hey, come on. Only some of these are of girls.
Other than more of the building, too. And he
takes some pictures of the buildings. I don't
like that she just became his keeper. Oh, yeah,
I guess because they're the two newbies. So even
if she doesn't really like him, she feels some
kind of camaraderie with him being like new to
the club and dynamic. They need to fire him.
They need a rata to replace him. God, imagine
how much better it would be. No, poor Tai Chi
would be like... Imagine. Oh, but we'd have the
drama every day, dude. Oh, man. No. Nishida shows
them the new, the team, the new shirts that his
sister made. They say winner is in huge text,
but in the corner, in tiny text, it says second
place. They're second place winners. They decide
to wear the regular shirts instead. This was
a pretty good gag. His sister is very funny.
Mm -hmm. Tsukuba makes Samiri a bunch of, oh
no, makes Samiri take a bunch of pictures of
him to send his brothers, and in the text he
says that he's gonna be playing, which is probably
untrue. So he's still lying, because we have
learned nothing. Yeah, because we hate him. Because
we hate him. And he's gonna give us more and
more reasons to. We go to the first round. And
Tsukuba is starting in the place of Tsutomu because
Tsutomu is going to be scouting the other teams
with Sumire while Tsukuba handles the first round
because we're not that worried about round one.
Well it also says that Tsukuba is like basically
caught up to his skill level. Oh yeah he's like
he's good enough. The two of them head off. The
two of them by which I mean Tsutomu and Sumire
who are going to split up and search for clues.
The first round is about to start and Retro comes
over to taunt Tai Chi. It doesn't work because
Tai Chi is already ready to rumble. Also, he
needs to prove himself to the girl he loves,
which is what he's going to do instead of. Why
are they doing this to Tai Chi? Anything else?
This is his rival. Oh, yeah. Also, his rival
has to be Retro, a guy he hates. Yeah. I, poor
Tai Chi man. It's just L. He just was gifted
with L, L, L. With a lot of birth. It's hard
not to be like up for that. It's hard to be like,
you know how your mom says to stop hanging out
with these people? Maybe she's right. Maybe she's
onto something. Maybe your mom who sucks was
right about this. Something about a broken clock
being right twice a day. I don't know. Anyway.
Yeah. We see that their team has matched up against
Chiba's International School of Information Sciences.
And they're all like, wow, foreigners play Carta.
That's crazy. Sumire goes off to scout an all
girls team, but all she has is a bunch of names
and she's like, okay, but I don't know who any
of these people are. How am I supposed to know
who I'm supposed to watch here with just a bunch
of names? And then a clumsy girl bumps into her
and it turns out that she's the ace that Sumire
is supposed to watch out for. Also, some weird
guys are here and it sucks. Also, this girl is
like every trope wrapped into one human being.
And Sumire is like, what the hell is happening?
It's great. I like this part. It's funny. We
did see her in season one. We just didn't really
learn about her. But she went against the chick
who was like, Nishida's sensei's wife. She lost
in like the qualifying round for the Queen's
match or something. So she's like the third best.
Yeah. So this girl was beat by her. Yeah. But
yeah. She's weird and she's surrounded by weird
guys, which sucks. I'm not gonna like it. We
have to meet those guys again. Elsewhere Satoma
goes to scout the other players and they're all
intense because those are the winners of last
year's team tournament. Chihaya's team is up
against foreigners and no one has ever seen a
black person before. Kana is horrified because
their opponents are wearing Hakama's while she's
wearing normal clothes. She's like this is incredibly
embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as Chihaya
who's just crying uncontrollably. I thought this
was funny. We hear she's like, oh, she's just
crying that foreigners had reached the hearts
of people that aren't Japanese. And. Yeah, I
thought that was funny. We hear some of the worst
English I've ever heard. Oh, my God, because
it's also the worst English Tai Chi's ever heard,
and he calls them out on it with his own better
English and accuses them of actually being able
to speak Japanese. And they're like, well, shit.
We can't all speak Japanese. We were just doing
that. We were just pretending to be foreigners
to freak you guys out. Most of us have lived
in Japan our whole lives. And it turns out that
she was just crying because she's happy that
card is played by not just Japanese people. Yeah.
