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Welcome back to Shoujo listeners. I'm your host,

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Sarah, and always joined by Joe here on the Shoujo

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podcast. We recap and discuss Shoujo anime series

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that I have seen and Joe hasn't. Rosa Versailles

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being the exception to that role. But yeah, and

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currently we are recapping Chihayafuru season

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two. And before we jump into that, we like to

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catch up a little, see what's been up with us.

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And yeah, so I know I've got a lot to say. How

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about you, Joe? I don't have. Well, mostly it's

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like I finished watching some anime. That's what

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I mostly had to talk about. Well, we are an anime

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podcast, so I think that is a good thing to talk

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about. I watched Ghost in the Shell Standalone

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Complex second gig season two. I finished watching

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that. So as a recap, I really liked season one

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because I thought it was fun and did a lot of

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fun things and did the Ghost in the Shell thing

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where it's like, oh, we're kind of thinking about

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ideas and things like that. And also, do you

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want to see Bateau just a huge cyborg guy shoot

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a giant gun and it was cool and then season two

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was pretty bad because They just leaned all in

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on like this storyline. That was like kind of

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dumb because like the first season had more of

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a like kind of a scatter shot plotting to it

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were like some episodes related to like the main

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kind of season wide plot and then a lot of other

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just one off episodes just kind of existed that

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were kind of fun. Season two had mostly episodes

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that are just related to the plot and the plot

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was just not good. They really try to convince

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you that the like the two antagonists were these

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really interesting guys and they were kind of

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like. not selling me on it. You know, it's that

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thing where everybody talks about how like, oh,

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this guy is so mysterious and powerful. How is

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this? How is this happening? What kind of guy

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is he? And then you see him on screen and you're

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like, this guy is not does not impress me very

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much. So that was that was disappointment. Number

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one. OK, let's what's number two. I finished

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watching Sockamoto Days season one, which is

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a show about a ex. assassin who got married and

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now just owns a convenience store and a bunch

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of shenanigans happen and it's like a comedy

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about how other assassins because he has like

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a bounty on him. And it's goofy. My problem is

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that it's not I don't think it's that funny.

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Unfortunately, I'm like not having as good of

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a time with it as I wanted to. I want it to be

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a little more gag heavy and it's not quite as

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much it definitely feels like one of those things

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where like in comic form i think i'd probably

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like it but as an as an anime i'm not as interested

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in it um so that was kind of a bummer but it

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was okay it was it was it was fine so yeah those

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are the two things i finished i'm i'm almost

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done with gundam x i got four episodes left and

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then i can talk about that uh It's been a while

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since we had a Gundam segment. Yeah, I've been

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really dragging my heels watching it, you know,

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but I'll get there. Yeah, I'll get there. OK.

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I don't think there's anything else that I watched.

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I already talked about how I watched all four

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John Wick movies last time, right? Yes. Yeah.

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Yeah. I didn't watch. I don't think I watched

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any movies. Oh, no. Last night I watched. I'm

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also watching all of the Disney theatrical. Oh,

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that's right. Animated release movies. And last

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night... Does that mean the live action ones

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or just the ones that went to theater? If they

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have a significant animated part of it. So like

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Mary Poppins counts because they look like the

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penguins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one counts.

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Enchanted. Enchanted counts because there's like

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a significant portion. But like, you know, other

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ones wouldn't. And then so last night we watched

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Make Mine Music, which is some... Like they released

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all of these movies in during like, I guess this

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is the world, the World War Two era when they

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couldn't really produce a lot of movies because

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a lot of the crew was involved in World War Two

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because they were drafted. So they just like

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made these different collections. But the two

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movies we watched last night were Make Mine Music,

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which is just like a bunch of shorts. that were

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not that interesting. And then Song of the South,

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which is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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OK, so Song of the South, famously incredibly

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racist, right? Yes. Is that what's Blash Mountain

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was based off of? Yeah, yeah. So like the way

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it works is it's a movie about this boy that

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has to go stay on his grandmother's plantation.

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While his dad go and does some type of work in

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the city. I don't really understand what his

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dad was doing. They don't really get into that.

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And then like he has to deal with all his life

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challenges and he meets a guy whose name is Uncle

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something. I don't remember what his name was

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Russ. I don't know. But like he makes friends

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with some of the black workers there and they're

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all incredibly stereotypical and. Uncle Remus,

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that's it. And Uncle Remus tells him stories

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about Briar Rabbit and the other ones, and that's

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what Splash Mountain was based on. But they changed

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that to being Princess and the Frog now, which

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I think makes sense. But yeah, it was a really,

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so not only so. Famously, this is a very racist

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movie because it is both Basically, what happened

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is my understanding is that like they tried to

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make a movie about the South, but they didn't

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want to offend anybody. And so they ended up

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making something that was incredibly, that was

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mostly just racist because they didn't just imagine

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how bad it would have been if they weren't holding

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back. You can't make a movie that's like going

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to be not racist, but also be OK for like Jim

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Crow South people. There's just no way to do

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it. So, yeah, it was. But not only was this movie

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racist, you know, like in the kind of ways you'd

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expect with the stereotypes and also it kind

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of seemed like all of the black workers were

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slaves, even those technically took place post

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slavery, but they just didn't put that on screen.

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So you'd have no way of knowing it. It's also

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just really boring. Like the shorts are all kind

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of the same, like it's all, oh. Briar Fox and

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Briar Bear want to catch Briar Rabbit, but Briar

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Rabbit outsmarts them, but they do it like four

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times. It is basically the same every time. And

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then the actual movie about the kid is super

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boring, and I don't like that kid. They give

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that kid weird eyebrows. Oh, okay. We hate weird

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eyebrows. We hate weird eyebrows. Yeah, so that's

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what I watched. It's not good. Next up, we have

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two more random, like, movie... Goodness. compilations.

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Are you going in like release date order? Yes.

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OK, so it's like a bumpy start. Yeah, so we have

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four more movies and then we get to Cinderella.

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OK, so you done. Yeah, you already did Snow White.

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We did Snow White. So yeah, we did like Snow

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White, Pinocchio and Dumbo and the other one

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Bambi and the Reluctant Dragon. Did you cry watching

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Bambi? No, Bambi is not that sad. Everybody talks

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about Bambi like it's super sad because like,

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oh, the mom dies. But the mom dies like pretty

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late into it. And then she dies immediately.

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No, she does not die immediately. She dies late

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into the movie. Everybody thinks that like, oh,

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Bambi gets help from all his friends to how to

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live independently. That's not what happens.

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Bambi goes and hangs out with all the little

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baby critters. And then they then they see the

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dad that's just posturing all the time. and then

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she gets shot, and then he goes and lives off

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with his dad, and then he comes back and gets

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married. That's what happens in Bambi. Everybody

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thinks it's about a different thing. I remember

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the dad. Okay. Maybe I'm just thinking of Land

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Before Time, where his mom dies right off the

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bat. Oh yeah, Land Before Time, his mom gets

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wrecked immediately. Bummer! That's right, yeah.

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Anyway, what have you been up to? Uh, as I mentioned

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to you, Um, I just like to like hinder myself

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by, uh, taking care of animals. I probably shouldn't.

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So right now I am fostering a little four month

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old puppy that the shelter calls fruit loop.

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Um, she's, she's really cute. Uh, she's like

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a Chihuahua schnauzer mix maybe. And yeah, I

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mean, I puppies are kind of the worst. They just

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show on everything and pee everywhere and cry

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when you leave them. And yeah, yeah. So just.

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Getting over the shell shock of all those things,

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but they're babies. I get so unsympathetic to

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their plight of being helpless. Let's see. Uh,

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I... No, I feel like I did things. I feel like

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I've done things. Oh my God, Joe. Love Island

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USA is... Last night's episode was so good. And

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tonight's episode that I'll watch after this,

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I get to watch the fallout. But basically there's

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like this one couple that's super toxic, um,

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where like the chick is super like kind of controlling

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of him and... like perceives slights to her when

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she shouldn't. But then he's all like super fine

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with it. And it's like, dude, everyone, everyone's

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telling you. This is kind of rocky. So last night's

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episode was like the first chance for like viewers

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watching to like have an impact on it. So that

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sent the message to her that like, you know,

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not all as well. So now we get to see her like

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freak out in this episode. So good stuff. Good

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stuff. Kind of maybe the least likable. I'm trying

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to think. There's like people I liked and now

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I don't like them as much. Normally it's the

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other way around where they suck and then they

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grow on you. They got worse. But yeah, it's like

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this one chick. I don't know. It's like it's

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tough because it's like, OK, these people are

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like 10 years younger than me. You know, they've

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grown up in a different way. Yeah, there's maturity.

