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Hello, everyone. It's your girl, Sarah, introducing

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you to your podcast of choice, Show Joe, where

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I am joined, as always, by Joe of Show Joe, our

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lovely newbie to Dojo anime. What? What? Nothing.

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No, keep going. Sorry. OK. I thought you were

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saying something else or that you were just saying

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I'm a newbie. I'm like, damn. No. Catching strays

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in the intro. Our newbie. But the the one bringing

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the knowledge. So who's the real newbie? You're

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the educated. Yes. You're like. I don't think

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so. I'm I'm Mr. Educated and I have deep thoughts

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about things and then Sarah can only say Taiji's

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cute, like 500 times per recording. I mean, that

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is most the show, to be honest. Yes. To be fair,

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that's a lot of what's going on in Shaifuru.

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Yes, that's true. There's not a lot we can like

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deeply discuss currently in the show. And yes,

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joined by Moxie the cat. Not that you guys can

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hear her, but yes. Yep. So late night recording,

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so forgive me for, well, not that our intros

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are ever coherent, so you guys are used to it

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by now, but yes. The Shojo podcast covering Chihaya

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Furu again. We're almost done with season two.

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Second, what do you call it? Penultimate, what

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do you call her? Oh, penultimate. Yeah. The one

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before the ultimate. Yep. Yeah. Yep. I was using

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all those cool turns. It's like it flew by. I

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don't know about that. You know what else didn't

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fly by? Not that I'm going to get into it because

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we'll cover it in our bonus episode. Oh, no.

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Oh, man. I saw the new I saw Jurassic World rebirth.

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Yeah. Ah. Ah. I'll be seeing it in like two weeks.

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Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about that then. But oh,

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God. Yeah, that was something. Well, apparently

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it's doing really well. It's like doing well

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for 2025. So I'm like, cool. They're going to

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be like, oh, this is a good movie. Let's make

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another. I am like, so I haven't watched Fallen

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Kingdom yet. The next one in our thing, because

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one of my friends learned I was doing this and

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she's like, you can't watch this without me.

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I want to rewatch that. But she's out of town,

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so I can't watch it till Thursday. OK, well,

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let's get some extra thoughts to share with.

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with the podcast. That's right. Yeah, I rewatched.

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I rewatched Fallen Kingdom Dominion and then

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I watched the new one. Oh, man. I just watched

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all of them. So. Oh, jeez. OK. But yeah. How

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much we liked Worlds. I'm not. The hopes are

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not high. Yes. Well, I think if anything out

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of. Our coverage, Jurassic Park 3 has better

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standing in my eyes, thanks to you, Joe. I feel

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like it was worth it. Yeah. Yes. After watching

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it and I had and I was like decked out. I was

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like, oh, this is embarrassing. People are probably

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think that I thought that this was good. I came

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here decked out in my stuff. You never know with

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that stuff. I just know that every time I go

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see a movie with my family, I'm like, I need

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to never do this again. And then I keep doing

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it. And it's just because I'm trying to focus

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and like talking on both sides of me. And I'm

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just like, your family talks during movies and

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movie theaters. Yes. Are they like hooping and

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hollering or are they like? No, no, no. I think

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I've mentioned it, but in time, I'm watching

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something with my mom. She's like, who is that?

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And I'm just like, I don't know mom. We haven't

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found out yet. I've watched the same amount as

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you have. I don't have all the answers. So kind

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of that. And so I specifically was like, I don't

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want to sit next to you mom, sorry. So I like

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sat like one person in between us and that wasn't

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enough. Oh, my God. So I and then my kid brother

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was like even more. So he's like, I want to be

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that as far away from mom as possible. So he's

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on the end. But yeah, got to have my Elmo draft

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house fried pickles. So if nothing else, there's

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that. And I got a sweet that I had like a Jaws

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50 at the anniversary shirt that was super soft.

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So I got that. Oh, nice. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, I'm

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trying to think. I finished Rune Factory 5. So

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boom, done. Uninstalled. Oh. Moving on. OK, we're

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done. Yes, I'm done. And I picked up Claire.

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Was it Claire Expedition or Expedition 33 Claire?

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Blah, blah, blah. Whatever crazy long name. Yeah.

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During the summer sale. So maybe I'll. I picked

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up some other small things. I'm like, I don't

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know that I'm like ready to invest into another

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big game. So I may pick up like I also got that

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game Gris, which is like really pretty looking,

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you know, like the chick with the. Oh, yeah,

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with like the crow or whatever Bob. I play something.

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Yeah, something like laid back and not stupid,

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you know, not at least 60 hour something like

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20 hour long, maybe. Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

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Yeah. There's flooding, flash flooding. Yeah,

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I heard about that. Freaking, like, child girls

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camp. You'd wash away, like, really sad stuff.

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Are you just bringing that up? I'm just trying

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to think of relevant things. I'm sorry. About,

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like, tragic news that happened kind of close

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to you. How close was that to you? That was probably,

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like, no, not near me. More like probably East

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Austin maybe? But I know people near me had like

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power going out. Luckily that did not end up

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happening to me. But yeah, so nothing. I don't

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know. Poppy's getting better. Pepper, official

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name. Not as much of a nightmare. So, so there's

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hope. That's good. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm

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like shredding myself up. I got like a giant

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bruise on one leg and just like had a guffle

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with my blinds earlier. So then my other leg's

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all jacked up. But yeah. From the dog? From the

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puppy? No, sorry. I was like running. I was like

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because I was dog sitting my co -writer's dog.

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So I had three dogs for like. Oh. Five days.

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Yeah. And so it was like balancing like, OK,

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because she's kind of clingy. So it'd be like,

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OK, I got to like, so I'd like put her and the

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puppy out on my patio and then like run and then

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take cricket out and then come back. But like

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one of the times like it was like trying to keep

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them on the patio. And so I like kind of like

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close the door and then the like blinds like

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banged into my knee and scraped it off. Yeah,

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but. That's no good. It's back to two dogs again.

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Oh, Lord. Love Island's almost over. And then

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Big Brother starts. So it will be this will become

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the Big Brother. Oh, the handoff. Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, and I watched the first episode of an anime.

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It's it's like one of the that's a name for something

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that doesn't, you know, like they pick they like.

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Little light novel adaptation. Yes. Well, it's

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like could be interpreted as like a title that

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applies to the show, but not really. It's called

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something like, I don't know. Was it something

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my my sister's ex fiance, something something.

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So is this called Betrothed to my sister's ex?

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Yes, that's what it's called. The first episode

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is on Crunchyroll. It's OK. The guy's cute, but

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it's like. her sister in the title dies the first

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episode. Wait, literally just there to be like,

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oh, my sister's ex, but but it's not even like

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he was into her sister. He thought her sister

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was her. And that's why. So it's like, oh, that's

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not as juicy. It's just for the name that they.

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made that, you know, and then kill her off immediately.

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So that's lame. I'm against that. I want some

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messy, messy bullshit. Well, that's like there's

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a lot of those in the in the web comics. And

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this is like one of the first like probably based

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off a web comic or at least inspired by that

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genre anime I'm watching. Mostly just because

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the guy's cute. And then again. This is the same

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thing as Apothecary Diaries, where it's like,

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oh, poor girl has freckles. And then once we

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doll her up, she doesn't have freckles anymore

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because freckles indicate ugliness for some reason.

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And I guess because they like value flawless

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skin. But I'm like, good grief. You're blemished.

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They look cute with the freckles. It's more identifiable.

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We're going to have to cover Apothecary Diaries.

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Yes, we are. I know the second season just came

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out. that I feel like, do you know anything about

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that series? I know a little bit about it, yeah.

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I've seen, like, you know, gif sets of it and

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stuff like that, so I've, like, I have some knowledge

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about what's going on. But the guy, the romantic

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male lead, the female lead thinks he's a Munich.

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Yes. Yeah. It's very funny. The premise sounds

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pretty good. I don't know about the execution.

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It's very funny, because, like, my mom will now

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talk to some of her students about anime, or,

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like, it'll come up and they'll be, and she can

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talk about it now, but they're like, She's like,

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yeah, one of my students recommended I watch

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this. I'm like, oh, yeah, we're probably going

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to have to cover that at some point. And she's

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like, yeah, I didn't think I'd ever have conversations

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like this. I'm like, yeah, me neither. OK, I

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love that so much. Oh, my gosh. Your mom's a

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cool teacher. Well, she just opened. She just

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thought, well, what kind of is it like one on

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one apprenticeship and not like lecture style

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or she just like, listen up? Classroom. I think

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she does like seminar stuff sometimes. The proud

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mother of a boy who has a black cat. I don't

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think this is what she's talking about during

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class. Okay. Oh boy. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, Joe,

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what have you been up to? I watched two animated

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movies. Uh -huh. The first one was I think it's

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just called K -Pop Demon Hunters. Is that what

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it's called? Oh, I've heard good things. How

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is it? Or is it just fine? It's just cool looking.

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It looks great. I think it looks really fun or

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like it looks really good. They do a lot of like

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really fun like animation with the faces. You

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know, you never really know with like the 3D

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animation how it's going to be. But I think it

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turned out really good. OK. The music's fine.

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They do like little I guess they're they're not

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I mean, I guess they're not music videos because

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it just happens in the car like it happens diegetically.

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But it's basically like a music video that happens

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inside. Oh, OK. The movie. Oh, that looks great.

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The plot is exactly what you think it's going

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to be at all points in time. So that's not interesting,

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but it looks really good. And it's like a fun

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watch. Mostly just a visual spectacle. OK. Yeah,

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it's just like a fun movie. I had a good time.

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I watched it with some friends. There's a big

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doofy tiger. It's a movie. That's good. It's

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a movie. OK. We love playing tigers in anime

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where it doesn't make sense. Just like, just

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like. It's like a magical tiger. It's good. Whatever

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that one anime. With the Kaiju 8 or whatever.

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Oh, yeah. She just has a tiger on her team and

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no, it's never explained. That's pretty good,

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actually. Mm hmm. But yeah, no, it's fun. It's

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good. It's on. What is it? It's like Netflix

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or something. Yeah, probably. It's a pretty good

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time. Is Netflix the new country role for anime?

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Even though they they even though. OK, I saw

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a thing like that. It was like, hey, the fragrant

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flower blooms. Blah, blah, blah is coming. And

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then, psych, we're pushing it. I don't know what

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any of that meant. OK. Yeah. OK. No one else.

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So sorry for you. Sorry that happened. I'm looking

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forward to. OK. We need our. Shoujo -esque, like,

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sub -series that covers all the things that should

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be Shoujo but aren't, because there's so many

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of those that I feel like are relevant to what

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we do. Anyways. I mean, we can do whatever. That's

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right. We can do whatever we want. We can do

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whatever we want. But yeah, so that was really

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good. Cute. The other one I watched was the Ghost

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in the Shell standalone complex movie, Solid

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State Society, which is like a movie that, like,

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caps off the series. We love alliteration. Yeah.

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Solid State Society is good. It's a good name.

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OK. You know, the localization team was like,

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hell, yeah. Yeah, and yeah, it's like more ghosts

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in the shell. Standalone complex the TV show

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it's like, you know how season two ended bad

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and I was like season two sucks And I was like,

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ooh, they have this movie. What if this movie

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sucks, but now the movie's like perfectly fine

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It's like fun. It has like you get the major

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being cool. You get some weird cop shit happening

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Togasa sucks. It's great We get like angsty butto

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which is always the best when like The big guy

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is like all sad because because the major isn't

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there. Oh What did she think of the live action

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one that they made with Scarlett Johansson? Did

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you see that? I didn't watch it. I could not.

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I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I probably

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will at some point because I hate myself. But

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I've heard only bad things and also it looks

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terrible. And everything I've heard about the

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way they adapted it is also quite bad. Yeah.

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The thing is like the Ghost in the Shell movie

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is great. I haven't read the manga, but I have

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it. So I'm probably going to at some point because

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I read manga extremely slowly is what I've learned

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about myself. I guess there's like the like...

