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Banana Fish Manga- Private Opinion · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your whatever person thing, Michelle. I'm back, and
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Speaker 1: you don't know this, but I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 1: that this is me redoing this entire episode. I recorded
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Speaker 1: it like three days ago, I think, and I even
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Speaker 1: edited the whole thing, and then last night I was like, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't want this to go out to the world.
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Speaker 1: I have to redo this. This is the last kind
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Speaker 1: of new content episode we're doing a banana Fish. This
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Speaker 1: is probably gonna be one more show next week where
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Speaker 1: I talk to my friend Enrique about this show in general,
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Speaker 1: because I'd forced him to watch it, and I figured
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Speaker 1: why not. He probably will say some things that I
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Speaker 1: do not agree with and make me really sad. So
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Speaker 1: it seemed like that might be a nice way to
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Speaker 1: kind of end things on like a really uncomfortable note,
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Speaker 1: because you know, those banana Fish. But like I just said,
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Speaker 1: this is the last show where I'm covering something I
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Speaker 1: haven't talked about before, banana Fish wise, so I kind
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Speaker 1: of wanted it to be and you know, at least
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Speaker 1: minorly insightful, and I just didn't think my last take was.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try really really hard this time, and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a better job probably, and if not,
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Speaker 1: you at least will never know that this wasn't better
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Speaker 1: than the last take, I guess unless I tell you
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Speaker 1: at the end. But yeah, so I guess. Before we continue,
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Speaker 1: I will just say a couple of things about the
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Speaker 1: way things are gonna be going from here out. So
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Speaker 1: we got this today, We got that thing I just
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Speaker 1: told you about next week that I'm taking two weeks off, unless,
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Speaker 1: of course, that doesn't air next week, and that would
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Speaker 1: just mean that we like tried to do a show
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Speaker 1: about it and it was terrible, so I just scrapped it.
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Speaker 1: So regardless, we start eighty six the anime on March thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: and we'll go through at least the first core, and
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Speaker 1: then either we're gonna take a break and cover the
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Speaker 1: summer Hicatu Died, or we're gonna do the second core.
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Speaker 1: I'm still not sure about that yet, but we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be covering it at least the first core of eighty six,
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Speaker 1: and that's not hard to find either. It's at least
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Speaker 1: in the US, available on Crunchy Role. Yep. Okay, So
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Speaker 1: enough about that, I want to do fucking this horrible
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Speaker 1: one shot justice, So let's actually get into it. So
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Speaker 1: before we start, I should say that the one shot
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Speaker 1: you know that we're doing, Private Opinion is not published
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Speaker 1: in English anywhere. You cannot go buy it if you
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Speaker 1: wanted to. I mean, you could buy it in Japanese
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Speaker 1: if you felt like it. It was originally I believe,
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Speaker 1: published separately from the manga, just in its own volume,
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Speaker 1: just called Private Opinion, with it and two other stories afterwards,
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Speaker 1: which we're not going to cover because we just can't
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Speaker 1: keep talking about Banana Fish. As much as I would
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Speaker 1: like it, I don't think it's fair to you. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: it existed in that form, and then I believe at
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Speaker 1: some point it was included as volume twenty of Banana
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Speaker 1: Fish Proper in Japan. So in Japan, Banana Fish currently
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Speaker 1: has twenty volumes. In the US it only has nineteen,
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Speaker 1: which is a little bit frustrating because I like this
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Speaker 1: content and I'd like to be able to find it
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Speaker 1: and own it, not in Japanese. So what this means
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Speaker 1: is I am reading a fan translation of it, and
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Speaker 1: I feel like the person who translated it did like
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Speaker 1: a pretty good job, but it's not as like fun
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Speaker 1: and localized as the rest of the manga and some
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Speaker 1: of the stuff is a little bit formal, or every
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Speaker 1: once in a while there's like something that's slightly mistranslated.
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Speaker 1: I have to kind of fix. Not as bad as
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Speaker 1: the anime by any means, but it's not going to
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Speaker 1: be as easy for me to read as the other
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Speaker 1: two one shots. Were so sorry about that. I have
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Speaker 1: to take a little bit more time thinking about how
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Speaker 1: I'm saying things. Yeah, but it's still pretty good, Still
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Speaker 1: totally worth it. And thank you person who translated it. Also,
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Speaker 1: because there's not an official American release, I can read
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Speaker 1: it on different websites. That's unlike the ones that I
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Speaker 1: kind of had to look at for the last two.
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Speaker 1: It like doesn't have any porn ads or anything. It's
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Speaker 1: just straight banana fish. So I really like that. So
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Speaker 1: thank you. I don't know who I'm supposed to thank there,
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Speaker 1: but whatever. So we're gonna start it, and you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully you're gonna not think I'm insane for you know,
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Speaker 1: doing this one. But yeah, why not just end with
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Speaker 1: a bang? So Private Opinion starts out with a title page, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and it is split into two pictures with the title
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Speaker 1: Private Opinion in English and in kata kana in the middle,
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Speaker 1: and by kata kana, I mean it literally says private
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Speaker 1: opinion in English in Japanese, so I know that's confusing.
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Speaker 1: So the top picture is a picture of Ash facing away,
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Speaker 1: like he has his back towards the camera. His head
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Speaker 1: is kind of turned to the side. He's obviously younger,
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Speaker 1: and he's wearing a hoodie that says Street forty four
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Speaker 1: on it. I don't know what the significance of that is.
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Speaker 1: And there's like no background, it's just him standing kind
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Speaker 1: of to the left of the panel. Below that and
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Speaker 1: below Private Opinion is a panel of Blanca sitting in
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Speaker 1: a car with his like his arm leaning out the window,
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Speaker 1: and he's wearing sunglasses and his face is kind of
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Speaker 1: like half in shadow. I like it. I like this cover.
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Speaker 1: I think it's cool, So let's do it. First page,
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Speaker 1: we see Ash kind of present day Ash from you know,
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Speaker 1: the manga, and he is looking to the side. He's
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Speaker 1: wearing just like a T shirt, and that's really all
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Speaker 1: we can see. We don't see a background or anything,
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Speaker 1: and we get some narration that says, at first, I
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Speaker 1: didn't realize it was him. Now we see that he's
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Speaker 1: standing next to Ag, and I believe this is supposed
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Speaker 1: to be. Remember when they were taking the ferry because
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Speaker 1: they were going to go to Long Island to kind
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Speaker 1: of hide out with everyone, and that didn't end up
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Speaker 1: happening because Blanco was there and it freaked out Ash.
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Speaker 1: That's where we are. They are standing at the rail
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Speaker 1: of the faery talking to each other, and the narration continues. No,
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Speaker 1: that's not the right way to put it, because I
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Speaker 1: did very quickly realize it was him. Sure, he'd grown
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Speaker 1: up and he had a stronger build, but the unmatched
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Speaker 1: beauty and those green eyes of his that never ceased
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Speaker 1: to cast a spell on people were exactly the same
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Speaker 1: as back then. We have a closer shot of Ash.
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Speaker 1: Now he's smiling and looking at Ag, and the narration continues.
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Speaker 1: And yet I couldn't get rid of the feeling that
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Speaker 1: it might as well have been just someone who happened
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Speaker 1: to look similar to him. Why it was because the
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Speaker 1: him I was familiar with had never been a boy
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Speaker 1: of such rich facial expressions. Damn, Now they're laughing because
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Speaker 1: you know they're having a conversation, you know, as they're
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Speaker 1: being watched. So the narration continues rarely smiling, and while beautiful,
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Speaker 1: still shrouded in an armor of stern inexpressiveness. The hymn
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Speaker 1: that had been like a wildcat. I had a hard
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Speaker 1: time acknowledging that the young American in front of my eyes, unarmed,
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Speaker 1: laughing merrily and unconcerned, was him until Ash looks over
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Speaker 1: and his expression falls. The narration continues, in the blink
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Speaker 1: of an eye, he took notice of me being there,
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Speaker 1: and in an instant the expression changed. Yeah, Ash is concerned.
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Speaker 1: He is now looking around trying to figure out where
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Speaker 1: the thread is. We get a closer shot of Ash,
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Speaker 1: and the narration continues. Those green irises of his flared up,
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Speaker 1: and he devoted his full attention to my presence. We
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Speaker 1: got some like lightning coming out of Ash now, which
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Speaker 1: we've seen in angel eyes. So there we go. Narration continues.
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Speaker 1: I became aware of his aura beginning to light up
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Speaker 1: like a fire, and then he took up a stance
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Speaker 1: as though to protect the Asian boy who seemed to
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Speaker 1: be his friend. After this point, is standing in front
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Speaker 1: of AG, and AG's looking at him like what the fuck, dude.
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Speaker 1: Narration continues, that was him, without any doubt. The grown
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Speaker 1: up shape of that wildcat. We see now we're kind
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Speaker 1: of like looking up like through trees, and there's kind
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Speaker 1: of sunlight streaming down, and then we see Dino and Gregory.
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Speaker 1: They are in a kind of wooded area. I assume
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Speaker 1: this is at Dino's kind of mansion area in New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: and they're looking over at someone off camera or out
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Speaker 1: of the panel that is, and Dino says well, someone
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Speaker 1: says ah, hello, and the narration goes. At first it
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Speaker 1: was my intention to decline. We see that the person
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Speaker 1: they are staring at is Blanca. Blanca says long time.
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Speaker 1: Oh see, they're like standing now by like some pond
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Speaker 1: or something and like a little wooden bridge area and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And Dino says one year ago, right, Blanca says yes.
