Hello, everyone. It's your girl, Sarah, introducing
you to your podcast of choice, Show Joe, where
I am joined, as always, by Joe of Show Joe, our
lovely newbie to Dojo anime. What? What? Nothing.
No, keep going. Sorry. OK. I thought you were
saying something else or that you were just saying
I'm a newbie. I'm like, damn. No. Catching strays
in the intro. Our newbie. But the the one bringing
the knowledge. So who's the real newbie? You're
the educated. Yes. You're like. I don't think
so. I'm I'm Mr. Educated and I have deep thoughts
about things and then Sarah can only say Taiji's
cute, like 500 times per recording. I mean, that
is most the show, to be honest. Yes. To be fair,
that's a lot of what's going on in Shaifuru.
Yes, that's true. There's not a lot we can like
deeply discuss currently in the show. And yes,
joined by Moxie the cat. Not that you guys can
hear her, but yes. Yep. So late night recording,
so forgive me for, well, not that our intros
are ever coherent, so you guys are used to it
by now, but yes. The Shojo podcast covering Chihaya
Furu again. We're almost done with season two.
Second, what do you call it? Penultimate, what
do you call her? Oh, penultimate. Yeah. The one
before the ultimate. Yep. Yeah. Yep. I was using
all those cool turns. It's like it flew by. I
don't know about that. You know what else didn't
fly by? Not that I'm going to get into it because
we'll cover it in our bonus episode. Oh, no.
Oh, man. I saw the new I saw Jurassic World rebirth.
Yeah. Ah. Ah. I'll be seeing it in like two weeks.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about that then. But oh,
God. Yeah, that was something. Well, apparently
it's doing really well. It's like doing well
for 2025. So I'm like, cool. They're going to
be like, oh, this is a good movie. Let's make
another. I am like, so I haven't watched Fallen
Kingdom yet. The next one in our thing, because
one of my friends learned I was doing this and
she's like, you can't watch this without me.
I want to rewatch that. But she's out of town,
so I can't watch it till Thursday. OK, well,
let's get some extra thoughts to share with.
with the podcast. That's right. Yeah, I rewatched.
I rewatched Fallen Kingdom Dominion and then
I watched the new one. Oh, man. I just watched
all of them. So. Oh, jeez. OK. But yeah. How
much we liked Worlds. I'm not. The hopes are
not high. Yes. Well, I think if anything out
of. Our coverage, Jurassic Park 3 has better
standing in my eyes, thanks to you, Joe. I feel
like it was worth it. Yeah. Yes. After watching
it and I had and I was like decked out. I was
like, oh, this is embarrassing. People are probably
think that I thought that this was good. I came
here decked out in my stuff. You never know with
that stuff. I just know that every time I go
see a movie with my family, I'm like, I need
to never do this again. And then I keep doing
it. And it's just because I'm trying to focus
and like talking on both sides of me. And I'm
just like, your family talks during movies and
movie theaters. Yes. Are they like hooping and
hollering or are they like? No, no, no. I think
I've mentioned it, but in time, I'm watching
something with my mom. She's like, who is that?
And I'm just like, I don't know mom. We haven't
found out yet. I've watched the same amount as
you have. I don't have all the answers. So kind
of that. And so I specifically was like, I don't
want to sit next to you mom, sorry. So I like
sat like one person in between us and that wasn't
enough. Oh, my God. So I and then my kid brother
was like even more. So he's like, I want to be
that as far away from mom as possible. So he's
on the end. But yeah, got to have my Elmo draft
house fried pickles. So if nothing else, there's
that. And I got a sweet that I had like a Jaws
50 at the anniversary shirt that was super soft.
So I got that. Oh, nice. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, I'm
trying to think. I finished Rune Factory 5. So
boom, done. Uninstalled. Oh. Moving on. OK, we're
done. Yes, I'm done. And I picked up Claire.
Was it Claire Expedition or Expedition 33 Claire?
Blah, blah, blah. Whatever crazy long name. Yeah.
During the summer sale. So maybe I'll. I picked
up some other small things. I'm like, I don't
know that I'm like ready to invest into another
big game. So I may pick up like I also got that
game Gris, which is like really pretty looking,
you know, like the chick with the. Oh, yeah,
with like the crow or whatever Bob. I play something.
Yeah, something like laid back and not stupid,
you know, not at least 60 hour something like
20 hour long, maybe. Yeah, that sounds reasonable.
Yeah. There's flooding, flash flooding. Yeah,
I heard about that. Freaking, like, child girls
camp. You'd wash away, like, really sad stuff.
Are you just bringing that up? I'm just trying
to think of relevant things. I'm sorry. About,
like, tragic news that happened kind of close
to you. How close was that to you? That was probably,
like, no, not near me. More like probably East
Austin maybe? But I know people near me had like
power going out. Luckily that did not end up
happening to me. But yeah, so nothing. I don't
know. Poppy's getting better. Pepper, official
name. Not as much of a nightmare. So, so there's
hope. That's good. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm
like shredding myself up. I got like a giant
bruise on one leg and just like had a guffle
with my blinds earlier. So then my other leg's
all jacked up. But yeah. From the dog? From the
puppy? No, sorry. I was like running. I was like
because I was dog sitting my co -writer's dog.
So I had three dogs for like. Oh. Five days.
Yeah. And so it was like balancing like, OK,
because she's kind of clingy. So it'd be like,
OK, I got to like, so I'd like put her and the
puppy out on my patio and then like run and then
take cricket out and then come back. But like
one of the times like it was like trying to keep
them on the patio. And so I like kind of like
close the door and then the like blinds like
banged into my knee and scraped it off. Yeah,
but. That's no good. It's back to two dogs again.
Oh, Lord. Love Island's almost over. And then
Big Brother starts. So it will be this will become
the Big Brother. Oh, the handoff. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, and I watched the first episode of an anime.
It's it's like one of the that's a name for something
that doesn't, you know, like they pick they like.
Little light novel adaptation. Yes. Well, it's
like could be interpreted as like a title that
applies to the show, but not really. It's called
something like, I don't know. Was it something
my my sister's ex fiance, something something.
So is this called Betrothed to my sister's ex?
Yes, that's what it's called. The first episode
is on Crunchyroll. It's OK. The guy's cute, but
it's like. her sister in the title dies the first
episode. Wait, literally just there to be like,
oh, my sister's ex, but but it's not even like
he was into her sister. He thought her sister
was her. And that's why. So it's like, oh, that's
not as juicy. It's just for the name that they.
made that, you know, and then kill her off immediately.
So that's lame. I'm against that. I want some
messy, messy bullshit. Well, that's like there's
a lot of those in the in the web comics. And
this is like one of the first like probably based
off a web comic or at least inspired by that
genre anime I'm watching. Mostly just because
the guy's cute. And then again. This is the same
thing as Apothecary Diaries, where it's like,
oh, poor girl has freckles. And then once we
doll her up, she doesn't have freckles anymore
because freckles indicate ugliness for some reason.
And I guess because they like value flawless
skin. But I'm like, good grief. You're blemished.
They look cute with the freckles. It's more identifiable.
We're going to have to cover Apothecary Diaries.
Yes, we are. I know the second season just came
out. that I feel like, do you know anything about
that series? I know a little bit about it, yeah.
I've seen, like, you know, gif sets of it and
stuff like that, so I've, like, I have some knowledge
about what's going on. But the guy, the romantic
male lead, the female lead thinks he's a Munich.