It's pretty good. Yeah, it's funny. It's the
English was horrifying. But this is all every
time in anime. This is how it sounds it always
sounds like such a struggle like they're Suffocating
to death as they're saying their words in English.
There are clearly certain times in In anime where
they have voice actors that actually know how
to speak English Versus ones that they're just
kind of like telling them what to say so like
you never really know because like sometimes
you'll hear a person that's like oh, they're
supposed to be like They lived in the States
for a while and they'll speak broken English
and everybody will act like it's good. So I feel
like this is a really good fake out on a meta
level to have them say all this stuff. And I'm
like, wow, this is really bad. And then Tai Chi's
like, that was really bad. I was like, oh, okay,
cool. So I actually really liked that bit. It's
pretty funny. Yeah, yeah, that was good. But
sometimes they'll have actors that also can speak
English and they sound totally normal. They sound
like they're... you know, have British accents
or whatever. So kind of all over the place. I
just read the next line or one of the next lines.
Anyway, time to play a normal game, except the
media is here to check out the foreigners. They're
all like, wow, isn't it great? We can have a
little like local news story on it. Their opponents
are all doing weird shit, though, like lighting
up the cards by like second syllable and like
doing a bunch of like nonstandard things, because
these people just haven't really played that
much. So they're all doing their own thing. Play
starts and Tsukuba is scared of black people.
He's so big and strong He says as my eyes roll
into the back of my skull giving me another reason
to hate this kid Yeah She just like what's up
with my opponent there are they like Vietnamese
or something? He can't really tell but then he
notices a car It's a textbook next to him and
he tells his team just to play like normal these
guys are just kind of fans of the game They're
not like seasoned players. So it's gonna be fine
They play and the foreigners are just happy to
be here and meet some people who also like Karuta.
Nishida is inspired by how they don't really
follow standard strategy. Anyway, Chihaya's team
stomps them and they're sad about losing. They
also, at the end, see Chihaya's team writing
a message to them in English. And they're like,
oh, it's that's so nice. I want to come back
and play next year. And everybody has like some
international solidarity or whatever, even though
these people basically have just lived in Japan
their whole life. So I don't know. Yeah. Also,
Chihaya has the marker. I'm like, there's no
way she knows how to write in English. Taichi
is directing them. Yeah. So this was kind of
fun, I guess. I didn't like the weird racism,
but other than that, you know, anime pretty,
pretty usually kind of racist about black people.
Yeah. Not a little better over time, but still
pretty bad. I really hope I haven't watched the
newest the newest season of Fire Force, but I
hope they stop being racist in that show. Yeah,
maybe. Also, at DreamCon, Magdy Stallion announced,
I think she's in an anime or making an anime
or something. So that one should be done, right?
Yeah, hopefully. Yeah. I mean, other ones aren't
like, you know, there are ones that are way better
about it than others. So it's not like across
the board. It's just not atypical. Yeah. Anyway.
We see Arata being dropped off early because
he lied to Chihaya. He is here to come watch
them a day early and he walks up to the shrine
when a hand reaches out to his shoulder and who
could it be? Oh wait, it's Shinobu looking real
freaky as we cut to credits. Yeah, she does not
look cute here. Shinobu's here! I sure hope she's
gonna be normal and not a weird freak in a way
that is not... in a way that's bad. Endearing.
I want her to be fun. I hope she'll be fun. Do
you think she's gonna be fun? Maybe she's just
not fun with Arda. Yeah. So could be that. Anyway,
what do we think about this episode? I mean,
it tries to end with like a feel good, like,
oh, you know, despite different blah, blah, blah,
whatever message. But it was just like, oh, here's
another like throw away set of characters we're
never going to see again. But I guess I can't
just be like we won our first whatever number
of matches without showing anything from them
Yeah, what do you think so I like I like one
-off episodes like this I wish they would have
done something with the international team being
international and not just well The black guy
sure is big and strong. I wish they did something
else besides that Yeah I feel like there are
some opportunities to do some other stuff. So
I feel like it was a little bit of a waste of
opportunity, but it's still fine. Yeah. All righty.
