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Serial Experiments Lain, Ep. 1- Weird · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Probably I'm back. It's been
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Speaker 1: two weeks maybe unless I got up to, you know,
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Speaker 1: making that little quick show about try gun stargaze and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But I kind of don't think I'm going to, so
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm recording this early if you can't tell.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what the future holds for me.
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Speaker 1: But you should be hearing this two weeks from when,
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Speaker 1: you know, we finished up whatever the hell we just did.
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Speaker 1: Given that's what we did, and we're gonna start talking
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Speaker 1: about serial experiments Lane Yay. This should be really interesting
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Speaker 1: because I don't know how it's gonna go, just like
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Speaker 1: everything else. Side note, it is very warm outside, not
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Speaker 1: as warm as it's going to be tomorrow, but warm
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Speaker 1: enough that I have to open my windows, and my
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Speaker 1: neighbors have decided, Hey, we're going to just totally destroy
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Speaker 1: and then renovate the inside of the house. So it's loud,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry if you're hearing like banging and stuff
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Speaker 1: or any other sounds that you would hear outside, because
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Speaker 1: my windows open and I could close them, but then
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Speaker 1: i'd be hot and uncomfortable, so I'm not gonna. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So sorry about that. Also, I think I have a
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Speaker 1: cold or something, so I'm sorry if my voice sounds weird,
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Speaker 1: but uh yeah, let's do the thing serial experiments Lane. Yeah. Also,
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Speaker 1: I hope you're doing good and you're still alive and
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Speaker 1: you still want to hang out with me after two
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Speaker 1: weeks of realizing how much better your life could be
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Speaker 1: if I wasn't in it, So thanks for coming back,
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Speaker 1: even though I'm ruining everything. Anyway, Let's talk about cerial
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Speaker 1: experiments Lane. Yay. So this is actually, as far as
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Speaker 1: I can recall, the first time we've watched a show,
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Speaker 1: done a show, or whatever we're doing that wasn't based
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Speaker 1: on another media form. Like we've done manga adaptations before
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Speaker 1: and late novel adaptations at least two of them, but
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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever done just an original like
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Speaker 1: TV anime but doesn't have a source material. So that's
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Speaker 1: kind of cool and kind of weird. It's cool because
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Speaker 1: I don't have to look into anything. This is what
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Speaker 1: it is, this is what it was supposed to be. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so that's kind of nice. Yeah, and also it is
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Speaker 1: the oldest anime that we've done. This came out in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. It was during the summer season, and
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Speaker 1: it was broadcast on TV Tokyo on Tuesdays at one
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Speaker 1: fifteen am. So wow, I think like a lot of
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Speaker 1: the anime that we've covered is on very late at night,
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Speaker 1: so late that I would be sad because I would
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Speaker 1: not still be awake, and then I'd have to watch
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Speaker 1: it the next day, and you know, everyone would be
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Speaker 1: talking about it without me, which is exactly what happens
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Speaker 1: now because they come out like early in the day
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't watch it until kind of
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Speaker 1: the evening. So it's the same, I guess, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, like I said, nineteen ninety eight, so a
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Speaker 1: couple of things, we have a different aspect ratio because
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Speaker 1: TVs used to be almost square instead of all long.
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Speaker 1: I think they were like four to three or whatever
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Speaker 1: the hell. So that's interesting because we haven't had that before.
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Speaker 1: But it is only the second oldest story we've done.
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Speaker 1: We did have an anime based on a manga that
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Speaker 1: ran from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety four, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: but still pretty cool anyway, some just things about it.
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Speaker 1: This was done by Studio Triangle staff. They ceased operation
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Speaker 1: in December two thousand, so that's why I don't know
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Speaker 1: who they are, but they did do Macross Plus, which
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Speaker 1: I have not watched. The director was Nakamura Ryutado, who
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Speaker 1: also directed Kino's Journey the two thousand and three version
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Speaker 1: of it, which I liked kind of a lot. I
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Speaker 1: don't think everyone else did, but I did, so that's nice.
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Speaker 1: For character designer, this is an important one. Character designer
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Speaker 1: was Yoshi Tooshi Abe, which he was kind of a
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Speaker 1: pretty prominent character designer in this timeframe. He also did
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Speaker 1: character design for Welcome to the NHK, which I love.
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Speaker 1: Why aren't we doing that techno lies? I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you've pronounced it like that, but I am, which
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Speaker 1: I watched about a third of it and got really confused.
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Speaker 1: And then more recently he did character design for the
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Speaker 1: movie All You Need Is Kill, which came out this
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Speaker 1: year and it sounds like it didn't do too well,
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Speaker 1: but whatever. He was just a character designer, but he's
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Speaker 1: got like a really particular style. Looks a little bit
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Speaker 1: more realistic, not really realistic, because it still looks like
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Speaker 1: a cartoon, but people don't have like huge eyes and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. They look more like people so yeah,
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Speaker 1: Yoshi joshiab for a script and serious composition that was
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Speaker 1: Chiaki Konaka. And they also did serious composition for technoal
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Speaker 1: Lies and Helsing, So they've been doing stuff too, yay.
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Speaker 1: So it seems like a pretty okay ish team. But
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Speaker 1: what I really wanted to tell you about is the
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Speaker 1: original creator and producer of Lane, yes Yuki Ueita, who
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Speaker 1: this was like a big deal for him. He apparently
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Speaker 1: in interviews said that it was an enormous risk for
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Speaker 1: some reason just making this show, and in interviews he
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Speaker 1: claimed that it was and I quote a sort of
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Speaker 1: cultural war against American culture and the American sense of
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Speaker 1: values we adopted after World War two end quote. So
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Speaker 1: what Anyway, he hoped that Americans would see this and
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Speaker 1: totally not understand it because it's so distinctly Japanese, and
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Speaker 1: that was going to like lead to a war of ideas,
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Speaker 1: like over the meaning of Lane and like culminating with
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Speaker 1: this new communication between the two cultures. Wow, that is
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Speaker 1: really he really thought a lot of this, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it comes off as like a little
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Speaker 1: bit pompous, like this was gonna be the thing that
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Speaker 1: changed everything. We're gonna open up new lines of communication.
