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No. 6, Ep. 1- Drowned Rat · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person? Michelle, I'm back, I guess. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know, but I think I'm back. And I
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  Speaker 1: think you'll probably hear me, but if you can't hear
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  Speaker 1: me because, you know, I'm dead and I'm not actually
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  Speaker 1: recording this, I'm sorry. But at least I'm talking to myself.
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  Speaker 1: And at least death isn't as scary as I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be. Anyway, like I said, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: when I, like, came back and I said it, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about number six today. The anime, number six.
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  Speaker 1: Which is... An anime that unfortunately isn't available anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the US legally. Which I'm really sorry about. I considered
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  Speaker 1: very heavily not doing it because it doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: legal streaming source. But I'm going to do it anyway
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  Speaker 1: because I kind of want to. And I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: you can find it if you look for it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like it doesn't exist on the internet. You just
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  Speaker 1: can't pay for it. So... That's unfortunately what happens when
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  Speaker 1: an anime isn't very popular, and most people don't know
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  Speaker 1: about it. In the West, I believe it was on Funimation, maybe? Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the license runs out and it doesn't get renewed, which
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  Speaker 1: happened to a couple of shows recently. We were lucky
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  Speaker 1: that did get renewed, but looked kind of scary for
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  Speaker 1: a minute, including Banana Fish, which you know about. But also,
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  Speaker 1: 86 had a weird month period or so, or maybe less,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and Hunter x Hunter as well. where
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  Speaker 1: they dropped off of Crunchyroll due to just the licenses
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  Speaker 1: expiring and I guess having to renegotiate contracts or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of times when that happens, the anime
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't come back. It would never happen to Hunter
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  Speaker 1: x Hunter or probably 86. I mean, I think there's
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  Speaker 1: enough crazy rabid 86 fans that 86 will probably be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, Hunter x Hunter, if Crunchyroll didn't want it,
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  Speaker 1: somebody else would. It's a big deal. But yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: something isn't just as well-known... or doesn't appeal to such
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  Speaker 1: a wide audience, it's just not going to stick around
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  Speaker 1: as much. And unfortunately, that is the case with number six,
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  Speaker 1: like I just said. And to be fair, it's not
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  Speaker 1: totally unfounded that this isn't something that, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, I love this, and this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a defining thing in my life, and I
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  Speaker 1: need to have access to it. It's a weird show
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  Speaker 1: that has problems. And I remember watching it for the
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  Speaker 1: first time and being really enamored with it. And then
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  Speaker 1: watching it again maybe two years ago. It was two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And going like, wow, they really fucked this up.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm actually really excited to watch this again and
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  Speaker 1: see if I can reach a middle ground because my
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  Speaker 1: views were so different. And I know that there's things
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  Speaker 1: in here that I find really frustrating. And I really
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about them. Especially in the context of
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  Speaker 1: the author's influences, which I know now. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you about in a minute. And then you'll go, oh, okay. So, yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you enjoy this anime. And that you
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  Speaker 1: get something out of it. And if you don't, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you at least enjoy me talking about it. Which
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  Speaker 1: sounds like that's probably not going to happen. But I'd
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  Speaker 1: still like it to. So, I hope this works out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's only 11 episodes. Which is... It really
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  Speaker 1: should have been more. But that's what we got. So...
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't like it, that's 11 weeks to
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  Speaker 1: put up with and then I'll leave you alone about
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  Speaker 1: it forever or something. So yeah, so let's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of talk about it as an entity and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into it. So number six, the anime is based on,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they're light novels. They're definitely novels. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find anywhere that said light novels specifically, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: actually see if there are pictures in them, because like
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  Speaker 1: the anime, there is no legal way to buy the
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  Speaker 1: novels in English, actually. There's no English translation. I have
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  Speaker 1: been reading it because there's a fan translation, which is really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really good. The translation is, the actual story is pretty
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  Speaker 1: fucking good too so far. So I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the issues I had come from the anime adaptation
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  Speaker 1: and not the source material, but I'm not sure yet
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  Speaker 1: because I'm still in the middle of reading all of
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  Speaker 1: the light novels. Anyway, there are nine volumes of them.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm in like volume five or something right now.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, they were released from 2006 to 2011. And
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  Speaker 1: the author, Atsuko Asano, is actually 71. She didn't publish
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  Speaker 1: her first novel until 1991. So she was in her
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  Speaker 1: 30s is that how time works let's find out 54
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  Speaker 1: 64 74 84 94 yeah she was in her 30s
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of her 30s when she started getting
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  Speaker 1: published which is fucking awesome by the way it's always
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  Speaker 1: nice when you run into a you know an author
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  Speaker 1: that it took a while for them to get going
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  Speaker 1: but anyway she started with like writing children's novels and
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  Speaker 1: she worked as like an elementary school teacher for a
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  Speaker 1: while when she was just out of college that's really
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  Speaker 1: all i know about her But anyway, number six ended
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  Speaker 1: in 2011. And then she also wrote a couple of other,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, light novel series about number six. There's number
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  Speaker 1: six beyond, which is nine volumes. And I guess that
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  Speaker 1: was released in like 2012 or something. Or after that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. And that is mostly about what
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  Speaker 1: happened to the characters before the events of number six,
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  Speaker 1: which I have not read, obviously, because I haven't finished
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  Speaker 1: number six. But I'm kind of excited to. And then
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  Speaker 1: very recently, as in, I think, beginning in 2025, she
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  Speaker 1: started releasing Number 6 Reunion, which is about what happens
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  Speaker 1: after Number 6 Reunion. I think there were two volumes
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  Speaker 1: out so far. And just from random people on the
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  Speaker 1: internet talking, I've heard a little bit about them. And
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  Speaker 1: they kind of make me really excited about the end
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  Speaker 1: of the anime and the story because it gives me
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  Speaker 1: some context into what happens. And when we get there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it because I think it
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  Speaker 1: fixes something that I was frustrated about at the end.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll get there when we get there. Anyway, based
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  Speaker 1: on the Wikipedia article, There are two things that inspired
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  Speaker 1: number six, basically, and they are weird. One of them
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  Speaker 1: is the thing that I was going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about and I said you're going to know in a second.
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  Speaker 1: It was Banana Fish. The manga, obviously, because the anime
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  Speaker 1: was not out yet when she started writing this. She
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  Speaker 1: basically said she was influenced by specifically the action elements,
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  Speaker 1: love between two boys, and the relationship between a country
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  Speaker 1: and an individual character. Okay, I'm not sure I get
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  Speaker 1: that last one, but that's fine. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to say, like, I was reading this Wikipedia page when
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to decide if I was going to
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  Speaker 1: do this or not. And I saw that and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, fuck, I kind of knew that. The first
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  Speaker 1: time I watched number six was maybe, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like 10 years ago or something. When the hell did
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  Speaker 1: it come out? Yeah, maybe 10 years ago. And when
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  Speaker 1: I watched Banana Fish, which was like two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, my God, this reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: number six. And then, of course, immediately I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I guess number six reminds me of banana fish. So
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  Speaker 1: when I saw that that was one of her influences,
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, yeah, I know, actually, because there
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of times where I was like, huh,
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  Speaker 1: that's like this. So I'm going to try not to
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  Speaker 1: be super annoying with the parts where I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a banana fish reference. But I am going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it sometimes because there are areas where
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  Speaker 1: this being influenced by banana fish made me angry. And
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  Speaker 1: it's probably not going to make you angry. And you're
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  Speaker 1: just going to be like, what the fuck, Michelle? But
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it anyway. But moving on
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  Speaker 1: from banana fish, sorry. The other thing she was inspired by,
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  Speaker 1: which is real fucking weird, was the 9-11 attack. terrorist
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  Speaker 1: attacks that took place in 2001. She apparently was watching
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  Speaker 1: the attacks on television and it caused her to ponder
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  Speaker 1: the nature of conflicts between an individual and the state.