That's it. I don't really have any other thoughts
about this episode. Oh, but speaking of thoughts,
the next title. Oh, yeah. Episode 9 is called
My Only Thought. We open on where we left off
last time. Arata looks back at Shinobu and he's
like, uh, who are you? but then he recognizes
her mole and is like oh it's shinobu man i didn't
recognize you because you look so different from
the queen match um and she cries and he's like
hey man chill like it's it's you know it's cool
um she says that he was the last person she lost
to four years ago maybe he'll beat her again
and she's like hmm yeah she's she's like baiting
me and it's like Getting mad or taunting me or
something Arana plays it cool though. He just
laughs and asks her what she's doing here individual
games are tomorrow and she's here that she's
Or she says that she's here to visit the shrine
and then she's gonna go watch like a plane glider
contest that happens This is great so random
obviously I'm here for the plane gliding contest
Yeah, it's like you're not here for the team
tournament and she says that that's only for
people who don't love Carta Which is not even
a good like sick burn. No, it just means nothing
Then she walks away Arata reflects on this as
the Opie players This is the most began of shinobu
this episode. I'm disappointed. Yeah, no, I do
we get her one more second and it's funny Yeah,
we do get extremely funny. I need shinobu She
should just be in the show more, because like
when we do see her, it's her outside of Carta
is a delight. Her little weird obsessions with
strange, bizarro things. Yeah, like I need her
to either be the mean girl or not. You know what
I mean? Like, what are we doing here? Yeah. Or
be a little weirdo. You know what I mean? She's
got to be one of them. Yeah. Anyway. Go off.
After the match, Satomu fills Tai Chi in on last
year's winners. Five out of eight of their team
are Class A's. Some of their players come out
and one of the guys is really weird. I don't
remember what he says to him. He's like, oh,
you're taking notes. Something about how I'm
high. And then he like does his hair and the
waves are like, oh, yeah, he's doing the thing.
But I'm like, OK, cool. Uh huh. Back at the tournament,
Shihei and Retro get into a little spat. Arata
shows up and Shihei almost sees him, but then
she turns her head and he's been dragged off
by an acquaintance. She asked Taichi if she heard
Arata and he's like, no, I didn't hear Arata.
What are you talking about? Get your head in
the game. Taichi wonders what it'll really be
like if Arata was here, though. Like, oh, what
if my rival was here? But it turns out Arata
was just... I feel bad for Taichi. Yeah, yeah,
it's going to get worse. It turns out Arata was
hiding from Jihai and he dragged his friend Murau
off somewhere else. So like Arata was avoiding
her. As I don't know, he just did that. Murau,
which is the guy who won. that last tournament
we saw Arada at earlier, the guy who's quit and
then he brought it back last season. Murau just
assumes that Arada is here for Fujioka West,
which is like the neighboring school because
he's from East Side. And he's like, oh, yeah,
they only have three registered players, which
leaves them with no margin for error. Outside,
we see. Fujioka West only has two other members
here because the other one is stuck in traffic.
Arata comes out because one of the guys on the
team was one of his friends in middle school
who in that one flashback he punched. Remember
that forever ago? We are reminded here. I'm assuming.
They're down a guy, so they get the idea to drag
Arata into their game. We cut to Fujioka West's
game. They've dressed Arata up, having him wear
a mask and removing his glasses so nobody will
recognize him. It's the perfect plan. Without
his glasses, though, Arata doesn't think he can
do much. But like, whatever. They just wanted
to have enough people to play the match so their
new member could play and not get disqualified.
So like, it doesn't matter if you actually play
or not. Who cares, Arata? Just be a warm body.
The game starts. Elsewhere, it's time for Chihaya's
team to play. Taichi keeps seeing Arata everywhere.
Chihaya tells him to focus, because if Arata's
here, she wants to show off how good she is,
or how good they all are. What a thing to say
to Taichi. Haunted by his rival. Because Tai
Chi is thinking of Arda as like kind of a rival
in Carta because that's the only way to be a
like to be a contender and she high as eyes for
a romantic bond. And I don't think Arda at all
thinks that he's just like a Tai Chi just gets
to win by proximity. Yeah, Arada is just like,
oh, yeah, Tai Chi is my friend. I played with
a couple of times. Yeah. Back in Arada's game,
he can't do shit without his glasses. His opponent
is kind of pissed to play against a guy who just
like pretty much isn't doing anything every hand.