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Speaker 1: Americans would never get this. I don't know. I was
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Speaker 1: reading this and I was like, what the fuck is
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Speaker 1: he talking about? Because when Americans saw it, we had
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Speaker 1: similar views of it to the Japanese audience, and he
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Speaker 1: was real disappointed. Sorry, dude, it didn't change the world
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Speaker 1: like you wanted it to. And I feel kind of
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Speaker 1: bad about that because Lane is really fucking good. But
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Speaker 1: did it shift the culture? Sorry? Not really, So now
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Speaker 1: that you know that he thought that, and that there
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Speaker 1: were probably all these grandiose concepts and details that he
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Speaker 1: wanted to emulate in the show and really give it
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Speaker 1: to the Americans because we don't get things. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if you think it is
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Speaker 1: that important as well. I think it's probably not, but
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Speaker 1: I only watched this one and a half times, so
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Speaker 1: I might be wrong. Actually, the first time I saw Lane,
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Speaker 1: I didn't see the whole thing. I watched it with
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Speaker 1: my mom and brother and sister when I was growing
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Speaker 1: up on like a videotape, and we just didn't see
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Speaker 1: the whole thing because we didn't have all of the
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Speaker 1: tapes or something. We just never got them. But uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we liked it a lot, except my brother has claimed
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Speaker 1: that he didn't see it, and we don't know how
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Speaker 1: he would have been excluded. So maybe it was just
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Speaker 1: me and my sister and my mom. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: because we all watched anime together, but anyway, never saw
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Speaker 1: the end, and then I don't know, maybe seven eight
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Speaker 1: years ago I rewatched it and I watched all the
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Speaker 1: way through. So this will be only my second full
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Speaker 1: viewing of Lane, so that's gonna be cool. Maybe I'll
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Speaker 1: learn something. Maybe I'll learn that I don't like it,
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Speaker 1: like all the other fucking shows that I learned that
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Speaker 1: I don't like them, which makes me very sad. Or
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Speaker 1: maybe this will become one of my favorite anime of
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Speaker 1: all time, like up in the top ten instead of
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the twenty through fifty. Who knows, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You definitely don't know because you're not me. So let's
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Speaker 1: just do it because I feel like I'm not really
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Speaker 1: saying anything and uh yeah, so I guess one more
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Speaker 1: thing before we start. Lane is really really atmospheric, So
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Speaker 1: a lot of the things that are happening on screen
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Speaker 1: are just like this looks really scary, or like things
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Speaker 1: are really overexposed. So I'm going to try to communicate
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Speaker 1: them the best that I can, but visual would probably help.
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Speaker 1: So if you're not watching this, maybe you should watch it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, or not. Maybe I'll do a good
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Speaker 1: enough job. I won't, So let's get started. So we
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Speaker 1: start off with like kind of bluish static, like snow
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Speaker 1: on a TV. Remember this was nineteen ninety eight, so
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Speaker 1: TV's were smaller and they had static on them sometimes.
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Speaker 1: And then we cut to a completely white screen and
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Speaker 1: there are red Japanese characters being typed out, and as
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Speaker 1: they are, a voice in English narrates present day, present time,
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Speaker 1: and then he like laughs a bunch. Yeah. We go
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Speaker 1: to a blue static screen again and this image of
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Speaker 1: a young girl starts to fade into it, and then
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Speaker 1: it blips out and the screen goes black, and then
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Speaker 1: we go to the opening theme. Yay, So the song
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Speaker 1: is Duvet by Boa. I should have looked into this
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Speaker 1: before I started, but most anime opening and closing themes
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Speaker 1: are written specifically for the anime by the band or whatever.
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Speaker 1: This song already existed, and either the director or the
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Speaker 1: serious composition person I'm not really sure who. I just
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Speaker 1: looked into it really briefly, and I'm even more confused,
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Speaker 1: but they heard it and they were like, oh shit,
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Speaker 1: this is perfect. So they use this already finished song
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Speaker 1: as the opening, and I love it a lot. This
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Speaker 1: is probably one of my favorite opening themes that exists.
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Speaker 1: And also I think the opening animation is really really
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Speaker 1: nice too, very kind of atmospheric. As I said, we
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Speaker 1: see a girl like standing on a street with like
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Speaker 1: lots of crows around and like power lines and like
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Speaker 1: lane being repeated over and over on the screen, and
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Speaker 1: then like random words behind this girl, including breakthrough folks
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Speaker 1: watching this girl through like TVs where her face is
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Speaker 1: kind of distorted on it, like there's a kid playing
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Speaker 1: video games and her face is there, and people kissing
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Speaker 1: and her faces in the background on the TV. Then
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Speaker 1: we see her walking up some stairs to like an
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Speaker 1: overpass over a I don't know, like a street, and
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Speaker 1: she's on the overpass and the wind picks up and
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Speaker 1: her hat like flies off her head and everything just freezes,
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Speaker 1: including her hat and a crow that's flying overhead. She
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Speaker 1: looks up at it and then just kind of walks off,
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Speaker 1: just leaving her hat hanging in the air. I just
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Speaker 1: like it I think it's cool. And unfortunately, as much
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Speaker 1: as I like the song, Duvet, I don't really like
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Speaker 1: Boa as a band. I think they broke up and
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Speaker 1: then they got back together semi recently, but you know,
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Speaker 1: they're just not really my thing. But I love the song.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, let's let's move on. So back from the opening,
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Speaker 1: we fade into like a green tinted overexposed city street
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Speaker 1: with people crossing acrosswalks. You know, it's like a four
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Speaker 1: we intersection, so there's multiple crosswalks, and we cut to
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Speaker 1: the crosswalk light and it turns red. We get some
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Speaker 1: like really distorted lights that I think are supposed to
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Speaker 1: be maybe cars, but it's really distorted. Like I just said,
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Speaker 1: there are some shots of like like a dark city
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Speaker 1: with neon lights, and we hear a voice say, why
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Speaker 1: why won't you come? Lots of people are walking because
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Speaker 1: it's a city again, and the voice continues, I wish
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Speaker 1: you'd come here. We cut to a taxi pulling away
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Speaker 1: from the curb, and then to like a low shot
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Speaker 1: of looking up at like power lines that are you know,
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Speaker 1: across the sky, and there are clouds moving really quickly overhead,
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Speaker 1: and then we go to the title card in English weird
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Speaker 1: layer zero one. The words kind of like swirl into
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Speaker 1: place and they're kind of on like a blue kind
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Speaker 1: of computer looking screen. By the way. Oh yes, and
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Speaker 1: all of the titles of the episodes I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: are in English, so that's always interesting. And weird is
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Speaker 1: a pretty good title because this is weird. We see
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Speaker 1: some people walking down the street now, and then everything
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Speaker 1: kind of goes black, and then we see a bag
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Speaker 1: being dropped, like a school bag. We see a girl
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Speaker 1: with like black pigtails and glasses like leaning against a
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Speaker 1: wall kind of like with one hand on the wall
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Speaker 1: and her other hand is on her chest and she's
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Speaker 1: breathing really hard. Apparently it looked like it was a
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Speaker 1: brick wall, and we see like her shadow, I guess,
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Speaker 1: but it like has red dots in it, like doesn't
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Speaker 1: look like a normal shadow exactly, And obviously she's not
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Speaker 1: doing well, and people are passing by, and these three girls,
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Speaker 1: they look like maybe their high school kids, just stop
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Speaker 1: and point at her. And the first girl's like, look
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Speaker 1: look at that, and two of them start to laugh.
