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Hello everyone and welcome back to Shoujo, your

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favorite anime recap and discussion series. This

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week we continue our coverage of Chihayafuru,

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but first let's catch up. What has the great,

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wonderful Joe been up to in the last week? Oh,

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I should probably be like, I'm Sarah, you're

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Joe. Sorry. I'm Joe. Again, I feel like nobody

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is starting on episode 13. Yeah, I hope not.

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Or whatever. Like, I feel like that's not a good,

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not a good game. I don't know if there's a series

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you could be more lost in by jumping into. That

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would be pretty bad. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. That's

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not a great maneuver. I have finally finished

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After War Gundam X. I did it. I finished Gundam

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X. This is a Gundam that got cancelled. So instead

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of having like a run that is in the like 40 something

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episodes, it was only 39, which means they had

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to compress the end, which helped it a lot because

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the pace was much better at the end. And also,

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I liked it. I thought this was good. This is

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a Gundam nobody watched and I thought it was

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great. I had a good time. It's fun. I like, um,

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I like the kid whose name escapes me. Uh, what's

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his name? You're liking so much. You don't remember

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his name. Listen, there's a lot of characters.

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A lot of there's Tifa. I like Tifa. She's great.

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And Final Fantasy. No, from Gundam X. Uh, whatever.

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I can't, I can't believe I just can't remember

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that kid's name. What's his name? Like, I just,

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I'm just remembering all the other Gundam protagonists.

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Anyway, I liked him. It was nice. It talks about

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how, uh, new types. Which are the best part of

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Gundam, by the way. I don't think I've mentioned

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this, but new types are the best part of Gundam.

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New robots? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You might

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think Gundam is about robots, right? You might

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think it's about. Well, what's a new type? It's

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like a new type of guy. So just a new series,

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new protagonist. No, no, no, no, no, no. Isn't

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that a given? Some people, when you go into space.

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and you get a different perspective on the world.

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You become free of Earth's gravity in a metaphorical

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sense, and you become a new type of person, which

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means sometimes you have psychic powers. But

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mostly it just means you're able to connect with

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people in different ways, and you're also not

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beholden to like old styles of thinking. There

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isn't ever a Gundam where it's like the Gundam

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ability is like radiating and like killing or

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like hazardous to. Except for the freaking ones

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in Witch, Witch from Mercury, right? Because

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something, or those early models were doing something

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to people to operate. I mean, like the Gundam

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in like, you know, first off, the Gundam is kind

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of evil. Like it's kind of, it's supposed to

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show up and it's like the harbinger of war, basically.

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And also being in the, like piloting the gun

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for too long. I thought it was like friendship.

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With the. Oh, no. Gundam is not about friendship.

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It is absolutely not about friendship. You're

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thinking of. Yeah, you're thinking of like Voltron

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or something. Yeah. No, people are combining,

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but they are not. This is not a show about friendship.

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This is a show about like. Are they combining

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like they combine and darling in the Franks,

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if you know what I mean. They're not doing anything

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like darling in the Franks. Thank you very much.

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Garret, his name's Garret. That's the kid. I

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like Garret. OK. Yeah. So anyway. Gundam is good.

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I'm about to watch the the the Gundam Wing movie

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after this. So that'll be fun. And then we're

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into turn a, which people also like. So I got

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I got a couple of good Gundam things coming up.

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So I watched that. I also finished a thousand

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times resist that game, finished that video game.

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Do you know anything about that one? No. You

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play. So it's in a facility. Uh huh. And like

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they're all clones of this one chick who's the

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all mother. And they're like, and all of these

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clones are aspiring to be in one of five kind

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of elevated positions. There's a a healer, a

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knower who's in charge of knowledge, a fixer

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that fixes stuff, a bang bang fire who is the

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security detail. And you play as a watcher who

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is supposed to observe things. And you learn

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the history of why you all are here. And you

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know, about like the all mother's parents and

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like the diaspora and they and the issues going

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on in like Hong Kong and stuff like that. And

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it's like a very narrative heavy game. It's really

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cool. There's a lot of really cool stuff. I think

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there's one like awards and things like that.

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And I think it deserved it. It's like 12 hours.

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It's not that bad. Lots of really good voice

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acting in it. Very nice. Yeah. So we're full

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in it. We're back in. We're back in it. Well,

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this is not Gundam, but. Okay, whatever. It's

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sci -fi. Oh, sorry, the game. Sorry. Yeah. It's

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like sci -fi fantasy stuff. Yeah, we're back

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in it. Yeah, you're really into... We're back

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in it. It's like, right? You played Halo and

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all that in high school, but... I did. Was there

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like, were you just like, ugh, this is all that's

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coming out right now? Because I feel like you

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are very drawn to science fiction and like magic

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-themed things. Yeah, like, I like science fiction

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in terms of, like, that's the genre that likes

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to speculate about, like, how the future can

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work and different types of ideologies and stuff

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like that. But I'm not a hard science guy. Like,

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I don't want to be like, oh, here's this world

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building and here's exactly how it works and

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all this other stuff. So it's like if you just

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start throwing magic stuff in, I'm like, cool,

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that's cool. What's the best, like, magic? The

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best magic thing ever. Or what's your favorite

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magical like world or with magic in it? Yeah,

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I don't know. That's kind of where it acknowledges

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that it's magic and not that it's some other

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thing, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Like magic and I

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mean, I was reading the Earthsea books for a

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while. I kind of like that one where it's all

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based on like names and like the first one. I

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like the first one and I like the second one.

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and then I didn't like the third one and then

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I haven't read the fourth one because I am dragging

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my heels through everything. Gotcha. Yeah, that

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one's pretty fun because it's all about like

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naming and names and stuff like that. Hmm. But

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yeah, I don't know. I'm not like a huge like

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if I'm doing fantasy, I want fantasy to be about

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like an interesting like story and characters

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and stuff. I'm not huge on like world building.

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I feel like. Your name should be Wizard of Cool

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rather than Mafia. Oh, because I'm a wizard.

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I'm watching the Sopranos. I'm sorry. I picked

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up my Sopranos watch. I'm back in it. All I know

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about that show. Is that right? Like it begins

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like the franchise begins and ends with the same

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scene, kind of. Is that right? Like the. I don't

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know. Oh, never mind, J .K. I don't know. It

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might. I haven't watched it. I don't know anything.

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I don't think so, because I know what the ending

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scene is, because it's like famous or whatever.

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Yeah. It probably has like the same like set

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up, like the episode goes the same or something

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like that wouldn't surprise me. Like the same

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episode beats. That seems like a thing they would

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do. But yeah, but that's what I've been up to.

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What have you been up to? I still have this puppy

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that I'm pretty sure I will be adopting. I know

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last week I was like, puppies fucking suck and

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this and that, but. I don't know, I guess it's

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like she's getting better now that she's settled

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in. She's not as much of a monster. And I can

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see the light at the end of the tunnel. Okay.

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Yeah, she's just very cute. And I think when

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she's not in the, like, I want to chew on everything

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you own phase, it'll be better. Yeah. We did

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lose another cable to her though. Oh, no. In

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the last recording. And it's just for like the

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headset stand I have that has like some USB plugs.

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So it's not like a... is, you know, mostly just

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to rest my headset on, so it's fine. Uh, or I

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keep saying headset. I mean my headphones. And

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let's see. What else? Love Island? Getting good.

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Um... How much is left? We're about halfway through

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the season. Okay. U .S. is six weeks and then

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U .K. is always eight weeks. Um, so that may

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be why U .S. is better because U .K. really drags

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that, like, the first... Week in the last week,

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Dragon, the UK version. And freaking Meg, the

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stallion. Did I talk about this last week at

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the convention? I can't remember. No, no, she

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was on Love Island. Oh, she was. I'm doing Meg.

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The stallion's also doing a lot of it. You're

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so connected. Do you listen to them? Do you listen

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to music? No, no, you should. It's pretty good.

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Is it some of it is. Yeah, I haven't listened

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to her music. She seems like a really cool. I

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love how much because she like knew everything

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about everyone. So she's like watching it. Yeah.