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Japanese made live -action or like K -drama stuff

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based off things, but like are there any good

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Hollywood made anime things, right? We had like

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the weird Dragon Ball with the guy from Shameless

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and that. And what else has there been that's

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been live -action anime? I mean, there was the

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live -action Death Note, which I've heard is

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good, not because it's Death Note, it's good

00:15:25.779 --> 00:15:28.580
because it's stupid. Western -made, is it? Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. They made an American version of

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it, and it's stupid. Oh, I didn't know that.

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Apparently it's awful, but it's kind of fun in

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an awful way. That's my understanding. And Pacific

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Rim was just their original thing? That's not

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based off anything? Yeah, that's an original

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thing. Maybe they should just make more live

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-action. There's probably something that isn't

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quite... Mac, any live action stuff that's worth

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seeing? Let's someone ask us on Reddit. Speed

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racer apparently is pretty good. I think the

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Wachowskis made that Battle Angel Alita. People

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say, yeah, I've heard people like that. Yeah,

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I just the the I guess it's probably like intentional

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uncanny valley, but like her giant eyeball, like

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the body proportions of her freaked me out. I

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think one of my coworkers is an extra in that

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movie. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. And then

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people are saying, like, I guess like the one

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piece at a live action, which I did not like,

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but it was actively bad. It was fine. Well, the

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bar is low. So Zoro was hot. That carried the

00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:38.460
entire series. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean,

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people are like citing the Japanese live action

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versions of stuff, which are probably OK, because

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at least you don't have the problem of them trying

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to localize it in a weird way. Yeah. So but I've

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I've never heard any of those actually worth

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watching as people just kind of watch those.

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It's like a curiosity. So I don't think any of

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them are good. But then again, it's like hard

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for me to think of any thing that started off

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as animated that was adapted to live action.

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That was good. That's a that's a good point.

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Like comics to live action. Lots of those animation

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to live action. Yeah, I guess if it's like animation

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is. Is animation just better than live act? I

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don't know. It's like I think so. I think so,

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too. Or because it's like similar stories can

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be told in both. But like it's more interesting

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to see it in an animated version, because then

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that's something different than what like you

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see every day just living as a person. I can't

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think of any. The ones people are mentioning

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are like not really like adaptations like the

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Scooby Doo live action movie. It's kind of it's

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almost like a parody of. Yeah. Scooby Doo, which

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is I like the live action movie, but I would

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not consider that an adaptation because that's

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just kind of like, well, it's not adapting a

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movie. It's just like a version. Yep. People

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say in the live action jungle book, which is

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good because it's not it's a different thing

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than the animated jungle book. So I feel like

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that doesn't count either. Oh, I haven't I've

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only seen one live action since I've been doing

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at Disney and does Cinderella. I haven't seen

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any sense, so I have no idea. I don't know. I

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keep seeing, like, oh, Disney is, like, gonna

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go back to, you know, 2D animation because these

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live actions, blah, blah, blah. Do we really

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believe it, though? Ugh, I hope so. I mean, I

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think it would be good if they dedicated their

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time to not make garbage. Yeah! Because that's

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all they've been doing for like five years. I

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mean, they've been releasing other movies. I

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know they've been releasing stuff. I just haven't.

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Well, yeah, right. At some point, the wheels

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have to fall off because they've acquired Marvel

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and Star Wars, and they haven't super done anything

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meaningful with Marvel, at least. I guess I haven't

00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:53.339
watched Andor, but apparently that's good. Yeah,

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I didn't watch the newer season of that. I mean,

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it's much more like, oh, no, the TV kind of thing.

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It's like like it's a lot of people talking.

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But it's good. I mean, if you like people talk,

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it's good. I think it's good. I think I mentioned

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it this new podcast I'm listening to what went

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wrong, but they covered the Phantom Menace and

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they played like clips. I guess there's like

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clips of like the top three candidates for Anakin

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Skywalker in that movie. And there was a kid

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that was like had a really good like read like

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Arguably the better choice is George Lucas. Like,

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is he like a bad director? No, I think the answer

00:19:42.099 --> 00:19:45.579
is no. I don't think there's things that he's

00:19:45.579 --> 00:19:47.500
not good at. Like the thing about George Lucas,

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like the thing like my understanding of George

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Lucas's kind of career as like what type of director

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is he like really pioneered a lot of like. Special

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effects. Yeah. And writes terrible dialogue and

00:20:02.849 --> 00:20:04.950
also doesn't give good direction for actors.

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He doesn't like people, so it's like I feel like

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he would be better. But he wants to control everything.

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That's like that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

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know enough about him, like as a director on

00:20:17.670 --> 00:20:21.490
other stuff. I just know like that kind of is

00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:25.769
the gist of it. Yeah, but made some good movies.

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We made some movies. Oh, man. I forgot about

00:20:29.470 --> 00:20:31.069
the light. Everybody hates a live action Lee

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Lowenstitch movie. I only heard awful things

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about it. All I've heard is something about the

00:20:35.529 --> 00:20:38.170
ending. Oh, and that they, like, took away the

00:20:38.170 --> 00:20:42.349
one guy from prostressing. What was his name?

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Oh, Pleakley. Yeah. Those are the two things

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I've heard about it. Well, are you going to cover

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it? How far is your Disney movie watching going?

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Are you going to get to that? People keep going

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on vacation, so we haven't watched any more yet.

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Damn. Next we need to watch some other random

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thing and like Ichabod in Mr. Toad or like Frog

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and Toad or something. Oh, is that Disney? And

00:21:02.890 --> 00:21:06.430
then we're on to Cinderella. Yes, it is. The

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book. Is that a book series? It is a book series.

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Yeah. I mean, they adapted that into like a series

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of shorts or something. So yeah, that's the next

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on the list. Oh, God. They just need a remake.

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Let's. Yeah, OK. I've already said this on podcast.

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Just remake things that weren't remade well the

00:21:23.029 --> 00:21:28.450
first time. remake diatopia, remake Aragon, like,

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oh, I don't know. Freaking. I don't know. It's.

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Yeah. Oh, the problem is that like the only way

00:21:38.809 --> 00:21:41.690
the only way that like the business people see

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it is like you have to remake stuff that made

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money originally, so it'll make money a second

00:21:45.950 --> 00:21:49.430
time. Yeah. Well, in the podcast, I learned that,

00:21:49.690 --> 00:21:55.740
like, is whatever. Dala's plan is super rip off

00:21:55.740 --> 00:21:58.799
of Waterfall City from Dinotopia, but that George

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Lucas just called James Gurney and he was like,

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It's fine, man. I was just kind of surprised

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to see my thing in the movie. Sorry, anyways.

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Anything else? And Joel? I don't think I built

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a new gunpla. It's enormous. You want to see

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how big it is? They're going to get it and show

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you how big, since we're just leaving everything

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not to talk about the show right now. Because

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our coverage has been like really short lately,

00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.180
so might as well extend this this bit. So in

00:22:30.180 --> 00:22:32.619
comparison, right, this is what this is what

00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:34.420
one of them looks like. They're about this big,

00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:37.440
right? Uh huh. This is a normal one. This is

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.339
the Alex. This is the one that got the stickers

00:22:40.339 --> 00:22:43.519
wet. Yes. Yeah, I did. They all turned out OK,

00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:45.880
though. But this is the Alex from War in the

00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.349
Pocket. You see how like nice and like Uh -huh.

00:22:48.410 --> 00:22:50.589
Size it is. It's like this big. OK, cool. This

00:22:50.589 --> 00:22:54.289
is what I built. It's called the Psycho Gundam.

00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:58.829
Psycho Gundam. Love it. So like, you might be

00:22:58.829 --> 00:23:03.170
wondering why it's called that. It's huge. These

00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:07.589
are on the same scale. What do you mean? Oh,

00:23:07.589 --> 00:23:11.150
like, OK, there's a scale. So like, I have ones

00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:13.210
that are bigger, but they're like at a different.

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It's a 160 instead of a 144 scale or whatever.

00:23:16.569 --> 00:23:19.559
Gotcha. So, yeah, this is how big it is canonically.

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It's like about twice the size. And it's just

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enormous. It's like ridiculous and huge, and

00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.920
it like transforms into a big block and flies

00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:30.279
around. It's really dumb. And I've wanted it

00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.259
for a long time just because of how stupidly

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:36.279
huge it is. And I finally got it. Nice. Yeah.

00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:39.200
So that's what I've been up to. I built that

00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:43.619
this weekend. Gunpla? Just like Gundam Play,

00:23:43.819 --> 00:23:46.220
because that's just the abbreviated. of that,

00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.660
or is that the brand? Maybe I. Yeah, it's like

00:23:49.660 --> 00:23:52.940
the brand thing. I don't know. I just read your

00:23:52.940 --> 00:23:58.880
shirt, too. Let's see. What else can we talk

00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:02.000
about other than Chi Hai Fu? I think we got it.

00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:04.920
I think we I think we've exhausted it. OK, we're

00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.680
almost done. We're almost done. You're making

00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:10.900
it sound like this isn't your one of your favorite

00:24:10.900 --> 00:24:15.710
anime. It just doesn't hold well under a microscope.

00:24:16.250 --> 00:24:19.470
All right. Take it away, Joe. Let's let's turn

00:24:19.470 --> 00:24:21.809
that microscope on and examine it, shall we?

00:24:22.549 --> 00:24:26.970
Yeah. Chihayafuru Episode 20 is called The Fall

00:24:26.970 --> 00:24:30.289
Patty Shacks. It's just the end of the title.

00:24:30.390 --> 00:24:31.569
I thought there was going to be more in there,

00:24:31.569 --> 00:24:35.150
wasn't it? The Fall Patty. Is it not the the

00:24:35.150 --> 00:24:38.910
Patty Shack Falls? No. The Fall Patty Shack.

00:24:39.089 --> 00:24:40.750
That's what I have. I think it's fall like it's

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the season. OK. We open on Mizuzawa being awarded

00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:47.900
as the champions of the team tournament. Chihaya

00:24:47.900 --> 00:24:50.079
gets to wave a big flag and we get a small recap

00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:52.160
of this arc as we all think about how nice it

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.460
is for the team to get a win. Chihaya starts

00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:56.420
crying, but then all of a sudden her finger starts

00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:59.059
to throb, and it looks like it's still injured,

00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:01.660
or it's injured worse as the OP plays. After

00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:03.420
the ceremony, they all get ready to head out

00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:05.980
for the day when Chihaya asks if they think the

00:25:05.980 --> 00:25:07.839
hospital is still open, and their coach takes

00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:09.819
Chihaya to a clinic as the rest of the team heads

00:25:09.819 --> 00:25:14.019
home. Though, this is not in Tokyo. Are they

00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:18.460
not staying somewhere this time? Like... No,

00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:22.500
they are. because Sumire in the for like 10 episodes

00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:24.599
ago was like, oh, yeah, we're going to like all

00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:26.619
these things are going to happen on this vacation.

00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:31.000
Right. No, it's not. But before they go, Arata

00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:35.480
comes up to Taichi and gives him some sake Miyanji,

00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:37.819
which is like the thing from the area he's from

00:25:37.819 --> 00:25:41.059
or whatever. And he's like, hey, where is Chihaya

00:25:41.059 --> 00:25:43.059
going? But instead of answering, Taichi changes

00:25:43.059 --> 00:25:46.750
the subject. Uh, we see Retro's team book it

00:25:46.750 --> 00:25:48.049
out of the building and we learn that they won

00:25:48.049 --> 00:25:51.230
third place over the girls team. So good for

00:25:51.230 --> 00:25:55.829
them, I guess. Joe. Yeah? It would be such a

00:25:55.829 --> 00:25:59.609
drag. If there's societal expectation that you

00:25:59.609 --> 00:26:02.009
had to get souvenirs for like everyone in your

00:26:02.009 --> 00:26:04.470
life anytime you visited someone. That would

00:26:04.470 --> 00:26:07.049
suck so bad. I would, I would, I would have to

00:26:07.049 --> 00:26:10.490
just not visit anybody ever. For real? I'm like,

00:26:10.509 --> 00:26:13.089
I'm sorry, I can't visit you. i'm like i can't

00:26:13.089 --> 00:26:16.430
afford that that's yeah that's pretty bad hold

00:26:16.430 --> 00:26:18.950
on give me give me one second vamp vamp for like

00:26:18.950 --> 00:26:25.190
a okay here we go um i have a ant bite on my

00:26:25.190 --> 00:26:28.329
toe that's bothering okay i'm really coming back

00:26:28.329 --> 00:26:31.089
are you serious that was your that was your buying

00:26:31.089 --> 00:26:35.470
time yes uh i got groceries like a grown -up

00:26:35.470 --> 00:26:41.130
today all right wow okay Outside Sumire gets

00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:43.809
the news that this show is about a love triangle.

