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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Shoujo, the anime

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recap and discussion podcast where I, Sarah,

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introduce my friend, Jo, here to Shoujo anime,

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which is anime typically targeting girls. And

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so I've seen it. And Joe has not as much so.

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And his name's Joe and we're seeing Shojo. So

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Shojo, best name ever. I haven't, I haven't compliment

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given us a pat on the back in a while for that

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one. So let's just throw that in there. Yeah.

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So sup Joe. Before we jump into Chihayafuru,

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the current series we're covering, let's. Um.

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Was it shoot this? No, shoot. Yeah, that's right.

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It's a shit. That's what that's what they say.

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I don't know why they say that. But some some

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people do say that. OK. Old, old men say old

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men. We're turning into the old men podcast.

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It's it's Pride Month. So we're going to. Oh,

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yeah. I don't know, I didn't have a transition

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for that, as to why we'd be old men in that case.

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I guess we're dating ourselves by doing that.

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It's some year in the future, who knows? In 10

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years, when you're listening to this. Well, bury

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recordings in a time capsule. That's right, yep.

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Because apparently people, I don't know, there's

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some dumb like, oh, anime's gonna be banned in

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Texas, so I'll just bury it for... in the woods

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for children to discover like they did with porn

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in the 80s. I'm so like. We're going to ban anime

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in Texas. It's like more nuanced, but it's probably

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just bullshit, but I feel like. Maybe they should.

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Why do I have to move to Ohio? Maybe that's good.

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Yeah. You know, anime. You know, some people

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have been saying it's maybe a mistake. So who

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knows? No, I think it's like just anime that

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like have basically anime with anything that

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could be interpreted as like minors wearing skimpy

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clothing, which is like a lot of cutesy girls.

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Yeah. So if your skirt's too short, I don't know.

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I don't know. This is probably just all like

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amic. But whatever. I'll find a way. I don't

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do anything illegal, but I can start. That does

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remind me that I did listen to like a little

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thing on a podcast I listened to called NeverPost

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where they talked about hentai on the Internet

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and how it doesn't really fit in anywhere because

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it's not like It's explicit, but it's not like

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pornographic in like the traditional sense So

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porn websites regulations can't really take it

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because you have to do things when you like put

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stuff on porn websites like prove It's you who's

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posting it But for animation, it's like how do

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you prove that this that you animated this you

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have to like show them like a time lapse of you

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drawing it and stuff like that. Like it's really

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hard to do that stuff. And like normally you

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also need to have like written, you know, approval

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from all of the like actors in it, but it's like,

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okay, how do I get approval for? Oh man. Or cartoon.

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Like what are we doing here? So like it just

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doesn't fit into stuff. Yeah. I don't know. It

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would have been just that it was something that

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was sold in like the adult section back in the

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day, but online. distribution and streaming of

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it does seem, I don't, I mean, I don't know very

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much about anti, but like, it's not like a dying

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breed or anything. No, they make a lot of it.

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It's just like one of those things where, I mean,

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even like the weird stuff you associated with,

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like the tentacles thing, it's that to get around

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regulation about what can be shown and what can't

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be shown. That's why it's tentacles. It's all

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a really weird thing and it is apparently still

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weird and still a thing. Yeah, I mean it's like

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it's mostly a problem of like how do you monetize

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it effectively like you can get it on sites But

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the question is like can you get paid for it?

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Can you? You know get into their little like

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partnership programs or whatever like that's

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the part where it just doesn't pay off as much

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Which is why I think they still like in practice

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sell it on like DVDs and stuff like that Just

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get a VPN, what are you doing? No This thing's

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so complicated. It's totally legal. I know, because

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the Love Island podcast I used to listen to,

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they would like try to do it, you know, the legal

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way. So they would try to use VPN, but they always

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said it sucked. I mean, for some streaming, it

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can. Like I have a VPN service and I use it to

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watch like. Um, well, cause like a lot, like

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a lot of times like streaming platforms that

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don't like have stuff in the U S have it in Canada.

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So I'll just connect to Canada and then I'll

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watch it. It's easy. Allegedly. I would never

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do that. Copyright lawyers. Also, if you're a

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copyright lawyer, stop listening to this. I don't

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like you. I think I have one on my, uh, we have

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one for. Oh yeah. I mean, that makes sense is

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your, your company that has a copyright. I would

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understand that. Don't listen to my podcast.

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Listen, I don't dislike you as a person. Don't

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listen to my podcast. OK. Go listen to something

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else. Don't worry. They're not. Yeah, quite OK.

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So yes, Shoujo anime may be what we're covering,

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but that does not mean we're keeping our content

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sugary sleep. I literally thought you were about

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to say the next thing we're going to watch is

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hentai. I'm like, I'm sorry, are we? What's happening

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here? No, no, absolutely not. No. No. Although

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there is. No, OK. Hold on, there's what? Oh,

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I was going to say there's like a smutty Jose

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manga that I bet there is as they have like a

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short little like tiny, as short as little anime.

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Episodes, I think I saw. Uh huh. Okay. Yeah,

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so I guess... I don't know. It seems like it's

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all just the gross dude stuff, but maybe there's

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some lady hentai out there. Lady targeted stuff.

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I bet there is, yeah. Anyways. I bet there is.

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Yeah, anyway. My dad came to visit me. Yeah,

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how was that? So I was hanging out with my dad

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for like... Five days a week or something like

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that. It was good. Just had to go around a couple

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of places. It was kind of awkward because like

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he left on Monday, which is like the day because

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that was his last day. I guess he left on Tuesday,

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but like everything's closed on Monday. So it

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was like not a very like fun day particularly.

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That's just like when a lot of stores are like

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like restaurants and stuff are closed. They just

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had the weekend and stuff like that. It's like

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Monday and Tuesday for. Is it? OK, I was going

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to say. My favorite sushi place does that on

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their clothes on Sundays, but the only place

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I know of here that's really closed on Mondays

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is one animal shelter. I used to work at Yeah

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stuff closes on because they'll don't want to

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be open on Sunday. So they'll close on like a

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Monday or Tuesday or so See that makes sense.

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Yeah While he was here we watched all four John

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wick movies, uh -huh. I had number four before.

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It was good. It was interesting watching them

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all kind of in a row because you can really tell

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like when things started to shift or like what

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each movie added in terms of like shifting. OK,

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like the focus of it. All I know about this movie

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is that in the first one, we're avenging a puppy,

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which I love. I don't know. I've never seen any

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of that. You think so? OK, what do you think

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Rina Sawayama is in? Is there like a - She's

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in the last one. Okay, see, I - I guess you probably

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can't watch them out of order, huh? Uh, I mean,

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you could, but nah. It's not as fulfilling of

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a - No, it's not really gonna - I mean, yeah,

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not really. You probably could. I've heard only

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good things, so. I just don't like to do shooting

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stuff movies. They're typically very boring to

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me. Well, this is like all about action choreography

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like stuff. Oh, okay. so basically like if you

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like you should watch the first one if you like

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what they're doing there you should keep watching

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the rest of them because it's just like more

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of that but escalating gotcha okay um sweet okay

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well uh any any what else are you up to any anything

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else um i mean i tried to get your dad to watch

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anime with you no my dad was not gonna watch

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anime with me i don't think yeah My mom never

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does well either. I was able to get my grandpa

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too. Oh. He watched all of the first season of

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the original Full Metal Alchemist anime with

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me. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, I know, right?

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Yeah. So that was me. What have you been up to?

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Do you have anything fun over the weekend? Yes,

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well, yes. OK, so I went to DreamCon in Houston

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this weekend Well, I got there Friday morning

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and left Sunday afternoon, but basically there's

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this player who goes to a bunch of conventions

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and has a large scale demo operation for VR.

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And one of the games that they have for people

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to try out is Walkabout. And so since it was

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nearby and he offered a badge and hotel and stuff,

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I was like... Heck yeah, I'll go. You know, it's

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only like a two and a half hour drive. You know,

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I'll just go and like talk, you know, chat up

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people about Walkabout for a bit. And then the

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rest of the time I can kind of like go explore

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the convention. Turned out they were super understaffed.

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So I ended up like just working so much. But

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I did still manage. So I didn't like attend any

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panels or anything. Um, but I was able to go

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to, uh, the like vendor artist alley, which,

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uh, was a little small, which is probably for

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the best for my wallet. Um, but yeah, it's so

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for anyone who doesn't know dream con is very

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much like, uh, I guess it was started by a group

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or was it RDC world or something. Um, But basically

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it's like very much kind of a like black communal

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or community nerdy stuff And it's had like a

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bunch of different or it's been to a bunch of

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different cities So I'm not sure if it's just

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like a constantly traveling one or if it's just

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still trying to find its home But it's the best

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Energy, I would say I've seen at a convention

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one I loved because everyone was cosplaying older

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anime. So it's like I recognize things a lot

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more I saw a lot of Soul Eater cosplays. I saw

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a lot of Inuyasha cosplays. Really? Let's see.

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Yes. That's weird. OK. I know. I was like, this

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is great, because normally just people just get

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their crappy little Amazon, you know, like. Oh,

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we're going to need them. OK, sorry. No, demon.

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Well, like Demon Slayer. Whatever is the most

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popular thing right now, right? Yeah. So I, yeah,

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it was really cool to see. I'm trying to think

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of there was like a doodle bob, like from Sponge

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Bob, the little doodle bob. So you have like

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a giant pencil, you know, like things like that.

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And so it was fun seeing all that. I guess Meg

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Lee Stallion was supposed to be there. I didn't

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get a chance to see because I don't I'm not understanding

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in lines. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, just a

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very, like, people were, like, excited to be

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there and talk to each other, because sometimes

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that feels like cons, like, it's, you know, oh,

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we're a bunch of awkward little nerds who don't

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like talking to each other. Yeah, I mean, like,

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having like a TV show you both like isn't exactly

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a huge conversation starter, it turns out, all

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the time. Yeah. but yeah, so it was exhausting,

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but I had a good time and Yeah, so I'm back from

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that Love Island starts tonight The US one and

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then UK starts like a week or two after So there's

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gonna be like a lot of Love Island in my future

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and I wish they would like not overlap though

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I really need them not to so I can like space

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it out. Gotta be over the summer though. Big

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Brother will start in July and then that'll get

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me through October with Reality Show and then

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Survivor will have a winter season I guess so

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I will have I'll have like a week where there

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wasn't a Reality Show for me to watch live and

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then I'm on season like 14 maybe of Survivor

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rewatch and I'm like nearly to the point where

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I remember watching in high school so it'll be

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interesting to see how much I can remember from

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those but I'm like in love with the last season

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I watched Cook Islands okay it's like one of

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the things there's like Definitely not something

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that would happen on really TV today, but they

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like had four tribes at the beginning of different

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ethnicities. So there's like the Caucasian, Asian,

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Hispanic or Latino and African American tribes.