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Yeah, she seems cool. She was promoting like

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a new bathing suit line she has and she was the

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host for a game and blah, blah, blah. So it's

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fun. I got a new mattress. I'm no longer in a

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twin size bed. I'm a grown up again. There we

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go. What size? And OK, a queen. OK. Also, Joe,

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first time you're hearing, but OK, so I'm going

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to renew for another year here. OK. Just because

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even though I want to maybe allowed to doesn't

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mean I can afford to move out of state yet, but

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I can't afford to do anything that doesn't stop

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me. But still, well, it's like because I was

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like, oh, I'll get like a shorter lease. But

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it like makes the rent per month so much more.

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Yeah. And so I'll just do another year, but I'm

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going to move into a bigger floor plan here.

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OK. Yeah. So there will be a bathroom for when

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you sleep over. Texas year. Yes. Yep. Get my

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sister's wedding out of the way. New supervisor.

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She's in town this week, so getting to know her

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more, which has been really cool. She's I guess

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she used to be apparently. Do you remember what

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frag dolls were? No. It was like a Ubisoft like,

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I don't know, like game or like e -sports team

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that was all females. And I think she was like,

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apparently they had a little almost like intern

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program called like Frag Cadets or something.

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But because she used to work at Ubisoft. So yeah,

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getting to know her. I'm excited for what's to

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come at work now. We have a new course coming

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out this week. Cool. And we might be doing karaoke

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this week. And yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Let's

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see. Well, hey. I'm like trying to think. Yeah.

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Not much. So update. Not update. Yes. I was talking

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to my mom before this. Uh huh. And she mentioned

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and this is a this is. Yeah. She mentioned that

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that that what was it the tiny zoo thing you.

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mentioned last time. Tiny tales to you. That's

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right. Tiny tales to you. Her former coworker

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used to work there at one of those. Oh, that's

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fine. Mm hmm. So she's like telling me about

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it and she's like, oh, she talked to Sarah about

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it and I'm like, you should. Yeah. So my mom

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who listens, if you haven't done it yet, this

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is my call out on you. Yeah, get my number from

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Joe. We can talk. I have more Sharjo recommendations

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for you if you don't want to listen to. or watch

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these Gundam things to connect with your son,

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you can connect with me instead. Wow. It's OK.

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I like every time I post something from our podcast,

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I think it's your aunt is like, I've never heard

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Joe laugh so much. God. It's true. I never laugh

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in my outside life. I am. I never make jokes

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or anything. I really don't. Well, I don't like

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laugh, like cackle like that ever. I think I

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did when I was younger, but I don't know, because

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I feel like it's just definitely like you had

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to be hanging out for a duration of time to where

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you're like, ah, don't eat my hair, puppy. Um,

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or chew on my chair, please. But that. Oh, she's

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so cute. Um, OK. No, I've lost it. I'm done.

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All right. Chihaya. Chihaya Furu episode 13 or

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verse 13 is called in my dreams. I creep closer

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to you if only Anything to do with this episode

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for sure. There are creeps in this episode. That's

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true There are there sure are we open back up

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on our game against the weird girl Chihaya has

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reconnected with the spirit of poetry and is

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ready for the rest of the match because last

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show yeah Her name's Magubo. She's kind of important

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Yeah, I wrote her name. Her name is, I don't

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just call her weird girl the whole time. Okay,

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okay. Anyway, I noticed at this point that like

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the show has really good musical cues. I haven't

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pointed this out yet. I feel like I don't talk

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enough about like how the show is constructed

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or whatever, but really good musical cueing in

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this where it's just like, oh, this person's

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feeling this and here we go. We're gonna hit

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the note. Yeah, I do like the music. Like the

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music is quite, what? My mom is sending me pictures

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of her at Tiny Tales. Anyway, Chihaya has just

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taken a card close to Magumu, which is pretty

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aggressive for her or for this match. Everybody

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is impressed, including Chihaya, who gets who

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like is so stunned that she gets taken against

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twice in a row. Magumu and Chihaya both hit at

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a card at the same time. She remembers Nishida's

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advice to always contest cards, even though she's

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like super shy about it. She's a wuss. Megumu

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for her part is like, oh, yeah, that's cool.

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You can just have it. And Chihaya feels so bad

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that she totally misses next round. Everyone

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else on Chihaya's team feels like she might lose,

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so they need to step it up. Satomu in particular

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is trying to step it up. He thinks about Sumire's

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notes. She pointed out that her opponent is a

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super fan of a singer who sings about broken

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hearts, and he figures that his opponent wants

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all of the poems that are also about broken hearts.

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And then he takes one and tries to inspire everybody.

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And Sumire also feels like she contributed, even

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though I don't know how she knew he was thinking

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that. But she did. Everyone's here. And doing

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something. Except for Tsukuba, who sucks. Despite

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Chihaya's poor performance, the rest of the team

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is gaining momentum. Taichi sees that Chihaya

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is losing decently at this point and thinks that

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maybe, uh, tasking her to win? against probably

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the second best person here was maybe not the

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best move of all time. He's like, oh, maybe I

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shouldn't have laid on the pressure. We get a

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bit where Magumu's headband falls off and everybody

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speculates as to why she made headbands for the

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whole team. But then we learn it was just so

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she wouldn't look stupid wearing one alone. This

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was kind of funny, I guess. No, it was supposed

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to be so that it's like, look, we're all together.

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Yeah, it's supposed to be like, oh, we're like

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doing this thing as a team. But at the end, she's

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just like, I would look dumb if it was just me.

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Which is so true. Well, you. Well, you know how

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like earlier the their advisor had like made

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the little things for their kimono sleeves. It

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would have made sense if they had embroidered

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into those things the way that, you know, because

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she's like, here, I prepared these for you. And

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we were like, what did you do? They're just now

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she's not dedicated enough, you know. No. Yeah.

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And that kind of gets pointed out. Yeah. this

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round of episodes. Chihaya unexpectedly takes

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a card faster than Magumu and that rattles her

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a little bit. She begins to doubt if her team

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can really pull through. Chihaya sends Magumu

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a one syllable card. Then she takes a card from

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Magumu that she was guarding, which was impressive.

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This really gets to Magumu and we learn that

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she doesn't actually care about becoming queen

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even though she is going to say the opposite

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of this in about three minutes. We get a flashback

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of everybody on the team helping Chihaya get

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better at taking multi -syllable cards. Meanwhile

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Magumu has no peers to help her get better and

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she starts to get bitter about it. In the next

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round, everyone on Chihaya's team takes except

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for Chihaya. Magumu however is so focused on

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her match that she can't rally her own team.

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There are no slouches, though, and every game

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remains competitive. Chihaya's game is very back

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and forth, and Chihaya thinks that Magumu is

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like her if she had just gone all out on speed

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and not done any of the other stuff. Chihaya

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starts playing more strategically and is able

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to take three consecutive cards. One of Magumu's

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teammates. What? I was going to say, what a bummer

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that everyone except Chihaya got that one card.

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They're like, ah, come on. She's so unreliable

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that everyone else is just thinking about her

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match while they're playing theirs. One of Magumu's

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teammates tries to step up and provide some spoken

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support to the rest of her team. This scares

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Nishida because how could a girl be so loud and

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scary? Magumu and Chihaya both hit a card again,

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but this time they both try and contest it. Chihaya

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backs down because she's non -confrontational

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and Magumu starts to get hype as we cut to credits.

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Is that the shortest recap we've ever had for

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an episode? This one's really short. I felt despair

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knowing that this one match is going to go three

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episodes. Yeah. Oh, Nishida, stop it. Nishida

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sucks these episodes, dude. He's terrible. Oh,

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my God, man. What was happening? Yeah. So we're

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going to learn more about Magumu's team and Magumu,

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a character. Oh, we thought we were... We got

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the out last time. We were like, OK, cool. We

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kind of learned. Yes. Damn it. Oh, it's mostly

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just about one. And she's the cool one. The one

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that Nishida thinks is like manly. Yeah. I'm

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like, I like her. She seems cool. See, she's

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like lower effort to draw, but still like distinct

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and has actual real eyes, unlike Nishida or Satomu.

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Can we get a little more effort, please, from

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our author? No, only some characters get full

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definition. Like, retro. Retro's your lazy character.

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You can't be doing this to main characters, man.

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I don't think she's a main character. It's fine.

