Welcome to Shoujo, where today we are finishing
off Season 2 of Chihayafuru. And I'm your host
Sarah, joined by Joe, the man who puts Joe in
Shoujo. What's up, Joe? Not much. You're pumped
to be done with Tihaya Furu for a little bit.
You know, I mean, it's getting like it was getting
all right at the end. Like, you know, these episodes.
Yeah, these are good episodes. I get how like
this is like a fun show to watch. It's not the
best to talk about, I feel like, necessarily.
But I didn't have a bad time at the end. Yeah.
Episodes quite enjoyable. But before we jump.
into those and all our rankings and how it stands
against our other series so far. We will catch
up. Would you like to inform us of your life
at the moment, Joe? Yeah. So I took, I started
taking, so I'm going to go to, I'm going to go
to Japan. later this year, and I'm like, oh,
I used to I got a minor in Japanese nine years
ago. I should like take a little course and see
if I can refresh some of that stuff. And so,
you know, I'm like, I don't know what course
I'm supposed to take because like they just have
this there's like a because there's like an organization
here that does that. But they just have all these
different courses and they're like you can just
like refer to the online thing to see what you
can do But it's basically just like the index
of a textbook. That's just like self introductions
recognizing things Saying your likes and dislikes
and I'm like I have no idea where I fall on this
because I don't know what the actual Exercises
are so I'm like, whatever I'll go like one class
above the like entry level thing, right? So that's
what I go to I go to my first session yesterday
and let me tell you that's like a little bit
too low for what I'm able to do. So like, they,
you know, they're like, oh, we're not going to
learn how to like, write hiragana in this class.
And I'm like, oh, okay, which is like the like,
like normal alphabet, they're going to learn
how to write katakana, which is like the borrowed
words alphabet. And for reference, I know several
kanji, so it's just like, okay, this is very
low considering where I should be. So I'm about
to figure out what to do for that. Joe is advanced.
And for anyone wondering how could Joe go to
Japan without Sarah, don't worry. I was invited.
I'm just too poor to go. But one day I will return
to the homeland of anime. This will be Joe's
first time going. And I'm very excited for you.
Yeah. So that's that's what I did on Monday.
I didn't watch any other like anime or anything,
but I did finish season two of The Sopranos.
Mm hmm. So that's exciting. And this is your
first time watching. Right. Yep. That's my first
time watching The Sopranos. Pretty good. Yeah.
I get why people like The Sopranos. It's fun.
Yeah. I've been watching a lot of when it was
popular. They have a lot of the actors on Sesame
Street. Like they have like special guests on
stuff like that. Extremely funny to watch. That
is funny. That's good. Yeah. Oh boy. That's what
I've been up to. How about you? Let's see. Love
Island season seven of USA has concluded. The
least romantic Love Island season I've ever watched.
Oh no. That's the whole thing. Drama Island.
Like a total drama island. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I
never watched that show, but I do remember it.
So, yeah, interesting. Although it was funny
because we had a couple basically break up in
the finale and it was very funny. Nice. Because
he just very blatantly hated her and was just
forcing her to end it so that she couldn't then
go and like, been a story that like, He dumped
her and it was so blah blah blah yada yada yada,
but somehow they came in third place in that
fourth place So a real couple lost to the couple
that broke up. That's pretty sad They must be
yeah, that's that's how this season. It's just
a very much sums up the season ending But they
announced that Love Island Games will be back
for season two. It's almost been two years now.
So which is like a very mediocre spin -off, but
hey, it's something. I'll take it. And then I
got to watch the UK season that's been going
the same time that I didn't watch simultaneously
this year. And then Big Brother just started.
So lots of more reality for me. to talk about
to you all who don't give a rat's ass about it.
So look forward to that. I'm seeing Leia at the
end of the tunnel, the puppy tunnel, because
Pepper is, we're getting there. I'm no longer
thinking she has diabetes, like pie training
is working. I'm seeing she'll be a good dog once
she gets over the puppy phase, which, you know,
it's just terrible overall. Yeah. Let's see.
Bachelorette trip coming up soon. I'm not ready
for it. I still got to get my pink night outfit
and still got to get lingerie for the bride.
The bride being my sister. Cool. So that'll be
that. Let's see. Yeah. I don't know. Some bummer
stuff. We've lost a family. dog and that was
very upsetting. So I had to like skip my live
stream for work last week and stuff, but nothing
else, I think, really going on with my life.
That's good. Maybe that's good. Is that good?
Yeah, it's fine. I move in like a month, so I
took down all my posters and even that took a
little bit of time. But I always pack way too
soon before moving. And then I'm only moving
to a different building within my same complex,
so it's really going to be like a low -key move.
But yeah, so that's all I can think of that's
coming up. Yeah, so, but we've got a lot to talk
about with this being a finale episode, so let's
get to it. Okay. All right. We'll get to the
last three episodes of Chai for season two. Episode
23 is called To See the Beautiful Cherry Blossoms.
We open on Tai Chi winning his match against
Retro by 18 cards. So get wrecked, Retro. Just
just get out of here, dude. You're not a star
of the show. Just a comedy character. Brutalizing
them. Elsewhere, Arata is crushing the boob guy
in Class A, so we're not totally done with that
character, unfortunately, and may not be for
a while, but at least he gets destroyed here.
Unsurprisingly, Shinobu has also cleaned up.
The Fujisaki coach has her students recording
the match as he steps out of the room. And she
goes to talk to Arata's coach. She's like, hey,
he's a real good player. And the coach is like,
yeah, he's just like that. Anyway, do you see
any other notable players at this tournament?
And then she thinks about Chihaya. And then she
turns around to see Chihaya asleep in the hallway,
just like right behind them. She could get pickpocketed,
like, why? Yeah, just falling asleep in corridors,
you know, normal stuff. A freak could take photos
of you asleep. Oh, my God. She wakes up and she's
like, and the Fujisaki coach is like, Oh, I'll
have my student apologize for injuring you. But
she is like, no, if I just swung better, I would
have gotten hurt, which we turn out is not true.
But that's what she says here. The door opens
and Arata and Shinobu appear victorious. And
they are moving on to the final. Ultimate showdown.