00:26:43.950 --> 00:26:45.490
And she's like, what the hell? And immediately

00:26:45.490 --> 00:26:47.390
she's like, hey, Arata, what type of women are

00:26:47.390 --> 00:26:49.150
you into? You got a girlfriend, what's the deal

00:26:49.150 --> 00:26:51.130
with that? But before he can answer, the rest

00:26:51.130 --> 00:26:54.589
of the team drags her off, leaving just Tai Chi

00:26:54.589 --> 00:26:56.869
and Arata alone together. I do like that Kana's

00:26:56.869 --> 00:26:59.670
like, I have the same questions as you do, but

00:26:59.670 --> 00:27:02.609
still don't like... You can't ask him. Let her

00:27:02.609 --> 00:27:05.910
answer the damn question, Arata. Well, at least

00:27:05.910 --> 00:27:10.950
it's finally out there. Painful. It's painful

00:27:10.950 --> 00:27:13.609
that I know this is all we're gonna get. Arana

00:27:13.609 --> 00:27:17.769
tells Taichi that the only team for him is Chihaya

00:27:17.769 --> 00:27:19.769
Taichi and himself on a team together. Remember

00:27:19.769 --> 00:27:21.549
when we played when we were like six years old

00:27:21.549 --> 00:27:25.329
or whatever? That's the only team for me. And

00:27:25.329 --> 00:27:26.970
then he's like, oh, that's kind of embarrassing

00:27:26.970 --> 00:27:29.009
to say. Anyway, hey Taichi, I'm planning to go

00:27:29.009 --> 00:27:32.500
to college in Tokyo. And Taichi's like, oh. Uh,

00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:34.720
which one? And Arata's like, I don't know, whoever

00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:38.299
gives me a scholarship. Taichi's like, oh my

00:27:38.299 --> 00:27:40.299
God, he's actually going to be in the show now.

00:27:40.660 --> 00:27:43.440
Okay. You guys are, I guess it's like a year

00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.359
and a half away, but also like where else is

00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:48.960
he going to go to college? I feel like if he's

00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.819
a smart kid and he's good at CARTA and there's

00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:54.440
scholarships for that, I feel like there's a

00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:56.900
good chance he is going to wind up in Tokyo anyways.

00:27:57.339 --> 00:27:59.589
So, but we just got - I don't know. Okay, but

00:27:59.589 --> 00:28:01.650
then great. What, Taisy's gonna be thinking about

00:28:01.650 --> 00:28:04.190
this all day? What are you doing, tournament

00:28:04.190 --> 00:28:07.529
tomorrow? It's so funny for him to be like, hey,

00:28:07.529 --> 00:28:10.349
I'm gonna come swoop your girl. And he's like,

00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:13.269
okay, cool. After being like, you guys are the

00:28:13.269 --> 00:28:17.210
only teammates for me. Oh my god. It's gotta

00:28:17.210 --> 00:28:20.450
be intentional, right? The like - No, I don't

00:28:20.450 --> 00:28:22.990
think it's like - Even the children, they acknowledged

00:28:22.990 --> 00:28:26.569
that they were like opposing forces going for

00:28:26.569 --> 00:28:30.970
Chihaya. And so - Arada, who hasn't had any development

00:28:30.970 --> 00:28:34.950
since then, is still team, like, you know, suck

00:28:34.950 --> 00:28:36.849
at Tai Chi, because he doesn't know the tragic

00:28:36.849 --> 00:28:41.779
backstory of Tai Chi's life. I don't think so.

00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:43.460
I don't think there's any mouse in this. I think

00:28:43.460 --> 00:28:45.599
like Arata actually thinks him and Tai Chi are

00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.339
just like buddies. Friends? Yeah, no. He doesn't

00:28:48.339 --> 00:28:51.259
understand that he's like the bane to Tai Chi's

00:28:51.259 --> 00:28:54.200
existence. Tai Chi says to himself that Chihaya

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:56.440
will want to be on a team with Arata, but he

00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.539
doesn't. He wants it just to be Tai Chi and Chihaya

00:28:59.539 --> 00:29:02.299
because he's the only one involved at all in

00:29:02.299 --> 00:29:06.220
this freaking love triangle. He's like, we're

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:08.319
love rivals, damn it. That's what the show is

00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.539
supposed to be about. So how about, hey, Arada,

00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:14.619
open your circle to more than just two people

00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:17.039
you knew for a little bit as a 12 -year -old.

00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:21.519
Like, don't say never. Look, I'm having a blast

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:25.119
with my new past me. It's like this, you could

00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:28.710
do. Yeah, too bad. At the clinic, the doctor

00:29:28.710 --> 00:29:30.450
has x -rayed Chihaya's hand but can't really

00:29:30.450 --> 00:29:32.390
find anything wrong with it. The doctor's like,

00:29:32.670 --> 00:29:34.390
I guess I'll just write you a referral to an

00:29:34.390 --> 00:29:36.670
actual hospital and advises Chihaya not to do

00:29:36.670 --> 00:29:38.509
any strenuous activity until she gets it checked

00:29:38.509 --> 00:29:41.269
out so that it doesn't get any worse. Chihaya

00:29:41.269 --> 00:29:43.250
is distraught and accidentally opens the door

00:29:43.250 --> 00:29:45.289
to the boys' room instead of the girls' room,

00:29:45.710 --> 00:29:48.609
but sees Tai Chi sleeping alone on the floor.

00:29:49.529 --> 00:29:52.410
She creeps up on him and then lays down perpendicular

00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:57.369
to him. in a scene that made me insane. What

00:29:57.369 --> 00:29:59.490
is this? Is this supposed to be like, I'm like,

00:29:59.710 --> 00:30:01.509
oh, is this gonna be cute? And it's like, no,

00:30:01.730 --> 00:30:05.029
it's not. It's gonna be weird. Yeah, but he's

00:30:05.029 --> 00:30:07.509
like one way and then she's like this way. I

00:30:07.509 --> 00:30:10.490
know she's in there. She thinks back to at the

00:30:10.490 --> 00:30:13.130
events of today. Can you believe that all of

00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:15.890
those episodes before were just one single day?

00:30:16.049 --> 00:30:19.190
It felt like multiple weeks for me. Weird. Anyway,

00:30:19.410 --> 00:30:22.450
this flashback montage lasts another four minutes.

00:30:22.789 --> 00:30:25.890
We just had a recap. episode two episodes ago.

00:30:26.329 --> 00:30:29.670
Yeah. Oh, my God. You're so right. Oh, my God.

00:30:29.690 --> 00:30:33.369
Chop chop, Missy. We don't have time, guys. We

00:30:33.369 --> 00:30:36.809
need to get to the romance. Get me out of this

00:30:36.809 --> 00:30:39.930
tournament. Never. Once this tournament's over,

00:30:40.329 --> 00:30:42.670
on to the next. It's just going to cut to black.

00:30:42.910 --> 00:30:45.470
It's going to be like, they're like, on to the

00:30:45.470 --> 00:30:48.950
next thing. Cut to black, season three. God.

00:30:49.850 --> 00:30:51.809
It's the next day, and Chihaya informs the team

00:30:51.809 --> 00:30:53.750
that she won't be able to play. Also, her hand

00:30:53.750 --> 00:30:55.509
is all wrapped up, so there's no getting out

00:30:55.509 --> 00:30:58.490
of it. Everyone's like, ah, well, I guess there's

00:30:58.490 --> 00:31:00.269
no way you can even try to play with your hand

00:31:00.269 --> 00:31:03.210
messed up. Suddenly, Nashita's sister shows up

00:31:03.210 --> 00:31:05.069
and gives Nashita a bunch of modified shirts

00:31:05.069 --> 00:31:07.410
where she had hand -sewn congratulations winners

00:31:07.410 --> 00:31:09.230
over the thing that said second place winners

00:31:09.230 --> 00:31:12.819
on it. So that's nice. That was cute. Yeah, Chiaya

00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:16.440
sees this and Says that she wants to play and

00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:18.240
then pseudo shows up and makes fun of Chiaya

00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.420
for getting hurt. I guess He's like if you all

00:31:21.420 --> 00:31:23.079
play like crap today Everyone's gonna think that

00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:24.940
the tournament when was just a fluke and Chiaya

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:28.099
decides that she wants to win The team or she

00:31:28.099 --> 00:31:29.980
wants the team to win their individual tournaments

00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:31.720
too, and they all put on their shirts and get

00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:34.519
hyped up I'm sick of pseudo Yeah, well, this

00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.299
is where they're like, remember, it's Pseudo

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:39.920
the Sadist. We have to like remind you guys.

00:31:40.099 --> 00:31:43.240
He's not even playing. Why is he here? Like Pseudo

00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:45.140
the Sadist is such a loser. You can only hang

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:46.200
out with high schoolers. Get rid of your high

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:49.740
school shirt. Lame. Again, taunting a sophomore.

00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:52.720
What are we doing? Yeah. Leave the poor girl

00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:57.220
alone. All right. So it's Shihaya Nishida in

00:31:57.220 --> 00:32:00.480
Class A, Tai Chi's in Class B, Satomu and Kana

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.640
are in Class C, and Tsukuba and Sumire are in

00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.890
Class D. We also see all the other teams get

00:32:05.890 --> 00:32:08.589
hyped up too, and notably most of them only have

00:32:08.589 --> 00:32:12.690
Class A and B players. Also, Shinobu shows up

00:32:12.690 --> 00:32:15.869
in her worst outfit yet, I have. She's looking

00:32:15.869 --> 00:32:19.230
terrible. She's got like a scarf, or like a neck

00:32:19.230 --> 00:32:23.609
scarf. With the Tsumaru print. Yeah, and like

00:32:23.609 --> 00:32:25.910
the shirt and like the big pants or whatever.

00:32:26.769 --> 00:32:29.289
She's looking real bad, which is how you know

00:32:29.289 --> 00:32:32.029
that she's about to stomp everybody. Well, I

00:32:32.029 --> 00:32:35.759
guess. Most of them just wear a t -shirt and

00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.339
sweatpants or like athletic pants, more like

00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:41.079
windbreaker. Although I feel like you wouldn't

00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:43.960
want a noisy fabric for your clothing in like

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:49.880
a very sound dependent sport. Oh, yeah. Uh -huh.

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.519
That would be me. I'd be wearing like a nylon

00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.460
thing. It would just be like all the time. Everyone's

00:32:53.460 --> 00:32:58.920
like, Jesus Christ, my guy. Oh, god. Velcro everything.

00:32:59.569 --> 00:33:02.569
Uh -huh. There's no way Chihaya can use her right

00:33:02.569 --> 00:33:04.190
hand without hurting her finger. So she decides

00:33:04.190 --> 00:33:05.950
she's just gonna have to meet you with her left.

00:33:06.450 --> 00:33:08.490
We get to the first round matchup. Chihaya is

00:33:08.490 --> 00:33:11.490
against Keiko Yubei, the second best of the all

00:33:11.490 --> 00:33:13.369
-girls school they played in the semifinals.

00:33:13.990 --> 00:33:15.789
Nishida lost to her and he's like, well, she's

00:33:15.789 --> 00:33:17.789
super aggressive, so that's bad for your injury.

00:33:17.849 --> 00:33:20.190
But like, I don't know, good luck, I guess. Remember

00:33:20.190 --> 00:33:23.450
the girl? She's so manly because she's strong.