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Speaker 1: Dino's like, thank you for your help back then. Blanca says, uh,
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Speaker 1: it was my pleasure. Do you know who is holding
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Speaker 1: a cigar by the way, says, I assume you came
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Speaker 1: here to refuse my offer. Blanc is like, I'm afraid
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Speaker 1: you ask too much for me, even more so considering
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Speaker 1: that he's only fourteen years old. Oh okay, Ash is fourteen,
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Speaker 1: So this puts us the furthest back on the timeline
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Speaker 1: that we've had a lot of information about, Like obviously
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Speaker 1: we know about Ash when he was eight and when
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Speaker 1: he was eleven, but this is the first time we've
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Speaker 1: had like an entire chapter type thing of information this
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Speaker 1: far back. Anyway, Golsing says, Oh, but am I right
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Speaker 1: to say that you started training at even an earlier
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Speaker 1: age Blanca. Blanca doesn't look pleased, and he starts to
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Speaker 1: say like that that is Golsing kind of cuts him off.
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Speaker 1: In any case, let me introduce you to him in
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Speaker 1: person afterwards we can talk. They are starting to walk
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Speaker 1: somewhere and all of a sudden, this random dude just
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Speaker 1: like busts out of the trees or bushes or something,
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Speaker 1: and he looks real fucking stressed. He has glasses on,
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Speaker 1: and he's wearing like a suit, and he's got like
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Speaker 1: light colored hair. I don't know. He looks like he's
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Speaker 1: maybe in his thirties, I don't know, doesn't matter. He
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Speaker 1: honestly seemed like he was just running for his life
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Speaker 1: or something, and he just realizes he popped out right
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Speaker 1: in front of Goalzeane and everyone, and he's kind of
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Speaker 1: freaked out. Golesine is just like you, yeah, you are,
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Speaker 1: And Gregory says the math teacher we employed last week.
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Speaker 1: The guy looks stressed. He's just not getting less stressed.
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Speaker 1: And he says it it wasn't me, it was him
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Speaker 1: who came on to me. Please, you have to believe me.
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Speaker 1: I certainly didn't. And he puts his hands over his
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Speaker 1: face and he's like, oh my god, how could it
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Speaker 1: come to this. He's freaking out, and fucking blanc is confused,
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Speaker 1: and Golzine probably knows what's going on, but I think
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Speaker 1: maybe we all do so now. Unfortunately, we continue on
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Speaker 1: and now we see like a gazebo, really nice gazebo.
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Speaker 1: There's some rose bushes and stuff like that that was
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Speaker 1: really pretty here, but honestly, New Jersey is really pretty
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Speaker 1: sorry it is. Anyway, they get to this gazebo, like
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Speaker 1: they're not in the gazebo yet. Golden's like, Ash, are
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Speaker 1: you there? We at this point see in the gazebo
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Speaker 1: where you know, Ash is laying on kind of one
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Speaker 1: of those benches that goes around the outside of a gazebo.
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Speaker 1: You know, he is, you know, exactly what you'd expect, right,
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Speaker 1: he is laying down. He's on some pillows kind of
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Speaker 1: and he also has his like pants around his ankles
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Speaker 1: and his shirt is kind of like pulled up. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if he's asleep or what the deal is,
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Speaker 1: but obviously this isn't good, like by any stretch of
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Speaker 1: the imagination, based on what we just heard that dude say. So,
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Speaker 1: Blanca looks like freaked out because that is the natural response,
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Speaker 1: and he starts to walk over and he says, hey, hey, you,
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Speaker 1: are you all right? He starts to reach his hand out,
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Speaker 1: maybe to kind of like rouse Ash or something or
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Speaker 1: check on him, and Ash opens his eyes and says,
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Speaker 1: don't touch me. Blanc is surprised. Ash sits up. His
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Speaker 1: pants are still down, and we see that his shirt
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Speaker 1: is also like torn, and he looks pissed. Blanca is
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Speaker 1: just like, were you not just violated by him? Ash
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Speaker 1: doesn't say anything at all, and Goalsing at this point
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Speaker 1: walks over and just fucking slaps Ash in the face
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Speaker 1: and then slaps him again and then kind of like
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Speaker 1: tosses him back against the bench. Yay, just what he needed.
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Speaker 1: Blanca is like, what the fuck is going on? And
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Speaker 1: Golsing says, what a pathetic sight, make yourself look presentable again.
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Speaker 1: He turns to Blanca, my apologies, fuck you dude. Then
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Speaker 1: he looks over at Gregory and says, and you fire
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Speaker 1: that guy. Gregory's like, yes, of course, I mean that's
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Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Now. He turns back to Ash.
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Speaker 1: Go take a shower and change your clothes, get ready
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Speaker 1: in in ten minutes. Come to the gardenhouse. Understood. Ash
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Speaker 1: just stares at him, Yeah, I yeah. They start to
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Speaker 1: walk off, I guess, and Blanca kind of turns back
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Speaker 1: as Ash is kind of trying to adjust his fucked
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Speaker 1: up shirt, and Blanca thinks that was a first meeting
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Speaker 1: impressive beyond words. I mean, there was definitely something I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't use the term impressive, but it did leave an impression,
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Speaker 1: So I guess that works. But yeah, that's always fun
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Speaker 1: when you have something terrible happened to you and then
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Speaker 1: the first thing that happens after that is someone just
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Speaker 1: beats the shit out of you. Always good. Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: guess they are now at that garden house. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna call it a greenhouse because I figured that's what
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Speaker 1: it was, but I'm looking at it in the picture
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Speaker 1: and it just kind of looks like a shed or thing,
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna continue to call it garden house. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: They're at the garden House, I assume, waiting for Ash
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Speaker 1: at this point. Also, I just wanted to point out
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Speaker 1: the paneling on this page is really fucking nice. It
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Speaker 1: just is, and I don't know how to explain it.
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Speaker 1: It's just really cool. Anyway, So Blanca and Golsine are
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Speaker 1: sitting at a table with like a umbrella, like it's
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Speaker 1: this nice kind of cozy table in front of the
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Speaker 1: garden house, and they're drinking tea, and Golsine says, what
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Speaker 1: a pity that I let you catch a glimpse of
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Speaker 1: him in such an indecent moment. And while indecent, I
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Speaker 1: have to admit it's not the first time something like
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Speaker 1: this has occurred. Great, Blanca says, what are you trying
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Speaker 1: to tell me? Colsiane takes a sip of his tea.
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Speaker 1: This makes five cases now where we've had to fire
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Speaker 1: a teacher fuck four men and one woman of various ages,
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Speaker 1: from a twenty six year old fellow to a forty
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Speaker 1: two year old female teacher. And what they happen in
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Speaker 1: common is that every single one of them said, he
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Speaker 1: asked for it. Blanca was kind of silent for a second.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of taken aback, and he says, I see,
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Speaker 1: of course, they had no choice but to regrettably accept
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Speaker 1: the invitation, right, Golsian says, well, what do you think
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Speaker 1: Blanca's like? Hmm, It's hard to tell, given that I
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Speaker 1: just happened to meet him for the first time a
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Speaker 1: few minutes ago. Golsian stands, it's pointless to hide the
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Speaker 1: truth from you. To be honest, he was originally one
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Speaker 1: of the goods offered in a club under my management.
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Speaker 1: Blanca doesn't look impressed, He continues, with the clients being,
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Speaker 1: without exception, high class bureaucracts and politicians. He must have
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Speaker 1: been thanks to his enticing appearance that said, look at me,
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Speaker 1: after all. Indeed, it has proven itself to be completely
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Speaker 1: and utterly useful. But regardless of how well made he is,
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Speaker 1: gross half of him is essentially a rotten egg. What
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Speaker 1: that teacher said, it's safe to assume that half of
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Speaker 1: it is true Blanca is like and the other half.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine that you, of all people, Machure would
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Speaker 1: want me to come here just so I can cook
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Speaker 1: you a meal with a rotten egg. Dino kind of
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Speaker 1: looks back at him and says, you're right, it's true
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Speaker 1: that I don't think of him as a mere rotten egg.
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Speaker 1: According to the Stanford Benet Intelligence Test, he is an
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Speaker 1: IQ of one eedy. He tested so high that they
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that they had made a mistake,
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Speaker 1: so they tested him again and it was announced that
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Speaker 1: he had an IQ of above one hundred and eighty.
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Speaker 1: Blanca says, oh my, that's astonishing. Dino continues, but such
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Speaker 1: a circumstance is nothing but fallacious. Anyway older than twenty
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Speaker 1: and you're just a nobody. You know more than a
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Speaker 1: few examples of that, don't you, Blanca, You who have
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Speaker 1: a academic degree in psychology as well as psychiatry. Blanca
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Speaker 1: looks down. That's only because it was a requirement. Dino continues,
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to evaluate his genius with your own eyes.
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Speaker 1: I want to optimize him. Blanca is like, so you
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Speaker 1: intend to become a professor Higgins. I get a translation,
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Speaker 1: note that this is from my fair lady. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Dino continues, No, this is entirely different from the act
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Speaker 1: of letting a country lass pose as a lady. We
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Speaker 1: see Dino now and Ash is in the background kind
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Speaker 1: of superimposed, and Ash has this like really intense looking
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Speaker 1: mean sea serpent around him, and Ash also looks really
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Speaker 1: intense because, yeah, Dino says, I like to think of
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Speaker 1: him as a god's vessel. Okay, my friend, you're really
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Speaker 1: freaking me out. He continues, A most personal opinion of
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Speaker 1: yours would be enough. If you think he shows promise,
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Speaker 1: I would like you to to raise him with your
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Speaker 1: knowledge and expertise. Blanca thinks, I see it's the Divine
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Speaker 1: Comedy rather than My Fair Lady. Okay, so it's not
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Speaker 1: that he wants to take this child and make them
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Speaker 1: proper like in My Fair Lady. More or less, it's
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Speaker 1: that he wants to I don't know what that means.