Ultimate showdown. Shinobu is like, wow, it's
just you and me, Arata. Ooh, I'm so scared. But
he's like, not intimidated or biased at all.
He's just like, ha ha ha. Chihaya is like, dude,
I got to watch this game. This is the best. This
is going to be all the whole season has been
leading up to this because this whole season
has been this one tournament. But then Nishida
and Kana show up, and they're like, why aren't
you checking your phone, Chihaya? Kana got out
in the semifinals, but both Satomu and Taichi
are in their final match, so we got, we're stacked
to the final. Someone else's too, but that doesn't
matter. Someone else's too, but don't worry about
it. Who cares? But they're both playing on the
first floor while Class A Final is on the second
floor, so you can only go and see one of them.
Nishida's like, oh wait, it's friggin' Arata
and Shinobu in the final, and then he's like,
man, I'm gonna go watch that one. Actually, I
don't care about my teammates, I'm Nishida. Taichi
doesn't beat us, he's like, totally on a roll
anyway, so we should go and watch this one. Terrible.
He's the whole one who is like Satoumu. You're
not even like a part of the team anymore, man.
They don't know what to do with them. Yeah. But
then we remember that Taichi told Jihai to focus
on practicing for the Queen match. So he's like,
oh, he'd want you to go see this game. Elsewhere,
Sudo chastises his team for losing. Retro escapes
punishment by sulking because he got beaten by
Taichi so badly. Because he got beat he's got
he got like just destroyed crushed He got like
he only got like five cards from Tai Chi who
he thought was his rival. Yeah, nah Tai Chi's
like you're not gonna be in season three bud.
You're out of here Sadly, I feel like of course
he will see him He had to like hang on to this
menagerie of terrible boys, but we'll we'll talk
about that more In the BNC final Sumire brings
water to Tai Chi's Atomu and is like wow The
others sure are taking their time. I wonder if
they're gonna show up. Maybe Chihaya fell asleep.
Ha ha ha. Maybe she's gonna go watch Arata instead.
Isn't that right, Tai Chi? And Tai Chi's like,
yeah, that's probably what she's doing. I don't
think she's coming. The Class A final will be
Arata and Shinobu, and there's no way she's gonna
miss that. He's like... Dead set on, like, yeah,
she's not gonna be here. Tai Chi's opponent is
Rion, and her team is mad at her for losing the
team tournament. She nervously tells her team
that she's gonna try to win, and that wins them
all back, because, hey, look, she's, like, into
it. Yay. So much for the iron mass. So much.
I have a hard time believing one match is gonna
change. Yeah, it mostly just seems like you just
didn't talk to her. It's just her gimmick for
an episode. You know? Yeah, that too. Yep. Well,
he just basically alienated her by picking on
her. Yeah. This guy sucks. Rion's like, I gotta
win this for the team. So we have some second
years that can carry on the like, Fuji Saki team
next year because our entire team was stacked
with third years. The match starts and the cards
are dealt. But Rion is surprised to see that
Taichi looks incredibly bored. He's just like
sulking. He's just like, why do I have to be
in class B? Why am I not in class A? This sucks.
Why do I have to play this? Man, whatever. This
sucks. Well, I think he's just trying not to
care. Oh, it's great. He doesn't care about the
fact that she has there. He can't be bothered
by it. That's this is the ultimate truth of this
episode. Mm hmm. But I guess he's good. He's
good if he just isn't bothered. He's good if
he just doesn't want to be there. He's like.
Mostly his issue is him being in his own head,
questioning if he can overcome natural abilities.
So if he just doesn't think about it, then he
does better. And then, yeah, so he just needs
to freaking chill out more often. But also, Ryon
barely lost to Shihaya. So I would think he would
think this was a good test of skill. Well, if
his heart was in it more. I guess so. I mean,
well, I guess he doesn't know that she only lost
or like she only got close because her grandmother
was reading or whatever. Yeah, I guess they don't
just I guess they don't know don't talk like
we don't know they've never talked to each other
Let alone about how their matches were even though
this is a tournament that had Individual matches
the following day where you kind of play against
people that your teammates played again. Yeah
I don't know. Anyway, Tai Chi hears Kana in terms
of see that both her and she hi are here He's
like what the hell why'd she come here? They're
all supposed to be cheering like they're all
supposed to be in the top floor this will be
watching the class a they're all here to cheer
him but he's like i don't get you chiaya i don't
get why you're here fine whatever i'm just gonna
win this game as quickly as possible so you can
go and watch the end of the class a final how
about that at the class a final the room is packed
everyone wonders how this is gonna go will errata
be good enough to beat the queen what is he gonna
be contender for the master title who knows they
set up their board uh but just before starting
shinobu tells errata that the best players are
the ones that did it all alone This match is
going to prove that they don't need friends.
And Arata's like, mm, OK. What? Yeah, he's just
chilling. He's just the most chill guy. Real
intense. Yeah, he's the most just chill guy that
came out for a good time, you know, even though
he's such a pouty boy. Not that long ago. I know
he was so angsty and now he's just like, ah,
whatever. Play starts and they both take cards
so fast that the audience has a hard time knowing
who is who's winning the cards. when they do
it. But Shinobu wins the first two cards. Arata
isn't deterred, though, and he takes a card before
the first syllable was fully spoken somehow.
How do you do that? I don't know, because the
just, you know, normally we're explained when
Chihaya does it because she has incredible hearing,
but that's not something we've ever been told
that Arata possesses. So how? So how? I don't
know, but he's doing it, I guess. Shinobu apologizes
to the cards, saying that she's not going to
be able to get all of them. Meanwhile, in the
Class B final, Taichi and Ryoune are sucking
it up by faulting constantly. Everyone is like,
what is happening? This is the worst game I've
ever seen. Ty, she's like, shit, man, I just
need to win this dumb match so GIA can go upstairs.
I just need to get through this. And Kana is
like, well, at least Rion is screwing up because
the reader is doing a terrible job. And then
she realizes that the reader is nervous because
he's having his final exam to be promoted to.
So like everyone just having a bad time. Which
is like this. I feel like do that in a lower
stakes. round, not the finals to have some guy
possibly messing up this match. It's terrible.
It's going so bad for everybody. I mean, Tai
Chi is just doing bad because Jihai is here.
