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Given Ep. 9- A Winter Story · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I'm recording this earlier in
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Speaker 1: the week than usual. Actually it's last week. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's this week for me, but not for you. If
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Speaker 1: you're listening to this on Thursday or you know, any
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Speaker 1: other day, I guess. But yeah, that's what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Before I start talking about episode nine of Given, which
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Speaker 1: is what we're supposed to do today, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to say I read the new chainsaw Man chapter last Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: not your previous Tuesday, my previous Tuesday, so like two
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Speaker 1: tuesdays ago for you, I guess, And I'm just so
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Speaker 1: confused and hurt that i didn't sleep well last night
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Speaker 1: because of it. And it's like Saturday when I'm recording this,
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Speaker 1: and it's still bothering me because I don't know what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen now, and I can't tell you anything else, obviously,
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Speaker 1: in case you're not up to date with chainsaw Man
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Speaker 1: or you don't read chains on Man, or you don't care.
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Speaker 1: But god damn it, really, I just have to remind
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Speaker 1: myself that every time I think Tasky Fujimoto is gonna
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Speaker 1: let me down big time with chainsaw Man, he doesn't.
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Speaker 1: But right now I feel like this is the time
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Speaker 1: where he's gonna go like, yeesh, it's time to let
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Speaker 1: Michelle down for real, you know. So I'm concerned and
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Speaker 1: I want to say things, but I can't. I just
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Speaker 1: I don't believe Dengi was happier before. I don't. I mean, no,
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Speaker 1: I can't talk about this. I don't want to upset
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Speaker 1: you or to you know, spoil things for you. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop, but just know that it is stressing
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Speaker 1: me out to no end. Okay, So, given episode nine,
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Speaker 1: before we start, I just want to apologize for this
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Speaker 1: episode because I'm gonna be kind of not nice about
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Speaker 1: some of what's happening here. And if you really like
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Speaker 1: this episode, you may be angry at me, and if
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Speaker 1: you are, I'm really sorry. It's a challenge because you know,
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Speaker 1: I play music and I just feel like there are
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Speaker 1: some things that are really gotten wrong about this episode
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Speaker 1: and they like bother me. So I need to tell
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Speaker 1: you about them, and I hope that it won't ruin
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Speaker 1: the experience for you if you didn't know, and if
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Speaker 1: it does, again, totally sorry. You don't have to listen anymore.
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Speaker 1: Just you know, you could cover your ears, you could
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Speaker 1: stop the podcast. You can never listen again. I totally
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Speaker 1: get it. It was nice while it lasted. But if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna stick around, we might as well just do
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Speaker 1: it and you'll see what I mean. So given, episode
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Speaker 1: nine is called a Winter Story, which isn't the name
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Speaker 1: of a song that exists in our world? Well it
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Speaker 1: does now. It's the name of a song in the episode,
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Speaker 1: the main song that's being played in the episode. Even
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Speaker 1: though they never say that that's what it's called. That's
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Speaker 1: the title of it. So that's kind of cool. Again,
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Speaker 1: So do you remember where we ended last week where oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, Yama kind of yelled at Mafou and Mafu
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Speaker 1: you got like real upset, and he happened to break
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Speaker 1: the a string on his guitar, which is the same
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Speaker 1: string he broke when he saw Yuki, I guess, hanging
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Speaker 1: definitely dead in his room. So like super traumatizing, kind
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Speaker 1: of a circle of trauma just coming back around to
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Speaker 1: him again. So that's where we start. The string is
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Speaker 1: just broke. In fact, we see it again, so let
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Speaker 1: me grab my guitar. I'm sorry, guitar. So anyway, the
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Speaker 1: string breaks again, and oh, I know, Yama's eyes widen.
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Speaker 1: We see Kaji and he looks shocked, and we get
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Speaker 1: a close up of Mafuu's eyes as they also widen.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, a string broke and this is such
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Speaker 1: a big deal. Now that the camera has started to
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Speaker 1: rock back and forth, you know, like if someone's holding it,
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Speaker 1: you know how they do and like shows like I
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Speaker 1: don't know, like the Office or something, it's not steady.
