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Banana Fish Ep.10- Babylon Revisited · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person thing, Michelle, I guess, and I
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Speaker 1: came back, and so did you. Maybe I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you came back. I'm just recording this alone in
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Speaker 1: my house.
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Speaker 2: So if you.
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Speaker 1: Did come back, thank you. Thank you so much. It's
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Speaker 1: good to know that I'm not just saying this to
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Speaker 1: myself like I normally do, but to at least maybe
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Speaker 1: one other person. I mean, if you're listening obviously. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: today we're just gonna talk about Banana Fish episode ten.
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Speaker 1: So I might as well just get to it because
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Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say except that my
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Speaker 1: neighbors are watching something and it is loud, so hopefully
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Speaker 1: you can't hear it, but if you can, that's what's
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Speaker 1: going on. So episode ten is called Babylon Revisited, which
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Speaker 1: is also the name of a short story by f
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Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald which doesn't appear to have anything to do
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Speaker 1: with this episode, but that's fine. If you remember from
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Speaker 1: last episode, we ended with Arthur like laughing and talking
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Speaker 1: about how fucking great this felt. You know, that Shorter
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Speaker 1: was dead and Ash was crying and everything was really
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Speaker 1: really bad, so good for him. So anyway, we pick
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Speaker 1: up basically right there more or less with U a
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Speaker 1: lung who is still watching from outside the door of
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Speaker 1: the room, kind of discreetly, like up against the wall
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Speaker 1: so he can't be seen by anyone, and he thinks,
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Speaker 1: how horrific. It completely destroys all self control. He hears
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Speaker 1: movement like somebody coming towards the door, and he like
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Speaker 1: quickly leaves from the area, and we hear AG say Ash.
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Speaker 1: The doors swing open, and there are two men like
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Speaker 1: holding Ag by the arms and they like pull him
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Speaker 1: out of the room and he's like, Ash, let.
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Speaker 2: Go of me.
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Speaker 1: And Max is like, hey, wait, and Shinichi says e
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Speaker 1: Chan and Ash looks over as they close the door.
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Speaker 2: And he just very quietly says Ag.
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Speaker 1: He looks terrible, by the way, probably from all of
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Speaker 1: the crying, which he's still doing, just like less intensely.
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Speaker 1: I guess he just in general looks more composed than
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Speaker 1: he did at the end of the last episode, which
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Speaker 1: isn't very hard because he was just distraught at the
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Speaker 1: end of episode nine, not that he isn't now, it's
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Speaker 1: just quieter. Let me just pause there real quick. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to say, because I keep forgetting to this
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Speaker 1: anime is really good at conveying characters' emotions through facial expressions.
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Speaker 1: And I know I've talked about this once before with
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Speaker 1: another anime, which I'm very sure was Ree Zero, where
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Speaker 1: he said something like I'm gonna do my best to
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Speaker 1: kind of convey the expressions that the characters have on
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Speaker 1: their faces because it's important, but they're complex. So we're
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Speaker 1: kind of in a similar situation with Banana Fish where
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you as much information as I can,
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Speaker 1: but like, got some really complex emotions going on with
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Speaker 1: these characters, So good job, I guess. Anyway, to Arthur,
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Speaker 1: who is still standing in front of him, Ash says,
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Speaker 1: where are they taking him? And Arthur's like, didn't I
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Speaker 1: tell you He's gonna try out your old job. Then
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Speaker 1: we'll use Banana Fish to make him kill you. Ash
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Speaker 1: shuts his eyes and tearstream down his face and he's like,
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Speaker 1: please stop, I'm begging you, just kill me. And Arthur's like,
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Speaker 1: I see it's hard even on you, but you're not
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Speaker 1: getting off the hook that easy. He puts his knife
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Speaker 1: to Ash's cheek. We've got plenty of time. There's no
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Speaker 1: way I'm killing you yet. He then lifts Ash's face
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Speaker 1: towards him with the knife. Not until you scream and
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Speaker 1: beg me to kill you. He like pops one of
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Speaker 1: the buttons off of Ash's shirt with the knife and says,
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Speaker 1: let me hear you scream.
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Speaker 2: Geez dude.
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Speaker 1: Back to Yuelung, who shuts a door somewhere and sits
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Speaker 1: down on a couch, and he like puts his hands
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Speaker 1: on his forehead and leans back and thinks, I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to see that. He looks over at a newspaper
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Speaker 1: that's on the couch. It's the New York Herald apparently,
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Speaker 1: and he frantically opens it and thinks, does this mean?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, tell me what you think it means.
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Speaker 1: Back to Age, who is being thrown into a room,
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Speaker 1: onto a bed somewhere, and he looks like really really pissed,
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Speaker 1: like he's burning with righteous indignation, and one of the
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Speaker 1: guards is like, lucky you, you're off duty tonight. Papa
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Speaker 1: likes compose little boys like Ash, a little kid like
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Speaker 1: you should at least try to be cute, Jesus. They
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Speaker 1: shut the door like laughing, and Ag throws a pillow
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Speaker 1: at it as they do, and he immediately gets up
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Speaker 1: picks up a chair and slams it against the door,
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Speaker 1: yelling let me out. As he does it, the chair splinters,
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Speaker 1: but the door is unharmed, unfortunately. Then he pounds his
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Speaker 1: fists against the door, defeated, and after a second or two,
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Speaker 1: sinks to his knees and cries.
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Speaker 2: Things shorter.
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Speaker 1: Then we go to the opening theme. Yeah, back from
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Speaker 1: the opening theme. We are outside of the gates at
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Speaker 1: Dino's mansion and we hear a voice say six men
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Speaker 1: at the front gate, which there are four at the
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Speaker 1: east end, three of the north, and we see it
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Speaker 1: saying our young little Chinese gang leader. And he's looking
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Speaker 1: through binoculars kind of in the woods I guess outside
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Speaker 1: of the property, and he's talking to like some other
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Speaker 1: like taller dude. He continues an infrared alarm system and
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Speaker 1: security cameras, takes down the binoculars and says he's pretty cautious,
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Speaker 1: and then he turns to Alex Bones and Kong who
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Speaker 1: were also there with them, and says, who's been inside?
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Speaker 1: I wanted to point out that there's some pretty good
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Speaker 1: compositing in these shots over here, like really nice shadows,
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Speaker 1: you know, where, like the light is coming through the trees,
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Speaker 1: so like they're kind of partially in shadow and partially not.
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Speaker 1: I really liked it. Good job, everybody, Alex. I've been
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Speaker 1: in there several times with Ash, but only to the
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Speaker 1: salon and back and sings like, draw me a map.
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Speaker 1: We need a plan where to attack and how to
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Speaker 1: clear out, or we're all dead and we're not just
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Speaker 1: going there to die with you guys Bones sighs, and
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Speaker 1: Kong's like, dang, it's just like talking with the boss.
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Speaker 1: I guess Ash is like that too. Then we go
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Speaker 1: to Dino and Arthur and we're kind of like looking
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Speaker 1: at them through one of the windows of the mansion
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Speaker 1: from the outside, and Arthur's like, you're going out. Dino,
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Speaker 1: who is reading the New York Journal, says, that's right.