But like, it's very funny to be like, this is
the worst game I've ever seen. Rion tries to
get it together and starts to be able to play
better by moving super quick. Tai Chi starts
falling behind and then he starts to spiral thinking
about how he can't beat people with natural talent.
He's like, I can't win quick like this. He stands
up and thinks that he just needs to think of
Rion like Chihaya not like The master which is
he's been obsessing about the master match this
whole time because he's like am I ever gonna
be good enough to beat that guy So he's like,
I'm just gonna focus on beating Chihaya He's
never beaten Chihaya, but he does have a standard
strategy against her where he splits all of his
cards So she can't just jump to the right one.
So this is like the anti -speed Strat the move
get it He starts under yeah, he starts undercutting
her momentum and negates her speed advantage
He'll probably lose the single syllable cards
on speed because that's just going straight to
it But he should be able to split the rest and
beat her through like good memorization. That's
basically his plan. He starts to chip away from
her and thinks that he'll have to use the strategy
to beat Chihaya. He wins by nine cards. Rion
just doesn't have the stamina to play five games
in a row, so she just couldn't pick it back up.
Yeah, because, yeah, I guess that's true, because
today is the first day that she's doing that,
because she's normally just kept on reserve.
But yeah, nine cards is a lot. It's a lot. Really
recovered. Taichi goes to report his win and
then rushes to drag Chihaya upstairs to the Class
A match. But like while he's dragging her, she
just goes totally limp and starts crying and
he's like, what are you doing? Like what's happening?
But it turns out she's just so happy. He finally
made it to Class A. She congratulates him while
crying on the floor as we cut to credits. He
did it. He made it to Class A and he does not
give a shit at all. Well, he's put so much pressure
on himself and then... Because he feels like
she's missing out on something by supporting
him, which is very sad. Yeah. But that's what
she's trained, conditioned him to feel like...
She's trained him like a dog. To feel underappreciated.
He expects nothing. Yeah. This would be me. This
is the most real to be like, oh, you're congratulating
for me in class A. Oh, yeah, cool. I'm the last
one in the team to make it. But all right. Yeah,
I guess I did a good job. Thanks. Like, I don't
care. Well, he's trying to rush her to see if
they can watch the last bit of the class A thing.
Yeah. But yeah, we're so happy for Tai Chi. We're
so happy for Tai Chi. This is Tai Chi's biggest.
Uh -huh. Finally. Oh, finally. Yep. This is his
biggest win in these episodes, because let me
tell you, he's going to be taking some Ls soon.
But that's just back to normal. But that's just
back to normal. So let's celebrate when we can.
That's true. This is the big Tai Chi win. He
makes it to Class A by kind of dominating Rion
still. I mean, nine cards is nothing. Yeah. That's
not a close game. Freaking crusher. Any other
thoughts about episode nine? No, let's keep rolling.
Any of Satomu's game? I'll just tell you that.
No. Ah, upsetting. Episode 24 is called When
I Must Hide. We open back up and Taichi tells
Chihaya to stop crying. We got to go catch the
game upstairs. And then he drags her up and blots
her tears with his shirt. God, I'm just glad
we don't have more stupid, snotty whatever. Why
does this is a Jose? Why are they doing that?
So upsetting. Yeah, Chihaya is like, hey, if
you're class A now we can be rivals and she gets
all like competitive with him and he's like knock
it off. Kana, Sumire, and Retro for some reason
all peek their heads out from the room and tells
them that they can go catch the class A game.
They'll stay behind and cheer on Satomu. Retro
doesn't say this. He's just there. I don't know
why he's there. Chihaya is like, no, I'm the
team captain. I should stay here with the team.
But then Taichi grabs her hand and is like, we're
going to see you later. Sumire sees Taichi grabbing
Chihaya's hand and is like, damn it, this isn't
how this is supposed to go. I'm supposed to win
something this season too. But Kana tries to
cheer everybody up by referencing a poem. Yeah,
I like that. Sumire is like, I don't get what's
up with OA senpai. She's just always using poems
as like a band -aid for, I don't know. It was
just really nice that she... Sumire is observant.
Yeah, and notices things which I guess is why
she's good. She deals with the human part of
the show in a Interesting way. Yeah, not just
alo. Yeah, that's not enough Sumire Yeah, unfortunately,
this might be the most we get out of her. I don't
think we get anything else now Suddenly someone
starts yelling it's Tsukuba who's been who's
only one card away from winning the class D finals
Nobody but the coach even noticed he was there
which is extremely funny Uh, Chihaya and Taichi
rush up to the second floor, but Chihaya doesn't
want to go after all. She says she's going to
go back and starts turning away as her finger
starts to throb. Taichi's like, what's your deal?
But Chihaya doesn't know what to say. She's being
a big scaredy cat. Yeah. Big baby. She can't
handle it. Oh. Outside. This is why nothing happens
in this show. Yeah. God. Oh, man. Outside, the
coach that's like out there tells them that the
room is full anyway, so they have a hard time
getting in. But then the Fujisaki coach asks
the other coach if they can make some room for
them because she's brought boob guy with her
and she's like, well, we want to go. And then
she encourages Chihaya to watch the match. So
the four of them are about to go in. They wait
to go in. But as the door opens, Chihaya is engulfed
in a sea of water. She's like, wait a minute.
There's no water here. This is just a normal
match, but it feels like something is happening.
What could be happening, Sarah? Arada gulp down
that Arada card. Oh, man. It's just like last
season finale. Yeah, it sure is. Anyway, Arada
is winning five to eleven with a six card lead.
So damn, something happened. Wild. Nishida kind
of recaps the match saying that they were neck
and neck at the beginning, but then Arata started
moving before the first syllable was read consistently,
and Shinobu just couldn't counter that. Also,
Arata plays really aggressively. Yeah, the referee
guy or whatever is like, yeah, he definitely
takes after his grandpa, like dirty Arata. fight
and dirty kind of moves. I guess I didn't quite
like he sends her stuff. Is that what it is?