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And I was like, OK, survivor. Let's see, but

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but my The like a k -pop I will not know he's

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too buff to be a k -pop idol But this super handsome

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Korean guy who is so nice You know and he won

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Yeah, so I'm like yeah, okay. Hopefully he comes

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back for some like All -star Uh, there's only

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been one so far. Okay. And you're on 14? But

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I was looking at upcoming seasons. Yeah. So I

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think maybe around 16 or 17, there's another

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one, but it won't be called All -Stars. There,

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no. Oh God. There's one like fans versus favorites

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as a season coming up. So I guess it's just going

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to be some, it's probably going to be some like

00:16:20.220 --> 00:16:24.879
here's the veterans. They'll be your drive, you

00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.620
know, leader, show, blah, blah, blah, something

00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:31.860
like that. And. Well, because I feel like high

00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:33.779
school was around the stride where you kind of

00:16:33.779 --> 00:16:38.279
had like professional reality TV people. There's

00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.700
still some people like that. Yeah. Although I'm

00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.200
starting to learn because they just write because

00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:50.019
Survivor 50. Comes out next year, I think, and.

00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:53.059
They've been, like, hyping it up the past couple

00:16:53.059 --> 00:16:57.320
seasons of, like, vote on this part of what the

00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.179
game's gonna be, you know, immunity idols or

00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:02.299
no immunity idols. And so they've been, like,

00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.940
hyping up season 50 seasons before it happens,

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and they just dropped the cast announcement.

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And some people are like, oh, I'm surprised so

00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.779
-and -so wasn't on there. And I guess it looks

00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:21.259
like... I mean, obviously it's like... Uh, TV

00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:26.119
is not going to be like, treat you well kind

00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.240
of industry, but I guess a lot of producers on

00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:32.900
shows are like, Oh, if, or at least it seems

00:17:32.900 --> 00:17:35.599
to be the case with Jeff Probst, maybe the host

00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.000
and producer or survivor that if you went on

00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:43.259
other reality shows, then you weren't really

00:17:43.259 --> 00:17:45.740
considered unless you were like a super favorite

00:17:45.740 --> 00:17:48.740
person. Cause I don't know if it's like, Oh,

00:17:48.750 --> 00:17:50.710
You already went and did your thing. So no need

00:17:50.710 --> 00:17:52.369
to bring you back for this, even though that's

00:17:52.369 --> 00:17:56.869
what fans would want is like kind of icky feeling.

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And I guess MTV is also, I think folks get a

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hard, or at least the challenge cast. It just

00:18:05.690 --> 00:18:08.130
seems like they very much play favorites. And

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so you get, even if you're like a fan favorite,

00:18:10.109 --> 00:18:12.930
you still can like be set up for failure within

00:18:12.930 --> 00:18:16.069
the game. Production doesn't like you. So yeah.

00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:24.960
Uh, yeah. Okay. Uh, maybe we should talk about

00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:29.140
some anime now. Yeah, I guess we could do that.

00:18:29.460 --> 00:18:31.680
Oh, okay. I guess. I guess we could talk about

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Chihaya Fury Season 2. I listened to the last

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episode right before this. Uh -huh. And then

00:18:36.579 --> 00:18:39.180
I listened to our coverage of the Rosa Versailles

00:18:39.180 --> 00:18:41.200
movie again, because that one is always extremely

00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.920
funny. I get owned in those episodes from last

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episode where I was like... One, I was like,

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I'm sure the thing about having five recruits

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doesn't matter. And also, I'm like, surely they're

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going to do some kind of training arc and we're

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not just immediately going to go into more tournament

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play. Mm hmm. It's not what happens now. I'm

00:19:04.130 --> 00:19:06.250
here to report that is not what happens in these

00:19:06.250 --> 00:19:32.170
three episodes. Yeah. We open on Chihaya being

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bummed about losing the high school tournament

00:19:33.849 --> 00:19:36.410
her sister is like what you're still on about

00:19:36.410 --> 00:19:38.650
Carta I didn't even know you still did that.

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What's up with that? Her name is Chitose. It

00:19:41.089 --> 00:19:43.349
took me a while to remember that. Chitose says

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that if you can't get results, you don't have

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talent. She says, obviously projecting. She looks

00:19:48.869 --> 00:19:51.650
at some of her haters on social media posts and

00:19:51.650 --> 00:19:53.789
tells her mom that she's going to cut back on

00:19:53.789 --> 00:19:59.099
work as a model. slash TV personality, I guess,

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to go to college because she probably doesn't

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have what it takes to be an actress. Jihaya thinks

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:06.079
about if she can accomplish her dreams or not

00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.059
as the OP plays. Well, we get her sister back

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and her sister back. I was kind of hoping you

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would have like because I didn't read all the

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comments left online, but I'm like, it wasn't

00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.680
funny to read through those. Yeah, I didn't do

00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:27.099
that. No, you're good. And yeah, let's. Go ahead.

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We return to literature class where an old man

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coughs into my ear over and over and over again.

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And it's a scene that feels like a million years

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long. He tells the students that they must pass

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a test or they're going to have to write 20 short

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poems. Then he goes to Shihaya just in the middle

00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.259
of class and tells her that she only recruited

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two out of five members. So they're going to

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have to share the space with the concert band

00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.119
club, which is a club and not a class, which

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confuses me. Nishina's like, Chihaya, you gotta

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stand up for us. He can't just give away our

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class, but she totally folds, just apologizes

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and begs to keep the room till nationals. And

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the teacher, I guess, agrees. I hate this man.

00:21:06.289 --> 00:21:09.029
I hate their teacher. I hate this old man. Keel

00:21:09.029 --> 00:21:17.000
over and die. Oh my God, Joe. In the hallway,

00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.279
we see that the concert band has so many members

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and stuff that they have to store things in the

00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.740
hallway because they're out of space. We cut

00:21:23.740 --> 00:21:25.880
to the Carta team telling their coach that they

00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:27.740
want the concert band to use the second floor

00:21:27.740 --> 00:21:29.779
to store their stuff. And the coach is like,

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I mean, we don't really have to. Like, he just

00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:33.740
said that, but we could probably strong arm him.

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Like, I got it. But Chihaya says that they feel

00:21:36.339 --> 00:21:41.009
bad for the concert band club. Also. You know,

00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:42.630
if they make a lot of noise, that would help

00:21:42.630 --> 00:21:44.349
them prepare for situations when there's loud

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noises while they're playing. And maybe it would

00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:49.009
be good to, like, have some distractions. So

00:21:49.009 --> 00:21:51.190
everyone's like, oh, Chihaya, this is actually

00:21:51.190 --> 00:21:53.009
a selfish request. We thought you were being

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altruistic, but it turns out you were trying

00:21:54.890 --> 00:21:57.049
to use this to your own benefit, which honestly,

00:21:57.069 --> 00:21:59.450
in this case, I think is fair. I think Chihaya

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is in the right here. Yeah, I mean, they should.

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How could they expect anything else from her?

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She's just trying. be a glass half full kind

00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:16.359
of gal. Yeah. She's got to have the pep energy

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as the as the team mascot. Yep. It's correct.

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This is dumb that she's the captain. She absolutely

00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:30.519
does nothing that would require that name. But

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that's like a real position right like I know

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It's like it's a position. It's not like Tai

00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:39.920
Chi is the actual as the president or whatever

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The card is the mascot. Sorry. Yes. She is The

00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:47.559
card a club meets and the concert band is making

00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.140
a bunch of noise on the second floor moving stuff,

00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:53.500
but they put up with it Later she high goes home

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her dad's like, oh, hey, you were in the paper

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and he shows her a article about them losing

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the finals But she is not into it because she's

00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:04.940
mad that they lost but then her mom gets an idea

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The next day at the Carter Club Samira is able

00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.579
to beat two out of three of Tsukuba's brothers

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They tease her and she gets mad then Tai Chi

00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:16.940
shows up and she snaps out of being mad and starts

00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:20.849
to be sweet immediately because she's great After

00:23:20.849 --> 00:23:23.549
practice, Tsukuba talks to Samire saying how

00:23:23.549 --> 00:23:26.029
fun playing Carta is, and Samire is like, what

00:23:26.029 --> 00:23:28.009
are you talking about? Playing Carta isn't that

00:23:28.009 --> 00:23:30.289
fun, it's kind of a huge pain, and I also don't

00:23:30.289 --> 00:23:33.210
win very often. I'm only here for Taichi, because

00:23:33.210 --> 00:23:36.009
she's serious about love, as everybody else is

00:23:36.009 --> 00:23:39.089
about Carta. Even though she's not really in

00:23:39.089 --> 00:23:42.069
love with him, because she doesn't know him.

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Listen, she just needs to stay in the show. I

00:23:44.700 --> 00:23:46.839
don't care. I don't care what her excuse is.

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She needs to be in the show. She needs more airtime.

00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:53.900
I don't care. Well, we haven't had anyone on

00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:56.680
the main cast leave the show, so I'm guessing

00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:58.680
she'll be here forever. That's true. But like,

00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:00.940
is Nasheeda really still in it? Only when they

00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:03.420
need something new to talk about, then they give

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:08.240
him a problem. We cut to Chihaya and her mom

00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:10.180
going shopping, because we get to hang out with

00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:13.440
Chihaya's mom. I wish I knew what her name was.

00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:19.839
Mom. Yep, at least she's a she. I mean, she doesn't.

00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:23.420
Well, get to it. At least she acknowledges fast.

00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:27.140
Yeah, Chihaya isn't into shopping until her mom

00:24:27.140 --> 00:24:31.440
brings her to Kana's parents shop. Her mom talks

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:33.599
to Kana's mom because she's brought another thank

00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.220
-you gift for helping out with the Karda Club.

00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:37.559
Chi Hai is like, wait a minute, you've been giving

00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:39.539
her thank -you gifts for helping out with the

00:24:39.539 --> 00:24:41.900
Karda Club? And her mom's like, well yeah, obviously

00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:46.359
she's like helping out a lot. But Kana's mom

00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:48.779
says it's fine because she's basically using

00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:51.039
Chi Hai and Tai Chi as like walking advertisements

00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:54.119
anyway, so this is kind of benefiting me mostly.

00:24:55.679 --> 00:24:57.640
Kana's mom starts to return to work, but then

00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.119
Chihaya's mom says that they should buy Chihaya

00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.180
her own Hakama. Kana comes out to see her mom

00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:05.380
and Chihaya's mom and Chihaya looking at fabric.