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  Speaker 1: And she wrote number six around those themes. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: guess as we go, we'll talk about that and see
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  Speaker 1: if we can understand where she's coming from. Because when
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  Speaker 1: I originally read that, I was like, what the fuck, dude?
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  Speaker 1: So maybe we'll kind of figure that out as we go.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the influences. Banana Fish in September 11th. Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: moving on from that, this, of course, I just said
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  Speaker 1: is based on a light novel, but there is a manga.
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  Speaker 1: The interesting thing about this manga is that it was
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  Speaker 1: being released at the same time as the anime was
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  Speaker 1: being released. The manga was drawn by Hinoki Kino, and
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  Speaker 1: it was also written by Atsuko Asano, which is good
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  Speaker 1: because I don't feel as horrible about the changes in
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  Speaker 1: it because I know that she was okay with them. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of it is stripped out. But
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  Speaker 1: it's still her work. It ran in Aria magazine, which
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  Speaker 1: was a Shoujo slash Jose. It was both manga magazine
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  Speaker 1: from 2011 to 2013. So it picked up right after
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  Speaker 1: the ninth volume was released, I guess, in 2011. It
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  Speaker 1: was released in nine volumes. You can buy those in
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Right now, I believe they've done it so
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  Speaker 1: they've condensed it into three really big volumes. And I
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  Speaker 1: went to like Barnes & Noble yesterday and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the first one and I was really angry. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not anyone's fault except for mine. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how. It doesn't matter. Anyway. So we got that.
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  Speaker 1: And then, like I said, the anime was coming out
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  Speaker 1: in tandem with the manga. I believe the manga started
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  Speaker 1: being released in the beginning of 2011 and the anime
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  Speaker 1: was in the middle of 2011. Yes, it was in
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  Speaker 1: the summer season of 2011. So the 11 episodes ran
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  Speaker 1: from July 8th to September 16th. It was produced by
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  Speaker 1: Studio Bones, which is actually one of my favorite studios.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we've done anything from them. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to think. That wasn't Studio Bones. Maybe we did.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we did like one thing a while back. But, uh,
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  Speaker 1: There was a time, I think, closer to the earlier
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  Speaker 1: part of the 2000s where Studio Bones was just doing
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  Speaker 1: weird shit with anime. Like they were like diverging from
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  Speaker 1: stories a lot. And I was just like, what are
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  Speaker 1: you guys doing over there? So this is kind of
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  Speaker 1: in that time period. Anyway, I think of them as
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  Speaker 1: a high quality studio, but not everything that they put
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  Speaker 1: out is high quality. Anyway, the anime was directed by
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  Speaker 1: Kenji Nagasaki, who actually is the director of My Hero Academia.
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was really interesting. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: And he also did some storyboards and episode directions for
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  Speaker 1: some episodes of Monster, which we obviously haven't watched here
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  Speaker 1: because it's many, many, many episodes. But it is fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, though, that I think both Monster and
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  Speaker 1: especially My Hero Academia have serious pacing issues. And I
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  Speaker 1: think number six does as well. So first I was like, really? Really?
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  Speaker 1: That's weird. And then I thought about it and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, no, he is trouble with pacing, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 1: So moving on from director, series composition was Seishi Minakami.
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  Speaker 1: They did the script and screenplay for Paprika, which is
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  Speaker 1: super cool. And then also the script for certain episodes
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  Speaker 1: of various shows like Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Paranoia Agent,
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  Speaker 1: A Certain Magical Index, and A Certain Scientific Railgun. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen those last two, but Paranoia Agent is what?
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  Speaker 1: And people love Full Metal Alchemist, even though I don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a good show. So cool. As for character designer,
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  Speaker 1: we have Satoshi Ishino, and they are the character designer
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  Speaker 1: from Gachi Akuda, which is really fucking cool. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: this looks like a pretty decent group of individuals working together.
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  Speaker 1: As for the voice actors, I'm willing to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the two main characters' voice actors because they're just talking
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  Speaker 1: all the time and no one else talks that much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do, just not as much. So Nezumi
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  Speaker 1: is voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya, who we have heard several times.
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  Speaker 1: He was Shin and Dorohedoro, yay. And he was also
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  Speaker 1: Arthur in Banana Fish. He's got kind of a range
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  Speaker 1: of mean people and not as mean people who are
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: also kind of mean. That's kind of his thing. He
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  Speaker 1: was also Wolfwood in Trigun, Stargaze, and Stampede, Onigawara Tenga
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  Speaker 1: in Mob Psycho 100, and Tanigaki in Golden Kamui. So
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  Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing. As for Shion, the other
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  Speaker 1: main character, he was voiced by Yuki Kaji. who is
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Clef in the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth remake, which is
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  Speaker 1: actually probably airing right now, even though I'm doing this
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  Speaker 1: like a month ago, so I don't know. But weird.
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  Speaker 1: And then Todoroki in My Hero Academia. And more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: Eren Yegar in Attack on Titan. So these are two
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  Speaker 1: pretty decent voice actors. Oh, and then also 13 in
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  Speaker 1: Dorohedoro and Yukine in Noragami, if you've seen that, which
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  Speaker 1: is very good. So yeah, these are two pretty accomplished
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  Speaker 1: VAs that we're dealing with as the main characters. Aside
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  Speaker 1: from that, I think I got everything that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, except that in addition to being an
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  Speaker 1: anime and a light novel series and manga, it was
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  Speaker 1: also a musical that ran in Tokyo from November 8th
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  Speaker 1: to the 17th in 2024, and in Osaka from November
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  Speaker 1: 22nd to 24th, also in 2024. Yay, musicals, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get to this. Because I am driving myself
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  Speaker 1: crazy already. And unlike last season of the show when
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  Speaker 1: we did Serial Experiments Lane and I was doing about
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  Speaker 1: 14 pages per episode of notes. And I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe something has changed with me and I suddenly know
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  Speaker 1: how to write notes really efficiently. Nope. This first episode
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  Speaker 1: was 23 pages of notes. When I was writing it,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm doing this so early that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like under a time crunch or anything. But I was
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  Speaker 1: writing it and I just kept working on it for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit at a time and going like, why
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  Speaker 1: is this taking me so long? So yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 1: reason I wrote a lot of notes. I'm hoping maybe
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  Speaker 1: I get to write less notes in the next couple episodes.