00:33:23.470 --> 00:33:26.190
She's so manly because she smacks the ground.

00:33:27.130 --> 00:33:30.640
She's cool. I like her. Yeah, she's fun. She

00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:35.359
makes me think of Jizu a little bit from Kimi

00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:39.200
ni Tadoke where she's got like the spirit of

00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.299
a warrior mentality, like noble. All that. Does

00:33:43.299 --> 00:33:45.839
she have like angry eyebrows too? Well, she's

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.500
got like the little fox eyes. Yeah, a little

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:53.680
simile. Shinobu shows up and everyone's like,

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:55.180
I don't get why they don't just like seed her.

00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:56.779
It's kind of ridiculous that she has to play

00:33:56.779 --> 00:34:07.650
in all the rounds. Just get stomped by like in

00:34:07.650 --> 00:34:10.389
round one by like the best player in the world

00:34:10.389 --> 00:34:13.489
She sees that errata is matched up against one

00:34:13.489 --> 00:34:15.869
of the guys He was on the fake team for and she's

00:34:15.869 --> 00:34:17.210
like, well this sucks. I'm only here to play

00:34:17.210 --> 00:34:18.610
errata I don't actually care about any of this

00:34:18.610 --> 00:34:20.889
other crap errata shows up and she's all like,

00:34:20.889 --> 00:34:22.789
oh, I'm so lucky I don't have to play you in

00:34:22.789 --> 00:34:25.570
her little sarcastic tone because errata is her

00:34:25.570 --> 00:34:29.090
only friend that exists in the world And Arata

00:34:29.090 --> 00:34:30.690
just laughs at her, but she's clearly pissed

00:34:30.690 --> 00:34:32.369
off and is like, I'm just going to crush everyone

00:34:32.369 --> 00:34:34.730
in their little team games. I hate these kids.

00:34:35.309 --> 00:34:38.630
In front of Chihaya and then like, you never

00:34:38.630 --> 00:34:42.269
see Chihaya, but let's just talk to her for getting

00:34:42.269 --> 00:34:45.389
her instead and not acknowledge Chihaya standing

00:34:45.389 --> 00:34:49.030
there right in front of you, Arata. Yeah, Arata

00:34:49.030 --> 00:34:52.510
didn't say anything there. Oh my God. They're

00:34:52.510 --> 00:34:58.929
so awkward and terrible. I don't know. It's rough.

00:34:59.170 --> 00:35:01.230
The fact that nobody is like buddy buddy at all

00:35:01.230 --> 00:35:04.570
with anybody is awful to me. I used to be like,

00:35:04.750 --> 00:35:06.690
ah, maybe that's just like a culture thing. But

00:35:06.690 --> 00:35:08.570
I see other shows with people like, hey, man.

00:35:08.969 --> 00:35:12.269
You know, you say hi to your friends. Arata shows

00:35:12.269 --> 00:35:14.610
up. No, Arata says hi to Chihaya, and she hides

00:35:14.610 --> 00:35:16.849
her injured hand. They call everyone in for the

00:35:16.849 --> 00:35:19.130
first round. In the Class B room, Retro's getting

00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:21.170
hyped, but Taichi's all angsty. He's like, why

00:35:21.170 --> 00:35:23.150
do I have to be in this room while Chihaya and

00:35:23.150 --> 00:35:25.250
Arata are somewhere else together? This sucks.

00:35:26.989 --> 00:35:29.449
Their coach goes to the Class A room, and Arata's

00:35:29.449 --> 00:35:31.940
parents are there, so that's fun. Play starts

00:35:31.940 --> 00:35:33.679
and Chihaya's opponent is very aggressive and

00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:35.460
takes the first card and then the second card

00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:37.199
and Chihaya realizes that she's in trouble because

00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.059
she can't react fast enough with her left hand

00:35:39.059 --> 00:35:43.019
as we cut to credits. I can't believe this is

00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:48.440
the most erotic content we're getting. He talks

00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:51.579
to Tai Chi more than Chihaya! He talks to Tai

00:35:51.579 --> 00:35:55.340
Chi! They have like a, they have like a, like

00:35:55.340 --> 00:35:57.679
what should be kind of a tense conversation except

00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.280
he doesn't realize it. No. Haishi's the only

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:03.760
one who like realizes that they're both rivals.

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.000
Haishi's the only one in this show that knows

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.639
anything. Like, from Arata's perspective. Haishi

00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:12.780
and Sumire. I'm sure that conversation was just

00:36:12.780 --> 00:36:15.659
like, oh, hey, Tai Chi. What's up, man? I like

00:36:15.659 --> 00:36:17.539
team games, but I only think of you guys as my

00:36:17.539 --> 00:36:19.320
real teammates. Ha ha ha. Anyway, I'm going to

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.940
try to go to university near you guys. Isn't

00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:23.239
that fun? All right, see you later. That's why

00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:26.139
I went for Arada. And for Tai Chi, it's like

00:36:26.139 --> 00:36:30.920
it's just a man. I kind of wish that Sumire like.

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:34.519
was listening in on these and like kind of rooting

00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.039
for Taichi because she likes him and wants what

00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:40.280
he wants. He wants her hair. He wants him to

00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.320
be happy, but it's also like against her best

00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:44.579
interest. But she's like, oh, he's just so like

00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:46.980
sad. It's like, come on, Taichi, speak up for

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:50.559
yourself. And then like, you know, scolding herself

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.480
for like, what do you mean? This is good for

00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.559
you. Kind of. Yeah, that would be good. That

00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:56.820
would be good. Yeah. Because like for Taichi's

00:36:56.820 --> 00:37:00.019
perspective, that conversation was like. Hey,

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:03.300
man, I want to come in between you. You and your

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:06.260
your like crush. So, you know, just the three

00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:08.300
of us remember how it was. I'm not even here.

00:37:08.380 --> 00:37:11.840
Just imagine if I'm like vaguely in the same

00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.800
city. Remember that when we played as a team

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:16.739
and I was way better than you and everybody knew

00:37:16.739 --> 00:37:19.079
it. Anyway, I'm going to come to your hometown

00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:23.519
now or see you. She's like, I hate this guy.

00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:26.969
He's like, I freaking hate this guy. No, because

00:37:26.969 --> 00:37:29.230
every time he's like that, then it's like, no,

00:37:29.949 --> 00:37:32.590
Arata is my friend too. Yeah, he doesn't actually

00:37:32.590 --> 00:37:34.869
hate him, which is, you know, which is good.

00:37:34.869 --> 00:37:36.550
It would be bad if he actually hated him. But

00:37:36.550 --> 00:37:39.610
it's just very funny to be like, I don't think

00:37:39.610 --> 00:37:42.730
Arata understands what show he's in. Maybe Arata

00:37:42.730 --> 00:37:45.769
is like the nice version of Kikyo, where it's

00:37:45.769 --> 00:37:50.050
like not really here. Oh, not really an option,

00:37:50.610 --> 00:37:54.010
but at least not like super intentionally just.

00:37:55.009 --> 00:37:58.869
ruining chances of the other. Kikiyo is so good.

00:37:59.769 --> 00:38:02.590
No, I hate Kikiyo so much. Just to have a character

00:38:02.590 --> 00:38:05.250
like come back and be like, oh, hey, I'm your

00:38:05.250 --> 00:38:07.989
boyfriend's ex that he hasn't gotten over. You're

00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:11.050
my reincarnation. Yeah, also, I'm like a better

00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:12.889
version of you in every way. And also, I kind

00:38:12.889 --> 00:38:18.880
of hate both of you. It's so good, it's so good.

00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:20.739
As a teenage girl, I was like, Kikiyo, go away,

00:38:20.780 --> 00:38:25.739
get out of here. She's terrible. She's such menace.

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:31.320
It's so funny. Oh, man. God. We need a Kikiyo

00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:33.860
in this show. Arata's the closest thing we've

00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:36.760
got. God, what if like season three is like,

00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:39.679
oh, Arata's ex shows up or something and everyone's

00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:41.739
like, his ex. Imagine how good that would be.

00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:47.210
I know. It's impossible. It would be good. Anyway,

00:38:47.250 --> 00:38:50.030
episode 21 is called but its legacy continues

00:38:50.030 --> 00:38:56.409
to spread Back on the game. She has a what? It's

00:38:56.409 --> 00:38:59.230
legacy continues. Oh, yeah, it's just these irrelevant

00:38:59.230 --> 00:39:01.750
title names We open back up on the game she high

00:39:01.750 --> 00:39:04.070
as opponent really aggressively smacks the cards

00:39:04.070 --> 00:39:06.329
and she I tries to figure out how to Pivot to

00:39:06.329 --> 00:39:08.829
using her left hand more she's able to take but

00:39:08.829 --> 00:39:11.909
isn't able to guard But she is able to steal

00:39:11.909 --> 00:39:15.309
so like everything's weirdly backwards But as

00:39:15.309 --> 00:39:17.349
it turns out like baseball playing against like

00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:20.170
an offhand player gives them an advantage so

00:39:20.170 --> 00:39:23.030
She takes from her opponent again, and it's like

00:39:23.030 --> 00:39:25.369
okay. Maybe I can make this work It's enough

00:39:25.369 --> 00:39:27.090
to keep her in the game But she's still like

00:39:27.090 --> 00:39:28.769
it's still pretty back and forth like she is

00:39:28.769 --> 00:39:31.389
not gaining any ground Arata wins his game before

00:39:31.389 --> 00:39:34.409
25 cards are even read because his opponent like

00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:37.369
faulted multiple times Then shinobu wins her

00:39:37.369 --> 00:39:41.760
game at the 25th card And Erotic goes to watch

00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.099
Chihaya and notices for the first time that she's

00:39:44.099 --> 00:39:46.760
injured. Oh, man, if only I spent more than half

00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:48.460
a second greeting her this morning, I would have

00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:51.300
noticed her hand was bandaged. Her entire hand.

00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:58.360
Yeah. Oh, man, this is this is the guy you're

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:02.280
obsessed with anyway. She doesn't get to play

00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:05.119
against him and they barely see each other. And

00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.039
then when he does see her, she doesn't even get

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:11.199
to like show her stuff. Know it's a magical moment

00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:13.599
whenever they do get to play against each other

00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:16.079
It's gonna be like, you know, get a room you

00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.619
two while they're playing card somehow She's

00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:29.519
gonna be gulping now water. No Arata is like

00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:31.579
Chi Hai. It's crazy Just to swap hands all your

00:40:31.579 --> 00:40:33.820
muscle memory and strategies for your other hand

00:40:33.820 --> 00:40:37.250
Chi Hai is down ten cards. She takes She takes

00:40:37.250 --> 00:40:38.829
a card and then realizes that her card should

00:40:38.829 --> 00:40:41.349
be all be set up like mirrored. So because she's

00:40:41.349 --> 00:40:45.110
using the opposite hand. So she completely swaps

00:40:45.110 --> 00:40:47.989
her board. One of the coaches comes and tells

00:40:47.989 --> 00:40:50.550
her that it's rude to swap all your cards around.

00:40:50.789 --> 00:40:53.289
But like, bro, the quiz bowl guys were doing

00:40:53.289 --> 00:40:57.250
that every single round. They were moving like,

00:40:57.730 --> 00:41:00.690
I don't know. Yeah, you're right. I thought the

00:41:00.690 --> 00:41:04.800
same thing. The ref. I know. Well, it's not even

00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:07.500
against the rules. It's just bad manners. Yeah.

00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.360
Like, shut up, man. I'm playing a game. I didn't

00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:16.500
invite the fucking cops here. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:20.420
As a subplot of Chiaya favorite is that all adults

00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:23.239
are garbage, except for except for Kana's mom,

00:41:23.340 --> 00:41:26.019
who's Dr. Hirata and Dr. Hirata, who we also

00:41:26.019 --> 00:41:28.280
like. And the coach is better now. Anyway, her

00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:29.579
opponent's like, I don't care that she could

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:33.659
swap all her cards, whatever. So it's fine. Chihaya

00:41:33.659 --> 00:41:35.500
instantly starts doing better and begins recovering.