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Speaker 1: So things are like getting real and Mafu you says
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Speaker 1: the string He's gripping his guitar neck tightly and everyone
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Speaker 1: is just standing there totally freaked out, like really freaked out.
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Speaker 1: Ouo Yama thinks, oh shit, it's all. We get a
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Speaker 1: close up on Uino Yama's eyes and we hear his
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Speaker 1: heart beat over wait, what's over Yama? We cut back
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Speaker 1: to very very stunned Kaji. What's going on? Guys? What
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Speaker 1: are you doing? And how Dooki, who for some reason
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Speaker 1: wasn't there at that moment, walks over and he's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: what happened? Oh your string broke? Do you have a replacement? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: get get him a replacement. We cut back to shocked
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Speaker 1: looking o Yama and then Howki continues, I guess you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have one? Huh, why wouldn't he have one? Ooo? Yama,
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Speaker 1: how do ke? He puts his hand on Uo Yama's shoulder,
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Speaker 1: Oh I know. Yama looks at him, and Howki says,
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Speaker 1: run to the shop in front of the station and
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Speaker 1: gets strings. Come on, why do you guys look like
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Speaker 1: the world's ending. When a string breaks, you just have
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Speaker 1: to fix it, right we know? Yama gasps because this
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Speaker 1: is news to him, I guess And how dooke? He continues,
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Speaker 1: weren't you the one who fixed it for him when
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Speaker 1: it happened the first time? We get a quick flash
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Speaker 1: back to then, and you know in the past, Mafela,
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Speaker 1: you're saying this can be fixed. Oh I know. Yama
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Speaker 1: now grits his teeth and then we see him in
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Speaker 1: the past and he's like, of course it can. He
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Speaker 1: tightens his fists and he's like, I'll be back, and
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Speaker 1: he runs for it, like he just runs out of
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Speaker 1: the room. Yeyoi, who is you know? And the menu
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Speaker 1: looks up from her phone just as we know, Yama
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Speaker 1: passes her by, and how Dook then puts his hand
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Speaker 1: on maffu your shoulder, who was looking real real down,
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Speaker 1: and he says, I'll talk to some people downstairs. You
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Speaker 1: two go back to the green room and he walks off.
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Speaker 1: Kaji's like, right, Yiyoi walks over and she's like, Akihiko,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Ritsu? And Kaji just cuts her off
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Speaker 1: and says, sorry, I can't talk right now. He starts
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Speaker 1: to walk away. Sorry. We can't see Ayoi's eyes, but
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Speaker 1: what we can see if her face, looks like she's
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Speaker 1: probably pretty hurt to just be dissed like that. And
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Speaker 1: she says, take care of Fritzka for me, and then
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Speaker 1: we go to the opening theme. Yay, okay, So I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna stop there, and this is gonna be kind
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Speaker 1: of a long pause because we need to talk about
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Speaker 1: all of that, and I feel really bad about this again,
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Speaker 1: but it's important for you to understand that none of
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Speaker 1: this makes any sense at all, like not at all, guys.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this anime could get away with maybe one
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Speaker 1: character reacting this way to a broken guitar string, like
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Speaker 1: MafA you because again he's new with this, but having
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Speaker 1: like a seasoned band act like this is just totally
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Speaker 1: abnormal and not at all realistic, like at all, Like
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Speaker 1: I can't find the words to tell you how unrealistic
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Speaker 1: this is, but I'll explain it anyway, even though I
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Speaker 1: just said I couldn't. So listen. When you're playing a
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Speaker 1: show as a person who plays guitar or any stringed instrument,
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Speaker 1: strings break all the time, all the fucking time, especially
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Speaker 1: if you're like me and you don't change your strings
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Speaker 1: a lot, and they just kind of snap because they're
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Speaker 1: old and sad now. But it happens. It's part of
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Speaker 1: playing live music, it's part of playing music in general.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, any prepared musician, like really well
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Speaker 1: prepared musician, is going to have extra strings with them
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Speaker 1: because we know that this happens, and I mean mostly
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Speaker 1: it happens when you're playing guitar, not when you're freaking out,
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Speaker 1: you know, holding your guitar and then making the string
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Speaker 1: break by clutching it too tight, which probably isn't going
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Speaker 1: to happen too much, because honestly, strings have pretty good
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Speaker 1: give to them, especially like electra guitars like bend notes
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Speaker 1: a lot, so you have to put a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of pressure on a string that is in good condition
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Speaker 1: to break it. But assuming that it broke, like I
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Speaker 1: just said, you probably have extra strings with you, but
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't because like maybe you have a string
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Speaker 1: that breaks a lot, Like I think when I played
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Speaker 1: electric guitar, I don't remember what string it was. I
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Speaker 1: feel like it was the a string again, but it
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Speaker 1: used to just break all the time on me. Put
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Speaker 1: a new one on and get a couple weeks out
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Speaker 1: of it, and break again, And it turned out that
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Speaker 1: there was just like a little metal pointy piece in
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Speaker 1: like the bridge area of my guitar, like the part
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Speaker 1: where the strings end. I just kept snapping off my string.
