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Given Ep. 4- Fluorescent Adolescent · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person. I guess Michelle or something. I'm
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  Speaker 1: back and I just had an MRI. Yay small spaces Now,
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  Speaker 1: I actually do like small spaces. I don't like, however,
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  Speaker 1: not being able to move it all because then my
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  Speaker 1: body says, you need to move. I'm gonna move regardless
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  Speaker 1: of if you let me or not. Luckily I didn't move,
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  Speaker 1: but I did panic about it, so that's good. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's going on with me. Actually, something else is
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  Speaker 1: going on with me too, and it directly relates into this.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to just talk about it for a second.
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  Speaker 1: And that is I got some like really bad news
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  Speaker 1: about like a family member, and I'm not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: into it because it's not something I'm gonna go into. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but they told me some stuff and then I reacted,
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  Speaker 1: And then when I got off the phone with them,
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  Speaker 1: I went, wow, I didn't react good enough, Like I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I underreacted. And I thought directly of this
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  Speaker 1: and me saying that the way that you have emotions
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  Speaker 1: is fine and you know stuff, so like, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not good at taking my own advice basically, but it
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  Speaker 1: almost made me feel better that I told you that.
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  Speaker 1: So then I could feel like that too, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: my emotions and shit are valid. But anyway, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I tend to not react to things, big things. I
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  Speaker 1: have like a delayed response most of the time. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that is. Is it part of
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  Speaker 1: me like fawning? Like is it my brain goes it
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  Speaker 1: would be better if you waited to have feelings about this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, or am I fucked up? No, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: because I already said that that's not the case, and
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  Speaker 1: you're okay however you're relating to things. But hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's stop talking about this now because now I feel
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  Speaker 1: real weird. So we are going to talk about given
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  Speaker 1: episode four. But before we do that, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: just shout out a staff person I know. In the
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  Speaker 1: last episode, I said that a lot of that episode
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  Speaker 1: was anime original, and I still think it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but even more of this episode is anime original, Like
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  Speaker 1: the whole second half and I'll tell you when we
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  Speaker 1: get there is all anime original. So at this point
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  Speaker 1: it's like almost its own story, so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: being done pretty good. So I just wanted to point
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  Speaker 1: out that the series compositor was Unico Ayana, So she
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  Speaker 1: did series composition for Bachman Flip Flappers and a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other things, and also some script writing for certain
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Pothecary Diaries. So she she knows her shit,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's pretty obvious because of how well
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  Speaker 1: all of the new content flows with the old content.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know how much of these were her
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  Speaker 1: ideas versus the director's ideas. It was probably a combination.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they did a really good job integrating
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  Speaker 1: material to kind of flesh out this story that is
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  Speaker 1: not that fleshed out actually, So yeah, I have mixed
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  Speaker 1: feelings about this, not because I think they did a
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  Speaker 1: bad job, just because this is a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't in the manga that makes me feel like
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  Speaker 1: the manga doesn't feel very complete. But anyway, yes, let
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  Speaker 1: us move on and just do this. So episode four
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  Speaker 1: is called Fluorescent Adolescent, and that is the title of
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  Speaker 1: an Arctic Monkeys song. It's from their second album, Favorite
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  Speaker 1: Worst Nightmare, which was released in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those songs that like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: despite like that I know Arctic Monkeys, like they're not
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  Speaker 1: my favorite, so I don't listen to their like album
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  Speaker 1: tracks or anything. And we do know that Arctic Monkeys
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  Speaker 1: are kind of part of this universe. Well you know,
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  Speaker 1: Yamba was listening to the Artistic Monkeys I think in
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  Speaker 1: episode one or something. So yeah, But this song and
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  Speaker 1: this titled I don't think work for this episode, like
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  Speaker 1: get all actually, first of all, Fluorescent Adolescent. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know what that has to do with anything or
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  Speaker 1: what it would really mean, you know, in the context
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  Speaker 1: of the episode. But the song itself is about I guess,
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  Speaker 1: getting older and realizing that things aren't as good as
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  Speaker 1: they used to be, but specifically being a woman getting
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  Speaker 1: older and realizing that sex isn't as good as it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. So I don't know how this relates
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  Speaker 1: this episode at all, Like at all. I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: whoever named the episode was just like, I really would
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  Speaker 1: like this song to play during it. I think it
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  Speaker 1: would be super fucking cool, and that's why they named it.
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  Speaker 1: I really, like, really really don't know. And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: do and you're listening to me and you're like, but Michelle,
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  Speaker 1: this and this and this happened in the episode. It's
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same as an older woman realizing she's just
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  Speaker 1: going through the motions of sex. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Guys, there's no sex in this episode. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it because man, I'm stressed out. So if
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  Speaker 1: you remember from the end of the last episode, Mafuyu
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  Speaker 1: has just told Ouyno Yama that he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: in the band. Ouinoyama like goes right home and he
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  Speaker 1: like gets to work on the guitar, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: know on what, but he does. Yeah, so we don't
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  Speaker 1: start there. We start with an exterior staircase of an
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  Speaker 1: apartment building and it's nighttime. Oh yeah, we actually start
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  Speaker 1: exactly there. Sorry. We see like a sign outside of
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  Speaker 1: an apartment that says two three Ouayno Yama because that's
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  Speaker 1: his family name, and we hear Yayoi say Red Scott.
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  Speaker 1: We're hearing kind of like guitar in the background, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like a little bit of it. And we see a
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  Speaker 1: clock it's seven twenty four. And then we see an
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  Speaker 1: amp that is plugged in and on, and we see
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  Speaker 1: Ouyinoyama's head. He's wearing headphones, and we're kind of hearing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of guitar in the background. It's not
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  Speaker 1: super loud. It's actually like really muted proudly because he's
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  Speaker 1: using his headphones, and we hear Yayoi say ritska, hey, dumbass.