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Speaker 1: And I don't even think that the girl who's standing
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Speaker 1: there panting, he even notices that they're passing her by
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Speaker 1: and she leans her back against the wall, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of this area, like it might be an alley
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Speaker 1: or something, is in shadow, and anywhere that their shadow.
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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like this black with like red
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Speaker 1: moving dots in it. It's weird. The camera pans up
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Speaker 1: and he cuts to this like weird multi colored shimmering
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Speaker 1: screen that's like really psychedelic looking. I'm going to call
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Speaker 1: this the psychedelic screen. Moving forward, and some Japanese words
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Speaker 1: are kind of like rippling on it, and they say,
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Speaker 1: the reason you have to do it is something you
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Speaker 1: have to consider yourself. We got to a scene of
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Speaker 1: you know, looking up at power lines and they're buzzing,
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Speaker 1: and then everything just goes white. We now see a
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Speaker 1: couple walking down the streets. There's a guy and the
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Speaker 1: girl is kind of like a yado, you know, she's
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Speaker 1: got like really tan skin and like really light lipstick.
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Speaker 1: And the guy's like, gotcha and he throws his arms
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Speaker 1: around her. We quickly cut to feet standing like near
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Speaker 1: a ledge, and then back to the guy as he
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Speaker 1: holds the girl closer and she's like, hey, cut it out.
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Speaker 1: The guy says why. The girl kind of pushes him
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Speaker 1: off and is like, don't. Guy says, what's the problem.
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Speaker 1: He grabs her again, is She kind of struggles and continues,
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Speaker 1: don't play hard to get come on, let's go someplace happy.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that that was supposed to be playful
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Speaker 1: and not upsetting, but it kind of upset me a little.
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Speaker 1: We see the girl with the pigtails again. She takes
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Speaker 1: off her glasses and she kind of smiles slightly now,
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Speaker 1: which seems like a pretty big departure from her like
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Speaker 1: coughing against the wall. Her hair blows in the breeze
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Speaker 1: and her hair ties come off. We see that she's
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Speaker 1: holding some sort of railing with one hand, reaching out
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Speaker 1: with her other hand. Her glasses are in it, which
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Speaker 1: is weird. We see that she's standing on like the
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Speaker 1: very edge of a rooftop. She says something, but we
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Speaker 1: don't have any audio here, but she is smiling, so
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Speaker 1: that's good. Yay. We cut to that psychedelic screen. Then
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Speaker 1: the words say, I don't need to be here. She
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Speaker 1: slowly releases her grip on the rail and falls. Her
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Speaker 1: clothes rip on a power line as she's plummeting, and
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Speaker 1: then she crashes right into like a sign that's over store.
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Speaker 1: It breaks and falls and like crates a beer fall
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Speaker 1: over under it and crash, and then a puddle seeps
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Speaker 1: out from under all of this mass. The man and
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Speaker 1: that gouted woman are kissing and they hear the crash
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Speaker 1: and stop and look over, and not only do they
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Speaker 1: see the sign fall to the ground, but her arm
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Speaker 1: is protruding from under it, and the sign is still
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Speaker 1: kind of on, but it's flickering now and its light
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Speaker 1: is reflected in the puddle of blood around it. Someone says,
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Speaker 1: what the hell. Someone else is like, what happens? The
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Speaker 1: couple are just staring and we see this girl's bloody
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Speaker 1: hand again, and someone else says, we don't know anything.
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Speaker 1: We just got here. We had nothing to do with this.
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Speaker 1: Blood is dripping from somewhere. I think maybe the power lines.
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Speaker 1: It's slightly had a focus. Someone else says, she came
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. She came from the sky, guys. Someone
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Speaker 1: else is like, oh no. The camera pans up to
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Speaker 1: the edge of the roof where she fell from, and
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Speaker 1: her bag is still there, and it's got like a
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Speaker 1: little duck charm on it, and it's just kind of
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Speaker 1: hanging off of the ledge, we fade to black. We
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Speaker 1: cut to a very overexposed neighborhood. Houses are you know,
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Speaker 1: mostly in shadow and you know, partially silhouetted, and there
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Speaker 1: is silhoul power lines overhead. The sky is just dark white,
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Speaker 1: and the shadows are that black with the red things
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Speaker 1: in them, and we hear talking and laughing in the background.
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Speaker 1: The power lines are buzzing continuously. We see that psychedelic
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Speaker 1: screen It says, if I remain in a place like this,
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Speaker 1: I can't stay connected. Then we cut to a scene
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Speaker 1: that is so overexposed that I didn't know what it was. Okay.