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Yeah, so. The sweat shake is like, so passive.

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I guess they're teenage years, so maybe, yeah.

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Yeah. Super, super on the socials during COVID.

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They don't know how to box trot or whatever.

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No, do you? They never come to a local dance.

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I don't know how to. I've been the passive partner

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in dancing where I don't have to really do anything,

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but. Uh, they don't know. Yeah. So it's just

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like freaking the swan chicks like I didn't know

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that's what that meant or this or that. It's

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very obvious things that she should know as like

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a 23 year old. And I'm just like, oh my good.

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What did she say? She said like, I didn't know

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ponies were real. I thought you were going to

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say. What do you think? Ponies? She's like, oh,

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those are real. She didn't like she wasn't like,

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oh, I thought they were just baby horses. I didn't

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think they were like a different thing. No, she

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she thought they were like mythological, like

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unicorns. That's incredible. I mean, I guess

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that's really funny. Maybe she just have. has

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only watched My Little Pony, so she just thinks

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they're little cartoon characters. I mean, unless

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she only watched the newest... Like, the older

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ones look like actual ponies, though. Like, what

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ponies look like in real life. Well, if she doesn't

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think they're real pony... Well, if she hasn't

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seen a real pony in real... I don't know. I can't

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explain it. I guess at some point I did learn

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that narwhals were real, but I can't interact

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with a narwhal in real life, you know? Uh -huh.

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Because they're in the ocean. I've seen a pony

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before. I've seen them. She lives in New York,

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but is from Florida. She never went to a petting

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zoo. I don't know. Maybe those are like, well,

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maybe. Yeah, maybe it's a good thing, because

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that means animals aren't being used as entertainment

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for people as much as they used to be. I'm not

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that worried about ponies, though, for that.

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They're mean. They're domesticated. It's like,

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but like they didn't even do, you know how like

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you go to the zoo and they have like the farm

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animal side and you're like, well, that's dumb.

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I can see farm animals or whatever, but then

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it's a petting zoo and you're like, never mind.

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I get to pet a goat. This rules. Yeah. Uh huh.

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I really like petting goats and no other barn

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animal. I don't know. As a kid, they'd try to

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eat my hair. I don't know. There's this cool

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company that I like almost worked at, I think

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right out of college called Tiny Tales to You.

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And it's like a traveling petting zoo, but it's

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all like small animals like turtles and rabbits

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and hedgehogs and stuff. And like bearded dragons,

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which I was like, that's awesome. I kind of want

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a birthday party for me as an adult to have that

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come. Yeah. Hang out with little critters. But

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yeah, let's see. What else? What else? I got

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my dress in for my sister's wedding. It looks

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pretty good. So I'm excited for that. That's

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fun. I got I got my hair trim. Let's see if it's

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probably super not interesting to anyone listening.

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I'm like, what did I do now? What did I do with

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my life? This is what I feel like. Oh, I know.

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Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, I was just saying, I

00:14:10.470 --> 00:14:12.549
also feel the same way where I'm like, I do a

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million things and then someone's like, what

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did you do? Like, how was your weekend? I'm like,

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I literally don't remember anything that happened.

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OK, I remember now I've been playing Rune Factory,

00:14:22.070 --> 00:14:27.350
Guardians of Osama. OK, so I've like put on hold

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my fantasy life playthrough and I'm playing this

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now and I'm enjoying it. You haven't played any

00:14:34.830 --> 00:14:36.870
RuneFactory games, have you? Nope. The fourth

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one is really good, and I don't know if they'll

00:14:39.230 --> 00:14:43.570
make another one that good, but, um, I am liking,

00:14:44.490 --> 00:14:47.049
we're having, like, I'm having fun playing it,

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but I'm like, forever fearful now, like, this

00:14:50.870 --> 00:14:53.649
is the same thing that - Happen with dragon hvl

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gargoyle. It's like okay. I'm playing cuz I like

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and Anticipating all these awesome things are

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gonna happen Later in the game that are gonna

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pay off and then they don't and now I'm worried

00:15:02.230 --> 00:15:03.889
that that's gonna be the case in this game cuz

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this game has like very much had like a dating

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sim element to it and I'm kind of worried that

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like the interactions aren't very interesting

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or Meaningful, whereas room factory for never

00:15:16.649 --> 00:15:21.000
if you have portraits Character portraits never

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get rid of them. I love character portrait so

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much better. Yeah, sorry. I saw a big write up

00:15:28.500 --> 00:15:31.840
on what happened with Dragon Age Veil. Yeah,

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yeah. It's a whole thing right now. I haven't

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read it. Tell me about it. I didn't read all

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of it because I'm like, I don't even know what

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the backstory is with this, but I just got like

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kind of the bullet summaries of like what people

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were talking about having read it. I haven't

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read the whole thing yet, but yeah. Troubled

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production. Yeah. Well, now it's like, oh, buyers

00:15:50.980 --> 00:15:56.200
coming to an end. Yeah. I haven't finished like

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there's so much stuff. I'm like, oh, I've done

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all this stuff, but like I can't I can't I'm

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not done with any of it yet. So like, I can't

00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.120
talk about it. Like I have like an hour and a

00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.600
half thousand times resist. I won't talk about

00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.779
it until the end, because what might happen in

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the end is going to matter what I think about

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it. So. Nail space. If I keep this puppy, I've

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been agonizing over names and she's kind of like

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crazy sometimes. She needs like a villain name.

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Oh. That's like a good lady villain name, Joe.

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Like historical? Just anything. From like a fictional

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thing or like something else? It can be fictional.

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Cricket, be nice to this puppy. Rita Repulsa.

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from Scooby -Doo in the cool school. Do you know

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that just off the top of your head? What's the

00:16:41.429 --> 00:16:43.129
one for Power Rangers? Yeah, I was just trying

00:16:43.129 --> 00:16:47.149
to pull something. Oh, what's her name? I did

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not super watch Power Rangers. She also had a

00:16:50.330 --> 00:16:52.629
goofy name. That's like an alliteration thing.

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Yeah. So sorry, listeners, if there are any like

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animal sounds in the background, because I've

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got a puppy and a dog who like for the most part

00:17:02.169 --> 00:17:04.109
doesn't want nothing to do with her. But they

00:17:04.109 --> 00:17:06.809
did play together. like two days ago, so I'm

00:17:06.809 --> 00:17:08.609
like, there's hope. But Cricket's like me, she's

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like, ew, babies. Oh no, read Repulses from Power

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Rangers. What the hell was it from Scooby -Doo

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and the Ghoul School? I don't, what is the Ghoul

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School? What's your favorite Scooby -Doo movie?

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We're, okay, we're, we gotta get into that. What's

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your favorite Scooby -Doo movie? Out of all the

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animated ones or like, I mean, I like the live

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action one pretty good too. Really? Okay. I really

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like Cyber Chase. I think that was my favorite.

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Cyber Chase. That one's pretty good. I like The

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Witch's Ghost. The one with, uh, the one where

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they go and visit Stephen King, but it's not

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Stephen King. That's the one with, I think, uh,

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that's the one with, uh, the Hex Girls are in

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that one. Oh, I don't know that I've seen that

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one, but I've seen the Hex Girls. Oh, okay. Yeah.

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Oh, okay. Revolta is, is, is the one in Scooby

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-Doo and the school school. That makes more sense.

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I was like, that's too good of a name to be like

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an, like a Scooby -Doo TV thing. Rita Repulsa

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is... Power Rangers. That's probably enough about

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a bunch of random stuff. Anyway, I guess we'll

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talk about Jihai Furu. The other fine anime you

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watched. The other fine anime I watched this

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week. No, I keep watching it. I keep being like,

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oh, I just want to keep watching. So really just

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binge, binge it and then come listen to us. Yeah.

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And then listen to like 10 hours of us talking

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about it very slowly and being like, do you think

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this is going to happen next episode? All right.

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Yeah, it's something. Here we go. Chihayafuru

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episode 10 is called Rain Takes Longer to Dry.

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I will say there were better episode titles this

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week. We open on the next match in the team tournament

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at Nationals for high schoolers. They're up against

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a school called Yamaguchi Miyoka, which is like

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some magnet school, I guess, that gets you into

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I think Tokyo University is like the top one.