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No, I mean, Nishida and Satomi. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Well, we don't know what to do with Nishida this

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season, which has never been clearer in these

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episodes. Do you want to go to the next one?

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Yeah, let's do it. All right. Episode 14 is called

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People Would Ask If I Was Pining For Someone.

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We get a recap of last episode as the OP plays.

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We return on Shinobu shuffling through the card

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at cards, reciting the poems to herself, because

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these are all her friends. Arata is still writing

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his essay, but the other guy is like, wow, this

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is so amazing, Arata, you're so good at writing,

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you should be an author. But he's like, whatever,

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man. Finally, the last Fukumi guy and the coach

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show up because they were stuck in traffic this

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whole time and the guy is like, oh my god, Shinobu

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is here. That's crazy. Why are you skinny now?

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But then their coach scolds him for saying that

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to her, even though it was very funny. They're

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just talking about her right in front of her.

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Well, he was saying it to her. She's like, whoa,

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you got super skinny. What happened? The coach

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changes the subject to tell Shinobu that her

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school lost to Mizuzawa and Arata is like, Mizuzawa

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is still in? And the coach is like, yeah, they're

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in the semifinals. Shinobu talks shit about Team

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Karta and says it's relaxing to watch, and then

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she challenges Arata to a match to quote, kill

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some time, but Arata refuses, saying that it's

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a day for team matches, so he's not gonna play

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individual matches. Well, everything Shinobu

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says is like a backhanded compliment. She's so

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sarcastic. Yes. You're trying to be too cool,

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girl. It's it's it's showing a little. I feel

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like I don't even know if she's trying to be

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cool. It just genuinely seems like she doesn't

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want to be here. Well you tried too hard to not

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care. Yes. If you didn't care, you wouldn't say

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anything. Yeah, because I feel like you're trying

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to make up for something. And she's so alone

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because she's so unpleasant to be around. I feel

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like she's fine outside of Carda. We need some

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time with her outside of Carda. But I don't think

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there is. I don't think there's a Shinobu outside

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of Cardo is the thing. Like, I don't think there

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is a Shinobu hanging out and chilling. Birdman

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rally. She could have gone to Birdman rally.

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It's true. You probably just watch this by yourself.

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Anyway, back to semifinals. The retro team has

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lost, so all attention is on Mizuzawa's match.

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Mizuzawa is basically an unknown at this point,

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so everyone is shocked that they're still in

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it. Nishida is afraid of his opponent, who is

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like the second in command of her team. Nishida

00:21:07.769 --> 00:21:10.069
screws up and loses, and he's like, damn, I lost

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again. And Magumu is all mad that her teammate

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won before she did. We're being competitive.

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Yeah, she's definitely got like an ego. Yeah.

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With her hierarchy in the little team. Seven

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cards remain, and Chihaya takes one of Magumu's

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best cards from her. Suddenly, Kana wins her

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game, so it's 1 -1. There are six cards left.

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Taichi is winning by two cards, but notes that

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there are still 18 dead cards in the deck. His

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opponent falls. That is so many. Yeah. His opponent

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falls, so he is probably going to win. Magumu

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and Chihaya's game is tied 3 -3. The next card

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is the Chihaya -Furu card, and both Satomu and

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Taichi takes it. This wins to Taichi his match,

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so now it's 2 -1. in the score. Chihaya, however,

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didn't take and lost her best card and the rest

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of Mizuzawa is shocked. Shocked! How could she

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lost her best card? Her name's in it. We learned

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that the final score of Retro's team game was

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one to four, meaning they got crushed. Chihaya

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thinks that both her and Megumu should work hard

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so Shinobu isn't alone in her own tier anymore.

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Elsewhere, Shinobu's like, hmm, did someone just

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say something to me? I don't know. Chihaya loses

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her match, leaving only Satomu's game left, because

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it's now 2 -2. Chihaya is about to pass out,

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but Taichi and Kana grab her shoulders to keep

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her up. Satomu's game is down to the last card,

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again somehow. Two of the four dead cards are

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red in a row, so Satomu takes a brief break.

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Sumire remembers how Satomu said that games can

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be scary. Two more dead cards are red, so the

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next card will have to be one of theirs. Satomu

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thinks card is scary, but he also thinks himself

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that he'll always have, but then he stops thinking,

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as he takes the card from his opponent's side

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of the field, winning the game and the match,

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it's incredible. Okay, everybody is shocked at

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the upset. At the end of the match, Megumu asks

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the photo club boys for the data so that she

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can review it later instead of deleting it like

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she normally does. And I realize this whole thing

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has been a setup for this moment for her to be

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like, I just don't, I don't want to just forget

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all my matches. I want to actually review them

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for once. After the match, Satomu's like, all

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right, good game, everyone. Anyway, here are

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my notes about our next opponents. But the rest

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of the team is like, wait, hold on, Satomu, how

00:23:20.609 --> 00:23:22.410
the hell did you take that last card? And he's

00:23:22.410 --> 00:23:26.009
like, oh, yeah, I just guessed. Most of the time,

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the cards starting with that syllable have gotten

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drawn first when it's down to the end, so I just

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went with that. And Taichi's like, that's still

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just a 50 -50 chance, but then Nishida thinks

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about how pros have all sorts of superstitions

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when playing, so I guess Satomu does too now.

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Satomu finishes his thought from before saying

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that he will always have his data to help him.

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There we go. Chihaya tries to think about how

00:23:48.150 --> 00:23:50.650
she could have won her match while tightening

00:23:50.650 --> 00:23:53.710
her fist. Suddenly Tai Chi grabs her hand and

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stops her fingers from digging into her hand.

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And she's like, wow, I didn't know I needed to

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relax. Thanks, Tai Chi. Won't read into that

00:24:00.829 --> 00:24:03.589
much. Well, she doesn't actually think that,

00:24:03.849 --> 00:24:07.049
though, but hopefully she goddamn noticed that

00:24:07.049 --> 00:24:10.930
he noticed when she did it. I don't think she

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did. I doubt it. I don't think so. The Mizuzawa

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coach gets an update that the concert band has

00:24:15.509 --> 00:24:18.230
lost their regional prelims. Tsukuba asked the

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coach to order. them all to replace Kana with

00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:24.039
him, and she's like, what the hell's wrong with

00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:27.180
you? And Kana is like, come on, Tsukuba, do I

00:24:27.180 --> 00:24:29.539
look tired? I can play one more match. But then

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she stops and is like, that's not true. I'm beat.

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Please sub in for me as we cut to credits. Depending

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how long we take to recap, this might be the

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shortest episode ever. I mean, this episode rule,

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.440
this is just like, Satomu is the best this season.

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He's hard carrying them through everything. He

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wins this match and it's awesome. It's like the

00:24:51.099 --> 00:24:53.279
first cool thing that happens this season, I

00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.740
feel like. Yeah, well rightly seen in the past

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where like the luck of the draw is like there's

00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:02.339
not much you can do about it, but he went for

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it. And again, someone higher ranked than him,

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too. So anyone he goes against is going to be

00:25:07.819 --> 00:25:10.759
underestimating him solely based off his rank.

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Yeah, be or classy. Yeah, but just like the the

00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:20.059
the sequence So he matches did he watch where

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even became luck of the draw to build it? Right

00:25:24.259 --> 00:25:26.880
all the time, and I just don't understand it

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.039
dude He should start his own low card. I like

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:33.000
blog or something like yeah I guess if it's just

00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:34.819
like you watch I guess you know I guess if you're

00:25:34.819 --> 00:25:36.519
like watching a whole room of people playing

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.220
at least one person will get down to the end

00:25:38.410 --> 00:25:40.150
Because it's basically like you're just as good

00:25:40.150 --> 00:25:41.849
as the other person, right? So if you mostly

00:25:41.849 --> 00:25:43.549
just take your own, and you don't really take

00:25:43.549 --> 00:25:45.029
the other person. Yeah, all of these matches

00:25:45.029 --> 00:25:47.269
were pretty close, right? It wasn't like a huge.