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Speaker 1: Blanca tore him through hell, purgatory and Heaven eventually, Like what,
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Speaker 1: I barely know anything about the Divine Comedy. So if
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Speaker 1: you do and you're like, what the fuck are you
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Speaker 1: talking about, it's because you're right and I'm wrong. Don't worry,
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Speaker 1: but I don't. Yeah, Blanc is obviously like this is
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Speaker 1: real fucked up anyway. Dino kind of, like you know,
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Speaker 1: puts out his cigar, I guess in an ash tray
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Speaker 1: and says, if you give me your no, then we'll
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Speaker 1: cancel the whole project without hesitation. I think you should
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Speaker 1: say no, Blanca. Blanca is yeah, he says, sure, I
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Speaker 1: don't exactly feel comfortable with you giving me so much
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Speaker 1: credit like this. You should know what kind of person
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Speaker 1: I am. Deno's like a living weapon perfected by the Kremlin. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Blanca says, I'm just a murderer. Ah, that's where I
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Speaker 1: ask gets it from. Dino's like, well, if you insist,
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Speaker 1: Blanca says, I'm sure you're aware of how much of
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Speaker 1: an inefficient usage of money and resources that project was.
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Speaker 1: Back then, we see what looked like case files for children,
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Speaker 1: a bunch of children in an image, and Blanca continues.
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Speaker 1: From the three hundred children that had been certified geniuses
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Speaker 1: and collected by the Soviet Union, no more than eighteen
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Speaker 1: remained after fifteen years. That's not great. The rest got
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Speaker 1: filtered out, the ones who simply could not do it,
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Speaker 1: the ones who sustained severe injury or died or went insane.
19:54
Speaker 1: There were a lot of reasons, you see. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that all sounds really bad. Dino says, you, however,
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Speaker 1: made it and survived. Blanca's like, yes, and that's why
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Speaker 1: I think this way to artificially create an elite. That's
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Speaker 1: an idea of utter nonsense. In the first place, Maam
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Speaker 1: kind isn't strong enough playing god bears witness to nothing
20:15
Speaker 1: but foolish arrogance. Dino looks caught off guard and he says, say,
20:22
Speaker 1: is that your personal opinion? Okay, So Blanca like must
20:26
Speaker 1: have totally forgot he was talking out loud, and he
20:29
Speaker 1: looks shocked, and he says, I beg your pardon, Michir,
20:32
Speaker 1: I said things I shouldn't have, Dino says, even you
20:37
Speaker 1: of times when you get emotional, Blanca, No, Sergey Varshkov.
20:41
Speaker 1: Blanca looks down. Dino continues, but whatever, it doesn't seem
20:46
Speaker 1: like we'll come to a conclusion on this part anytime soon.
20:48
Speaker 1: It's a partnership between you and me. I'm going to
20:51
Speaker 1: forget about your faux pa just now, and in turn,
20:54
Speaker 1: you'll lend me your ear for my request. How's that? Okay?
20:58
Speaker 1: I want to pause here because a lot of things
20:59
Speaker 1: just happen, and I've been trying to find a place
21:01
Speaker 1: to pause. But we were in this big long scene. Okay,
21:04
Speaker 1: So first of all, this is fucked up, but there's
21:07
Speaker 1: a lot of things that are fucked up, right, So
21:10
Speaker 1: where we start, obviously with Ash and that teacher and
21:15
Speaker 1: the whole thing with him coming on to the teacher
21:17
Speaker 1: and shit like that. What we know of Ash so
21:20
Speaker 1: far is that that's would not happen. I mean, it
21:25
Speaker 1: might happen, but only if he thoughts that he was
21:28
Speaker 1: going to be hurt otherwise, that this was the only
21:31
Speaker 1: way for him to remain even kind of safe. So
21:35
Speaker 1: thinking that's now what's going on. I don't know what's
21:38
Speaker 1: going on, but whatever it is, it's the teacher's fault,
21:42
Speaker 1: all five of them. Honestly, I don't know where Dino
21:46
Speaker 1: gets these people, but I mean seeing that he recruited Blanca,
21:49
Speaker 1: who is like an assassin, and you know, has this
21:53
Speaker 1: checker had passed and shit, I'm thinking he doesn't find
21:57
Speaker 1: like these upstanding citizens. And also, as we've seen many times,
22:02
Speaker 1: he fucking tells everyone everything about Ash all the time.
22:06
Speaker 1: So I can't even imagine that they didn't know going
22:09
Speaker 1: in that he was a former prostitute. Blah blah blah.
22:11
Speaker 1: It's like they knew of course, So I'm just thinking
22:14
Speaker 1: it all kind of like leads to this weird powder
22:16
Speaker 1: keg of like fucking weirdos with weird sexual tension. I
22:21
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's weird with what I'm saying. I'm
22:24
Speaker 1: gonna say weird one more time. But like the idea
22:28
Speaker 1: that like it's him is so fucked up. And I
22:33
Speaker 1: mean it's good that Blanca caught onto that immediately and
22:35
Speaker 1: was like, oh, so they just have to do what
22:37
Speaker 1: he says. Then he you know, made a move, so
22:40
Speaker 1: they have to go along like they are the adults, right,
22:43
Speaker 1: even if a fourteen year old boy was coming on
22:47
Speaker 1: to you random people or you in the audience, like
22:50
Speaker 1: you're an adult, you shut that shit down. You are
22:54
Speaker 1: the person with the fully formed brain. Sorry, fifteen year
22:57
Speaker 1: olds or fourteen year olds, like, there's no excuse, and
23:02
Speaker 1: we don't beat the shit out of somebody who has
23:04
Speaker 1: just been assaulted. But I mean that's what Dino does. Yeah,
23:07
Speaker 1: so that's no good. And also, of course Dino is
23:09
Speaker 1: talking about making him make God's vessel. We know that
23:12
Speaker 1: Dino wants him to be this air weird thing, and
23:16
Speaker 1: it's super weird. It's always been weird. I don't know, man,
23:21
Speaker 1: there's so much going on here. There's so much to unpack.
23:24
Speaker 1: It's fucked up, and it's really interesting to see Blanca
23:27
Speaker 1: as kind of like an outsider who's like, what is
23:29
Speaker 1: even going on here? You know, Blanca that this guy
23:34
Speaker 1: is you were employed by him, and he's insane. Anyway,
23:39
Speaker 1: let's try to continue. I hope that made sense. It
23:41
Speaker 1: might not have anyway. At this point, I guess they're
23:45
Speaker 1: done having their like tea or whatever. It looked like
23:49
Speaker 1: they got up at the end. So now we see
23:51
Speaker 1: like Blanca's feet, he's walking and he's thinking he just
23:56
Speaker 1: dug his own grave by not coming. Huh. Even if
23:59
Speaker 1: he did, he still doesn't seem to be alarmed in
24:00
Speaker 1: the slightest, not even when they try to feed a
24:03
Speaker 1: seated cat with baits. He is obviously looking for Ash,
24:07
Speaker 1: and he looks over and he sees that Ash is
24:10
Speaker 1: laying in the grass on his side, facing away from Blanca.
24:15
Speaker 1: He has his head like on some books, and he
24:18
Speaker 1: may be sleeping, but we can't tell. Blanca thinks is
24:21
Speaker 1: just dozing around like a hobby of his. Fucking just
24:25
Speaker 1: let him rest, you have no idea. He gets a
24:28
Speaker 1: little bit closer and he says, you're awake, aren't you
24:32
Speaker 1: mind if I join you? Wild cat ash Ash turns
24:36
Speaker 1: his head and he does not look like he wants
24:39
Speaker 1: Blanca to join him. Blanca doesn't take the hint, and
24:44
Speaker 1: he just sits down and he's like thanks. Ash is
24:48
Speaker 1: just kind of staring forward, trying to acknowledge him, and
24:51
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks I thought he would run away, but seems
24:55
Speaker 1: like curiosity got the best of him. Well, that's just
24:58
Speaker 1: fine with me, Blanca says, I'm called Blanca, a bit
25:02
Speaker 1: of a strange name, but that doesn't really matter right.
25:06
Speaker 1: Ash rests his head on one of his hands and says,
25:09
Speaker 1: and I don't care anyway. Blanca thinks and inexpressiveness, as
25:14
Speaker 1: if he acquired it for himself, a movingly sullen child.
25:19
Speaker 1: Even secretary generals are a tad friendlier. He says, may
25:24
Speaker 1: I ask you a few things about yourself, your favorite subjects,
25:28
Speaker 1: your favorite baseball team, and Ash cuts him off. I
25:32
Speaker 1: hate baseball. Blanca is like, what, I never have guessed
25:37
Speaker 1: that they were baseball haters among American boys, Ash, still
25:40
Speaker 1: not looking at him, says, is that a bad thing?
25:43
Speaker 1: It's not exactly weird or anything, Blanca thinks an unexpectedly
25:48
Speaker 1: strong reaction. Then out loud, he says, it's not, of course,
25:53
Speaker 1: but honestly, I'm more of a basketball fan myself. Ash
25:56
Speaker 1: just kind of glances over, and Blanca thinks we already
25:59
Speaker 1: have one keyword baseball. Ash is like, you know, if
26:04
Speaker 1: you don't want anything, can you just leave me alone?