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Speaker 1: The perfect ceremony for banana Fish will be held this evening.
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Speaker 1: I must witness it. And Arthur's like, what about Ash.
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Speaker 1: Aren't we finishing him tonight? No, leave him alone. Dino's like,
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Speaker 1: don't be in such a rush. I can't pass up
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Speaker 1: this opportunity. Arthur says, what are you up to? Dino
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Speaker 1: smiles and he's like you'll see and Arthur says, anyway,
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Speaker 1: I hope this ceremony or whatever. It doesn't take too long.
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Speaker 1: I don't like having to wait, and Dino's like I
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Speaker 1: feel the same way. My shoulder still hurts every now
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Speaker 1: and then, same as your fingers. Arthur makes a fist geez.
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Speaker 1: He's so pissed off about his scarred up hand. At
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Speaker 1: this point, we see Dino, Arthur and some other dudes
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Speaker 1: like all walking out of the mansion and Yue Lung
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Speaker 1: is looking at them through the window and he thinks
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Speaker 1: goalzine's leaving.
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Speaker 2: Then my guess was.
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Speaker 1: Right, what's your guess? He walks away from the window
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Speaker 1: and he takes off an ear ring or both earrings,
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Speaker 1: and he pulls out an antenna out of one of
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Speaker 1: them and then speaks into the other one and says,
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Speaker 1: Sue Louie, tell big brother Holong that I want to
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Speaker 1: speak with him. I have information on a big and
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Speaker 1: spair recy concerning goal scene. But tell him not to
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Speaker 1: tell big brother Wang Lung and hurry now. We go
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Speaker 1: to a bunch of cars leaving the mansion from first
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Speaker 1: person perspective, sings first person perspective because he's looking through binoculars,
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Speaker 1: and he says it's goal scene. Arthur's with him, and
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Speaker 1: Alex is like that filthy dog yeah, and Singh says,
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Speaker 1: but this is our chance we attack tonight. Yes, let
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Speaker 1: me go to like a grayish, blackish kind of model
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Speaker 1: looking screen and we hear a voice say, ash oslon
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Speaker 1: Oslon come here. The screen slowly like lightens and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: who's there. A blurry image of Griffin like comes into focus.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of like ethereal, looking like he's got a
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Speaker 1: glow to him, and he says, don't cry anymore, and
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Speaker 1: we hear Ash say Griffin, and then we pull back
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Speaker 1: and we see that Ash is also there, like as
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Speaker 1: a very very young child, and his hands are covering
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Speaker 1: his face and he's sobbing, and Griffin says, boys don't cry, Okay,
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Speaker 1: yes they do, and actually we just talked about that
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Speaker 1: last episode that boys definitely cry, especially in this show,
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Speaker 1: so fuck you anyway. Griffin stands and he puts his
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Speaker 1: hand on Ash's head, and Ash looks up at him
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Speaker 1: and his cheeks and his nose are so red from crying.
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Speaker 1: He looks really really adorable, and he says, where are
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Speaker 1: you going? And Griffin's like, I'm joining the army. Ash says,
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Speaker 1: you're leaving me. Griffin smiles and says, even if I'm
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Speaker 1: far away, I'll never forget you. Oh God, like that's helpful.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Griffin kind of fades into a blur
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Speaker 1: and we hear Ash say Griffin, and the blur kind
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Speaker 1: of begins to refocus and we hear Ash say, no,
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Speaker 1: it's and we see Agy. We cut to a close
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Speaker 1: up of Ash's face, you know, his present face, focusing
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Speaker 1: on his eyes, and he just looks so beat up
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Speaker 1: and exhausted, and he says ag and then he realizes
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Speaker 1: that who's actually standing in front of him is you?
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Speaker 1: It long his face hardens and he tenses up once
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Speaker 1: he completely realizes what's going on, and he just looks
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Speaker 1: so fucking rough. Newey Lung says, I see you still
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Speaker 1: have enough strength left to glare at me.
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Speaker 2: You really are tough.
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Speaker 1: That Arthur character must hold one hell of a grudge
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Speaker 1: against you. He kind of closes the gap between himself
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Speaker 1: and Ash and he takes some sort of compact out
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Speaker 1: and rubs his hand on it and then tries to
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Speaker 1: touch Ash's neck and Ash flinches and he's like, don't
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Speaker 1: touch me, Please, don't touch him without his permission Uei
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Speaker 1: Lung does so anyway, because he's Ash, so of course
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Speaker 1: people are gonna touch him without his permission, but he
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Speaker 1: says it's just ointment, so always trying to be helpful. Yay.
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Speaker 1: Then we get a shot of Max and Shunichi, who
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Speaker 1: are asleep tied to that post still, and Ash says,
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Speaker 1: where are the men that are supposed to be on watch?
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Speaker 1: And ue Lung's like, I put them to sleep. I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry about shorter. Ash is incensed, I suppose, and he says,
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Speaker 1: who are you to feel sorry? Don't you dare or
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Speaker 1: ever say his name again?
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Speaker 2: Get out of my sight.
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Speaker 1: And you Alung pauses and he says, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: you were vulnerable too. You're unbelievably strong when people are
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Speaker 1: attacking you, but you're really weak when it comes to
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Speaker 1: your loved ones. One day this will get you killed,
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Speaker 1: but you still won't be able to abandon your friends
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Speaker 1: that so yeah, just let him be alone for the
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Speaker 1: rest of his life. Great anyway, Golziane's gone out tonight
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Speaker 1: with Arthur and the others to witness a certain plan unfold,
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Speaker 1: and Ash says a plan you Alung's like, you'll see
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Speaker 1: soon enough. Just wait for tomorrow's news. He's tied up.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna see the news. But then
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Speaker 1: you Alung holds up a key and he says, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna give you one chance. Though you won't be able
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Speaker 1: to use this opportunity to get revenge, you can at
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Speaker 1: least save your loved ones. He then places the key
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Speaker 1: in Ash's waistband of his pants. You gotta remember his
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Speaker 1: hands are way way held up to the side. He
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Speaker 1: can't reach his pants, so this was just wonderful. Ash
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Speaker 1: smiles slightly and says, you'll live to regret ever showing
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Speaker 1: me mercy. I'm going to kill you someday. He's so honest,
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Speaker 1: and you it loungs like if that's how it's destined
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Speaker 1: to be, so be it. He walks towards the door.
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Speaker 1: Good luck, Ash, and as he's opening the door, he says,
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Speaker 1: next time we meet, it'll probably be when you kill me.