Or? Yeah, I guess just the way he plays is like
very much like doing it with the intention of,
I don't know, like pinpointing. But that's like
how you should play or at least at this level
with this kind of opponent. Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe just because he seems like such a cheery
guy. I don't quite get it. Yeah, yeah. We hear
some of Shinobu's thoughts thinking about what
she can do or what mistakes she's made, and she
decides that only targeting some of the cards
were her mistake. So she's like, all right, fucking
I'm going for all of them now. She takes two
more cards, hitting them hard to like knock multiple
of them. But it turns out she's kind of guessing.
So she's like kind of gambling now. Well, she's
not using the same precision she was before.
Right. However, the audience knows that the strategy
does not counter Arada's strengths in any way.
He just straight up faster and can accelerate
like crazy. That's his thing. He accelerates
real fast, which I don't really understand is
different than being. just fast, but I guess
it is. Oh, I guess there's not enough distance.
I don't know. Acceleration is everything. I mean,
yeah, because like just being quick is the same
as accelerating fast, right? Well, no, I guess
it's like if you you could wait longer before
reacting if you have faster acceleration. I don't.
Dude, they're just trying to think of cool new
terms to use is like. differentiating players.
Yeah, it does feel like we're doing some Mario
Kart stats where it's like, oh, this person has
fast acceleration, but this person has a faster
top speed, which is like, OK, but I don't really
understand what that means. Yeah. Arata knocks
the card so hard it's about to hit Chihaya directly
in the face, but then Tai Chi blocks it. Arata
sees this and apologizes to them. Despite his
crazy acceleration, he's always so relaxed in
a game. Chihaya thinks once again about, uh,
Takana's explanation for the Chihaya Furu card
as a, like, perfectly spinning top, and she's
like, wow, you know what that really describes?
It really describes Arata. Very powerful, but
perfectly in balance. Arata. Hmm. Yeah, impassionate.
Impassionate. Right, that's basically it. Oh,
Poppy, don't... She can jump out of her crate
sometimes. Hold on. Carry on. Across the room,
Arata's parents are dismayed. They're like, oh,
Shinobu can't even beat him. What are we going
to do? It's pretty funny. Murau thinks about
how Arata has put in a lot of work over time
to get better. He wasn't born a great player,
after all, and we get an Arata flashback where
his grandpa teaches him how to enjoy the game
through practice. Anyway, he got better at Carta
and also he got taller after he took his break.
So now he's big and tall. So they're like, oh,
maybe he just grew into himself, which is OK.
That's cool. Everyone is like maybe this guy
can beat Master Show The score is now 9 to 4
and Shinobu is getting annoyed at the audience
She pulls out a snow Maru towel out of her snow
Maru bag and starts dabbing the sweat off of
her face She tries to get it together remembering
that she can beat some pretty good players today
So she should be able to do this. Shinobu takes
a card from Murata by slipping under his hand
like barely getting in there Then they both hit
the next card so hard it scatters all of the
cards in the area. It was at the same time, but
it was on Shinobu's side. So technically she
wins it. Chihaya saw that Shinobu actually got
the card first anyway. So like she doubly got
it, I guess. Chihaya starts swiping the air and
Tai Chi has to grab her arm to stop swiping the
air in the middle of someone else's match. Come
on. Come on, Chihaya. The practice swings are
so lame. It was very selfish of you. Not be paying
attention and just oh good lord Shinobu defiantly
glares at errata thinking that she has a closer
connection to the cards while errata just smiles
and it pisses shinobu off Also, she's like just
totally exhausted at this point even still she
takes the next several cards But in the end it
isn't enough and errata wins by two cards They
bow and shinobu gives the biggest fake smile.
I've ever seen as errata is declared the winner
He immediately puts his hand on shinobu's forehead
and informs her that she has a fever probably
from walking around in the rain yesterday Anyway,
it sure is amazing He did so well considering
that shinobu thinks to herself that she always
wanted to play against an opponent puts up a
fight So she's like, uh, yeah, of course I did
that well because I'm the queen as we cut to
credits. Yeah, so basically it's implying Our
errata would not have one if she had been in
top condition. Yeah, so it's not like shinobu
Truly lost. It's just the conditions. But we
got what we wanted for the sake of a plot of
Rada winning so he can go to Tokyo for college.
He can be in the show now. Yay. Finally. Join
the cast. Surely the show is not going to be
in college for quite some time. Yeah. Second
years. Yeah. They need to come up with some excuse
for him to be there more. He's like, oh, I'm
like, I'm going to a lot of. college visits,
prep school or something. Yeah. Yeah. They're
going to have to do something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Anything else about this match? Oh, yeah. Good.
Good. Remember when you thought that the Nobu
might be related to Arata? Yeah. When we first
saw her, or you thought she was a ghost person?
I thought she was a ghost. And then I'm like,
she's just like a girl version of Arata. I'm
still kind of right about that is the thing.
Yeah. She's like what Arata would have been if
she didn't have friends. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's let's get to
our last episode. All right. We'll finish up
episode 25. The final episode of Chihaya Fury
season two is called I Can Look Up and See the
Snowy Cap of Mount Fuji. All right, his parents
are like, well, shit, what are we going to do
now? His dad's like, I don't know. Maybe we can
make him win like two tournaments or something.
But then his mom tells him that his grandpa took
out an education life insurance policy. And the
dad's like, I'm sorry. Oh, what? That sounds
fake. He's like, well. A cost aside, don't we
want him like not moving too far away? And the
mom says that she's not looking forward to being
alone with just her husband, but there isn't
much they can do about it. And in exchange, I
do not understand. Terrible parents, terrible
marriage. Why is this in here? I can see why
you hung out with his grandpa so much. Like,
why is she dropping the casual? Well, I fucking
hate you. He doesn't like his dad. His grandpa
didn't like his dad. Even his mom doesn't like
his dad. God damn. This was the weirdest. I had
to like pause the video and be like, did she?
What? What is happening? I don't know. Resigned
marriage. Yikes. Yep. No wonder he wants to go
to Tokyo. Get the hell out of there. Tai Chi
thinks that Arata is gonna come to Tokyo now.