00:25:05.859 --> 00:25:08.160
She tries on a purple one and her mom is shocked

00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.960
that Chihaya knows how to wear a Hakama. She

00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.940
tells Kana mom that she thought that as long

00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:15.700
as her daughter had something to do, she'd be

00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:19.160
fine. Even though her grades were bad and she

00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:23.059
sucks at everything. And yeah, and she's into

00:25:23.059 --> 00:25:25.799
that weird bear mascot that we only sometimes

00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:30.680
acknowledge. Yeah, daddy bear. Yeah. Yeah. But

00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.079
then she's like, oh, it feels like I've been

00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:33.960
kind of ignoring my daughter this this whole

00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.640
time if I'm only now getting her Hakama. Yeah,

00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:40.000
I think. But then she insists that she wasn't

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.140
ignoring her and that she believed in her card

00:25:42.140 --> 00:25:45.640
playing the whole time. Oh, laying her mom off

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.160
the hook, just like everyone does for her. I

00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:53.750
mean, they've been fine since then. I guess they

00:25:53.750 --> 00:25:57.549
only just started making a scrapbook. Well, she

00:25:57.549 --> 00:25:59.430
only just started getting her name in the paper.

00:25:59.430 --> 00:26:03.109
All right. OK, I guess finally she's accomplished

00:26:03.109 --> 00:26:05.529
something. Did you ever get in the newspaper

00:26:05.529 --> 00:26:10.230
for anything at school, Joe? No, no. I mean,

00:26:10.349 --> 00:26:14.789
like the Dean's List or something, but. Oh, if

00:26:14.789 --> 00:26:17.609
my parents were. Happy about that. I was like,

00:26:17.890 --> 00:26:20.769
oh yeah, I was not in sports. I just kept my

00:26:20.769 --> 00:26:24.390
own newspaper. No one kept it on my behalf. It's

00:26:24.390 --> 00:26:31.210
just like, look at me. Anyways. Kada and Chihaya

00:26:31.210 --> 00:26:33.650
go on to try more stuff. Kada's mom tells Chihaya's

00:26:33.650 --> 00:26:35.750
mom that it's all good. It's hard to give your

00:26:35.750 --> 00:26:38.569
kids space to learn and grow. Later, Chihaya

00:26:38.569 --> 00:26:40.809
and her mom leave. She got the expensive one,

00:26:40.809 --> 00:26:42.630
the purple one that she tried on earlier, which

00:26:42.630 --> 00:26:46.259
I really liked, so goodbye. Her mom thinks that

00:26:46.259 --> 00:26:48.819
she can wear it to nationals, but she's not going

00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:51.839
to because it's way too hot. At home, Chihaya

00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:54.359
plays along with a recording of last year's Queen

00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:57.500
game. Her sister comes into her doing that and

00:26:57.500 --> 00:26:59.259
is like, oh, I guess you're back to normal. And

00:26:59.259 --> 00:27:01.059
then she decides that she's going to try to be

00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:04.779
an actress again because the inspiration. Because

00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:09.019
it's cool. Because that textbook and the garbage.

00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.119
She throws it away. Dude, those things are expensive.

00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:14.900
Resell that. Come on. I guess it's not as dramatic

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:19.700
if you just go and sell it online. I guess. No,

00:27:19.940 --> 00:27:24.660
not at all. It's like when people throw their

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:26.740
antidepressants off of a bridge or something

00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:28.720
like, I don't need this anymore. And it's like,

00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:32.200
guys, you really should do that. It's not how

00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:35.569
you deal with that. Let's see. Uh, the Carter

00:27:35.569 --> 00:27:37.470
club is studying again and upstairs, the concert

00:27:37.470 --> 00:27:39.730
band starts playing. Uh, everybody comments that

00:27:39.730 --> 00:27:42.069
they're playing sucks and kind of starts humming

00:27:42.069 --> 00:27:45.009
and she's like, Hmm, sounds kind of frenetic.

00:27:45.250 --> 00:27:47.970
No, it sounds more impassionate, which she says,

00:27:48.109 --> 00:27:50.809
which is the word she high of Buddha. The word

00:27:50.809 --> 00:27:54.089
that is the one that the card that she high takes

00:27:54.089 --> 00:27:56.349
and also is the name, but it has a B instead

00:27:56.349 --> 00:27:59.509
of an H. Don't, don't think about it too much.

00:27:59.529 --> 00:28:02.180
She high is like, what's impassionate. what's

00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:03.680
the word in passion have to do with the word

00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.400
frenzies and kana is like what we're in the second

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.400
season of this tv show and you still don't understand

00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.799
the meaning of the title and then kana explains

00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:14.039
the meaning of the title which is that okay okay

00:28:15.069 --> 00:28:17.890
is a historical word that doesn't have a fixed

00:28:17.890 --> 00:28:19.730
meaning. It's like a decorator around certain

00:28:19.730 --> 00:28:22.349
poems. But there are theories that it means impassionate.

00:28:22.509 --> 00:28:25.250
But some say it means frenzied. Either way, it

00:28:25.250 --> 00:28:28.250
means some types of intensity. In the impassionate

00:28:28.250 --> 00:28:30.230
definition, it resembles a power and perfect

00:28:30.230 --> 00:28:32.950
balance, while a frenzied definition is like

00:28:32.950 --> 00:28:36.490
the opposite of that, out of balance. We learn

00:28:36.490 --> 00:28:39.849
about this word for a long time. Yeah. Did you

00:28:39.849 --> 00:28:42.730
like the fourth wall being broken? Well, no,

00:28:42.730 --> 00:28:46.250
not quite. I always love the fourth wall breaks

00:28:46.250 --> 00:28:47.670
where they're like, what do you mean? We're on

00:28:47.670 --> 00:28:50.970
episode 13. You still don't know this? Yeah.

00:28:51.849 --> 00:28:54.269
It's good. It gives it a surreal quality to the

00:28:54.269 --> 00:28:56.890
show that already feels kind of surreal to me.

00:28:57.490 --> 00:29:03.529
Uh huh. Yeah, surely goes into it. That's because

00:29:03.529 --> 00:29:08.130
she likes poems, I guess. Entire words, just

00:29:08.130 --> 00:29:10.670
lost meaning. We probably have that in English.

00:29:10.690 --> 00:29:14.839
I just don't care about them. Listen if they

00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:16.799
can't retain their meaning over time. They obviously

00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:20.380
weren't that important. Oh That's yeah. I like

00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:23.779
that survival of the hit is the fittest, baby

00:29:23.779 --> 00:29:31.779
Or cake vernacular, what are we doing here? Knock

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:34.119
on the window. It's the concert band and they've

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:35.660
come to play a little concert for the Carter

00:29:35.660 --> 00:29:37.700
Club as a thanks for letting them use the room

00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:40.339
They all thank them and everybody has a good

00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:42.500
time, even though they play way too many verses

00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:45.460
of this song. But whatever. What do you think

00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:47.119
about this? They come here and play the school

00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.440
song. Stounding song. Oh, the school. Exciting.

00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:53.859
The thing is. There's like a bajillion better

00:29:53.859 --> 00:29:56.400
songs to play than your school. Your school song

00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.140
always sucks. It's always some shitty ballad.

00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:01.079
It sounds terrible. You know what I'm saying?

00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:05.539
Well, they're trying to like be like a music.

00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:10.000
Zawa card club or something. So it's very school

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.779
pride related. I hate that. You should go in

00:30:14.779 --> 00:30:17.259
and play something hype. There are hype orchestral

00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:23.440
songs. I'm the tiger. Now you should play some

00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:24.880
hype stuff. You know what I'm saying? You should

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:27.759
play like the planets. You could play. You could

00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:31.119
play Entry of the Gladiators. That's a good one.

00:30:31.539 --> 00:30:34.799
That's the circus sounding song. You can play

00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:38.779
some scary stuff Play like you play like Baba

00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:41.920
Yaga, that'd be good You could play if you're

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:43.400
gonna play a long song You might as well just

00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.160
play Bolero just have your have your snare drum

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.839
Just do that for 20 minutes or whatever that

00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.160
songs that song is really good But also God playing

00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:54.859
it must suck. Anyway, I've talked too much about

00:30:54.859 --> 00:30:59.619
music We cut to nationals it's not we're at the

00:30:59.619 --> 00:31:02.609
tournament hey guys Remember that training arc?

00:31:03.049 --> 00:31:09.970
Me neither, Red Nationals. We have a cute scene

00:31:09.970 --> 00:31:12.509
where they are hanging out at the little hotel

00:31:12.509 --> 00:31:14.269
they're staying at and Sumire is about to go

00:31:14.269 --> 00:31:16.730
to sleep in makeup because quote, you never know

00:31:16.730 --> 00:31:19.009
what might happen at night out of a school trip.

00:31:20.149 --> 00:31:22.849
But the coach is in the room with her and she's

00:31:22.849 --> 00:31:24.869
like nothing is gonna happen and severe is like

00:31:24.869 --> 00:31:27.009
this sucks What kind of trip has nothing happened

00:31:27.009 --> 00:31:30.329
and I agree Sumire we should have had more We

00:31:30.329 --> 00:31:32.750
should have had more we didn't have 30 more scenes

00:31:32.750 --> 00:31:34.109
like this one where they're all just hanging

00:31:34.109 --> 00:31:36.069
out You know how many we get in the next two

00:31:36.069 --> 00:31:41.470
episodes zero Hmm yeah, I need her to become

00:31:41.470 --> 00:31:46.869
the main character. I need her to usurp Chihaya

00:31:48.289 --> 00:31:50.789
Now you say Haya will get by a bus or something.

00:31:51.369 --> 00:31:52.890
She does try to put the work in though. So she

00:31:52.890 --> 00:31:55.690
asked she Haya if she likes anyone, you know,

00:31:56.809 --> 00:31:59.630
like, I have written down here like at night.

00:31:59.630 --> 00:32:01.809
No, she says that you think about at night. That's

00:32:01.809 --> 00:32:08.029
what she says. She is like, well, you know, sometimes

00:32:08.029 --> 00:32:10.450
at night, I think I wish I had Shinobu's number

00:32:10.450 --> 00:32:12.569
and the comments to get mad at her. They're like,

00:32:12.670 --> 00:32:14.710
dude, we're talking about love, not like who

00:32:14.710 --> 00:32:17.759
you're obsessed with. Um, but then she starts

00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:21.980
thinking about errata. Of course. I cheese toast

00:32:21.980 --> 00:32:24.240
we got the Tai Chi being toast walking in the

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.480
hallways. He sees she hi a calling errata on

00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.759
the phone He won't be at the tournament for two

00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:32.779
more days because his school doesn't have a team

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:35.099
So he's not shown up for the team competition.