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Speaker 1: He leaps. We got to the exterior of what I
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Speaker 1: assume is a hotel, like a high rise hotel, and
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Speaker 1: a woman screams, and then we're inside and a woman
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Speaker 1: who looks like they're probably a maid, is on the
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Speaker 1: floor like looking at something in fear, and two other
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Speaker 1: hotel staff like run up because I guess she's like
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Speaker 1: in a room and the door's open or something. And
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Speaker 1: the first one says, what is it? And the second
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Speaker 1: one's like, are you okay? And we see that there
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Speaker 1: was a very dead and bloody man slumped against the wall,
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Speaker 1: and the first staff person says, hey, he's the second
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Speaker 1: one says, yeah, h the next presidential candidate. Then we
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Speaker 1: hear a woman, not the woman that is freaked out
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Speaker 1: on the floor, but another woman say help me, and
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Speaker 1: they all look over. There is a woman covered in
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Speaker 1: blood holding a knife. She says someone and she's like
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Speaker 1: crying and she raises the knife to her throat and
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Speaker 1: says save and she fucking sticks the knife in her
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Speaker 1: throat and blood just splatters all over the wall, and
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Speaker 1: I wrote I love this show, which is a terrible
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Speaker 1: thing to say about this scene. And we got to
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Speaker 1: the exterior and it says World's highest hotel, which is
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Speaker 1: a really weird thing to name your hotel. Now we
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Speaker 1: hear a voice say congratulations, and Dino is holding maybe champagne,
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Speaker 1: and he says, this is only the beginning. And Arthur's
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Speaker 1: like to think you'd kill the next presidential candidate. It
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Speaker 1: looks like they're in some sort of hotel room maybe,
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Speaker 1: And also Gregory, that other staff guy is there, because
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Speaker 1: he's always there despite still not having a name the anime. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Arthur continues, Oh well, I'm with you till the end,
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Speaker 1: and Dina's like, hmm, You and Ash truly are like
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Speaker 1: fire and ice. Wild beasts have no ambition or gratitude.
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Speaker 1: The only thing they long for his freedom. I guess
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Speaker 1: it was my mistake for trying to keep him in
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Speaker 1: a cage. Arthur chuckles, and he's like, you're being awfully
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Speaker 1: sentimental tonight, and Dino's like, guests will be arriving soon.
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Speaker 1: You should watch your mouth if you want to make
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Speaker 1: your way up. He's right now to some guards who
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Speaker 1: are talking outside Dino's mansion, and Singh is standing on
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Speaker 1: a tree branch above them, and he pulls out this
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Speaker 1: like rope dart, which I.
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Speaker 2: Just learned what it was.
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Speaker 1: It's like a kind of throwing knife attached to a string.
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Speaker 1: In this case, it almost looks like he's got a
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Speaker 1: fishing line on it. Anyway, he throws it up and
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Speaker 1: catches it and smiles. He then releases the rope dart
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Speaker 1: and the string whips around one of the guard's next
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Speaker 1: like choking him, and the other two guys try to
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Speaker 1: shoot it Sing, but a couple other Chinese guys just
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Speaker 1: take them out, and by take them out, I mean
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Speaker 1: kill of them. Now. The rest of the gangs walk
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Speaker 1: in the gate and Sing waves them forward and they
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Speaker 1: head towards the mansion. Inside. Max and Shernici are starting
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Speaker 1: to wake up because they're hearing like some sort of
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Speaker 1: commotion that sounds like Ash is trying to do something
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Speaker 1: with the chains maybe, And they look over and Ash
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Speaker 1: is swinging on the chains like he's a swing of sorts,
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Speaker 1: trying to build up momentum. And Ash is like, you're
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Speaker 1: finally awake.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: Max is like, what are you doing? He then like
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Speaker 1: swings himself over the joyster horizontal number or whatever it
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Speaker 1: is that the chains are attached to, and he grabs
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Speaker 1: onto it on the way down and manages to lift
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Speaker 1: himself up onto it. Finally he's able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: have full range of his arms and use the key
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Speaker 1: to unlock the cuffs. Yeah, Ash, I could not do
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Speaker 1: that at all. I would die. I don't think many
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Speaker 1: people could do that or maybe anyone, but it was cool.
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Speaker 1: Max asks how did you get the key? And Ash's
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Speaker 1: like we'll talk later. Ash, Max and Sh now in
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Speaker 1: the hallway and Ashes like running around trying not to
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Speaker 1: be seen, and Max says, hey, where are you going?
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Speaker 2: But they follow him.
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Speaker 1: He then gets to a door with a keypad and
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Speaker 1: he starts punching in the code. It's probably not a
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Speaker 1: good idea to give the prostitute the hates you all
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Speaker 1: the codes to your mansion, but whatever. And the door
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Speaker 1: opens and there are a lot of guns in the room.
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Speaker 1: Max is like, this is this is? And he looked
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Speaker 1: kind of freaked out. It's an armory. Ash walks into
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Speaker 1: the room and he's like, they're smuggled goods. You can
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Speaker 1: handle a gun, right, Max smiles, you're talking to an
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Speaker 1: IRAQ vet, you know. Ash smiles back, that's good.
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Speaker 2: They like grab all.
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Speaker 1: Sorts of guns and bullets and like things to hold
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Speaker 1: stuff in. And Ash gets this really cool gold pistol
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Speaker 1: that I thought was awesome, and he is now armed
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Speaker 1: to the literal teeth and he says, you two get
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Speaker 1: out of here while I draw their attention, and Max
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Speaker 1: is like, what about you? Ash says, I'm saving Ag.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you are, shoon She's like, take me with you,
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Speaker 1: and Ash says, give me a break. I can't take
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Speaker 1: care of all three of you. He stands up because
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Speaker 1: they were sitting, I guess. Max puts his hand on
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Speaker 1: shoonnisis shoulder and he's like, let's.
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Speaker 2: Leave Agi to Ash.
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Speaker 1: Finally, Max, finally you see that he is capable. Let
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Speaker 1: him do things. Shoonichi just kind of sighs. As they're leaving.
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Speaker 1: Ash presses a button on some sort of bag and
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Speaker 1: he like tosses it back into the armory and he
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Speaker 1: says it'll go off in five minutes, and Max is like,
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Speaker 1: what a blast it'll be. I guess it's a bomb. Now.
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Speaker 1: We cut two two guards in a hallway and the
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Speaker 1: first guard says all clear here, and the second guard's
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Speaker 1: like yeah. Ash peeks around the corner behind them and
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Speaker 1: Max is like, don't die. Ash smiles and takes a
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Speaker 1: deep breath and he's ready to go. He then rounds
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Speaker 1: the corner and takes both of the guys out, probably
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Speaker 1: with some sort of machine gun that he has. It's
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Speaker 1: definitely a machine gun, by the way, it's fully automatic.
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Speaker 1: And Max says go and she's like good luck and
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Speaker 1: they run for sirens are going off now, and Yue
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Speaker 1: Lung is like, seems like it's begun. He looks out
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Speaker 1: the window and he sees sing and the Chinese gang approaching,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, who are they? So now we're with
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Speaker 1: some guards who are trying to figure out what's going on,
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Speaker 1: and the bomb explodes in the armory and everything shakes.
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Speaker 1: Max and Shannici are hiding behind a corner, like around
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Speaker 1: the corner, and a guard's like, hurry, it's the basement armory.