But then Arada suddenly takes a card automatically.
He's like, damn, I can't I got to control myself.
I can't give myself away or people are going
to recognize me. We get a flashback to that one
other time he played without his glasses as a
kid. Remember the one? Of course you do. We spent
like three episodes on it in season one. It goes
on for a while. The other two players seem to
be having a good time and Arata remembers the
appeal he got to play. Which was basically that
these guys weren't good enough to win tournaments,
but they just wanted to play and have fun. Most
of the people at their school just do individuals,
so they never get to play as a team. Arata is
frustrated that he can't help out his fake team.
One of his teammates loses, which eliminates
their team because they all needed to win to
pass. And they're all sad. And Arata thinks about
how Shinobu said that team games are for losers.
He picks up his glasses and puts them on, and
his opponent is like, wait a minute, you didn't
have your glasses on the whole time? Arata immediately
takes a card, and then again, and then again,
and eventually one of the refs recognizes that,
hey, that's Arata! It's the... It's like the
guy who runs the card of society he used to go
to. Of course he's going to recognize them because
he keeps being like, oh, wow, his swing is just
like R does. And oh, wow, he moves just the yacht.
So and then eventually. And then that guy is
like, hold on, he doesn't go to that school.
And Arada starts making up for his 15 card deficit.
And it inspires his other teammate who is staging
his own comeback to. Arada wins by three and
his teammate wins by one. But you know, they
still lose the team game because they needed
to all three win. But you know, it was still
a fun game and everybody thanks Arada. The ref
shows up and yells at Arada. He's like, well,
since I caught you in the act, I can't just let
you go. And since we can't punish the team anymore,
since they've already lost, you might be disqualified
from playing in individuals tomorrow, he says.
But that's not the end of our bad news. Elsewhere,
we cut to the airplane gliding thing that Shinobu's
going to, and it started raining, so it's postponed
until tomorrow, and she's bummed. She's just,
like, standing there in the rain as they announce
the thing gets canceled. Mouth open. It's the
funniest thing I've ever seen. Shinobu, use your
weather app, girl. This should not be a surprise.
For real. For real. Oh my god. Yep. And then
the episode ends. Or Shinobu. But that's, I don't
know. What'd you think? Cause this, right? Each
episode had like a little like, ah, we, we, we
feel good about Carter. And this one is like
the errata coming to appreciate team. And he
wanted to play with them as kids, but now he's
like the lone wolf. Yeah, I think this is good.
I like this for Arata. I like him rediscovering
how fun it is to play with other people instead
of just doing it all individually. I think having
that mirrored. I guess not mirrored, contrasted
with Shinobu who just kind of sucks at having
any social skills and is just a little weirdo
is pretty good. I wish we got more of her. Yeah.
This ending, that was weird. Why? Because Shinobu
is bummed? No, no, no, that's funny. Oh, because
he might get disqualified? Oh, we might disqualify
you for like, who is this guy? Who is this ref
guy, Arata? Who the hell is this guy? You know
this guy? You're friends with this guy? Right?
Isn't the guy, I'm pretty sure he runs his society.
He used to go to in the area that morale is a
part of I think Mmm, uh would have known his
grandfather and stuff. Oh, yeah Yeah, um, I Yeah,
I would be mad if this guy was like, oh we might
disqualify you I'm like, shut the fuck up They
just lost just yeah, like it doesn't matter It
never mattered. It's just supposed to be a like
car or the thing touched by camaraderie and open
him up, set him up to be ready to come to Tokyo
and play with the group. Even though I feel like
it'll be so awkward if he did that. If he came
to Tokyo and went to their school. Oh, that'd
be so good. That needs to happen. So uncomfortable.
Yeah. Interact with people in a casual way. He's
so well. He's just he just discovered what teamwork
is like, what teammates remember what that's
like, what it's like to socialize with people.
Hmm. You know, we can't all be Shinobu and be
mad at her and be sad or a little gliding competition.
Birdman rally. Birdman rally. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
I mean, obviously they have some kind of history.