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But basically it just means that all of their

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opponents are nerds that wear glasses because

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that's what we're doing this week We're fighting

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the nerds Elsewhere the officials discuss what

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they should do about errata Playing for another

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team is an unprecedented offense So they don't

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have like a playbook and they don't know what

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to do One of the officials is like we should

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just ban him from playing in the individuals

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But then the another guy there says that they

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can't do that because errata might be like the

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next best player After the master and maybe he

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can beat the master and we can stop having this

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guy We all hate as being the master because everybody

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hates him I don't understand why everybody hates

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him, but it's very funny how much nobody likes

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this guy Well, I think he like is kind of like

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well, right? He's like never graduating from

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college and that's like a shameful thing and

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they're like we don't want this bozo Wrap -in

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card to the world. Also. I have a sad announcement

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What this poppy just chewed through the cable

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of my my stream deck? Oh, no. Damn it. Oh, jeez.

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Can a cable be replaced if it's, like, not pluggable

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into the device? I mean, you could, like, solder

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it. Or you just, like, melt it together. Yeah,

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you could, like, reconnect the wires. That's

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not real. I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. You

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could open it up and try to replace the wire.

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Oh, boy. OK. I don't know. Yeah, so that's all.

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Darn it. Well, I just... God dang it. I just

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got home, so it's like I can't put her back in

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the crate yet. So, OK, we'll see how this recording

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goes. Continue. All right. As I get mauled. Suddenly,

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Arata's fake team members burst in and try to

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explain what happened, but Arata drags him out

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and says that he must accept his punishment because

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he likes to give up. The Mizuzama coach and the

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Yamaguchi Miyoko coach talk to each other, but

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the Yamaguchi coach clearly is just using card

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as a studying tool. He's like, this game's great

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because I can get all my guys to study using

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it. Which like I don't think they really need

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help with that man, but whatever anyway play

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starts and the yamaguchi team is like Has placed

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all of their cards in a really weird configuration

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and also like every time They do like a card

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gets read or like a card gets flicked or whatever

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They shuffle them around. So like this is their

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strategy is like what if I just redid the entire

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board? every round This is very effective against

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Chihaya and her opponent recognizes that Chihaya

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relies on the placing of cards more or less in

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the same spots because I guess it's like pretty

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typical for people to do the same kind of layout.

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Also, he does quiz bowl a lot, and so these are

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all quiz bowl guys, and so they always relate

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everything to quiz bowl. This happens throughout

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the episode. The Yamaguchi Miyoka coach gives

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a long and boring explanation about quiz bowl.

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The short version is that you buzz in and answer

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a question, but you have to know when to buzz

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in, so there's like some strategy to it, I guess.

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It's not, it doesn't need to be in here. Chihaya

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takes a card just by slapping a bunch and then

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runs to pick it up when suddenly lightning strikes.

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And we see a what looks like a disappointed and

00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:11.119
soaked Shinobu looking in from the inside as

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she tries to find the entrance of the building.

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She sulks off and everyone was like, who the

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hell was that? And she has like, oh, my God,

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it's Shinobu and she's lost weight. This part

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was great. I like it when Shinobu just shows

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up. You're back. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Sorry. I like.

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Oh, God. And now she's barking. I put her in

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the crate. Okay, she'll settle down eventually.

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It just sucks when you're in an apartment with

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babies. Chaotic life right now, but yes, I was

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listening. Uh -huh. Yeah, it's again with the

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like, backstories of characters that we'll never

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see again. Yeah, at least these guys had like

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a distinct style. But Shinobu shows up and I

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love that. Shinobu's here and she's being weird.

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Hey, sopping wet Shinobu! enters from the front

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because she found the front door finally and

00:23:00.329 --> 00:23:03.130
sees Arada. He's like, oh, hey, how was the birdman

00:23:03.130 --> 00:23:05.150
rally? But she just cries instead of responding

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because obviously it got rained out. Then Arada

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tells her that he won't be allowed to that he

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might not be allowed to play in the individual

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tournament tomorrow because he broke a rule.

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She doesn't say anything and grabs his hand and

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drags him over to the one of the officials and

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tells him that if Arata isn't gonna play then

00:23:20.109 --> 00:23:21.849
she's gonna forfeit and this guy's like hold

00:23:21.849 --> 00:23:24.049
on wait the Queen can't drop out of the tournament

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you're like the whole reason you're like the

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big draw and Arata also protests but Shinobu

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grabs his head and forces it down into a bow

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and says that he should be begging them to play

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so they both ask If he can play Rada's like why

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are you doing this and shinobu says that the

00:23:39.609 --> 00:23:42.089
that first the birdman rally got rained out And

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now I can't even play you because you're gonna

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be disqualified I can't be disappointed anymore

00:23:46.789 --> 00:23:49.269
this weekend and they both bow and ask for a

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rada to be reinstated Uh, this was fun. I like

00:23:52.650 --> 00:23:55.170
shinobu throwing her weight around a little bit

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That's good. Elsewhere, Sumire is stuck in a

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side building because she doesn't want to run

00:24:00.009 --> 00:24:02.529
out into the rain. Satomu shows up with an umbrella

00:24:02.529 --> 00:24:04.470
and she debriefs him on a group that she was

00:24:04.470 --> 00:24:06.049
supposed to watch, where she took detailed notes

00:24:06.049 --> 00:24:08.309
on what each player is wearing and not much else.

00:24:08.869 --> 00:24:10.930
He's like, that's great. And Sumire is like,

00:24:11.089 --> 00:24:13.569
oh, ha ha ha, thanks. I like scouting more than

00:24:13.569 --> 00:24:15.230
I like playing, so it's all good with me. And

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Satomu is like, cool, I'm gonna go combine all

00:24:17.390 --> 00:24:19.829
of our notes and he leaves. And Sumire wonders

00:24:19.829 --> 00:24:23.849
if Satomu likes watching. More than playing to

00:24:23.849 --> 00:24:25.569
just like her because she doesn't really like

00:24:25.569 --> 00:24:27.309
playing all that much back in the match We learned

00:24:27.309 --> 00:24:29.190
that she highest opponent Sig really likes cardam

00:24:29.190 --> 00:24:32.210
more than quiz bull. Oh, what a shock Meanwhile

00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:35.250
she higher is like inhaling and exhaling a lot

00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:38.269
to reground herself and her opponent thinks she's

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hot because okay This doesn't come up again.

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I just noted that this happens then he scans

00:24:42.910 --> 00:24:46.259
the field to find out that his team is losing

00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:48.339
three out of five matches currently so like the

00:24:48.339 --> 00:24:50.880
strategy of moving around all the cards is kind

00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:53.960
of only really working on chiaya turns out that

00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:55.960
shuffling the cards means nothing to nashita

00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:57.880
who plays defensively meaning he doesn't really

00:24:57.880 --> 00:24:59.640
care what his opponent's side of the board looks

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like he's just trying to make sure they don't

00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.559
take any cards from him so as long as he takes

00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.200
a couple he's gonna win Meanwhile, Kana has memorized

00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:10.079
the cards by authors and not their positions

00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:12.440
on the field, so moving them also doesn't really

00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.119
affect her all that much. I don't really understand

00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:17.119
how this happens practically, but this is what

00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.420
she does. And then there's Taichi, who just re

00:25:19.420 --> 00:25:21.980
-memorizes the entire field every single time

00:25:21.980 --> 00:25:24.839
they move the cards around, and he's also just

00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:27.380
faster than his opponent. Yeah, I'm like, girl,

00:25:28.220 --> 00:25:30.569
just because you're... You're remembering them

00:25:30.569 --> 00:25:32.369
for a different reason, but that doesn't mean

00:25:32.369 --> 00:25:34.690
you're not remembering the position of the cards.

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Yeah, you still have to know where they are,

00:25:36.569 --> 00:25:40.670
but you know, okay, whatever. But we don't even

00:25:40.670 --> 00:25:42.670
we don't even comment on Tsukuba, who I assume

00:25:42.670 --> 00:25:45.609
is just getting wrecked. Yes, always. Chihaya

00:25:45.609 --> 00:25:47.190
realizes that there's no way for her to remember

00:25:47.190 --> 00:25:48.650
the cards and that she's just gonna have to do

00:25:48.650 --> 00:25:51.569
her best. Her game is close and she's but she's

00:25:51.569 --> 00:25:53.869
a much better player and does a lot better when

00:25:53.869 --> 00:25:55.990
there's like a fewer number of cards. So she

00:25:55.990 --> 00:25:58.420
starts making up the gap. Her opponent keeps

00:25:58.420 --> 00:26:00.619
comparing her to stars. I'm not about to add

00:26:00.619 --> 00:26:04.359
that to this recap, but the star he finally settles

00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:08.940
on is the Amazon star, Bellatrix, and the constellation

00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:10.980
Orion. I felt the need to say this in case it

00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:13.539
comes up again, but who knows? No, it won't.