Arata walks up to him and gives him a high five
and Tai Chi is like, what are you doing? And
Arata is like, oh, we're supposed to like high
five as winners, right? Because you won your
match, didn't you? Congrats, man. We're supposed
to high five. Tai Chi's like, oh. Look at him
trying to be a human. Yeah, look at that. We're
friends, right? This is what friends do. This
is human interaction. Nice. So nice. Suddenly,
a hand grabs the back of Arata's shirt and drags
him down. It's Chihaya, and she congratulates
him from the floor for winning, but also asks
how he can be so relaxed when he plays, because
she's like, I get super tense when I play. How
do you do it, Arata? It's so Chihaya -furu of
you to be impassioned. He's about to explain,
but then they get an announcement that the winners
need to gather for the closing ceremony, so we
don't get to hear his explanation. I think he
actually was gonna explain it or he was just
gonna be like, eh, I don't know, I'll just do
my thing. I was just like, oh man, I just, you
know. Or you have to learn yourself, Chiaya.
Why are you such a chill guy, Arata? We need
Arata over the chill guy meme. Chill guy meme.
Yo, you don't know that one? I'm not a very good
meme -er, meme consumer. The chill guy? My new
character? A chill guy? I'm gonna show you a
picture of him. And we're going to edit a picture
of a rod of space over him. That's what we're
going to do. But anyway. Yeah. Oh, I've never
seen this in my life. You've never seen him.
No, what is that from? He's just a chill guy,
you know? OK, OK. Memes are so funny. Yeah, you
know what? You're right. What's happening? Chihaya
thinks she's worked hard, but something about
this isn't right. She's like, shouldn't I be
a contender this season? What do we do if I don't
if we don't get renewed? I'm never going to be
the champion. I lost the season again and we
lost last year. Losers for another year. No,
they did win the team stuff. That's true. That's
true. But then someone calls to her and we see
that both Satomi and Tsukuba throw out peace
signs because they've won their they've won their
tournaments as well. So who? The winners are
announced! Arata wins Class A, Taichi wins Class
B, Satomi wins Class C, and Tsukuba wins Class
D. Turns out Mizuzawa has cleaned up, winning
everything except for the Class A match. Gosh
darn it, Chihaya and Nishida. You ruined it!
Chihaya's like, ah shit, we could have won everything
if I didn't blow it. They all get ready to leave,
but before leaving, the Fujisaki coach offers
to email Chihaya the Class A match recording.
She wonders if anybody else notices that the
only two people at the tournament that didn't
lose a single match were Arata and Taichi, which
I guess is true. Yeah. Oh, I really like whatever
her name is. We got to remember it. But I love
that she's like a substitute mentor to Chihaya
now. Yeah. Unfortunately, this means we're going
to have to deal with boob guy more than the rest
of the Fujisaki team that I do not like. that's
true that's true they can get out as long as
he doesn't hang around like freaking um uh pseudo
yeah god they can form like the terrible boy
club uh let's see it truly is astounding how
many of them there are in this stove for women
oh yeah anyway we cut to the hospital where a
doctor tells chiaya that they didn't find anything
wrong with her finger she'll have to visit a
bigger hospital we got to a bigger hospital where
they tell her that she needs an mri She gets
an MRI and it turns out she has enderone metosis.
And she tells the CARTA team about this and it
turns out that it's a rare disease where some
bones get softer over time or something. But
it's only like the middle joint in her finger
bone that has it. But she's going to need an
operation. And she's like, I'm going to be admitted
to the hospital and have to undergo anesthesia
and stuff. It's scary, but it's the only way
that she'll be able to play CARTA better. A lot
more intense than your little finger. Thing,
huh? I didn't need anesthesia. Yeah, they just
numbed my finger. I got finger surgery to the
audience where they like removed a thing from.
Yeah, we talked about it. Not that everyone ever
listened to all of our episodes, but yeah, they
didn't replace my bone or whatever. I didn't
need to drink the like the bone strengthening
juice. Like put it in like a sheet or something
Anyway, she gets dropped off at the hospital
and left with her sister's laptop to watch the
class a final match on repeat Which she does
freaking sweet? Yeah, you win supported Tai Chi
so you could win but you also get to watch and
not disrupt the entire match with your swinging
Just swinging the whole time. The nurse keeps
feeling like you need to stop swinging your hand.
You're getting surgery on it. Elsewhere, at Arata's
bookstore job, he sees Chitose, Chihaya's sister,
on a swimsuit magazine and is like, huh, that's
weird. I knew her. Then he gets a call from Chihaya.
She hesitates to tell him why she called, though.
At a flower shop, the rest of the Karuta team
argues over which flowers to get Chihaya. Taichi
is being pensive the whole time, thinking that
Chihaya might be feeling down about getting finger
surgery. She's not, though, and she asks Arata
how to get better at Carta. That's all she can
think about, she tells him. He tells her that
he always thinks back to his room after any game
he plays. He always thinks about the one time
he played her as kids. Well, he's saying when
he plays, he imagines that he's playing in that
room, like the most favorite place he's ever
played hard, which is so sweet. I was like, oh.
Yeah, bam huge colors big moment show Joe ass
effect down He's been thinking about her the
whole time every time he plays Carter That's
all it takes for him to put in so much He's in
this moment. I knew he was toast I know The thought
of her makes him strong. It's just like makes
him strong. Huge moment of being like there's
like all these effects happening. It like looks
great. And it's like, oh my God, Arata thinks
about me all the time. And guess who turns the
corner as this happens? It's the Carta team.
That's right, Tai Chi just in time to see Chihaya
glowing on the phone. Chihaya thinks to herself
that she doesn't understand these feelings that
she's having. What could they be? Sarah, look
at this feeling's me. Do you mean she doesn't
know she's freaking sad? But for the rest of
her life, she'll always love Carter. And then
she adds that she'll always love Arana. Do we
think this? OK, but like, does she recognize
that the romantic way or just that she loves
him is like. I can't do this again. I can't,
I can't be doing this again. I can't do it. After
Kiwi's it okay. I can't do this. She says love.