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  Speaker 1: She sounds like she's far off. He is just strumming
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  Speaker 1: away and shit, and they kind of flashed his hand
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  Speaker 1: and I swear it looks like he's not holding a pick.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there, especially because then
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  Speaker 1: he puts his pick that he wasn't holding in his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: which is I mean, something you would do. And he
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  Speaker 1: starts to write something in like one of the notebooks
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  Speaker 1: in front of him on the floor. Again, we hear
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  Speaker 1: Yayoi and she says, hey, are you listening. He sets
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  Speaker 1: down a pen and he starts to play again, and
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  Speaker 1: at this point Yayoi opens the door. She's just wearing
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  Speaker 1: like a pink bra and pants, and she's like rid
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  Speaker 1: Scott dinner. But then she makes like us a prize noise,
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  Speaker 1: and Uinoyama's like, oh, we see that. He has, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everything like notebooks played out and crumpled up paper all
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  Speaker 1: over the floor and he takes off his headphones and
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  Speaker 1: he's like what yeah, you always like don't what me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: We know, Yama says food. Yeah, you always like what
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  Speaker 1: the hell is all this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I know?
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  Speaker 1: Yama says, what the hell are you wearing? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell Kaji Son. Yeah, you always like what do you want?
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  Speaker 1: Food or not? Ua Yama says, I'll be right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yayoi exhales, and she looks real fucking pissed because, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would be two. She's been calling him and calling him,
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  Speaker 1: and then he makes a comment on her clothing, which
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  Speaker 1: is just a bra, which is a little weird, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: they're in their house. She starts to close the door,
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  Speaker 1: and then she stops and looks back at him, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like writing something in notebook, and he starts to
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  Speaker 1: play again, and she seems surprised, and then we go
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  Speaker 1: the opening theme. Yay. We see that college campus that
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  Speaker 1: were our last time, I think, and there's like people
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  Speaker 1: walking near that big wooden deck place that I just
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  Speaker 1: in the last episode poorly. Oh my god, is that
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  Speaker 1: a tile drop? Almost anyway on that wooden deck, people
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  Speaker 1: are hanging out on those benches that wrap around the trees.
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  Speaker 1: Then we see somebody running on a track, and then
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  Speaker 1: we see feet in high heel sandals walking and it's Yayoi,
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  Speaker 1: and we hear someone say, hey, look, there are these
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  Speaker 1: two guys on a balcony or probably a roof of
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  Speaker 1: a building, but I'm not sure because we don't really
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  Speaker 1: have a good enough shot for me to tell. And
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  Speaker 1: they are looking down at her because obviously she's not
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  Speaker 1: on the roof, and Hodokey is there too, and he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of off behind them, smoking, and the second guy says, hmmm, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the amateur model.
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  Speaker 2: Check.
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  Speaker 1: The first guy's like, yeah, she's our college's pageant queen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay Hodoki looks over, and then we cut to Yeyoi,
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  Speaker 1: who is walking super fucking confidently, hair blowing in the breeze.
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  Speaker 1: She looks fucking awesome, and the second guy says, I
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  Speaker 1: bet she's hard to approach. The first guy's like, I'd
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  Speaker 1: say she's more the pretty type than the que type.
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  Speaker 1: The second guy says, yeah, I get that. Yoyoi stops
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  Speaker 1: walking suddenly and then smiles very excitedly and then starts
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  Speaker 1: to like fix her hair real quick. The first guy says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what's this. The second guy's like, she's messing with her
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  Speaker 1: hair now, yeah, we saw it. Yeyoi then just runs
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  Speaker 1: and she says, Akihiko, Yeah, that's what I thought. How
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  Speaker 1: do he kind of gasps and looks a little sick
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  Speaker 1: as he watches her run over to you know where
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  Speaker 1: Kaji is just talking to some guy. The second guy's like, huh,
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  Speaker 1: so she can be cute. Now that Yeyoi has got
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  Speaker 1: over to Kaji, they start to walk away from the
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  Speaker 1: other guy, and how do Ki looks exasperated? The first
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  Speaker 1: guy says, well, look at her. The second guy's like,
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  Speaker 1: can't judge a book byites cover? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: How do?
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  Speaker 1: He kind of starts to get like faint, looking like
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  Speaker 1: he's wobbly, and he looks really comically distressed, and the
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  Speaker 1: first guy notices and he's like, huh are you listening?
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  Speaker 1: Second guy says, what's up, dude? Your face? We now
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  Speaker 1: see a street or sidewalk lamp pole, and Yayoi and
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  Speaker 1: Kaji are at his motorcycle by the bike racks. Yayoi's like, hey, Akihiko,
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  Speaker 1: are you guys planning on playing another gig or something?
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Kaji's like hmm why. Yeyui says, Mitsuka's working really hard
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  Speaker 1: on something. Kaji says he is, Yeahoa's like yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: thinks about him sitting on the floor and working, which
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  Speaker 1: we just saw like a minute ago, and continues he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even eat. He just keeps messing with his guitar.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's up to, but he's locked
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  Speaker 1: seriously into it. Kaji looks off to the side and
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: he's like, huh. Yayoi says, it's like he went back
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  Speaker 1: to how he used to be. Oh Kaji's silence. YUOI says,
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  Speaker 1: my point is, if you're actually playing a show, send
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  Speaker 1: me an invite. Kaji says sure. We see the two
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  Speaker 1: ten classroom sign is slumped over on his desk like
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  Speaker 1: his head is down on it, and we hear a
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  Speaker 1: voice say oueyo Yama. There are two dudes wearing like
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  Speaker 1: jim clothes standing in the doorway of the classroom. One
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  Speaker 1: of them is Iachi his friend, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: is some guy with blonde hair. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: he is. That other guy says he's dead. Itachi says,
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  Speaker 1: Wuo Yama, your favorite part of the day is here lunchtime.