00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.380
He's just showing up for the individual matches

00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:39.819
Tai Chi hears this and leaves because he gets

00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:42.299
owned my boy who has done nothing this episode

00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:44.519
It shows up for the last five minutes to get

00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:51.230
annihilated. I'd love it when this happens Chi

00:32:51.230 --> 00:32:54.150
Hai tells Arata that he should start a club at

00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:56.529
his school, but Arata is like, I don't want to

00:32:56.529 --> 00:32:58.170
start a club. I just want to get better. That's

00:32:58.170 --> 00:33:01.049
a waste of time. But she's like, fine, I'll get

00:33:01.049 --> 00:33:03.269
better too. And then I'm going to beat Shinobu

00:33:03.269 --> 00:33:05.829
and we get a shot of the Omi Jingu as we cut

00:33:05.829 --> 00:33:08.990
to credits, which is the temple that the tournament's

00:33:08.990 --> 00:33:12.289
being held at. There's also the part where the

00:33:12.289 --> 00:33:15.170
girls are talking, but she makes her take the

00:33:15.170 --> 00:33:18.859
makeup off and we see a very Like, like basically,

00:33:18.859 --> 00:33:21.759
she's pretty plain looking without her makeup

00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.339
is the takeaway from that. Or she puts so much

00:33:24.339 --> 00:33:26.140
makeup that she looks a lot different kind of

00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:31.119
thing. Yeah. So I bet she is not wanting anyone

00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:37.660
to see that. But. We still love her. We have

00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:40.640
our champion of the show. I like her for her

00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.539
personality and the fact that she's like a little

00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:48.400
like a ridiculous cartoon woman. And also, she's

00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:51.299
somehow still the most normal person there. Yep.

00:33:51.420 --> 00:33:56.140
Yep. It's great. Yes. This was an episode that

00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:58.220
was mostly about Chihaya and her mom, and I liked

00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:02.299
that. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, yeah. There are some

00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:05.220
nice in these episodes, like little takeaways

00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:08.480
for characters, at least. More of these episodes

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:12.519
need to happen. Yep. Unfortunately, we just don't

00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:14.860
get a lot of downtime. It'd be nice to get that.

00:34:15.050 --> 00:34:16.929
More. These are the only episodes in this trio

00:34:16.929 --> 00:34:20.170
that is like that. Yeah. Tai Chi gets obliterated

00:34:20.170 --> 00:34:22.670
at the end here in a very funny scene. That's

00:34:22.670 --> 00:34:24.710
like what we say at the end of every episode.

00:34:25.110 --> 00:34:28.449
I know. It's so out of nowhere. They're like,

00:34:28.789 --> 00:34:32.769
oh, Chi Hai, are you into anyone? Like. How has

00:34:32.769 --> 00:34:36.469
Arata not come up yet for Sumire? I mean, I guess

00:34:36.469 --> 00:34:40.750
maybe no one said anything. Oh, yeah. Actually,

00:34:40.849 --> 00:34:44.880
wait, has Satomo and Kana even met Arata? Uh,

00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:47.320
I feel like he was like, right. Cause when she

00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:51.000
passed out at last year's national team, whatever

00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.619
she brought, brought her over to him. So I don't

00:34:55.619 --> 00:34:57.619
know if they were still like in the match. Yeah.

00:34:57.679 --> 00:34:59.260
Well, they were like, they didn't, they didn't

00:34:59.260 --> 00:35:01.860
go talk to him. So I don't think. Yeah. I don't

00:35:01.860 --> 00:35:04.159
know. I think they've like seen him. They just

00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:09.420
haven't interacted with him. Uh, I'm sure con

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:12.420
well, Connor has clocked what's going on, but,

00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:16.579
uh, Yeah, we need to add like a most pitiful

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:19.360
character ranking once we finish. I mean, it's

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:21.760
just it's just Tai Chi every oh you mean across

00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.599
all shows Yeah, yeah, I still feel like it's

00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:26.739
just Tai Chi across the board. Who's gonna be

00:35:26.739 --> 00:35:30.219
more pitiful than him? Well, not more, but I

00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:32.199
mean Kazai Haya for a long time we were like

00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:35.900
that poor boy cuz she's so dense and That's true

00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:39.260
Yeah, so but then he started just being pitiful

00:35:39.260 --> 00:35:44.119
on his own in season three. Oh, yeah And I felt,

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:49.239
I felt less bad for him at that point. Yeah,

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:52.380
no, Tai Chi is just a nice guy who's just getting

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:55.280
wrecked. Oh, I can't wait for Sumire to learn

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:58.000
about Arado. That's going to be good. She's going

00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:59.579
to be like, this is my chance. That'll give her

00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:04.420
like, yeah, extra like, yeah, like motivation,

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.739
like there's an opening, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:07.639
See, that's what I'm waiting for. Cause she just

00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.019
doesn't really, all she does is like shallow

00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:14.210
interactions with him. you know it's just they

00:36:14.210 --> 00:36:15.889
don't have anything to talk about looking at

00:36:15.889 --> 00:36:19.989
him i know so hopefully she like they learn more

00:36:19.989 --> 00:36:22.309
about each other at some point yeah this will

00:36:22.309 --> 00:36:24.989
be good i need them to like team up and go like

00:36:24.989 --> 00:36:27.389
tail chihaya and errata on a date you know what

00:36:27.389 --> 00:36:29.449
i mean like they're both wearing little disguises

00:36:29.449 --> 00:36:33.590
that'd be fun that's the kind of things i want

00:36:33.590 --> 00:36:37.909
disguise yeah oh she's like check out what i

00:36:37.909 --> 00:36:40.360
can do with makeup Like totally different. Now

00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:42.659
the Tai Chi would be too mopey the whole time.

00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:47.440
Yeah. Maybe her and Kana maybe. Yep, that's all

00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:49.380
I gotta say about this episode. It was pretty

00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:53.519
good. Yep. Yep. And now we're back to it. Episode

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.000
eight is called What Shines Over Mount Mikasa.

00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:00.300
We open on nationals. It's time for nationals.

00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.519
Here we go. Tournament time. You thought we had

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.019
downtime? You're wrong. Nationals, baby. Chi

00:37:05.019 --> 00:37:08.309
Hai is like... Wearing 10 cooling packs to keep

00:37:08.309 --> 00:37:10.289
herself from passing out from the heat, but she's

00:37:10.289 --> 00:37:11.949
like, it's cool. I'm not going to wear the Hakama

00:37:11.949 --> 00:37:15.489
this time because I passed out last time. Sorry,

00:37:15.690 --> 00:37:18.110
mom. You just got the Hakama though. Yeah. Also,

00:37:18.369 --> 00:37:20.389
I feel like she got a purple one. I think she

00:37:20.389 --> 00:37:23.090
would look better in red. I like the purple one

00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:26.489
because I like purple. I feel like this con is

00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:31.869
color. Yeah, but. Whatever. Anyways. Elsewhere,

00:37:32.250 --> 00:37:34.900
Sumire has to stop. Tsukuba from taking creeper

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:37.500
pics of girls because I hate him. He's like,

00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:39.500
hey, come on. Only some of these are of girls.

00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.420
Other than more of the building, too. And he

00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:43.019
takes some pictures of the buildings. I don't

00:37:43.019 --> 00:37:46.639
like that she just became his keeper. Oh, yeah,

00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:48.900
I guess because they're the two newbies. So even

00:37:48.900 --> 00:37:50.920
if she doesn't really like him, she feels some

00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.800
kind of camaraderie with him being like new to

00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:57.300
the club and dynamic. They need to fire him.

00:37:57.780 --> 00:38:00.849
They need a rata to replace him. God, imagine

00:38:00.849 --> 00:38:03.409
how much better it would be. No, poor Tai Chi

00:38:03.409 --> 00:38:05.670
would be like... Imagine. Oh, but we'd have the

00:38:05.670 --> 00:38:14.070
drama every day, dude. Oh, man. No. Nishida shows

00:38:14.070 --> 00:38:17.510
them the new, the team, the new shirts that his

00:38:17.510 --> 00:38:19.670
sister made. They say winner is in huge text,

00:38:19.690 --> 00:38:21.989
but in the corner, in tiny text, it says second

00:38:21.989 --> 00:38:24.550
place. They're second place winners. They decide

00:38:24.550 --> 00:38:26.510
to wear the regular shirts instead. This was

00:38:26.510 --> 00:38:28.710
a pretty good gag. His sister is very funny.

00:38:30.949 --> 00:38:34.849
Mm -hmm. Tsukuba makes Samiri a bunch of, oh

00:38:34.849 --> 00:38:36.570
no, makes Samiri take a bunch of pictures of

00:38:36.570 --> 00:38:38.489
him to send his brothers, and in the text he

00:38:38.489 --> 00:38:40.469
says that he's gonna be playing, which is probably

00:38:40.469 --> 00:38:42.949
untrue. So he's still lying, because we have

00:38:42.949 --> 00:38:45.710
learned nothing. Yeah, because we hate him. Because

00:38:45.710 --> 00:38:47.730
we hate him. And he's gonna give us more and

00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:52.199
more reasons to. We go to the first round. And

00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.019
Tsukuba is starting in the place of Tsutomu because

00:38:55.019 --> 00:38:57.139
Tsutomu is going to be scouting the other teams

00:38:57.139 --> 00:39:00.380
with Sumire while Tsukuba handles the first round

00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:02.719
because we're not that worried about round one.

00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:06.599
Well it also says that Tsukuba is like basically

00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:08.840
caught up to his skill level. Oh yeah he's like

00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:13.880
he's good enough. The two of them head off. The

00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.840
two of them by which I mean Tsutomu and Sumire

00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:18.639
who are going to split up and search for clues.

00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:21.719
The first round is about to start and Retro comes

00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.260
over to taunt Tai Chi. It doesn't work because

00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:26.860
Tai Chi is already ready to rumble. Also, he

00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:28.900
needs to prove himself to the girl he loves,

00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:32.900
which is what he's going to do instead of. Why

00:39:32.900 --> 00:39:35.199
are they doing this to Tai Chi? Anything else?

00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.679
This is his rival. Oh, yeah. Also, his rival

00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.239
has to be Retro, a guy he hates. Yeah. I, poor

00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.820
Tai Chi man. It's just L. He just was gifted

00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:49.480
with L, L, L. With a lot of birth. It's hard

00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.219
not to be like up for that. It's hard to be like,

00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:54.460
you know how your mom says to stop hanging out

00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:56.480
with these people? Maybe she's right. Maybe she's

00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:58.960
onto something. Maybe your mom who sucks was

00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:03.440
right about this. Something about a broken clock

00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.980
being right twice a day. I don't know. Anyway.

00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:11.099
Yeah. We see that their team has matched up against

00:40:11.099 --> 00:40:14.039
Chiba's International School of Information Sciences.