Okay. I don't remember what literal word she
says, but it was translated as love. So God,
it could be not. It could not be that. Am I going
to be like in pain in season three? Well, I don't
recall being super sad. Well, it definitely didn't
feel like the conclusion. So it never, I don't
think it was the fight. finish the show, but
I don't think it's romantically satisfying if
I vaguely remember correctly. Anyway, the operation
was a success was a success, but she can't practice
her swings until it's fully healed. Her sister
and mother visit her and her sister is very dismissive,
but gets her like this really big daddy bear
plush. So there's that. That's that's fun. That's
really nice. That's cute. I thought that was
very sweet. Uh, Chihay has to write down 20 poems
for her homework. She thinks about how Kana told
her to read a bunch of poetry before being able
to write her own, but she's like, I'm not doing
that. Uh, she only got through five poems before
she had to get the surgery, so she's running
out of steam. She thinks about Carta, and then
about Arata. He always thinks about playing her
in his room, huh? I guess my whole life has been
about Carta too, in a way. Always wanting to
get better, just so I can receive a little bit
of passion. Kana and Taichi come and visit Chihaya
in street clothes, and Taichi is wearing a cross
necklace, and I'm like, what's going on, my boy?
Have we heard of a band named Creed? Is he Christian?
What is this? I don't know. It's just I feel
like it's part of like gothic accessories. Not
that Taichi's a god, but I don't know. He's listening
to Creed. We got another Creed listener on the
team. I know him and... Oh, God. They do have
some similarities. Those suffering through dense
girlies. But I'm not certain that Tai Chi is
going to overcome it. Oh, no, Tai Chi is going
on the creative cruise. For sure. By himself.
They meet up with Chihaya and read some of her
poems. One of them is just straight up a story
about her hanging out with Shinobu. Like, not
even a poem. Okay. But the next - But then Kana
reads a much better poem about Karda, and then
she reads another one about longing, and she's
like, oh, no. Because she's put it together.
They're exciting. Kana and Taichi walk home.
Taichi's like, well, she seemed to be recovering
okay. Seems like things are gonna go back to
normal, huh? But then Kana stops and just starts
smacking him on the shoulder. She's like, you
gotta try harder, man. And he's like, what? And
she tells him that she should have gone to see
her alone. You shouldn't have brought me along.
Chihaya isn't going to be clueless forever. And
Taichi tells her that he already knows this.
Then do something or give up. Probably give up.
Give up. Honestly. You need to give up, man.
So cute that Hana's like rooting for him. I know.
Somebody in your corner. It certainly isn't Chihaya.
Yeah. At the hospital, Chihaya watches the video
of Arata on repeat. This is voting very poorly
for Taichi. Elsewhere, the Fujisaki boob guy
hits on his teacher and she shoots him down.
Then she gets a call from Chihaya thanking her
for the video. She asks her what she thought
of the match and she tells Chihaya that Arata
is just a pretty solid player all around. Nothing
too crazy going on there. And then she goes into
a long description of how Shinobu plays. Then
she... Yeah, I don't know. It's like... The one
who actually knows what they're talking about
advising. Yeah, finally. Finally somebody who
knows what's up. Then she invites the Mizuzawa
team to do a summer training camp with them and
she is like, oh yeah, hell yeah, we'll do that
for sure. We cut to Taichi and Chihaya going
to the summer camp. The rest of the team couldn't
make it because their society had summer camp
the same day. And also, Kana is making sure that
Taichi can go with Chihaya alone. Look at her,
best swing woman ever. She's very cool. We learned
that Chihaya should be resting her finger, but
is still going to this camp anyway. She's like,
I can't stay away from Karda for long because
Karda makes me think about things. I wonder what
I have this longing in me. What could it be?
They arrive as we cut to a credits montage of
scenes from this season. And then we get a post
-credit scene. I did not watch past the credits,
so I'm glad you pointed this out. We get a post
-credit scene where Arata informs his, like,
bookstore owner guy that he's moving to Tokyo,
and the guy's like, no, my best guy! And then
we cut to black. It's pretty good. Was he a good
worker? I guess. I guess he's hard -working.
Dude, he's just a chill Kai who Loki doesn't
give a fuck. Yeah. That's his whole deal. Well,
he's had a lot of change from season one. Yeah.
Okay. That's the meme. That's the whole meme.
Okay. Thank you. Anyway. We did it. We made it
to the end. We did it. It truly was. Just that
tournament. The whole season. Yeah, that's pretty
wild. It's pretty wild. Well, I can predict that
the next season will be about... Oh, God. It's
probably going to be the qualifiers for a master
and queen. I'm guessing. Yeah. It's got to be
right. Something like that. OK, we've got our
spreadsheet pulled out with our previous. Yeah,
we got to move kind of fast. Sorry, guys. I have
people coming over soon. So that's right. We
got like 30 minutes. So we can take our time.
We don't have to. We don't have to rush. I can
also make them wait like they're not that important
to me. No. No, this is my bad. We were supposed
to record last night, but Sarah is occasionally,
selectively, narcoleptic and just sleeps too
much. That's okay. Did you have any other big
closing thoughts about season two? I'm happy
Tai Chi won. I love that he is kind of supporting
him. Arada is going to be more of the show. Freaking
Nishida has plummeted and rank amongst behind
the characters. Yeah, what the heck, man? I don't
know what to do with him this season. He's still
better than Tsukuba, so. Tsukuba is freaking
putting the work, man. He's class B now. No,
he's class C now. No, he was class C before.
They were both class C. Because he was in the
class C. Oh, right, right, right. OK. Well, right.
Then he'll be in matches more, I guess. I guess
he did have the best matches this this season
again. Well, I have someone in every ranks. I
know Tia. Chi -hai is going to be like, now we
super gonna win every division. Yeah, I wish
there were more. So Sumire is going to get a
lot of pressure. Sumire, there needs to be more
Sumire. Yes. Biggest takeaway. Yeah, she's really
good. I wish I understood. I wish they had more
to play with in terms of how people play, because
like having Arata also just go quicker on the
syllable. That's just what everybody does. That's
just how you win this game, I guess. Yes. Yeah.
but how's how's tai chi gonna do that he can't
do that i don't like this training camp gonna
be wild i need next season you know what i need
to happen next season i think i think i need
tai chi to beat errata and become the master
and then Arata gets with Chi -Hai. There's no
way. Okay, that's... No, I think Tai Chi rather
the other way. I mean, I think he'd rather the
other way, but the way things are trending, there
really doesn't make any sense as to why that
would happen. Yeah, I don't know. He used to
listen to Creed on screen. I hope we get to see...