00:25:47.269 --> 00:25:49.769
They're all so close all the time. Except for

00:25:49.769 --> 00:25:51.950
Nishida, who got crushed immediately because

00:25:51.950 --> 00:25:55.130
he sucks. I know, he keeps being the first one

00:25:55.130 --> 00:25:57.329
to lose. Yeah, dude, you're gonna get written

00:25:57.329 --> 00:26:01.470
off the show if you keep this up. Yeah, it's

00:26:01.470 --> 00:26:04.640
so funny that like... Nishida was the one worrying

00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:07.299
about Satomu a couple episodes ago, where he's

00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:08.940
like, oh, he's falling behind, and then this

00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:11.319
episode he just simply falls behind, and Satomu

00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.940
flushes at the end. That's right. Mm -hmm. Wild.

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:16.440
Yep, yep, yep. Anyway, that was awesome. See,

00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.440
another round where basically we only watched

00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.819
Shihaya. What is her takeaway from hers? Pinch!

00:26:23.059 --> 00:26:25.019
Because it's like, she says the thing where it's

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:27.079
like, oh. That they're evenly matched? Well,

00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:29.279
but she says the thing where it's like, oh. Magumu

00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.579
is like me if I had just went all in on speed,

00:26:31.660 --> 00:26:34.059
but then she loses. So it's like, maybe you should

00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.519
have gone all in on speed. But it's not like

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.599
speed is the only thing Magumu has, right? Like

00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:42.670
the guys who watch her. camera pervs give their

00:26:42.670 --> 00:26:45.289
own commentary about how she's gotten faster.

00:26:45.670 --> 00:26:47.769
So that's something she's been working on, which

00:26:47.769 --> 00:26:49.970
means she wasn't relying on speed up to this

00:26:49.970 --> 00:26:52.230
point. I kind of took it as like she has like

00:26:52.230 --> 00:26:54.890
a Maguma would be me if I hadn't made if I hadn't

00:26:54.890 --> 00:26:56.390
learned all these new things in the previous

00:26:56.390 --> 00:26:58.769
year, which is like pretty cocky to say when

00:26:58.769 --> 00:27:01.490
she's the one who went off in the qualifiers

00:27:01.490 --> 00:27:05.809
when you didn't. Yeah. But you feel I feel like

00:27:05.809 --> 00:27:07.910
she would win off of that comment, but then she

00:27:07.910 --> 00:27:11.710
loses. So I'm like, OK, well. Yeah. I mean, I

00:27:11.710 --> 00:27:15.109
do like the notion of like, let's let's keep

00:27:15.109 --> 00:27:19.529
getting better so that Shinobu has some competition

00:27:19.529 --> 00:27:25.309
rivals. My God. Yeah. Is the is the high school

00:27:25.309 --> 00:27:29.130
one gender separated the individuals? Yeah. I

00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:32.730
don't think so, because right. Kana and Satomi

00:27:32.730 --> 00:27:34.329
went against each other. Right. A little thing.

00:27:34.450 --> 00:27:37.650
Right. OK. So no, I don't think so. Right. Cool.

00:27:37.789 --> 00:27:39.410
Because I was going to be like, you know, she

00:27:39.410 --> 00:27:42.170
asked Arada to play, but if it's separate, he's

00:27:42.170 --> 00:27:44.990
never going to play her. Yeah, I think it's only

00:27:44.990 --> 00:27:48.309
separated when it comes to the title of emperor

00:27:48.309 --> 00:27:51.450
and queen. Mm hmm. Yeah, because she's all alone

00:27:51.450 --> 00:27:53.470
and has no friends and is also not that fun to

00:27:53.470 --> 00:27:55.890
be around because she's just catty all the time.

00:27:56.650 --> 00:27:58.809
It's like a little pet. They're not going to

00:27:58.809 --> 00:28:01.970
hang out. We're not. We're only like five. No,

00:28:02.029 --> 00:28:03.849
we're 10 episodes from the end. They're not going

00:28:03.849 --> 00:28:06.779
to go hang out. It's all going to be Fujisaki,

00:28:07.059 --> 00:28:09.940
isn't it? Oh my god. We haven't even got it.

00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:12.779
We should jump to the next episode and finish

00:28:12.779 --> 00:28:17.440
that before we speculate. Episode 15 is called

00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.599
No Matter Where I Stand. We open on where we

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.579
ended. Chihaya examines Kana's hand and we see

00:28:22.579 --> 00:28:24.539
that her middle finger is swollen because she

00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:27.220
jammed her finger last game. She's like, well,

00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:29.240
at least it was me and not like Chihaya, our

00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:31.019
ace or something. And Chihaya is like, what?

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:32.839
But Kana is like, this is the reason we have

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:35.900
subs for this exact purpose. Just sub me out.

00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.900
It's fine. Tsukuba feels bad because he just

00:28:38.900 --> 00:28:40.640
thought that she'd be tired because she's a girl.

00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:42.700
But actually, she got hurt and he didn't notice

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:45.359
because he sucks. Kana gets some first aid as

00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.319
the OP plays. We return. That's the best. What?

00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:50.400
I was going to say name one redeeming thing about

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.259
Tsukuba. Fucking nothing. It's terrible. He spends

00:28:54.259 --> 00:28:56.799
times with his younger siblings. I'm going to

00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:58.460
have things to say about the gender dynamics

00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.519
of the show at the end of this episode. Remind

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.549
me to talk about that. Oh, my God. Boy, oh, boy,

00:29:04.730 --> 00:29:08.750
there's a new entry into worse gamma. We just

00:29:08.750 --> 00:29:11.470
recommend we introduce the worst guys you've

00:29:11.470 --> 00:29:15.799
ever met. Anyway. Yeah. We return on Retro's

00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.779
team, who's hiding from Sudo. The coach that

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:21.079
knew Arata finds them and asks them if they know

00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.420
who Arata is, and Retro's like, I know that guy,

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.680
he's my rival back in 6th grade when I played

00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:27.740
him, and he was annoying. And the coach is like,

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.960
oh, okay, cool. Well, I wanted to tell you guys

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:31.960
that he was here to cheer you on, but because

00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:33.859
of certain circumstances, he couldn't be here

00:29:33.859 --> 00:29:36.140
in person. You should go visit him, he's on the

00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:38.460
other floor, right over there. And Retro's like,

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.640
um, what? And then he looks over at Mizuzawa

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.920
and he's like, Well, this has got this doesn't

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.339
have anything to do with me and then pseudo shows

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:50.740
up and half jeers slash has motivates them I

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:52.240
don't really know what was going on here. He

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.980
like shows up He's like you guys suck but also

00:29:53.980 --> 00:29:56.039
I'm wearing the team shirt and I'm like, well,

00:29:56.299 --> 00:29:59.980
they play but they're playing I didn't realize

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:02.359
at the moment at the moment. So I'm like, why

00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.380
is this happening? The next opponent is Fujisaki.

00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:07.779
They got to figure out their lineup because they

00:30:07.779 --> 00:30:09.640
have like a lot of members. They have like a

00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:12.859
lot of members in Fujisaki. They have so many.

00:30:13.059 --> 00:30:15.680
It's like too many. Their coach is like a stern

00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.000
hot lady. She cuts one of the guys that was starting

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.019
and subs in a pink haired chick instead who was

00:30:22.019 --> 00:30:27.819
named is Yamashiro Rion. Rion, one of the Fujisaki

00:30:27.819 --> 00:30:30.200
guys is like, oh, she's super scary. She's only

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:32.420
a second year and all the third years love her.

00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:35.140
And also she's totally stealing my haircut because

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.599
he's the guy who said that thing earlier. Like

00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.339
little Bob thing. Yeah, the blonde guy. She comes

00:30:41.339 --> 00:30:43.720
to tell him that she watched Mizuzawa's match

00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:45.720
last game and could tell them how they play.