00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.639
And they're all like, wow, foreigners play Carta.

00:40:16.699 --> 00:40:20.230
That's crazy. Sumire goes off to scout an all

00:40:20.230 --> 00:40:23.949
girls team, but all she has is a bunch of names

00:40:23.949 --> 00:40:25.289
and she's like, okay, but I don't know who any

00:40:25.289 --> 00:40:26.710
of these people are. How am I supposed to know

00:40:26.710 --> 00:40:29.170
who I'm supposed to watch here with just a bunch

00:40:29.170 --> 00:40:31.670
of names? And then a clumsy girl bumps into her

00:40:31.670 --> 00:40:33.650
and it turns out that she's the ace that Sumire

00:40:33.650 --> 00:40:35.650
is supposed to watch out for. Also, some weird

00:40:35.650 --> 00:40:39.010
guys are here and it sucks. Also, this girl is

00:40:39.010 --> 00:40:42.110
like every trope wrapped into one human being.

00:40:42.449 --> 00:40:44.510
And Sumire is like, what the hell is happening?

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:47.639
It's great. I like this part. It's funny. We

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:51.019
did see her in season one. We just didn't really

00:40:51.019 --> 00:40:55.139
learn about her. But she went against the chick

00:40:55.139 --> 00:41:03.019
who was like, Nishida's sensei's wife. She lost

00:41:03.019 --> 00:41:05.260
in like the qualifying round for the Queen's

00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:07.239
match or something. So she's like the third best.

00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:11.659
Yeah. So this girl was beat by her. Yeah. But

00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:14.170
yeah. She's weird and she's surrounded by weird

00:41:14.170 --> 00:41:16.429
guys, which sucks. I'm not gonna like it. We

00:41:16.429 --> 00:41:20.869
have to meet those guys again. Elsewhere Satoma

00:41:20.869 --> 00:41:23.210
goes to scout the other players and they're all

00:41:23.210 --> 00:41:25.070
intense because those are the winners of last

00:41:25.070 --> 00:41:27.269
year's team tournament. Chihaya's team is up

00:41:27.269 --> 00:41:30.130
against foreigners and no one has ever seen a

00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:32.650
black person before. Kana is horrified because

00:41:32.650 --> 00:41:34.469
their opponents are wearing Hakama's while she's

00:41:34.469 --> 00:41:36.510
wearing normal clothes. She's like this is incredibly

00:41:36.510 --> 00:41:39.230
embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as Chihaya

00:41:39.230 --> 00:41:43.079
who's just crying uncontrollably. I thought this

00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:46.900
was funny. We hear she's like, oh, she's just

00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:50.300
crying that foreigners had reached the hearts

00:41:50.300 --> 00:41:54.719
of people that aren't Japanese. And. Yeah, I

00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:57.500
thought that was funny. We hear some of the worst

00:41:57.500 --> 00:42:01.059
English I've ever heard. Oh, my God, because

00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:03.780
it's also the worst English Tai Chi's ever heard,

00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:05.860
and he calls them out on it with his own better

00:42:05.860 --> 00:42:07.739
English and accuses them of actually being able

00:42:07.739 --> 00:42:09.980
to speak Japanese. And they're like, well, shit.

00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:12.800
We can't all speak Japanese. We were just doing

00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.139
that. We were just pretending to be foreigners

00:42:15.139 --> 00:42:17.179
to freak you guys out. Most of us have lived

00:42:17.179 --> 00:42:20.139
in Japan our whole lives. And it turns out that

00:42:20.139 --> 00:42:22.059
she was just crying because she's happy that

00:42:22.059 --> 00:42:25.900
card is played by not just Japanese people. Yeah.

00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:30.719
It's pretty good. Yeah, it's funny. It's the

00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.920
English was horrifying. But this is all every

00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:38.960
time in anime. This is how it sounds it always

00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.920
sounds like such a struggle like they're Suffocating

00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.699
to death as they're saying their words in English.

00:42:45.699 --> 00:42:51.099
There are clearly certain times in In anime where

00:42:51.099 --> 00:42:54.000
they have voice actors that actually know how

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.539
to speak English Versus ones that they're just

00:42:56.539 --> 00:43:00.119
kind of like telling them what to say so like

00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:03.380
you never really know because like sometimes

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:04.719
you'll hear a person that's like oh, they're

00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:08.690
supposed to be like They lived in the States

00:43:08.690 --> 00:43:11.469
for a while and they'll speak broken English

00:43:11.469 --> 00:43:14.210
and everybody will act like it's good. So I feel

00:43:14.210 --> 00:43:16.369
like this is a really good fake out on a meta

00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:18.110
level to have them say all this stuff. And I'm

00:43:18.110 --> 00:43:19.889
like, wow, this is really bad. And then Tai Chi's

00:43:19.889 --> 00:43:23.110
like, that was really bad. I was like, oh, okay,

00:43:23.230 --> 00:43:25.510
cool. So I actually really liked that bit. It's

00:43:25.510 --> 00:43:28.590
pretty funny. Yeah, yeah, that was good. But

00:43:28.590 --> 00:43:31.650
sometimes they'll have actors that also can speak

00:43:31.650 --> 00:43:34.030
English and they sound totally normal. They sound

00:43:34.030 --> 00:43:36.349
like they're... you know, have British accents

00:43:36.349 --> 00:43:40.170
or whatever. So kind of all over the place. I

00:43:40.170 --> 00:43:43.369
just read the next line or one of the next lines.

00:43:43.969 --> 00:43:45.889
Anyway, time to play a normal game, except the

00:43:45.889 --> 00:43:47.929
media is here to check out the foreigners. They're

00:43:47.929 --> 00:43:49.429
all like, wow, isn't it great? We can have a

00:43:49.429 --> 00:43:52.789
little like local news story on it. Their opponents

00:43:52.789 --> 00:43:54.570
are all doing weird shit, though, like lighting

00:43:54.570 --> 00:43:57.050
up the cards by like second syllable and like

00:43:57.050 --> 00:43:59.250
doing a bunch of like nonstandard things, because

00:43:59.250 --> 00:44:00.789
these people just haven't really played that

00:44:00.789 --> 00:44:04.219
much. So they're all doing their own thing. Play

00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:06.480
starts and Tsukuba is scared of black people.

00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:09.159
He's so big and strong He says as my eyes roll

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.159
into the back of my skull giving me another reason

00:44:11.159 --> 00:44:17.579
to hate this kid Yeah She just like what's up

00:44:17.579 --> 00:44:19.679
with my opponent there are they like Vietnamese

00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:21.860
or something? He can't really tell but then he

00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:24.260
notices a car It's a textbook next to him and

00:44:24.260 --> 00:44:26.820
he tells his team just to play like normal these

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:28.460
guys are just kind of fans of the game They're

00:44:28.460 --> 00:44:32.219
not like seasoned players. So it's gonna be fine

00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:36.599
They play and the foreigners are just happy to

00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:39.440
be here and meet some people who also like Karuta.

00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:41.960
Nishida is inspired by how they don't really

00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:45.500
follow standard strategy. Anyway, Chihaya's team

00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:49.539
stomps them and they're sad about losing. They

00:44:49.539 --> 00:44:51.159
also, at the end, see Chihaya's team writing

00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:52.900
a message to them in English. And they're like,

00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:55.380
oh, it's that's so nice. I want to come back

00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:58.559
and play next year. And everybody has like some

00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:01.300
international solidarity or whatever, even though

00:45:01.300 --> 00:45:03.480
these people basically have just lived in Japan

00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:06.860
their whole life. So I don't know. Yeah. Also,

00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:10.260
Chihaya has the marker. I'm like, there's no

00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:12.219
way she knows how to write in English. Taichi

00:45:12.219 --> 00:45:16.960
is directing them. Yeah. So this was kind of

00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:18.980
fun, I guess. I didn't like the weird racism,

00:45:19.019 --> 00:45:25.639
but other than that, you know, anime pretty,

00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:30.380
pretty usually kind of racist about black people.

00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:35.619
Yeah. Not a little better over time, but still

00:45:35.619 --> 00:45:38.179
pretty bad. I really hope I haven't watched the

00:45:38.179 --> 00:45:40.099
newest the newest season of Fire Force, but I

00:45:40.099 --> 00:45:43.179
hope they stop being racist in that show. Yeah,

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:47.880
maybe. Also, at DreamCon, Magdy Stallion announced,

00:45:48.019 --> 00:45:51.019
I think she's in an anime or making an anime

00:45:51.019 --> 00:45:53.900
or something. So that one should be done, right?

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:58.260
Yeah, hopefully. Yeah. I mean, other ones aren't

00:45:58.260 --> 00:46:00.079
like, you know, there are ones that are way better

00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.420
about it than others. So it's not like across

00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:10.420
the board. It's just not atypical. Yeah. Anyway.

00:46:10.489 --> 00:46:12.630
We see Arata being dropped off early because

00:46:12.630 --> 00:46:14.869
he lied to Chihaya. He is here to come watch

00:46:14.869 --> 00:46:17.050
them a day early and he walks up to the shrine

00:46:17.050 --> 00:46:19.530
when a hand reaches out to his shoulder and who

00:46:19.530 --> 00:46:22.250
could it be? Oh wait, it's Shinobu looking real

00:46:22.250 --> 00:46:25.349
freaky as we cut to credits. Yeah, she does not

00:46:25.349 --> 00:46:28.570
look cute here. Shinobu's here! I sure hope she's

00:46:28.570 --> 00:46:30.510
gonna be normal and not a weird freak in a way

00:46:30.510 --> 00:46:33.949
that is not... in a way that's bad. Endearing.

00:46:34.469 --> 00:46:36.769
I want her to be fun. I hope she'll be fun. Do

00:46:36.769 --> 00:46:39.280
you think she's gonna be fun? Maybe she's just

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.480
not fun with Arda. Yeah. So could be that. Anyway,

00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:50.840
what do we think about this episode? I mean,

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:53.840
it tries to end with like a feel good, like,

00:46:54.780 --> 00:46:57.980
oh, you know, despite different blah, blah, blah,

00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:01.860
whatever message. But it was just like, oh, here's

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:04.260
another like throw away set of characters we're

00:47:04.260 --> 00:47:08.179
never going to see again. But I guess I can't

00:47:08.179 --> 00:47:11.739
just be like we won our first whatever number

00:47:11.739 --> 00:47:14.699
of matches without showing anything from them

00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:21.099
Yeah, what do you think so I like I like one

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:22.980
-off episodes like this I wish they would have

00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:26.059
done something with the international team being

00:47:26.059 --> 00:47:29.159
international and not just well The black guy

00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:32.539
sure is big and strong. I wish they did something

00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:37.110
else besides that Yeah I feel like there are

00:47:37.110 --> 00:47:40.409
some opportunities to do some other stuff. So

00:47:40.409 --> 00:47:41.909
I feel like it was a little bit of a waste of

00:47:41.909 --> 00:47:47.429
opportunity, but it's still fine. Yeah. All righty.