00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:18.000
It's great. Too much. This guy's a simp. Yeah.

00:26:19.219 --> 00:26:22.980
Anyway, Chihaya's team wins 4 -1. The other team's

00:26:22.980 --> 00:26:24.779
coach is like, well, that sucks, but we always

00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:27.599
have a Quiz Bowl. But Chihaya's opponent is real

00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.519
sad about losing Karda because he secretly likes

00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.460
Karda more than Quiz Bowl, and they all have

00:26:31.460 --> 00:26:33.920
a group hug. So Chomu and Sumire meet up with

00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.339
the team. Sumire tries to give Tai Chi cookies,

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:38.740
but he says no again. And then Sumire tells them

00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:40.440
that the queen showed up, but she was soaking

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.819
wet. She's like, yeah, she like walked in and

00:26:42.819 --> 00:26:45.500
then some guy like... who, like, helped some

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:47.680
guy get undisqualified from the tournament, and

00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:50.019
Shihei is like, that's a rata, it has to be.

00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:52.559
But Taichi tells him or tells her that they don't

00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.380
have time to deal with that. They need to prep

00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:56.079
for the next match because I can't deal with

00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.980
my love rival being here right now. We got to

00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:03.220
think about Karda. Tsukuba is tired and has to

00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:04.819
be subbed out, but Nishida says that they should

00:27:04.819 --> 00:27:06.920
keep their lineup without Tsutomu as we cut to

00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:09.720
credits. That's the stinger for next episode.

00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:15.240
Yes. Why is he being all... Boo. Nobody calls

00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.579
him by his name, man. He can't get upset about

00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:21.460
him doing stuff if you're not even going to call

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:23.880
him by his name. Anyway, this episode was fine,

00:27:23.900 --> 00:27:26.119
actually. I like I thought it was totally fine.

00:27:26.380 --> 00:27:29.359
Like the kind of episode of the week. It's like,

00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:30.619
well, it's like a monster of the week format,

00:27:30.619 --> 00:27:31.940
but they're just playing different opponents.

00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.000
This one's fine because it had enough like individual

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.720
personality of like our thing is we're going

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.539
to mix up the cards each time. That's at least

00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:42.309
kind of like gimmicky and novel. More so than

00:27:42.309 --> 00:27:44.450
some of the other ones that are just like, what

00:27:44.450 --> 00:27:47.390
if I just played in a weird way, like the chick

00:27:47.390 --> 00:27:50.430
who was guessing, but also trying to do premonitions.

00:27:50.609 --> 00:27:52.049
I didn't really understand what she was doing

00:27:52.049 --> 00:27:54.369
or what her strategy was. Yes, this is a bit

00:27:54.369 --> 00:27:59.309
more understandable. Yep. Otherwise, not that

00:27:59.309 --> 00:28:03.640
much happens. Nah. Shinobu's here. That's great.

00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.039
Arata's here. He's not disqualified. Are we supposed

00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:09.420
to interpret Shinobu as being like a, well, but

00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:11.900
they're not romantic in any way. So this can

00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:16.519
only be misinterpreted. Uh, yes. Well. I mean,

00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:19.579
it's tough because like if these are normal people,

00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:22.220
that's what she would be considered. But she

00:28:22.220 --> 00:28:25.200
won't even like bother to think about her feelings.

00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:29.599
So she may like internally feel the like sensation

00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:32.160
of being slightly jealous, but she can't articulate

00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.259
that that's what it is. So she won't like, you

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:37.799
know, understand why she feels like it'll be

00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.839
the whole like, oh, why does my chest feel like

00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:43.339
this? Why am I feeling so hot all of a sudden?

00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.059
Yeah, stuff like that. Oh my God, because we

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:51.980
don't understand ourselves ever in adolescence.

00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:54.019
All right, let's just move on to the next one.

00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:55.880
I don't have anything else. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep.

00:28:56.259 --> 00:28:58.819
Episode 11 is called I feel as I'm sorry, verse

00:28:58.819 --> 00:29:01.200
11. These are verses verse 11. I feel as though

00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:06.259
my body is on fire with Ibuki Mugwood. We open

00:29:06.259 --> 00:29:08.319
on where we closed before everyone's like what

00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.420
do you mean? We shouldn't sub Satomu in but surprisingly

00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:13.559
Satomu agrees And it's like you shouldn't sub

00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:15.759
me in and then he points out that he needs to

00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.299
do more scouting on their next opponent But Nishida

00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:20.900
interrupts him saying that he was I was baiting

00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:23.859
you, bro You can't let me take like you can just

00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:28.529
let some newbie take your spot If you lose your

00:29:28.529 --> 00:29:30.670
drive, you're gonna lose your edge, he says.

00:29:31.009 --> 00:29:32.630
And then he starts getting real emotional and

00:29:32.630 --> 00:29:34.890
starts heading off alone, leaving the rest of

00:29:34.890 --> 00:29:37.170
the team in a daze. Because he's projecting?

00:29:37.349 --> 00:29:38.630
I don't really understand what was happening

00:29:38.630 --> 00:29:40.170
here, because we get a flashback of him in tennis.

00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:43.569
Yeah, it doesn't set anything up in advance for

00:29:43.569 --> 00:29:48.410
why he's all upset. It's very odd. Yes. But,

00:29:48.609 --> 00:29:52.190
yeah, I feel like they've handled... Because,

00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:54.470
right, this is like an episode focusing on the

00:29:54.470 --> 00:29:59.569
two of them. But, I don't know, maybe it's mashing

00:29:59.569 --> 00:30:01.490
them together is making it so they aren't getting

00:30:01.490 --> 00:30:03.789
enough time either way, so. Yeah, I feel like

00:30:03.789 --> 00:30:06.069
we don't know what to do with Nishida. Because

00:30:06.069 --> 00:30:08.049
I feel like what we're doing with Satomu is pretty

00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:10.109
clear here this episode, but with Nishida, I

00:30:10.109 --> 00:30:12.650
am just kind of confused. Yeah, I mean, I guess

00:30:12.650 --> 00:30:15.089
it's like, oh, he's the guy who taught him Karda,

00:30:15.190 --> 00:30:17.910
so he, like, wants him to want to play and blah,

00:30:18.109 --> 00:30:21.049
blah, blah. But we just don't get... internal

00:30:21.049 --> 00:30:22.849
dialogue to explain that's what's happening.

00:30:23.029 --> 00:30:25.910
We just have to like put that together ourselves.

00:30:26.329 --> 00:30:29.450
Yeah. So that was weird. Anyway, Tai Chi is like,

00:30:29.529 --> 00:30:31.029
well, shit, what am I supposed to do with our

00:30:31.029 --> 00:30:33.230
lining startup now? Because he has to make the

00:30:33.230 --> 00:30:36.109
stop the lineup. Chihaya takes the notebook and

00:30:36.109 --> 00:30:38.309
tries to look over it while the coach gives everyone

00:30:38.309 --> 00:30:40.829
snacks. Chihaya decides that they'll have Satomu

00:30:40.829 --> 00:30:42.829
sit out this round and use the same lineup as

00:30:42.829 --> 00:30:46.279
before. We jump to Nishida stress -eating. He's

00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:47.880
embarrassed that he said all that stuff right

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.119
before a game, but he doesn't want Satomu to

00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:53.079
fall behind. Also, he sees his sister in the

00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:54.900
cafeteria and is like, holy shit, is that my

00:30:54.900 --> 00:30:57.660
sister in the cafeteria? That was funny. Yeah,

00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.700
yeah, that was funny. Chihaya goes to get him

00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:02.220
and tells him that they're using the same lineup

00:31:02.220 --> 00:31:04.819
as before, so he's got to play. Nishida passes

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:06.440
to Satomu, who tries to give him some advice

00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:08.420
about how his opponent just guesses a lot, but

00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:11.519
Nishida kind of ignores it. Their next opponent

00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.119
is some team from Kyoto called Shouyo, and their

00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:16.240
shirts have a pun on it, and everybody's impressed.

00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:18.940
Outside... Love a pun! Yeah, it's pretty good.

00:31:20.940 --> 00:31:24.500
Outside, Satomu, Sumire, and the coach get lunch.