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  Speaker 1: But I did notice that when I do light novel adaptations,
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  Speaker 1: this is what happens. So whatever. Because people talk a
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  Speaker 1: lot because that's how you do things in prose. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it before I decide that this is a
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  Speaker 1: terrible idea. The first episode of number six... is called
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  Speaker 1: Drowned Rat. Yay! I like rats. We start the episode
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  Speaker 1: with just a black screen, and we're hearing, like, really
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  Speaker 1: labored breathing, and then kind of the sound of, like,
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  Speaker 1: a metal door squeaking open. We get a close-up of
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  Speaker 1: eyes as a person turns to look to the side,
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  Speaker 1: and then they gasp. Things are very dimly lit, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. A laser target is on their forehead from, like,
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  Speaker 1: a gun. Their eyes twitch. We now see men in
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  Speaker 1: suits with sunglasses shoot at what I assume is a
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  Speaker 1: small-ish boy. And we see blood splatter against like a
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  Speaker 1: concrete wall that's got like those control joints and shit.
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  Speaker 1: And this person, who again, I'm pretty sure is like
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  Speaker 1: a young-ish boy, slams back against the wall, clutching their
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  Speaker 1: kind of like shoulder, upper left arm area, which is bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: And because of the dim lighting, really all we can
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  Speaker 1: see is that this person is has like dark shoulder
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  Speaker 1: length hair. Two more shots hit the wall next to him,
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  Speaker 1: just like barely missing him. And he moves out of frame.
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  Speaker 1: And there are two more shots that hit the wall
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  Speaker 1: right after he does. We hear a bunch more gunfire.
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  Speaker 1: We get a wide shot of like a long, dark
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  Speaker 1: tunnel with like lots of arched entryways into it. And
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  Speaker 1: all the entryways are up a little bit. And then
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  Speaker 1: they kind of go down just maybe like a foot
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  Speaker 1: into this main tunnel and And it looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: a sewer. So I hope that it's a sewer. God
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  Speaker 1: damn it. That kid comes out of one of these
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  Speaker 1: arched entryways and he kind of falls over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the small drop down into the main tunnel and
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  Speaker 1: like lands face down in what is absolutely water. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is a sewer. Yay. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that we're starting in a sewer. He gets up and
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  Speaker 1: he starts to run as you do. And like four
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  Speaker 1: guys with sunglasses are like chasing him. It's weird that
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  Speaker 1: they have sunglasses on, but whatever. He runs through the
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  Speaker 1: water and some other guys like meet up with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: So there's like a lot of guys chasing him with
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  Speaker 1: sunglasses on and he's running and we see that he's barefoot,
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  Speaker 1: which sucks. And he probably has tetanus now. And he
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  Speaker 1: is now running towards like a light at the end
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  Speaker 1: of a tunnel as you bite, holding his arm. He stumbles,
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  Speaker 1: but like he doesn't actually fall. He just kind of
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  Speaker 1: trips and then recovers. And we have a close-up of
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  Speaker 1: his face now, and we can see that he has, like,
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  Speaker 1: really dark blue hair and gray eyes. I also want
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  Speaker 1: to point out here that I really, really don't like
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  Speaker 1: the music. It's like a three-note, some sort of string
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  Speaker 1: instrument-based thing that I'm pretty sure is just a synth,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going like dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun. I really don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. I get that this is an intense moment,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't work for me. Sorry, guys. Anyway, he's running.
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  Speaker 1: And then he gasps because up ahead of him is
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  Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel, but it's secured by bars.
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  Speaker 1: Past it is a body of water, but he obviously
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  Speaker 1: can't get there. He grabs these bars and he like
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  Speaker 1: tries to pull them open or something, which is super
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  Speaker 1: weird because it's not a door. It's just bars. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what he thinks he's going to do. Also,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: he's pretty small. He's just kind of frantically pulling on
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the bars for the bit and there's kind of a
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: noticeable animation cycle here, which is a little weird. But anyway,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: he calms down and he just kind of holds them tightly,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: slumps forward against them and clenches his teeth. We cut
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to the exterior of a city for some reason and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the camera pans up on a building as we hear
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: him scream in frustration. It's a pretty good scream. The
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: sky is gray and clouds are moving quickly overhead and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the wind is blowing through the trees. We get a
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: close-up on a boy with brown hair and brown eyes.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: He suddenly looks to the side and we're looking at
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: him from outside like these really large windows where he's
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: sitting in a desk in a classroom, I guess, looking out.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: And the wind is blowing through the trees here too.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And we hear a voice say, the brain is a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: complex system composed of 10 billion nerve cells. A girl
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: with chin-length brown hair wearing a purple... Charlie Brown sweater,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, the kind that Charlie Brown wears. It looks
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: like that. Is standing at like a podium at the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: front of the room. Behind her on a screen is
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: being projected like parts of the brain in like different colors.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And I see like the frontal lobe, temporal lobe. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: can't read what I wrote. Brainstem, cerebellum, and occipital lobe. Sorry, guys.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I can't read my own handwriting. The girl continues. Even
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the thing we usually refer to as the soul can
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be explained. She flips to a new slide that says
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: neurons and their functions. What a fun class. She continues
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: as a simple electrical exchange. governed by a scientific process.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: We are kind of pulling in from behind on that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: boy who's looking out the window. The girl continues. Neurons
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and synapses communicating through neurotransmitters. We see his back and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the tree branches moving out the window in front of him.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And he's just staring at it. totally transfixed we get
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: like a weird maybe cgi movement thing going on with
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the tree branches that honestly looks like ai but remember
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: this came out in 2011 so it's not so i'm
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: assuming it's computer animated but it just there's like a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: very uncanniness to it the girl continues however as was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: proved in the aforementioned experiment with the rat this processes
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: she just kind of fades out The boy gasps. Large, dark,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: cumulonimbus clouds are rolling in over the city, and we
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: see lightning go off in them twice. He stares at
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: them and smiles. We cut to those weird trees again,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and then we have a close-up on his eye as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: his hair starts to blow in the wind, which is
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: weird because he's inside. Leaves pass by him. Okay, we
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: see he is just sitting in the air now, high
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: above the city. I assume just daydreaming. He stands on nothing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: As the clouds roll in over his head, he closes
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: his eyes and smiles and then falls backwards. His hands,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: then arms and legs disintegrate into leaves as he slowly
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: drifts down back towards Earth. We get a close-up of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the girl. Hey, what are you talking about during my presentation?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Everyone looks up, including the kid who was just daydreaming
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and these two really mean-looking boys who were in the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: front row. The two mean looking boys look at each
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: other because obviously they're the ones that were talking. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the first boy says, well, the wind is just so strong.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: We see the city and this weird white domed building
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: that looks like it has like a honeycomb pattern structure
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: over it. The boy continues, we thought the moon drop
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: might even cry. You shouldn't snap over every little thing.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: The girl slams the screen on the podium and it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: like pixelates for a second. And she says, you two
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: should be ashamed. Jeez. That first boy stands and is like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You trying to start something? The second boy smirks. Don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: get all high and mighty just because you've been accepted
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: for the special course. He holds his nose and waves
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: his hand in front of his face. You still wear
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: clothes from like a century ago. The girl gasps. Oh,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: what an insult. All the kids start kind of laughing
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and chattering about this, which is mean, but kids are mean.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: The girl's like, That's what I call trying to start something.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And she just like runs at that second boy and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: starts attacking him, like attacking him. And his chair falls
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: over and she just starts beating him up. And now
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the other boy as well that he was talking to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is trying to help him. So she's just beating the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: shit out of both of them. And the main boy
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: who was daydreaming is like, Safu? And he's just looking
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: pretty freaked out at all of this. At this point,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the door slides open and two adults, a man and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a woman, are there. And the woman says, just what
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: is going on in here? We hear a slap and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the main daydreaming boy winces and looks away. We're just
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: seeing this from his reaction at the moment. And we
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: hear a voice say, get away from him, Saffusan. Let go.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: The boy sighs and opens his eyes and looks pretty