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Speaker 1: It is the front porch of a house, and a
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Speaker 1: girl in a school uniform with brown you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of above shoulder length hair, walks out and starts to
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Speaker 1: walk down these steps that barely look like steps, because
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Speaker 1: that's how overexposed it is. She has brown eyes, and
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Speaker 1: like the left side of her hair is a little
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Speaker 1: bit longer than the right side. It's kind of got
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Speaker 1: like a long piece. I don't know. Now she's walking
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Speaker 1: down the street and it is just kind of bizarrely quiet,
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Speaker 1: except for the power lines buzzing overhead. There are a
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Speaker 1: lot of them. We cut to white, and then to
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Speaker 1: her standing in a train like by the doors, watching
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Speaker 1: the power lines go by, and there's like a weird
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Speaker 1: distortion in the background that I think is like a
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Speaker 1: combination of train noise and people talking. They're not talking
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Speaker 1: very loudly, but the girl closes her eyes and she's like,
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Speaker 1: what a racket? Can you be quiet? A bunch of
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Speaker 1: people look up at her, confused, and she just continues
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Speaker 1: to stare out the window. After a second, they go
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Speaker 1: back to what they were doing. We see the train
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Speaker 1: going by now, and we focus on the power lines
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Speaker 1: for a little too long, and then we see lots
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Speaker 1: of kids. They're all girls walking down the street wearing
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Speaker 1: school uniforms, and they are going through like the main
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Speaker 1: gate of a school, and the concrete that they're walking
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Speaker 1: across is white because of the sun and overexposure, and
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Speaker 1: we see feet approach and then stop. The girl just
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Speaker 1: stands there, looking ahead of herself, just kind of with
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Speaker 1: a blank expression. She looks down at her shadow, which is,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of rippling in a way that you'd
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Speaker 1: really hope your shadow would not ripple with weird colors
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Speaker 1: in it. Eventually, she looks up and towards the kids
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Speaker 1: that are walking in front of her towards the school building.
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Speaker 1: Background fades completely into white now and they become these sketchy,
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Speaker 1: silhouetted shadows that eventually just fade into the whiteness as well. Well.
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Speaker 1: The girl stands there kind of in the blinding white
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Speaker 1: and cocks her head and squints. She needs glasses to
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Speaker 1: the psychedelic screen. Hurry everybody. We now see her placing
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Speaker 1: her bag down on a desk and sitting down at
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Speaker 1: the desk, and there's a girl crying in the background,
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Speaker 1: which is a little weird, but I would cry if
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Speaker 1: I was at school as well. The girl looks over
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Speaker 1: and she sees this girl with light brown hair sobbing
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Speaker 1: at her desk as like a bunch of kids stand
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Speaker 1: over her. One girl standing over her says, Judy, don't
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Speaker 1: make such a big deal out of it. Another girl says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's just some stupid prank, Judy, I assume the girl
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Speaker 1: who's sobbing says, but shakes her head. One of the
19:43
Speaker 1: girls pats her on the back and kneels down to
19:44
Speaker 1: comfort her. Our main girl like just stops watching them
19:48
Speaker 1: and turns back and takes out her books, and we
19:50
Speaker 1: hear a voice say, Laane, our main girl looks over.
19:53
Speaker 1: I guess her name is Lane. Yay, She says, huh.
19:57
Speaker 1: One of the girls who had just been comforting Judy
19:59
Speaker 1: is standing in front of her now and says, did
20:03
Speaker 1: you get one too? Lane is silent for a while,
20:06
Speaker 1: and then she says, what the girl's like? Email? Lane
20:11
Speaker 1: says email. The girl looks kind of frustrated, and she
20:15
Speaker 1: says from Chisa Yomota. Laane looks away. I'm not very
20:20
Speaker 1: good with computers. The girl says, you should at least
20:24
Speaker 1: check your mail once a day. Well, that's up to you.
20:26
Speaker 1: I guess. The other girl who had been comforting Jerry
20:28
Speaker 1: walks over as well, and she says Lane's such a baby.
20:32
Speaker 1: Laane focuses her attention back on Judy. Why is she crying?
20:36
Speaker 1: The second meaner girl says because she got an email
20:39
Speaker 1: from Chisa Yomota. That's why I didn't help me at all.
20:44
Speaker 1: Maybe she said Yomota is really mean. Laane looks back
20:46
Speaker 1: at them and says, Sheisa, who's that? Well, second girl's
20:50
Speaker 1: like she was in class D. She killed herself last
20:53
Speaker 1: week by jumping off a building in Shibuya. Come on
20:56
Speaker 1: the teacher's told everyone. Laine is just staring at her.
21:00
Speaker 1: The first girl who was comforting Judy says, it's not
21:03
Speaker 1: just Judy. A lot of people have got mail from
21:05
Speaker 1: her in the last week. Lane's like, but she's The
21:08
Speaker 1: girl continues, right, you shouldn't be getting male from a
21:12
Speaker 1: dead girl, but there it is. We cut to the
21:15
Speaker 1: teacher now writing I guess math on the board. I
21:19
Speaker 1: guess I was writing it out because I didn't understand
21:23
Speaker 1: it all. So it says print F and then parentheses.
21:26
Speaker 1: I don't know, quote mark, percentage signed C is greater
21:31
Speaker 1: than percentage of. I think it's a yen symbol, end
21:35
Speaker 1: to the end, and I don't know. I think that's
21:37
Speaker 1: all I got. Lane is watching, looking super confused. I
21:41
Speaker 1: get it, Lane, I don't do math very well either.
21:44
Speaker 1: As she stares at the board, the words start to
21:47
Speaker 1: get blurry and she squints and they kind of ripple
21:50
Speaker 1: and start to DISINTEGRATEE. Someone needs to get her glasses.
21:55
Speaker 1: She sighs and looks down at her notebook, which she
21:58
Speaker 1: hasn't written anything in, and then she drops her pen,
22:01
Speaker 1: which is pink and has a little bear on it,
22:03
Speaker 1: and she stares at her hand as she's doing this.