26:06
Speaker 1: I'm tired as hell. I'm sorry, sweetheart. Blanca turns and
26:11
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, my, apologies for bothering you. Our conversation
26:14
Speaker 1: was quite informative for me, Thank you. Ash turns his
26:18
Speaker 1: head more and is like informative. How so? Blanca stands,
26:23
Speaker 1: let's see, you hate baseball, and that's how I learned
26:26
Speaker 1: that I shouldn't invite you to go to a game
26:28
Speaker 1: with me. Furthermore, there's a bit of an irishman hidden
26:32
Speaker 1: down inside you. Ash looks not pleased. Blanca continues, presumably
26:40
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland. Am I wrong? Ash says, how did you?
26:46
Speaker 1: And then we had kind of some narration here it
26:49
Speaker 1: goes warning, warning, warning, the yellow lights flash. Yeah, it's obvious.
26:55
Speaker 1: Ash does not want to talk about that, and he's
26:58
Speaker 1: not sure why he would even know. Blanca says, I
27:03
Speaker 1: can faintly hear an Irish accent in your English. Ash,
27:08
Speaker 1: now staring at him intently, says you, what are you?
27:13
Speaker 1: Blanca is like a murderer, have a nice afternoon nap,
27:18
Speaker 1: and he walks off. Blanka is kind of cool. So
27:22
Speaker 1: now Blanca is sitting in I guess like an office
27:24
Speaker 1: or something, and he's looking over some notes that maybe
27:27
Speaker 1: he made or were given to him. I'm not really sure.
27:31
Speaker 1: And he's reading them and they say Ashlynx real name
27:36
Speaker 1: Oslan J. Callen Rey's birthdate August twelfth, nineteen sixty eight.
27:40
Speaker 1: Family father James Callenry's mother, no data, brother Gryffin J.
27:45
Speaker 1: Callen Reyes note the whereabouts of Gryffin J. Callen Rey's
27:49
Speaker 1: are unknown since he went to Don Tom Vietnam nineteen
27:53
Speaker 1: seventy three. Griffin's mother, Audrey Callenris, died nineteen sixty seven,
27:59
Speaker 1: and he thinks, which means that Ash's mother can't be
28:02
Speaker 1: Missus Callenry's. He looks further down the page and he
28:07
Speaker 1: is surprised by something and it says nineteen seventy six
28:12
Speaker 1: arrest and imprisonment by local police, charge first degree murder.
28:17
Speaker 1: Same year, November non prosecution disposal. He thinks murder six
28:24
Speaker 1: years ago. He was only eight years old. Really. He
28:28
Speaker 1: is also wearing glasses, by the way, and he starts
28:30
Speaker 1: to remove them, and he looks over and Ash is
28:34
Speaker 1: standing at the door. Door is slightly open, and he
28:37
Speaker 1: looks kind of pissed because he's Ash. And Blanka says, hi,
28:43
Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind having me around here. Ash
28:46
Speaker 1: crosses his arms and says, I didn't get a real
28:48
Speaker 1: answer yesterday. My old man was a second generation Irish immigrant.
28:53
Speaker 1: I've never told anyone, So how could you see through
28:56
Speaker 1: me so easily? Blanka thinks is he anxious? And then
29:00
Speaker 1: out loud, he says, so your father, is it? I see?
29:04
Speaker 1: He thinks it's different from his normal alertness. Ash is like, hey,
29:09
Speaker 1: answer my question. Blanca thinks he's awfully nervous. Though why
29:14
Speaker 1: it's probably weird for someone to just know all sorts
29:17
Speaker 1: of shit about you, Blanca, I don't know. Ash is like, oh,
29:21
Speaker 1: and Golzine said you were called here for my sake?
29:24
Speaker 1: What's that supposed to mean? Blanca kind of looks at
29:27
Speaker 1: something that we don't see, and then he reaches out
29:29
Speaker 1: and he like grabs Ash's arm and Ash panics, like
29:33
Speaker 1: really panics, and then he like bats Blanco away. Ash
29:39
Speaker 1: is just kind of standing now, breathing hard and sweating,
29:42
Speaker 1: and he says, what the hell are you doing? Blanca
29:45
Speaker 1: is silent for a second, and then he opens his
29:47
Speaker 1: hand to reveal a little dot in it that is
29:51
Speaker 1: supposed to be a dead mosquito. We can see it's
29:54
Speaker 1: corpse flying away to heaven above it, and he says,
29:58
Speaker 1: there was a mosquito on you. It didn't bite you,
30:00
Speaker 1: did it. At this point, Ash can't really even say anything.
30:04
Speaker 1: He is hyperventilating and holding his chests. Fuck, and Blanca
30:09
Speaker 1: thinks he's in a state of excessive anxiety to a
30:12
Speaker 1: degree where it's causing difficulty breathing. Yeah, yeah, good job.
30:16
Speaker 1: At this point, Blanca stands and he says, hey, are
30:19
Speaker 1: you all right? You look pale. Ash shrinks back and says,
30:23
Speaker 1: don't don't touch me, and he just runs off, which
30:27
Speaker 1: makes sense. Blanc is like Ash, he thinks, seems like
30:32
Speaker 1: he loathes being touched to a most severe extent anxiousness
30:36
Speaker 1: and terror. Now to bring it back to the murder,
30:40
Speaker 1: So now he is back sitting down and he is
30:43
Speaker 1: typing things into a computer and he thinks, I wonder
30:47
Speaker 1: what on earth happened six years ago? He finds something
30:52
Speaker 1: the murder case of the blue Beard of Cape Cod.
30:54
Speaker 1: I still don't know why it's called that, And he
30:57
Speaker 1: finds an article Boston Time, October twenty first, nineteen seventy six.
31:04
Speaker 1: After Robert Peterson, employee of a real estate company, had
31:07
Speaker 1: been shot dead by an eight year old boy, local
31:11
Speaker 1: police discovered multiple bodies, all teenage boys, buried in his backyard.
31:15
Speaker 1: Fuck well, I mean not that we didn't know that.
31:19
Speaker 1: According to the evidence, the boys appeared to have been
31:22
Speaker 1: sexually assaulted before being murdered. Fifteen bodies in total were discovered. Geez,
31:28
Speaker 1: fifteen kids before Ash killed him. Anyway, the article continues,
31:32
Speaker 1: The boy who shot Peterson to death had been a
31:35
Speaker 1: member of the youth baseball team that he coached, and
31:38
Speaker 1: it is assumed that he was sexually abused by Peterson
31:41
Speaker 1: multiple times. That would be correct. We also now see
31:46
Speaker 1: on the computer screen like covered bodies, like people standing
31:51
Speaker 1: around them, like probably the dead boys and shit, and
31:55
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks a baseball team coach, Ah, you figured it out,
32:00
Speaker 1: And he thinks of Ash, saying I hate baseball he
32:03
Speaker 1: thinks extreme anxiety, a primal fear of adult man, a
32:07
Speaker 1: severe psychological trauma. Yep, there you go. He's now sitting
32:14
Speaker 1: out at that like really nice table by the garden
32:16
Speaker 1: house and he's like thinking about shit and he doesn't
32:19
Speaker 1: look happy about it. And then he hears Ash say, hey,
32:23
Speaker 1: let me go. He stands up and he's like, what
32:26
Speaker 1: the fuck's going on? And he starts to walk over
32:29
Speaker 1: towards the noise, and he hears someone say, what did
32:33
Speaker 1: you just say? You think you can talk to me
32:36
Speaker 1: like that? He now sees that there's a man standing
32:40
Speaker 1: in front of Ash who's kind of like blocking him,
32:43
Speaker 1: like up against a wall kind of, and he thinks, well,
32:46
Speaker 1: this hardly looks normal. None of it's normal, Blanca. The
32:50
Speaker 1: man continues, do you really think you can get away
32:53
Speaker 1: with talking to me like that? Huh? Blanca does the
32:57
Speaker 1: smart thing and he interjects and he says, Ash, are
32:59
Speaker 1: you over there? We now see that's the man who is,
33:04
Speaker 1: by the way, Marvin. You remember Marvin from episode two.
33:08
Speaker 1: He's the whole reason that Ash was in jail for
33:11
Speaker 1: that amount of time because he didn't kill him, but
33:13
Speaker 1: it looked like he did anyway, he's there with Ash,
33:16
Speaker 1: and he says, Hey, what the hell do you want?
33:19
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks I should be the one asking you. That
33:23
Speaker 1: the distraction that Blanca caused allows Ash to run and
33:28
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of there before Marvin can catch him,
33:32
Speaker 1: and before Marvin can you know, think to do anything.
33:36
Speaker 1: Gregory appears and says, Marvin the mature has requested you
33:39
Speaker 1: hurry up and go. Blanca is not thrilled by any
33:43
Speaker 1: of this, thank god, and he thinks, I've been told
33:47
Speaker 1: that Asks used to be a real street kid, living
33:49
Speaker 1: solely on the streets. Now we see Ash. He is
33:54
Speaker 1: with a teacher. I guess they're looking at something on
33:57
Speaker 1: the computer, and we get this Blanco narration goes. But
34:01
Speaker 1: in spite of that, he's an unbelievably intelligent kid. I mean,
34:05
Speaker 1: just because your homeless doesn't mean you're not smart, Blanca.