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  Speaker 1: That girl that we don't have a name for yet
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  Speaker 1: walks over and is like, I'll wake him up. She
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  Speaker 1: starts to walk towards Ueino Yama and she's like, oo,
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  Speaker 1: Yama kuhn, it's lunchtime. She starts like poking him, just
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  Speaker 1: like very lightly, like in the head or the back
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  Speaker 1: of the neck or something, and we hear Itachi say,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Iachi. I wonder if Casasan likes Ueno
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  Speaker 1: Yama after all. The other guy's like huh, Itachi says what,
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  Speaker 1: and we realize that mafo you has just walked up
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, uh is uino Yama kun here. Atachi
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  Speaker 1: points and is like, I think Casai san's trying to
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  Speaker 1: snatch him up. As we speak, okay, the girl, whose
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  Speaker 1: name is obviously kas is still poking him, and it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Mafuu stares at the scene for a second, and then
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  Speaker 1: he's like, we know Yama kun. We know. Ayama stirs
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  Speaker 1: and then abruptly stands, kind of startling Kasai, who is
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  Speaker 1: right next to him, and Atachi's like, oh, he's awake,
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  Speaker 1: and they start to walk away. Guess that means he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play guitar today. Guy Too's like, let's ask someone
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  Speaker 1: from class nine to play with us. We know. Yama
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  Speaker 1: now walks over and pats Mafuu's head, and then they
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  Speaker 1: both turn to leave the classroom, and we hear a
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  Speaker 1: voice in the hall, one of those guys or a
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  Speaker 1: different guy say, we know Yama, you're playing guitar today,
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  Speaker 1: and here we know Yama say yep, and the guy's
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  Speaker 1: like tomorrow and we know Yama's like, I'll play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Kasai is still standing in the classroom looking at the door,
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  Speaker 1: and this girl with like short black hair walks over
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  Speaker 1: and is like, looks like Sato kun stole ouey know
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  Speaker 1: Yama kun from you. She looks over Kasai and kasai
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  Speaker 1: eyes are wide and she is smiling somehow, but her
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  Speaker 1: fist is cleansed and shaking. She is not happy. She pissed,
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  Speaker 1: and the black haired girl's like, casis on your face.
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  Speaker 1: Now we see the stairwell windows. We see those a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and we hear Uinoyama say, Mafu, you you got some
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  Speaker 1: time this weekend. We hear a guitar being tuned, but
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  Speaker 1: we're just getting still shots of the stairwell. Okay. Mafuu
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  Speaker 1: is like, I have to work in the evenings. Ouyama says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: wanna go look at some effect pedals soon, Mafou looks up,
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  Speaker 1: maybe from tuning, but we can't see his guitar, so
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell, and he says effect pedals, ou know.
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  Speaker 1: Yama's like, it depends what kind you get, but most
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  Speaker 1: of them are little machines around this size. And he's
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  Speaker 1: like holding up his hands to show about how big
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  Speaker 1: an effect pedal is, which is not very big, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe like the size of half of a foot, like
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  Speaker 1: your foot, not not like a foot on a ruler.
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  Speaker 1: And then we go to a yellow screen and his
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  Speaker 1: guitar pops onto it, and he continues, basically, it adds
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  Speaker 1: sound effects to your guitar. A pedal pops onto the
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  Speaker 1: screen with a cable connected between it and the guitar,
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  Speaker 1: and then an amp pops up with a cable connected
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  Speaker 1: to the pedal, and then we see like lightning bolts
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  Speaker 1: and shit coming out of the amp like it's on
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  Speaker 1: and sound is coming out, and like the effect pedal
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  Speaker 1: changes colors for some reason, and Uino Yama continues, you
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  Speaker 1: make it sound distorted like bomb, or you make an
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  Speaker 1: echo like bomb bomb. Yeah, that's what that sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: Then you connect it to the amp and you can
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  Speaker 1: actually hear it. It's true. We flash to a still
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  Speaker 1: shot of the bottom half of a stack amp in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. O. Yama says, you know what an amp
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  Speaker 1: is now right offul use, like those speaker looking things
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  Speaker 1: that are all over the studio. Oh we know, Yama says, yeah, those,
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  Speaker 1: But the thing with effect pedals is that there are
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  Speaker 1: so many different kinds. Mafou's like, yeah, we're only seeing
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: the tops of their heads during this part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Ou know, Yama continues, that also means that the price
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  Speaker 1: range is pretty big. You get me. Mafou shakes his
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  Speaker 1: head and is like, that sounds difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yama kind of almost chuckles and says, I'm sure it does.
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  Speaker 1: You got any money. Mafou shakes his head, not much,
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  Speaker 1: we know. Yama's like, I figured I'll let you borrow
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  Speaker 1: a mind for a while so you can try it out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean. We cut to him no pupils, looking terrifying,
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  Speaker 1: smiling evillly. If you're gonna join the band, I need
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: to whip you into shape. I won't go easy on
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you anymore. He chuckles evily. Mafoo, you gasps. Now we
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  Speaker 1: go to O you know Yama playing a melody conveniently,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: we just have shots of the stairwell and mafu you,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: so we don't have to show his hands while he's
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  Speaker 1: playing guitar, not even one of them. And there's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a percussive element when he's strumming this that I
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  Speaker 1: thought was really weird because I can't obviously see what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing, so I don't know what's happening because it's
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  Speaker 1: not a normal thing that happens when you play the guitar,
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  Speaker 1: so I can only assume that, like, maybe he's wearing
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  Speaker 1: a watch and it's like hitting into the guitar when
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  Speaker 1: he strums. Huh, let me see if I can make
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  Speaker 1: that happen so you can hear what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, Okay, I think I got it, so hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you can hear this. It's like this. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: you heard that. I was really trying to play quietly
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  Speaker 1: and enunciate the sound of my watch hitting like the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: bridge of my guitar. I mean, I guess he could
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  Speaker 1: also be like tapping his feet or something, but it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't sound like that to me because it sounded
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  Speaker 1: like exactly as he was strumming. So it's either that
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  Speaker 1: or I have no idea. Guys anyway, after a while,
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  Speaker 1: I'm off of you, says say Owino Yama. Kuhn ou
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  Speaker 1: Enayama's like, huh, he stops playing, what spit it out?