22:06
Speaker 1: The only sound we have is the chalk clacking against
22:09
Speaker 1: the blackboard, like super unsettlingly loudly, and her fingertips all
22:14
Speaker 1: of a sudden just start letting out smoke. Okay, she
22:17
Speaker 1: watches it just kind of drift through the air. I
22:20
Speaker 1: don't know if she is having issues mentally, or if
22:24
Speaker 1: she really likes daydreaming and she's doing some maladaptive daydreaming
22:28
Speaker 1: right here, or if this is really happening. I don't know,
22:31
Speaker 1: but it's weird. We cut to that psychedelic screen again
22:34
Speaker 1: and that says dying it really hurts, and then there's
22:39
Speaker 1: like a laugh. Yeah, okay, sure. Now we see powerline
22:44
Speaker 1: silhouettes humming on a yellow gray sky. Lane is walking
22:48
Speaker 1: down the streets through like those red blotchy shadows that
22:52
Speaker 1: just kind of exist in this world, and kind of
22:55
Speaker 1: focus on her white two story house at the end
22:58
Speaker 1: of the block, and I guess she's looking through the
23:02
Speaker 1: door in the living room and it's just empty, and
23:05
Speaker 1: it's an open floor plan, so we can see that
23:07
Speaker 1: the dining room is also empty as well. Sun is
23:10
Speaker 1: streaming in through the windows and she kind of backs away.
23:13
Speaker 1: We see a door open and she walks into her bedroom.
23:17
Speaker 1: I assume it's kind of sparse and dark except for
23:21
Speaker 1: like the light coming from the window, And there's like
23:23
Speaker 1: a bhutan and a desk and some shadows of stuffed
23:26
Speaker 1: animals that when I look at them, I don't know
23:28
Speaker 1: where they are, Like there's some on the floor, but
23:31
Speaker 1: there also looks like there's some on the window sill,
23:33
Speaker 1: but they're literally only shadows. I don't know where the
23:35
Speaker 1: stuffed animals are. It weirds me out. She walks over
23:38
Speaker 1: to the desk and she puts her school bag on it.
23:41
Speaker 1: She looks at the computer that's on the desk, which
23:43
Speaker 1: is this weird red monstrosity that I don't know that
23:46
Speaker 1: computers have ever looked like. Aside from the computer, there's
23:49
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff on the desk. There are books,
23:51
Speaker 1: an alarm clock, a Teddy bear, lots of pens, and
23:53
Speaker 1: a cup, stuff like that. Then she walks over to
23:56
Speaker 1: the futon and she starts to unbutton her jackets and
24:00
Speaker 1: plops down on it and sighs. She takes off her
24:03
Speaker 1: jacket and places it on her lap, and then looks
24:05
Speaker 1: back over at the computer. The alarm clock says it's
24:07
Speaker 1: five poin fifty nine by the way. She gets up
24:10
Speaker 1: now and then walks back over to the desk, clearly
24:13
Speaker 1: not sure what she wants to do, starts cleaning stuff
24:16
Speaker 1: away from it, and then also takes this little brown
24:19
Speaker 1: hat with like barriers on it like, off of the
24:21
Speaker 1: computer and puts it on. And she sits down, and
24:24
Speaker 1: she turns the computer around and stares at her reflection
24:27
Speaker 1: in its screen. She presses the power button and the
24:32
Speaker 1: screen comes on and it says communication os powering up, working,
24:37
Speaker 1: it's doing computer stuff. It starts making that circle thing,
24:41
Speaker 1: you know, like it's doing something like I just said,
24:44
Speaker 1: and it says just a little longer, and then it
24:47
Speaker 1: says lock in. We see a circle with an enter
24:49
Speaker 1: id like box in the center, and the computer says
24:54
Speaker 1: out loud, who are you? Lane seems confused, and she
24:58
Speaker 1: grabs the keyboard and types in la in English, which
25:01
Speaker 1: I thought was really weird. Computer says Lane, please say
25:05
Speaker 1: your name voice password appears on the screen and Lane
25:09
Speaker 1: says la e M. The computer says, accept it. There's
25:13
Speaker 1: a pause. You must be Lane. Laane has mail. Laine
25:17
Speaker 1: says from who, Computer's like chisa yamoda oh. Laane stares
25:22
Speaker 1: in kind of disbelief because yeah, but also you knew
25:26
Speaker 1: this was gonna happen. Computer says, do you wish to
25:29
Speaker 1: read the mail? Lane presses on a button, I don't
25:32
Speaker 1: know what button, and light blue characters kind of slide
25:36
Speaker 1: onto a dark blueish purplish periwinkle looking as screen like
25:40
Speaker 1: one at a time, which is pretty interesting. And as
25:43
Speaker 1: they slide, and they make like a thing sound as
25:45
Speaker 1: they slide. The computer reads the script aloud, so it says, Hello,
25:49
Speaker 1: how are you Lane? I walked home with you just once.
25:53
Speaker 1: Do you remember? Laane nods yeah. The computer continues, They've
25:58
Speaker 1: only given up my body. By doing this, I can
26:01
Speaker 1: explain to you that I'm still alive. What I wanted
26:05
Speaker 1: to let you know this, Lane, So I send this
26:07
Speaker 1: email to you. The sun is kind of starting to
26:10
Speaker 1: come through the window more and it's reflecting off of
26:12
Speaker 1: Lane's eyes, and the computer continues, Do you understand? It's okay?
26:17
Speaker 1: If you can't right now, you'll all understand soon everyone
26:21
Speaker 1: will fuck. Lane says, why did you die? Lane? It's
26:26
Speaker 1: an email? Why are you talking to it? The computer continues.
26:30
Speaker 1: Rumor at school has it that this is a prank email,
26:32
Speaker 1: But I want you to know that it isn't Lane.
26:35
Speaker 1: That's literally what a prank email would say. Lane says,
26:39
Speaker 1: why why did you die? I'm worried about her mental state.
26:43
Speaker 1: The computer is quiet for a second and then says
26:46
Speaker 1: God is here? What Lane says? Huh? We go to
26:51
Speaker 1: a TV with a news on, no audio, just video obviously,
26:56
Speaker 1: and there are plates clinking in the background, and then
26:59
Speaker 1: salad being put in a bowl. We get a close
27:02
Speaker 1: up of a woman's mouth as she eats rice with chopsticks.
27:05
Speaker 1: She's got lipstick on. I'm pretty sure it's Lane's mom.
27:08
Speaker 1: And Lane and her mom I believe, and sister are
27:12
Speaker 1: sitting at this table in the kitchen, just completely silent.
27:16
Speaker 1: Laane is stirring her soup. What kind of soup? I'm
27:19
Speaker 1: not sure. There's not a lot of stuff in it.