Yes. Yeah. It's very funny. The premise sounds
pretty good. I don't know about the execution.
It's very funny, because, like, my mom will now
talk to some of her students about anime, or,
like, it'll come up and they'll be, and she can
talk about it now, but they're like, She's like,
yeah, one of my students recommended I watch
this. I'm like, oh, yeah, we're probably going
to have to cover that at some point. And she's
like, yeah, I didn't think I'd ever have conversations
like this. I'm like, yeah, me neither. OK, I
love that so much. Oh, my gosh. Your mom's a
cool teacher. Well, she just opened. She just
thought, well, what kind of is it like one on
one apprenticeship and not like lecture style
or she just like, listen up? Classroom. I think
she does like seminar stuff sometimes. The proud
mother of a boy who has a black cat. I don't
think this is what she's talking about during
class. Okay. Oh boy. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, Joe,
what have you been up to? I watched two animated
movies. Uh -huh. The first one was I think it's
just called K -Pop Demon Hunters. Is that what
it's called? Oh, I've heard good things. How
is it? Or is it just fine? It's just cool looking.
It looks great. I think it looks really fun or
like it looks really good. They do a lot of like
really fun like animation with the faces. You
know, you never really know with like the 3D
animation how it's going to be. But I think it
turned out really good. OK. The music's fine.
They do like little I guess they're they're not
I mean, I guess they're not music videos because
it just happens in the car like it happens diegetically.
But it's basically like a music video that happens
inside. Oh, OK. The movie. Oh, that looks great.
The plot is exactly what you think it's going
to be at all points in time. So that's not interesting,
but it looks really good. And it's like a fun
watch. Mostly just a visual spectacle. OK. Yeah,
it's just like a fun movie. I had a good time.
I watched it with some friends. There's a big
doofy tiger. It's a movie. That's good. It's
a movie. OK. We love playing tigers in anime
where it doesn't make sense. Just like, just
like. It's like a magical tiger. It's good. Whatever
that one anime. With the Kaiju 8 or whatever.
Oh, yeah. She just has a tiger on her team and
no, it's never explained. That's pretty good,
actually. Mm hmm. But yeah, no, it's fun. It's
good. It's on. What is it? It's like Netflix
or something. Yeah, probably. It's a pretty good
time. Is Netflix the new country role for anime?
Even though they they even though. OK, I saw
a thing like that. It was like, hey, the fragrant
flower blooms. Blah, blah, blah is coming. And
then, psych, we're pushing it. I don't know what
any of that meant. OK. Yeah. OK. No one else.
So sorry for you. Sorry that happened. I'm looking
forward to. OK. We need our. Shoujo -esque, like,
sub -series that covers all the things that should
be Shoujo but aren't, because there's so many
of those that I feel like are relevant to what
we do. Anyways. I mean, we can do whatever. That's
right. We can do whatever we want. We can do
whatever we want. But yeah, so that was really
good. Cute. The other one I watched was the Ghost
in the Shell standalone complex movie, Solid
State Society, which is like a movie that, like,
caps off the series. We love alliteration. Yeah.
Solid State Society is good. It's a good name.
OK. You know, the localization team was like,
hell, yeah. Yeah, and yeah, it's like more ghosts
in the shell. Standalone complex the TV show
it's like, you know how season two ended bad
and I was like season two sucks And I was like,
ooh, they have this movie. What if this movie
sucks, but now the movie's like perfectly fine
It's like fun. It has like you get the major
being cool. You get some weird cop shit happening
Togasa sucks. It's great We get like angsty butto
which is always the best when like The big guy
is like all sad because because the major isn't
there. Oh What did she think of the live action
one that they made with Scarlett Johansson? Did
you see that? I didn't watch it. I could not.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I probably
will at some point because I hate myself. But
I've heard only bad things and also it looks
terrible. And everything I've heard about the
way they adapted it is also quite bad. Yeah.
The thing is like the Ghost in the Shell movie
is great. I haven't read the manga, but I have
it. So I'm probably going to at some point because
I read manga extremely slowly is what I've learned
about myself. I guess there's like the like...
Japanese made live -action or like K -drama stuff
based off things, but like are there any good
Hollywood made anime things, right? We had like
the weird Dragon Ball with the guy from Shameless
and that. And what else has there been that's
been live -action anime? I mean, there was the
live -action Death Note, which I've heard is
good, not because it's Death Note, it's good
because it's stupid. Western -made, is it? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. They made an American version of
it, and it's stupid. Oh, I didn't know that.
Apparently it's awful, but it's kind of fun in
an awful way. That's my understanding. And Pacific
Rim was just their original thing? That's not
based off anything? Yeah, that's an original
thing. Maybe they should just make more live
-action. There's probably something that isn't
quite... Mac, any live action stuff that's worth
seeing? Let's someone ask us on Reddit. Speed
racer apparently is pretty good. I think the
Wachowskis made that Battle Angel Alita. People
say, yeah, I've heard people like that. Yeah,
I just the the I guess it's probably like intentional
uncanny valley, but like her giant eyeball, like
the body proportions of her freaked me out. I
think one of my coworkers is an extra in that
movie. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. And then
people are saying, like, I guess like the one
piece at a live action, which I did not like,
but it was actively bad. It was fine. Well, the
bar is low. So Zoro was hot. That carried the
entire series. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean,
people are like citing the Japanese live action
versions of stuff, which are probably OK, because
at least you don't have the problem of them trying
to localize it in a weird way. Yeah. So but I've
I've never heard any of those actually worth
watching as people just kind of watch those.
It's like a curiosity. So I don't think any of
them are good. But then again, it's like hard
for me to think of any thing that started off
as animated that was adapted to live action.
That was good. That's a that's a good point.
Like comics to live action. Lots of those animation
to live action. Yeah, I guess if it's like animation
is. Is animation just better than live act? I
don't know. It's like I think so. I think so,
too. Or because it's like similar stories can
be told in both. But like it's more interesting
to see it in an animated version, because then
that's something different than what like you
see every day just living as a person. I can't
think of any. The ones people are mentioning
are like not really like adaptations like the
Scooby Doo live action movie. It's kind of it's
almost like a parody of. Yeah. Scooby Doo, which
is I like the live action movie, but I would
not consider that an adaptation because that's
just kind of like, well, it's not adapting a
movie. It's just like a version. Yep. People
say in the live action jungle book, which is
good because it's not it's a different thing
than the animated jungle book. So I feel like
that doesn't count either. Oh, I haven't I've
only seen one live action since I've been doing
at Disney and does Cinderella. I haven't seen
any sense, so I have no idea. I don't know. I
keep seeing, like, oh, Disney is, like, gonna
go back to, you know, 2D animation because these
live actions, blah, blah, blah. Do we really
believe it, though? Ugh, I hope so. I mean, I
think it would be good if they dedicated their
time to not make garbage. Yeah! Because that's
all they've been doing for like five years. I
mean, they've been releasing other movies. I
know they've been releasing stuff. I just haven't.
Well, yeah, right. At some point, the wheels
have to fall off because they've acquired Marvel
and Star Wars, and they haven't super done anything
meaningful with Marvel, at least. I guess I haven't
watched Andor, but apparently that's good. Yeah,
I didn't watch the newer season of that. I mean,
it's much more like, oh, no, the TV kind of thing.
It's like like it's a lot of people talking.