00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:26.779
The game starts, and Nishida's opponent takes

00:31:26.779 --> 00:31:28.740
a card immediately, and Nishida's like, uh -oh,

00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:31.619
this might be a hard match for me. Outside, Satomu

00:31:31.619 --> 00:31:33.400
has fallen asleep, and their coach goes to watch

00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.480
the match, and remembers that Chihaya... said

00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:39.099
that after picking the lineup, she's like, oh,

00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:41.160
it's more exhausting to watch and analyze matches

00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:43.259
as it is to play. So Satomi was probably more

00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:45.359
exhausted than anyone else, which is confirmed

00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:47.819
by him falling asleep. Nishida remembers what

00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:50.619
Satomi said about his opponent and wonders if

00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:52.440
they're really just guessing this whole time.

00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:54.619
His opponent faults and Nishida realizes that

00:31:54.619 --> 00:31:57.140
he really is just gambling with each swipe, kind

00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:01.920
of thinks about notes. Yeah, just yeah, just

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.079
the power of thinking about something is enough

00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.549
to You know, like nothing has to have happened

00:32:07.549 --> 00:32:10.549
between the two of them. You know, I don't know.

00:32:11.269 --> 00:32:13.329
Like he just decides to remember that that's

00:32:13.329 --> 00:32:15.390
what he said, even though he wasn't paying attention.

00:32:16.029 --> 00:32:19.670
Yeah. We heard him, you know, kind of thinks

00:32:19.670 --> 00:32:22.890
about the notes against her opponent. Her guy

00:32:22.890 --> 00:32:24.970
likes to stand up a lot, so she tries to guilt

00:32:24.970 --> 00:32:28.009
him into not standing by trying to be cute. There's

00:32:28.009 --> 00:32:31.309
a lot of like, like baiting horny guys into doing

00:32:31.309 --> 00:32:34.430
stuff in this show. At least they didn't talk

00:32:34.430 --> 00:32:35.890
about her boobs this time. That's true, they

00:32:35.890 --> 00:32:37.450
did not talk about her boobs this time. It's

00:32:37.450 --> 00:32:43.430
a miracle, yes. Tsukuba's opponent likes to contest

00:32:43.430 --> 00:32:45.930
cards so she can take breaks, so he just has

00:32:45.930 --> 00:32:48.349
to not entertain that and she can't take a break.

00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.579
And she hi his opponent smacks the mat a lot

00:32:51.579 --> 00:32:53.900
which is intimidating, but it's also bad technique

00:32:53.900 --> 00:32:57.299
So it just play normal. We don't learn anything

00:32:57.299 --> 00:32:59.400
about tight. She's opponent I don't think we

00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:02.400
get a flashback to Satomi asking the team that

00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.980
lost again show you to help him out He begs them

00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:06.700
after saying that he wants to help his team and

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:08.480
they presumably help him because they're like,

00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:10.480
okay Yeah, that's like a good enough reason because

00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.200
before they were like man. I don't want to help

00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.900
you out. I don't know you Back at back to the

00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:17.839
present Tsutomu wakes up and Sumire tells him

00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.099
that she thinks it's great that he is so good

00:33:20.099 --> 00:33:22.859
at gathering info Nishida bursts out of the room

00:33:22.859 --> 00:33:26.960
and tells him that they won and then tells Tsutomu

00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.180
or he asks Tsutomu if he's gonna play in the

00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:31.680
next match and he rushes over to them and we

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:33.940
get a montage of Tsutomu playing Carta from last

00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:36.019
season because remember Tsutomu actually does

00:33:36.019 --> 00:33:38.940
like playing Carta He's just doing this for the

00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:41.680
team. He's taking one for the team Everybody's

00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:44.210
moved by this display of camaraderie Oh, there's

00:33:44.210 --> 00:33:45.730
more to this. Oh, there's so much more to this

00:33:45.730 --> 00:33:48.390
episode. Elsewhere, Arana's punishment has been

00:33:48.390 --> 00:33:50.750
reduced to writing an essay, which is extremely

00:33:50.750 --> 00:33:54.730
funny. He also has to loan his clothes and phone

00:33:54.730 --> 00:33:57.650
to Shinobu because, like, she's totally wet.

00:33:57.950 --> 00:34:02.029
So he's wearing the, uh, Fukui West uniform still,

00:34:02.150 --> 00:34:04.869
so like the fake team he was on. But his fake

00:34:04.869 --> 00:34:06.269
team is like, oh, you can keep those clothes.

00:34:06.369 --> 00:34:08.289
It's cool, dude. In a flashback, we get a scene

00:34:08.289 --> 00:34:10.489
where they tell him that his punishment is that

00:34:10.489 --> 00:34:12.849
he has to write an apology and that he can't

00:34:12.849 --> 00:34:15.630
cheer for his friends. Specifically, they don't

00:34:15.630 --> 00:34:18.409
let him cheer for his friends, which just seems

00:34:18.409 --> 00:34:21.130
really mean -spirited. But like, whatever. Adults

00:34:21.130 --> 00:34:24.949
just suck, I guess. Yeah. It's the thing, right?

00:34:24.949 --> 00:34:27.570
He baited him into revealing what he was there

00:34:27.570 --> 00:34:29.489
for so that he could take it away from him as

00:34:29.489 --> 00:34:31.679
punishment. It's just like that's such a mean

00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.699
thing to take away from somebody like, oh, you

00:34:33.699 --> 00:34:38.099
can't cheer on your friends. Yeah, yeah, he'll

00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:41.159
see him tomorrow. Whatever. It's very unimportant.

00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:44.320
Back at the tournament, their next opponent is

00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:46.559
the team with the weird chick in it. Chi Hai

00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:49.079
is excited to play against her. Samiri notes

00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:53.309
that most of the rest of the team. are just like,

00:34:53.429 --> 00:34:55.809
no, I'm sorry, her notes just comment on what

00:34:55.809 --> 00:34:57.909
everybody's wearing, but don't worry, because

00:34:57.909 --> 00:35:00.570
Satomu has reverse engineered the notes to find

00:35:00.570 --> 00:35:02.949
out that the rest of the team are just like relatively

00:35:02.949 --> 00:35:05.710
normal players. It's just that one weird chick

00:35:05.710 --> 00:35:07.570
who's really good, which I don't really understand

00:35:07.570 --> 00:35:09.530
how they got this far, if that's the case, because

00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:12.130
like, you have to win three out of five matches,

00:35:12.210 --> 00:35:15.530
but whatever. I guess they had to be good enough

00:35:15.530 --> 00:35:17.510
to train with her. I guess so, but they really

00:35:17.510 --> 00:35:19.289
made it seem like, oh, it's her and her like

00:35:19.289 --> 00:35:21.789
posse of four... friends who would just do whatever.

00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:24.030
Also, so far, they've been using the same lineup.

00:35:24.329 --> 00:35:26.869
So Chihaya, like, is like, oh, I guess I shouldn't

00:35:26.869 --> 00:35:29.550
play against their ace so we can just win three

00:35:29.550 --> 00:35:32.429
games easily. I guess I won't go up against the

00:35:32.429 --> 00:35:35.309
weird chick. But Tai Chi, who's about to fill

00:35:35.309 --> 00:35:37.969
out the lineup, you know, decides like maybe

00:35:37.969 --> 00:35:39.550
we shouldn't do that. And then he gets a scene

00:35:39.550 --> 00:35:41.650
with Retro who tells him that they need to win

00:35:41.650 --> 00:35:44.150
because the Retro's team is also in the we're

00:35:44.150 --> 00:35:47.869
at like the semifinals now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

00:35:48.210 --> 00:35:52.630
The playoffs. Yeah, we're in the playoffs. Chihaya

00:35:52.630 --> 00:35:54.349
thinks about how the playoffs room is the room

00:35:54.349 --> 00:35:57.090
where she played Shinobu last year. Taichi decides

00:35:57.090 --> 00:35:59.070
to put Chihaya in the third position so she'd

00:35:59.070 --> 00:36:02.230
be matched up against the weird chick. Satobu

00:36:02.230 --> 00:36:05.070
and Taichi think to themselves that this plan's

00:36:05.070 --> 00:36:07.429
only gonna work if the other team uses the normal

00:36:07.429 --> 00:36:09.610
lineup, which they probably only did in the early

00:36:09.610 --> 00:36:11.329
stages, and maybe they'll switch it up if they

00:36:11.329 --> 00:36:13.630
think there's a stronger team, but then the matchups

00:36:13.630 --> 00:36:15.389
are red and it's all according to the regular

00:36:15.389 --> 00:36:17.590
lineup, which means they don't consider Chihaya's

00:36:17.590 --> 00:36:20.289
team to be all that strong. As we cut the credits.