34:07
Speaker 1: But whatever, the quality and depth of what's being taught
34:10
Speaker 1: in these lessons is astounding on its own. But not
34:13
Speaker 1: only does he understand everything, no, he even rivals the
34:17
Speaker 1: professors who are experts on the subjects. At this point,
34:20
Speaker 1: Ash is asking something to the teacher and it continues
34:25
Speaker 1: clearly his outward appearance can't be the only well made
34:28
Speaker 1: thing about him. Gross. Ash is now thinking about something,
34:32
Speaker 1: and it continues the thrill of discovery and training a genius.
34:36
Speaker 1: I suppose one doesn't have to be a certain mature
34:39
Speaker 1: to be fascinated by him. All right, new scene, So
34:44
Speaker 1: now we see a really shitty area of New York.
34:47
Speaker 1: I assume like it looks like maybe these are apartments
34:50
Speaker 1: or something. Basically it's just totally graffiti covered everywhere and
34:55
Speaker 1: just really like the buildings are like in disrepair. Stone
35:00
Speaker 1: is cracked, and there is trash literally everywhere, which sounds
35:05
Speaker 1: like it's appropriate for this period in New York. Then
35:08
Speaker 1: we see that standing outside in front of a like
35:11
Speaker 1: a probably store that's closed because it has like the gatedown,
35:15
Speaker 1: is a bunch of teenagers. There's like tons of graffiti here,
35:19
Speaker 1: and it's super fun graffiti. There's like a chicken and shit.
35:23
Speaker 1: So we don't know most of these kids, at least
35:26
Speaker 1: I don't think I know them, except Ash is there,
35:29
Speaker 1: and so is I believe Alex, And I actually think
35:33
Speaker 1: Alex is resting his arm on Ash's shoulder. It's nice
35:37
Speaker 1: to see that they've been buddies for a while. Yeah,
35:39
Speaker 1: So they're just talking and shit, and then we see
35:41
Speaker 1: that Blanca is watching from like around a corner near
35:45
Speaker 1: this flying zebra graffiti that's super cool. By the way,
35:49
Speaker 1: I love Akimi Yoshida's graffiti because it's like super like
35:54
Speaker 1: sketchy and the way I would draw graffiti, which actually
35:57
Speaker 1: is the way I draw graffiti, which is like not
35:59
Speaker 1: very good, it's like super childish. I love it. Anyway.
36:03
Speaker 1: Blanca is wearing sunglasses so we can be kind of incognito,
36:06
Speaker 1: but he kind of pulls them down to see better,
36:08
Speaker 1: and he thinks even among street kids, he doesn't fail
36:10
Speaker 1: to stand out. We see Ash and Alex again. Alex
36:16
Speaker 1: has long hair, by the way, which he doesn't in
36:19
Speaker 1: like the future, but he does now. He also looks
36:21
Speaker 1: almost the same anyway. Blanca continues first and foremost, and
36:26
Speaker 1: maybe his physical feature is attracting attention, but whatever it is.
36:31
Speaker 1: Something about this fourteen year old boy makes other kids
36:33
Speaker 1: submit to him, or maybe they just want to be
36:36
Speaker 1: his friends. I mean, that's not's so true. We then
36:39
Speaker 1: see that some men, like adult men that look kind
36:43
Speaker 1: of like they're not the nicest people, are approaching the kids,
36:47
Speaker 1: and he thinks, however, to stand out also means to
36:50
Speaker 1: become a target. Ash turns because they're you know, approaching
36:54
Speaker 1: from behind, and Alex looks kind of nervous, and Blanca thinks,
36:58
Speaker 1: in a world ruled by violence, beauty is nothing but
37:01
Speaker 1: a curse. One of the guys kind of grabs Ash
37:05
Speaker 1: by the chin, as is the fashion, and Ash looks
37:08
Speaker 1: pretty terrified, and then he also kind of grabs Ash's arm.
37:12
Speaker 1: He's trying to pull him somewhere, and the other guys
37:14
Speaker 1: look pretty happy about this, and then suddenly his face
37:17
Speaker 1: changes and Blanca notices and Ash just out of nowhere
37:22
Speaker 1: elbows the guy who is holding him in the fucking chest.
37:25
Speaker 1: And then he goes to the other guy and kicks
37:27
Speaker 1: him in the face. And then he like kicks the
37:30
Speaker 1: other guy, and Blanca thinks, I'm surprised he already knows
37:34
Speaker 1: basic fighting maneuvers. He appears frail and scared, which causes
37:38
Speaker 1: his opponents to let their card down. Incredible, he knows
37:42
Speaker 1: how to turn his biggest weakness into a weapon. Don't
37:44
Speaker 1: think he has a choice, Blanca. So that last guy
37:48
Speaker 1: that Ash had like kicked, he isn't down, and he
37:51
Speaker 1: reaches into his jacket like he's about to get out
37:54
Speaker 1: a gun, and Blanca notices, but so does Ash, and
37:57
Speaker 1: Ash gets out his gun faster and fucking shoots him
38:01
Speaker 1: in the head and the guy's down. Blanca thinks, without
38:06
Speaker 1: batting an eye, Ash just stares coldly. The other two
38:13
Speaker 1: guys run for their lives because yeah, and Ash looks
38:20
Speaker 1: pretty unfazed, and his other friends are like super excited
38:24
Speaker 1: about how he killed this dude, and Blanca thinks his
38:27
Speaker 1: reflexes are out of this world. That was a clean shot,
38:31
Speaker 1: no signs of intimidation or caution, one shot without any
38:34
Speaker 1: internal struggle. That's what you call an inexorable, shiver inducing callousness. Fuck, dude,
38:41
Speaker 1: I mean, he did just kill someone real easy, but
38:44
Speaker 1: still that guy was trying to hurt him and possibly
38:47
Speaker 1: kill him. What do you want? Blanca thinks of Golzin,
38:52
Speaker 1: saying I'd like to think of him as a god's vessel.
38:55
Speaker 1: Ash is at this point putting the gun back in
38:58
Speaker 1: his pants and and Blanca thinks a god's vessel or
39:03
Speaker 1: perhaps a devil's ma. Sure, what on earth have you
39:08
Speaker 1: discovered here, I wonder? Blanco looks over again, and he
39:12
Speaker 1: is surprised to see that now in front of Ash
39:15
Speaker 1: is Marvin. I guess he has just pulled up in
39:18
Speaker 1: his car, and he thinks that man, yes, that's definitely Marvin.
39:24
Speaker 1: Marvin has a big fucking grin on his face because
39:27
Speaker 1: he's a piece of shit. And we see that Ash
39:32
Speaker 1: is terrified and is not looking Marvin in the eye,
39:39
Speaker 1: and Blanca thinks, what's this. Ash's expression just changed in
39:43
Speaker 1: the blink of an eye so drastically it's nearly impossible
39:46
Speaker 1: to believe that he's the same boy from only moments before.
39:49
Speaker 1: And it's not as though he's putting on an act
39:52
Speaker 1: to make this guy lower his guard. No, he's genuinely scared. Yeah.
39:57
Speaker 1: We cut to later. I guess Ash has gone off
40:00
Speaker 1: with Marvin and Blanc has followed, because now we're outside
40:06
Speaker 1: of a hotel called Hotel Moon, next to a pornographic
40:11
Speaker 1: movie theater. Hey, this does not look like this is
40:15
Speaker 1: a nice place at all. And Marvin has his hand
40:19
Speaker 1: around Ash's back and he is pushing him inside of
40:22
Speaker 1: the hotel. Blanca stares up at the hotel sign and
40:27
Speaker 1: he thinks, oh dear, what scenery the epitome of sadness.
40:34
Speaker 1: At this point, Blanca is I guess across the street.
40:36
Speaker 1: He's sitting in a cafe drinking some coffee, and he
40:39
Speaker 1: has this really dumb shirt on that says I Love
40:42
Speaker 1: and why I love, and an apple and then big
40:45
Speaker 1: apple underneath it. It's pretty bad. It's relevant, so that's
40:51
Speaker 1: why I told you. Anyway, he's looking out the window
40:54
Speaker 1: and he sees something. Marvin is now exiting the hotel,
40:58
Speaker 1: and he thinks, there he is so far, so good.
41:01
Speaker 1: But Ash isn't with him. No, he's alone. Blanca stands. Now.
41:08
Speaker 1: We see Blanka leaning over the window at the front
41:11
Speaker 1: desk of the hotel, which is separated by bulletproof glass,
41:15
Speaker 1: which I thought was a really nice touch because I
41:17
Speaker 1: absolutely believe that this place would have bulletproof glass if
41:21
Speaker 1: the Chinese food restaurants in West Philly have its. I
41:25
Speaker 1: can't even imagine this super seedy rent by the hour
41:29
Speaker 1: hotel not having it. Anyway, he says, excuse me, the
41:35
Speaker 1: man who just left the building, wasn't he accompanied by someone?
41:38
Speaker 1: At first, the front desk guy says, hey, you, what's
41:41
Speaker 1: this about. Blanca is starting to garner attention from the
41:45
Speaker 1: other people in the hotel, who look like they don't
41:49
Speaker 1: trust him and they might hurt him. Not that you
41:53
Speaker 1: can hurt Blanca. He's way taller and way scarier than
41:56
Speaker 1: everyone else. But still this doesn't look good. I'm Blanca's says, oh, well,
42:02
Speaker 1: you see, and he thinks not a good sign. He
42:06
Speaker 1: continues out loud, I'm an acquaintance of mister Marvin's. No
42:10
Speaker 1: need to worry. The guy at the front desk says, oh,
42:14
Speaker 1: fifth floor, room number five fifteen. The brat has the keys.