But it's good. I mean, if you like people talk,
it's good. I think it's good. I think I mentioned
it this new podcast I'm listening to what went
wrong, but they covered the Phantom Menace and
they played like clips. I guess there's like
clips of like the top three candidates for Anakin
Skywalker in that movie. And there was a kid
that was like had a really good like read like
Arguably the better choice is George Lucas. Like,
is he like a bad director? No, I think the answer
is no. I don't think there's things that he's
not good at. Like the thing about George Lucas,
like the thing like my understanding of George
Lucas's kind of career as like what type of director
is he like really pioneered a lot of like. Special
effects. Yeah. And writes terrible dialogue and
also doesn't give good direction for actors.
He doesn't like people, so it's like I feel like
he would be better. But he wants to control everything.
That's like that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
know enough about him, like as a director on
other stuff. I just know like that kind of is
the gist of it. Yeah, but made some good movies.
We made some movies. Oh, man. I forgot about
the light. Everybody hates a live action Lee
Lowenstitch movie. I only heard awful things
about it. All I've heard is something about the
ending. Oh, and that they, like, took away the
one guy from prostressing. What was his name?
Oh, Pleakley. Yeah. Those are the two things
I've heard about it. Well, are you going to cover
it? How far is your Disney movie watching going?
Are you going to get to that? People keep going
on vacation, so we haven't watched any more yet.
Damn. Next we need to watch some other random
thing and like Ichabod in Mr. Toad or like Frog
and Toad or something. Oh, is that Disney? And
then we're on to Cinderella. Yes, it is. The
book. Is that a book series? It is a book series.
Yeah. I mean, they adapted that into like a series
of shorts or something. So yeah, that's the next
on the list. Oh, God. They just need a remake.
Let's. Yeah, OK. I've already said this on podcast.
Just remake things that weren't remade well the
first time. remake diatopia, remake Aragon, like,
oh, I don't know. Freaking. I don't know. It's.
Yeah. Oh, the problem is that like the only way
the only way that like the business people see
it is like you have to remake stuff that made
money originally, so it'll make money a second
time. Yeah. Well, in the podcast, I learned that,
like, is whatever. Dala's plan is super rip off
of Waterfall City from Dinotopia, but that George
Lucas just called James Gurney and he was like,
It's fine, man. I was just kind of surprised
to see my thing in the movie. Sorry, anyways.
Anything else? And Joel? I don't think I built
a new gunpla. It's enormous. You want to see
how big it is? They're going to get it and show
you how big, since we're just leaving everything
not to talk about the show right now. Because
our coverage has been like really short lately,
so might as well extend this this bit. So in
comparison, right, this is what this is what
one of them looks like. They're about this big,
right? Uh huh. This is a normal one. This is
the Alex. This is the one that got the stickers
wet. Yes. Yeah, I did. They all turned out OK,
though. But this is the Alex from War in the
Pocket. You see how like nice and like Uh -huh.
Size it is. It's like this big. OK, cool. This
is what I built. It's called the Psycho Gundam.
Psycho Gundam. Love it. So like, you might be
wondering why it's called that. It's huge. These
are on the same scale. What do you mean? Oh,
like, OK, there's a scale. So like, I have ones
that are bigger, but they're like at a different.
It's a 160 instead of a 144 scale or whatever.
Gotcha. So, yeah, this is how big it is canonically.
It's like about twice the size. And it's just
enormous. It's like ridiculous and huge, and
it like transforms into a big block and flies
around. It's really dumb. And I've wanted it
for a long time just because of how stupidly
huge it is. And I finally got it. Nice. Yeah.
So that's what I've been up to. I built that
this weekend. Gunpla? Just like Gundam Play,
because that's just the abbreviated. of that,
or is that the brand? Maybe I. Yeah, it's like
the brand thing. I don't know. I just read your
shirt, too. Let's see. What else can we talk
about other than Chi Hai Fu? I think we got it.
I think we I think we've exhausted it. OK, we're
almost done. We're almost done. You're making
it sound like this isn't your one of your favorite
anime. It just doesn't hold well under a microscope.
All right. Take it away, Joe. Let's let's turn
that microscope on and examine it, shall we?
Yeah. Chihayafuru Episode 20 is called The Fall
Patty Shacks. It's just the end of the title.
I thought there was going to be more in there,
wasn't it? The Fall Patty. Is it not the the
Patty Shack Falls? No. The Fall Patty Shack.
That's what I have. I think it's fall like it's
the season. OK. We open on Mizuzawa being awarded
as the champions of the team tournament. Chihaya
gets to wave a big flag and we get a small recap
of this arc as we all think about how nice it
is for the team to get a win. Chihaya starts
crying, but then all of a sudden her finger starts
to throb, and it looks like it's still injured,
or it's injured worse as the OP plays. After
the ceremony, they all get ready to head out
for the day when Chihaya asks if they think the
hospital is still open, and their coach takes
Chihaya to a clinic as the rest of the team heads
home. Though, this is not in Tokyo. Are they
not staying somewhere this time? Like... No,
they are. because Sumire in the for like 10 episodes
ago was like, oh, yeah, we're going to like all
these things are going to happen on this vacation.
Right. No, it's not. But before they go, Arata
comes up to Taichi and gives him some sake Miyanji,
which is like the thing from the area he's from
or whatever. And he's like, hey, where is Chihaya
going? But instead of answering, Taichi changes
the subject. Uh, we see Retro's team book it
out of the building and we learn that they won
third place over the girls team. So good for
them, I guess. Joe. Yeah? It would be such a
drag. If there's societal expectation that you
had to get souvenirs for like everyone in your
life anytime you visited someone. That would
suck so bad. I would, I would, I would have to
just not visit anybody ever. For real? I'm like,
I'm sorry, I can't visit you. i'm like i can't
afford that that's yeah that's pretty bad hold
on give me give me one second vamp vamp for like
a okay here we go um i have a ant bite on my
toe that's bothering okay i'm really coming back
are you serious that was your that was your buying
time yes uh i got groceries like a grown -up
today all right wow okay Outside Sumire gets
the news that this show is about a love triangle.
And she's like, what the hell? And immediately
she's like, hey, Arata, what type of women are
you into? You got a girlfriend, what's the deal
with that? But before he can answer, the rest
of the team drags her off, leaving just Tai Chi
and Arata alone together. I do like that Kana's
like, I have the same questions as you do, but
still don't like... You can't ask him. Let her
answer the damn question, Arata. Well, at least
it's finally out there. Painful. It's painful
that I know this is all we're gonna get. Arana
tells Taichi that the only team for him is Chihaya
Taichi and himself on a team together. Remember
when we played when we were like six years old
or whatever? That's the only team for me. And
then he's like, oh, that's kind of embarrassing
to say. Anyway, hey Taichi, I'm planning to go
to college in Tokyo. And Taichi's like, oh. Uh,
which one? And Arata's like, I don't know, whoever
gives me a scholarship. Taichi's like, oh my
God, he's actually going to be in the show now.
Okay. You guys are, I guess it's like a year
and a half away, but also like where else is
he going to go to college? I feel like if he's
a smart kid and he's good at CARTA and there's
scholarships for that, I feel like there's a
good chance he is going to wind up in Tokyo anyways.