00:36:20.630 --> 00:36:26.889
So get wrecked. That's right. Oh, man. Well,

00:36:27.130 --> 00:36:32.489
right. Here we are. Yeah. Constant. The. No break.

00:36:32.650 --> 00:36:34.969
This is fine. Yes. He was your favorite character

00:36:34.969 --> 00:36:37.429
last season. But this is fine. I think this is

00:36:37.429 --> 00:36:39.750
an OK way to go with it, being like he still

00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:41.309
likes to play, but he also likes to help his

00:36:41.309 --> 00:36:45.429
team and he is easily earning MVP. Yeah. Now

00:36:45.429 --> 00:36:48.760
not even playing for sure. I know he's like going

00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:51.159
above and beyond. I feel like no one else has

00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:54.059
a team who's like questioning the losers right

00:36:54.059 --> 00:36:56.360
after they lost. Yeah. Well, he basically just

00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.159
like gives them the way he just tells them how

00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.980
to beat their opponents. It's like you're given

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:02.880
like a walkthrough on how to beat this level.

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:07.230
Yeah, that'd be handy. Yep. I mean, yeah. Especially

00:37:07.230 --> 00:37:13.070
a game that's very presented to us as a lot of

00:37:13.070 --> 00:37:16.949
passions, which means emotions that can be read

00:37:16.949 --> 00:37:21.670
and counteracted and stuff. I don't know. I've

00:37:21.670 --> 00:37:24.929
never done sports where I had someone scout the

00:37:24.929 --> 00:37:29.010
other people for me. That's pretty intense. I

00:37:29.010 --> 00:37:31.110
don't know. They're probably, I don't know, I

00:37:31.110 --> 00:37:33.230
feel like in movies it's like, oh that girl has

00:37:33.230 --> 00:37:36.889
a bad ankle, kick it! Accidentally. Well some

00:37:36.889 --> 00:37:39.190
of these have such like distinct tells that you

00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:41.489
can definitely see like, oh how talking to like

00:37:41.489 --> 00:37:43.409
the previous opponent would be like, oh yeah,

00:37:43.409 --> 00:37:45.289
this person just like kept contesting cards and

00:37:45.289 --> 00:37:48.710
was really annoying. And you'd be like, oh yeah,

00:37:48.710 --> 00:37:50.590
like in retrospect it's a thing you might notice,

00:37:50.650 --> 00:37:52.429
like while it's happening it may not be that

00:37:52.429 --> 00:37:53.630
obvious, but you're like, oh yeah, that happened

00:37:53.630 --> 00:37:56.829
like six or seven times. Yeah, that's what the

00:37:56.829 --> 00:38:00.650
strategy of the chick do. lost against Shinobu

00:38:00.650 --> 00:38:03.349
in the Queen match. That was her thing for a

00:38:03.349 --> 00:38:05.769
long time. But she stopped doing it, right? Because

00:38:05.769 --> 00:38:09.570
it wasn't becoming of a Queen. So she had like

00:38:09.570 --> 00:38:12.190
stopped doing it and then blah, blah, blah. Yeah,

00:38:12.190 --> 00:38:16.449
yeah. Went back to it. So I've seen that before.

00:38:16.769 --> 00:38:19.269
I've seen that before. Yep, that's fine. The

00:38:19.269 --> 00:38:21.909
Arada stuff is funny. It's mostly just fun. Like

00:38:21.909 --> 00:38:23.750
it mostly just feels like a plot device to keep

00:38:23.750 --> 00:38:27.210
him away from Chihaya and Taichi till the end

00:38:27.210 --> 00:38:30.239
of this. Yeah, they can just see him at the individuals

00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:33.500
match, which I think is pretty funny. Yeah, he

00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:36.280
loans Shinobu his clothes. Oh, see. And then

00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:40.579
it's in a normal show. Joe's friggin Chihaya

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:43.099
would run into her and be like, is that part

00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:45.840
of the shirt? Why is she wearing his shirt? Oh,

00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:47.940
how close are they? Blah, blah, blah. That's

00:38:47.940 --> 00:38:50.300
not going to happen. Doesn't even happen. So

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:52.519
not much there. And then we got to play a weird

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:57.340
girl. OK, Tai Chi is still class B. Yep. So he's

00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:59.360
gonna, we're gonna, whenever he gets the singles,

00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:01.639
it's gonna be him having a whole, like, oh, I

00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:04.480
can't even face off against Araya. He's not even

00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.380
gonna see anybody else in the cast. It's gonna

00:39:07.380 --> 00:39:10.199
be him in retro. Oh, yeah, because they're always

00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.920
in Class B together. His, I guess, Satomu lost

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:18.480
against Kana, so he's still D and she's Class

00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.079
C. No, they both got, because you don't need

00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.719
to win to get to Class C. Oh, right, so they're

00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.500
both Class C. Yeah, they're both Class C. I think

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:28.360
so, yeah. So they could possibly face off against

00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:30.960
each other again. That's true. And then, yeah,

00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:33.920
I guess there'll be a retro and fight scene.

00:39:34.179 --> 00:39:37.099
Hopefully freaking he wins finally. That'd be

00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:40.320
nice. Chihaya will probably lose because she

00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:43.460
always does. It's too early for her to win. It's

00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:48.559
my season two. I guess so, yes. And I doubt she'll

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.800
play against Arda, either, because that's too

00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:52.599
soon for that, too. Yeah, I just need to know

00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.619
who the match... Because, like, they can't all

00:39:54.619 --> 00:39:56.260
play each other, right, because it's single elimination,

00:39:56.420 --> 00:39:59.019
which means she either plays Shinobu or she plays

00:39:59.019 --> 00:40:02.179
Arata, or Arata plays Shinobu. I mean, we still

00:40:02.179 --> 00:40:05.420
got whatever happens with this match and if they

00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:08.099
win another one. So it's a long time before we

00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:17.320
get to it. Will we make it in season two? I don't

00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.199
like that. Sorry, I was going to say one more

00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:20.780
thing. I don't like that. They keep showing us

00:40:20.780 --> 00:40:22.599
too high and matches because she matches are

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:24.880
always the most boring shows that other people's

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:26.619
matches. They're not that good. I need to know

00:40:26.619 --> 00:40:28.679
what we watch any. Well, I guess we watch Tai

00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:30.300
Chi's match where he was just really high and

00:40:30.300 --> 00:40:33.190
unlucky. And that was funny. But. I don't get

00:40:33.190 --> 00:40:35.469
to see her like Tai Chi be cool or like I want

00:40:35.469 --> 00:40:37.369
to see Tai Chi have a win, you know, that feels

00:40:37.369 --> 00:40:39.250
like a win because that just feels more like

00:40:39.250 --> 00:40:41.730
he didn't screw up. I feel like I want him to

00:40:41.730 --> 00:40:44.349
feel like it's a dub. You know what I mean? Yep.

00:40:44.489 --> 00:40:47.989
Yep. Yep. Yep. Anyway, Chihayafuru verse 12 is

00:40:47.989 --> 00:40:50.070
called the only sign of summer. We open on the

00:40:50.070 --> 00:40:53.750
weird girl whose name is Megumu sitting against

00:40:53.750 --> 00:40:56.039
the wrong opponent. She like sits down against

00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:57.980
the wrong team and her teammate has to go and

00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:59.940
get her and everybody thinks that disney's is

00:40:59.940 --> 00:41:01.920
cute. We get an extended joke where her weird

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:04.400
fan club where we learn that they're a creepy

00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.960
photography club from the all boys school because

00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.679
the other team is an all girls school and everybody

00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.000
at the all girls school hated them because they

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:13.760
were taking creeper pics of everybody except

00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.599
for magumu who wanted them to take pictures of

00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:20.199
their Carta Expedition like exhibition, but at

00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.260
the end she deletes all the photos and it became

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:24.119
a weird fetish thing or something I don't know.

00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:25.900
I didn't think this was funny. We get multiple

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:30.639
guys I'm just gonna ignore it. Oh the whole backstory

00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:34.599
Unnecessary we don't like it back stories about

00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.139
this chick and both of them mean nothing to me

00:41:37.139 --> 00:41:40.599
The crowd in back in the present is jazz to watch

00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:43.539
Megumu the possible future queen play her opponent

00:41:43.539 --> 00:41:47.880
is Chihaya As a recap, she lost against What's

00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:50.440
Her Face, who went on to face Shinobu and lost.