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: stressed and disappointed. Then we go to the opening theme. Yay.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It is called Spell by Llama. And it's pretty decent,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I think. We see, like, a blue sky. We're panning
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: down on, like, a city from above. We see a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: bunch of, like, images of the kid who was daydreaming, like,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: just doing normal life things, like going to school and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: shit like that. And then we cut to him, like, walking.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And he's, like, made up of all the little images
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that we just saw, like, you know. Then we go
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to that first kid from the beginning who was in
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the sewer and we get like lots of shots of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: him as well, like running and looking like really cold
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and being chased and being thrown on the ground and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: with a gun to his head and behind bars and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: looking like really pissed and holding a knife. And I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: love him already. We cut to him walking, also made
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: up of images. And then we see that like honeycomb
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: pattern building shape scene. Then we see them like standing
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: across from each other and all of like the pictures
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that were on top of them blow off of them
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and they look really surprised because the whole thing is weird.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: And they look older, which is stupid that they put
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that here because there's obviously going to be a time skip,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: but we probably should have waited until then to show
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: this opening. So it would be, you know, we would
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: get to see what they look like naturally instead of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: spoiling in the opening, but whatever. Anyway, they're older, they're standing,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you know, several feet apart from each other and there's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: rainbow between them. Yay. That's the opening. Anyway, back from
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the opening, we get a close up of a hand
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in like a pants pocket with like this weird like
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: wrist cuff band on it. And a red laser scans
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the wrist band cuff thing and a yellow light comes
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: on and then it turns blue, which I think is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: probably good. We see a bunch of people standing in
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a large space that I'm pretty sure is a subway
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: terminal or at least some sort of public transportation terminal.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We get a shot of a city. with a river
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: or a canal running through it, and a boat on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the water, and it honks. And then I believe we
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: don't get an actual title card so much as the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: title drifts in, Number 01, Drowned Rat. We see another boat,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and then that girl who was beating up those kids,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: looking out the window in the boat and pouting. That boy,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the one that was daydreaming about being outside in the storm,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: we hear him say, Jeez, you're so much more suited
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: for martial arts than neuroscience. The girl looks up and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: over him. You weren't listening, were you? The boy's like, huh?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: We see that they're seated at like the back row
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of this boat. And the girl is actually facing out
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: like she's kneeling on the seat. So she's looking out
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the back window. And she's like maybe two or three
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: seats from the boy. She says to my presentation. The
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: boy's like, mankind only recognizes itself as such. by the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: conception of self placed upon them by society. In other words,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: we are able to draw a conclusion about the process
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of self-realization that occurs in the brain in terms of,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the girl smiles and blushes a little, and the boy continues,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: whether the individual perceives sovereignty. The girl scooches over and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: plops down in the seat next to him and she
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: smiles and kind of chuckles and like kicks her legs happily.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: She is so cute for someone who was just attacking people.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We get a wide shot outside of the boat. It's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: approaching a large river now going under like a little
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: bridgey thing. And we see a shot of the wrist
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: cuff again. And they are now both standing in a station.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And the girl says, hey, is it today? The boy's like, huh? Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Isn't that why you invited me? The girl's like, no,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I meant the typhoon. I don't know what the other
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: thing was. We see a screen like up on the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: ceiling screen that has Stuff that's not that important, but
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about it anyway. It has
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: departure and arrival times. And we see that it is 1535,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: which is 335 p.m. And there are red letters moving
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: across the bottom that say typhoon approaching. There is a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: flight cancellation depending on the typhoon's path. And then that's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: all I get. The boy says, oh, they said it
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: would be passing through number six today. Now they are
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: walking their bikes up a hill. I didn't even know
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: they had bikes. Maybe they like leave them at the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: station and they pick them up at the end of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the school day. I really don't know how this works.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: But anyway, there are storm clouds overhead and the boy
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is looking up and he's like, man, I'm really excited.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: This is like the best present ever. Jeez. The girl's like,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? They're now at the top
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of a hill and the girl jumps on her bike
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and she's like, come on, let's hurry. She speeds off.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The boy's like, wait. And he starts to follow. Safu! Yay,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: she has a name. The boy is still just boy though.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: They ride down the hill towards a suburban-ish or kind
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of rural area. And we see the exterior of this
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: white kind of modern looking house with gardens and like
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a little stream or canal or something between like paths.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And it is really windy out. And we hear a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: voice say, it's so nice to see you, Shion. Okay,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he has a name now too. This person who is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: an older woman says, you've grown so tall. She is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: sitting in a living room and Shion bows and says,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it's been a while, grandma. Sappu kind of backs over
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and then kneels next to grandma and says, hey, hey, grandma.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Grandma quietly is like, yes, yes, it's finished. Sappu walks
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: back over to Shion holding a present wrapped in white
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: paper with a red bow around it behind her back.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And she holds it out to him and says, Shion,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: happy birthday. Oh, that's the other thing. Shion's like, huh,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: for me? Safu nods. Yeah. He takes the present and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Safu looks back at Ramon, smiles, and we cut to
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Shion's hands holding it up. And it is a light
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: purple Charlie Brown sweater. Yay. Yeah, I don't know, guys.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Safu's like, Hey, do you remember? The first time I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: wore mine to school, you were the only one who
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: complimented me. She smiles. You said you could tell that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I had a really warm personality. Hers is like kind
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of black or like really, really dark purple or something,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: by the way. And the one that Shion has now
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: is light purple. Shion's like, hmm. He looks at the sweater.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Is that really what happened? Saffu pouts. I was thinking
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of giving you the same color, but since it's you,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the flower you were named after is light purple. So
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'll just pause there and say that Shion is the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: name for a type of aster flower. which is that
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: color purple, and it looks kind of like a daisy
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: or something. So now you know. Anyway, Shion's like, yeah,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you very much, Grandma. Grandma says, even
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: after you move into the special course, please continue to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: look after Safu. Shion's like, sure. Safu kind of runs
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: off and she's like, I'll go bake the cake. Shion turns.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'll help too. Safu's like, no, it's fine. She's, like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: putting an apron on in the kitchen. I did all
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the preparation this morning, so all I have to do
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is bake it. We cut to a strawberry shortcake cake
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: with 12 candles on it and, like, a thing on
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: it that says, Happy Birthday, 12! Shion blows out the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: candles and smiles, and Sappu claps kind of slowly and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: rhythmically and looks way, way too happy, and Grandma claps too,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and I just thought this whole thing was weird. Shion blushes,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and then we see them eating at the table and, like, talking.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We fade to white. Everything's good. Yay. We now see
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a close-up of Grandma's hands as she knits something that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: is kind of pink. And she says, Really, I'm so
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: glad you like it. Shion is looking out the window
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and he closes the curtains. And he's like, Huh? Oh, yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: of course. Grandma says, I feel like there's nothing I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: can really do for you. Hmm. Saffu's in the kitchen
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and she's like taking off her apron and she's like, Shion,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: come with me. She starts to run off and then
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: we cut to a dark closet. We hear the door
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: open and the light turns on and Safu runs in.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty big, long closet with clothes hanging and shit.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And she's like, see, isn't this amazing? It's just a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: closet with clothes. I don't think it's amazing. Sorry, Safu.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Shion walks in and looks around and he's like, whoa,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: grandma made all these? Safu's like, yeah. She picks up
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a really boring looking beige jacket and she's like, There
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: are even some from when she was a young lady.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Isn't it great? She looks down at the beige thing.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: That's why I don't have any desire for clothes that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: are made of special fibers. Right, Grandma? Grandma is sitting
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: right outside the closet. So maybe the closet is in