Oh my... What? Okay. Moving on. We can talk more
at the certain points as we go through these
rankings. OK. OK, our first ranking. I don't
think much has changed for me, honestly. The
only thing that probably changed is like the
side characters. I guess we can consider some
couples, but in that gag episode, they confirm
that there were no couples in the show except
for Retro and Nishida's sister. Yeah, I guess
I agree. Well, let's go over them. We can still
go over them. Yeah. All right. So overall show.
Do you have any updates? Your ranking, Joe? I
don't think so. OK, so I'm going to read mine
from the bottom. I think mine's the same. Overall
show number five, Chihayafuru, both seasons one
and two at this point. Season two was not enough
to bump it up. I'm sorry. The tournament, as
good as as much as I love Satomu, half of the
season was over the course of two days. Number
four is Kimi Niitadoke, number three is Skip
Beat, number two is Angelic Layer, and number
one is the Rose of Versailles. And mine, from
bottom to top, is Angelic Lair, Get Beat, Yayafuru,
Middle of the Pack, Himi Nitsudoke, and then
Rose of Versailles. OK, so it didn't improve
for you either. But if we include the movie,
does that deduct points from Rose of Versailles?
No, I don't think we can compare a movie to a
TV show. It just feels like not a thing you can
really do. No, all right. I guess we could we
just put it at the bottom, right? Nah, it's fine.
Protagonist, has Chihaya ever covered for you
a little bit? Well, if I was thinking movie Oscar,
then yes. Oh my god, okay. We're not thinking
about movie Oscar. No, I'm gonna keep it. I'm
gonna, yeah, I'm gonna keep it. I think I'm also
gonna keep it, but I'm sorry, Chihaya, you're
still ranked last for me. Damn, I forgot Chihaya
last for you. So it's, it's. Worse than Misaki
is crazy. Listen. You're worse than nothing,
Chihaya. Next season, she's going to actually
have some, like, real character stuff going on,
I feel like. This season, it's like, oh, she
decided to watch Tai Chi and Satomi play instead
of Arata. But I don't. That's not. Yeah, I guess
that was a step up. That's a step up, but it's
not it's not enough of a step up. I'm sorry.
So mine's still Chihaya, then Misaki, then Marie
Antoinette, then Sawako, then Oscar, then Kyoko.
Yep. Uh, as you all know, I absolutely hate Marie
Antoinette, so she's at the bottom of my list.
And then Misaki, so she's worse than nothing
for me. And then Chihaya. And then Oscar, Sawako,
and Kyoko. Kyoko, the best protagonist ever.
Probably will not be overthrown. Honestly, she's
just so great. We love a revenge girly. Revengeful
spirit girl. What should we do about the couples
here? Should we add Chi Hai and Tai Chi? And
Chi Hai and Tai Chi, and then we see which ones
we rank as in, like, which one we're rooting
for more. Yeah, yeah, we should we should rank
those two. I mean, man. Or Tai Chi. Tai Chi just
needs to give up. Tai Chi needs to give up. I'm
saying that it should just be Arata and Shihaya.
They like, he thinks about, we got the reveal
that he thinks about her every time. Tai Chi
and Shadow. Every time they play, he plays Karda,
which is the only thing he enjoys doing. He's
thinking about her. It's over at that point.
Like, Tai Chi can't win because he has a life
outside of this, kind of. So I think Tai Chi
just gonna have to take this L, man. OK, so then
we're adding. OK, so we're adding. Chihaya and
Arada as our contender amongst their overalls.
I'm just ranking all of those two. Which one's
higher? It's hard for me to gauge because like
they didn't do anything, right? Like I want the
best for Taichi and Chihaya is not the best for
him. Yeah, that's bad. I don't want him to be
with her either. So I guess, yeah, we'll just
we'll throw. We'll ignore couples. Chihaya. Oh,
do you want to add in Arada? I could just add
them and then at least right now how they are.
OK, yeah. All right. Well, not very high on mine.
Person and Marie. I put mine above Kent. OK.
All right. So I put mine above Bernard and Rosie.
Damn. We barely see them together. They're like
the they're like the neutral value. Yeah. I like.
Yeah. Cool. All right. So I have at the bottom,
person and Marie, of course. Second from the
bottom is Gia and Arata. Listen. You guys got
to do things together. You can't just think about
each other. We've also see the conclusion of
everyone else's except there. So, understandable.
I'm sure this will go up. And then we have Ayane
and Kent. And then we have Bernard and Rosalie,
which is the break even one. And then we have
Kazehaya and Sawako, Oscar and Andre and Shizu
and Ryu at the top. OK, I'm going to change mine
some more too. You don't have to use this list,
do whatever you want. Yeah, switch Oscar and
Kazehaya. OK. I've softened. That's our season
three coverage, I guess, of Kimi Nishidoki. Yeah.
Okay. My worst one first in Rui. Of course. And
then Ayane and Ken. Oh, sorry. What? Yeah, Bados.
Freaking Bernard and Rosalie, because we barely
get to see them as a couple. Hi, Gerada, just
because they have such an impact on each other's
lives. And that was very sweet, what he said.
Um, and then Oscar and Andre, they're good. Um,
and then Kazahai and Sawako, just because out
of any couple that we've ever... Oh, we don't
even have Kyoko and Ren. I guess we didn't include
them. Why? Because she's a minor? It's not like
we didn't include them as a couple. They didn't
do anything. It's hard because they didn't become
a couple in the show. Yeah. Okay. Uh, we should
probably put them on there then if we're putting...
If we're putting Chi Hai and Arata though. Yeah.
OK, well, we work this for next show. OK, OK.
And then Chizu and Ryu at my top as well. Cool.
So, yeah. All right. For the real one. This is
the real one. We didn't even do it last time.
We like I tried to listen to our ending of. And
we just didn't we just straight up didn't do
it. So we get to have a brand new fresh off the
dome. Don't even think about it. Side characters.
Oh, God. I think we should do I think. Well,
then I'm going to go in order. I have to go from
top to bottom. What you got? OK, best side character
is. I think you got to pick one from each show.
Tai Chi. I pick Tai Chi as my top. You should
pick one from each show. Number two is going
to be Ayane. Mm hmm. And then let's do Dear Lord.
Oh, Christ. Freaking Psy from Angelic Lair. Oh
my god. Let's go. Love Psy. She's so freaking
cool. She is cool. Let's see. Oh god. I'll do
Moko from Skip Beat and then from Rosa Versa...