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.099
But he snaps at her saying not to give advice

00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:50.190
to third years. The other guys are like, man,

00:30:50.210 --> 00:30:51.910
you should chill out. But he's like, dude, she

00:30:51.910 --> 00:30:54.269
never shows any emotion and it's freaky. And

00:30:54.269 --> 00:30:56.509
Rion flatly states that if they they'll win if

00:30:56.509 --> 00:30:58.789
she plays. Besides, it was the coach's call to

00:30:58.789 --> 00:31:01.390
change the lineup. You tell him. In the break

00:31:01.390 --> 00:31:04.750
room. This guy's so whiny. In the break room,

00:31:04.849 --> 00:31:06.950
the Fujisaki coach thinks about how her roster

00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:09.329
is top heavy with only good third years and few

00:31:09.329 --> 00:31:12.589
good first years. Ritros comes in or comes in

00:31:12.589 --> 00:31:15.349
and talks to her about. Subbing that one guy

00:31:15.349 --> 00:31:17.789
in because he's he won his last match really

00:31:17.789 --> 00:31:20.670
handedly The snubbed guy is taking it hard or

00:31:20.670 --> 00:31:22.309
the subbed out guy has taken it hard and the

00:31:22.309 --> 00:31:23.910
rest of the team is like I don't know man Maybe

00:31:23.910 --> 00:31:25.750
you could try to appeal to the coach But he doesn't

00:31:25.750 --> 00:31:27.869
think that she'd consider it because she's very

00:31:27.869 --> 00:31:31.029
calculating. We spend a lot of time on this We

00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:33.009
spend so much time on this. I'm like what is

00:31:33.009 --> 00:31:36.089
happening? Retro is still wondering if he should

00:31:36.089 --> 00:31:39.430
tell Chihaya and Taichi about Arata. Kana looks

00:31:39.430 --> 00:31:41.490
at the moon and thinks about poems about the

00:31:41.490 --> 00:31:46.539
moon I love Kana. Yes. Oh my gosh. She has a

00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:49.380
good time this episode. Satombu tells the team

00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:52.579
that he can 100 % guess the lineup. They're all

00:31:52.579 --> 00:31:54.440
great players, which means they don't really

00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:56.420
care about their lineup all that much. And typically

00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:58.779
just put people based on like what they want,

00:31:58.839 --> 00:32:00.440
which means they're mostly in the same spot.

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:02.539
Also, they're probably going to sub someone out

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:04.460
for that one girl because the weird guy from

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:06.559
like five episodes ago told him that the girls

00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.539
are scarier than the guys. So we should expect

00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:10.539
that. Taichi looks over at the Fuji - Which is

00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:14.289
a - That's a bad statement if only a one girl

00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:16.549
was worth. Yeah, it's just what we're gonna find

00:32:16.549 --> 00:32:19.809
out this dude is obsessed with this girl Yes,

00:32:20.029 --> 00:32:22.970
oh wait. What? Okay, picking up the puppy you

00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:26.109
good. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm fine. It's fine.

00:32:26.450 --> 00:32:29.730
Okay, yeah damn dog Tai Chi looks over at the

00:32:29.730 --> 00:32:31.990
Fujisaki captain and is like that guy kind of

00:32:31.990 --> 00:32:34.670
looks like a rata man I sure have forgotten that

00:32:34.670 --> 00:32:37.130
he's supposed to be here everyone piles in for

00:32:37.130 --> 00:32:39.289
the final Kana is sad that she's not playing

00:32:39.289 --> 00:32:42.529
now because they have a guest reader Yamashiro

00:32:42.529 --> 00:32:45.349
Kyoko, grade 7. She's one of the best in the

00:32:45.349 --> 00:32:48.170
biz and Kana's like, dang, I'm so mad I can't

00:32:48.170 --> 00:32:51.250
play with her reading. This sucks. Chihaya hypes

00:32:51.250 --> 00:32:53.190
up the team saying that it's much harder to be

00:32:53.190 --> 00:32:55.769
the best team in the world than the best individual

00:32:55.769 --> 00:32:58.750
player. The lineup is red. Rion is against Chihaya.

00:32:59.589 --> 00:33:01.849
We also learn that she's the reader's granddaughter.

00:33:02.609 --> 00:33:06.089
Rigged. What? Yeah, rigged. Conflict of interest,

00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:08.609
she's gonna read different. Nishida is up against

00:33:08.609 --> 00:33:10.950
a guy who's mad that his buddy was swapped out.

00:33:11.250 --> 00:33:13.309
Taichi is against their captain, which he requested

00:33:13.309 --> 00:33:15.190
specifically because he wants to beat up fake

00:33:15.190 --> 00:33:18.150
Arata. Tsukuba is matched against a guy who also

00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:21.069
has fox -like eyes, and Satomu is against the

00:33:21.069 --> 00:33:23.470
blonde guy who was made to re -own earlier. He's

00:33:23.470 --> 00:33:25.349
like, hey, you're that guy who asked me those

00:33:25.349 --> 00:33:27.430
questions earlier. Wow, I can't believe you made

00:33:27.430 --> 00:33:29.750
it to the finals. Wild. But you know, you guys

00:33:29.750 --> 00:33:31.410
are going to lose, right? And Satomu counters

00:33:31.410 --> 00:33:33.250
by saying he should stop blowing his bangs when

00:33:33.250 --> 00:33:35.170
he's losing, which is extremely funny because

00:33:35.170 --> 00:33:37.890
Satomu was funny. I like him. That's right. He

00:33:37.890 --> 00:33:40.150
knows this guy's weaknesses. He's like, I've

00:33:40.150 --> 00:33:42.549
been watching you and you're super lame. Apparently,

00:33:42.710 --> 00:33:44.269
Retro's team is going to play for third place,

00:33:44.309 --> 00:33:46.750
but Retro isn't there. He's gone to see Arata.

00:33:46.930 --> 00:33:49.410
Arata is like, hey, that's Retro. And he and

00:33:49.410 --> 00:33:51.829
Retro asks Arata why he isn't going to cheer

00:33:51.829 --> 00:33:53.650
on Chihaya and Tai Chi. They're in the final.

00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:56.279
And then he leaves, and Shinobu's like, come

00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:58.279
on, it's just a high school match, like, whatever,

00:33:58.339 --> 00:34:00.839
who cares, right, Arata? Then Arata rushes to

00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:03.380
the door, but then stops because if he goes,

00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:06.019
he'll be disqualified. His fake teammate is like,

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.239
I mean, you could probably go, Arata, like, there's

00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:09.659
a lot of people, they probably won't notice,

00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.679
but Arata says that he's not going to tempt fate.

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:14.179
Yeah, doesn't want to be cursed tomorrow during

00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:16.960
the individual matches. True. Shinobu changes

00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:18.639
in front of everyone, but she's wearing, like,

00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.420
some no -Maru -themed long underclothes, like

00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:24.570
it's 1950s or something. So instead of being

00:34:24.570 --> 00:34:27.349
scandalous, it's just extremely goofy. She sarcastically

00:34:27.349 --> 00:34:30.349
says that she's gonna go Because she's worried

00:34:30.349 --> 00:34:32.309
about tomorrow like ooh, I'm getting so scared.

00:34:32.389 --> 00:34:35.150
I got to go home But Murata asks her to watch

00:34:35.150 --> 00:34:37.250
the match because it might motivate everybody

00:34:37.250 --> 00:34:39.170
else to play better But she knows who's like,

00:34:39.170 --> 00:34:41.010
I don't think that's true man. The decks are

00:34:41.010 --> 00:34:44.230
dealt and there's only one single There's only

00:34:44.230 --> 00:34:46.889
a single one syllable card in play. Everybody

00:34:46.889 --> 00:34:48.909
is like, well that sucks, but Rion seems pretty

00:34:48.909 --> 00:34:52.809
happy about it The clock starts to memorize the

00:34:52.809 --> 00:34:54.250
cards, because it's the first part of the game,

00:34:54.269 --> 00:34:55.769
I always forget, where you get to memorize the

00:34:55.769 --> 00:34:58.710
cards for like 20 minutes. And the Fujisaki third

00:34:58.710 --> 00:35:01.670
years all stand up and leave. PSP kid is like,

00:35:01.929 --> 00:35:03.829
they always do this, don't get faked out. But

00:35:03.829 --> 00:35:05.969
Satomo already know they always do this, so everybody's

00:35:05.969 --> 00:35:08.250
cool about it. In the hallway, Fujisaki is stretching

00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:10.750
while the blonde guy talks shit about Rion. He's

00:35:10.750 --> 00:35:12.769
like, all you other third years are just in love

00:35:12.769 --> 00:35:15.679
with her. when they defend her and two of the

00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:17.980
guys are like, dude, we have girlfriends, except

00:35:17.980 --> 00:35:20.159
it turns out that the girlfriends are a first

00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.840
year, which is gross, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. And

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.340
an anime character, which is extremely funny.