00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:37.980
The game is still close though. Arada thinks

00:41:37.980 --> 00:41:40.239
about how much fun it must be to play against

00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:42.000
her. If only I could play against my friend at

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:43.780
this game. We both casually play all the time

00:41:43.780 --> 00:41:49.460
one day. Too bad we can never hang out for any

00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:56.519
period of time. No. Chihaya wins by two and advances.

00:41:56.820 --> 00:41:59.659
Arada tells her that her game was amazing and

00:41:59.739 --> 00:42:03.360
All of time stops as she's blown away by a very

00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.440
normal compliment from Arata. Not even like a

00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.840
particularly great compliment. She only won by

00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.639
two cards. Not even doing like a... Wow, it's

00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.380
very impressive you're able to play with your

00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:17.059
left hand. Also like, hey, what happened to you?

00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:20.300
No concern. That's all I got. Your little play

00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:23.019
card has how many you win by. So people could

00:42:23.019 --> 00:42:25.500
just like look and be like, oh, that chick only

00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:29.960
won by two. She sucks. Yeah. Nishida also won

00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:32.639
his match, so everyone's still in. Next round

00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:34.320
is announced, and Nishida has matched against

00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:36.820
Sarada, and he's like, well, shit. Yeah, he's

00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:39.179
like, I feel like I could win it all and then

00:42:39.179 --> 00:42:43.940
immediately. Yeah, this is pretty funny. Chihaya

00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:47.500
is against some rando, and she's she's disappointed

00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:50.039
that she's not against Sarada and then thinks

00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.780
about what? and then thinks about reaching out

00:42:52.780 --> 00:42:54.539
to her. He thinks about reaching out to her.

00:42:54.699 --> 00:42:56.159
Somebody thinks about reaching out to somebody

00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:57.820
else. I don't know why I put this in the notes.

00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:01.800
She walks by and she's like, basically, like,

00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:04.559
is my place, am I good enough to be within reach

00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:08.940
of him? Oh, can I reach Errata? Little limp hand

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:12.219
lift, but... God, this is the weakest TV I've

00:43:12.219 --> 00:43:14.260
ever seen in my life. Sumire, where are you?

00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:18.059
You need to help these people. Oh, God, no. We

00:43:18.059 --> 00:43:21.139
get a little bit with her, but not enough. Never

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:24.360
enough. Outside, we learn from the coach, or

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:26.320
no, Nishida is against Arata just like the old

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.179
days. He wonders if he's still got it. Maybe

00:43:28.179 --> 00:43:30.139
he can beat him this time. Spoiler alert, he

00:43:30.139 --> 00:43:32.119
can't. Outside, we learn from the coach that

00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:34.079
the rest of the team all won their matches, so

00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:35.980
everyone's still in. The coach sees Arata's parents

00:43:35.980 --> 00:43:37.820
praying, and we learn that they're cheering for

00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:39.659
Arata to lose because then he'll have to go to

00:43:39.659 --> 00:43:41.840
a local college instead of an expensive Tokyo

00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:44.599
college. This is the funniest gag in these episodes.

00:43:45.099 --> 00:43:48.719
Yeah, I know. His parents showed up to cheer

00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:51.630
against him. Cuz they look like nervous parents

00:43:51.630 --> 00:43:54.590
like hoping for the best for their kid, but poor

00:43:54.590 --> 00:43:59.829
guy It's very funny Like you see them the first

00:43:59.829 --> 00:44:00.969
time and they're all like, yeah, they're all

00:44:00.969 --> 00:44:02.769
like nervous and you're like Why the hell would

00:44:02.769 --> 00:44:05.590
Arada's parents be nervous around one match?

00:44:06.289 --> 00:44:11.360
Because they want him to lose Look at that scholarship.

00:44:11.699 --> 00:44:14.420
It'll be fine. They're like, even with a scholarship,

00:44:14.780 --> 00:44:16.440
it's still going to be expensive. Yeah, I don't

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.699
know. I know college is bad here. What's it looking

00:44:18.699 --> 00:44:20.579
like over there in Japan? Well, they mentioned

00:44:20.579 --> 00:44:23.219
that like, because like Tokyo University is like

00:44:23.219 --> 00:44:24.940
a really prestigious one, and I think that's

00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:26.699
like the public one. So there's a lot of private

00:44:26.699 --> 00:44:29.039
universities there, which I assume cost around

00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.039
the same as it would here. So like even with

00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:32.920
a scholarship, going to private school is expensive.

00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:36.420
That's true. Oh, man. Nishida is doing pretty

00:44:36.420 --> 00:44:38.420
well and Arata's parents are happy that Arata

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:41.000
might lose for once. Arata is like, wow, Nishida,

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:42.500
you're doing pretty well. And then he turns on

00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:44.539
the heat and starts crushing him. OK, I'm like,

00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:48.659
did he just like, was he just like a lion toying

00:44:48.659 --> 00:44:52.679
with their prey, like have hope and just seeing

00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:55.139
what he's made of and then and then be like,

00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:57.340
oh, yeah, she hired your teens pretty good. And

00:44:57.340 --> 00:45:00.699
then. Crush him. I assume that like the cards

00:45:00.699 --> 00:45:02.559
red were just ones that were good for Nishida.

00:45:03.019 --> 00:45:05.179
Not like I don't think like Arata doesn't mess

00:45:05.179 --> 00:45:07.679
around like this. No way. Look at him. There's

00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.559
no way Nishida. Nishida's been sucking it up.

00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:14.420
There's no way he stood a chance ever. He just

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:17.420
takes L's the entire series, unfortunately, this

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:19.639
season. This season's big L for Nishida. I guess

00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:21.599
he won his little championship thing, but not

00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:24.559
even in a good way. He had 50 -50. That was bad.

00:45:24.780 --> 00:45:28.320
Oh, God. That's true. And she's just like, man,

00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:30.400
after all of this, I'm still just getting crushed

00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.360
by Arada. This sucks. How come everybody else

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:34.079
gets to have a triumphant storyline this season,

00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:36.340
except for me? I'm just here. He's like, whatever.

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.239
I'm going to go for it. In the end, he loses

00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:40.199
by nine cards, which actually isn't that bad,

00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:43.940
I guess. I know. Like, what is going on, Arada?

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.079
She's pretty beat up about it, but Arada reminds

00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.619
him that he played a lot yesterday. While Arada

00:45:50.619 --> 00:45:55.039
didn't play anything yesterday. Yeah. Okay, I'm

00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:57.880
also like how did that guy he that he helped

00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:09.579
out how is that guy rank a Like I guess because

00:46:09.579 --> 00:46:12.599
there's nothing higher than a the like golf experience

00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.239
could be a massive, you know what I mean? But

00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:17.400
then they sometimes talk about like different

00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:22.710
I don't know You probably can't do that with

00:46:22.710 --> 00:46:25.050
a high school tournament because how many like

00:46:25.050 --> 00:46:28.369
people can there even be? Yeah, they're probably

00:46:28.369 --> 00:46:31.769
all there, honestly. The shit of things that

00:46:31.769 --> 00:46:33.369
playing against good players makes him want to

00:46:33.369 --> 00:46:34.969
get better, though. Anyway, I think that's it

00:46:34.969 --> 00:46:39.369
for him this season in terms of like plot. Yeah,

00:46:40.010 --> 00:46:43.159
she wins her match in advances. Third round positions

00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.300
are about to be placed and Chi Hai is up against

00:46:45.300 --> 00:46:49.340
Shinobu again. Shinobu rematch, woo. Chi Hai

00:46:49.340 --> 00:46:52.079
takes off her bandage as we cut to credits. Bum,

00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:56.360
bum, bum. Yep. Our girl. More Shinobu time as

00:46:56.360 --> 00:47:00.440
requested. But it's more Shinobu in Carda. We

00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.280
want Shinobu outside Carda time. She's a hoot.

00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:07.190
Yeah. Outside of matches. Karna Shinobu is not

00:47:07.190 --> 00:47:09.750
that interesting. Outside Shinobu is extremely

00:47:09.750 --> 00:47:11.730
funny how much she just hates everything. But

00:47:11.730 --> 00:47:15.050
in a fun way. But in a fun way, but in an entertaining

00:47:15.050 --> 00:47:17.190
way where she's like, oh my god, these stupid

00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:19.989
losers in their team games. I just want to go

00:47:19.989 --> 00:47:22.469
to the Birdman Rally, but it got cancelled. This

00:47:22.469 --> 00:47:26.090
sucks. Yeah. Anything else about episode 21?

00:47:26.849 --> 00:47:31.670
Nah. Yeah. Get wrecked, Nishido. Episode 22 is

00:47:31.670 --> 00:47:34.719
called Long Last We Meet. We jump back into it.

00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:36.460
Round three against Shinobu is about to start.

00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.800
The Fujisaki coach gives us a rundown of the

00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:41.480
remaining players in the Class A tournament.

00:47:42.139 --> 00:47:44.400
Her team captain, the boob guy, is up against

00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:48.539
PSP Kid. Arata is against another Fujisaki guy.

00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:52.260
The blonde guy is against Magumu, and Shihaya

00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:56.280
is against Shinobu. OK, wait. OK, yeah, there's

00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:58.679
only two chicks left. There's only two chicks

00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.260
left. Also... Nope, three, sorry. Well, there's

00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:03.099
three, but there's about to be... Well... I'm

00:48:03.099 --> 00:48:04.599
assuming Magoo is going to be the blonde guy

00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.139
because how good can you be? But there's also

00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:08.900
like a weird number, right? Because it's it's

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:13.280
how many matches? One, two, three, four, five.

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:18.420
There's five matches. No, because it's the Fujisaki

00:48:18.420 --> 00:48:22.969
guy. It's boob guy and PSP kid. That's one. Arata

00:48:22.969 --> 00:48:25.750
versus the other Fujisaki guys. The boob guy

00:48:25.750 --> 00:48:28.710
is the team captain. He is the team captain.

00:48:28.809 --> 00:48:31.010
I put that twice. I gave that as like a like

00:48:31.010 --> 00:48:36.190
two equal modifiers. Yeah. Yeah. OK. All right.

00:48:36.329 --> 00:48:40.320
Fine. It makes a tournament. The Fujisaki Coast

00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:42.039
learns that Chihaya has been playing left handed

00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:43.840
this whole time and is like, wow. And Chihaya

00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.199
wonders what she should do about her hand against

00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:48.300
Shinobu when Shinobu says something under her

00:48:48.300 --> 00:48:50.519
breath. And then we get like a rewind freeze

00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.659
frame where Shinobu like we learned that what

00:48:53.659 --> 00:48:55.880
she said was that Chihaya's t -shirt is lame.

00:48:55.980 --> 00:48:58.280
And Chihaya also hears this. So she lifts her

00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:00.820
shirt to reveal a mommy bear tank top. And Shinobu

00:49:00.820 --> 00:49:03.400
is like, holy shit, it's the rare mommy bear

00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:06.639
tank top. This is a really good bit. Chihaya,

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:09.500
why are you wearing two shirts? That must be

00:49:09.500 --> 00:49:12.579
so odd. That is crazy. I guess it's like a...