I would hate this guy. I would never, I would
never go back to the Cardiff side of the earth
ever. I'd be like, fuck you. Pretend you didn't
see anything. Yeah. This thing that doesn't matter.
It means anything. Nah, I'd hold grudge. I can
hold a grudge. Yeah. I'm a grudge holder as well.
Yeah. But I also would not break the rules because
I'm a wuss. You're breaking the rules for what
they'd like to help out all your buddies to be
a good guy to rediscover the power of teamwork
and you're gonna get punished for it You shouldn't
be punished for good things. The only person
you should be punished for good things is Tai
Chi Who's constantly being punished by everything?
He's not gonna be in the A rank thing cuz he's
not an A rank Yeah, so they can't play against
Arda. Maybe, okay, but it sounds like they can
rank up from these matches. They can, but you're
not in them. Yeah, but like at least he possibly
could reach ranking. Oh, right, I see, yeah.
Though, for next time, because we don't have
to wait around because we skip tournaments immediately.
So we'll get the payoff immediately. How many
more team games are we going to get? This is
my fear. is they introduce too many teams. They
introduce the weird girl team and they introduce
the like ace team that won last year, who's full
of also weird. Yeah, that means we're having
at least two games, which means I feel like all
three episodes next time are going to be just
tournament games. A singular match for 100 percent.
And we're going to be and that's going to bring
us to like halfway through the season. Yeah,
yeah. When are we going to have time for the
stuff that's good? I don't think we ever are.
This is OK. Bin show, this is a bin show. I wonder
if it feels like it drags in the manga. This
must be brutal in the manga. Are you kidding
me? This must be like hell. Like waiting, waiting
weeks to get like a slight update on a match.
How can anybody stand this? It's the sports formula.
I mean, we're watching three episodes a week,
which is three times faster than if you just
watched it on as it aired. Yeah, that's you imagine
that. Now. Well, do they even I mean, I guess
at this time they probably were but does they
ever get aired episode by episode aim? Well,
I guess so Yeah, that's true simulcast and stuff.
Yep. Um, imagine Yeah, well This is the hell
is real billboard It doesn't end on like a pretty
good cliffhanger, I'll say. The episodes have
ended on better cliffhangers than before. Like
having it show and the previous episode with
like Shinobu showing up and like putting her
hand on the shoulder. That's good. Uh -huh. Yep,
yep. Oh, man. That's been good. We've learned
nothing about our characters. That's not true.
Arana has learned the power of teamwork. Our
characters learn things. We just didn't learn
more about them. She hired her mom hang out,
and that's fun. And she forgives her for the
years of neglect. God, I don't think it was that
deep. Maybe I hate anime. I don't know. Her sister
was re -inspired. Misaki's mom was the worst.
That was great. But that was so wild. It was
like a different thing for me. You know what
I mean? Yeah. Oh, man. It's like, what if my
mom had a hallmark ass arc happening? Don't get
a lot of parent, like, time. Like, we, maybe,
a lot of times at Shoujo, it's like, oh, we're
cute little middle schoolers dating, and then
it's somehow the one episode where, like, we
make up the fact that they have parents comes
up just for the sake of, like, testing a relationship
or whatever. Yeah. Parents are so not, I guess,
I mean, I guess it's true that in Japanese culture,
Children are very like independent from an early
age, so I could see like their parents not having
a strong of a role on like their outside of the
home life. Yeah, but this is like, I mean, you
know, if you think about like cartoons, we watch
kids don't want to think about their parents.
You know what I mean? What did we watch? I don't
know. The American dragon. He did even. Yeah,
no, he had parents, but they were like just kind
of there. You Kim Possible had parents, they
were just kind of there. The Proud family had
parents. That's because Oscar Proud was like
club main guy, you know what I mean? But like
kids next door, not really. No, not at all. Spongebob
is all adults. I think it's just cartoon stuff.
I think that's just cartoon. Like Teen Titans,
they are all teenagers that live in a house together.
They don't have parents. Yeah. Oh, I saw a lot
of Teen Titans cosplays as well. They're usually
bad guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But in Raven's case?
Raven's dad sucks. I guess Starfire's like surrogate
dad was cool. Beast Boy's surrogate parents,
the Doom Patroller kind of assholes. I don't
think we learn anything about cyborgs, family.