So, but we just got - I don't know. Okay, but
then great. What, Taisy's gonna be thinking about
this all day? What are you doing, tournament
tomorrow? It's so funny for him to be like, hey,
I'm gonna come swoop your girl. And he's like,
okay, cool. After being like, you guys are the
only teammates for me. Oh my god. It's gotta
be intentional, right? The like - No, I don't
think it's like - Even the children, they acknowledged
that they were like opposing forces going for
Chihaya. And so - Arada, who hasn't had any development
since then, is still team, like, you know, suck
at Tai Chi, because he doesn't know the tragic
backstory of Tai Chi's life. I don't think so.
I don't think there's any mouse in this. I think
like Arata actually thinks him and Tai Chi are
just like buddies. Friends? Yeah, no. He doesn't
understand that he's like the bane to Tai Chi's
existence. Tai Chi says to himself that Chihaya
will want to be on a team with Arata, but he
doesn't. He wants it just to be Tai Chi and Chihaya
because he's the only one involved at all in
this freaking love triangle. He's like, we're
love rivals, damn it. That's what the show is
supposed to be about. So how about, hey, Arada,
open your circle to more than just two people
you knew for a little bit as a 12 -year -old.
Like, don't say never. Look, I'm having a blast
with my new past me. It's like this, you could
do. Yeah, too bad. At the clinic, the doctor
has x -rayed Chihaya's hand but can't really
find anything wrong with it. The doctor's like,
I guess I'll just write you a referral to an
actual hospital and advises Chihaya not to do
any strenuous activity until she gets it checked
out so that it doesn't get any worse. Chihaya
is distraught and accidentally opens the door
to the boys' room instead of the girls' room,
but sees Tai Chi sleeping alone on the floor.
She creeps up on him and then lays down perpendicular
to him. in a scene that made me insane. What
is this? Is this supposed to be like, I'm like,
oh, is this gonna be cute? And it's like, no,
it's not. It's gonna be weird. Yeah, but he's
like one way and then she's like this way. I
know she's in there. She thinks back to at the
events of today. Can you believe that all of
those episodes before were just one single day?
It felt like multiple weeks for me. Weird. Anyway,
this flashback montage lasts another four minutes.
We just had a recap. episode two episodes ago.
Yeah. Oh, my God. You're so right. Oh, my God.
Chop chop, Missy. We don't have time, guys. We
need to get to the romance. Get me out of this
tournament. Never. Once this tournament's over,
on to the next. It's just going to cut to black.
It's going to be like, they're like, on to the
next thing. Cut to black, season three. God.
It's the next day, and Chihaya informs the team
that she won't be able to play. Also, her hand
is all wrapped up, so there's no getting out
of it. Everyone's like, ah, well, I guess there's
no way you can even try to play with your hand
messed up. Suddenly, Nashita's sister shows up
and gives Nashita a bunch of modified shirts
where she had hand -sewn congratulations winners
over the thing that said second place winners
on it. So that's nice. That was cute. Yeah, Chiaya
sees this and Says that she wants to play and
then pseudo shows up and makes fun of Chiaya
for getting hurt. I guess He's like if you all
play like crap today Everyone's gonna think that
the tournament when was just a fluke and Chiaya
decides that she wants to win The team or she
wants the team to win their individual tournaments
too, and they all put on their shirts and get
hyped up I'm sick of pseudo Yeah, well, this
is where they're like, remember, it's Pseudo
the Sadist. We have to like remind you guys.
He's not even playing. Why is he here? Like Pseudo
the Sadist is such a loser. You can only hang
out with high schoolers. Get rid of your high
school shirt. Lame. Again, taunting a sophomore.
What are we doing? Yeah. Leave the poor girl
alone. All right. So it's Shihaya Nishida in
Class A, Tai Chi's in Class B, Satomu and Kana
are in Class C, and Tsukuba and Sumire are in
Class D. We also see all the other teams get
hyped up too, and notably most of them only have
Class A and B players. Also, Shinobu shows up
in her worst outfit yet, I have. She's looking
terrible. She's got like a scarf, or like a neck
scarf. With the Tsumaru print. Yeah, and like
the shirt and like the big pants or whatever.
She's looking real bad, which is how you know
that she's about to stomp everybody. Well, I
guess. Most of them just wear a t -shirt and
sweatpants or like athletic pants, more like
windbreaker. Although I feel like you wouldn't
want a noisy fabric for your clothing in like
a very sound dependent sport. Oh, yeah. Uh -huh.
That would be me. I'd be wearing like a nylon
thing. It would just be like all the time. Everyone's
like, Jesus Christ, my guy. Oh, god. Velcro everything.
Uh -huh. There's no way Chihaya can use her right
hand without hurting her finger. So she decides
she's just gonna have to meet you with her left.
We get to the first round matchup. Chihaya is
against Keiko Yubei, the second best of the all
-girls school they played in the semifinals.
Nishida lost to her and he's like, well, she's
super aggressive, so that's bad for your injury.
But like, I don't know, good luck, I guess. Remember
the girl? She's so manly because she's strong.
She's so manly because she smacks the ground.
She's cool. I like her. Yeah, she's fun. She
makes me think of Jizu a little bit from Kimi
ni Tadoke where she's got like the spirit of
a warrior mentality, like noble. All that. Does
she have like angry eyebrows too? Well, she's
got like the little fox eyes. Yeah, a little
simile. Shinobu shows up and everyone's like,
I don't get why they don't just like seed her.
It's kind of ridiculous that she has to play
in all the rounds. Just get stomped by like in
round one by like the best player in the world
She sees that errata is matched up against one
of the guys He was on the fake team for and she's
like, well this sucks. I'm only here to play
errata I don't actually care about any of this
other crap errata shows up and she's all like,
oh, I'm so lucky I don't have to play you in
her little sarcastic tone because errata is her
only friend that exists in the world And Arata
just laughs at her, but she's clearly pissed
off and is like, I'm just going to crush everyone
in their little team games. I hate these kids.
In front of Chihaya and then like, you never
see Chihaya, but let's just talk to her for getting
her instead and not acknowledge Chihaya standing
there right in front of you, Arata. Yeah, Arata
didn't say anything there. Oh my God. They're
so awkward and terrible. I don't know. It's rough.
The fact that nobody is like buddy buddy at all
with anybody is awful to me. I used to be like,
ah, maybe that's just like a culture thing. But
I see other shows with people like, hey, man.
You know, you say hi to your friends. Arata shows
up. No, Arata says hi to Chihaya, and she hides
her injured hand. They call everyone in for the
first round. In the Class B room, Retro's getting
hyped, but Taichi's all angsty. He's like, why
do I have to be in this room while Chihaya and
Arata are somewhere else together? This sucks.
Their coach goes to the Class A room, and Arata's
parents are there, so that's fun. Play starts
and Chihaya's opponent is very aggressive and
takes the first card and then the second card
and Chihaya realizes that she's in trouble because
she can't react fast enough with her left hand
as we cut to credits. I can't believe this is
the most erotic content we're getting. He talks
to Tai Chi more than Chihaya! He talks to Tai
Chi! They have like a, they have like a, like
what should be kind of a tense conversation except
he doesn't realize it. No. Haishi's the only
one who like realizes that they're both rivals.