00:35:27.579 --> 00:35:31.800
Yeah. Then the team captain is like, I'm not

00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:33.920
into Rion because she's flat as hell. I'd be,

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.380
I mean, be some big boobs in my life and everybody

00:35:36.380 --> 00:35:41.440
hates it. F cups. Yeah. Oh my God. Anyway. They

00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:43.340
they turn it back on the blonde guy and are like,

00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:44.940
are you the one who's in love with her? You talk

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:48.480
about her all the time, dude. Just then, Shinobu

00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.039
passes by and thinks about how stupid team games

00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.500
are. Yeah, listening to these guys, I can see

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:56.039
why she draw that conclusion. Oh, yeah. No, it

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:58.400
totally makes sense. Team Fujisaki comes back

00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.219
into the room and Taichi thinks about how his

00:36:00.219 --> 00:36:03.190
opponents. is similar to errata and he's like

00:36:03.190 --> 00:36:05.409
if i can beat him it's kind of like me beating

00:36:05.409 --> 00:36:07.550
errata which like i don't know man i don't think

00:36:07.550 --> 00:36:10.210
it's that similar uh there their team captain

00:36:10.210 --> 00:36:12.170
is like oh hey you're tai chi i remember you

00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:13.969
you played against one of our guys in the individual

00:36:13.969 --> 00:36:16.949
finals last year that's weird man you're still

00:36:16.949 --> 00:36:19.389
class b and this pisses tai chi off and then

00:36:19.389 --> 00:36:21.429
we get an intermodel talk about how his opponent

00:36:21.429 --> 00:36:24.690
uh fantasizes about feeling up his coach he's

00:36:24.690 --> 00:36:29.519
like oh man i yeah Aw, Kanna! I was like, I couldn't

00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:31.179
play Kanna. I feel like I gotta play against

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:33.019
this guy. I guess I'll just imagine feeling up

00:36:33.019 --> 00:36:36.179
my coach instead. Her injury was a blessing in

00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:39.039
disguise. How have I liked pseudo war? What's

00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.699
with this author? Maybe this author hates men

00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:44.079
or something. I don't know. I don't understand

00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:49.599
what's happening here. Blonde guy is just...

00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:52.059
is just thinking about how he's totally not in

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:53.760
love with Rion as the other guys think about

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.860
some other random stuff. Kana is like, it doesn't

00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:57.400
seem like the other team is taking this seriously

00:36:57.400 --> 00:36:59.360
at all. The reader starts reading and everyone

00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.320
is like, holy shit, she's so good at reading.

00:37:01.579 --> 00:37:03.699
And then we pan over to Shinobu, who showed up

00:37:03.699 --> 00:37:06.780
after all. The game starts as we come to credits.

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:09.699
We can only hope Shinobu. Well, right, because

00:37:09.699 --> 00:37:12.780
Shinobu has to remember who Chihaya is because

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:16.860
when she beat her, but she lost one card. to

00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:19.159
Chihaya, she had like rushed out and looked at

00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.820
the the sheet to see who her opponent had been.

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:25.019
I doubt she remembers which school she was from.

00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:29.420
Yeah. I'm assuming she'll be like, this is this

00:37:29.420 --> 00:37:32.579
is she's only grown this much since we last played

00:37:32.579 --> 00:37:34.179
or blah, blah, blah, something like that, because

00:37:34.179 --> 00:37:36.079
obviously Chihaya is going to struggle every

00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.960
single match. She'll never just have it easy.

00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:40.519
Like, look how good I am. I just crush these

00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:43.389
people. Yeah. I'm going to be, because yeah,

00:37:43.590 --> 00:37:45.670
this is really, she's going to be like, oh, this

00:37:45.670 --> 00:37:47.369
is the team that Arada wanted to be to cheer

00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:49.469
for. What's up with these people? And he's like,

00:37:49.590 --> 00:37:53.289
hey, it's that one chick. Yeah, yeah, something,

00:37:53.789 --> 00:37:58.869
something along those lines. Oh, man. So predictions.

00:38:00.349 --> 00:38:02.630
I predict that this is going to take three more

00:38:02.630 --> 00:38:04.869
episodes. I predict that we're going to spend

00:38:04.869 --> 00:38:07.940
three more episodes on this match. and it's gonna

00:38:07.940 --> 00:38:10.340
be exhausting and we're not I think it's we're

00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.980
just gonna we're gonna finish the individuals

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:13.579
and that's gonna be the end of season two yeah

00:38:13.579 --> 00:38:18.219
that seems about right awful can't expect anything

00:38:18.219 --> 00:38:21.340
more from well at least season two isn't well

00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:23.719
then season two isn't a whole year like the first

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:27.980
season so less being progressed in season two

00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:30.440
than season one we're three -fifths of the way

00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.519
through season two and chihaya and errata haven't

00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:38.090
been in the same room yeah How is this happening?

00:38:38.530 --> 00:38:41.510
And yet somehow, Tai Chi is still losing to him

00:38:41.510 --> 00:38:44.449
in terms of boyfriend points. What is going on?

00:38:44.449 --> 00:38:48.269
He has just got to let it go. He's just got to

00:38:48.269 --> 00:38:50.969
give it up. He's so toast. Or maybe he can't

00:38:50.969 --> 00:38:53.289
give it up until he reaches rank A, where he

00:38:53.289 --> 00:38:55.610
can at least be like, OK, so it's not the fact

00:38:55.610 --> 00:38:58.489
that I bet a card that she doesn't like. He's

00:38:58.489 --> 00:39:03.070
so cooked. It's over. He's dead. Poor Tai Chi.

00:39:03.070 --> 00:39:06.510
He's so dead. Our best character. My favorite.

00:39:07.089 --> 00:39:10.289
Awful. And that's my prediction. My prediction

00:39:10.289 --> 00:39:11.610
that this is going to take a really long time.

00:39:11.670 --> 00:39:14.349
I think they're going to lose because all of

00:39:14.349 --> 00:39:17.250
their lineup team is class A, right? Like all

00:39:17.250 --> 00:39:19.789
of their starters. Yes. Which means that like

00:39:19.789 --> 00:39:22.530
I love Satomu. We know this. He's the best character

00:39:22.530 --> 00:39:25.369
by far this season. He's carrying the team. I

00:39:25.369 --> 00:39:26.929
don't think he can pull it out. It's a class

00:39:26.929 --> 00:39:30.380
A. Yeah. No way. Well, the guy he's against is

00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:32.400
kind of a spaz, so who knows. That's true. And

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:33.940
he's played a lot of matches, but I don't know.

00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:37.800
That's going to be tough. Tsukuba is 1000 % losing.

00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.880
So it's going to have to be a Taichi, Chihaya,

00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:47.000
and Nishida win. But Nishida sucks now and isn't

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.420
going to win. No, unless he's good. Unless...

00:39:51.420 --> 00:39:56.110
I just hope we get matches. Other than she hires.

00:39:56.110 --> 00:39:59.030
Oh, no, dude the amount of time they spent setting

00:39:59.030 --> 00:40:03.449
up Rion. It's gonna be all that match It's gonna

00:40:03.449 --> 00:40:04.969
be that match and we're gonna get cutaways to

00:40:04.969 --> 00:40:07.349
Tai Chi being like I'm gonna beat Arada I'm finally

00:40:07.349 --> 00:40:10.329
gonna do it through like this guy. No, that's

00:40:10.329 --> 00:40:13.130
not right. Am I guys nothing like it's just some

00:40:13.130 --> 00:40:16.210
guy who sucks Let's talk about that. Hey, what's

00:40:16.210 --> 00:40:18.550
going on with all of the characters in this show?

00:40:19.110 --> 00:40:23.309
Why is like every guy? It's like every like creep

00:40:23.500 --> 00:40:26.780
Guy is just like a sexist asshole who thinks

00:40:26.780 --> 00:40:29.039
like all the girls are weak, even if they're

00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.599
clearly better than you. And also, they're all

00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:33.980
horny for them. Well, I mean, from what I've

00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:38.139
seen just in dating in Japan, it's like the men

00:40:38.139 --> 00:40:41.900
are very forward. So, I mean, maybe this is like

00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:46.480
not that far off from reality. Like they're just...