00:49:12.579 --> 00:49:14.659
I don't know, is that like instead of a bra,

00:49:14.659 --> 00:49:17.860
she's wearing a cami unders? Is this supposed

00:49:17.860 --> 00:49:19.960
to be kind of be like an undergarment you're

00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.880
showing off? But I like that that's like their

00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:26.800
thing and she like knows what's impressive to

00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:30.260
Shinobu and she's very pleased with herself for

00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:32.679
pulling that one out. She became prepared. that

00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:35.360
one's good uh then she was like hey uh since

00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:37.179
you're hurt you're dominant hand you want me

00:49:37.179 --> 00:49:39.579
to use my off hand too and she high is like hell

00:49:39.579 --> 00:49:42.360
no she's been waiting for this rematch for a

00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:44.400
whole season we're not gonna half ass it she

00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:48.010
says she doesn't actually say that but That's

00:49:48.010 --> 00:49:51.090
what she said to me. Shinobu's like, damn, OK,

00:49:51.289 --> 00:49:54.329
as the game starts. Shinobu takes first and Shihaya

00:49:54.329 --> 00:49:56.309
is like, dang, this is going to be tough. But

00:49:56.309 --> 00:49:58.989
then she thinks about how she obsessed over watching

00:49:58.989 --> 00:50:01.230
the Queen match over and over again and gets

00:50:01.230 --> 00:50:03.590
her head back in the game. We learn a little

00:50:03.590 --> 00:50:06.250
about Shinobu's play style, which is that she

00:50:06.250 --> 00:50:08.429
tends to lead with her body and then strike with

00:50:08.429 --> 00:50:10.070
her hand when she hears the unique syllable.

00:50:10.449 --> 00:50:13.750
Seems like a good strategy. Like, get in position

00:50:13.750 --> 00:50:16.530
and then go from there. Yeah, give yourself some

00:50:16.530 --> 00:50:20.070
momentum. Shinobu goes on a tear, but Chihaya

00:50:20.070 --> 00:50:22.110
is able to defend a card using her left -handed

00:50:22.110 --> 00:50:24.070
techniques. It's a start, but it's not going

00:50:24.070 --> 00:50:25.889
to get her a win. She tries to come up with a

00:50:25.889 --> 00:50:27.690
strategy to turn the game around, but she keeps

00:50:27.690 --> 00:50:30.329
losing cards by the slightest amount. Shinobu

00:50:30.329 --> 00:50:32.530
thinks that Chihaya might be giving up, but instead

00:50:32.530 --> 00:50:34.590
Chihaya takes off the wrapping on her finger

00:50:34.590 --> 00:50:36.809
because it's been slowing her down, so now it's

00:50:36.809 --> 00:50:41.440
just normal finger. It's like a sheet of paper.

00:50:41.460 --> 00:50:44.739
This isn't protective at all. It's got to be

00:50:44.739 --> 00:50:46.360
like less than a gram. A little scratch paper

00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:49.539
around a gum wrapper on your finger. It's like

00:50:49.539 --> 00:50:51.239
it's like taking a Band -Aid off because it's

00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:56.059
slowing you down. Like that was the last line

00:50:56.059 --> 00:50:59.119
of defense. No, that was doing nothing. She never

00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:00.699
sees this and is like, I don't get what your

00:51:00.699 --> 00:51:02.820
deal is. You won the team tournament yesterday.

00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:05.539
So like, why are you so like dedicated to playing

00:51:05.539 --> 00:51:09.349
me? With her bandage off, Chihaya is able to

00:51:09.349 --> 00:51:12.050
take Shinobu's best card, but it costs her. Her

00:51:12.050 --> 00:51:13.889
finger throbs when she goes to pick it up and

00:51:13.889 --> 00:51:16.489
she drops it. She pulls it together, though,

00:51:17.690 --> 00:51:20.090
and hands over, and she sends Shinobu her best

00:51:20.090 --> 00:51:22.030
card. And Shinobu's like, all right, fine, kid.

00:51:22.530 --> 00:51:24.369
Shinobu immediately takes three more cards, and

00:51:24.369 --> 00:51:26.289
then she takes a lot more cards as we transition

00:51:26.289 --> 00:51:29.670
into Shinobu flashback time. Shinobu flashback!

00:51:30.269 --> 00:51:34.280
Yeah! The flashback we actually want. The flashback

00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:36.940
is back when Tiny Shinobu just joined her car

00:51:36.940 --> 00:51:41.360
to society. Yeah, Dopey Shinobu is here. She

00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:43.260
gets matched up with the girl her age, the one

00:51:43.260 --> 00:51:45.579
from the other flashback show who she held back

00:51:45.579 --> 00:51:48.400
against. That's it, though. That's the whole

00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:49.980
flashback. They just gave it to us in a weird

00:51:49.980 --> 00:51:54.340
order. Back in the real world match, Shinobu

00:51:54.340 --> 00:51:56.789
needs only two more cards to win. Then we jump

00:51:56.789 --> 00:51:58.429
back into the flashback. I should have just put

00:51:58.429 --> 00:51:59.730
this all together I don't know why I wrote it

00:51:59.730 --> 00:52:01.769
like this. We get the full scene in which Chinese

00:52:01.769 --> 00:52:03.989
Shinobu plays her new peer. Shinobu actually

00:52:03.989 --> 00:52:07.429
throws that game it turns out by two cards After

00:52:07.429 --> 00:52:09.369
she takes a card that her opponent really liked

00:52:09.369 --> 00:52:10.989
so it's like she takes her opponent's favorite

00:52:10.989 --> 00:52:12.630
card and then she feels bad and then she throws

00:52:12.630 --> 00:52:14.369
the game. Then the coach has her play an older

00:52:14.369 --> 00:52:16.869
guy and she basically demolishes him as like

00:52:16.869 --> 00:52:21.269
her little friend watches on Revealing that she

00:52:21.269 --> 00:52:27.659
was she was throwing. I'm passing. Yeah, it's

00:52:27.659 --> 00:52:30.400
terrible. Back in the present, Shinobu wins her

00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:33.059
match by 23 cards, which I think was the exact

00:52:33.059 --> 00:52:37.340
score line as last year. Yeah, no improvement.

00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:41.539
She overhears Chihaya's coach telling her that

00:52:41.539 --> 00:52:43.420
she shouldn't have removed her bandage just to

00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:45.460
play. And Shinobu wonders if she should have

00:52:45.460 --> 00:52:48.239
let Chihaya take some more cards, but then remembers

00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:52.920
that isolation is her strength. No mercy. No.

00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:57.239
Shinobu no mercy run. She starts to leave, but

00:52:57.239 --> 00:52:59.380
then Chihaya catches her hand. Chihaya thanks

00:52:59.380 --> 00:53:01.179
her for playing, and she says that they should

00:53:01.179 --> 00:53:04.920
play again sometime. Shinobu's like, oh, okay,

00:53:05.099 --> 00:53:07.320
yeah, when are we going to play again? And Chihaya

00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.300
says, at the Queen match. This is such a nice

00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:14.300
moment. Yeah, it's cute. Your recap did not encompass

00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:16.789
the sweetness of that moment. Well, I kind of

00:53:16.789 --> 00:53:18.289
feel like she was like, I mean, we could play

00:53:18.289 --> 00:53:20.510
tomorrow. Like, all I want to do with people

00:53:20.510 --> 00:53:22.329
is play them. When I tried to hang out with Arata

00:53:22.329 --> 00:53:24.449
yesterday, I tried to play him, but he said no.

00:53:25.389 --> 00:53:28.670
Well, yeah, she just it's just very like, you

00:53:28.670 --> 00:53:32.530
know, he was scolding herself and then she didn't

00:53:32.530 --> 00:53:36.449
need to because she wasn't going to view it as

00:53:36.449 --> 00:53:39.570
a negative. She was happy to. She found one of

00:53:39.570 --> 00:53:43.630
her people. It's cute. It is cute. Oh, yes. And

00:53:43.630 --> 00:53:45.949
then I wish. The reason I didn't have it here

00:53:45.949 --> 00:53:48.090
is because it disappoints me because that means

00:53:48.090 --> 00:53:50.570
she's not going to play her again until like

00:53:50.570 --> 00:53:54.289
later. But I'm like, just just go be friends.

00:53:54.530 --> 00:53:58.449
Go to summer camp and be friends. Come on. You're

00:53:58.449 --> 00:54:00.550
both in high school. Go hang out after the game.

00:54:00.670 --> 00:54:04.110
What are we doing now? We don't even hang out

00:54:04.110 --> 00:54:06.690
with our friend Arada. So why would we hang out

00:54:06.690 --> 00:54:09.050
with Shinobu? Shinobu leaves thinking about that

00:54:09.050 --> 00:54:11.610
girl from the flashbacks. She remembers her name

00:54:11.610 --> 00:54:13.719
and is like, oh, yeah, that's right. I did have

00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.579
friends at one point in my life. Yeah, and she

00:54:16.579 --> 00:54:20.139
feels the flame of friendship once again. Oh,

00:54:20.219 --> 00:54:22.400
and then she goes to sulk and then she scolds

00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.280
herself for losing two cards against an injured

00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:28.500
girl. So we've regressed immediately. Yeah. She

00:54:28.500 --> 00:54:31.860
also goes to cry with her match or with her match

00:54:31.860 --> 00:54:34.260
with Shinobu over her summer break is over now.

00:54:34.500 --> 00:54:37.460
Dang elsewhere. We're all going to play mere

00:54:37.460 --> 00:54:42.820
hours longer. Calm down. Okay, wow, she never

00:54:42.820 --> 00:54:45.340
got to play errata. We're never gonna get going

00:54:45.340 --> 00:54:50.400
to okay Maybe on their wedding day or some shit

00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:53.420
like she hasn't been watching Elsewhere the real

00:54:53.420 --> 00:54:56.340
hero Sumire wins her match by seven cards getting

00:54:56.340 --> 00:54:58.179
her through the third round. She's like wow I

00:54:58.179 --> 00:55:00.510
didn't expect to do this well Maybe everybody

00:55:00.510 --> 00:55:02.889
else on the team is so good. I never realized

00:55:02.889 --> 00:55:04.829
that I'm actually a pretty decent player. She's

00:55:04.829 --> 00:55:07.030
like, maybe I can win the class D tournament

00:55:07.030 --> 00:55:10.369
and then Tai Chi will like praise me and said

00:55:10.369 --> 00:55:12.510
I did a good job. But then she immediately gets

00:55:12.510 --> 00:55:16.309
eliminated in our next game. So RIP Sumire. I

00:55:16.309 --> 00:55:20.429
was like, look at her being proud of herself.

00:55:21.409 --> 00:55:25.010
Yeah, almost. Instead, Tsukuba makes to the semifinals

00:55:25.010 --> 00:55:27.349
and then they get a text that Tai Chi is still

00:55:28.409 --> 00:55:30.989
His tournament so Samiri's like I'm going to

00:55:30.989 --> 00:55:33.650
go see him so she rushes over to his game and

00:55:33.650 --> 00:55:36.230
Everybody is here. It's Tai Chi against retro

00:55:36.230 --> 00:55:38.610
and Tai Chi is crushing him with just one card

00:55:38.610 --> 00:55:41.849
to win He takes it as we cut to credits. I say

00:55:41.849 --> 00:55:44.170
everyone is here, but now that I mentioned it

00:55:44.170 --> 00:55:55.050
is she higher there now No way I'm gonna go I'm

00:55:55.050 --> 00:55:57.210
gonna go look at the scene to make sure she's

00:55:57.210 --> 00:56:05.690
not there. No, I feel like it's Supervisor Is

00:56:05.690 --> 00:56:08.289
probably All right. All right. All right. I'm

00:56:08.289 --> 00:56:10.690
at the scene. I'm at the scene. Oh god what Samira

00:56:10.690 --> 00:56:12.909
is opening the door. They want to stream it to

00:56:12.909 --> 00:56:16.210
you We can both watch it together play by play

00:56:16.210 --> 00:56:19.610
All right, Samira, it's about to open the door

00:56:19.610 --> 00:56:24.480
inside I see Nishida, Nishida's sister, the coach.

00:56:24.780 --> 00:56:27.159
Oh my God, she's not there. She's not there.

00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.099
Not there. I assume that Satomu and Kana aren't

00:56:31.099 --> 00:56:32.380
there because they're both in their tournaments.

00:56:32.579 --> 00:56:37.280
Yes. We didn't get any update on them. No. Oh

00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.760
my God, Chihaya doesn't see him win, become Class

00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:43.719
A. This isn't, this isn't because there was another

00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:46.880
match going on. So this is like, it looked like

00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:49.809
there's two matches going on. And then retro

00:56:49.809 --> 00:56:52.289
and then another one. That's not the final. No,

00:56:52.289 --> 00:56:54.530
I don't think so. Oh, yeah, there is one. Oh,

00:56:54.590 --> 00:56:57.030
it's Rion. Rion's in the other one. Oh, snap.