Haishi's the only one in this show that knows
anything. Like, from Arata's perspective. Haishi
and Sumire. I'm sure that conversation was just
like, oh, hey, Tai Chi. What's up, man? I like
team games, but I only think of you guys as my
real teammates. Ha ha ha. Anyway, I'm going to
try to go to university near you guys. Isn't
that fun? All right, see you later. That's why
I went for Arada. And for Tai Chi, it's like
it's just a man. I kind of wish that Sumire like.
was listening in on these and like kind of rooting
for Taichi because she likes him and wants what
he wants. He wants her hair. He wants him to
be happy, but it's also like against her best
interest. But she's like, oh, he's just so like
sad. It's like, come on, Taichi, speak up for
yourself. And then like, you know, scolding herself
for like, what do you mean? This is good for
you. Kind of. Yeah, that would be good. That
would be good. Yeah. Because like for Taichi's
perspective, that conversation was like. Hey,
man, I want to come in between you. You and your
your like crush. So, you know, just the three
of us remember how it was. I'm not even here.
Just imagine if I'm like vaguely in the same
city. Remember that when we played as a team
and I was way better than you and everybody knew
it. Anyway, I'm going to come to your hometown
now or see you. She's like, I hate this guy.
He's like, I freaking hate this guy. No, because
every time he's like that, then it's like, no,
Arata is my friend too. Yeah, he doesn't actually
hate him, which is, you know, which is good.
It would be bad if he actually hated him. But
it's just very funny to be like, I don't think
Arata understands what show he's in. Maybe Arata
is like the nice version of Kikyo, where it's
like not really here. Oh, not really an option,
but at least not like super intentionally just.
ruining chances of the other. Kikiyo is so good.
No, I hate Kikiyo so much. Just to have a character
like come back and be like, oh, hey, I'm your
boyfriend's ex that he hasn't gotten over. You're
my reincarnation. Yeah, also, I'm like a better
version of you in every way. And also, I kind
of hate both of you. It's so good, it's so good.
As a teenage girl, I was like, Kikiyo, go away,
get out of here. She's terrible. She's such menace.
It's so funny. Oh, man. God. We need a Kikiyo
in this show. Arata's the closest thing we've
got. God, what if like season three is like,
oh, Arata's ex shows up or something and everyone's
like, his ex. Imagine how good that would be.
I know. It's impossible. It would be good. Anyway,
episode 21 is called but its legacy continues
to spread Back on the game. She has a what? It's
legacy continues. Oh, yeah, it's just these irrelevant
title names We open back up on the game she high
as opponent really aggressively smacks the cards
and she I tries to figure out how to Pivot to
using her left hand more she's able to take but
isn't able to guard But she is able to steal
so like everything's weirdly backwards But as
it turns out like baseball playing against like
an offhand player gives them an advantage so
She takes from her opponent again, and it's like
okay. Maybe I can make this work It's enough
to keep her in the game But she's still like
it's still pretty back and forth like she is
not gaining any ground Arata wins his game before
25 cards are even read because his opponent like
faulted multiple times Then shinobu wins her
game at the 25th card And Erotic goes to watch
Chihaya and notices for the first time that she's
injured. Oh, man, if only I spent more than half
a second greeting her this morning, I would have
noticed her hand was bandaged. Her entire hand.
Yeah. Oh, man, this is this is the guy you're
obsessed with anyway. She doesn't get to play
against him and they barely see each other. And
then when he does see her, she doesn't even get
to like show her stuff. Know it's a magical moment
whenever they do get to play against each other
It's gonna be like, you know, get a room you
two while they're playing card somehow She's
gonna be gulping now water. No Arata is like
Chi Hai. It's crazy Just to swap hands all your
muscle memory and strategies for your other hand
Chi Hai is down ten cards. She takes She takes
a card and then realizes that her card should
be all be set up like mirrored. So because she's
using the opposite hand. So she completely swaps
her board. One of the coaches comes and tells
her that it's rude to swap all your cards around.
But like, bro, the quiz bowl guys were doing
that every single round. They were moving like,
I don't know. Yeah, you're right. I thought the
same thing. The ref. I know. Well, it's not even
against the rules. It's just bad manners. Yeah.
Like, shut up, man. I'm playing a game. I didn't
invite the fucking cops here. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
As a subplot of Chiaya favorite is that all adults
are garbage, except for except for Kana's mom,
who's Dr. Hirata and Dr. Hirata, who we also
like. And the coach is better now. Anyway, her
opponent's like, I don't care that she could
swap all her cards, whatever. So it's fine. Chihaya
instantly starts doing better and begins recovering.
The game is still close though. Arada thinks
about how much fun it must be to play against
her. If only I could play against my friend at
this game. We both casually play all the time
one day. Too bad we can never hang out for any
period of time. No. Chihaya wins by two and advances.
Arada tells her that her game was amazing and
All of time stops as she's blown away by a very
normal compliment from Arata. Not even like a
particularly great compliment. She only won by
two cards. Not even doing like a... Wow, it's
very impressive you're able to play with your
left hand. Also like, hey, what happened to you?
No concern. That's all I got. Your little play
card has how many you win by. So people could
just like look and be like, oh, that chick only
won by two. She sucks. Yeah. Nishida also won
his match, so everyone's still in. Next round
is announced, and Nishida has matched against
Sarada, and he's like, well, shit. Yeah, he's
like, I feel like I could win it all and then
immediately. Yeah, this is pretty funny. Chihaya
is against some rando, and she's she's disappointed
that she's not against Sarada and then thinks
about what? and then thinks about reaching out
to her. He thinks about reaching out to her.
Somebody thinks about reaching out to somebody
else. I don't know why I put this in the notes.
She walks by and she's like, basically, like,
is my place, am I good enough to be within reach
of him? Oh, can I reach Errata? Little limp hand
lift, but... God, this is the weakest TV I've
ever seen in my life. Sumire, where are you?
You need to help these people. Oh, God, no. We
get a little bit with her, but not enough. Never
enough. Outside, we learn from the coach, or
no, Nishida is against Arata just like the old
days. He wonders if he's still got it. Maybe
he can beat him this time. Spoiler alert, he
can't. Outside, we learn from the coach that
the rest of the team all won their matches, so
everyone's still in. The coach sees Arata's parents
praying, and we learn that they're cheering for
Arata to lose because then he'll have to go to
a local college instead of an expensive Tokyo
college. This is the funniest gag in these episodes.
Yeah, I know. His parents showed up to cheer
against him. Cuz they look like nervous parents
like hoping for the best for their kid, but poor
guy It's very funny Like you see them the first
time and they're all like, yeah, they're all
like nervous and you're like Why the hell would
Arada's parents be nervous around one match?
Because they want him to lose Look at that scholarship.
It'll be fine. They're like, even with a scholarship,
it's still going to be expensive. Yeah, I don't
know. I know college is bad here. What's it looking
like over there in Japan? Well, they mentioned
that like, because like Tokyo University is like
a really prestigious one, and I think that's
like the public one. So there's a lot of private
universities there, which I assume cost around
the same as it would here. So like even with
a scholarship, going to private school is expensive.
That's true. Oh, man. Nishida is doing pretty
well and Arata's parents are happy that Arata
might lose for once. Arata is like, wow, Nishida,
you're doing pretty well. And then he turns on
the heat and starts crushing him. OK, I'm like,
did he just like, was he just like a lion toying
with their prey, like have hope and just seeing
what he's made of and then and then be like,
oh, yeah, she hired your teens pretty good. And
then. Crush him. I assume that like the cards
red were just ones that were good for Nishida.
Not like I don't think like Arata doesn't mess
around like this. No way. Look at him. There's
no way Nishida. Nishida's been sucking it up.