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Speaker 1: Once that was fixed, it was fine. But I usually
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Speaker 1: broke an a string and didn't have another a string
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Speaker 1: right away because I didn't expect to need one. So
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Speaker 1: I can understand if maybe you just don't have the
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Speaker 1: string that you need, but you know, if you're prepared,
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Speaker 1: you would, so that would be the first thing you do.
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Speaker 1: The string breaks and you change it with the string
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Speaker 1: that you have. But if you don't have a string,
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Speaker 1: like I just said, the next thing you do, Like
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Speaker 1: there's an order of operations to this, is that you
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Speaker 1: ask the other person and your band who plays guitar,
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Speaker 1: because we have more than one person in this band
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Speaker 1: that plays guitar. So I would assume if Mafau doesn't
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Speaker 1: have a string, well, you know, Yama does. He's like
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Speaker 1: a quote unquote genius, Like why wouldn't he have extra
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Speaker 1: strings with him? But if he doesn't, and normally he would,
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Speaker 1: you're at a show, right, so there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: other people there who play guitar. I think there's like
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Speaker 1: five bands at the show or something, so you have
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Speaker 1: at least five guitarists that you can ask someone has
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Speaker 1: an extra a string. They just do like because not
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Speaker 1: everyone is unprepared and they're gonna give it to you
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Speaker 1: and it's not gonna be an issue. But what if
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Speaker 1: no one has an extra string? Well, honestly, at that point,
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Speaker 1: you could use someone else's guitar. Because I don't let
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Speaker 1: people borrow my guitar very very often. It's not a
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Speaker 1: big deal, but maybe no one will let you borrow
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Speaker 1: their guitar. So really, the next thing you would do
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Speaker 1: then is just play without the a string. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: sound a little weird, but it's not like Maffa is
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Speaker 1: really good at guitar, so I think it'd be fun
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Speaker 1: just play quieter whatever. It's gonna feel a little weird,
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Speaker 1: but you can get away with that. And again, most
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Speaker 1: of the time when this happens, it's happening during a set,
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Speaker 1: so it's like, does anyone have a guitar string at
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Speaker 1: this exact moment, and they don't, so maybe you just
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Speaker 1: play without the age string. It's really not a big deal.
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Speaker 1: It kind of sucks. I mean, it's always better to
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Speaker 1: have your instrument in top condition, But I don't know
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Speaker 1: how you get to the point where somebody has to
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Speaker 1: run to a music shop that might be several blocks
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Speaker 1: away and delay a bunch of shit so that you
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Speaker 1: can get a new string. Like that's unrealistic. It just
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Speaker 1: really really is. So it's hard because it feels like
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Speaker 1: this entire interaction is manufactured, and I mean it's not.
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Speaker 1: It's not realistic. I mean, I can't tell you how
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Speaker 1: many times I've played with one less guitar string because
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Speaker 1: I was like, I mean, I could change the string.