No, JK. Rosalie from Rosa Versailles and then
Moko. Okay. Yep. That's it. Is that all this?
Yeah, that's all this. Yep. Yep. Yep. OK, I got
to do mine. Hmm. Oh, wait. Oh, OK. You have to
you have to put I was going to say, I guess you
had to put Kroomy and then you must put Jen Joan,
whatever. Oh, yeah. I'm thinking my bad. I'm
thinking the best sidekick yours for you. Yeah,
let's go. Who's who's number one? Mm hmm. I think
John might be another one. Oh, dang. Our villain
girl. Uh, real good. I just, I just always think
about her. We're in that black dress on the beach,
trying to bribe Oscar and just being incredible.
So good. Um, then we got Hitoko from Angelic
Lair. Oh, that's right. Yep. Then, then I think,
then I think we got Taichi, you know, as much
as I love Satomu, Taichi just is like, Satomu
was like great to watch, like a, like a fun POV
character. Uh, but Taichi is what the show is
about. to me. He's not even a side character.
I don't even actually include him in this category.
He just is the show to me. Sumire, also a pretty
top contender, but doesn't make the cut, unfortunately,
to Taichi. And she agrees. She would agree that
she doesn't she doesn't compete with Taichi.
And then I got to pick. Well, that's because
she has deemed herself main character and this
is side characters. Yeah. And then I'm picking
Karumi and then I'm picking Moko. Dang. Karroumi,
look how low you are. But she's like Karroumi
is great. But compared to Jean, it's like they
both do the same thing, but one of them is way
better at it. OK, that's yeah. So that's true.
OK, well, that's good. Good rankings there. I
like opening songs. I don't even remember the
I like season two GI if we were opening more
than one. Right. Maybe. Yes, you did. That doesn't
change my ranking, though. My ranking is no,
I don't think that's true. I think you like the
first one. Oh, maybe I did. I didn't like the
visuals of season two. Yeah. Doesn't change my
ranking. Yeah. Which is still my ranking is at
the bottom, Skip Beat, then Kimi Ni Tadoke, then
Angelic Layer, then Shihei Furu, then Rosa Versailles.
And mine, I've got Angelic Layer at the bottom
and then Skip Beat, then Shihei Furu, Kimi Ni
Tadoke, and Rosa Versailles at the top. Yeah.
Mostly mine's more based off the song itself.
Yeah. That's fair. Our last category was moms.
She highest mom gets a boost. I don't think we
have an upset. We didn't even see him. Did we
see her? Yeah, she had the whole episode where
she goes and buys the Hakama with her and she's
like, I'm sorry I was like ignoring you kind
of. So then she recovers. I think it's enough
to recover over. Oscar's mom? Why is Oscar's
mom so high on your list? Because Oscar's mom
is like the baseline. It's like a mom that is
somewhat positive, right? I don't know. She let
her daughter be turned racist. Yeah, rules. It's
like the whole impetus of the entire show, and
it's awesome. You should always do that. Anyway,
my ranking is now at the bottom at number five.
Kyoko's mom, who sucks. And then we have Misaki's
mom, Shoko, who's also not good. And then we
have Oscar's mom, who's like slightly positive.
She's she's fun. And then we have Chihaya's mom,
who made a big recovery for me this this season.
What if your mom actually cared about you and
the stuff you did? Yeah, she kind of sucked in
the beginning of the first. That's pretty bad.
And then we have Sawako's mom at the top, who's
a good mom. Yeah. Shoka's at the bottom. Yeah.
Similarly to Marie Antoinette. I just hated her
the whole time I saw her. Kyoko's mom, because
I know a bit more about her than you do. Oscar's
mom, Chihaya's, and then Sawako's. Here we go.
All right, that's our rankings. Next time we'll
have a new show. So it'll actually change the
ranking a little bit. That's right. As opposed
to updating a show. A sign of affection. We'll
see. I feel like we need maybe like, do we have
a category for like theme or takeaway or something?
Because I feel like this next one, that's going
to be its biggest strength is what it's covering.
Doesn't that go into show though? Like the overall
show? I guess. Oh, that's true. Never mind, JK.
I'm just like, I don't remember it. That's a
character. Well, okay. Yeah. So A Sign of Affection
is what we're covering next. So you guys will
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I mean, definitely. I mean, right. The Shoujo
I've consumed mostly was when I was as a teenager
and definitely wasn't thinking as much about
what I was watching as I am now. And yeah, I
don't know. I've been more active on the Shoujo
subreddit and there is a lot of Shoujo that just
like Never made it to anime. So maybe one day
we'll when we're humongo success We'll do manga
too because there's some really great ones But
just didn't get the the time. Thank you. That's
our episode today Before I try and end the episode
did we learn anything? What did we learn from
Chi Hai Fu Season 2 the whole thing? Season 2
She's just not that into you. Taishi, my man.
Even God can't help you with this one. Admirable
to like try and pursue something that you really
feel strongly about. But you must also look after
your own well -being. And sometimes you just
got to drop something or even just wait until
she's like not a child. And a teenage body. Wait
for her to grow up, baby. That's what he was
doing. Well, he needs to wait quite a bit longer,
I think. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I think you should
just be a chill guy. That's the secret of landing
the hot chick is just be a chill guy who's good
at Carta. Just don't take it too seriously. You
know, I don't know anything else. Yeah. What
else could happen this season? We have a guy
not trying at all and a guy trying his best.
It's the first one is the one succeeding. He's
not having to do anything. So, um, let's see.
Try to think if there's any other final thoughts.
Right. Next time. I guess our next show, A Sign
of Affection. I have only watched the first episode,
but I did read 10 volumes of the manga and Joel
hasn't watched it all and it's new. So it's different.
It's probably... lean a more towards Jose just
since it's college -age characters, but excited
to cover that. Yeah, want something new to add
to our catalog. Yeah, and it's on Crunchyroll.
So be sure you guys listen. Yes, it's on Crunchyroll.
There's Omnibus for the manga being sold, so
it's doing quite well there, too. Very cute manga
covers. So look forward to that. And we'll catch
you guys later. See ya next time. Bye bye.