And then Robin's dad is Batman, who we don't
talk about. Nope. Wait, so is that so within
the DC universe, Robin that's in Teen Titans
is Dick? Yeah, it should be Dick Grayson. OK.
I think. Gotcha. Mean, I don't know like comics
original Teen Titans had like a bunch of members.
I'd never heard of like dove or whatever Because
there's that there's that DC live -action series
that I watched a few episodes up Remember when
DC has own streaming platform. I don't know if
they do anything DC one where they said fuck
and they're like, oh man, it's so gritty Good
Their animated stuff is way better. It's more
about talky talky than yes. But yeah, that dove
character was in that show. Did you did you watch
my adventures with Superman? That was cute. I
watched the first episode and I do like the art
style. I think I'm just like Superman, the most
boring Superman. He's like, what if what if he's
like there's a nice guy? What if there was a
nice guy? I want a funny guy. You want a funny
guy. OK. He's not that you want like the flash.
Yeah, yeah, I like those. Yep. You want like
a booster. I love kid flash. I can flash young
justice. Oh, yeah. Oh. Okay, Wally West, is that
his name? Yeah. The funniest person in G .I.
for real. Nishida had some good one liners in
season one, but I don't know. There's like things
to laugh at, but it's not like characters are
intentionally trying to be the funny person.
Yeah, there's like gags. It's more like the crazy
scenario. Yeah, it's more. Yeah. So I wouldn't
say any of them are like the funny person. I
bet. Tsukuba? Tsukuba? I bet he thinks he's the
funny one. Yeah. With his little weird ass face.
I like him the least. I guess Sumire is our funny
one. She is pretty funny. Yeah. Arata needs to
be funnier. I don't think that's happening. I
need him to crack some jokes. I'd just be the
straight man. I guess so. I just want to protect
Tai Chi from misfortune. I don't. I want it to
get worse. I like it when Tai Chi's sad. Oh my
god, allergies or something. Oh my gosh, all
right, all right, all right. Let's see where
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show Joe pot at gmail .com Yep, I think that's
it. What did we learn? Teamwork makes the dream
work. Just check the weather app, Shinobu. Again,
it's not like the weather comes out of nowhere.
It's not like there's like a zero percent chance
this is going to happen. Bring an umbrella. She's
just standing there mouth agape in the rain.
Like a goofy ass little cartoon character, which
is extremely funny. You don't have to do that.
You can't be like talking a big game about how
team games are for losers. And then you show
up to the little gliding thing without an umbrella.
Loser. You can't be the cool mysterious girl
when you then go to Birdman Rally and like eat
a bunch of ice cream. And didn't they say she
only lost or she only gained like 15 pounds or
something? I don't remember how much. Well, I
think they said like 15 kilos, which is like
30 pounds or something. Oh, OK. I guess that's
significant. Yeah. People. of any race can live
anywhere. Oh, my God. Don't be a flight of black
people. Don't be racist. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah.
So that's that's a good one. Please do. Don't
be like that. And yeah. Yeah. Don't do that.
I feel like we got a better one. Messages. I
don't know. Like listen man, if you've known
someone for like 10 15 years and you can't call
in a favor Like they're gonna overlook that you
joined your friends team for one match Then you
just gotta burn that bridge that person is worthless
to you After that many years of knowing them.
They won't let you get away with anything What
are they to you? Nothing Go and post about them
on social media Arda will have the most boring
car Twitter feed good He's just a cartoon man
destroy his whole career Would you stop as a
cop this guy's a cop he's acting like a real
fascist, you know All the rules matter so much
even though the implications don't I'm dying
here Joe. We have to wrap him down the stairs
amazing and crying Okay Evil things to this man
No, okay Joe escalates too much and catch you
next time. Really try to flick all your cards
into him so you could try to like do a little
maneuver where like a card slices his throat.
My god John wick for he like cuts a guy he cuts
guys throw it with a card just do that Just keep
flicking him to it and like it'll make it like
a look at him every time so like he knows you're
trying to do this But he can't say anything because
that would be ridiculous. You'd be like, I think
this kill me. Can you imagine? This would be
credible The finale of season two