27:21
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like me so soup, but it looks really clear,
27:23
Speaker 1: so I wasn't sure. The light reflects on her spoon
27:26
Speaker 1: as she stirs it, and it kind of bakes her squint.
27:29
Speaker 1: At this point, her sister just stands up and says,
27:32
Speaker 1: I ate lunch late today. I'm done. She walks away
27:35
Speaker 1: from the table and leaves the room. She left like
27:37
Speaker 1: tons of stuff on her plate. Laane stares down at
27:39
Speaker 1: her soup again and says, mom. Her mom says, what
27:45
Speaker 1: Lane's like? I got an email? Her mom is still
27:49
Speaker 1: eating her rice, and Lane continues from a girl who
27:52
Speaker 1: killed herself last week. Oh yeah, Okay. The mom just
27:56
Speaker 1: keeps eating and like doesn't even look at her or
27:58
Speaker 1: acknowledge that Lane has just said something really disturbing that
28:02
Speaker 1: involves suicide and maybe a ghost, I don't know. Yeah,
28:06
Speaker 1: so Lane just goes back to eating her soup. Yay.
28:10
Speaker 1: We now see a computer screen that's like on, and
28:13
Speaker 1: Lane is leaning against the wall. She's sitting on her futon.
28:17
Speaker 1: The room is dark, and she's wearing this really great
28:20
Speaker 1: bear onesie that I love so much. I will stop
28:24
Speaker 1: here and tell you that when my sister was in
28:28
Speaker 1: middle school and in high school, she looked like a
28:30
Speaker 1: lot like Lane. And yeah, every time I see Lane,
28:34
Speaker 1: it just reminds me of my sister. Anyway, we hear
28:37
Speaker 1: a car pulling up and we see headlights like on
28:41
Speaker 1: her ceiling, like you know, changing the direction of the
28:44
Speaker 1: lights hitting or ceiling, you know how that stuff works.
28:47
Speaker 1: They go off, and we hear someone walking and probably
28:51
Speaker 1: coming inside, and we cut some bubble wrap being dropped
28:54
Speaker 1: on the floor. This guy with dark hair and glasses
28:58
Speaker 1: is staring proudly at what I think is probably a microchip.
29:00
Speaker 1: Who knows He has like six monitors on his desk
29:04
Speaker 1: and a printer, and they're in like two tiers, like
29:08
Speaker 1: three computers and then another three above them. He puts
29:11
Speaker 1: the chip into. I guess maybe a computer, I think.
29:14
Speaker 1: And Lane peers in from the door as he works,
29:18
Speaker 1: and this person, who I'm pretty sure is her dad, says,
29:21
Speaker 1: what is it? Lane? We can't even really see him
29:23
Speaker 1: now because he's behind so many monitors. He continues, it's
29:27
Speaker 1: certainly unusual to see you in here. Oh that's I mean,
29:31
Speaker 1: I guess it's his office, but makes me feel like
29:33
Speaker 1: maybe they don't talk to each other a lot. Sure,
29:35
Speaker 1: Laane walks in a little and she takes down her
29:38
Speaker 1: bare hood from her onesie, and she looks at off
29:40
Speaker 1: the computers and starts to say something, but then just sighs.
29:44
Speaker 1: But then she kind of regains her composure and she says,
29:47
Speaker 1: I I was wondering if you could buy me a
29:50
Speaker 1: new Novey that's what the computer's called. Her dad chuckles
29:55
Speaker 1: and stands up and says, finally caught the bug. Huh.
29:58
Speaker 1: He sits down at his desk and hits the power
30:00
Speaker 1: on his like surge protector, extension core. All of the
30:03
Speaker 1: monitors turn on in succession, and they're being reflected in
30:06
Speaker 1: his glasses. He continues, you're in junior high. Now your
30:11
Speaker 1: friends are leaving you in the dust. Right, computers are
30:13
Speaker 1: booting up in the background. I keep telling you that
30:16
Speaker 1: you should use a better machine. He's clicking his mouse
30:18
Speaker 1: and he goes to files, deformation parameters, networks start logging.
30:25
Speaker 1: He clicks on fretives. Maybe he types something into application
30:33
Speaker 1: oblization system like think blue count one two, and it
30:37
Speaker 1: brings up something. And he continues, you know, Lane, whether
30:41
Speaker 1: it's in the real world or on the wired people
30:43
Speaker 1: connect with each other, and that's how societies function. A
30:47
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff's coming upon the screens and stuff. Lane
30:50
Speaker 1: is just staring at all this same The dad now
30:54
Speaker 1: looks excitedly, like way too excitedly at the screen, and
30:58
Speaker 1: there's like an animation of this man with a suits
31:01
Speaker 1: and a red bow tie and he has no head.
31:04
Speaker 1: And he continues, even a girl like you can make
31:06
Speaker 1: friends right off the bat. Lane, fuck that's mean. Now
31:10
Speaker 1: we see a headless woman on the screen. She's wearing
31:13
Speaker 1: lingery maybe, and then another headless guy in a suit.
31:17
Speaker 1: What is her dad doing? Her dad continues, there's nothing
31:20
Speaker 1: to be afraid of. He's typing like manically, like a
31:24
Speaker 1: lot of typing. It's frigging me out, he continues, I
31:27
Speaker 1: wonder why your mother can't understand that he's continuing to type.
31:32
Speaker 1: Lane opens her mouth to say something, and it takes
31:35
Speaker 1: her a while because he's so fucking absorbed in whatever
31:38
Speaker 1: the fuck he's doing, And she finally says, I'm not scared.
31:43
Speaker 1: Her dad's like, but why bring up your navy. All
31:45
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Lane is quiet for a second. There's
31:49
Speaker 1: a friend I want to see, No what Her dad
31:55
Speaker 1: presses a key on the keyboard and chuckles like he's
31:57
Speaker 1: not even listening to her. We got to power lines
32:03
Speaker 1: passing by the window of a train. Lane is staring
32:05
Speaker 1: at at them, standing again at the door, and all
32:08
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the train like shakes violently and people
32:12
Speaker 1: screen and Lane just like falls over because she wasn't
32:14
Speaker 1: holding on anything. And then we hear over the intercom
32:17
Speaker 1: we apologize for the inconvenience ladies and gentlemen. The train
32:20
Speaker 1: has currently stopped due to an accident. Fuck. We hear
32:24
Speaker 1: someone say what and someone else is like, with someone hit,
32:27
Speaker 1: and then another person says, I can't believe this. Laane
32:30
Speaker 1: gets to her feet and she goes back to the
32:32
Speaker 1: window and she's about to put her hand on the glass,
32:35
Speaker 1: but she stops and gasps. Blood is dripping down from
32:39
Speaker 1: the power line, like right next to the door that
32:42
Speaker 1: she's standing at. We fade to white and then slowly
32:45
Speaker 1: back into Lane standing in the middle of a busy crosswalk.