00:56:57.309 --> 00:56:59.510
Is Tai Chi gonna go against Rion? Yeah, she's

00:56:59.510 --> 00:57:02.110
gonna have to. Are two little like pink haired

00:57:02.110 --> 00:57:05.269
heaps going against each other? Yes. Maybe they

00:57:05.269 --> 00:57:06.789
should become a couple. I don't know. What do

00:57:06.789 --> 00:57:08.650
you think she's like? Do you think she's more

00:57:08.650 --> 00:57:13.170
fun? No, I don't think so. No! You're right.

00:57:13.429 --> 00:57:16.570
The iron mask also just got his dude into her.

00:57:16.590 --> 00:57:19.630
Yeah, but that guy sucks. I know, but like, that's

00:57:19.630 --> 00:57:22.550
obviously who she's stuck with. OK, so he does

00:57:22.550 --> 00:57:24.429
not he does not become class A off of this. All

00:57:24.429 --> 00:57:27.250
right. All right. He just beats retro. No possible

00:57:27.250 --> 00:57:29.769
girls love shipping in this show. There's no

00:57:29.769 --> 00:57:33.250
one I can fantasize about girls. You know, for

00:57:33.250 --> 00:57:36.449
some shows I watch, I do the Bactyl test. I see

00:57:36.449 --> 00:57:38.429
how long it takes. I didn't think about to do

00:57:38.429 --> 00:57:41.070
that for this one. Yeah, but it wouldn't. Well,

00:57:41.190 --> 00:57:43.750
I guess Kana and Chihaya talk. No, it's Chihaya

00:57:43.750 --> 00:57:45.969
and her sister or Chihaya and her mom. I don't

00:57:45.969 --> 00:57:47.289
think they can be related, though. I don't think

00:57:47.289 --> 00:57:49.610
that really counts. It's not really in the spirit.

00:57:50.190 --> 00:57:53.190
Oh, OK. I guess it technically counts. Yeah,

00:57:53.190 --> 00:57:55.010
you're right. There really is no. I mean, I guess

00:57:55.010 --> 00:57:56.909
like Chihaya and Shinobu is the closest you can

00:57:56.909 --> 00:58:00.010
get as they both have the same fashion sense.

00:58:00.630 --> 00:58:04.630
Uh huh. Yeah, that's true. No. Wait, I think

00:58:04.630 --> 00:58:07.030
if there's any other. Here's the question. All

00:58:07.030 --> 00:58:09.539
right. Do we think, do we think, what do we think

00:58:09.539 --> 00:58:11.179
Chihaya's gonna do next episode? Do you think

00:58:11.179 --> 00:58:13.400
she's gonna watch Taichi play in the final, or

00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:15.719
do you think she's gonna watch Arata play Shinobu?

00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:18.340
Well, surely by this point, we have to have,

00:58:18.500 --> 00:58:21.400
it's the ending episode, so it has to be some

00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:25.820
growth, so it's like, gee, do it, go watch Taichi.

00:58:27.300 --> 00:58:29.880
And hopefully, I feel like that's what's gonna

00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:34.090
happen. Like, it has to, for the sake of, like,

00:58:34.130 --> 00:58:37.190
her not being a despicable protagonist. What

00:58:37.190 --> 00:58:39.610
do you think? I think, dude, I think she's gonna

00:58:39.610 --> 00:58:43.269
watch the Arata Shinobu one! Because she's, like,

00:58:43.449 --> 00:58:45.269
obsessed with those two! If they go against each

00:58:45.269 --> 00:58:47.409
other, yeah, you're right! Oh my gosh, she has

00:58:47.409 --> 00:58:51.369
to watch them! Like, we need three more matches.

00:58:52.010 --> 00:58:54.690
We need the Tai Chi Rion match so he can win

00:58:54.690 --> 00:58:57.829
his final. We need the Arata Shinobu match, and

00:58:57.829 --> 00:58:59.429
then we need whatever, whoever, like, I don't

00:58:59.429 --> 00:59:02.400
know, I guess, like... But what happens, because

00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:05.840
Arata has to win this for his parents to approve

00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.159
for him to go to Tokyo, which must happen. So

00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:13.280
he must beat Shinobu, right? I don't know. That's

00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:17.019
going to be tough. I don't. I want Shinobu to

00:59:17.019 --> 00:59:18.699
win because I think it's funny how she hates

00:59:18.699 --> 00:59:22.539
him. Yeah. But then how can she keep up her little

00:59:22.539 --> 00:59:25.119
facade of like, oh, I have so much to learn from

00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:28.539
you, Arata. I hope. I can see, you know. Well,

00:59:28.619 --> 00:59:30.559
she's doing that sarcastically, right? Like,

00:59:30.619 --> 00:59:32.460
she's doing that like, fuck you. If she just

00:59:32.460 --> 00:59:34.840
destroys him, then she can't do that anymore.

00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:38.940
The bit is gone. He's probably going to win because

00:59:38.940 --> 00:59:41.699
he needs to go to Tokyo as a threat. Unless it's

00:59:41.699 --> 00:59:46.760
like, his parents, see how hard you try, blah,

00:59:47.019 --> 00:59:48.900
blah, blah. Do you think it's going to go to

00:59:48.900 --> 00:59:54.820
a 50 -50? Oh, a draw? Like, it has been every

00:59:54.820 --> 00:59:59.420
other time this season? Oh, uh, luck of the draw.

01:00:00.219 --> 01:00:03.659
Um... Yeah. That would be so dumb. Well, you

01:00:03.659 --> 01:00:05.800
would think with, like, really good players that

01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:09.840
does it happen that way or is, like... Like,

01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:12.719
clearly she has played the Emperor. I really

01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:14.619
just want to call them the King. You're right,

01:00:14.619 --> 01:00:17.159
it messes me up that they aren't the same, like...

01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:21.500
No. It's the Queen and the Master. Sister. Oh,

01:00:21.500 --> 01:00:24.300
Master. I keep calling it the Master. But what's

01:00:24.300 --> 01:00:29.030
the female... Queen master and the master is

01:00:29.030 --> 01:00:31.489
just it's gender neutral, like it's not even

01:00:31.489 --> 01:00:34.730
gendered. Oh, my God, you're right. But it could

01:00:34.730 --> 01:00:37.969
be mistress if you're like referring to. But

01:00:37.969 --> 01:00:40.409
like getting a master's degree in something doesn't

01:00:40.409 --> 01:00:43.570
it's not a gendered thing. That's true. Yeah,

01:00:44.090 --> 01:00:47.170
which is why it's ridiculous, but whatever. I

01:00:47.170 --> 01:00:50.949
mean, these are translated words. I get it. I

01:00:50.949 --> 01:00:52.489
don't know why they translate like this, though.

01:00:53.059 --> 01:00:55.519
Well, you think it's like, oh, it translates,

01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:58.159
but like, I don't like that translation. I guess

01:00:58.159 --> 01:00:59.360
you can't just like - I mean, they say queen.

01:00:59.619 --> 01:01:01.500
They straight up say the word queen. They say

01:01:01.500 --> 01:01:04.360
the English word queen. Oh, yeah, that's right.

01:01:04.739 --> 01:01:09.480
Love using English words. Uh, okay. Oh, they

01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:11.360
should have like little junior, they should have

01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:14.760
like the princess and, you know, like the little

01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:17.320
pot version of Carter and there's like a little

01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:21.539
youngster division. And then they have like little

01:01:21.539 --> 01:01:24.800
kid. master and clean, but they're cleaning.

01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:28.619
I need I need Shinobu to like hate her coach

01:01:28.619 --> 01:01:31.980
who like separated from everybody. I mean, that

01:01:31.980 --> 01:01:35.079
was like a grandma. No, no, no. But her coach

01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:36.659
is the one that did it. Right. Because like her

01:01:36.659 --> 01:01:38.159
grandma, she's like, you need to go do something.

01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:40.440
You can't just do nothing. All right. Right.

01:01:40.940 --> 01:01:43.920
I don't think the coach plays enough of a role

01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:46.320
to. get that kind of consideration. She doesn't

01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:48.579
go to the society anymore. At the end, he's like,

01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:50.119
oh, you should come back to society. She's like,

01:01:50.139 --> 01:01:51.960
yeah, I'll think about it. And it's like, no,

01:01:51.980 --> 01:01:55.219
she's not going back. No. Yeah. Yeah. I need

01:01:55.219 --> 01:01:58.880
that energy. I need like angry. My whole youth

01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:01.739
has been wasted on this thing. Obviously, I feel

01:02:01.739 --> 01:02:03.300
like at this point, he's probably like she's

01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:05.119
the last cause. Look at her. Look at what she's

01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:08.659
wearing. Like he can't expect that. Or he has

01:02:08.659 --> 01:02:11.219
not had control over her for a long time, I imagine.

01:02:12.539 --> 01:02:15.829
Yeah. Was it been like two or three years that

01:02:15.829 --> 01:02:19.170
she's been queen? I can't remember. Um, I think,

01:02:19.210 --> 01:02:23.329
yeah. Maybe like two years. Recently queen, I

01:02:23.329 --> 01:02:26.710
feel like. It had to be enough for her to beat

01:02:26.710 --> 01:02:28.769
What's -Her -Face, the old one, and then like

01:02:28.769 --> 01:02:30.929
the old one to retire briefly. Because she was

01:02:30.929 --> 01:02:33.849
only the queen for a year. Yeah, she was queen

01:02:33.849 --> 01:02:35.469
and then it was Shinobu. And then got to take

01:02:35.469 --> 01:02:39.500
you up. And then. I think maybe it's like she

01:02:39.500 --> 01:02:41.340
just retired for like she took the next year

01:02:41.340 --> 01:02:43.420
off and then she came back. Yeah. So I would

01:02:43.420 --> 01:02:46.659
say this is year three. OK. That's my guess.

01:02:46.980 --> 01:02:50.820
Reigning queen. Well, we like this queen a lot

01:02:50.820 --> 01:02:53.360
more than the last queen in our last series.

01:02:53.579 --> 01:02:57.760
I can tell you that freaking Queen Shinobu trumps

01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:00.239
Queen Marie Antoinette. That's for sure. Oh,

01:03:00.300 --> 01:03:02.360
OK. I was like, who was the last thing? Oh, yeah,

01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:07.119
Marie Antoinette. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, that's

01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:10.019
the queen lineup. I didn't even think about it,

01:03:10.019 --> 01:03:14.440
that's good. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess it is

01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:16.699
her. Did you know that if they were gambling,

01:03:17.340 --> 01:03:21.280
Shinobu would just destroy Marie Antoinette and

01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:24.800
get like a bajillion dollars? The burns would

01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:28.320
be so good. Her whips. She probably would just

01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.699
stop. She's just like, I feel bad playing you.

01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:34.380
This feels bad. I don't think you should be the

01:03:34.380 --> 01:03:38.119
queen of France. You should step down. Hmm. Well,

01:03:38.139 --> 01:03:40.219
I don't see her being a very attentive queen

01:03:40.219 --> 01:03:44.860
either. I feel like now just be on a little weird

01:03:44.860 --> 01:03:48.039
nomaru equivalent. And she'd be like, why are

01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:55.440
you talking to me? Yeah. Oh, God. Well, uh, we

01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.420
got three more episodes of season two of Chihayafuru.

01:03:58.699 --> 01:04:01.360
That's right. This tournament has to end. So

01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.860
you find out. Okay, well, are we gonna reach

01:04:05.860 --> 01:04:08.119
our goal? Well, obviously we're not winning Rank

01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:12.599
A, but will Class B, C, and D, will all of those

01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:19.539
be taken home by Mizuzawa players or freaking

01:04:19.539 --> 01:04:26.059
Tsukuba gonna rank up? Yeah. What's gonna happen?

01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:30.119
I forgot about Tsukuba. Who cares? I don't care

01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:31.820
if he breaks out. They probably will. Well that

01:04:31.820 --> 01:04:34.619
way we continue to have someone in each class.