00:41:50.659 --> 00:41:54.119
So she's like the third best woman at Karuta,

00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:56.579
I guess, at the moment. Play starts and Magumu

00:41:56.579 --> 00:41:58.780
is very fast. Everyone in the crowd decides that

00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:00.760
their game is a foregone conclusion and they

00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:03.320
should watch Retro Team's game, which is against,

00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:06.239
I think, the team that won the team tournament

00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:08.340
last time, right? That's who Retro's team is

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:12.510
playing? Yes. They're like the big, bad school

00:42:12.510 --> 00:42:14.909
of Carta right now. Yeah, they're like the hot

00:42:14.909 --> 00:42:18.369
shot team. Fujisaki. Mm -hmm. With the weird

00:42:18.369 --> 00:42:21.510
guy. And a hot coach. And the hot coach, that's

00:42:21.510 --> 00:42:24.110
right. The ref who told Arata that he can't watch

00:42:24.110 --> 00:42:26.610
his friends is assuming that he's here for Retro's

00:42:26.610 --> 00:42:28.630
team because he just said that he was here for

00:42:28.630 --> 00:42:30.809
the Tokyo team, but there was two Tokyo teams.

00:42:32.130 --> 00:42:34.150
Also, Sudo is here, which is annoying, but at

00:42:34.150 --> 00:42:36.030
least he's watching Chihaya's game and he doesn't

00:42:36.030 --> 00:42:38.429
really say anything. Magumu keeps sending it.

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.099
Chihaya won syllable cards, meaning Chihaya will

00:42:41.099 --> 00:42:44.679
have to be more defensive. Tsukuba is tired and

00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:46.300
thinks that Kana... Who's not playing? He's not

00:42:46.300 --> 00:42:48.579
playing. But he also thinks that Kana is tired

00:42:48.579 --> 00:42:51.400
because she's played and lost all three matches

00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:52.980
today, even though I don't think that's true.

00:42:53.219 --> 00:42:56.139
Did he just say that? She lose all three? Just

00:42:56.139 --> 00:42:58.320
two out of three. I don't think she lost all

00:42:58.320 --> 00:42:59.960
of them. Yeah, she didn't lose last time. She

00:42:59.960 --> 00:43:03.170
won one at least. Yeah. She's lost several matches

00:43:03.170 --> 00:43:05.449
today. But he's just like, oh, she's so tiny

00:43:05.449 --> 00:43:07.929
that if I can't do it, she can't do it kind of

00:43:07.929 --> 00:43:10.949
thing. Women can't do stuff because Tsukuba sucks.

00:43:11.530 --> 00:43:14.409
Chihaya tries to take a card, but Magumu is still

00:43:14.409 --> 00:43:16.940
faster. The opponent's team coach. thinks about

00:43:16.940 --> 00:43:18.900
how he's had to convince the girls on his team

00:43:18.900 --> 00:43:21.380
to join, and it was only because of Magumu that

00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:23.940
they joined. We get a long backstory about Magumu

00:43:23.940 --> 00:43:26.679
losing last year in the Queen Semifinals. This

00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:28.539
motivated the rest of the team to work hard and

00:43:28.539 --> 00:43:31.079
support each other. Chihaya has lost the first

00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:33.780
four cards, but manages to take the fifth. Kana

00:43:33.780 --> 00:43:36.679
places a phantom hand on Chihaya's shoulder,

00:43:37.380 --> 00:43:39.619
and quotes one of the cards, and Chihaya looks

00:43:39.619 --> 00:43:42.199
at the sunset outside and thinks about the poem

00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:45.670
that... kind of just quoted and takes one point

00:43:45.670 --> 00:43:49.610
of inspiration. So Cooper sees that Connie is

00:43:49.610 --> 00:43:52.170
actually winning her game by three cards, and

00:43:52.170 --> 00:43:54.269
she is able to take another card off of her opponent

00:43:54.269 --> 00:43:56.630
again as we cut to credits. This was a weird

00:43:56.630 --> 00:44:01.969
episode. Yeah. Too much time dedicated to the

00:44:01.969 --> 00:44:05.130
camera. That was a long sequence. It was a really

00:44:05.130 --> 00:44:07.630
long sequence to say this dumb joke about how

00:44:07.630 --> 00:44:10.320
she's like. She wants them to take pictures of

00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:11.920
her and then she deletes them because they're

00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:15.119
in like some kind of weird, submissive dominance

00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.380
thing. I don't know what's happening. Yeah. Yeah.

00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.940
Yeah. And then there was the second flashback,

00:44:19.980 --> 00:44:22.099
which is just like, I try to convince the girls

00:44:22.099 --> 00:44:24.099
at this school to play card, but they didn't

00:44:24.099 --> 00:44:25.400
want to. And then they saw that their friend

00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:27.300
was really into it. So then they got it really

00:44:27.300 --> 00:44:29.480
into it. And now we're here. And I'm like, that's

00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.579
not a very interesting story, my guy. Well, hopefully

00:44:32.579 --> 00:44:34.699
that means we don't learn anything about any

00:44:34.699 --> 00:44:37.239
of them except for Magomu. Now we can ignore

00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:42.460
them. At least, uh, I'm forgetting our main character

00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:46.780
girl, our protagonist girl. No, our real protagonist.

00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:52.340
Shinobu? No! Sumire? Sumire, yeah, I like that

00:44:52.340 --> 00:44:54.380
she's like, what? We're going to the flashback

00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:57.539
right now? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, I'm her. She

00:44:57.539 --> 00:44:59.139
is me. She's like side eyeing the camera guys.

00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:00.719
How could you not guess her immediately? I'm

00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.309
like, yeah. That's our real protagonist. Because

00:45:04.309 --> 00:45:06.590
she doesn't get to do anything ever. That's because

00:45:06.590 --> 00:45:09.449
she's the one there for love, but there's no

00:45:09.449 --> 00:45:12.030
time for love in this show. She's the one there

00:45:12.030 --> 00:45:13.809
for the show that I wanted and said, we get the

00:45:13.809 --> 00:45:17.750
show that we have. I'm so sad she didn't piece

00:45:17.750 --> 00:45:20.210
together that Arata, like she doesn't know that

00:45:20.210 --> 00:45:22.630
Arata and Shihaya have a thing, because if she

00:45:22.630 --> 00:45:25.250
saw Arata and Shinobi together, then she would

00:45:25.250 --> 00:45:27.530
she would be stirring that pot. You know, because

00:45:27.530 --> 00:45:29.010
that's her chance to get Tai Chi. She should

00:45:29.010 --> 00:45:32.920
have noticed that Tai Chi got all weird. when

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.340
she mentioned that, and he was all, like, stern

00:45:35.340 --> 00:45:37.420
with Chihaya. She should have been like, oh,

00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:39.980
he's not normally so critical or... She needs

00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:42.559
to know. She needs to be in on the weird love

00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:44.980
triangle thing. Otherwise, it's not fun. All

00:45:44.980 --> 00:45:46.860
we're getting is teases. All of these episodes

00:45:46.860 --> 00:45:49.019
are just teases about, like, ooh, Arata's here,

00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.860
ooh, but he can't see them. We only have 13 episodes

00:45:51.860 --> 00:45:55.679
left. Oh, boy. What episodes were these? Oh.

00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.219
Through 12? Okay. And through 12. Oh, goodness.

00:45:58.460 --> 00:46:00.659
Yeah, I know. And then there's season three at

00:46:00.659 --> 00:46:02.820
some point, which I'm like, hopefully that's...

00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:04.900
Can't remember that one hardly at all. If they're

00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:06.980
not tongue -kissing in season three, I'm out.

00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:08.599
You know what I mean? If we're not getting there,

00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:09.739
if we're not, like... Oh, my God, Joe, we're

00:46:09.739 --> 00:46:12.719
not gonna do that! If we're not, like... This

00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:14.880
is... This was the mistake that, uh, KimiNiToDoK

00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:16.699
season three made, okay? They didn't have that

00:46:16.699 --> 00:46:18.579
in there. If they did, it would have been good.

00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:21.559
Joe, I think you know a deep down, but the answer

00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.480
is no. Of course, of course, I don't think I

00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:26.519
don't think I'm I'm not convinced we'll get to

00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:28.360
the end of the show and anybody will be even

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:31.380
consider being in a relationship. I think this

00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:33.400
is the rest of Tai Chi's life. I think is the

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:35.960
rest of his life is being second place in a race

00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:40.000
that he refuses to get out of. No, Tai Chi, not

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.139
I feel like he's not on anyone's radar is like

00:46:43.139 --> 00:46:47.480
a good Jojo dude character. Oh, I'm on the show

00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:50.880
just subreddit. Yeah. People just don't know.