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  Speaker 1: Come on? Mafo You takes a breath and then turns
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  Speaker 1: to look at him and sighs, and he thinks of
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  Speaker 1: Kasai San trying to wake him up, and he sighs
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  Speaker 1: again and looks away. Oua Yama says, h okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: just tell me when you feel like it. Mafo You
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  Speaker 1: takes a breath and is silent for a second and
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  Speaker 1: then says, oo Yama kun, you've been working on something lately, right,
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  Speaker 1: we know? Yama's like, huh, oh I have. I'm writing
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a song for you. Actually what? Mafu You gasps me too,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and then he gets stars in his eyes and he's like,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a song, really, that's that's a big deal. We know.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yama says, the song in your head I figured I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: might be able to turn it into an actual song
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: is one. But still, Mafu You's like, you remember it?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Wina Yama says, huh, of course, I do. I pretty
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: two times now he starts to sing it, which by
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the way. There's no words to it. It's just like
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: la la la basically, and he plays along with it
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: as he sings, and this is just a really quick
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: segment and he stops and he's like, right, of course, again,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: they do not show him playing guitar because he really
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: really do not want to, and Mafu You gasps and
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: stars are like sparkles start coming out of him, and know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yama seems a little bit freaked out about this reaction,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and Mafu You's like, that's so cool. We we know. Yama's like,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: oh uh, I've just been filling in the missing parts myself.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Mafu You's like, I want to hear it, and then
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the scene fades out. Now we see in exterior studio shots,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: which honestly we see so fucking often that and the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: classroom sign shots they really like repeating these. We see
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the door to studio one from the hall and then
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: we hear Mafo You say, Kaji son ha doki son,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I look forward to working further with you, he vows.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Kaji's like, sure, glad to have you. Dook He's like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad everything worked out. Mafu You seem confused. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: assume he doesn't know about how stressed Unoyama was when
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to join the band, and uino Yama
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: like kind of grumbles. Now we see how to be
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: plugging a cable into an amp and to MafA You,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: he says, you're just gonna be playing guitar, right. Unoyama's like, nope,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he's gonna do guitar and vocals. He's like, what you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: can sing, Mafo You. Mafou looks to Uo Yama and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: uino Yama nods at him. Mafo You nods back, but
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: looks kind of concerned, and Mafo You takes a deep breath,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and then we just cut to the exterior, like a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: still shot of the exterior, and then like a still
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: frame of the hallway, and we just have some background
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: music playing, you know, from like the soundtrack background music,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and then we cut back to the room with Mafou singing,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: but we don't hear it. It's just under the background
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: music for some reason. And we see that it's six
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: thirty in case you were wondering, and he's like singing
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and like we're just not hearing any of It's this's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: so fucking weird. And Kaji and Hodokei look very impressed.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I think Hodoki like puts his hand over his mouth.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I am not impressed. I can't hear any of this.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why this is here. This whole thing
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: takes from about eight minutes and twenty seven seconds into
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: about eight minutes and fifty two seconds in so like
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: twenty five seconds of just weird background music and him singing,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but we can't hear him. Seriously, Now we have the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: same background music, still no sounds except for that, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: we see like five pedals in a case, and then
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a still frame of Ouiinoyama pointing to one of them
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: as Mafulu and Hodikey look on at it, and then
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a still frame of everybody standing with their instruments and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Ouiinoyama pointing at Mafuu and saying something. We can't hear it, obviously,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and then a still frame of Hotigie showing maful you
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: something on a piece of paper that we also can't see,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and then a still frame of mafuy with his guitar
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and Kaji's telling him something maybe but I don't know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and then a still frame of Uino Yama and Una
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: yam is telling him something, and then I still frame
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: this is a getting weirder of them all at a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: vending machine, like standing in front of a vending machine,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and how do he is pointing to some soda in
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the vending machine and telling mafuy something about it? What
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is happening? And then a still frame of them getting
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: ready to leave because it's the end of the practice.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So that whole I guess it was a montage lasted
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: from eight minutes and twenty seven seconds into the episode
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to nine minutes and twenty seven seconds in fifty three
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: seconds of just nothing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I was so annoyed. Guys, why why was this here?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I get it like they were practicing. That was not
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: helpful to me at all. I didn't learn anything except
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that we need to teach Mafo you about something in
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the soda machine.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that this is a really good example
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: of how padded this anime is. It was like, what
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: do we put here? We have to put something anything? Yeah, yeah, okay,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: moving on. I'm just really I was not happy, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I also just think it's weird to like not have
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Mafo you sing. I get it, he only knows one
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: song and the song just say is like la la la.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: But I would almost just prefer not to have that
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in there at all. You know, Kaji already heard it
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: because he was, you know, spying on them accidentally, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we can just pretend that had Kei heard it, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it's just not in there. I don't know, it's just
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it was gonna stop. We see an exterior shot, a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: still shot of course, of a building at night, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: someone says, I think it's Hauki because we can't see them. Okay,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: then let's celebrate Mafu you joining the band. We see
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: guitars in cases, and then two hands holding up glasses
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of some sort of beverage. One of them I think
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: was soda and the other one was water or something
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that's clear, and we hear how do Ki say kanfai
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: which means cheers. We see that it is Hadoki and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Kaji that have their glasses raised, and they're at that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: restaurant that we saw a couple episodes ago, and we
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: know Yama's like uh kanbi, Kaji says kanby and WU
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: know Yama raises his glass and clinks both of theirs
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and Kaji and how do Ki say yay Kaji? And
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Hadaki raise their glasses towards Mafuu. He gasps and they smile,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and Mafuu raises up his drink and clinks them and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: they both say yay, which was really cute. Mafu You
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: blushes very slightly and takes a sip. How do Ki's like, but, man,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Mafu you, you always seem kind of out of it,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: so I wondered if you really saying but you really