32:49
Speaker 1: Then her standing at the bottom of the steps out
32:52
Speaker 1: of the subway and she looks behind her, and then
32:56
Speaker 1: she is at the school, standing in the courtyard. Then
33:00
Speaker 1: we go to a really weird fish eye shot of
33:02
Speaker 1: her standing in her dining room and she just looks
33:05
Speaker 1: really blank. Yeah, trauma geez. Finally she closes her eyes
33:11
Speaker 1: and maybe smiles slightly. Next we see flashing red lights
33:17
Speaker 1: from like a train crossing, and we get a close
33:20
Speaker 1: up on Lane on her eye, like open wide, and
33:25
Speaker 1: there are silhouettes of power lines overhead because that's gonna
33:28
Speaker 1: be a theme in the show. And this white mist
33:32
Speaker 1: rolls in from both sides in the area becomes very
33:34
Speaker 1: dark and foggy, and we cut back to that red
33:37
Speaker 1: train crossing light again and Lane looks down and the
33:40
Speaker 1: fog clears enough for her to see that she's standing
33:43
Speaker 1: on the tracks. Fuck in the distance were the sound
33:46
Speaker 1: of a train approaching. She looks behind her and there's
33:50
Speaker 1: this person looks like a girl in a school uniform.
33:53
Speaker 1: We can't see her face though, and she like pushes
33:55
Speaker 1: her way under like the train crossing like the barrier thing,
33:58
Speaker 1: and she goes onto the track and the train honks
34:01
Speaker 1: its horn. Lane looks up in its lights as it
34:04
Speaker 1: approaches through the fog. She looks at the girl in
34:06
Speaker 1: the tracks, whose face is obscured by her hair, but
34:09
Speaker 1: it's blowing in the wind. Lane, who I guess, isn't
34:11
Speaker 1: on the tracks anymore. It's a little confusing there calls
34:14
Speaker 1: out to her, but we don't hear anything, and I
34:17
Speaker 1: don't think the girl hears anything either. The train is
34:19
Speaker 1: like really approaching now, and the girl just like dashes
34:22
Speaker 1: out in front of it. Lane is still trying to
34:25
Speaker 1: call to her, but she can't, and we get a
34:27
Speaker 1: glimpse of the girl's face now, which first looks like
34:31
Speaker 1: she's smiling and maybe not a way you want someone
34:33
Speaker 1: to smile at you, and then it morphs into a
34:35
Speaker 1: scream and then back to a smile. Yay. The train
34:39
Speaker 1: kind of cashes up to where they are now rushing
34:41
Speaker 1: past Lane, and she covers her face because she just
34:44
Speaker 1: inches away from it. Then we go to white. The
34:47
Speaker 1: screen is just white for a while, and there's tapping
34:49
Speaker 1: in the background, and we slowly fade into Lane's notebook
34:53
Speaker 1: and I know it's hers because there's the pink bear
34:55
Speaker 1: pen on it and drops of water are landing on it.
34:59
Speaker 1: That's the tapping sound. I thought that they were teardrops,
35:02
Speaker 1: but they're not. Lane is just covered in sweat. Her
35:06
Speaker 1: eyes are closed. She has her head in her hands,
35:08
Speaker 1: and her voice says iwakudasam. Another beat of sweat drops
35:12
Speaker 1: from her chin, and she finally opens her eyes and gasps,
35:15
Speaker 1: and she looks around at all the other kids who
35:16
Speaker 1: are silently working in the classroom, and the teacher is
35:19
Speaker 1: standing in front of her and says iwakuda sam. Lane's like, yes, ma'am.
35:25
Speaker 1: The teacher says this will be on the test and
35:28
Speaker 1: walks away. Laane squints at the board and the words
35:33
Speaker 1: begin to ripple and blur. She needs glasses. As they blur,
35:38
Speaker 1: they really start to fucking morph. And there are a
35:41
Speaker 1: bunch of like extra white lines and shapes on the
35:43
Speaker 1: board now, and then the characters fur come on the
35:47
Speaker 1: wired quickly appear so she can see sometimes yeay. Lane
35:52
Speaker 1: gasps and probably thinks about part of the note from
35:55
Speaker 1: you know, the dead girl, but we're like seeing it,
35:57
Speaker 1: and it's not translated, so I'm not one hundred percent
35:59
Speaker 1: sure it was apposed to say. And then all of
36:01
Speaker 1: a sudden, the board is normal, and we see that
36:04
Speaker 1: they're learning English. They are practicing I don't know if
36:07
Speaker 1: tenses or something, because it's like when I came home,
36:10
Speaker 1: mother was cooking stuff like that. Yay, I could read
36:14
Speaker 1: that because I can read English. We now cut to
36:18
Speaker 1: the hum of power lines. As Lane walks down the streets.
36:21
Speaker 1: The shadows are still there, we're still super overexposed, but
36:24
Speaker 1: they have blue dots in them. Now, some girl passes
36:27
Speaker 1: her by. Was that GSA? Lane notices after she passes,
36:33
Speaker 1: and then CHSA just kind of pops out of existence.
36:37
Speaker 1: Lane stops walking and turns back. Shesa is standing there again,
36:41
Speaker 1: kind of with her face pointed down maybe three yards
36:45
Speaker 1: from Lane. Lane gasps and fully turns towards her now
36:49
Speaker 1: and says, she said, sehn, Sheisa doesn't move. I don't
36:54
Speaker 1: think Jessa is alive. And Lane's like, where are you?