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the living room. I don't know. And she's still knitting
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and she laughs. And she's like, but, you know, I
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: have no idea what to do for you. Shion and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Safu both look maybe a little bit upset about that.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: And Grandma continues. In number six and Kronos living so freely,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: other than gardening and knitting, Tomorrow, the day after, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: just have no idea what to do. Shion looks worried.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: We head to Shion and Safu who are out on
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the front porch, I guess. It's raining, which is important
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: because we're going to have a typhoon. Shion puts up
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: an umbrella and is like, I'll come back and get
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: my bike tomorrow. That's smart. Safu's like, okay, my present
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: for you will end up going to waste. I'm not
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: sure what that means. Shion's like, it's really a present
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: from your grandma, though. Safu says. I have one for
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you as well. Shion's like, what? Safu kisses him on
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the cheek. Gross. That's, I don't know. Shion looks like
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: super confused and is silent for a second. And he's like,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: why are you doing something that my mom does? Safu's like,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: it's different. What I'm doing is a display of my
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: reproductive instinct. Gross. And an action-based expression of it. Yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So I guess assault. Thanks. Gross. We quickly cut to
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a shot of the kid from the sewer running and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: holding his shoulder, just for a second, and then a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: gust of wind blows Shion's umbrella away, like up into
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the sky. I loved this cut. I thought it was
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: really cool, and I'm sure I'm not doing a great
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: job of expressing it. Shion is super happy about losing
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: his umbrella. Yay. Safu doesn't feel the same. We hear
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a horn-ish sound in the distance or somewhere. And their
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: expressions flip because Shion looks not happy anymore. And Safu
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: is like super excited about the sound. And Safu says, wow,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the Moondrop is crying. We see that big honeycomb building
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and we hear the sound again. It's like kind of sound.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: We cut to people on the street as they stop
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: when they hear it. And then like people listening to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: it in kind of a slummier area of the city.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And then a guy in front of an airplane, like
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a baggage handler, takes off his hat and places it
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: over his heart. That was weird. We cut to two
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: people in a field of wheat hearing the sound. Everybody
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: loves this sound, guys. Safu's like, it's been so long
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: since I've heard the moon drop weeping. It certainly seems
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to be more than just a typhoon. Okay. We're just
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: seeing Shion's mouth now and he says, blister. Safu looks
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: over at him. Huh? We see the moon drop again
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and we hear Shion say, It's like a blister formed
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on human skin. What? The building? What? We cut to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that kid leaning against a wall in the rain. He's
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: holding his shoulder and trying to catch his breath. The
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: shot isn't of his entire body or even all of
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: his face. But it appears that he was slumped over
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and then he stands up straight. And we see like
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a wider shot now. He's walking past some very large
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: wind turbines like in a field. We get to trees
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: blowing and it's raining really hard and water is like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: rushing through this canal and it's getting really high. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: then we pan up to this like really nice house
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: on a hill with this multi-terraced water feature coming down
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: like the front lawn. That's super cool. And actually when
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I saw it, I was like, is it always a
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: water feature or is it just a water feature because
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: there's a typhoon? No, it's always a water feature. Anyway. Okay.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: From there, we cut to a large room with a
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: desk in the middle. Shion is standing at this window. Actually,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it's a pair of like these really large sliding glass doors.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And he's looking out as the rain beats against them.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Out on the horizon is the city. And he has
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: like no lights on in the room. So he's just
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: standing there in the dark. He just kind of abruptly
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: opens the sliding doors. And wind whips in the room,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: blowing all the papers off his desk. And he stares
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: out as the wind whips his papers and his hair
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and stuff and just smiles. He steps out onto the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: deck in the rain. He's just wearing socks. He should
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: probably take those off. And he goes to the rail
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and just kind of yells as loud as he can.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Just like, ah, but like really, really loud, like twice. Sure.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I wasn't really sure when I first watched this what's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: going on. I think he's really frustrated. And this was
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just a good time. Like the only time he could
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: think of like he can yell and no one's going
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to hear him. Anyway, as the force of the storm
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: hits him, he stops and he just kind of looks
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: up at the sky for a moment, really kind of
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: delighting in all of this and calming down and an
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: alarm starts to go off. We see a screen on
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: a wall with like a big exclamation point on it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Shion holds his wrist cuff in front of it and
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it disarms. And then there's a chuckle somewhere else in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the room. He turns around slowly and then gasps. Standing
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: in his room near the open sliding doors is that
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: kid still holding his arm. The kid just kind of
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: stands there for a while and Shion is like trying
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to gauge him and then he sees the wound and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he kind of calms down. I guess he was clenching
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: his fists because he unclenches them and he begins to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: lift his hand towards the kid. And we just cut
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to a shot of a floor lamp just hitting the ground.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: And this whole section is a little disjointed, I think
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: on purpose. Anyway, lamp hits the ground. Shion looks over
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and the kid just like rushes at him and squeezes
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: his neck with his bloody hand. He's holding Shion up
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: against the wall now. And he looks up at him
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and says, don't move. Shion had his eyes closed, but
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: he looks at the kid and he says, so you're
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: used to doing things like this? Is that a banana
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: fish reference? Maybe. The kid looks confused and Shion's like,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'll help patch you up. The kid just stares at him.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Shion says, you understand what I mean, right? The kid
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: like half nods and then slowly removes his hand from
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Shion's neck. That screen on the wall starts to kind
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of ring and the kid grabs Shion by the throat again,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: holding him back against the wall. And Shion just kind
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: of like nods at him and he taps the screen
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and says, what is it, mom? We hear his mom say, Shion,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: are your windows opened? And Shion's like, window? Oh, yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: His mom's like, you should close them. You'll catch a cult.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Shion's like, gotcha. He taps something on the screen, which
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is because of the angle
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: of the screen. I can't read what's on it. But
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's probably him closing the window. And then
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: he says, mom, I have a report to do. So
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: can you leave me alone for a while? His mom's like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a report? The special course sure is rough, isn't it?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Shion still has the kid's hands around his throat and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I guess. I have a lot to do,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: so I'll have my dinner later. His mom's like, I see.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Don't push yourself too hard. Shion taps the screen and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: ends the call. The kid slowly releases him. Shion walks
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: past him and the kid gets in like a defensive
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: pose and Shion says, I have to stop the bleeding.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: We head to what I believe is a medical kit
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: with some glowing purple area of it that I don't
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: know what it is. Maybe it's a battery. I don't know.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: And bandages. And I don't know if they're pills or something.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And something is connected to a battery. Everything is just
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: kind of nondescript to me. But maybe that's because I
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: don't have a medical kit like this. Who knows? So
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Shion and the kid are sitting on the floor under
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: a floor lamp, maybe the one that was knocked over earlier.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Shion holds the kid's arm up and like cuts off
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: his sleeve. And the kid says, she said you're in
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the special course. Shion sprays something on the cut and says,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: starting next month. The kid's like, wow, so your IQ
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is really high. Shion puts a pad over the cut
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and the kid winces. Shion says, are you making fun
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of me? The kid's like, of course not. We see
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a wall with like lots and lots of shelves of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: trophies on it. And the kid continues. You were probably
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: able to enter the most prestigious educational institution because you
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: got an A rank on your two-year-old examination. Like you
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: have when you're two? What? To be able to progress
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to the special course at the age of 12? You're
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: among the highest of the elite. Huh. I guess. Shion
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: takes out a syringe and kind of laughs and squeezes
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: it and the kid shrinks back and he's like, hey,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? Shion says, local anesthetic.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: The kid like puts up his hand and he's like,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: wait a sec. Numb me and then what? Shion says. Stitches!