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: got some pipes on you? It startled me. Kaji's like,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: for real, how do he continues? It's sounds like you've
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: actually been a vocalist before, right, Oinoyama's like nope. In fact,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm still not sure if he understands the first thing
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: about bands yet. I don't even know what the first
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: thing about bands would be. Mafu You looks slightly annoyed,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and he says, I at least understand the first thing,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: kind of. Kaji's like, kinda, what's the first thing?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: How do he?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: He's like, but it seems like you got hidden potential,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: so with a little practice, I bet you could kill it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: What kind of music do you usually listen to? Mafou
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: looks down and doesn't say anything. O I know Yama
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: glances over at him kind of annoyed as he drinks
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a maful. You finally says, what do you listen to?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Ouo Yama? Kun oh?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I know?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yama spits his drink out like back into the cup,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: so not like a big spit take, and he's like,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: huh you're asking me? Uh like u K rock? Mafoo
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You says uk We know Yama is like rock from England.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I listened to Japanese music too, though, Haki says, when
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: are you Alma's playlist? Throw some really sophisticated songs, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes Kaji's like influenced by your dad's taste. Huh oo.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yama says, well, something like that. Mafu You is just
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: kind of taking this all in ha. Doki says, as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for me, Kaiji cuts him off. You're into a lot
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of poppy, cutesy music. How do he He's like cute,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: He clears his throat. Well, out of the three of us,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I probably do listen to the most Japanese rock, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I do like pop too, Kaji Soun's got the broadest
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: taste of all of us. He'll go to a metal
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: festival one day and a classical concert. The next Kaji's like, well,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I am a music major. Mafu You says a music major.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Oo Yama like makes the thumbs up and says he
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: plays violin. Isn't that awesome? Kaji's like, why are you
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: bragging about me? Haki says he's a total Aki Eko fanboy.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Mafu You says, so you all have different music tastes.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: How do He's like, but I think we get along
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: so well because our tastes are so different. Kaji says,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: when it comes to our musical direction, he holds out
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: like his hand to ouaiino Oyama like he's got a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: microphone in it, and we pan over to Ouainoyama and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: he says, whatever I do what I want. He looks
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: pretty edgy. We pan back to Kaji and Haddoki, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Kaji says, is our basic attitude. We didn't go into
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: this thinking we had to understand each other. Hadoki nods.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: In fact, when I've played in bands where we're all
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the same interests, we ended up arguing and it never
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: worked out. We clash because we like the same things. Honestly, guys,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a thing or not, but whatever,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Kaji's like, I totally get it. Yeah, I don't know
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: if I do, it always ends in bloodshed. How Dock
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He's like, uh, yeah, no, one usually bleeds. We cut
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to a set of double doors with a sign that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: says open in the window of them, and into a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: fairly empty cafe. How do Key is behind the counter,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: like you know, facing the wall, like maybe cleaning something
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: or who knows what, and he hears a door open,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: like the little bell on the door rings, and he
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: looks up and he's like welcome, and his face like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: kind of falls And I don't think it's that he
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: is unhappy to see this person. It's just that he
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: realized he didn't have to put on a fake, polite
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: smile anyway. He says, take Chan yay, it's my favorite character.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Takes like yo. He's like standing in the doorway. We
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: cut to him drinking a beer, specifically his throat as
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he drinks it, and he sets it down and he's like, man,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that's good. How he's like exhausted lately, which I thought
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was a really weird thing to say there, But he
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: obviously knows something that I don't because takes like, hell, yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I am I never knew planning shows on my own
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: would be this rough. It's terrible, guys. He sets his
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: head down on the counter. I never want to do
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this again. Yeah, how doke? He laughs? Didn't you say
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that before? Take kind of chuckles and he's like, how
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: are things with you? How's the band? During this part,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: we're just looking at his beer on the counter and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: some olives that's next to it. How do he? He's like, well,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: we actually just got a vocalist. We see Take takes
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: some olives out of the little bowl with chopsticks. How
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do he continues? I get this, He's a high schooler.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Takei's like, yeah, how do he continues? Having a vocalist
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: is refreshing and Uiinoyama is super pumped, so things are
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: going well. Take's like, hey, you want to perform at
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the show? I'm organizing, man, how do Kei is silent
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: for a second, and then he looks up at him
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: like confused, and he's like what, Yeah, this doesn't actually happen.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: In the manga, it is nighttime now and we see
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the still image of Uyoyama's apartment complex, the exterior of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it that they do a lot, and we see uyin
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Oyama in his room, leaning against this bed, playing guitar
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: with his headphones on, and he's like about to write something,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but then he stops and he thinks about the interaction
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: between Mafuu and Kiadaki, you know, when he came up
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to him and he was like, why do you have
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that guitar? And shit. Instead of writing anything, he puts
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his pen down and he takes a breath. His phone
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: starts to buzz and it is twenty thirty two, which
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: is I guess eight thirty two pm. He takes it
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: off the bed to look at it, and we see
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a text conversation between him and I assume Mafoo doesn't
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: say his name at all, but his little picture icon
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: is a white, fluffy puppy, so I'm thinking that's him.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So anyway, we see the conversation Uno Yama had started
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and it says can you come to shibu Yeah. At
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: twenty one, Mafu you responded, I can. At twenty oh six,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Wuino Yama said see you tomorrow in front of the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: ticket gate at one pm at twenty eight and what
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Mafu you had just said is see you. Then at
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty two, Wuino yam exhales and smiles because that's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: really sweet, and then he types something back and sets
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: his phone down on the floor. He starts to play again,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and we cut to what he texted back, and it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: just yep, which I could read yay, and it said umu,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: which apparently means yep. Then it gets a little red
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: next to it, so we know that's awful. You reddit's yay.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go the eye catch awesome. Now we see
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: like big city buildings. It's daytime and it is partly sunny,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: which is a little different than partly cloudy because there's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: more clouds than there is sun. If it's partly sunny,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I believe, but it's still a blue sky like always.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Now we see a sign that says Ino Kashira line