42:19
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks, I gather that he's a regular here. Kind
42:22
Speaker 1: of sounds like it. The dude at the front desk continues,
42:26
Speaker 1: gets in from your height, you must be big in
42:28
Speaker 1: every way. You better keep that brat in one piece,
42:31
Speaker 1: all right, And then he laughs and Blanc is just like,
42:34
Speaker 1: what me too, Blanca, that's not good that these people
42:39
Speaker 1: are acknowledging what is happening is happening, but it obviously
42:43
Speaker 1: is happening. So Blanca walks up the stairs towards the
42:48
Speaker 1: fifth floor, and the hallway is just fucking covered in
42:52
Speaker 1: really explicit graffiti, Like do you remember in episode maybe thirteen.
42:57
Speaker 1: I was telling you how the graffiti in that episode
43:01
Speaker 1: was like real professional looking, but it didn't seem like
43:04
Speaker 1: it said anything like it was created by Ai even
43:07
Speaker 1: though it was in twenty eighteen, so it wasn't. And
43:10
Speaker 1: I said something about Akimi yoshi does graffiti being like
43:13
Speaker 1: really like not professional looking, but like also really on points.
43:19
Speaker 1: And I said something about, like how in Bennefish and honestly,
43:23
Speaker 1: in a lot of TV graffiti in general, I just
43:26
Speaker 1: don't see enough penises, which are just normally in graffiti everywhere.
43:31
Speaker 1: And I had said that Akimi Yoshita had done one.
43:34
Speaker 1: It's in this scene there's this giant fucking dick on
43:37
Speaker 1: the wall. Yeah, along with like really explicit shit, and
43:42
Speaker 1: it's all in really good English, by the way, so
43:46
Speaker 1: I guess good for her. Anyway, Blanca comes to room
43:52
Speaker 1: five point fifteen and he knocks on the door and
43:55
Speaker 1: he says, Ash, are you in there. He puts his
43:58
Speaker 1: hand on the handle and he turns it and realizes
44:01
Speaker 1: that it's unlocked. So he opens the door to like
44:05
Speaker 1: our darkened room where a bed is in full view.
44:09
Speaker 1: Like it's really gross room, like the walls are just
44:13
Speaker 1: cracked up and shit, and on the bed is definitely
44:16
Speaker 1: a person, but we cannot see from this angle, and
44:20
Speaker 1: then we see that it is Ash. He has his
44:23
Speaker 1: eyes closed honestly does not look like he's asleep though.
44:27
Speaker 1: He just looks like he's kind of wincing, and he
44:31
Speaker 1: is obviously naked, and he's like really beaten up. And
44:37
Speaker 1: his wrists I guess were previously tied. He's got kind
44:40
Speaker 1: of a rope around them, but it doesn't look like
44:42
Speaker 1: it's tied to anything, like it was tied to the headboard,
44:45
Speaker 1: but he's been released, but the rope is still just
44:48
Speaker 1: kind of around his arms. And yeah, I mean, it
44:53
Speaker 1: looks really bad. Like I mean, I don't even know
44:57
Speaker 1: what else to say. It just looks like whatever was
45:00
Speaker 1: going to happen has already happened, As is usually the
45:03
Speaker 1: case with Ash, when someone tries to save him, it's
45:06
Speaker 1: too late. Well now I'm sad. Anyway, Blanca is maybe
45:12
Speaker 1: more surprised to see this than he should be, and
45:15
Speaker 1: he's just like Ash. Ash kind of perks up, sees
45:19
Speaker 1: that it's Blanca, and then grabs the blankets to cover
45:22
Speaker 1: himself and says, don't come near me. He starts to hyperventilate.
45:27
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks this is bad instinctually, and this is probably
45:31
Speaker 1: not the right thing for him to do. Blanca runs
45:34
Speaker 1: to Ash and he like grabs hold of him, trying
45:39
Speaker 1: to comfort him, I guess, and Ash just starts shaking
45:44
Speaker 1: and panicking, like really, he looks so afraid, and Blanca
45:53
Speaker 1: is freaking out, which is probably like not the best response,
45:57
Speaker 1: you know to a kid who is having a panic,
46:00
Speaker 1: because you're touching them. He's like clutching Ash tighter and
46:04
Speaker 1: like trying to calm him down, but this doesn't really
46:07
Speaker 1: work like that, and he's like, Ash, my god, Ash,
46:10
Speaker 1: you need to breathe come on, take a deep, slow breath,
46:13
Speaker 1: don't snap. Oh god. Ash at this point is kind
46:18
Speaker 1: of clinging on to Blanka, like not super intentionally, that's
46:23
Speaker 1: just kind of what's happening because he's freaking out because
46:26
Speaker 1: he's having a paddic attack and we see, you know,
46:28
Speaker 1: the rope is still around his wrist and his wrists
46:32
Speaker 1: are just bruised from the rope and he's still shaking,
46:36
Speaker 1: and Blanc is like, I won't hurt you. I promised,
46:39
Speaker 1: so please calm down, trust me. He holds Ash close
46:46
Speaker 1: and Ash just looks terrible. He's sweating, and Blanca says,
46:51
Speaker 1: I won't hurt you, okay, trust me, calm down, It's
46:55
Speaker 1: all right. Breathe slowly and steadily. Yeah, just like that.
47:01
Speaker 1: Ash slowly comes out of it and he closes his eyes.
47:07
Speaker 1: Blanc is just kind of holding him now, and he thinks,
47:13
Speaker 1: how many years has it been since the last time
47:16
Speaker 1: somebody holds him this way? So now we see Ash,
47:21
Speaker 1: I guess a bit later, he's coming out of the
47:25
Speaker 1: bathroom in the hotel room. He's wearing a like a
47:29
Speaker 1: bathroom which I really doubt this hotel would have, but hey,
47:33
Speaker 1: maybe they're really good to their clients, and I don't
47:36
Speaker 1: know anyway. Blanca looks over at him and says, feeling refreshed, now,
47:43
Speaker 1: come and sit down. Ash sits on the bed. He looks,
47:48
Speaker 1: you know, not super happy, like not angry, just kind
47:52
Speaker 1: of defeated. Blanca holds a cop out towards Ash and says,
47:58
Speaker 1: would you like some tea? It's from the vending machine,
48:01
Speaker 1: so I don't know about the taste. Ash takes the
48:04
Speaker 1: cup from him. Blanca says, you know, I didn't mean
48:08
Speaker 1: to intrude on your privacy, but you and him, that's
48:13
Speaker 1: not happening with your consent, right, he must receive punishment,
48:18
Speaker 1: am I correct in thinking that the mature doesn't know
48:20
Speaker 1: about this yet. Ash looks sullen and he says, Marvin
48:27
Speaker 1: in that bald head, they're exactly the same. Blanca doesn't
48:32
Speaker 1: say anything. He's not looking at Blanca, by the way,
48:37
Speaker 1: He's kind of looking down, and he says, don't you
48:40
Speaker 1: already know who I am? And what happened to me?
48:43
Speaker 1: The one who sold me to that bald head was
48:45
Speaker 1: none other than Marvin. The only difference is the kind
48:49
Speaker 1: of places they prefer for it. One likes to do
48:52
Speaker 1: it in some cheap hotel that weeks of urine, another
48:55
Speaker 1: while wrapped in a downfilled comforter. But that's about it.
48:59
Speaker 1: A kind of way of terror and panic comes over
49:03
Speaker 1: Ash's face, and he's kind of like reaching for his
49:07
Speaker 1: chest or neck with his hand and his bruised wrist,
49:11
Speaker 1: and he continues. Their eyes hollow, absolutely nothing like gazing
49:17
Speaker 1: into an entirely empty, pitch black room. They all have
49:21
Speaker 1: the exact same eyes. Blanca thinks fear and rage. In
49:28
Speaker 1: the moments when his rage overcomes his fears, he transforms
49:32
Speaker 1: into a merciless, demonic beast. Ash continues and then they
49:38
Speaker 1: all go saying the same things, claiming it was me
49:41
Speaker 1: who asked for it, or some shit. Those bastards. One day,
49:45
Speaker 1: I'll make them pay for this. He starts to cry.
49:48
Speaker 1: Blanca just kind of looks at him, and Ash kind
49:52
Speaker 1: of collects himself and says, are you gonna tell him?
49:55
Speaker 1: Blanca's like, no, if that's not what you want, I'll
49:59
Speaker 1: keep quiet. And if you want to punish them by
50:01
Speaker 1: your own hand one day, I'm fine with that. Ash
50:05
Speaker 1: looks like he doesn't totally believe that, but then he
50:08
Speaker 1: kind of like laughs a little, maybe because he's excited
50:13
Speaker 1: about the idea of killing these people. That's not what
50:16
Speaker 1: it is. But anyway, Blanc is like what any thinks
50:19
Speaker 1: he actually laughed. Ash says, you know, the stuff you're
50:23
Speaker 1: wearing that look ain't tight on you at all, really
50:28
Speaker 1: looks like rental clothes on you. Blanca looks at his
50:32
Speaker 1: really dumb big apple shirt and he's like, hey, what
50:36
Speaker 1: this look ain't tight. Ash starts to laugh, and he's like, no,
50:40
Speaker 1: you're just making it worse. Do me a favor, and
50:43
Speaker 1: never you slang again. Blanca thinks he's such a cute
50:46
Speaker 1: child when he's laughing. Fuck. I just wanted to pause
50:52
Speaker 1: here to say this is something we've seen kind of
50:54
Speaker 1: multiple times with Ash. Once he feels relatively safe around someone,
50:59
Speaker 1: he starts to like playfully make fun of them. It's
51:01
Speaker 1: kind of his deal. So I mean, it's nice to
51:05
Speaker 1: see him, you know, getting a little bit more comfortable
51:08
Speaker 1: around Blanca, seeing as, at least what we've seen of
51:12
Speaker 1: Blanca in this part of his past, Blanca really didn't
51:16
Speaker 1: want to help. At least, that's what I want to say.