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: The kid's like, stitches? You have experience with that? Shion
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: smiles and is like, of course not. I'm majoring in ecology.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: But I do have basic knowledge of suturing blood vessels. Yay, okay.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: The kid looks worried. Yeah. And he's like, knowledge, huh?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: He sticks out his arm again, but he looks annoyed.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Shion gives him a shot and is like, it'll go
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: numb quickly. He takes out some gauze. Just hold it
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: there with the gauze. He puts it over the cut.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: The kid puts his hand over the gauze and is like,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you're really strange. Shion's like, why? The kid says, you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: didn't even ask me my name. It's true. Shion smiles,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: but I haven't given you mine either. The kid's like,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: it's Shion, right? Like the name of the flower? Shion says,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: when my mom was younger, she used to love wildflowers.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: What about you? Kid says, Nezumi. Shion's like, huh? The
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: kid says, that's my name. Shion looks super confused. And
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: he says, Nezumi? Nezumi just blinks. And Shion's like, it
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: seems a little strange. Nezumi's like, strange? What is? Shion
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: looks away kind of ashamed and is quiet for a second.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, I'll get to the stitching. He
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: takes out a needle. Where did you get this wound?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Nezumi pretty matter-of-factly just says, I was shot. Shion's like,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: buy a gun? Nezumi's like, yeah. He looks away. Shion says,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I thought only the hunting club was allowed to use guns.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: You thought wrong. Nezumi's like, they're pretty much the same,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: only they hunt humans. Shion exhales. What do you mean?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, among humans, there are those who hunt and
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: those who are hunted. At least here in number six.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Shion sighs and looks down. Okay, I'm just going to
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: pause here because... There's a little break here and I
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to say something because you're going to be confused
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: if I don't. So Nezumi means rat or mouse. I
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: am not going to call him rat like the translations
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that I've seen do because I think it's weird to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: translate people's names like that. Like it's like if we
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: called Shion Aster. We didn't do that. So why would
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: we change Nezumi's name? Or it's like if, you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: from Sailor Moon, if we call Usagi Bunny. No. No.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: That's not her name. Her name is Usagi. Just because
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: something has a translation does not mean you call them
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the translation. But I get in this case, it's like
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: we're trying to show that, like, you probably wouldn't name
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: someone rat. So it is weird. But I'm still going
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to call him Nezumi. I just wanted to explain that. Also,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: in Japan, they don't have a separate word for mouse
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and rat, which I thought was super weird. So we
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: don't know if he actually should be called mouse or rat.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: If we're going to translate it. Not that that matters
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: because I'm not translating it. Anyway, let's continue. We get
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: an exterior shot of the house and it is still
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: raining really hard. And we cut to Nezumi who's looking
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: out the window as Shion does something in the background.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: And Shion stands up and turns to him and says,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: you should rest here until the storm calms down. There's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: a sweater on my bed. Go ahead and put it on.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: We see Safu's sweater and like hands picking it up.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Nezumi holds it out and he is on this like
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: weird second floor platform area where Shion's bed is. Shion
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: is pouring what I think is water into a mug
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: below and Nezumi says, you don't have great taste, you
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: know that? Yeah, that's how I feel about that sweater too.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Shion is like, take a look at yourself. He is
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: now walking up the stairs carrying two mugs and he
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: looks up and he gasps slightly. Nezumi is putting the
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: sweater on. He's facing away from Shion, and we see
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's back as he's putting on the sweater, and there's
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a really big scar on it. Nezumi turns and is like,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: what is it? Shion looks away and continues to walk
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: up the stairs, and he hands the mug to Nezumi,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: who's sitting on the bed now, and Nezumi takes a sip,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and he's like, it's good. It's hot chocolate, by the way,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. At least that's what it is in
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the light novels. He drinks some more as Shion stares
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: down at him. He's still standing, kind of perplexed. Then
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: he smiles and also drinks some. Nezumi's like, hey, are
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: you always this way? Shion says, huh? Nezumi's like, are
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: you always this defenseless around everyone? Or are all you
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: blue blood elites this kind heart? You can live without
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: feeling fear or uneasiness. Shion frowns and he's like, that's not.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Nezumi cuts him off. If not, then why? It's a
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: good question. Shion looks annoyed and then he sighs and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: he's like, it's because you're tiny and you look like
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: a girl. You come in here all injured and you
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: still look like you collapse at any second. And he's
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: kind of looking down. Nezumi's like, and? Shion says, I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. Nezumi is kind of surprised by this and
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: then he smiles and he looks down at the mug.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Aww. We cut to a kitchen scene. With
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: marble tiled floors and a table with, like, lots of
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: food on it. And the walls are blue. And the
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: color palette of this kitchen makes, like, no sense. It's, like,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: blue and light green and brownish beige and light salmon? Ugh. Sorry. I, I, no. No.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: We hear a beep or a ringing or something. And
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: a hand presses on that, like, wrist cup thing. And
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: a notification pops out, like expands like a hologram above it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: So the hologram is like this pink rectangle with like
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a circle with a crest in it that has like
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: a moon drop and leaves and the word number six
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: also in it. So I guess it's the number six crest.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And then it goes to a map of the city,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: which is like a circle with a wall around it
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: that says the wall. And we also see there's west, north,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: east and south districts that are outside of the wall.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And a voice says, early this morning near the Lost
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Town area, a pink rectangle pops up over the map
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: in what I assume is Lost Town. The voice continues,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: prisoner VC-103-221 escaped while being transferred to the West Block
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Correctional Facility. We see a hexagon near the northwest area
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: outside the wall that says concentration camp. Yay. And a
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: little moving circle that's inside the wall area. that, like,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: says PTV over it, and it, like, gets crossed out,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and then the word lost in English appears on the screen.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: This is all in English, by the way. Now, the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: hologram is a picture of Nezumi's mugshot. Fuck! But we
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: all knew that was coming. And some useful information about him,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: which I will tell you. His height is 145.3 centimeters,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: which is about 4'9. His weight is 37.1 kilograms, which
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: is about 82 pounds. He's 12. He's a guy. His
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: eye color is gray. And his degree of risk is
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: triple A. I don't know if there's more than that,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: but that sounds pretty bad. We cut back to the map.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: The voice continues. And a designated area has been marked
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: for restricted entry. We cut to a woman looking bored
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and she like presses on the screen. And we hear
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: a voice say, reply acknowledged. The hologram goes away. The
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: woman who has brown hair that's in like a low
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: side ponytail. sighs, and kind of lays back against the
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: couch and closes her eyes. She is in the living
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: room area of the open living space, which has, you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the kitchen connected. And also there's a teal carpet in
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: this space, which is even worse. This color palette just
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: gets weirder. And the door slides open behind her and
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Shion walks in. And the person who is probably his mom,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: because who else, is like, have you finished your report?