There's no way he stood a chance ever. He just
takes L's the entire series, unfortunately, this
season. This season's big L for Nishida. I guess
he won his little championship thing, but not
even in a good way. He had 50 -50. That was bad.
Oh, God. That's true. And she's just like, man,
after all of this, I'm still just getting crushed
by Arada. This sucks. How come everybody else
gets to have a triumphant storyline this season,
except for me? I'm just here. He's like, whatever.
I'm going to go for it. In the end, he loses
by nine cards, which actually isn't that bad,
I guess. I know. Like, what is going on, Arada?
She's pretty beat up about it, but Arada reminds
him that he played a lot yesterday. While Arada
didn't play anything yesterday. Yeah. Okay, I'm
also like how did that guy he that he helped
out how is that guy rank a Like I guess because
there's nothing higher than a the like golf experience
could be a massive, you know what I mean? But
then they sometimes talk about like different
I don't know You probably can't do that with
a high school tournament because how many like
people can there even be? Yeah, they're probably
all there, honestly. The shit of things that
playing against good players makes him want to
get better, though. Anyway, I think that's it
for him this season in terms of like plot. Yeah,
she wins her match in advances. Third round positions
are about to be placed and Chi Hai is up against
Shinobu again. Shinobu rematch, woo. Chi Hai
takes off her bandage as we cut to credits. Bum,
bum, bum. Yep. Our girl. More Shinobu time as
requested. But it's more Shinobu in Carda. We
want Shinobu outside Carda time. She's a hoot.
Yeah. Outside of matches. Karna Shinobu is not
that interesting. Outside Shinobu is extremely
funny how much she just hates everything. But
in a fun way. But in a fun way, but in an entertaining
way where she's like, oh my god, these stupid
losers in their team games. I just want to go
to the Birdman Rally, but it got cancelled. This
sucks. Yeah. Anything else about episode 21?
Nah. Yeah. Get wrecked, Nishido. Episode 22 is
called Long Last We Meet. We jump back into it.
Round three against Shinobu is about to start.
The Fujisaki coach gives us a rundown of the
remaining players in the Class A tournament.
Her team captain, the boob guy, is up against
PSP Kid. Arata is against another Fujisaki guy.
The blonde guy is against Magumu, and Shihaya
is against Shinobu. OK, wait. OK, yeah, there's
only two chicks left. There's only two chicks
left. Also... Nope, three, sorry. Well, there's
three, but there's about to be... Well... I'm
assuming Magoo is going to be the blonde guy
because how good can you be? But there's also
like a weird number, right? Because it's it's
how many matches? One, two, three, four, five.
There's five matches. No, because it's the Fujisaki
guy. It's boob guy and PSP kid. That's one. Arata
versus the other Fujisaki guys. The boob guy
is the team captain. He is the team captain.
I put that twice. I gave that as like a like
two equal modifiers. Yeah. Yeah. OK. All right.
Fine. It makes a tournament. The Fujisaki Coast
learns that Chihaya has been playing left handed
this whole time and is like, wow. And Chihaya
wonders what she should do about her hand against
Shinobu when Shinobu says something under her
breath. And then we get like a rewind freeze
frame where Shinobu like we learned that what
she said was that Chihaya's t -shirt is lame.
And Chihaya also hears this. So she lifts her
shirt to reveal a mommy bear tank top. And Shinobu
is like, holy shit, it's the rare mommy bear
tank top. This is a really good bit. Chihaya,
why are you wearing two shirts? That must be
so odd. That is crazy. I guess it's like a...
I don't know, is that like instead of a bra,
she's wearing a cami unders? Is this supposed
to be kind of be like an undergarment you're
showing off? But I like that that's like their
thing and she like knows what's impressive to
Shinobu and she's very pleased with herself for
pulling that one out. She became prepared. that
one's good uh then she was like hey uh since
you're hurt you're dominant hand you want me
to use my off hand too and she high is like hell
no she's been waiting for this rematch for a
whole season we're not gonna half ass it she
says she doesn't actually say that but That's
what she said to me. Shinobu's like, damn, OK,
as the game starts. Shinobu takes first and Shihaya
is like, dang, this is going to be tough. But
then she thinks about how she obsessed over watching
the Queen match over and over again and gets
her head back in the game. We learn a little
about Shinobu's play style, which is that she
tends to lead with her body and then strike with
her hand when she hears the unique syllable.
Seems like a good strategy. Like, get in position
and then go from there. Yeah, give yourself some
momentum. Shinobu goes on a tear, but Chihaya
is able to defend a card using her left -handed
techniques. It's a start, but it's not going
to get her a win. She tries to come up with a
strategy to turn the game around, but she keeps
losing cards by the slightest amount. Shinobu
thinks that Chihaya might be giving up, but instead
Chihaya takes off the wrapping on her finger
because it's been slowing her down, so now it's
just normal finger. It's like a sheet of paper.
This isn't protective at all. It's got to be
like less than a gram. A little scratch paper
around a gum wrapper on your finger. It's like
it's like taking a Band -Aid off because it's
slowing you down. Like that was the last line
of defense. No, that was doing nothing. She never
sees this and is like, I don't get what your
deal is. You won the team tournament yesterday.
So like, why are you so like dedicated to playing
me? With her bandage off, Chihaya is able to
take Shinobu's best card, but it costs her. Her
finger throbs when she goes to pick it up and
she drops it. She pulls it together, though,
and hands over, and she sends Shinobu her best
card. And Shinobu's like, all right, fine, kid.
Shinobu immediately takes three more cards, and
then she takes a lot more cards as we transition
into Shinobu flashback time. Shinobu flashback!
Yeah! The flashback we actually want. The flashback
is back when Tiny Shinobu just joined her car
to society. Yeah, Dopey Shinobu is here. She
gets matched up with the girl her age, the one
from the other flashback show who she held back
against. That's it, though. That's the whole
flashback. They just gave it to us in a weird
order. Back in the real world match, Shinobu
needs only two more cards to win. Then we jump
back into the flashback. I should have just put
this all together I don't know why I wrote it
like this. We get the full scene in which Chinese
Shinobu plays her new peer. Shinobu actually
throws that game it turns out by two cards After
she takes a card that her opponent really liked
so it's like she takes her opponent's favorite
card and then she feels bad and then she throws
the game. Then the coach has her play an older
guy and she basically demolishes him as like
her little friend watches on Revealing that she
was she was throwing. I'm passing. Yeah, it's
terrible. Back in the present, Shinobu wins her
match by 23 cards, which I think was the exact
score line as last year. Yeah, no improvement.
She overhears Chihaya's coach telling her that
she shouldn't have removed her bandage just to
play. And Shinobu wonders if she should have
let Chihaya take some more cards, but then remembers
that isolation is her strength. No mercy. No.
Shinobu no mercy run. She starts to leave, but
then Chihaya catches her hand. Chihaya thanks
her for playing, and she says that they should
play again sometime. Shinobu's like, oh, okay,
yeah, when are we going to play again? And Chihaya
says, at the Queen match. This is such a nice
moment. Yeah, it's cute. Your recap did not encompass
the sweetness of that moment. Well, I kind of
feel like she was like, I mean, we could play
tomorrow. Like, all I want to do with people
is play them. When I tried to hang out with Arata
yesterday, I tried to play him, but he said no.