00:47:47.550 --> 00:47:48.869
That's it. I don't really have any other thoughts

00:47:48.869 --> 00:47:52.230
about this episode. Oh, but speaking of thoughts,

00:47:52.329 --> 00:47:57.530
the next title. Oh, yeah. Episode 9 is called

00:47:57.530 --> 00:48:00.110
My Only Thought. We open on where we left off

00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:02.289
last time. Arata looks back at Shinobu and he's

00:48:02.289 --> 00:48:06.559
like, uh, who are you? but then he recognizes

00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.000
her mole and is like oh it's shinobu man i didn't

00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.719
recognize you because you look so different from

00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:13.900
the queen match um and she cries and he's like

00:48:13.900 --> 00:48:17.199
hey man chill like it's it's you know it's cool

00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:21.340
um she says that he was the last person she lost

00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:24.280
to four years ago maybe he'll beat her again

00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:27.260
and she's like hmm yeah she's she's like baiting

00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:30.019
me and it's like Getting mad or taunting me or

00:48:30.019 --> 00:48:32.679
something Arana plays it cool though. He just

00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:35.280
laughs and asks her what she's doing here individual

00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.139
games are tomorrow and she's here that she's

00:48:38.139 --> 00:48:40.139
Or she says that she's here to visit the shrine

00:48:40.139 --> 00:48:42.400
and then she's gonna go watch like a plane glider

00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:47.000
contest that happens This is great so random

00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.219
obviously I'm here for the plane gliding contest

00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:55.780
Yeah, it's like you're not here for the team

00:48:55.780 --> 00:48:58.139
tournament and she says that that's only for

00:48:58.139 --> 00:49:00.619
people who don't love Carta Which is not even

00:49:00.619 --> 00:49:03.619
a good like sick burn. No, it just means nothing

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:07.340
Then she walks away Arata reflects on this as

00:49:07.340 --> 00:49:11.159
the Opie players This is the most began of shinobu

00:49:11.159 --> 00:49:14.000
this episode. I'm disappointed. Yeah, no, I do

00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.699
we get her one more second and it's funny Yeah,

00:49:16.699 --> 00:49:22.119
we do get extremely funny. I need shinobu She

00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.019
should just be in the show more, because like

00:49:24.019 --> 00:49:27.940
when we do see her, it's her outside of Carta

00:49:27.940 --> 00:49:32.920
is a delight. Her little weird obsessions with

00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:35.460
strange, bizarro things. Yeah, like I need her

00:49:35.460 --> 00:49:38.300
to either be the mean girl or not. You know what

00:49:38.300 --> 00:49:44.699
I mean? Like, what are we doing here? Yeah. Or

00:49:44.699 --> 00:49:46.219
be a little weirdo. You know what I mean? She's

00:49:46.219 --> 00:49:50.559
got to be one of them. Yeah. Anyway. Go off.

00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:53.639
After the match, Satomu fills Tai Chi in on last

00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:56.199
year's winners. Five out of eight of their team

00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:59.079
are Class A's. Some of their players come out

00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.360
and one of the guys is really weird. I don't

00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:04.320
remember what he says to him. He's like, oh,

00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:09.260
you're taking notes. Something about how I'm

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:11.000
high. And then he like does his hair and the

00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:12.960
waves are like, oh, yeah, he's doing the thing.

00:50:14.579 --> 00:50:20.860
But I'm like, OK, cool. Uh huh. Back at the tournament,

00:50:21.139 --> 00:50:23.900
Shihei and Retro get into a little spat. Arata

00:50:23.900 --> 00:50:27.719
shows up and Shihei almost sees him, but then

00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:30.679
she turns her head and he's been dragged off

00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:33.559
by an acquaintance. She asked Taichi if she heard

00:50:33.559 --> 00:50:36.219
Arata and he's like, no, I didn't hear Arata.

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:37.900
What are you talking about? Get your head in

00:50:37.900 --> 00:50:40.840
the game. Taichi wonders what it'll really be

00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:42.820
like if Arata was here, though. Like, oh, what

00:50:42.820 --> 00:50:46.519
if my rival was here? But it turns out Arata

00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:48.869
was just... I feel bad for Taichi. Yeah, yeah,

00:50:48.929 --> 00:50:51.289
it's going to get worse. It turns out Arata was

00:50:51.289 --> 00:50:54.889
hiding from Jihai and he dragged his friend Murau

00:50:54.889 --> 00:50:57.650
off somewhere else. So like Arata was avoiding

00:50:57.650 --> 00:51:05.409
her. As I don't know, he just did that. Murau,

00:51:05.690 --> 00:51:09.219
which is the guy who won. that last tournament

00:51:09.219 --> 00:51:11.940
we saw Arada at earlier, the guy who's quit and

00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:15.219
then he brought it back last season. Murau just

00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:18.360
assumes that Arada is here for Fujioka West,

00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:19.920
which is like the neighboring school because

00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:25.079
he's from East Side. And he's like, oh, yeah,

00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:26.840
they only have three registered players, which

00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:30.440
leaves them with no margin for error. Outside,

00:51:30.619 --> 00:51:33.670
we see. Fujioka West only has two other members

00:51:33.670 --> 00:51:35.750
here because the other one is stuck in traffic.

00:51:36.170 --> 00:51:39.329
Arata comes out because one of the guys on the

00:51:39.329 --> 00:51:41.849
team was one of his friends in middle school

00:51:41.849 --> 00:51:44.889
who in that one flashback he punched. Remember

00:51:44.889 --> 00:51:50.489
that forever ago? We are reminded here. I'm assuming.

00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:55.820
They're down a guy, so they get the idea to drag

00:51:55.820 --> 00:51:58.800
Arata into their game. We cut to Fujioka West's

00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.619
game. They've dressed Arata up, having him wear

00:52:01.619 --> 00:52:03.739
a mask and removing his glasses so nobody will

00:52:03.739 --> 00:52:06.400
recognize him. It's the perfect plan. Without

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.199
his glasses, though, Arata doesn't think he can

00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:10.239
do much. But like, whatever. They just wanted

00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:11.900
to have enough people to play the match so their

00:52:11.900 --> 00:52:14.099
new member could play and not get disqualified.

00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:16.059
So like, it doesn't matter if you actually play

00:52:16.059 --> 00:52:18.840
or not. Who cares, Arata? Just be a warm body.

00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:23.130
The game starts. Elsewhere, it's time for Chihaya's

00:52:23.130 --> 00:52:25.949
team to play. Taichi keeps seeing Arata everywhere.

00:52:26.789 --> 00:52:29.010
Chihaya tells him to focus, because if Arata's

00:52:29.010 --> 00:52:31.889
here, she wants to show off how good she is,

00:52:32.090 --> 00:52:34.530
or how good they all are. What a thing to say

00:52:34.530 --> 00:52:46.579
to Taichi. Haunted by his rival. Because Tai

00:52:46.579 --> 00:52:49.920
Chi is thinking of Arda as like kind of a rival

00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.119
in Carta because that's the only way to be a

00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:56.659
like to be a contender and she high as eyes for

00:52:56.659 --> 00:53:00.559
a romantic bond. And I don't think Arda at all

00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.920
thinks that he's just like a Tai Chi just gets

00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:07.019
to win by proximity. Yeah, Arada is just like,

00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:08.539
oh, yeah, Tai Chi is my friend. I played with

00:53:08.539 --> 00:53:14.380
a couple of times. Yeah. Back in Arada's game,

00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.900
he can't do shit without his glasses. His opponent

00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:18.880
is kind of pissed to play against a guy who just

00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:21.960
like pretty much isn't doing anything every hand.

00:53:22.980 --> 00:53:25.039
But then Arada suddenly takes a card automatically.

00:53:25.099 --> 00:53:27.420
He's like, damn, I can't I got to control myself.

00:53:27.500 --> 00:53:29.179
I can't give myself away or people are going

00:53:29.179 --> 00:53:33.599
to recognize me. We get a flashback to that one

00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:35.599
other time he played without his glasses as a

00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.179
kid. Remember the one? Of course you do. We spent

00:53:37.179 --> 00:53:39.679
like three episodes on it in season one. It goes

00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:44.679
on for a while. The other two players seem to

00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:46.980
be having a good time and Arata remembers the

00:53:46.980 --> 00:53:50.199
appeal he got to play. Which was basically that

00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:51.920
these guys weren't good enough to win tournaments,

00:53:51.940 --> 00:53:54.019
but they just wanted to play and have fun. Most

00:53:54.019 --> 00:53:56.719
of the people at their school just do individuals,

00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.480
so they never get to play as a team. Arata is

00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:01.519
frustrated that he can't help out his fake team.

00:54:01.739 --> 00:54:03.539
One of his teammates loses, which eliminates

00:54:03.539 --> 00:54:05.320
their team because they all needed to win to

00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:08.239
pass. And they're all sad. And Arata thinks about

00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.139
how Shinobu said that team games are for losers.

00:54:11.420 --> 00:54:13.619
He picks up his glasses and puts them on, and

00:54:13.619 --> 00:54:16.320
his opponent is like, wait a minute, you didn't

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.300
have your glasses on the whole time? Arata immediately

00:54:19.300 --> 00:54:21.219
takes a card, and then again, and then again,

00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:23.360
and eventually one of the refs recognizes that,

00:54:23.380 --> 00:54:27.829
hey, that's Arata! It's the... It's like the

00:54:27.829 --> 00:54:30.690
guy who runs the card of society he used to go

00:54:30.690 --> 00:54:33.010
to. Of course he's going to recognize them because

00:54:33.010 --> 00:54:35.610
he keeps being like, oh, wow, his swing is just

00:54:35.610 --> 00:54:38.289
like R does. And oh, wow, he moves just the yacht.

00:54:38.510 --> 00:54:39.989
So and then eventually. And then that guy is

00:54:39.989 --> 00:54:41.750
like, hold on, he doesn't go to that school.

00:54:42.110 --> 00:54:46.269
And Arada starts making up for his 15 card deficit.