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Speaker 1: Does that mean there's more than one armory? All the
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Speaker 1: guards head that way, and Max and Shunici are able to,
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Speaker 1: you know, get around them and move forward. Now we
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Speaker 1: go back to the hotel with Dino, and also now
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Speaker 1: Senator Kippard is there, and someone who's obscured like also
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Speaker 1: walks in and he has like light brownish hair and glasses,
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Speaker 1: and Dino says, this is my protege, Frederick Arthur. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, Arthur is his last name. I guess he's
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Speaker 1: got two first names. Guy whose name is on the screen,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't translate it, so all I can read
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Speaker 1: is smiles, because that's how much Japanese I can read, says,
19:06
Speaker 1: I see a future council candidate. He shakes hands with
19:10
Speaker 1: Arthur and Arthur's like, it's an honor to meet you.
19:13
Speaker 1: Mister Smiles. Okay, Smiles was his last name, and Smiles says,
19:18
Speaker 1: the honor is all mine. Arthur thinks, the White House
19:21
Speaker 1: chief of staff what and a Republican congressman the military too, okay,
19:27
Speaker 1: Colonel Holstock's there too. Arthur continues to think, you're acting
19:31
Speaker 1: as a guide for these monsters, hump Papadino, So where
19:35
Speaker 1: exactly are you taking them? Anyway, Gregory picks up his phone.
19:39
Speaker 1: He's getting a call, and he's like, what is it,
19:41
Speaker 1: And then quietly and discreetly to Dino, he says, Papa
19:45
Speaker 1: Ash has escaped, and Dino's like what, And then to
19:49
Speaker 1: everyone he says, forgive me, but I have urgent business
19:52
Speaker 1: to attend to. And he's like getting up and leaving
19:55
Speaker 1: with Gregory in tow and he says, please.
19:57
Speaker 2: Enjoy your night.
19:59
Speaker 1: Arthur was it's not involved in this, and he runs
20:01
Speaker 1: out of the room to catch up with them, and
20:02
Speaker 1: he's like, what's going on? And Dino says, the Lynx
20:05
Speaker 1: is out of the cage and Arthur's like, what Dino says,
20:11
Speaker 1: send back up immediately, don't let him get away. We
20:15
Speaker 1: cut back to Ash, who was ducking behind a corner
20:17
Speaker 1: as the wall in front of him is getting shot up.
20:19
Speaker 1: He shoots something maybe a rocket, like a rocket launcher thing,
20:24
Speaker 1: and he runs past the hall where the dudes are
20:26
Speaker 1: shooting at him, and he throws a grenade at them
20:28
Speaker 1: and it explodes as they do. Now he sees some
20:32
Speaker 1: other dudes in front of him, and they see him
20:35
Speaker 1: coming and they look fucking freaked out and they run
20:38
Speaker 1: for it, and they probably look freaked out because one
20:40
Speaker 1: of them is the dude who orchestrated the Cole thing
20:42
Speaker 1: in La that we hate, you know, or at least
20:44
Speaker 1: I hate him, and he's the one who assaulted Jessica,
20:48
Speaker 1: you know that guy. So anyway, they clear out of
20:50
Speaker 1: there really quick, and Ash pursues them, going up some
20:54
Speaker 1: stairs into this like bougie looking hallway with Fred Carpet,
20:58
Speaker 1: but now he's alone. He stands to the side of
21:01
Speaker 1: the first door that he comes across at the top
21:02
Speaker 1: of the stairs and he slowly turns the handle and
21:06
Speaker 1: the door just gets shot the fuck up, and we
21:08
Speaker 1: hear a guy from inside, say die punk, let me
21:11
Speaker 1: cut to inside the room and that dude and two
21:14
Speaker 1: other guys are waiting with their guns raised, and that
21:17
Speaker 1: Chinese dude is like, is he dead? He nods and
21:20
Speaker 1: gestures for one of the other guys to go look,
21:23
Speaker 1: and that guy starts to walk over to the door,
21:26
Speaker 1: and Ash sticks the gun through a hole that they've
21:30
Speaker 1: created in the door and he fires what I'm assuming
21:32
Speaker 1: is a rocket launcher into the room and there is
21:35
Speaker 1: a massive explosion. Yay. Now we see that really bad
21:40
Speaker 1: dude laying on his back on the floor and bleeding
21:43
Speaker 1: from his nose in his mouth and obviously in a
21:46
Speaker 1: lot of pain. He looks up and he sees Ash
21:48
Speaker 1: standing over him, and Ash is like, so we meet again.
21:52
Speaker 1: The guy looks really fucking scared, and Ash says, the
21:55
Speaker 1: old man said he wanted to put a bullet in
21:57
Speaker 1: your brain, and then he shoots him.
21:58
Speaker 2: In the head.
22:00
Speaker 1: Yay, he killed the rapist.
22:01
Speaker 2: Awesome.
22:03
Speaker 1: We cut two three guards and the first one says,
22:06
Speaker 1: damn it, where is he? And the second one's like,
22:08
Speaker 1: bring that Japanese get here, we'll hold him hostage.
22:11
Speaker 2: Leave ag alone.
22:13
Speaker 1: We hear footsteps and they turn guns raised and it's
22:16
Speaker 1: Ash is Gang yay, and Alex says, backup's here and
22:20
Speaker 1: Bones is like, unfortunately it's for Ash, and they just
22:23
Speaker 1: shoot the fuck out of them, and the guys try
22:25
Speaker 1: to shoot but it's too late, and Kong hits one
22:28
Speaker 1: of them with a metal pipe, which is awesome, and
22:30
Speaker 1: Sing strangles the other with his rope dart and to
22:33
Speaker 1: one of the three, who is now on the floor
22:35
Speaker 1: bleeding from his chest but alive, he says, I'll let
22:39
Speaker 1: you live if you answer my one question. Where is
22:42
Speaker 1: Shorter Long? Uh?
22:43
Speaker 2: Oh?
22:43
Speaker 1: The guy's like he's dead, singing gasps. And the other
22:48
Speaker 1: guy who we didn't get his name yet and they're
22:50
Speaker 1: just not gonna give us his name for like ten episodes,
22:52
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna tell you his name is Lao.
22:54
Speaker 1: He says, don't lie, and the guy's.
22:57
Speaker 2: Like, I saw ass shoot him with my own All of.
23:01
Speaker 1: The Chinese Gang guys look shocked and sings like that
23:05
Speaker 1: can't be. They're best friends. The guy says, ask him
23:09
Speaker 1: yourself if you think I'm lying, he's the devil himself.
23:13
Speaker 1: One of the guys from the Chinese gang says what
23:15
Speaker 1: now Sing and sings like, don't tell anyone about this
23:18
Speaker 1: for now, not until we know the truth.
23:21
Speaker 2: That's really smart.
23:23
Speaker 1: Don't want to scare them if this isn't truth, even
23:25
Speaker 1: though it is. And Lao is like, but what if
23:28
Speaker 1: it's really true, Singh says, then I'll kill Ash. Fuck.