00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.920
Oh, but they're like, creepy about it, too. Like

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:52.480
we have the camera guys. I know. Well, right.

00:40:52.579 --> 00:40:53.980
Because this is like a thing where it's like,

00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:57.960
oh, this is the humor of anime. We and I hate

00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.960
that. Like, it's not funny. I didn't mention

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:03.679
this. It's not. Yeah, I didn't mention this,

00:41:03.940 --> 00:41:07.300
but Quiz Bowl guy keeps showing up. Oh, yeah.

00:41:07.300 --> 00:41:11.300
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And talking about Chiaya. Uh

00:41:11.300 --> 00:41:14.000
huh. In a way that's totally boring. It's bad.

00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:18.460
Yeah. Oh, yeah, we don't have any, like, lingering

00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:22.480
characters that Chiaya has played that are female.

00:41:22.780 --> 00:41:25.860
It's just like the crowd. It's either someone

00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:29.480
on the team, which would be Anna and Sumire,

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:32.880
but Sumire is not thinking about the game. Like,

00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:35.320
no, I don't know, like the only female opponent

00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.710
of notes that we've seen have been. That older

00:41:38.710 --> 00:41:42.489
lady kept saying lucky me. Oh my god. Yeah, choke

00:41:42.489 --> 00:41:46.150
her out and then the small prodigy child, right?

00:41:46.869 --> 00:41:49.869
They're not coming back. I mean, she didn't play

00:41:49.869 --> 00:41:52.429
her, but what's her face? The one who played

00:41:52.429 --> 00:41:55.570
in the Queen and lost. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got

00:41:55.570 --> 00:41:57.570
a lot about her. Yeah, but like none of them

00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:00.989
are super like pseudo for some reason. It's just

00:42:00.989 --> 00:42:04.269
going to be around forever. I like him more because

00:42:04.269 --> 00:42:06.329
at least he's not like a like a gross pervert,

00:42:06.489 --> 00:42:09.849
but. Yeah, he's just good. I mean, he's giving

00:42:09.849 --> 00:42:15.030
interesting like common Perry on you know, cuz

00:42:15.030 --> 00:42:16.789
he's someone who played against she hired like

00:42:16.789 --> 00:42:20.449
a year ago exactly almost so he is able to like

00:42:20.449 --> 00:42:24.730
see the difference Between then and now in her.

00:42:25.030 --> 00:42:27.690
Yeah, I guess cuz he lost her he's invested in

00:42:27.690 --> 00:42:31.409
her progress. I just It's weird how like it doesn't

00:42:31.409 --> 00:42:34.190
make it seem like if you play Carter, you're

00:42:34.190 --> 00:42:36.900
gonna meet a bunch of fun people It sounds like

00:42:36.900 --> 00:42:39.119
you're going to meet a bunch of generally unpleasant

00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:42.800
guys and then some other girls who are just like

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:44.460
whatever that are just like normal girls. You

00:42:44.460 --> 00:42:47.059
know what I mean? Like this is not this is not

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:48.619
I mean, this is probably the true like going

00:42:48.619 --> 00:42:52.480
to like tournament experience of just like you

00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.300
meet a bunch of people who suck. There's like

00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:56.820
10 cool people. But I guess it's like a very

00:42:56.820 --> 00:43:00.539
unpopular sport or like hobby. So maybe it's

00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:05.460
just like people who have not. had the opportunity

00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:07.780
to develop social skills. So they're like kind

00:43:07.780 --> 00:43:10.239
of weird. Are the only people playing this game?

00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.300
I guess so. I know. Yeah. Something about poetry

00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:17.920
makes the crazy guys come out of the walls. And

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:21.719
it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. We're talking about Connors.

00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.599
So often this shit this season. I feel like we

00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.400
never. I guess that's her whole purpose of existing

00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.480
is that big boots for people. She's supposed

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.639
to be the real poetry girl. What happened? She

00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:40.079
gets one poem on it. But I just and that guy

00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.659
is saying f cups. F cups are enormous. Those

00:43:43.659 --> 00:43:46.820
are so not common. That's so like you got to

00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:48.960
order online. Like you can't find your bra in

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:52.119
the store. Yeah. Big. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't

00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.179
think you're encountering that too much in Japan,

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:56.139
my guy. I don't think so. Maybe that's why you're

00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:58.380
so into it when he's a hot teacher. She has f

00:43:58.380 --> 00:44:01.619
cups. Yeah. Well, I. It also sounds generally

00:44:01.619 --> 00:44:05.519
unpleasant. I know how good, I don't know. He's

00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:09.280
some kind of baited or. A Fujisaki has the worst

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.119
vibes of like any team we've met thus far. It

00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:14.900
seems like the least fun team to be on. Yeah.

00:44:14.900 --> 00:44:18.820
Like ever. Yeah. I mean, I like trying to think

00:44:18.820 --> 00:44:21.579
of what would motivate like the school doesn't

00:44:21.579 --> 00:44:23.960
like win any money from having a win. I'm trying

00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:26.380
to think of like why you would put so many resources

00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:29.320
into having such a big team. or why it would

00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:32.199
be so poor. Where is Fujisaki located? Maybe

00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:33.980
there's just nothing to do where they're from.

00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:36.340
I don't know. They're not from Tokyo. We know

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:39.039
that. This seems like a miserable club. It's

00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:41.380
like their coach isn't fun. She's like all business.

00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:44.880
And then like, you know, all of the 30 year guys

00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.019
are like whatever bro -y bro types or they're

00:44:48.019 --> 00:44:49.920
the blonde guy who gets mad. And then like Rihon

00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.699
is like just, well, she's super flat because

00:44:52.699 --> 00:44:56.539
she like is delivering everything. Emotionalists.

00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.079
What are they? What did you call her? The iron

00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:04.659
mask? Yeah. The vibes are bad. Apparently she's

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:06.780
related to this famous reader. There's like a

00:45:06.780 --> 00:45:08.480
bunch of first years holding signs and stuff

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:10.400
like that. Like this club would I would not go

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.039
to this club a second year. I'd be like this.

00:45:12.139 --> 00:45:15.579
I mean, I can see the allure for girls because

00:45:15.579 --> 00:45:18.360
it's like, look at this cool older lady who's

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:22.980
run in the show. Like that would be kind of cool

00:45:22.980 --> 00:45:25.159
to be around because you probably don't see that

00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:28.119
very much. I guess so. And I guess, like... And

00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.579
then I guess some guys are just into, like, women

00:45:30.579 --> 00:45:32.920
being mean to them, maybe. I guess, I mean...

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:34.500
But you shouldn't be feeling that way towards

00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:36.780
your freaking teacher! Some of the guys aren't

00:45:36.780 --> 00:45:38.420
that bad. I guess, like, the 30 -year guy who's

00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:41.219
just mad his buddy got cut. He seems fairly normal,

00:45:41.300 --> 00:45:43.920
I guess. They're a twin, Joe! It's his brother.

00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.500
It's like... It's his brother? Minata and Kanata

00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:48.780
or something. Yeah, they're twins. Maybe they're

00:45:48.780 --> 00:45:50.619
cool. Maybe people like them. And that's why

00:45:50.619 --> 00:45:53.679
he's like, why me? There's two of us. Why was

00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.719
I the one? Yeah. Um, so that's fine. Maybe he's

00:45:56.719 --> 00:45:59.019
cool. Maybe they're fun. The other guy, the guy

00:45:59.019 --> 00:46:00.960
Satomi was playing just seems like a weird guy.

00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:02.639
He wasn't like, you know, he's the guy who made

00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:04.420
an anime chick. Oh yeah, the other guy was dating

00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:07.480
a first year. Yeah, it's not good. Maybe the

00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.280
guy who got cut is the fun one. We don't learn

00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:12.559
anything about him. I'm sure they have some weird

00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:17.820
twin thing or some. Yeah, vibes are bad. I'm

00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:19.780
sorry. These vibes are, these vibes are terrible.