00:54:46.409 --> 00:54:49.429
And it inspires his other teammate who is staging

00:54:49.429 --> 00:54:54.059
his own comeback to. Arada wins by three and

00:54:54.059 --> 00:54:56.420
his teammate wins by one. But you know, they

00:54:56.420 --> 00:54:58.059
still lose the team game because they needed

00:54:58.059 --> 00:55:00.920
to all three win. But you know, it was still

00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:03.219
a fun game and everybody thanks Arada. The ref

00:55:03.219 --> 00:55:05.880
shows up and yells at Arada. He's like, well,

00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:08.099
since I caught you in the act, I can't just let

00:55:08.099 --> 00:55:10.820
you go. And since we can't punish the team anymore,

00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:13.579
since they've already lost, you might be disqualified

00:55:13.579 --> 00:55:15.980
from playing in individuals tomorrow, he says.

00:55:18.250 --> 00:55:20.590
But that's not the end of our bad news. Elsewhere,

00:55:20.630 --> 00:55:23.070
we cut to the airplane gliding thing that Shinobu's

00:55:23.070 --> 00:55:25.510
going to, and it started raining, so it's postponed

00:55:25.510 --> 00:55:27.949
until tomorrow, and she's bummed. She's just,

00:55:27.949 --> 00:55:30.889
like, standing there in the rain as they announce

00:55:30.889 --> 00:55:33.889
the thing gets canceled. Mouth open. It's the

00:55:33.889 --> 00:55:41.449
funniest thing I've ever seen. Shinobu, use your

00:55:41.449 --> 00:55:44.750
weather app, girl. This should not be a surprise.

00:55:45.170 --> 00:55:50.550
For real. For real. Oh my god. Yep. And then

00:55:50.550 --> 00:55:56.989
the episode ends. Or Shinobu. But that's, I don't

00:55:56.989 --> 00:55:58.929
know. What'd you think? Cause this, right? Each

00:55:58.929 --> 00:56:02.949
episode had like a little like, ah, we, we, we

00:56:02.949 --> 00:56:05.670
feel good about Carter. And this one is like

00:56:05.670 --> 00:56:11.039
the errata coming to appreciate team. And he

00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:14.440
wanted to play with them as kids, but now he's

00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.059
like the lone wolf. Yeah, I think this is good.

00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:19.699
I like this for Arata. I like him rediscovering

00:56:19.699 --> 00:56:21.719
how fun it is to play with other people instead

00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:23.480
of just doing it all individually. I think having

00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:28.880
that mirrored. I guess not mirrored, contrasted

00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:32.639
with Shinobu who just kind of sucks at having

00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:34.880
any social skills and is just a little weirdo

00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:40.239
is pretty good. I wish we got more of her. Yeah.

00:56:41.150 --> 00:56:46.710
This ending, that was weird. Why? Because Shinobu

00:56:46.710 --> 00:56:50.150
is bummed? No, no, no, that's funny. Oh, because

00:56:50.150 --> 00:56:52.630
he might get disqualified? Oh, we might disqualify

00:56:52.630 --> 00:56:54.989
you for like, who is this guy? Who is this ref

00:56:54.989 --> 00:56:58.829
guy, Arata? Who the hell is this guy? You know

00:56:58.829 --> 00:57:02.190
this guy? You're friends with this guy? Right?

00:57:02.550 --> 00:57:07.570
Isn't the guy, I'm pretty sure he runs his society.

00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:11.699
He used to go to in the area that morale is a

00:57:11.699 --> 00:57:16.780
part of I think Mmm, uh would have known his

00:57:16.780 --> 00:57:24.260
grandfather and stuff. Oh, yeah Yeah, um, I Yeah,

00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:28.320
I would be mad if this guy was like, oh we might

00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:31.599
disqualify you I'm like, shut the fuck up They

00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:37.789
just lost just yeah, like it doesn't matter It

00:57:37.789 --> 00:57:41.010
never mattered. It's just supposed to be a like

00:57:41.010 --> 00:57:47.170
car or the thing touched by camaraderie and open

00:57:47.170 --> 00:57:49.989
him up, set him up to be ready to come to Tokyo

00:57:49.989 --> 00:57:52.530
and play with the group. Even though I feel like

00:57:52.530 --> 00:57:56.530
it'll be so awkward if he did that. If he came

00:57:56.530 --> 00:57:59.210
to Tokyo and went to their school. Oh, that'd

00:57:59.210 --> 00:58:03.150
be so good. That needs to happen. So uncomfortable.

00:58:03.909 --> 00:58:09.869
Yeah. Interact with people in a casual way. He's

00:58:09.869 --> 00:58:13.369
so well. He's just he just discovered what teamwork

00:58:13.369 --> 00:58:15.250
is like, what teammates remember what that's

00:58:15.250 --> 00:58:17.849
like, what it's like to socialize with people.

00:58:18.130 --> 00:58:21.070
Hmm. You know, we can't all be Shinobu and be

00:58:21.070 --> 00:58:24.690
mad at her and be sad or a little gliding competition.

00:58:25.449 --> 00:58:31.500
Birdman rally. Birdman rally. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

00:58:31.699 --> 00:58:34.179
I mean, obviously they have some kind of history.

00:58:34.460 --> 00:58:36.579
I would hate this guy. I would never, I would

00:58:36.579 --> 00:58:39.739
never go back to the Cardiff side of the earth

00:58:39.739 --> 00:58:42.300
ever. I'd be like, fuck you. Pretend you didn't

00:58:42.300 --> 00:58:44.579
see anything. Yeah. This thing that doesn't matter.

00:58:44.579 --> 00:58:47.960
It means anything. Nah, I'd hold grudge. I can

00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:50.860
hold a grudge. Yeah. I'm a grudge holder as well.

00:58:51.059 --> 00:58:53.960
Yeah. But I also would not break the rules because

00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:56.300
I'm a wuss. You're breaking the rules for what

00:58:56.300 --> 00:58:57.880
they'd like to help out all your buddies to be

00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:00.440
a good guy to rediscover the power of teamwork

00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:03.280
and you're gonna get punished for it You shouldn't

00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:04.900
be punished for good things. The only person

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:06.719
you should be punished for good things is Tai

00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:13.480
Chi Who's constantly being punished by everything?

00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:20.739
He's not gonna be in the A rank thing cuz he's

00:59:20.739 --> 00:59:23.750
not an A rank Yeah, so they can't play against

00:59:23.750 --> 00:59:26.969
Arda. Maybe, okay, but it sounds like they can

00:59:26.969 --> 00:59:29.690
rank up from these matches. They can, but you're

00:59:29.690 --> 00:59:35.230
not in them. Yeah, but like at least he possibly

00:59:35.230 --> 00:59:38.050
could reach ranking. Oh, right, I see, yeah.

00:59:39.789 --> 00:59:42.510
Though, for next time, because we don't have

00:59:42.510 --> 00:59:44.889
to wait around because we skip tournaments immediately.

00:59:45.329 --> 00:59:47.710
So we'll get the payoff immediately. How many

00:59:47.710 --> 00:59:50.449
more team games are we going to get? This is

00:59:50.449 --> 00:59:53.739
my fear. is they introduce too many teams. They

00:59:53.739 --> 00:59:57.820
introduce the weird girl team and they introduce

00:59:57.820 --> 01:00:00.280
the like ace team that won last year, who's full

01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:03.760
of also weird. Yeah, that means we're having

01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.340
at least two games, which means I feel like all

01:00:06.340 --> 01:00:09.159
three episodes next time are going to be just

01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:13.119
tournament games. A singular match for 100 percent.

01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:14.679
And we're going to be and that's going to bring

01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:18.260
us to like halfway through the season. Yeah,

01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:20.900
yeah. When are we going to have time for the

01:00:20.900 --> 01:00:24.360
stuff that's good? I don't think we ever are.

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:32.679
This is OK. Bin show, this is a bin show. I wonder

01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:36.480
if it feels like it drags in the manga. This

01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:38.420
must be brutal in the manga. Are you kidding

01:00:38.420 --> 01:00:44.860
me? This must be like hell. Like waiting, waiting

01:00:44.860 --> 01:00:49.139
weeks to get like a slight update on a match.

01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:55.380
How can anybody stand this? It's the sports formula.

01:00:55.380 --> 01:00:57.420
I mean, we're watching three episodes a week,

01:00:57.460 --> 01:00:59.360
which is three times faster than if you just

01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:03.280
watched it on as it aired. Yeah, that's you imagine

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:08.380
that. Now. Well, do they even I mean, I guess

01:01:08.380 --> 01:01:10.460
at this time they probably were but does they

01:01:10.460 --> 01:01:12.800
ever get aired episode by episode aim? Well,

01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:18.840
I guess so Yeah, that's true simulcast and stuff.

01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:26.960
Yep. Um, imagine Yeah, well This is the hell

01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:36.039
is real billboard It doesn't end on like a pretty

01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.500
good cliffhanger, I'll say. The episodes have

01:01:38.500 --> 01:01:40.960
ended on better cliffhangers than before. Like

01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:43.820
having it show and the previous episode with

01:01:43.820 --> 01:01:45.559
like Shinobu showing up and like putting her

01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.679
hand on the shoulder. That's good. Uh -huh. Yep,

01:01:49.780 --> 01:01:52.800
yep. Oh, man. That's been good. We've learned

01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.599
nothing about our characters. That's not true.

01:01:56.360 --> 01:01:57.980
Arana has learned the power of teamwork. Our

01:01:57.980 --> 01:02:00.980
characters learn things. We just didn't learn

01:02:00.980 --> 01:02:03.929
more about them. She hired her mom hang out,

01:02:03.929 --> 01:02:06.150
and that's fun. And she forgives her for the

01:02:06.150 --> 01:02:09.969
years of neglect. God, I don't think it was that

01:02:09.969 --> 01:02:13.210
deep. Maybe I hate anime. I don't know. Her sister

01:02:13.210 --> 01:02:15.949
was re -inspired. Misaki's mom was the worst.

01:02:16.630 --> 01:02:19.550
That was great. But that was so wild. It was

01:02:19.550 --> 01:02:23.610
like a different thing for me. You know what

01:02:23.610 --> 01:02:27.510
I mean? Yeah. Oh, man. It's like, what if my

01:02:27.510 --> 01:02:33.030
mom had a hallmark ass arc happening? Don't get

01:02:33.030 --> 01:02:39.690
a lot of parent, like, time. Like, we, maybe,

01:02:40.050 --> 01:02:43.010
a lot of times at Shoujo, it's like, oh, we're

01:02:43.010 --> 01:02:45.630
cute little middle schoolers dating, and then

01:02:45.630 --> 01:02:48.550
it's somehow the one episode where, like, we

01:02:48.550 --> 01:02:50.670
make up the fact that they have parents comes

01:02:50.670 --> 01:02:53.050
up just for the sake of, like, testing a relationship

01:02:53.050 --> 01:02:56.730
or whatever. Yeah. Parents are so not, I guess,

01:02:56.769 --> 01:02:58.829
I mean, I guess it's true that in Japanese culture,

01:02:59.369 --> 01:03:02.150
Children are very like independent from an early

01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:04.309
age, so I could see like their parents not having

01:03:04.309 --> 01:03:08.170
a strong of a role on like their outside of the

01:03:08.170 --> 01:03:12.929
home life. Yeah, but this is like, I mean, you

01:03:12.929 --> 01:03:15.630
know, if you think about like cartoons, we watch

01:03:15.630 --> 01:03:17.690
kids don't want to think about their parents.