51:18
Speaker 1: Right now, let's move forward anyway, we see another kind
51:22
Speaker 1: of image like we had seen earlier, where we're like
51:24
Speaker 1: looking up through trees and sunlight is streaming down, and
51:28
Speaker 1: Blanca thinks, I wonder if he'd been given love instead
51:32
Speaker 1: of fear, and if he could rely on someone who
51:35
Speaker 1: wouldn't abuse but gently embrace him. Blanca and Golsine are
51:40
Speaker 1: like standing and like maybe drinking something like out in
51:43
Speaker 1: the garden, and Golsine says something to drink for you,
51:47
Speaker 1: and Blanca says, no, I'm fine, thank you. He continues
51:50
Speaker 1: to think, No, it's useless to think about given that
51:54
Speaker 1: he never had a choice. He hasn't had and won't
51:58
Speaker 1: ever have a choice. Okay, I need to stop there,
52:03
Speaker 1: because we need to talk about something that's really big
52:05
Speaker 1: and important in this which is that Blanca is absolutely
52:09
Speaker 1: correct that Ash hasn't had a choice, that he has
52:12
Speaker 1: been forced to go with these decisions that are not
52:17
Speaker 1: his own and not what he wanted. But fucking what
52:19
Speaker 1: do you mean he'll never have a choice? You are
52:22
Speaker 1: an adult, Blanca. Could you not help? You know, he
52:28
Speaker 1: basically is asking you to help him. He's told you
52:34
Speaker 1: what's going on. He's told you that Golding is involved
52:37
Speaker 1: in this. If he doesn't have a choice and he's
52:41
Speaker 1: never gonna have a choice, it's because no one is
52:44
Speaker 1: going to help him, and you're responsible for that. Yeah,
52:48
Speaker 1: I'm crying this one. I did not cry in the
52:50
Speaker 1: last take. You're responsible, Blanca. There's never a situation where
52:55
Speaker 1: you don't have a choice, and you couldn't have a choice.
53:00
Speaker 1: You've someone who is reaching out to you and you're
53:03
Speaker 1: not doing anything. Okay, continuing right along, So Blanca and Okay,
53:14
Speaker 1: I'm upset. So Blanca and Dino are standing out in
53:17
Speaker 1: this garden area, and Dino says, and I think it's
53:21
Speaker 1: time you let me hear your opinion. If you don't mind,
53:24
Speaker 1: Blanca says, I have indeed come to a conclusion. Your
53:28
Speaker 1: observations are certainly right. Mecheur. Dino says, I take it.
53:32
Speaker 1: I can count on your consent. Then, Blanca is like
53:36
Speaker 1: just one thing beforehand that I'd be keen on asking
53:39
Speaker 1: you about Deno's Like, what is it? Blanca says, he
53:44
Speaker 1: might revolt against you. Dino is silent. Blanca continues, you
53:50
Speaker 1: referred to him as a god's vessel. Correct. A vessel
53:54
Speaker 1: cannot revolt against its creator. He, however, is a human being. Yeah,
54:00
Speaker 1: the act of trying to hold control over human being
54:03
Speaker 1: is not to be taken lightly. I myself am a
54:06
Speaker 1: good example. When the time is right, he may become
54:10
Speaker 1: your most ruthless enemy, putting everyone in everything else in
54:13
Speaker 1: the shade. Are you prepared for this? Dino says, there's
54:19
Speaker 1: no reason to prepare for anything. I will enforce obedience
54:22
Speaker 1: on him through any means. Blanca pauses and then says,
54:27
Speaker 1: I understand. I will take the job. So he was
54:34
Speaker 1: warned anyway. Next page we cut to Ash being slapped
54:39
Speaker 1: in the face. Yay, of course it's Marvin and he's
54:43
Speaker 1: grabbing Ash by the arm and he says, you got
54:45
Speaker 1: a pretty big mouth on you these days. Ash, who
54:48
Speaker 1: looks pretty beat up, says, how many times do I
54:50
Speaker 1: have to tell you I won't let you boss me
54:52
Speaker 1: around anymore. Marvin's like, ha, don't get all conceded just
54:57
Speaker 1: because you become the miss Seur's little mistress. Ash spits
55:00
Speaker 1: in his face yay, And of course that fisses him off,
55:03
Speaker 1: and he says, damn you brat, and he goes to
55:06
Speaker 1: raise his fist to hit Ash, and his fist is
55:09
Speaker 1: grabbed by someone. It's Blanca. Yay. Blanca looks pissed, and
55:15
Speaker 1: he says, why are you beating that child? Marvin's like,
55:21
Speaker 1: the hell do you want? Blanca says, I've just been
55:24
Speaker 1: charged with the task of training him by Masure gold Seine,
55:28
Speaker 1: and I already know very well who you are and
55:31
Speaker 1: what kind of things you've done to him. Yeah. Marvin
55:35
Speaker 1: is incensed, and he reaches and takes out his gun,
55:37
Speaker 1: but Blanca like chops him in the hand and the
55:40
Speaker 1: gun falls out of his hands, and then Blanca grabs
55:43
Speaker 1: him by the wrist and fucking breaks it, like breaks
55:47
Speaker 1: his fucking wrist in half, more or less, and he screams,
55:50
Speaker 1: because you would if your wrist got broken, and Ash
55:52
Speaker 1: is just standing there like what the fuck is going on?
55:55
Speaker 1: Blanca grabs Marvin's gun from the ground and he sticks
55:59
Speaker 1: it in his face and he says, I'll keep your
56:02
Speaker 1: actions a secret from the mature. However, do not even
56:06
Speaker 1: think about laying a finger on this child ever. Again,
56:09
Speaker 1: you won't get away with just a wrist injury next time. Yay.
56:14
Speaker 1: Marvin is fucking scared, which makes sense because that was scary.
56:19
Speaker 1: And Blanca takes the magazine out of Marvin's gun and
56:24
Speaker 1: slides it back to him. Ash is just standing there
56:27
Speaker 1: and Blanca turns him and says, come with me. Ash.
56:31
Speaker 1: Ash looks, I don't know what this expression is, super
56:35
Speaker 1: fucking grateful, honestly, like maybe as someone he can kind
56:40
Speaker 1: of trust, and Blanka starts to walk off. Ash turns
56:46
Speaker 1: back and looks at Marvin and then runs off to
56:48
Speaker 1: follow Blanca. Ash says, hey, did you just break one
56:53
Speaker 1: of his bones? Blanca kind of sighs, and he's like,
56:56
Speaker 1: mm hm, you could say so. He should still be
56:59
Speaker 1: able to take a leak, assuming his wrist doesn't swell
57:02
Speaker 1: up to the size of a baseball bat. Yeah. Ash
57:04
Speaker 1: looks like super impressed and thankful. They are walking off
57:09
Speaker 1: together now and Ash says, but damn, how did you
57:13
Speaker 1: do that? How can you just break someone's wrist that easily?
57:16
Speaker 1: Blanca says, you see, it's a matter of forced direction
57:19
Speaker 1: and vital spots. Now we see a map with like
57:24
Speaker 1: little things on it and you know, pieces and shit,
57:29
Speaker 1: and we hear Blanca say, well, we see it because
57:32
Speaker 1: it's manga. Well then do you know what this is about? Ash?
57:36
Speaker 1: Does it looks like? And he says the Battle of
57:40
Speaker 1: Algiers a simulation of the offensive and defensive battle around
57:44
Speaker 1: the COSPA. Blanca says, exactly what I want you to
57:48
Speaker 1: do from here on out is further the simulation based
57:51
Speaker 1: on the original battle. I'll be acting as the French army,
57:54
Speaker 1: and your task is to calculate the conquest of the
57:57
Speaker 1: Cosva led by Algeria's National Liberty Front. All needed information
58:02
Speaker 1: regarding the local weather forecast, types of available heavy firearms
58:05
Speaker 1: and so on can be learned from the file I
58:07
Speaker 1: prepared for you over there. Over the next few days,
58:10
Speaker 1: you will be waging war against me with all your might.
58:13
Speaker 1: Got it? Ash doesn't say anything. Blanka continues, all right,
58:17
Speaker 1: time to begin, You go ahead, please. Ash takes a
58:22
Speaker 1: like a little stick thing and he moves one of
58:24
Speaker 1: the pieces back to now or kind of present banana
58:29
Speaker 1: fish ish sort of past present. Older Ash is staring
58:35
Speaker 1: off back on the ferry, trying to assess this threats
58:40
Speaker 1: and we hear Agy saying ash Ash. Ash snaps out
58:45
Speaker 1: of it and he's like what. He looks over at ag.
58:48
Speaker 1: Ag says, what's wrong? You're so quiet all of a sudden.