23:33
Speaker 1: We cut back to Ash, who's shooting some guys and
23:35
Speaker 1: he reloads and he calls for AG and he's looking
23:38
Speaker 1: around and he's like, AG, one of the guys that
23:41
Speaker 1: he shot is on the ground, but he's still alive,
23:43
Speaker 1: and he's like trying to raise his gun and shoot
23:45
Speaker 1: Ash and he actually does and the bullet grazes Ash's
23:48
Speaker 1: arm and Ash turns and fires multiple to listen to him,
23:51
Speaker 1: and he's like, you bastard. Ag. Here's the gun shots
23:56
Speaker 1: and maybe Ash saying you bastard, and he's like Hash's voice,
24:00
Speaker 1: that's gotta be him. He gets up, he runs to
24:02
Speaker 1: the door and he's like banging on it like Ash
24:05
Speaker 1: Ash Ash maybe hears, but also then he shoots some
24:09
Speaker 1: other guy and then he starts running and he's like, Age,
24:11
Speaker 1: where are you? And AG's like I'm right here. Ash.
24:14
Speaker 1: He's still banging on the door. Ash rounds the corner
24:17
Speaker 1: and runs to the door. That age's banging on, thank god,
24:20
Speaker 1: and he's like, are you in there? And AG's like, yeah,
24:22
Speaker 1: I'm in here, and Ash says, good, get under the
24:25
Speaker 1: bed and stay low. I'm gonna bust the lock. And
24:28
Speaker 1: she's like okay, and he gets under the bed ready
24:31
Speaker 1: kind of like tenses up, prepares for whatever, and we
24:34
Speaker 1: hear Ash break down the door, which I'm not sure
24:37
Speaker 1: he shot it or whatever. In the manga, he definitely
24:39
Speaker 1: shot the door. The anime kind of looked like he
24:42
Speaker 1: just kicked it down with his foot, but I don't care.
24:44
Speaker 1: He broke down the door.
24:45
Speaker 2: It's good.
24:46
Speaker 1: Ag emerges from under the bed and he's like Ash
24:48
Speaker 1: and he runs to him and he's like, you're safe
24:50
Speaker 1: and he hugs him. Ash looks really really happy for
24:54
Speaker 1: like a quarter of a second, and then he winces
24:56
Speaker 1: in pain and we see that his arm that was
24:58
Speaker 1: just shot by that dude is lead like a lot.
25:01
Speaker 1: And AG notices too, and he says, you hurt really badly.
25:06
Speaker 1: Ash's like it's nothing, Come on, we need to get
25:08
Speaker 1: out of here before backup comes. He sits on the
25:10
Speaker 1: bed for a moment to reload his gun, and AG says,
25:14
Speaker 1: but shorter, are we gonna leave him behind, and that
25:18
Speaker 1: was probably not the right thing to say, and not
25:20
Speaker 1: looking at Ag, he says he's dead. I killed him,
25:24
Speaker 1: and then he looks up and he says, you saw
25:26
Speaker 1: me do it, And there's a long pause, says I think.
25:30
Speaker 1: Ash feels stupid, and AG feels bad, and AG finally
25:35
Speaker 1: says I'm sorry. Ash looks away and then he stands
25:39
Speaker 1: and he walks towards the door and he says let's go,
25:43
Speaker 1: and AG's like, give me a gun. I'll protect myself
25:46
Speaker 1: and Ashes like there's no need for that. AG looks
25:49
Speaker 1: kind of confused, and Ash says, one murderer is more
25:52
Speaker 1: than enough. He turns back to Ag. I'll protect you.
25:56
Speaker 1: Never leave my side. Ah. We cut to that operating
26:01
Speaker 1: room or the science lab or whatever we want to
26:04
Speaker 1: call it, and some doctors in the foreground kind of
26:07
Speaker 1: blurry and they're doing something but we can't really see
26:09
Speaker 1: what it is, but it sounds like a drill is
26:12
Speaker 1: going on, or like a little cutting tool. And two
26:16
Speaker 1: guards come into the room onto that catwalk it's above them,
26:21
Speaker 1: and one of them says, emergency, you have to evacuate now.
26:24
Speaker 1: Abraham pulls down his mask and He's like, what are
26:26
Speaker 1: you talking about. The guard says the prisoner has escaped.
26:29
Speaker 1: It's not safe here, and Abraham's like, he escaped. Then
26:34
Speaker 1: we cut back to Ag and Ash, and we have
26:36
Speaker 1: this very iconic manga shots that's being replicated of Ag
26:41
Speaker 1: and Ash standing against the wall as Ash prepares to
26:43
Speaker 1: look around the corner and make sure that there's no
26:45
Speaker 1: one there. So they emerge and it's clear, Thank god.
26:49
Speaker 1: AG's like, this house is amaze. Ash says, watch your back.
26:53
Speaker 1: They walk forward, and some dudes come around the next
26:57
Speaker 1: corner and Ashes like, get down and he shoots, and
27:01
Speaker 1: then this guy like runs up from behind and Ag
27:03
Speaker 1: is watching his back and he says, Ash, good job.
27:06
Speaker 2: Age.
27:06
Speaker 1: Ash takes out that really cool gold pistol that I
27:09
Speaker 1: told you about and he shoots the guy in the
27:10
Speaker 1: head and the chest really really fast. So it's kind
27:13
Speaker 1: of a pause here as they collect themselves, and Ash,
27:16
Speaker 1: who appears to be mildly smirking by the way, says,
27:19
Speaker 1: do I scare you? Yay? He said the thing and
27:22
Speaker 1: you don't even know that that's a thing yet, yay.
27:25
Speaker 1: Ag is slightly confused by this question for a second,
27:29
Speaker 1: but then he smiles and he's like, no way, Ash
27:33
Speaker 1: looks actually really relieved here. Now, when I first read
27:40
Speaker 1: or watched this, or whenever I first heard him say that,
27:44
Speaker 1: I saw that as kind of like a dig, like
27:46
Speaker 1: he's saying like, oh, you're scared, right, But I actually
27:49
Speaker 1: think this was just a really nice check in, Like,
27:52
Speaker 1: am I like freaking you out right now? Because I
27:55
Speaker 1: normally freak people out, so I want to make sure
27:57
Speaker 1: you're okay.
27:58
Speaker 2: And I think if.
27:59
Speaker 1: AG had said yeah, he would have just been like,
28:02
Speaker 1: oh man, I'll try to do a better job. Like
28:06
Speaker 1: he was so relieved to hear that Ag was not
28:09
Speaker 1: scared of him that it was super fucking sweet, and
28:12
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in future episodes. I'm gonna shut up.
28:16
Speaker 1: Then we go back to that lab and there's a
28:20
Speaker 1: scientist who looks a lot like Alexis, and maybe it's Alexis,
28:23
Speaker 1: and he's like holding like bags and shit, but it'd
28:25
Speaker 1: be weird if it was Alexis, because last time we
28:27
Speaker 1: saw him he was like cuffed, So maybe it's just
28:29
Speaker 1: another scientist guy who has a receding hairline. And he
28:33
Speaker 1: says to Abraham, whatever you're doing, hurry Abraham, who is
28:38
Speaker 1: on the floor, like going through shit and like jars
28:40
Speaker 1: and stuff. Says, I'm hurrying, and then to himself is like,
28:43
Speaker 1: why now I knew they should have killed him earlier.