Well, yeah, she just it's just very like, you
know, he was scolding herself and then she didn't
need to because she wasn't going to view it as
a negative. She was happy to. She found one of
her people. It's cute. It is cute. Oh, yes. And
then I wish. The reason I didn't have it here
is because it disappoints me because that means
she's not going to play her again until like
later. But I'm like, just just go be friends.
Go to summer camp and be friends. Come on. You're
both in high school. Go hang out after the game.
What are we doing now? We don't even hang out
with our friend Arada. So why would we hang out
with Shinobu? Shinobu leaves thinking about that
girl from the flashbacks. She remembers her name
and is like, oh, yeah, that's right. I did have
friends at one point in my life. Yeah, and she
feels the flame of friendship once again. Oh,
and then she goes to sulk and then she scolds
herself for losing two cards against an injured
girl. So we've regressed immediately. Yeah. She
also goes to cry with her match or with her match
with Shinobu over her summer break is over now.
Dang elsewhere. We're all going to play mere
hours longer. Calm down. Okay, wow, she never
got to play errata. We're never gonna get going
to okay Maybe on their wedding day or some shit
like she hasn't been watching Elsewhere the real
hero Sumire wins her match by seven cards getting
her through the third round. She's like wow I
didn't expect to do this well Maybe everybody
else on the team is so good. I never realized
that I'm actually a pretty decent player. She's
like, maybe I can win the class D tournament
and then Tai Chi will like praise me and said
I did a good job. But then she immediately gets
eliminated in our next game. So RIP Sumire. I
was like, look at her being proud of herself.
Yeah, almost. Instead, Tsukuba makes to the semifinals
and then they get a text that Tai Chi is still
His tournament so Samiri's like I'm going to
go see him so she rushes over to his game and
Everybody is here. It's Tai Chi against retro
and Tai Chi is crushing him with just one card
to win He takes it as we cut to credits. I say
everyone is here, but now that I mentioned it
is she higher there now No way I'm gonna go I'm
gonna go look at the scene to make sure she's
not there. No, I feel like it's Supervisor Is
probably All right. All right. All right. I'm
at the scene. I'm at the scene. Oh god what Samira
is opening the door. They want to stream it to
you We can both watch it together play by play
All right, Samira, it's about to open the door
inside I see Nishida, Nishida's sister, the coach.
Oh my God, she's not there. She's not there.
Not there. I assume that Satomu and Kana aren't
there because they're both in their tournaments.
Yes. We didn't get any update on them. No. Oh
my God, Chihaya doesn't see him win, become Class
A. This isn't, this isn't because there was another
match going on. So this is like, it looked like
there's two matches going on. And then retro
and then another one. That's not the final. No,
I don't think so. Oh, yeah, there is one. Oh,
it's Rion. Rion's in the other one. Oh, snap.
Is Tai Chi gonna go against Rion? Yeah, she's
gonna have to. Are two little like pink haired
heaps going against each other? Yes. Maybe they
should become a couple. I don't know. What do
you think she's like? Do you think she's more
fun? No, I don't think so. No! You're right.
The iron mask also just got his dude into her.
Yeah, but that guy sucks. I know, but like, that's
obviously who she's stuck with. OK, so he does
not he does not become class A off of this. All
right. All right. He just beats retro. No possible
girls love shipping in this show. There's no
one I can fantasize about girls. You know, for
some shows I watch, I do the Bactyl test. I see
how long it takes. I didn't think about to do
that for this one. Yeah, but it wouldn't. Well,
I guess Kana and Chihaya talk. No, it's Chihaya
and her sister or Chihaya and her mom. I don't
think they can be related, though. I don't think
that really counts. It's not really in the spirit.
Oh, OK. I guess it technically counts. Yeah,
you're right. There really is no. I mean, I guess
like Chihaya and Shinobu is the closest you can
get as they both have the same fashion sense.
Uh huh. Yeah, that's true. No. Wait, I think
if there's any other. Here's the question. All
right. Do we think, do we think, what do we think
Chihaya's gonna do next episode? Do you think
she's gonna watch Taichi play in the final, or
do you think she's gonna watch Arata play Shinobu?
Well, surely by this point, we have to have,
it's the ending episode, so it has to be some
growth, so it's like, gee, do it, go watch Taichi.
And hopefully, I feel like that's what's gonna
happen. Like, it has to, for the sake of, like,
her not being a despicable protagonist. What
do you think? I think, dude, I think she's gonna
watch the Arata Shinobu one! Because she's, like,
obsessed with those two! If they go against each
other, yeah, you're right! Oh my gosh, she has
to watch them! Like, we need three more matches.
We need the Tai Chi Rion match so he can win
his final. We need the Arata Shinobu match, and
then we need whatever, whoever, like, I don't
know, I guess, like... But what happens, because
Arata has to win this for his parents to approve
for him to go to Tokyo, which must happen. So
he must beat Shinobu, right? I don't know. That's
going to be tough. I don't. I want Shinobu to
win because I think it's funny how she hates
him. Yeah. But then how can she keep up her little
facade of like, oh, I have so much to learn from
you, Arata. I hope. I can see, you know. Well,
she's doing that sarcastically, right? Like,
she's doing that like, fuck you. If she just
destroys him, then she can't do that anymore.
The bit is gone. He's probably going to win because
he needs to go to Tokyo as a threat. Unless it's
like, his parents, see how hard you try, blah,
blah, blah. Do you think it's going to go to
a 50 -50? Oh, a draw? Like, it has been every
other time this season? Oh, uh, luck of the draw.
Um... Yeah. That would be so dumb. Well, you
would think with, like, really good players that
does it happen that way or is, like... Like,
clearly she has played the Emperor. I really
just want to call them the King. You're right,
it messes me up that they aren't the same, like...
No. It's the Queen and the Master. Sister. Oh,
Master. I keep calling it the Master. But what's
the female... Queen master and the master is
just it's gender neutral, like it's not even
gendered. Oh, my God, you're right. But it could
be mistress if you're like referring to. But
like getting a master's degree in something doesn't
it's not a gendered thing. That's true. Yeah,
which is why it's ridiculous, but whatever. I
mean, these are translated words. I get it. I
don't know why they translate like this, though.
Well, you think it's like, oh, it translates,
but like, I don't like that translation. I guess
you can't just like - I mean, they say queen.
They straight up say the word queen. They say
the English word queen. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Love using English words. Uh, okay. Oh, they
should have like little junior, they should have
like the princess and, you know, like the little
pot version of Carter and there's like a little
youngster division. And then they have like little
kid. master and clean, but they're cleaning.
I need I need Shinobu to like hate her coach
who like separated from everybody. I mean, that
was like a grandma. No, no, no. But her coach
is the one that did it. Right. Because like her
grandma, she's like, you need to go do something.
You can't just do nothing. All right. Right.
I don't think the coach plays enough of a role
to. get that kind of consideration. She doesn't
go to the society anymore. At the end, he's like,
oh, you should come back to society. She's like,
yeah, I'll think about it. And it's like, no,
she's not going back. No. Yeah. Yeah. I need
that energy. I need like angry. My whole youth
has been wasted on this thing. Obviously, I feel
like at this point, he's probably like she's
the last cause. Look at her. Look at what she's
wearing. Like he can't expect that. Or he has
not had control over her for a long time, I imagine.