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: should be a station. Oh. Nayama is standing like with
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a column behind him in the station. He's looking kind
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of stressed out. It's scary when you meet people, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: he thinks where is he? Uh? He looks down at
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: his phone and he sees a text from Afulu but
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think is new and it says I'm almost there.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: We can't see the full time, but it was at
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: twelve something, which they're supposed to meet at one, so
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Ouinoyama thinks, almost here. He looks at
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the clock and it's one o three. Isn't it past time?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I mean I get it. I like to be early too,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: but you gotta give him at least five minutes. He continues,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: maybe he's almost there, doesn't actually mean almost here. He
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: looks down at his phone again. There's a new text
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: from Mafu. You now, and it says where are you? Actually,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it just says dolko, which I liked, which means where.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oinoyama says hmm, and he looks around. He types right
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: outside the ticket gate? Where are you? Mafuu messages back
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: right outside the ticket gate? Oh? Uin Oyama looks around again,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: getting annoyed, and he kind of sighs, and then he
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: realizes I'm Mafu is calling him, and he picks it
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: up and he's like, MafA you, where the hell are you.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Mafu's like the ticket gate. Ouinayama says, huh. He looks
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: around again, and Mafui's like, where are you you? Uino
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Yama says, I told you by the central ticket gate. Ugh,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: we see a sign now, that says, you know, Kishira Line,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Shubu station west gate, there's more than one gate. People,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: they fucked up. We pan down to mafou who is
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: looking at his phone, and we hear Uina Yama say,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: there you are. He's like panting. Mafuyu looks up and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: we see him running over and Uino Yama finally gets
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: there and he puts his hands on his knees and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: he's like panting, trying to catch his breath, and he's like,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: my fault. I should have picked a more precise spot.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be more specific next time. Mafu you knots Oa
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yama's like, you did bring your guitar? I see good, okay,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: let's go. He points in a direction and they start
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to walk off. Now we see a carved like dog
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: statue outside somewhere, and Mafuju's looking at it, and we
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: get some shots of Shiba. I guess the city, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Mafuyu is just kind of looking around, and we hear
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Uyeno Oyama say, there are tons of places in Shiba
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: here that sell instruments, but if we're going to look
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: for effect pedals, we should go here first. Uno Yama
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: is walking down a set of stairs to like a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: basement shop, and there are signs that say Umiba Forest
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Guitars and also ground in Forest. I don't know which
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: shop this is, and so for a second I thought
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: maybe Umiba Mint Ground, but it doesn't. It means beach,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: so I have no idea. Maybe it's two branches of
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the shop. I don't understand. Mafuu watches him walk down
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the stairs, then also starts to walk down as well,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and the sliding doors at the bottom open, and Uyeno
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yama walks in. Mafuu gasps because it's a music store.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I guess it's like a room. It's not that cool
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: of a music store. I'm sorry, this guitar shop or
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's just not that cool. It's like
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: one room. It's got a tile floor. It has like
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: lots of amps on one wall, and then like a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: whole wall with like a big case of petals. Mafo
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: You kind of gasps again because it's a place. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: then we cut to them standing in front of the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: case of many pedals, and Mafu You's like, are these
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: all effect pedals? We know? Yama's like yeah, Mafo You
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: points to a yellow one and he's like, even that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: one we know, Ayama says yeah. Mafou points to another
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: one that too we know. Yama says yeah, Mafo. You
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: kneels down to look at some other pedals by the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: floor and gasps again, what's the best effect pedal we know?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yama says, hmmm, well, for your first one, you should
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: probably get a distortion pedal. Mafo, you says distortion we know.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yama's like, since you just started playing and you probably
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: don't know what kind of sound you want. He's walking
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: somewhere and Muffoo's following him, getting a multi effect pedal.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Right now, we just hurt your wallet. They kneel down
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in front of another area and wuya Yama picks up
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a blue pedal. I guess these cases aren't locked, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: he says, I think this is a pretty good choice.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: The blue pedal has three knobs on it, a level
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: tone and gay knob, and then like also a button
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that you press and it doesn't have any brand on
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: it or say what it is at all, which is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: weird and Mafi's like, it's cute, sure, we know, y'amas like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I guess it kind of is want to give it
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a try. MafA You says, huh, we can try it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: We know, ya amost like if we don't try it out,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: we won't know what it sounds like. He stands and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: he starts to walk away, and he's like, excuse me, Mafo.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You hears some muted guitar off to the side, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he looks over and there's some guy playing guitar in
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a practice room like our you know, a room that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you test things out in. I don't know what that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: called right now, but the guy is facing away, he's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: like facing the other wall, so we can't see him
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: playing guitar because we don't want to show people playing
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: guitar in this episode. Then we see some people looking
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: at amps and we see some soundboards, you know, just
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: we're just getting a feel of this place. Like Mafuu
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: is just kind of staring at all this and he's like,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I guess they're all in bands. Now. We cut to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the pedal all plugged in. Mafou is sitting on a
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: stool with his guitar. Uino Yama is kneeling in front
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of like a Fender AM and he's like, go ahead,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: play a little. Mafoo nods and plays a chord. I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: am not gonna play for you here because I don't
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: have a pedal, so you can't hear what would sound like.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And it actually makes me kind of sad, but whatever,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Uinoyama says, that's how your guitar sounds without any effects,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and then he presses the button on the pedal and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: he nods and goes hmm. Mafuu nods back and strums
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and this time it sounds really crunchy, like distorted, but
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that's not the right term. But still he gasps and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: he starts to blush a little, and Unoyama's like, that's
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: what overdrive sounds like. Wait, I thought we were doing distortion.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Mafuu is like, awesome, Unayama says, is that the one
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you want? Mafuu nods yeah. Okay, before we go any further,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: let's talk about this cause it's pissing me off. So
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: overdrive and distortion are two different things. They both give
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you that like crunchy guitar sound, which basically it's based