28:45
Speaker 1: He looks really terrified and he should because remember Ash
28:47
Speaker 1: said he was gonna kill him. Then we hear yue Lung,
28:50
Speaker 1: but we don't see him, and he says, so is
28:53
Speaker 1: that banana fish. Abraham looks up and sees yue Lung,
28:57
Speaker 1: and yue Lung continues, it's kind of hard to that
29:00
Speaker 1: you created that horrifying weapon of a drug. Abraham starts
29:04
Speaker 1: to back away, and he kind of corners himself against
29:07
Speaker 1: the wall and he's like, who are you? How did
29:09
Speaker 1: you get in here? Uelung walks over to him and says,
29:13
Speaker 1: it's you who did that to shortest body?
29:15
Speaker 2: Isn't it what? I don't see Shorter's body? What are
29:18
Speaker 2: you talking about?
29:19
Speaker 1: Oh? I guess that's who they were drilling earlier. Abraham
29:22
Speaker 1: gasps Uilon continues, Ash is coming for you.
29:26
Speaker 2: I know that for sure.
29:27
Speaker 1: You murdered his brother and you made him kill his friend.
29:30
Speaker 1: Right now, he's the devil himself. Abraham looks stressed. Yue
29:35
Speaker 1: Lung looks real smug now and He's like, how funny
29:39
Speaker 1: you made a drug of death and you're afraid to die.
29:42
Speaker 1: He takes a needle out from behind his back. Then
29:47
Speaker 1: we go back to Ash. She was shooting the machine
29:49
Speaker 1: gun and he says, this way, Ag, and he grabs
29:52
Speaker 1: Ag by the wrist and they run for it. Someone
29:55
Speaker 1: is coming around the corner and Ash aims, but it's
29:58
Speaker 1: Ashes gang, thank god, and Ashes like you guys, and
30:01
Speaker 1: Bones and cong are like boss, and Ash says, but
30:05
Speaker 1: how Alex is like the Chinese, len us a hand.
30:08
Speaker 1: They're here to help Shorter. AG's eyes widen, and Ash says,
30:13
Speaker 1: I see, we see Age's face fall Ash continues, listen up,
30:18
Speaker 1: Deno must already be aware of what's going on. We
30:20
Speaker 1: have to get out of here before they get back.
30:22
Speaker 1: Smash their car so they can't chase us. And everyone's
30:25
Speaker 1: like yeah, and Alex says, okay, let's do this, and
30:27
Speaker 1: Bones and Conger are like yeah, And then we cut
30:30
Speaker 1: to the gang smashing a garage full of cars, but
30:34
Speaker 1: like pipes and stuff. Probably haven't a really nice time,
30:37
Speaker 1: and we hear Ash probably, but we don't see him
30:40
Speaker 1: say hurry, they'll be here any minute. Bones is looking
30:43
Speaker 1: at this like really shiny red sports car that I
30:46
Speaker 1: don't know if it's any sort of car in particular.
30:49
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out what they were going for. And
30:51
Speaker 1: he's like, damn, we gotta smash this baby up too,
30:54
Speaker 1: and Ash says, no, I'm taking that later and Alex
30:57
Speaker 1: says later, aren't you coming with us? Ash's like there's
31:02
Speaker 1: something I.
31:03
Speaker 2: Slept to do here. Uh oh, And.
31:05
Speaker 1: Then to Ag says, you're right, we can't leave shorter
31:08
Speaker 1: and he like really lightly smiles at Ag.
31:10
Speaker 2: Oh. AG's like, you won't let me come with you? Huh.
31:14
Speaker 1: Ash says you're being reasonable for once, and Age's like,
31:19
Speaker 1: because I feel the same way as you do, but
31:22
Speaker 1: be careful. If I were to lose you too, I'd
31:24
Speaker 1: go crazy. Oh. And Ash is like, Alex, take good
31:28
Speaker 1: care of him. Alex looks maybe a little bit confused,
31:31
Speaker 1: and he's like okay, boss, and then Ash says, do
31:34
Speaker 1: not leave him alone until I get back now. Alex
31:37
Speaker 1: looks really confused, and he's like, yeah, gotcha. Ash starts
31:43
Speaker 1: to walk off, and AG's like Ash, Ash stops. Ag says,
31:47
Speaker 1: come back safely. I'll wait for you forever.
31:50
Speaker 2: Oh god.
31:51
Speaker 1: Ash is surprised when he hears the forever part me too, actually,
31:55
Speaker 1: but this is definitely going in a direction, and he
31:58
Speaker 1: just kind of walks away without responding. Now we see
32:02
Speaker 1: Max and Shunichi who are outside, like on the ground,
32:05
Speaker 1: actually in the middle of a street, it looks like,
32:07
Speaker 1: and Shoonichi is trying to catch his breath and Max says,
32:11
Speaker 1: seems like we both made it.
32:13
Speaker 2: Shuni's like yeah.
32:15
Speaker 1: But then they see a car coming and they duck
32:17
Speaker 1: behind some bushes, and as the car passes by, Shoonichi
32:21
Speaker 1: sees that Agi and some other dudes who are Ashes
32:24
Speaker 1: Gang are inside it, and he stands and he's like
32:28
Speaker 1: a hun Max says what and Schi's like Agi, but
32:33
Speaker 1: the car is already quite a ways off, so it's
32:34
Speaker 1: not like he's gonna hear him or really see him,
32:37
Speaker 1: and Max says that means that's Ashes Gang. We got
32:40
Speaker 1: two very dead guys on the ground and gunshots in
32:42
Speaker 1: the background. Ash is entering that catwalk above the science
32:47
Speaker 1: lab and Abraham is sitting on the floor below, apparently panicking,
32:51
Speaker 1: which makes sense. Ash starts to walk down the stairs.
32:55
Speaker 1: Abraham sees him, of course, and is like, please don't
32:58
Speaker 1: kill me. He's shaking by the way I can't move.
33:01
Speaker 1: Some Chinese woman pricked me with a needle.
33:03
Speaker 2: Ah, that's what she did.
33:04
Speaker 1: She took the rest of the banana fish with her.
33:06
Speaker 2: Oh fuck.
33:08
Speaker 1: Ash is shocked. And then he looks to the side,
33:11
Speaker 1: and he is even more shocked because Shorter's body is
33:15
Speaker 1: lying on the table in the middle of the room.
33:17
Speaker 1: We don't see his head, but it's probably not good
33:22
Speaker 1: because we're not seeing it. And this is shojo and
33:25
Speaker 1: there's like blood around and such, and he looks so terrified.
33:32
Speaker 1: He backs away and then he collapses to his knees
33:36
Speaker 1: and his head in his hands, and he.
33:38
Speaker 2: Says, what have you done?
33:41
Speaker 1: He's shaking. Abraham says it couldn't be helped. We don't
33:45
Speaker 1: have enough information about banana fish.
33:47
Speaker 2: We needed a brain.
33:49
Speaker 1: Oh no. Ash turns towards him and stands. Abraham like
33:55
Speaker 1: kind of scream gasps, and he says, I'm sorry.