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Speaker 1: I'm on stage and i could change it, which I've
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Speaker 1: seen people do plenty of times, but I'm not super fast,
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Speaker 1: so who the fuck cares. I'm honestly like a folk musician,
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Speaker 1: who the hell cares if I have one less string?
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Speaker 1: Everyone saw it breaks, so they know what happens, like,
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Speaker 1: I'll stop talking about this. I just this really cheapens
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Speaker 1: this for me. I wish this was done differently, Like
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Speaker 1: I wish I was thinking about it like a couple
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Speaker 1: of days ago in the shower. I guess that, Like
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Speaker 1: what would have been really cool is if breaking the
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Speaker 1: string again just triggered him off with you to just
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Speaker 1: kind of lose it. Because in the last episode he
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Speaker 1: was very clear that he is holding in his emotions,
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Speaker 1: Like it's not like he doesn't have them, it's that
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Speaker 1: he's pushing them down so he doesn't have to experience them.
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Speaker 1: So I think would be cool if like this was
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Speaker 1: just the thing that just did it. Like he's been
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Speaker 1: really upset, right, He's horribly upset. He just hung out
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Speaker 1: with kid Agi and that ended up making him really sad,
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Speaker 1: and he's scared about the show. And have you ever
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Speaker 1: been in that situation where like you've got all the
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Speaker 1: shit going on, but you're like doing okay, You're like
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Speaker 1: keeping yourself together, and then that one thing happens, like
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Speaker 1: a little tiny thing and just lose it. I would
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Speaker 1: have liked the guitar string to be that. I'd like
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Speaker 1: it to have been acknowledged that it's actually not a
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Speaker 1: big deal to break a guitar string, but that considering
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Speaker 1: the context and considering everything that Mafui's been like, it
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Speaker 1: felt like a big deal to him. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: this whole interaction, everything would have been totally different if
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Speaker 1: that happened instead, and he was just like overcome with
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Speaker 1: grief and like just kind of losing it over this
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Speaker 1: guitar string, and everyone else was like, well, we'll fix it. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be okay. But that's what I would have liked
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Speaker 1: to see. That's what would have been more realistic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I know not all things have to be realistic,
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Speaker 1: but this is the same way I felt when do
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Speaker 1: you remember when we watched try Gun Stampede and Vash
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Speaker 1: was like in a fucking sewer and he was like
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Speaker 1: digging a bullet out of himself, Like you don't do that.
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Speaker 1: That's how I feel about this. None of this makes
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Speaker 1: any sense to me. So unfortunately, now you know, and
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Speaker 1: I hope that that made sense to you. At least
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Speaker 1: what I said made sense, because you know, when I talk,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what I'm saying anymore. So yeay,
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Speaker 1: let's continue on and you can hate me forever. Now.
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Speaker 1: So we are outside the venue now, and we see
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Speaker 1: the lights come on over the stage and there's cheering,
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Speaker 1: and Taki's band is on stage, and Take, who is
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Speaker 1: the singer by the way, is like, this next one's
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Speaker 1: gonna be our last song. The audience is like awe,
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Speaker 1: and Taki's like awe, and they kind of laugh, and
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Speaker 1: Take says thanks guys, and he waves and then he
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Speaker 1: looks to the side and sees it on the side
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Speaker 1: of the stage. Haddoki's there and he's holding up two fingers,
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Speaker 1: and Take thinks two. Hadoki raises another finger, looking pretty stressed,
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Speaker 1: and Takei's like or three songs. Hadoki starts doing this
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Speaker 1: thing that means like lengthens spread it out with your hands,
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Speaker 1: where you like make your hands close first and then
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Speaker 1: you bring them away, and Take thinks buy some time.
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Speaker 1: He clasps his hands together like he's praying, and Take
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Speaker 1: nods and thinks, got it. He looks up at the
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Speaker 1: sound guy, who is doing something with his hands too,
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Speaker 1: But I don't know what that means. Take says, so
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Speaker 1: I said this would be our last song, but we're
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Speaker 1: actually gonna play a few more. The crowd sounds super happy.