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: on like clipping, like you're clipping the top and bottom frequencies,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: so it just sounds distorted, but technically they're not the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: same thing. I'm not super good at electric guitar shit.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: But to the best of my knowledge, overdrive is basically
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: emulating a real natural occurrence. Where so, if you have
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: like a two bamp, like I guess I wanna call
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it like an analog gamp, but I don't think that's right,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and you turn it up all all the way, it
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: just sounds kind of not good. And by not good,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like clipped and fucked up a little.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: But that's also cool. When you're playing like you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: harder rock or metal or punk, that kind of distorted,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: crungy sound is really well liked. So you can get
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: that by turning it knob up all the way and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: you know, giving yourself and everyone around you hearing damage.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Or you can get a pedal and make it sound
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: like that without that step, So that's what that's for.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: But it's supposed to sound like this natural effect that happens.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Distortion is not natural at all. It's just kind of
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: its own thing. It has like more frequencies in it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about distortion. I'm just gonna tell
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you that they're two different things. So I don't understand
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: what happened here, But overdrive is good, So picking up
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: an overdrive pedal is good. Also. I just wanted to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: explain a little bit about pedals that they didn't say.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So it's called a pedal because you use it with
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: your foot. Basically, some of them have buttons on them,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and you press the button when you want to turn
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: it on, and then when you don't want it on anymore,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you turn it off. And some of them have like
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: literal petals like a car pedal, which I like those
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: better because they're fun. But basically the reason you'd have
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: them in like a pedal form is that way you
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: can easily turn the effects on and off because maybe
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a part of the song doesn't have an effect on
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: it and then the part of it does, or you're
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you're adding lots of effects to an area, you know.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: So that's what I wanted to tell you. I don't know.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Let's move on anyway. We now see a price sticker
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: that I believe is on the pedal, and it says
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: twelve l's and yen pre tax, which is seventy six
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: dollars and thirty nine cents, which is very expensive. I mean,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, MAFUU looks kind of comically distressed, and
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Ouyinoyama is like, I guess new ones do cost about
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that much. Let's go, eh, I mean you could get
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: one for cheaper. Absolutely, I looked them up. You could
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: get a pedal for like thirty bucks. But I'm sure
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: they're not great, but you could anyway. Ouinnoyama continues, let's go,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and he starts to walk away. Mafuu follows with his
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: head down because I guess it's way too expensive so
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: we can't buy it. And we see them walk out
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and Winna Yama turns left. Mafou stops and is like,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: uh oua yamaku in the station's this way. He points
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: to the right waya Ayama stops walking and turns back
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and is like, we're going this way. He starts to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: walk again. Mafo you looks surprised, but he follows, and
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: then we cut to a building exterior shot. It's like
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: a great tiled building, sure, and Mafo you looks concerned
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: for some reason. I guess as ouiino Yama walks to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the entrance and Wuya Yama says, Mafo, you don't worry.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I come here all the time. I don't know why
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: this shop is scary, guys. Mafo. You just blinks and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: we see a sign and it says Little Tech Repair
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and Maintenance established in twenty sixteen. Music and repair shop. Again,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: not scary, I don't understand. Inside we get some still
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: shots of guitars, lots of packs of different types of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: strings and guitar picks. This is a more interesting music
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: shop in my opinion. Mafau looks around and he's like
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: music store. You were just at a music store. I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, you know. Yama's like, yeah,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: for used instruments, there you go. Mafu's like you can
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: get secondhand instruments. Ouayama says, if you try it out
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and it sounds okay, who cares. They have a decent
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: selection here. Mafu. You picks up a drumstick and looks
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: at it because there's like a whole display with like
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: lots of drumsticks. I guess, and Uino Yama says that
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: stuff's new though, yeah, I don't think you'd want old drumsticks.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: They probably are all beaten up or broken in half. Mafu.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: You puts down the drumstick and some guy approaches from
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: behind them and he's like barely inframeed like we can
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: only see part of the back of him, and I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: think he has black hair, and he says, welcome, anything
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you're looking for. They turn and Yama's like, hey, do
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you have a blue overdrive pedal? It doesn't have a brand,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: it's just the blue kind. What the fuck, dude. We
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: hear the guy say, oh, give me a second, and
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: we hear him walk away. He knows what flew over
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: drive pedal means. We pop into a frame with the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: same pedal but looks a little bit grungy, and Mafuju's like,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that's it. Winoyama is like, how much is it? We
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: see now that they're at the counter, and the guy
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: who we still really can't see, says seven thousand yen
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: plus tax, which is forty four dollars and fifty seven cents.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: That's not so bad. Wuinoyama is like, seven thousand yen.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Mafo you takes out his wallet and Uinoyama says, you
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: have enough. We kind of see in Mafuy's wallet and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: it looks like maybe he has three thousand yen, but
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: we're really not getting a good shot of it. So
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: it was weird. But Uinoyama's expression makes me think that no,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have enough. Mafu's like, uh, do you have
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: layaway plans? Lena Yama makes like a surprize noise, like
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: you didn't expect him to ask this or he didn't
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: know that was possible. Mafo, you continues, I'll work some
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: more and come back. The guy who we still can't see, says,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: could you write down your name and contact info here?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Then Mafu's like sure. The guy looks over at Uino. Yah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: we finally see him. Actually, I thought he was just
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: not gonna have a character design. Ever, he's got black hair,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: black glasses, and he's wearing a blue shirt with like
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: what kind of looks like an American flag on it
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: sort of, and he's like friend of yours. Oyama's like, uh, yeah,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: we're in a band together. Mafou turns to Uinoyama smiling
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and like leaning in and blushing, and Uinoyama is like,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: what we see some buildings outside now, and it's sunset,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: which is a time of the day. We have really
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: not seen that much in this show yet, if at all.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So yay and Uinoyama and Mafu, you are walking up
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the steps of what I think is a pedestrian overpass,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. And they get to the top
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: and so they're just walking now normally, and Uno Yama says,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I'm glad they had the one you wanted. Yeah, the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: blue one, I guess. Mafu You's like, yeah, he's quiet