33:58
Speaker 2: I was wrong.
33:59
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh you're wrong. Ash walks towards him with
34:03
Speaker 1: a look of blank resolve on his face, and Abraham's like, no,
34:06
Speaker 1: don't kill me. Ash raises the machine gun and Abraham's
34:11
Speaker 1: like help, and then Ash just fires at him and
34:15
Speaker 1: fires and fires and is just firing at him, like staring,
34:20
Speaker 1: like totally blankly as he does it, and we only
34:23
Speaker 1: see Abraham's legs as the bullets hit him, and a
34:26
Speaker 1: pool of blood forms around him. Eventually, Ash runs out
34:30
Speaker 1: of bullets, but he's still blankly pressing the trigger. He
34:36
Speaker 1: finally relaxes his arm, the gun drops to his side,
34:40
Speaker 1: and we see that tears are streaming down his cheeks.
34:44
Speaker 1: He's crying quietly for a second, and then he breaks
34:47
Speaker 1: into a full sob and he falls to his knees,
34:50
Speaker 1: kind of doubled over, with his hands gripping the back
34:52
Speaker 1: of his head and he just screams. Then there's an explosion,
34:56
Speaker 1: which the Chinese gang sees from outside and sings like,
34:59
Speaker 1: whoa is that?
35:00
Speaker 2: Stay here? I'll go check.
35:02
Speaker 1: We see Sing walking inside and he comes to double
35:06
Speaker 1: doors with you know those little windows in them, and
35:09
Speaker 1: a red light is glowing from inside them, and he's like,
35:12
Speaker 1: is this some kind of lap? He opens the door
35:15
Speaker 1: and gasps. Ash is staring at the table with his
35:19
Speaker 1: back turned to Sing as he basically cremates Shorter's body.
35:24
Speaker 1: Sing says, are you ash Lynx? Ash turns slightly and
35:30
Speaker 1: kind of side eyes him. Then Sing realizes that shortest
35:34
Speaker 1: glasses are there, and he says that corpse, it can't
35:38
Speaker 1: be answer me, did you kill Shorter? Ash, now looking
35:44
Speaker 1: at him completely, says get lost in a bad mood.
35:48
Speaker 1: Sings like, I'm sing su Ling. If you really did
35:52
Speaker 1: kill Shorter, I'll never forgive you fight me, Ash says,
35:56
Speaker 1: didn't you hear me? Sings like take this. He launches
36:00
Speaker 1: his rope darted Ash, but it like catches around Ash's
36:03
Speaker 1: gun and he can't pull it back because Ash is
36:07
Speaker 1: too strong, and Ash yanks him forward and then hits
36:11
Speaker 1: him with the butt of the gun and Sing falls
36:13
Speaker 1: to the floor. Ash then like pins him down, like
36:16
Speaker 1: steps on his stomach and puts the butt of the
36:19
Speaker 1: gun against his throat and Sing kind of turns his
36:23
Speaker 1: head to the side and says kill me. Ash is like,
36:27
Speaker 1: you don't deserve that yet. He just gets off him
36:29
Speaker 1: and walks away. Sing sits up and he's like, you
36:32
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna thank you for that. Ash walks back
36:36
Speaker 1: over to Shorter's burning body and says, I'll only say
36:40
Speaker 1: this one more time. He turns back to sing Get Lost.
36:46
Speaker 1: Ash's expression is so intense that it makes Sing flinch.
36:49
Speaker 1: And I guess this is enough for saying, because he
36:51
Speaker 1: like gets up to leave and he's like, you'll pay
36:54
Speaker 1: for what you did to Shorter, don't forget it, and
36:57
Speaker 1: then he takes off out of the room, leaving Ash
37:00
Speaker 1: in an increasingly burning lab. Sing is now outside and
37:04
Speaker 1: he's running and he thinks, damn, he's intimidating. Then we
37:09
Speaker 1: hear yue Lung say you're coming with me, Sing Zuling.
37:13
Speaker 1: We see that his gang is standing around Ue Lung
37:17
Speaker 1: and they look real stressed out, and yue Lung says,
37:20
Speaker 1: make these boys leave right away. Sing's like, who are you? Sings,
37:25
Speaker 1: meeting all sorts of cool people today, Ue Lung says,
37:28
Speaker 1: I'm Lee yue Lung, the youngest brother of Lee Wang Lung.
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Speaker 1: Sing is surprised and he thinks the Lee clan. There's
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Speaker 1: another explosion. Everybody looks over. Sing says, to see plan
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Speaker 1: to die with Shorter's body, and Lao is like, body,
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Speaker 1: you mean he really is dead. Sing kind of exhales,
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Speaker 1: I guess he didn't mean to say that out loud,
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Speaker 1: and yue Lung says, Ash isn't not sentimental, besides, he
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Speaker 1: is something else he needs to settle at this point,
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Speaker 1: we hear a helicopter and we look up and there
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Speaker 1: is a helicopter, and ue Lung says, will you come
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Speaker 1: with me?
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Speaker 2: Sing?
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Speaker 1: Or do you wish to be executed here with your friends? Sing?
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Speaker 2: Gulps.
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Speaker 1: Now we're in the helicopter and uey Lung says, why'd
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Speaker 1: you do this? And in the background, the ending theme
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Speaker 1: starts up. He continues, if my brothers hear about it,
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Speaker 1: you'll be in big trouble. It sings like I've had
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Speaker 1: enough of those old guys. Execute me or whatever the
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Speaker 1: rules can eat my shit. Yue Lung's like, you're quite feisty.
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Speaker 1: Shorter showed his respect you. Now it sings like, and
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Speaker 1: I respect Shorter, which is why I held back all
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Speaker 1: this time. Ue Lung says, I see, so how was
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Speaker 1: the lynx?
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Speaker 2: Sing?
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Speaker 1: Looks away and he says he's a man eating tiger.
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Speaker 1: His pretty face makes him even scarier. He didn't even
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Speaker 1: see me as an enemy. I hate to admit it,
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Speaker 1: but he's too good. Yue Lung says, you can accept
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Speaker 1: your loss. Maybe you're not as bad as you seem.
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Speaker 1: There's no disgrace in losing to him. Now her tiger
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Speaker 1: is the most dangerous beast on earth and sings like,
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Speaker 1: do you know why killed Shorter? Ue Lung says, I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you someday, tell him now, but for now, I'll
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Speaker 1: tell my brothers that you saved me and they'll let
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Speaker 1: you off the hook. Sings like having mercy on me.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: Yuelung looks through binoculars now and he's like, huh, seems
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Speaker 1: he made it out. Look, that's his car. We see
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Speaker 1: the red sports car driving on highway or wherever it is,
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Speaker 1: and Uelung continues, it's the car. Goals he got Ash
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Speaker 1: on his sixteenth birthday, headed straight from Manhattan. Of course,
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Speaker 1: that's his home ground. Congratulation on making it back to
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Speaker 1: the Major League's Ash. Then we see the title card
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Speaker 1: episode ten Babylon Revisited and that's it. Yay, I guess
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Speaker 1: we did it, okay. Closing thoughts, So, first thing is
39:44
Speaker 1: first kind of weird to have you a Lung be
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Speaker 1: the person who tells us that that car was Ash's car.