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Speaker 1: We cut to Hidragi and she's Asuma in the audience,
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Speaker 1: and they look a little bit worried. Take continues, you
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Speaker 1: guys aren't tired of it yet, are you. Hidragi and
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Speaker 1: she's Assuma look over at each other, and then we
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Speaker 1: cut to the floor of a music shop. I guess
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Speaker 1: it's right at the entrance, and there's a man on
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Speaker 1: the floor that says welcome to Shirosawa Instruments. Ouennoyama runs
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Speaker 1: out of the store and we hear the clerk say
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Speaker 1: thank you. Then we see ouyin Oyama running through the city.
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Speaker 1: It's sunset, and he like runs smack into some business
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Speaker 1: guy and he doesn't even apologize, and the guy is like, ouch,
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Speaker 1: damn it, Yeah, you should apologize, Oweena Yama. I know
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Speaker 1: that this feels it's like an emergency for some reason,
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Speaker 1: but like you can't just run into people anyway. We
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Speaker 1: know Yama is running and panting and he thinks, am
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Speaker 1: I an idiot? Yeah? You kind of are. He thinks
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Speaker 1: about holding Maflu's cheeks and he's like, I'm the one
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Speaker 1: who told him to sing. Yeah. We see those red
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Speaker 1: lights at the train crossing and the gates starts to
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Speaker 1: go down, and we know Yama has to stop running,
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Speaker 1: and he's like trying to catch his breath, and he
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Speaker 1: thinks he's hard to understand, but he always tried so
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Speaker 1: hard to do whatever I asked him. We see a
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Speaker 1: bunch of flashbacks of Mafou and then MafA you being
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Speaker 1: like I can change the strings by myself, and then
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Speaker 1: him talking about like going to the light music club
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Speaker 1: like he's doing everything that we know. Yama asks him
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Speaker 1: to exactly like he said, and the train passes now
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Speaker 1: and the gate lifts, and we know Yama starts to
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Speaker 1: run again, hyper determined to save the day or something.
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Speaker 1: Uino Yama thinks I We cut to the green room,
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Speaker 1: I guess, which is just I guess stage for the band,
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Speaker 1: and Kadzi and Haddogi are standing together while Mafuyu sits
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Speaker 1: on a stool hugging his guitar like the world is
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Speaker 1: ending still. We hear the door open and Uo Yama
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Speaker 1: like runs up with a plastic bag. He's like, I
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Speaker 1: got 'em. K He's like, that was fast, man. It
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Speaker 1: must be great to be young. You're just a couple
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Speaker 1: of years older than him. He continues, I asked the
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Speaker 1: band before us to play another two or three songs,
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Speaker 1: so let's regroup and relax. Uino Yama, who is still panting,
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Speaker 1: says thanks, how dok look in I don't know a
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Speaker 1: little worried or piss says, just make sure you cool
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Speaker 1: up before we go on. Okay, seriously, wino Yama's like right. Hodoki,
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Speaker 1: who is holding a clipboard by the way, says, I'll
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Speaker 1: go give the PA guy the updated setlist. He starts
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Speaker 1: to walk away. Oo Yama's like okay. So at this point,
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Speaker 1: ouo Yama is just staring at Mafou, who again just
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Speaker 1: looks like he's going to the gallows. He's slumped over
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Speaker 1: in his chair, and uino Yama says, Mafoo, will you
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Speaker 1: let me change your strings? Ah? I guess. We get
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Speaker 1: to Kadoki, who is in a stairwell walking down some stairs,
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Speaker 1: and we hear Kaji say how DOOKI how dok? He's
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Speaker 1: like what but he's still walking. Kaji's behind him somewhere,
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Speaker 1: and Kaji grabs him by the arm and is like, hey, Hodoki,
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Speaker 1: how doack? He gasps and turns, and Kaji's like, look
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Speaker 1: at me, how doak? He stares at him and is like,
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Speaker 1: huh what. Kaji cuts him off. You know, I'm not
17:27
Speaker 1: sure you even realize this, but you're always saving my ass?