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: for a second. I've never been anywhere like that, like
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: a store, Dudeoyama just kind of looks at him. Mafu
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: You continues, thank you for taking me. Wuino Yama is like, sure,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: we see now that Kasai and that short black haired
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: girl are crossing like another pedestrian crossing a little ways away.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: And again we're kind of far away, so we don't
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: really know which one of them is talking. But one
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of them says, that was so fun. How about a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: little break? The other one says okay. At this point,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Uino Yama and mafu You kind of pass by on
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the closer bridge, like right in front of the camera,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and the dark haired girl looks over and is like oh.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Kasai also looks over and says hmm. They both see
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: them now, and the dark haired girl, I think says
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it's Uino Yamasato kun. We've kind of cut back to
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the guys now as Uino Yama is pulling Sato to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the side so he's out of the way of someone
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: who's just walking in the other direction, just kind of cute.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Kasai's like, why are they always together? The black haired
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Girl's like what, Kasa looks comically distressed. She's got blue
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: wiggly lines emanating from her, and she's like they're all
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: over each other day after day. Her hands are kind
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: of like moving and wiggling because she's so frustrated. Why
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: are they hanging out outside of school too? Why are
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they daty or something? I wanted to point out here
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: that she has already asked if we know Yama is gay,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: like twice in the manga, but they've been cut out
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: of the anime anyway. The black haired girl is like, uh.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Kasai says huh. Black haired girl says oh uh. Casai's like,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: what do you know something? Black haired Girl's like, well,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I uh, I went to the same middle school Assatokon,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and well, uh, we got a shot now of Mafuyu
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and way no Yama walking, and then we get this
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: weird old kind of like camera film shots of the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: back of Mafuyu and someone who has their arm around him,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: like their arm around his back, and the black haired
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: girl continues there were rumors about him, what kind of rumors?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: The film kind of glitches, and then we go to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: the title card number zero four Fluorescent Adolescents, and then
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: we go to the ending yay, and that's it. Closing thoughts.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I was supposed to tell you when we switched to
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: All Anime original and I forgot, so let me see
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, I think it was around the time
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: that Hodoki was in the cafe with take So it's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: been like a lot of the episode in the manga
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, I have no idea
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: how the show even got set up in the manga,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Like you just find out that they have a show,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: and there's none of this Mafuu going with Unoyama to
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: look at effects pedals and Shibuya or the whole thing
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: like waiting at the wrong station entrance gag, which wasn't
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: really funny but it is okay, so like yeah, and
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: that part with Kasai and the other girl where the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: other girl's like, hey, I went to middle school with Mafoyo.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: That is in there, but it's not part of the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: scene that it's in here, like they're in school when
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: that happens, and it happens a little bit earlier. I
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: think it happens like right after Kasai is trying to
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: wake up way No Yama and he walks out with Mafou.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I think that's when she's like, what the fuck is
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: with them? But yeah, so again, a lot of anime
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: original stuff the last couple of episodes, Like they really
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: really don't want to do animation, and again like this
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: is probably because they don't have the budget to do animation,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: but like there's so many shots where I don't see anything,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: or like you're seeing like someone's leg or like a
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: countertop or like the top of someone's head so you
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: don't have to animate them. It's kind of gotten to
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the point where like it's noticeable, which is not great,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and they're trying to do it creatively, but yeah, it's
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: it's a lot. And also there's so many establishing shots.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: And I mean it's not like I'm not used to
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: seeing establishing shots in like media, but I realized that
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: in this podcast, the anime that we have, you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: looked at, doesn't tend to have a lot of them,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: and if they do, they're not repetitive. Like I feel
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: like Door, Hey, Door could have actually used some more
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: establishing shots so that things weren't so splintered all over
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the place and confusing. And then we have had some
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: that have establishing shots, but like they're so varied because
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: the locations are really varied, or because they always give
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: us different ones. This one, they reuse the same establishing
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: shots like a lot, like noticeably a lot, like the
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: shots of the apartment complexes and the practice space. I
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: just I keep seeing them, and that like the signs,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: like the class so much that it's noticeable, and that's
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: like not great. But yeah, I mean I'm just looking
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: at this and going like they had a really limited
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: budget basically I can see it, which I mean, it
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: is what it is. You can only cover it so much.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: And hey, they still made a show and it's still
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: it's a good show. So I guess, so like yeay,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, so this episode is interesting
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: because like not a lot happens, honestly, like nothing happens,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Like Mafia is gonna be the band, that's it. They
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: got some pedals. I don't know. It's a really Yeah,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: it's a really nothing hey episode. I'm sorry, yeah, but
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: it really is. The Only thing that I think is
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: really of notes is what's going on with Kasai and
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that other girl, which is there were weird rumors about Mafuu.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Is it about him being gay? Is it? What is
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: it about? Is it about the thing with his guitar?
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: And what is Kasai gonna do when she finds out
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: because she is interested in Uaunoyama definitely, even though it's
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: very clear Ueynoyama doesn't even think of her as in anything,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: let alone someone he's interested in. So yeah, I mean
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: that's really all I got, I think. So I hope
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: that this was good enough for you, because I don't know, man,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I'm trying real hard here. I hope that I'm doing
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: an okay job. But uh, I'm gonna go do the thing.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Whatever that thing is. I don't know what it is.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: And I hope that you do the thing too. I mean,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: unless you don't want to do the thing and the
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: thing is bad, that don't do the thing. You have
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: my permission not to do the bad thing regardless. I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: hope you have a really good whatever, and I will
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: be here again the next time that we do this,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: which is probably next week I would assume, right, I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: hope so later weeps