36:58
Speaker 1: Shesa's smiles and look up at Lane and then back
37:01
Speaker 1: down at the ground. Laane just kind of stares at
37:04
Speaker 1: her because I get it. We get a close up
37:06
Speaker 1: shot on she SA's eyes and they look, honestly just
37:10
Speaker 1: really blank and kind of sad. She turns to white
37:15
Speaker 1: and then basically splits into like a potato or orange
37:18
Speaker 1: peel thing. It disappears. It was really cool, and Lane's
37:21
Speaker 1: like wait, and then we get a screen that says
37:24
Speaker 1: to be continued in English, and we go the ending
37:27
Speaker 1: theme yay, which is by Raichie na Kaido rachiekna Kaido
37:32
Speaker 1: and it's called Tui sa kibbi or I guess in
37:36
Speaker 1: English distant Cry maybe, and the song is totally okay,
37:41
Speaker 1: but it's basically just a shot of Lane sleeping naked
37:45
Speaker 1: on like a green, wiry background surrounded by maybe computers,
37:51
Speaker 1: so that's a little bit weird. And then that's it, yay,
37:55
Speaker 1: I guess okay. Closing thoughts I liked that that was fun.
38:02
Speaker 1: So stuff's going on. We have a dead kid who's
38:05
Speaker 1: communicating with people through the internet, baby or the wed
38:10
Speaker 1: I guess that's what we call the internet in this world.
38:13
Speaker 1: But she said it wasn't a scam, so I think
38:15
Speaker 1: it's probably a scam. But Lane is also now seeing
38:17
Speaker 1: her and having dreams about people killing themselves, So I'm
38:20
Speaker 1: getting a little bit worried for Lane's sanity. And it
38:23
Speaker 1: sucks that she's doing all these things that are like,
38:27
Speaker 1: oh no, something's wrong with this person. Like she's probably
38:30
Speaker 1: failing at school, I would assume, because she can't see
38:33
Speaker 1: the board. Like she's telling her mom like a dead
38:37
Speaker 1: girl emailed me, and like she's acting noticeably different to
38:41
Speaker 1: her father, and nobody is like doing anything about it
38:44
Speaker 1: or really paying attention to her at all, like her mom.
38:47
Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with her mom. That was
38:49
Speaker 1: kind of upsetting, just like the whole Do you even
38:52
Speaker 1: know that this person is sitting at the table with you,
38:53
Speaker 1: because it doesn't seem like you do. I mean, at
38:55
Speaker 1: least her dad acknowledged her presence, so we know Lane
38:58
Speaker 1: isn't like a ghost or something, unless her dad is
39:01
Speaker 1: dead too, but I don't think so. I don't think
39:03
Speaker 1: that's the message I was supposed to get from that.
39:05
Speaker 1: But her dad is like all into his whatever the
39:08
Speaker 1: hell he's doing on the computer, which didn't seem good,
39:11
Speaker 1: like made me uncomfortable. And obviously we know that there's
39:15
Speaker 1: tension between him and Lane's mom about computer things, but
39:18
Speaker 1: like she's got like six of them, and I don't
39:21
Speaker 1: know what's going on, but yeah, so it seems like
39:25
Speaker 1: she doesn't have a support system. There's no one to
39:26
Speaker 1: talk to about these weird things that are happening, and
39:29
Speaker 1: these things that are happening that are sad, I mean,
39:32
Speaker 1: but not super weird and just terrible, Like she at
39:35
Speaker 1: least partially saw that train accident and that's really fucked
39:39
Speaker 1: her up. Like nobody's there, So I'm a little worried
39:44
Speaker 1: about her, and I just I feel like her entire
39:47
Speaker 1: family is very cold to each other as far as
39:49
Speaker 1: I can see so far. And yeah, it's just it's
39:52
Speaker 1: got to be hard to be a teenage girl going
39:55
Speaker 1: through weird things like dead friend internet stuff and seeing
40:00
Speaker 1: train accidents and not have anybody to talk to. So
40:03
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see where this goes, because yeah, So
40:07
Speaker 1: aside from all the things I just said, the music
40:10
Speaker 1: in this is really good and I will remember next
40:13
Speaker 1: thing to tell you who the uh the composer is.
40:16
Speaker 1: It's like really unsettling. There's a lot of times where
40:19
Speaker 1: there's not any music where we're just having sound effects,
40:21
Speaker 1: which works really really well to make this more like
40:24
Speaker 1: uncanny and weird. And the art is just really cool.
40:28
Speaker 1: I like the way the backgrounds are hyper overexposed and
40:32
Speaker 1: the characters are like not so it almost looks like
40:34
Speaker 1: there's a compositing error. And the scenes where like Lane
40:37
Speaker 1: is just walking through this neighborhood that you can barely
40:39
Speaker 1: see anything because it's so overexposed. But I think it's
40:42
Speaker 1: intentional to be kind of like eerie, because they could
40:46
Speaker 1: have made it cohesive, I feel like, fairly easily, and
40:49
Speaker 1: they just chose not to. I really believe that. I
40:52
Speaker 1: don't believe it's a mistake. So yeah, it's been interesting
40:56
Speaker 1: so far. It'll be fun to see where this goes.
41:00
Speaker 1: She's a doing what did she mean? God is here?
41:02
Speaker 1: How will everyone see? I'm scared? Is she going to
41:07
Speaker 1: try to convince Lane to kill herself? Is like that?
41:09
Speaker 1: What's happening? Is it something like that, or is you know,
41:12
Speaker 1: it's something else. Is she really a ghost? Is this
41:14
Speaker 1: all in Lane's head? I guess we're going to find out.
41:17
Speaker 1: So yay, we just did the first episode and now
41:21
Speaker 1: I am going to go and do something, but I
41:24
Speaker 1: don't know what. So yeah, anyway, I hope you have
41:29
Speaker 1: a really good whatever, and that when you're listening to
41:32
Speaker 1: this it is not as warm as it is here
41:33
Speaker 1: today because it is like in the eighties and it
41:36
Speaker 1: is fucking April and we're not supposed to be there.
41:39
Speaker 1: So yeah, I will see you next week unless something
41:44
Speaker 1: terrible happens, or you know, some girl comes to talk
41:48
Speaker 1: to me about how God is here and how she
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Speaker 1: killed herself. Later reaps