00:46:51.940 --> 00:46:55.780
He's so pretty and like has like a nice little,

00:46:55.980 --> 00:46:58.940
I was a little shit as a kid, but grew up well.

00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:03.719
And yeah, isn't that nice? What a thought. What

00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:05.840
a notion. We need to have a dude like mature.

00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:08.780
We need a we need a like a Chihaya Furu like

00:47:08.780 --> 00:47:11.639
sequel series with everyone's kid. I know. Except

00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:14.539
it's just it's just Tai Chi by himself. No. Because

00:47:14.539 --> 00:47:18.400
he's alone. Or Chihaya got some other guy and

00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:21.190
he's like. the uncle to the kid or something.

00:47:21.449 --> 00:47:24.230
Oh, yeah. Mm hmm. He's like, how's your how's

00:47:24.230 --> 00:47:26.550
your mom doing? He's like, what? And he's like,

00:47:26.789 --> 00:47:29.869
never mind. Don't know. I didn't say anything.

00:47:29.869 --> 00:47:33.690
Now, don't do that to Tai Chi. No, he deserves

00:47:33.690 --> 00:47:36.690
better. It's going to be like the thing. I don't

00:47:36.690 --> 00:47:39.050
think you'll ever get better. He's like a successful

00:47:39.050 --> 00:47:41.690
business man they have and like those those stories.

00:47:41.809 --> 00:47:44.599
But then he comes back. But then he's like reverted

00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:46.659
back into being kind of the loser he was before.

00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:48.699
I just watched It Chapter 2. This is just what

00:47:48.699 --> 00:47:51.239
happens in It Chapter 2. No, it would be where

00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.880
he's like this big wig and all the girls in the

00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:56.800
office are like, why is he single? He's such

00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:00.099
a cat, blah, blah, blah. And then like, I don't

00:48:00.099 --> 00:48:02.139
know, it's like a weird... And then they bust

00:48:02.139 --> 00:48:04.239
out the card deck and he gets like a thousand

00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:09.150
yard stare. Oh, man. They should let us make

00:48:09.150 --> 00:48:11.829
that. Tai Chi! They should let us make that if

00:48:11.829 --> 00:48:14.250
the show ends like that. I know, right? Like,

00:48:14.289 --> 00:48:15.690
Kimi needs to know, okay, I haven't finished

00:48:15.690 --> 00:48:17.869
it, but I know there's a sequel series about

00:48:17.869 --> 00:48:19.809
our girl Karumi. Karumi! I'm like, where's the

00:48:19.809 --> 00:48:21.949
Tai Chi sequel? Yeah, eventually we'll get on

00:48:21.949 --> 00:48:24.949
the boat of reading the manga. I know that one,

00:48:25.170 --> 00:48:26.829
this is that one. I'm still reading The Rose

00:48:26.829 --> 00:48:29.360
of Versailles. I'm reading the Rose of Versailles

00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:30.940
and I'm like not quite through the end of the

00:48:30.940 --> 00:48:33.099
first volume, but it basically does the first

00:48:33.099 --> 00:48:35.820
half of the show, but there's four more volumes.

00:48:36.219 --> 00:48:38.039
So what are they doing in the other four of those?

00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:39.500
So I'm going to be fascinated. Yeah, we should

00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:41.599
cover some of the manga's bonus episodes at some

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.559
point. Yeah, yeah. For sure. We also need to

00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:46.940
do our next Jurassic World. Oh, yeah, Jurassic

00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:49.780
World. We got to do that. Which you need to do

00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:52.079
the script because listening back, I'm like,

00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.599
oh, my God, Joe tried to tell me like three different

00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:58.539
times to speed it up. I truly do not ever. I

00:48:58.539 --> 00:49:02.739
can't do the script anymore. Yeah, I can. I'm

00:49:02.739 --> 00:49:05.800
just retelling the movie scene by scene. How

00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:08.219
hard could Jurassic World be? We made another

00:49:08.219 --> 00:49:12.369
park. Chris Pratt's here. Oh, no, the dinosaurs

00:49:12.369 --> 00:49:15.030
are out. Oh, but the velociraptors are cool now.

00:49:15.150 --> 00:49:18.829
We got out. We did it. Yeah, there you go. I

00:49:18.829 --> 00:49:20.530
feel like I watched it. You know, we're actually

00:49:20.530 --> 00:49:23.190
going to have to watch it. Oh, God. Yes, we are,

00:49:23.210 --> 00:49:26.570
because I got to. Yeah, we got some bonus episode

00:49:26.570 --> 00:49:29.570
down the pipe. Good. Now it's cricket barking.

00:49:29.650 --> 00:49:32.829
All right. We can wrap this up, then. Oh, OK.

00:49:32.969 --> 00:49:36.989
Yeah, let's do that. I got. Chaos. Chaos over

00:49:36.989 --> 00:49:39.429
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00:49:48.170 --> 00:49:52.030
Tell people to listen to it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah,

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we're happy to see we have some new followers.

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Yeah. We hope you guys continue to spread the

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word. Yeah. That was what to cover, even though

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we got the next year and a half planned out already.

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What did we learn this episode? Oh boy. We got

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to stop doing this, man. It's just like we're

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not learning anything. We're just like, how horrible

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would it be if this happened? Don't do that.

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You should just remember things by their authors

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because then you don't need to know the position.

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If you just learn the authors, it doesn't matter

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what order the cards are in. You'll just know

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it intuitively, I guess, because you're Kana

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and you just know this stuff. That doesn't feel

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like a good enough one. I'm sure you just said

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a bunch of funny stuff with my internet spells.

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Oh, okay. That's why you didn't react to my extremely

00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:42.420
funny joke. Yeah. I'll just have to discover

00:50:42.420 --> 00:50:46.599
that. A joke? What did we learn? A takeaway?

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Freaking... Don't eat, like, seven plates of

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curry before you have a sense. Semi -athletic

00:50:54.179 --> 00:50:57.159
mashup, that's like a big deal. He just shrugged

00:50:57.159 --> 00:50:59.539
it off. It was incredible. The sheet is a tank,

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dude. What happens if someone throws up on the

00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.719
whole deck of cards? Is that like a technical

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foul? Like how many cards is that worth? I don't,

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yeah, what happens there? Good question, that's

00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:14.219
a good question. Oh man. What do you think Arata

00:51:14.219 --> 00:51:16.909
wrote in his essay? I don't know. I feel like

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sorry I helped my friends and was trying to help

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people out and being cool, but I guess I can't

00:51:21.070 --> 00:51:23.510
go cheer on my other friends because I violated

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a rule. I guess you could have like zoomed in

00:51:26.269 --> 00:51:28.949
at least some of the little words he said and

00:51:28.949 --> 00:51:31.429
see what those said. This is when I this is this

00:51:31.429 --> 00:51:33.789
is an acceptable use case of using Chad GPT.

00:51:33.789 --> 00:51:36.250
I'm pretty against generative AI, but I think

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if you have to write a bullshit apology letter,

00:51:38.349 --> 00:51:41.389
you can use you can use Chad GPT for that. That's

00:51:41.389 --> 00:51:44.699
fine. Yeah, he has to write it. I gotta read

00:51:44.699 --> 00:51:47.199
that anyway. Gotta write it. There's no Chad

00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:50.380
G. Oh, that's true. I know, right? He could say

00:51:50.380 --> 00:51:52.780
some wild stuff in there. Or just don't let him

00:51:52.780 --> 00:51:55.480
watch the haku, you know, match some stuff. The

00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:57.619
one they think, oh, if only they were in separate

00:51:57.619 --> 00:51:59.679
rooms, they could go watch the other one. Whatever.

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OK. All right. Thank you, everyone, for listening.

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Catch you next week on JoJo. JoJo. I'm trying

00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.679
to do like a dramatic like, like, like. What

00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.340
well like you know like at the end of Pokemon,

00:52:15.380 --> 00:52:21.860
and it's like what'll happen when oh? Yeah Tune

00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:26.840
in next week Same bat time saying back channel

00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:30.019
or whatever That's literally how the Batman ones

00:52:30.019 --> 00:52:38.000
end from the 60s Dude I need to watch the rest

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.739
of I only got through season two oh god Okay,

00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.659
all right, hey attempt number two trying to end

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this Let's keep going. Do you learn anything

00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:50.719
else? No? No, I gotta watch love Island man is

00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:53.280
gonna be crazy. Okay. Bye