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Speaker 1: It's a sixteenth birthday present. But somebody had to do
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Speaker 1: it because they cut out a scene a little bit
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Speaker 1: earlier where we found that out. Also in the manga,
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Speaker 1: I think he has like a roll voice or something.
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Speaker 1: It's not like a really cool sports car, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. I I'm just gonna tell you this
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Speaker 1: because I don't know when it's said in the anime
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Speaker 1: if it is, but Ash did not accept that car.
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Speaker 2: But whatever.
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Speaker 1: Also super weird that Goldine is just gifting him with cars,
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Speaker 1: but obviously things are weird, so it's not like it's
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Speaker 1: a new interesting fact. Other than that, there's like not
40:26
Speaker 1: a lot to go over in this episode. It's mostly action.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's out of the mansion, so that's really really good
40:35
Speaker 1: because it was getting scary there for a little while.
40:37
Speaker 1: I'm glad that Ag is okay. Ash is clearly not okay,
40:42
Speaker 1: but I don't know that he's ever okay, so it's
40:47
Speaker 1: just kind of power for the course. But this has
40:49
Speaker 1: been really hard on him, and I think that the
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Speaker 1: care that Akemi Yoshida took in presenting how distraught Ash
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Speaker 1: is over the loss of Shorter in the last episode,
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Speaker 1: this episode and going forward is really really well done.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Sometimes we lose characters and shows
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Speaker 1: and it's almost like their death isn't felt for very
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Speaker 1: long or any time at all. I'm looking at you
41:15
Speaker 1: jujitsu kais in so it's nice that we see that
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Speaker 1: this character hasn't of an impact that his death was traumatic. Yay,
41:24
Speaker 1: good stuff. I think we are also beginning to see
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Speaker 1: that there is absolutely something going on between Ash and
41:30
Speaker 1: ag though it still seems pretty minor. But the way
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Speaker 1: that Alex reacted when he was like, don't take your
41:37
Speaker 1: eyes off him until I get back was pretty indicative
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Speaker 1: of this is really strange behavior for Ash. So of
41:44
Speaker 1: all this time, you've been like, Michelle, it's kind of
41:46
Speaker 1: weird that you're placing some sort of weird romantic intention
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Speaker 1: on these characters and we really haven't seen anything like that.
41:53
Speaker 1: Are you just one of those hopeless fujoshi that just
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Speaker 1: wants to ship any male characters together. I am not.
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Speaker 1: This is actually happening, and we'll see that going forward.
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Speaker 1: I am so excited for you to watch episode eleven
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Speaker 1: and to talk about it because it is absolutely my
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Speaker 1: favorite episode of the first Core. It's great in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I actually don't have much else to talk
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Speaker 1: about about this episode, but I did want to talk
42:21
Speaker 1: about something that I'm wondering if you have a question
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Speaker 1: about if you are not someone who is familiar with Shojo,
42:30
Speaker 1: and that might be that's especially recently, but throughout the
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Speaker 1: anime so far and definitely going forward, characters point out
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Speaker 1: that Ash is beautiful, Right, So let's talk about the
42:42
Speaker 1: be shown in trope because we fucking need to. So
42:45
Speaker 1: it's very common to have be shown in characters in Shojo.
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Speaker 1: It's less common in the male demographics, but it's been increasing.
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Speaker 1: So what's a be shown in character? I'll be shown
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Speaker 1: in character is a male character, usually under twenty years old,
43:03
Speaker 1: because if they're older than that, there's a different term
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Speaker 1: who is androgynists or has feminine traits? Be shown in
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Speaker 1: literally means beautiful boy, so there you go. Their appearance
43:15
Speaker 1: in behavior is often used to explore sexuality and gender norms,
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Speaker 1: and originally this was only in Shojo and Boys Love
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Speaker 1: kind of through the early nineties, but then it kind
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Speaker 1: of crossed into like a default style for teenage boys
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Speaker 1: with like cross gender appeal in Shojo is very very common.
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Speaker 1: It's almost the default to have in universe comments about
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Speaker 1: this character's looks. So you're hearing, for example, sing at
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Speaker 1: the end say that Ash was beautiful. That's something that's
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Speaker 1: pretty normal to hear about to be shown in character.
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Speaker 1: But if you're not used to watching Shojo and this
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Speaker 1: particular demographic, this might stand out to you and feel strange.
43:57
Speaker 1: And I understand that I had it pointed out to
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Speaker 1: me by someone and I was like, for real, and
44:04
Speaker 1: then I realized that it's like not in all anime.
44:08
Speaker 1: So that's why I am talking to you about it. Now.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're thinking, what about ue Lung? Does he fit
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Speaker 1: to be shown in trope? No, yue Lung is a
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Speaker 1: different kind of character. He's I guess he's an Otoko
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Speaker 1: Noco character, which if we were using English tropes, he
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Speaker 1: would fit. The dude looks like a lady trope. He
44:27
Speaker 1: looks like a woman. He is mistaken for a woman
44:29
Speaker 1: in he cross dresses. So yes, now you know that
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Speaker 1: for some reason, and that's also common in Shojo, and
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Speaker 1: less so in male demographics, at least according to my brain. Anyway,
44:43
Speaker 1: if you want some examples of be shown in characters
44:47
Speaker 1: from Shojo, some good examples would be Yun from Yona
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Speaker 1: of the Dawn, who always talks about how pretty he is,
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Speaker 1: by the way, or how handsome he is.
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Speaker 2: I love Yun.
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Speaker 1: He's great and then Yuki so much from Fruits Basket,
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Speaker 1: who I think has a female fan club, and they're
45:04
Speaker 1: always talking about how beautiful he is. Outside of Shojo,
45:07
Speaker 1: some good examples are Ginchy from Apothecary Diaries, Hissoka from
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Speaker 1: Hunter Hunter, and of course Gojo from Jiujitsu Kaizen. So
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Speaker 1: now you know about.
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Speaker 2: Be shown in trope.
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Speaker 1: So this trope fits ash pretty well. We've already had
45:23
Speaker 1: characters talk about how beautiful he is. He is more androgynous,
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Speaker 1: especially in the manga in the mid part he's super
45:32
Speaker 1: androgynost looking, but also just in the anime, there's just
45:35
Speaker 1: something about him that doesn't look stereotypically male, even though
45:39
Speaker 1: he looks like a male character. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Nice to have a be shown in main character in
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Speaker 1: my opinion. Also, I didn't need anyone to tell me
45:48
Speaker 1: that he was good looking. I think he's beautiful, and
45:52
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't say that, but I did, and
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Speaker 1: now I have to live with it. I give up.
45:58
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go now and I'm going to rethink my life.
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Speaker 1: So I hope you have a really good whatever and
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Speaker 1: that you're not like me, because something is clearly wrong
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Speaker 1: with me. I will see you next time if you
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Speaker 1: can stomach me again later weeves