00:46:21.579 --> 00:46:23.599
I need them to win so I don't have to think about

00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:25.480
Fujisaki ever again, but it's gonna be like five

00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:28.440
episodes, I swear. Well, I'm sure they'll reappear

00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:31.800
in the individual rounds. I just can't wait for

00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:34.260
Shinobu to just be really mean watching these

00:46:34.260 --> 00:46:36.760
episodes. I want Shinobu to just be a huge chunk

00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:38.420
before the next time. Oh, yes, we will get to

00:46:38.420 --> 00:46:41.199
see more Shinobu. It's great. I love Shinobu

00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.480
being mean. I mean, yeah. I guess I'll mostly

00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:45.699
be interested to see a Shinobu because, right,

00:46:46.179 --> 00:46:48.639
all we've seen heard from her part of related

00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:51.320
is like belittling other people or saying that

00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.079
they're her friends. But it'd be interesting

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:56.119
to hear her thoughts on like specific moves and

00:46:56.119 --> 00:46:58.659
stuff happening within a game and within a match.

00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.440
Yeah. Like, oh, that girl's so slow or like,

00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:05.960
yeah, idiot came and remember the cards or, yeah.

00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.699
No, it's good. I want some POV Shinobu. Yeah.

00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.000
Well, I guess that's it. I don't have anything

00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:12.840
else to say. I feel like nothing happened these

00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:14.719
episodes. I got to the end and I was like, nothing

00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:16.960
happened. Again, we're running out of runway

00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.059
with Shinai Furu. I don't know. Yeah, I should

00:47:20.059 --> 00:47:23.739
maybe need to start cramming in another episode

00:47:23.739 --> 00:47:26.340
into these. But what if something does happen

00:47:26.340 --> 00:47:30.300
and then I'm like, ah. Let me, let me see. Let

00:47:30.300 --> 00:47:32.139
me look at the names of these. How many, do we

00:47:32.139 --> 00:47:34.619
have an even number yet? Yeah. I mean, whatever

00:47:34.619 --> 00:47:36.940
extra time we have, we can use for recording

00:47:36.940 --> 00:47:42.059
our bonus ep. At least. Because I... I see, I

00:47:42.059 --> 00:47:45.539
see Rion in a thumbnail, so I know it goes for

00:47:45.539 --> 00:47:49.099
at least a couple more episodes. Oh gosh. Oh,

00:47:49.099 --> 00:47:51.739
I bet we'll get a whole life backflash on her

00:47:51.739 --> 00:47:53.659
probably. Oh God, we're gonna learn everything

00:47:53.659 --> 00:47:58.659
about her. Yeah. Like... Season 3 is only 25

00:47:58.659 --> 00:48:01.820
episodes. Does it go all the way through the

00:48:01.820 --> 00:48:05.079
manga? The entire series? Yeah. Oh, no, I don't

00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:08.280
think so. I can't, I don't know. I can't officially

00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:11.380
legally buy the English translated manga. It

00:48:11.380 --> 00:48:16.239
had 50 volumes. 50 volumes. Which is a total...

00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:20.039
Damn, that's a lot! Which was a total of... 50?

00:48:21.099 --> 00:48:27.480
246, no, 247 chapters. In each... One episode.

00:48:28.019 --> 00:48:32.820
Is like what? Three chapters? Yeah. 247 divided

00:48:32.820 --> 00:48:36.860
by three is 82. Don't know. Well, I mean, they

00:48:36.860 --> 00:48:38.199
could have just condensed some of those. I mean,

00:48:38.219 --> 00:48:40.000
you could probably cut a couple out, right? So

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.659
it seems like yes. Because it's 75 episodes of

00:48:43.659 --> 00:48:48.360
the show. Nah. Oh, maybe. I don't know. I haven't

00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.440
read the manga. I don't want to read a crappy

00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.750
fan translated one. Oh my God, you're so, so

00:48:54.750 --> 00:48:58.670
elitist. What? I want to own. If it's a good

00:48:58.670 --> 00:49:00.750
manga, I want to own it. That's why I haven't

00:49:00.750 --> 00:49:02.670
read Kimi ni Tadoke, because I would like to

00:49:02.670 --> 00:49:04.769
purchase it to read. Okay. It's like I don't

00:49:04.769 --> 00:49:07.449
read Skippy online. I only read it as it comes

00:49:07.449 --> 00:49:08.769
out. You don't even want to just read it just

00:49:08.769 --> 00:49:10.769
to know what happens. Like I understand like

00:49:10.769 --> 00:49:12.650
you could buy it later, but like you don't even

00:49:12.650 --> 00:49:15.989
want to. I don't know why I'm like that. That's,

00:49:16.170 --> 00:49:17.869
uh, interesting. I feel like I need to get all

00:49:17.869 --> 00:49:20.570
my money out of my purchase. Oh, they had some

00:49:20.570 --> 00:49:22.650
side manga. What is this? It's a middle school.

00:49:22.650 --> 00:49:24.630
We can read about Chi -hai's middle school life.

00:49:25.469 --> 00:49:28.929
Bah, boo! Unless it's Tai Chi, like, overcoming.

00:49:29.869 --> 00:49:33.989
God, no! I want Tai Chi after the show, not Tai

00:49:33.989 --> 00:49:36.530
Chi before, where he's still miserably hung up

00:49:36.530 --> 00:49:39.369
on Chi -hai. There is a spinoff sequel! What

00:49:39.369 --> 00:49:43.539
is this? What? Chihaya Furu plus Kimigatame.

00:49:43.699 --> 00:49:45.659
These look like all different characters. Oh,

00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:48.519
is this like a crossover of some other manga

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artists? According to Reddit two years ago, set

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in the Mizuzawa Karta Club after Chihaya graduate

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following first year boy Ritsu Nagara. Oh, is

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she the advisor? Ritsu's a cute name. Does that

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mean we gotta start all over? No, we're not.

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There's no way. I can't read that. I'm sorry.

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Well, there's no... Okay. All right. Okay. well

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wrap this episode up so i can put this puppy

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away and we kind of record our bonus please uh

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yes please is that everything yep yep yep what

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did we learn um don't don't physically grasp

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at air imagining boobs, like just do it in your

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head at least, my god. If the guys in your club

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tell you that they're not obsessed with a girl

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because one of them is dating a first year. A

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senior wants to date you as a freshman, yeah.

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And the other one is married to an anime girl,

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and the last one thinks about groping their coach.

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You should just join another club. You should

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just leave. Yeah, I am worried about you. You

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didn't tell your coach that you're quitting because

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you don't like your teammates and just don't

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just don't explain it. I don't like them. They're

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gross. Oh, yeah. And she'll probably be like,

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Oh, I will say I like the coach for the for my

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good news team. He was all like, Oh, the beauty

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of youth. And I liked him. I like their coach.

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Yeah. What was the school name is something something

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girls school? I can't remember. What is the what

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was what was the the the the skip beat? Remember

00:51:35.090 --> 00:51:40.610
the the bad guys like person manager? Oh, his

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manager. What's what? Is this like a dark type

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of like what if there was a bit of a huge boobs?

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Cuz she's just yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.

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Well, I like she's like ice queen Yeah, I don't

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know a different kind of person interesting card

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at least it's nice Weird they can't help it.

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It's a curse, you know being well endowed Yeah,

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it's just better to work. Yeah, right Oh my god,

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cuz I bought me undies because they were having

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a Jurassic Park line. Oh my god And then what

00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:19.570
my bra was too small It's so cute. I'm just I

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don't know. May I'll just frame it. The cute

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drastic. You got to be like Shinobu. And when

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you change all of your underwear is themed and

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also it's very long. So it's not scandalous.

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I know. Well, I did get like a set. So I've got

00:52:33.949 --> 00:52:37.530
at least one like solid set up. Oh, my God. The

00:52:37.530 --> 00:52:39.829
dogs are going crazy. OK. Black Cricket's trying

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to play with her. OK, but yeah, OK. Thank you

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for listening to this episode and look forward

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to a bonus episode soon. And, yep, see y 'all

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later. Bye. Alligator. In a while, crocodile.

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Welcome back to... Damn it, Joe! Sorry. Keep

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it in. I'll keep it in, maybe. No, puppy, leave

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me alone. Leave me alone!