Yeah. Was it been like two or three years that
she's been queen? I can't remember. Um, I think,
yeah. Maybe like two years. Recently queen, I
feel like. It had to be enough for her to beat
What's -Her -Face, the old one, and then like
the old one to retire briefly. Because she was
only the queen for a year. Yeah, she was queen
and then it was Shinobu. And then got to take
you up. And then. I think maybe it's like she
just retired for like she took the next year
off and then she came back. Yeah. So I would
say this is year three. OK. That's my guess.
Reigning queen. Well, we like this queen a lot
more than the last queen in our last series.
I can tell you that freaking Queen Shinobu trumps
Queen Marie Antoinette. That's for sure. Oh,
OK. I was like, who was the last thing? Oh, yeah,
Marie Antoinette. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, that's
the queen lineup. I didn't even think about it,
that's good. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess it is
her. Did you know that if they were gambling,
Shinobu would just destroy Marie Antoinette and
get like a bajillion dollars? The burns would
be so good. Her whips. She probably would just
stop. She's just like, I feel bad playing you.
This feels bad. I don't think you should be the
queen of France. You should step down. Hmm. Well,
I don't see her being a very attentive queen
either. I feel like now just be on a little weird
nomaru equivalent. And she'd be like, why are
you talking to me? Yeah. Oh, God. Well, uh, we
got three more episodes of season two of Chihayafuru.
That's right. This tournament has to end. So
you find out. Okay, well, are we gonna reach
our goal? Well, obviously we're not winning Rank
A, but will Class B, C, and D, will all of those
be taken home by Mizuzawa players or freaking
Tsukuba gonna rank up? Yeah. What's gonna happen?
I forgot about Tsukuba. Who cares? I don't care
if he breaks out. They probably will. Well that
way we continue to have someone in each class.
We'll still have Sumire and D, and then he'll
be C, and then, I don't know, Kana or Satomo
will be B, and then Taichi hopefully rank A?
Yeah. For the love of God Jesus Christ I'm running
out of patience to feel sorry for him. No, I'll
never not feel sorry Perpetually sad boy. Oh
my god our poor little meow meow our little sad
little boy Why are you so pathetic Tai Chi you're
so good at every literally everything else putting
himself through this thing that just isn't working.
Oh, my God. Oh, OK. Well, it'll be interesting
to see him in Rionne, I guess. We've never seen
him play against a girl, right? We've never seen.
Well, he must have because he played the all
girls. Oh, the girl. That's true. That's true.
OK. Never mind. Well, he didn't actually get
to watch the match, but now I want more Tai Chi.
Yeah, I want. Well, because. So it's left and
we have everyone but the higher playing. So we
should be getting their matches now, but only
for three episodes. That's not enough time. Yeah,
we have. I think we have escaped Chihaya games.
But what last season one ended losers for the
year, but they're champions team wise. That's
true. They are. They are the winners. I missed
it. And I try to remember I. Don't remember season
three like at all, but It's got to be like oh
returning to champ Was it a fluke or are they
gonna are they a powerhouse school now blah blah
blah that kind of thing God, this can't be that.
It can't be that. It cannot be. This TV show
cannot just be them repeating these three years,
three years in a row. Yeah. Right. No, we have
to qualify as queen and master. She has to go
to the fucking master's thing or something at
some point, right? Like we can't be doing the
team tournament again. Right. Because they already
won. Done. I don't care about them, like, you
know, defending their trophy, like whatever.
Mm hmm. There's no way. There's no way. Right.
Right. It's going to happen. I wouldn't. Yeah,
I was going to say, don't get your hopes up.
We've been disappointed time and time again.
There's no way. There's just no way. Come on.
You ask for things and then you get them. But
only the idea of them and never an explored.
I feel like that doesn't count as me getting
them then. OK, well, any. predictions before
we wrap it up here. I'm going to be mad. I'm
going to be mad about how I can predict how you're
going to feel at the end of it. I'm going to
be better than how the show ends. I think I think
Arada is going to lose by a little bit. And that's
going to be a reason for her or him and her not
to talk to each other. because then Tai Chi is
going to win and she's going to be like, oh,
who do I do I go celebrate with Tai Chi or with
comfort errata? And instead, she's going to not
be able to do either of those things because
it's that kind of show prediction. Uh -huh. That's
that's my prediction. Just make a choice. Now,
Sumeru will then. Be there for Tai Chi, but he
won't care because all he'll think about is that
Chi Hai is not there. Oh, Lord. OK, well, if
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we'll announce what we're covering next. Next
episode. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I want to double down
on what we wait. No, we already we had talked
about this. OK. Yeah. No, I have a good idea
of what we're going to cover. It's a short one.
So you guys won't. be getting dragged through
another hi -ya situation. Should we announce
it now, so people have time to look it up? Should
we? Okay, a sign of affection. Yeah, so next
we're gonna watch a sign of affection that's
on Crunchyroll. It's 12 episodes, so it should
be nice and short. Yes, and it's gonna be yet
another new, we're in college. We have a full
protagonist, different experience. uh, a sign
of affection play on words for like sign language
since she's deaf and her, uh, romantic interest,
you know, kind of learns it to, you know, well,
nice feels and complicated stuff based off that,
uh, different art style. And yeah, just like
a sweet, cozy, blushy show. So that'll be, it'll
be nice to have some romance. around again, been
a hot second since that. That's true. We're not
getting in here. So heard here. Yeah. And yeah.
So get ready for that. I don't know how many
episodes recover. It'll it'll depend on when
I watch them, if it'll be two or three. Stretch
it out. Yeah. It depends on how it really depends
on it. Do I have a lot of things to say? Slash
is this difficult to summarize? That's true,
because it will be a lot of gesture. Well, I
guess it will be captions for whatever they're
saying anyway. We'll figure it out. But yeah,
look forward to that. It's a newer one. So here's
hoping that that brings in some new listeners.
and a show I have read a lot of. I think I read
about 10 volumes of the manga, but I didn't finish
it. But so I've like at least consumed what's
going to be covered in this. And then Joe will
have the fresh perspective again. And yeah, so
that'll be good. And we're going to keep cranking
out those Jurassic World bonus episodes. So if
you haven't already listened to the first one
that just came out. More to come. Yeah, I'm excited
to hear I can't wait to hear what Joe thinks
just rebirth. Uh, yeah, that should be I've got
thoughts for sure. Okay. Well cool. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. What did we learn? Um, what did we
learn from these episodes? Just don't never never
have peers always isolate yourself That's your
true strength, Shinobu. As someone... Turn it!
Always dress for the occasion, always wear undergarments
related to the... you could exploit for respect
points. I think you should turn your 23 -card
win into a bad thing, actually. I think you should
feel ashamed for winning by 23 cards. You lost
two cards. What a loser you are. Uh -huh. Is
there anything funnier happen? Make sure to just
give your love rival huge psychic damage accidentally
before he has to play a tournament the next day.
That's fun. Unintended injury to Tai Chi who
doesn't need any more. If Samiri is about to
ask you questions that are critical to my enjoyment
of the show, don't drag her off and say you also
have these questions. Let her ask the damn question.
I'm imagining the two of them talking to each
other. I feel like I can only see it where it's
her talking to him. because he doesn't even talk
to the people he does like less people he doesn't
like. Make him do it. They keep giving him an
out, getting like, you know, it's like, oh, I
don't have to answer questions. Make him make
him give an answer. That's true. That's right.
Yeah. Come on. Yeah. All right. On that note.
Catch y 'all next time. Bye bye Joe Joe. Okay.
Bye. I'm very excited To like sing a little ending
jingle You were doing that