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Shion says, no. No, not yet. There is ringing again
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: and his mom stands and is like, there's a message
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: from the security bureau. Be sure to read it and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: reply to it. She walks towards the kitchen. Shion's like, okay.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: He presses his wristband. Screen pops up and Shion looks
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: real freaked out, obviously because he sees Nezumi on it.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: We get a bigger version of the screen now so
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I can actually see more information because it was a
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: little bit blurry when I zoomed in last time. So
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: we see that they've also listed injuries and like defining
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: things from Nezumi. So he has a laceration on his
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: left shoulder that's listed as injury. Then he has a
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: burn on his back, which is a scar we saw
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: that's listed as scar. And then it says blow and
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: it's pointing to his left knee, which is an injury. Ow.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: We hear his mom say, I wonder what he did.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: She's stirring some sort of white soup thing. But he's
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: got a VC chip inside him, so the search system
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: will find him in no time. Fuck. She presses a
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: button on the stove. I think she's turning it off
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: and says, let's have dinner. She looks over at Shion,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: who is still looking at the hologram and is like,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: what's wrong? Shion flinches. Huh? It's nothing. Hey, mom. We
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: cut to Nezumi laying in Shion's bed and the room
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: is dark. We hear the door open and he looks
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: over and he sits up and Shion is coming in
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and he says, don't turn on the light. Shion closes
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the door. I can't see anything in the dark. Nezumi's like,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: you don't have to. Shion is making his way along
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: the wall and Nezumi chuckles. You don't even know your
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: way around your own room? We hear Shion say, sad
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: to tell you, but I'm not nocturnal. You're okay in
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the dark? Nezumi's like, I'm a rat after all. Of
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: course I'm nocturnal. We hear Shion say, VC-103-221. Fuck. Nezumi's
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: face falls. Shion says, It was on the news. You're
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: quite famous, aren't you? Nezumi shifts his position on the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: bed like he's ready to go into fight or flight,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: and he frowns. The real thing's more impressive, isn't it?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: His hands tense. And then we see a tray cut
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: into the frame with cake, soup, and a spoon on it.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Shion's like, I brought you some stew and cherry cake. Oh,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Nezumi just stares slack jawed for a moment. And then
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: he just kind of relaxes back onto the bed. And
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: he says, is this OK? Jian's like, of course. I
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: told mom the report had been giving me trouble, so
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I wanted to eat in my room. Nezumi's face relaxes now, too,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: and he laughs. He reaches for the tray. It smells great.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Jian's like, yeah, my mom's a really good cook. Nezumi
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: is eating some cake now. You're supposed to eat The
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: stew first, before your dessert. And he says, mmm, delicious.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Shion sits down on a bed too now and kind
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: of slumps over and says, will you be able to escape?
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, of course. Shion says, what about the VC chip?
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, it's still inside me. Shion turns. Then Nezumi's like,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it's okay. That toy of a VC chip's been useless
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: for a while now. Shion says, toy? Nezumi, still eating
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: the cake, is like, Actually, you could say that the
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: entirety of number six is a gigantic toy. Hmm. Shion
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: kind of gasps and looks really stressed, like he's being
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: forced to confront something he wasn't thinking he was going
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: to today. Nezumi continues, Do you know how it was made?
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Shion's like, Uh, yeah. We're now seeing some buildings that
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: look like they're underwater, and we're kind of looking up at,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I guess, the water's surface and light is streaming down.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: And we hear Shion say, The Babylon Treaty. In the
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: previous war, after humanity lost more than one-half of all
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: its inhabitable land, all armaments were outlawed. Fuck. We see
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: more buildings that I also think are underwater. He continues.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: And city-states were created to govern the remaining six areas.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: We see the number six logo crest thing. Number six
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: was one of those areas. Nuzumi chuckles, and then he
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: has some stew. Shion's like, what were you arrested for?
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: They said you escaped en route to the correctional facility.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, that's a lie. I was originally at the
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: correctional facility. The security bureau brought me here to number six.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Shion's like, you were brought here? Nezumi's like, exactly. Shion says,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: where were they? They both kind of look over at
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the window and we see a shot of the Moondrop building.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Shion walks over to the railing and looks out at
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the window's We can kind of barely see the moon
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: drop off in the distance. He says, it's a city hall.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: He looks back. Why would they take you to the
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: center of the city? Nezumi's like, it's better you don't know.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Shion's like, but I'm asking you. Nezumi puts the empty
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: tray down on the bed and says, shut up already.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: He lays down and he turns on his side facing
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: away from Shion. Just let me get some sleep. Shion
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: kind of huffs. Can you not tell me? Nezumi's like,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Can you forget something you've been told? Can you pretend
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: you never heard it? Can you put on a clueless
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: face and pretend you don't know anything? You may be smart,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but I don't think you're mature enough to do that yet.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Shion sits down on the bed. Well, Nezumi sits up. Hey.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Shion looks over. Nezumi continues. You get it, right? You're
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: in a ton of danger yourself. Sheltering a VC, not
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: notifying the security bureau. And in the end, you've done
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: all of that. Shion looks away. I get it, okay?