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Speaker 1: How do he? He's like, uh, what you mean with
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Speaker 1: band stuff? He's kind of looking off down the stairs. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not Kaji cuts him off. I mean personally, how
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Speaker 1: doak He looks at him and is like, huh. Kaji says,
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Speaker 1: thanks for inviting me into the band at a time
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Speaker 1: my nerves were shot to hell. He smiles. How do
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Speaker 1: He's like, hey, can you put the damn death flag away?
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Speaker 1: Kaji's like I might actually die? Do He says, that's
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Speaker 1: really not funny right now this point, Kaji puts his
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Speaker 1: hand on the wall, like to the side of Hadoki.
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Speaker 1: I guess, like it's the sidewall, so it's not like
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Speaker 1: he's trapped him or anything. But he leans in towards
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Speaker 1: Haddoki and says, hey, ha took, you can be a
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Speaker 1: little more conceited. You know, we cut too. That's plastic bag,
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Speaker 1: a pack of strings that are apparently nicoleum wound regular
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Speaker 1: light gauge. There's also a string winder like a little
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Speaker 1: paper bag maybe and stop and this is on a counter.
18:31
Speaker 1: We hear uino Yama say, I think the heart is
18:34
Speaker 1: similar to these strings. We see a wirecutter snipping all
18:37
Speaker 1: the strings off the guitar, which is weird because we
18:40
Speaker 1: only needed to change one string. Why make this more complicated?
18:44
Speaker 1: Ouio Yama continues, he's thinking, by the way, when the
18:47
Speaker 1: pain's too much to bear and you can't breathe, it
18:50
Speaker 1: hurts like strings laid across your chest that are about
18:52
Speaker 1: to snap. He takes the strings out of their individual packages,
18:57
Speaker 1: and he continues, it's like when you keep strumming and
19:00
Speaker 1: picking and the strings are at their very limited and
19:02
Speaker 1: sometimes they snap. We see him putting the strings on
19:06
Speaker 1: the guitar. Sometimes you feel like they can ever be replaced.
19:10
Speaker 1: But if there was someone to replace your strings for
19:14
Speaker 1: you like this, I think your wounds might heal just
19:17
Speaker 1: a little. He is cutting the ends off of the
19:21
Speaker 1: strings over by the tuning pegs so they're not all messy,
19:25
Speaker 1: and then out loud, he says, Mafu you I like
19:29
Speaker 1: your sound. Mafu you looks up. Wuinoyama continues, I was
19:34
Speaker 1: trying to give you a little push, but before I
19:36
Speaker 1: realized it, you were the one pulling me. Up. He
19:39
Speaker 1: tightens his grip on the guitar. Ever since you showed up,
19:42
Speaker 1: he puts his hand on his face. My sounds have
19:45
Speaker 1: been scattered, disconnected, and warped. It's just a mess. Mafo
19:50
Speaker 1: you looks slightly surprised. Then uino Yama continues, but I'm
19:54
Speaker 1: having so much more fun now than when I was
19:57
Speaker 1: just playing the chords I was told to play. Uh
20:01
Speaker 1: is that like a metaphor for homosexuality or something? He
20:06
Speaker 1: rubs his face. Damn it, what am I trying to say?
20:10
Speaker 1: I guess I suck at putting my feelings into words too.
20:13
Speaker 1: Maf of you gasps. We cut to the stage lights
20:16
Speaker 1: and hear a song ending, and the lights come on
20:18
Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of clapping. Take who is on
20:21
Speaker 1: stage obviously raises his very sweaty fist and it is like,
20:25
Speaker 1: thanks guys, for those of you who came to see
20:27
Speaker 1: our next band. Sorry to keep you guys waiting for
20:29
Speaker 1: so long. We're leaving now, though, so don't be too mad.
20:32
Speaker 1: People kind of laugh and clap, and the curtain comes down,
20:35
Speaker 1: which I didn't know that the venue had. But that's cool.
20:39
Speaker 1: We see it. Taya who to Ueki says their vocalist
20:42
Speaker 1: is funny and his bass solo was really good too.
20:45
Speaker 1: I agree. Oaki looks down at his phone and he's like,
20:48
Speaker 1: ooh a Noyama's bands up. Next we see she's assuming
20:52
Speaker 1: and he says, dou Hiraki, those guys ran pretty long.