58:51
Speaker 1: Did something happen? Ash kind of looks down and he says, no,
58:57
Speaker 1: it's nothing, Okay, don't worry about it. Heg's like, if
59:01
Speaker 1: that's the case, I'm glad. Ash is still kind of
59:04
Speaker 1: staring over, trying to figure out what the fuck is
59:07
Speaker 1: going on, and we see Blanca's feets and he kind
59:12
Speaker 1: of lowers the brim of his hat over his face
59:15
Speaker 1: and Ash says, must have been my imagination. He's like
59:20
Speaker 1: what and Ash says, just forget about it. And that's
59:25
Speaker 1: the end. So closing, closing thoughts, I am going to
59:31
Speaker 1: tell you that that went much better than the last time.
59:34
Speaker 1: And I know because I started to cry in the middle,
59:37
Speaker 1: so I said the right things to make me cry,
59:41
Speaker 1: I guess, So I guess that's good. Yeah. I like this.
59:46
Speaker 1: It's interesting to see how Blanca and Ash met and
59:51
Speaker 1: more about that part of his life. My only thing
59:54
Speaker 1: is like I still don't know what happened between when
59:56
Speaker 1: he was like eight and a half to eleven and
1:00:00
Speaker 1: he was on the street, and I really really want
1:00:03
Speaker 1: to know. It's like that only spot in his childhood
1:00:06
Speaker 1: that you know, there's not, as far as I'm aware,
1:00:09
Speaker 1: like manga abouts, but you know, I'm sure it was bad,
1:00:14
Speaker 1: so why even go there? Really? But yeah, shit sucked,
1:00:20
Speaker 1: man really sucked. And Golzine is insane. Really the whole thing,
1:00:27
Speaker 1: and I haven't really talked about this yet, so I'm
1:00:29
Speaker 1: glad I'm remembering too right now. The whole thing about
1:00:32
Speaker 1: comparing Ash to a wild animal or a god's vessel
1:00:35
Speaker 1: like him not being a person is very interesting because
1:00:39
Speaker 1: I mean, even as a wild animal, you had to
1:00:41
Speaker 1: understand unless you have a domesticated animal. Feral animals, people
1:00:47
Speaker 1: say that they're kind of unpredictable. It's not that animals
1:00:50
Speaker 1: are unpredictable, it's that you don't know enough to predict them. Right.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Ash is very open about what he wants, which is
1:01:01
Speaker 1: not any of this, and if you're the right person,
1:01:05
Speaker 1: you're gonna see it. He's not hard to read unless
1:01:09
Speaker 1: you don't want to read him, which is kind of
1:01:11
Speaker 1: what happens through a lot of banana fish. So he's
1:01:15
Speaker 1: not some dangerous wild thing because everything is predictable if
1:01:22
Speaker 1: you understand it. And the problem with wild animals and
1:01:27
Speaker 1: ash is nobody wants to or they're not smart enough to,
1:01:31
Speaker 1: especially with wild animals, like we just don't get them
1:01:33
Speaker 1: enough to understand that it's dangerous to be around this
1:01:37
Speaker 1: thing because you think that you've domesticated it, when really
1:01:41
Speaker 1: all you've done is somehow got it not to kill
1:01:44
Speaker 1: you yet, right for some reason. And when it does
1:01:50
Speaker 1: actually decide that it's time to fucking get rid of you, yeah,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: it's gonna and you're gonna be surprised. So yeah, Golzian
1:02:00
Speaker 1: should have known that this was coming, but he didn't
1:02:06
Speaker 1: think of him like a real person, so he couldn't.
1:02:10
Speaker 1: I saw on breddits Sorry one time, somebody puts something
1:02:14
Speaker 1: like they were like this is a quote from I
1:02:16
Speaker 1: don't know, and it was like some people don't break.
1:02:19
Speaker 1: They just bend and bend and bend until they snap
1:02:22
Speaker 1: back in your face, which I feel like is pertinent
1:02:25
Speaker 1: to this. Eventually, if you push someone enough, you're gonna
1:02:30
Speaker 1: be in trouble. So all that shit. But I know,
1:02:35
Speaker 1: I got really emotional about Blanca saying that Ash never
1:02:38
Speaker 1: had a choice kind of deal, and he's never going
1:02:40
Speaker 1: to have a choice. And if you remember back in
1:02:43
Speaker 1: episode eighteen, Blanca saying something like he trained him because
1:02:49
Speaker 1: he realized that Ash was never going to be able
1:02:51
Speaker 1: to exist in any other world but this, and he
1:02:53
Speaker 1: wanted to give him the tools to survive. It's that
1:02:57
Speaker 1: same thing where it's like, hey, we've decided that this
1:03:00
Speaker 1: person's not gonna have a choice and that they've never
1:03:02
Speaker 1: had a choice and they're not going to Like, I
1:03:06
Speaker 1: am so fucking hurt that Blanca didn't do anything, you know,
1:03:11
Speaker 1: because nobody does anything, and it sucks. And I always like,
1:03:16
Speaker 1: I wonder what's going on in Blanca's mind, because like
1:03:20
Speaker 1: he does stop Marvin from assaulting Ash. I think that
1:03:26
Speaker 1: that's kind of the end of it there when he
1:03:29
Speaker 1: threatens Marvin. But what it's okay, that's Golsieane's doing it.
1:03:35
Speaker 1: It's okay that he is being held against as well.
1:03:37
Speaker 1: That's fine. But because Golzeane is a mafia boss and
1:03:41
Speaker 1: he's kind of your friend or he's your client, that's okay.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: And also I just wanted to kind of touch on
1:03:48
Speaker 1: the fact that Ash seems to have some freedom at
1:03:51
Speaker 1: this point in his life. He's going into the city,
1:03:53
Speaker 1: he's hanging out with Alex and Co. But he is
1:03:57
Speaker 1: still very much being held by Goalsing and the mafia.
1:04:03
Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting because, like I'm sure in
1:04:08
Speaker 1: some capacity he might have been able to run away
1:04:11
Speaker 1: from them if he's got this mautreedom, but like at
1:04:14
Speaker 1: this point, he is so afraid of Goalsing and so
1:04:20
Speaker 1: like fucking traumatized and into this shit that like I
1:04:24
Speaker 1: don't know if he could or he even thought about that,
1:04:28
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean he obviously wouldn't have anywhere to go.
1:04:34
Speaker 1: These are very powerful people, but like it's just this
1:04:41
Speaker 1: this I don't know, I'm trying to think of a
1:04:43
Speaker 1: good word that's not bullshit, but I'll just say bullshit.
1:04:46
Speaker 1: This bullshit has been so impressed upon him and he's
1:04:50
Speaker 1: been so like held in this that I don't think
1:04:54
Speaker 1: he sees an opportunity to get away. And I mean, yeah,
1:04:59
Speaker 1: so I don't know. That's basically what I wanted to
1:05:03
Speaker 1: say about this. I feel like I covered the last
1:05:06
Speaker 1: few things, so the last thing I want to say
1:05:10
Speaker 1: about this or you know, about anything. Is the idea
1:05:14
Speaker 1: that Blanca didn't recognize Ash because he was in a
1:05:19
Speaker 1: state where he was genuinely expressing unguarded emotions is both
1:05:26
Speaker 1: like the saddest thing ever and just the nicest, most
1:05:30
Speaker 1: beautiful thing that you could possibly say about Ash and
1:05:33
Speaker 1: Agy's relationship, you know, Like, yeah, that's that's really all
1:05:42
Speaker 1: I've got. So I just wanted to say that, Like,
1:05:47
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy every season of this podcast. Similarly, there
1:05:54
Speaker 1: have definitely been seasons or whatever where I've been totally
1:05:58
Speaker 1: ready to end and watching the show and writing notes
1:06:02
Speaker 1: and talking about it by the end of it several
1:06:05
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know, I don't like every show
1:06:08
Speaker 1: the same amount, obviously, and some of them are real
1:06:11
Speaker 1: fucking stressful to take notes on. I don't know why,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: but I really enjoyed doing this one. This is probably
1:06:19
Speaker 1: I think the only other one I liked this much
1:06:22
Speaker 1: was maybe doing Chainsaw Man, which I had like so
1:06:25
Speaker 1: much fun with it. It was like the first one, and
1:06:27
Speaker 1: I love chainsawmn so, but yeah, this was definitely one
1:06:31
Speaker 1: of my favorites, and I don't know if it's gonna
1:06:34
Speaker 1: be one of yours, because you might just take Banana
1:06:36
Speaker 1: Fish and that's totally fine, you know. Unfortunately I have
1:06:41
Speaker 1: to tell you because I haven't verbally yet. That's while
1:06:44
Speaker 1: rewatching this and I'm also rereading the manga, I sadly
1:06:49
Speaker 1: had to come to the conclusion that actually Banana Fish
1:06:51
Speaker 1: is my favorite anime. It's not my second favorite. So yeah,
1:06:56
Speaker 1: this was a really special season for me. I guess
1:06:59
Speaker 1: now now that I'm like thinking about it. So yeah,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I don't know what that says
1:07:04
Speaker 1: about me, but it might not be something good. So yeah, anyway,
1:07:11
Speaker 1: I had our nice time with us, and I hope
1:07:14
Speaker 1: you had almost an okay time with it. Yeah, So
1:07:19
Speaker 1: hopefully I will be back next week with that episode
1:07:22
Speaker 1: where I just talk about stuff with my friend. If
1:07:25
Speaker 1: I'm not, it's just because, like I said earlier, it sucked.
1:07:29
Speaker 1: And regardless, I will see you metaphorically on March thirteenth,
1:07:34
Speaker 1: and we're going to start eighty six. So thank you
1:07:36
Speaker 1: for hanging out with me in theory at least maybe
1:07:40
Speaker 1: not in real life. And I hope you have like
1:07:44
Speaker 1: a really good whatever and yeah later weeps.