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, then don't ask. For my part, I won't
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: ever speak of it. He's quiet for a second, then
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: he smirks. I'll keep my mouth shut about your screaming
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: as well. Fuck, Shion gasps and blushes so bright that
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: it fucks up the compositing of the scene like it
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't look right. Nezumi stands on the bed and he's like,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: I was blown away. He acts like he's sneaking and
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: he says, I sneak into your garden and I'm thinking,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: what should I do now? Shion crawls on the bed
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: towards him and he's like, stop it. He kind of
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: lunges for him and he misses. Nezumi continues. Then all
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: of a sudden the window flies open and you pop
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: out and Shion's like, stop it. Cut it out. Nezumi
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: runs to the railing and yells. And then he laughs
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: as Shion is bent over on the bed in shame,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: blushing some more, but it doesn't look as messed up here.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Nezumi continues. That was the first time I've ever seen
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: anyone make that face. Shion's like, shut up! He's really,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: really blushing. He lunges at Nezumi, but Nezumi evades, grabs
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: him by the arm, and pushes him against the railing,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: and then he, like, trips him, so Shion falls down
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: onto the bed, like, on his stomach. Nezumi holds him there,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Shion's arm is behind his back, and... Nezumi reaches for
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: like the tray where the spoon is and he kind
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: of like fumbles around for a second to find it,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: which is really cool. He picks it up. He flips
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: it around in his hand and he presses it against
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Shion's neck. He says, if this were a knife, he
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: slides it across Shion's throat and then whispers into his ear,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: you'd be dead in seconds. Oh, Shion's like, amazing. Nezumi
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: kind of bristles. Shion continues. There's a trick to it, right? Jeez, dude.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: How do you render someone's body motionless like this? There's
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: gotta be some nerve that you're applying pressure to. Nezumi
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: looks so confused. He blinks a few times, and then
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: he just starts to laugh. He rolls off of Shion
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and onto his back, but he's still kind of holding
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Shion's wrist that, you know, he had behind his back,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: and he just laughs. Nezumi says... You're messed up. You're
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: really messed up. You're complete natural. And continues to laugh.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Shion laughs too for a second and then he stops abruptly.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: He pulls his wrist away kind of from Nezumi's hand.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: So actually now he's holding Nezumi's hand with his hand.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: And he sits up and he's like, you're really warm.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: He puts his forehead against Nezumi's forehead and says, you've
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: got a fever. I'll bring some antibiotics. No, we don't
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: even know if he has a bacterial infection. Stop that.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's eyes are closed now, and he's like, it's fine.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: I just want to sleep. Shion says, if you sleep
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: with a fever like this, your body will exhaust itself. What?
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, you're pretty warm yourself. He smiles, eyes still closed,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and he tightens his grip on Shion's hand. So living
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: humans are warm. Fuck. Shion stares down at him, a
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: little shocked, like we all are. We fade to black.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: We are now looking up through trees. The sky is
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: bright and there's birdsong. And we cut to that really
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: cool tiered water feature outside the house that now I
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: know is not like a storm issue thing. And then
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: to Shion's room. We see him standing at the sliding doors.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: They're open. We cut to a car tire going places.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: I guess it belongs to a police car. It's slowly
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: driving and then it stops. We see his mom in
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: the kitchen stirring something on the stove. There's a notification sound.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: She picks up a phone and says, Hello? Huh? Shion
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: is standing on the balcony and we hear his mom say,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: The security bureau? Fuck! The breeze picks up and we
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: hear the moondrop cry and we cut to the two mugs.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: And then we go to the ending theme, which is
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Rakutose no Yoru by Eimer, I guess? Which is like,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: we see like two sets of footsteps in the snow
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: and we're like panning up on ruins that are like
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: in a snowscape. And then we see the two main
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: characters older, like doing kid playground stuff. Like they're on
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: a swing set and then they're on a jungle gym
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: and they're doing other things and whatever. And then Nezumi
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: throws a snowball and it drifts through the air and
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Shion catches it, which is a weird thing to do
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: with a snowball. and then he is surrounded by sakura
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: trees and he looks down at his hand and the
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: snowball is gone because it's spring now and then he
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: runs off and that's it and then we go to
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the preview but I'm not going to do the previews
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: for this or anything ever and that's it yay we
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: made it through the episode Give yourself a pat on
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the back because I can't do it for you. I'm
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: proud of you because this took me forever to record.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: So thanks for sticking it out. Closing thoughts. So that
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: was a bunch of things. First of all, before I forget,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Nezumi's voice is super weird. It's way too low for
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: a 12 year old. Like he sounds like an adult man.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, because this is just like the
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: voice that he has the whole time. I don't know
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: why they didn't get someone else to do the voice
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: here or try to get this dude to make a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: higher voice, not sound like an adult person. But yeah,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: way too low, way too low. The whole thing about
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: living humans being warm, we've done that one other time,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I think, in all of the shows that we've watched.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I believe that was in, well, I mean, I know
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: it was in Windbreaker. Pretty sure it was in Windbreaker
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: and not just the manga. Something about like Sakura saying
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: something like that because he just like has no contact
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: with humans you know like it's all violence that he
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: has contact with humans through but uh this one is
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: concerning the living part is concerning to me the part
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: that he is 12 and he said living humans like
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: what what maybe he just lives around dogs or something
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: I hope but uh I'm sure we'll find out more
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: about that so yeah I thought the dynamic between these
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: two characters, Shion and Nezumi, was pretty good. I like
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: that Shion isn't fazed by any of this. He's just
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: excited about everything, including the things that were scary, like
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: being incapacitated onto the bed and then having this dude
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: that you don't really know say if it was a knife,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: he would have killed you. I like that, yeah, that
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: he's like, wow, I'm just learning things and learning things
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: is fun. And I like that it catches Nezumi off
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: guard because obviously Shion is not very normal. So their
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: interactions were fun. I was I didn't say it during
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: the episode, thank God. But the whole thing with Shion
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: treating Nezumi's wounds very much reminded me of episode 11
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: of Banana Fish. In fact, I wonder if Atsuko Asano
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: like read that part of the manga and was like,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I want to do that and I want to do
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: it earlier because this is my favorite part or something
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: like that. But I liked that part. I thought the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: interaction was just really good overall between them. So I'm
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: interested to see how that shapes up, if we can
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: keep these characters, you know, being kind of cute together.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: But regardless, Nezumi is in a lot of trouble, and
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: so is Shion now. Especially if the police are there,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: because that's really bad. I don't think you're supposed to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: harbor violent criminals, which is what the VC stands for,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: by the way. So, yeah. Bad shit. Um... I'm trying
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: to think if there's anything else I really wanted to say.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I kind of don't think so. I kind of feel
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: like I talked for long enough. So, yeah. I think
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty strong first meeting of the two main characters. So, yeah.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you're interested to see where this goes. And I'm
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: going to stop now because I am tired and I'm thirsty.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: And it's really humid outside and rainy and cool. All
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the weird things together or something. So... Anyway, I hope
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: you have a really good whatever. And I assume we're
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: all going to be happy and alive by the time
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: you hear this because it's going to be several weeks
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: after I record this before it's published. So, yeah, hope
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: you're still having a good whatever. And I will see
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: you soonish, I hope. I mean, in like, you know,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: speaking form or whatever. So, yep. Later, weebs.