01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:37.500
We'll still have Sumire and D, and then he'll

01:04:37.500 --> 01:04:44.380
be C, and then, I don't know, Kana or Satomo

01:04:44.380 --> 01:04:48.340
will be B, and then Taichi hopefully rank A?

01:04:48.460 --> 01:04:56.710
Yeah. For the love of God Jesus Christ I'm running

01:04:56.710 --> 01:05:00.769
out of patience to feel sorry for him. No, I'll

01:05:00.769 --> 01:05:06.530
never not feel sorry Perpetually sad boy. Oh

01:05:06.530 --> 01:05:09.789
my god our poor little meow meow our little sad

01:05:09.789 --> 01:05:13.710
little boy Why are you so pathetic Tai Chi you're

01:05:13.710 --> 01:05:17.969
so good at every literally everything else putting

01:05:17.969 --> 01:05:21.090
himself through this thing that just isn't working.

01:05:21.789 --> 01:05:26.449
Oh, my God. Oh, OK. Well, it'll be interesting

01:05:26.449 --> 01:05:29.250
to see him in Rionne, I guess. We've never seen

01:05:29.250 --> 01:05:31.769
him play against a girl, right? We've never seen.

01:05:31.929 --> 01:05:34.369
Well, he must have because he played the all

01:05:34.369 --> 01:05:36.469
girls. Oh, the girl. That's true. That's true.

01:05:36.730 --> 01:05:39.389
OK. Never mind. Well, he didn't actually get

01:05:39.389 --> 01:05:43.630
to watch the match, but now I want more Tai Chi.

01:05:43.769 --> 01:05:47.440
Yeah, I want. Well, because. So it's left and

01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:51.119
we have everyone but the higher playing. So we

01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:54.559
should be getting their matches now, but only

01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:58.059
for three episodes. That's not enough time. Yeah,

01:05:58.059 --> 01:06:01.079
we have. I think we have escaped Chihaya games.

01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:05.860
But what last season one ended losers for the

01:06:05.860 --> 01:06:09.679
year, but they're champions team wise. That's

01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:12.940
true. They are. They are the winners. I missed

01:06:12.940 --> 01:06:16.039
it. And I try to remember I. Don't remember season

01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:19.840
three like at all, but It's got to be like oh

01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:22.400
returning to champ Was it a fluke or are they

01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:25.119
gonna are they a powerhouse school now blah blah

01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:28.780
blah that kind of thing God, this can't be that.

01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:32.400
It can't be that. It cannot be. This TV show

01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:34.820
cannot just be them repeating these three years,

01:06:34.940 --> 01:06:38.300
three years in a row. Yeah. Right. No, we have

01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:40.840
to qualify as queen and master. She has to go

01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.860
to the fucking master's thing or something at

01:06:42.860 --> 01:06:44.219
some point, right? Like we can't be doing the

01:06:44.219 --> 01:06:47.119
team tournament again. Right. Because they already

01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:51.300
won. Done. I don't care about them, like, you

01:06:51.300 --> 01:06:53.280
know, defending their trophy, like whatever.

01:06:53.500 --> 01:06:56.239
Mm hmm. There's no way. There's no way. Right.

01:06:56.500 --> 01:07:00.920
Right. It's going to happen. I wouldn't. Yeah,

01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:02.960
I was going to say, don't get your hopes up.

01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:05.599
We've been disappointed time and time again.

01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:08.579
There's no way. There's just no way. Come on.

01:07:08.579 --> 01:07:10.699
You ask for things and then you get them. But

01:07:10.699 --> 01:07:14.460
only the idea of them and never an explored.

01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:17.239
I feel like that doesn't count as me getting

01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:25.530
them then. OK, well, any. predictions before

01:07:25.530 --> 01:07:30.050
we wrap it up here. I'm going to be mad. I'm

01:07:30.050 --> 01:07:32.929
going to be mad about how I can predict how you're

01:07:32.929 --> 01:07:35.050
going to feel at the end of it. I'm going to

01:07:35.050 --> 01:07:39.449
be better than how the show ends. I think I think

01:07:39.449 --> 01:07:43.829
Arada is going to lose by a little bit. And that's

01:07:43.829 --> 01:07:46.690
going to be a reason for her or him and her not

01:07:46.690 --> 01:07:49.630
to talk to each other. because then Tai Chi is

01:07:49.630 --> 01:07:51.050
going to win and she's going to be like, oh,

01:07:51.190 --> 01:07:53.510
who do I do I go celebrate with Tai Chi or with

01:07:53.510 --> 01:07:55.469
comfort errata? And instead, she's going to not

01:07:55.469 --> 01:07:58.110
be able to do either of those things because

01:07:58.110 --> 01:08:01.769
it's that kind of show prediction. Uh -huh. That's

01:08:01.769 --> 01:08:06.289
that's my prediction. Just make a choice. Now,

01:08:06.389 --> 01:08:09.440
Sumeru will then. Be there for Tai Chi, but he

01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.019
won't care because all he'll think about is that

01:08:12.019 --> 01:08:16.279
Chi Hai is not there. Oh, Lord. OK, well, if

01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:18.760
you guys have your own predictions about how

01:08:18.760 --> 01:08:21.399
season two Chi Hai is going to end, dot, dot,

01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:26.260
dot. Yeah, OK. Rate and subscribe, comment, rate

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01:08:33.619 --> 01:08:36.489
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01:08:36.489 --> 01:08:38.510
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01:08:38.510 --> 01:08:40.989
want to you want to say, you can email us at

01:08:40.989 --> 01:08:46.989
ShojoPod at gmail .com. Yeah. I guess next episode,

01:08:47.149 --> 01:08:49.850
we'll announce what we're covering next. Next

01:08:49.850 --> 01:08:53.350
episode. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I want to double down

01:08:53.350 --> 01:08:55.869
on what we wait. No, we already we had talked

01:08:55.869 --> 01:08:58.630
about this. OK. Yeah. No, I have a good idea

01:08:58.630 --> 01:09:01.649
of what we're going to cover. It's a short one.

01:09:01.750 --> 01:09:04.170
So you guys won't. be getting dragged through

01:09:04.170 --> 01:09:07.210
another hi -ya situation. Should we announce

01:09:07.210 --> 01:09:09.289
it now, so people have time to look it up? Should

01:09:09.289 --> 01:09:14.390
we? Okay, a sign of affection. Yeah, so next

01:09:14.390 --> 01:09:16.170
we're gonna watch a sign of affection that's

01:09:16.170 --> 01:09:18.550
on Crunchyroll. It's 12 episodes, so it should

01:09:18.550 --> 01:09:23.449
be nice and short. Yes, and it's gonna be yet

01:09:23.449 --> 01:09:28.590
another new, we're in college. We have a full

01:09:28.590 --> 01:09:33.819
protagonist, different experience. uh, a sign

01:09:33.819 --> 01:09:37.979
of affection play on words for like sign language

01:09:37.979 --> 01:09:43.859
since she's deaf and her, uh, romantic interest,

01:09:43.859 --> 01:09:47.199
you know, kind of learns it to, you know, well,

01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:51.600
nice feels and complicated stuff based off that,

01:09:52.159 --> 01:09:56.859
uh, different art style. And yeah, just like

01:09:56.859 --> 01:10:00.659
a sweet, cozy, blushy show. So that'll be, it'll

01:10:00.659 --> 01:10:03.409
be nice to have some romance. around again, been

01:10:03.409 --> 01:10:05.550
a hot second since that. That's true. We're not

01:10:05.550 --> 01:10:09.250
getting in here. So heard here. Yeah. And yeah.

01:10:09.529 --> 01:10:12.430
So get ready for that. I don't know how many

01:10:12.430 --> 01:10:14.130
episodes recover. It'll it'll depend on when

01:10:14.130 --> 01:10:17.060
I watch them, if it'll be two or three. Stretch

01:10:17.060 --> 01:10:20.159
it out. Yeah. It depends on how it really depends

01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:22.619
on it. Do I have a lot of things to say? Slash

01:10:22.619 --> 01:10:25.260
is this difficult to summarize? That's true,

01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:27.479
because it will be a lot of gesture. Well, I

01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:29.720
guess it will be captions for whatever they're

01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:31.840
saying anyway. We'll figure it out. But yeah,

01:10:31.979 --> 01:10:34.800
look forward to that. It's a newer one. So here's

01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:37.659
hoping that that brings in some new listeners.

01:10:39.420 --> 01:10:43.439
and a show I have read a lot of. I think I read

01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:45.659
about 10 volumes of the manga, but I didn't finish

01:10:45.659 --> 01:10:48.180
it. But so I've like at least consumed what's

01:10:48.180 --> 01:10:50.199
going to be covered in this. And then Joe will

01:10:50.199 --> 01:10:54.800
have the fresh perspective again. And yeah, so

01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:59.619
that'll be good. And we're going to keep cranking

01:10:59.619 --> 01:11:03.659
out those Jurassic World bonus episodes. So if

01:11:03.659 --> 01:11:05.720
you haven't already listened to the first one

01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:10.109
that just came out. More to come. Yeah, I'm excited

01:11:10.109 --> 01:11:12.630
to hear I can't wait to hear what Joe thinks

01:11:12.630 --> 01:11:17.810
just rebirth. Uh, yeah, that should be I've got

01:11:17.810 --> 01:11:21.489
thoughts for sure. Okay. Well cool. Yeah. Yeah.

01:11:21.550 --> 01:11:25.289
All right. What did we learn? Um, what did we

01:11:25.289 --> 01:11:32.430
learn from these episodes? Just don't never never

01:11:32.430 --> 01:11:36.090
have peers always isolate yourself That's your

01:11:36.090 --> 01:11:39.210
true strength, Shinobu. As someone... Turn it!

01:11:39.310 --> 01:11:42.810
Always dress for the occasion, always wear undergarments

01:11:42.810 --> 01:11:47.229
related to the... you could exploit for respect

01:11:47.229 --> 01:11:50.250
points. I think you should turn your 23 -card

01:11:50.250 --> 01:11:52.210
win into a bad thing, actually. I think you should

01:11:52.210 --> 01:11:55.130
feel ashamed for winning by 23 cards. You lost

01:11:55.130 --> 01:11:59.829
two cards. What a loser you are. Uh -huh. Is

01:11:59.829 --> 01:12:04.109
there anything funnier happen? Make sure to just

01:12:04.109 --> 01:12:06.869
give your love rival huge psychic damage accidentally

01:12:06.869 --> 01:12:08.890
before he has to play a tournament the next day.

01:12:08.890 --> 01:12:14.069
That's fun. Unintended injury to Tai Chi who

01:12:14.069 --> 01:12:17.510
doesn't need any more. If Samiri is about to

01:12:17.510 --> 01:12:20.989
ask you questions that are critical to my enjoyment

01:12:20.989 --> 01:12:23.890
of the show, don't drag her off and say you also

01:12:23.890 --> 01:12:26.649
have these questions. Let her ask the damn question.

01:12:26.970 --> 01:12:28.810
I'm imagining the two of them talking to each

01:12:28.810 --> 01:12:31.109
other. I feel like I can only see it where it's

01:12:31.109 --> 01:12:33.170
her talking to him. because he doesn't even talk

01:12:33.170 --> 01:12:35.710
to the people he does like less people he doesn't

01:12:35.710 --> 01:12:37.949
like. Make him do it. They keep giving him an

01:12:37.949 --> 01:12:39.390
out, getting like, you know, it's like, oh, I

01:12:39.390 --> 01:12:40.909
don't have to answer questions. Make him make

01:12:40.909 --> 01:12:43.829
him give an answer. That's true. That's right.

01:12:44.289 --> 01:12:51.390
Yeah. Come on. Yeah. All right. On that note.

01:12:51.739 --> 01:12:56.140
Catch y 'all next time. Bye bye Joe Joe. Okay.

01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:02.439
Bye. I'm very excited To like sing a little ending

01:13:02.439 --> 01:13:07.699
jingle You were doing that