01:03:17.789 --> 01:03:22.289
You know what I mean? What did we watch? I don't

01:03:22.289 --> 01:03:26.630
know. The American dragon. He did even. Yeah,

01:03:26.650 --> 01:03:28.210
no, he had parents, but they were like just kind

01:03:28.210 --> 01:03:31.659
of there. You Kim Possible had parents, they

01:03:31.659 --> 01:03:34.159
were just kind of there. The Proud family had

01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:36.119
parents. That's because Oscar Proud was like

01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:41.719
club main guy, you know what I mean? But like

01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:47.360
kids next door, not really. No, not at all. Spongebob

01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:53.769
is all adults. I think it's just cartoon stuff.

01:03:53.889 --> 01:03:55.750
I think that's just cartoon. Like Teen Titans,

01:03:55.989 --> 01:03:57.650
they are all teenagers that live in a house together.

01:03:57.789 --> 01:04:00.369
They don't have parents. Yeah. Oh, I saw a lot

01:04:00.369 --> 01:04:02.969
of Teen Titans cosplays as well. They're usually

01:04:02.969 --> 01:04:08.909
bad guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But in Raven's case?

01:04:09.190 --> 01:04:12.329
Raven's dad sucks. I guess Starfire's like surrogate

01:04:12.329 --> 01:04:15.909
dad was cool. Beast Boy's surrogate parents,

01:04:16.110 --> 01:04:20.010
the Doom Patroller kind of assholes. I don't

01:04:20.010 --> 01:04:22.190
think we learn anything about cyborgs, family.

01:04:22.929 --> 01:04:25.889
And then Robin's dad is Batman, who we don't

01:04:25.889 --> 01:04:32.889
talk about. Nope. Wait, so is that so within

01:04:32.889 --> 01:04:36.610
the DC universe, Robin that's in Teen Titans

01:04:36.610 --> 01:04:40.610
is Dick? Yeah, it should be Dick Grayson. OK.

01:04:41.929 --> 01:04:45.420
I think. Gotcha. Mean, I don't know like comics

01:04:45.420 --> 01:04:47.239
original Teen Titans had like a bunch of members.

01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:51.980
I'd never heard of like dove or whatever Because

01:04:51.980 --> 01:04:55.659
there's that there's that DC live -action series

01:04:55.659 --> 01:04:59.360
that I watched a few episodes up Remember when

01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:01.519
DC has own streaming platform. I don't know if

01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:04.539
they do anything DC one where they said fuck

01:05:04.539 --> 01:05:08.440
and they're like, oh man, it's so gritty Good

01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:15.059
Their animated stuff is way better. It's more

01:05:15.059 --> 01:05:19.219
about talky talky than yes. But yeah, that dove

01:05:19.219 --> 01:05:22.920
character was in that show. Did you did you watch

01:05:22.920 --> 01:05:25.099
my adventures with Superman? That was cute. I

01:05:25.099 --> 01:05:27.480
watched the first episode and I do like the art

01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:31.780
style. I think I'm just like Superman, the most

01:05:31.780 --> 01:05:35.159
boring Superman. He's like, what if what if he's

01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:36.900
like there's a nice guy? What if there was a

01:05:36.900 --> 01:05:40.099
nice guy? I want a funny guy. You want a funny

01:05:40.099 --> 01:05:44.239
guy. OK. He's not that you want like the flash.

01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:51.260
Yeah, yeah, I like those. Yep. You want like

01:05:51.260 --> 01:05:57.179
a booster. I love kid flash. I can flash young

01:05:57.179 --> 01:06:05.059
justice. Oh, yeah. Oh. Okay, Wally West, is that

01:06:05.059 --> 01:06:07.119
his name? Yeah. The funniest person in G .I.

01:06:07.179 --> 01:06:13.329
for real. Nishida had some good one liners in

01:06:13.329 --> 01:06:21.090
season one, but I don't know. There's like things

01:06:21.090 --> 01:06:23.489
to laugh at, but it's not like characters are

01:06:23.489 --> 01:06:25.389
intentionally trying to be the funny person.

01:06:25.670 --> 01:06:28.789
Yeah, there's like gags. It's more like the crazy

01:06:28.789 --> 01:06:34.409
scenario. Yeah, it's more. Yeah. So I wouldn't

01:06:34.409 --> 01:06:39.030
say any of them are like the funny person. I

01:06:39.030 --> 01:06:48.239
bet. Tsukuba? Tsukuba? I bet he thinks he's the

01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:52.320
funny one. Yeah. With his little weird ass face.

01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:55.440
I like him the least. I guess Sumire is our funny

01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:59.880
one. She is pretty funny. Yeah. Arata needs to

01:06:59.880 --> 01:07:03.340
be funnier. I don't think that's happening. I

01:07:03.340 --> 01:07:06.079
need him to crack some jokes. I'd just be the

01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:11.809
straight man. I guess so. I just want to protect

01:07:11.809 --> 01:07:15.010
Tai Chi from misfortune. I don't. I want it to

01:07:15.010 --> 01:07:21.190
get worse. I like it when Tai Chi's sad. Oh my

01:07:21.190 --> 01:07:26.000
god, allergies or something. Oh my gosh, all

01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:28.679
right, all right, all right. Let's see where

01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:31.679
I close it out. If you like this, if you like

01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.679
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01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:40.239
be like, hey, I'm watching Chihaya Furu in three

01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:43.260
episode bursts because I'm in like a unhinged

01:07:43.260 --> 01:07:45.280
person. And I'm not just binge watching it like

01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:48.760
it clearly was made to be. Well, that's not even

01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:50.599
true. It was made to come out week to week. So

01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:53.260
it's even slower than this. But that's how you

01:07:53.260 --> 01:07:56.940
should watch it. Anyway Tell your friends to

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listen to us And leave comments on our stuff

01:08:03.219 --> 01:08:05.159
and if you have questions you can send it at

01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:10.780
show Joe pot at gmail .com Yep, I think that's

01:08:10.780 --> 01:08:16.689
it. What did we learn? Teamwork makes the dream

01:08:16.689 --> 01:08:19.310
work. Just check the weather app, Shinobu. Again,

01:08:19.489 --> 01:08:20.989
it's not like the weather comes out of nowhere.

01:08:21.189 --> 01:08:22.989
It's not like there's like a zero percent chance

01:08:22.989 --> 01:08:25.229
this is going to happen. Bring an umbrella. She's

01:08:25.229 --> 01:08:27.529
just standing there mouth agape in the rain.

01:08:28.750 --> 01:08:31.029
Like a goofy ass little cartoon character, which

01:08:31.029 --> 01:08:32.930
is extremely funny. You don't have to do that.

01:08:33.310 --> 01:08:36.050
You can't be like talking a big game about how

01:08:36.050 --> 01:08:38.529
team games are for losers. And then you show

01:08:38.529 --> 01:08:41.170
up to the little gliding thing without an umbrella.

01:08:41.909 --> 01:08:45.449
Loser. You can't be the cool mysterious girl

01:08:45.449 --> 01:08:50.630
when you then go to Birdman Rally and like eat

01:08:50.630 --> 01:08:54.829
a bunch of ice cream. And didn't they say she

01:08:54.829 --> 01:08:58.010
only lost or she only gained like 15 pounds or

01:08:58.010 --> 01:09:00.289
something? I don't remember how much. Well, I

01:09:00.289 --> 01:09:02.409
think they said like 15 kilos, which is like

01:09:02.409 --> 01:09:05.390
30 pounds or something. Oh, OK. I guess that's

01:09:05.390 --> 01:09:12.699
significant. Yeah. People. of any race can live

01:09:12.699 --> 01:09:15.420
anywhere. Oh, my God. Don't be a flight of black

01:09:15.420 --> 01:09:23.140
people. Don't be racist. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah.

01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:27.840
So that's that's a good one. Please do. Don't

01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:32.220
be like that. And yeah. Yeah. Don't do that.

01:09:32.500 --> 01:09:34.779
I feel like we got a better one. Messages. I

01:09:34.779 --> 01:09:39.890
don't know. Like listen man, if you've known

01:09:39.890 --> 01:09:45.250
someone for like 10 15 years and you can't call

01:09:45.250 --> 01:09:48.130
in a favor Like they're gonna overlook that you

01:09:48.130 --> 01:09:51.649
joined your friends team for one match Then you

01:09:51.649 --> 01:09:53.869
just gotta burn that bridge that person is worthless

01:09:53.869 --> 01:09:57.069
to you After that many years of knowing them.

01:09:57.069 --> 01:09:59.890
They won't let you get away with anything What

01:09:59.890 --> 01:10:03.569
are they to you? Nothing Go and post about them

01:10:03.569 --> 01:10:09.550
on social media Arda will have the most boring

01:10:09.550 --> 01:10:25.449
car Twitter feed good He's just a cartoon man

01:10:25.449 --> 01:10:30.229
destroy his whole career Would you stop as a

01:10:30.229 --> 01:10:32.170
cop this guy's a cop he's acting like a real

01:10:32.170 --> 01:10:34.550
fascist, you know All the rules matter so much

01:10:34.550 --> 01:10:36.869
even though the implications don't I'm dying

01:10:36.869 --> 01:10:39.590
here Joe. We have to wrap him down the stairs

01:10:39.590 --> 01:10:48.170
amazing and crying Okay Evil things to this man

01:10:48.170 --> 01:11:01.979
No, okay Joe escalates too much and catch you

01:11:01.979 --> 01:11:04.439
next time. Really try to flick all your cards

01:11:04.439 --> 01:11:06.800
into him so you could try to like do a little

01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:08.960
maneuver where like a card slices his throat.

01:11:11.130 --> 01:11:14.350
My god John wick for he like cuts a guy he cuts

01:11:14.350 --> 01:11:16.409
guys throw it with a card just do that Just keep

01:11:16.409 --> 01:11:18.550
flicking him to it and like it'll make it like

01:11:18.550 --> 01:11:21.329
a look at him every time so like he knows you're

01:11:21.329 --> 01:11:23.670
trying to do this But he can't say anything because

01:11:23.670 --> 01:11:25.649
that would be ridiculous. You'd be like, I think

01:11:25.649 --> 01:11:28.550
this kill me. Can you imagine? This would be

01:11:28.550 --> 01:11:34.770
credible The finale of season two