20:56
Speaker 1: It kutsa Yayoi, who looks pretty concerned, and then we
20:59
Speaker 1: see Kaji and Hodge walking onto the stage and how
21:03
Speaker 1: Dokei's like, oh, it looks like they kept the mic up, well,
21:06
Speaker 1: they should keep the mic up. Mafo you is kneeling
21:10
Speaker 1: down on the stage doing who knows what, I can't tell,
21:13
Speaker 1: and he kind of looks up at the mic and
21:15
Speaker 1: ha Dokei says, it's not really in the way, so
21:18
Speaker 1: should we just leave it? A I get it now
21:20
Speaker 1: because Mafu's not gonna sing. We see Uinayama and Kaji
21:24
Speaker 1: getting ready and we hear how Doki say, you decided
21:27
Speaker 1: not to sing right? Or are we going with the
21:30
Speaker 1: la la la strategy? We never talked about any of this.
21:34
Speaker 1: Was it discussed off camera like cause these are big
21:38
Speaker 1: important things. Mafoo doesn't say anything, which is honestly a
21:44
Speaker 1: little frustrating, and Uino Yama says, Mafou. Mafou is standing
21:49
Speaker 1: at the mic and he looks at him, and Uina
21:51
Speaker 1: Yama is like, hey, you're staring off into space. He
21:55
Speaker 1: like waves his hand in front of this very dazed
21:58
Speaker 1: looking Mafu you and it's like, we're are you looking again?
22:01
Speaker 1: Mafu's just silent, and again, you need to communicate your feelings, dude,
22:06
Speaker 1: I know that that's the whole thing. He can't communicate
22:08
Speaker 1: his feelings, but he needs to physically communicate with other
22:10
Speaker 1: people in this room. Haddo Key looks over and is like,
22:14
Speaker 1: got it all out of your system? Muichi o ya
22:16
Speaker 1: Yama says, yeah, when I accidentally snapped the string, I
22:19
Speaker 1: wonder if that's just a really bad translation because he
22:22
Speaker 1: didn't snap a string that was Mafuu, so I didn't
22:25
Speaker 1: know what that was anyway. Haddo Kei and Kaji look
22:29
Speaker 1: at each other and they nod and get a close
22:31
Speaker 1: up on Mafuu's eye, and he thinks, I never know
22:34
Speaker 1: how I'm supposed to react, but you would talk to
22:36
Speaker 1: them at least. We get some shots of the band
22:39
Speaker 1: getting ready, and had Ke says, I mean, there's no
22:42
Speaker 1: point in dwelling on things we can't do right now.
22:45
Speaker 1: Wuinoyama strums his guitar once and I think it's an
22:48
Speaker 1: a chord, so I will do it for you. His guitar,
22:54
Speaker 1: of course, had a bunch of I guess overdrive on it,
22:57
Speaker 1: so it doesn't sound as you know, just like my guitar.
23:01
Speaker 1: But whatever. Mafau looks up and they are all just
23:04
Speaker 1: staring at him at this point, and Haddoki says, I think,
23:07
Speaker 1: at least because we didn't see him say it, let's
23:10
Speaker 1: just have fun. Mafau thinks, just like how everyone laughs
23:14
Speaker 1: and cries, I just can't do it well. We see
23:18
Speaker 1: the crowd now, and we cut to Hidaki and she's assuming,
23:21
Speaker 1: and then also to Ugetsu. MafA You continues, I think
23:25
Speaker 1: I'm really bad at expressing myself compared to everyone else.
23:28
Speaker 1: But he looks over at Ueynayama, who looks back over
23:31
Speaker 1: at him. But in reality, even if I really wanted to,
23:36
Speaker 1: we cut to a hand pushing an up button and
23:39
Speaker 1: the curtain begins to rise and people start to clap
23:42
Speaker 1: and cheer. MafA You continues, I can't cry properly. It
23:46
Speaker 1: hurts so bad, it hurts so much, I just want
23:49
Speaker 1: to scream. Kaji starts to count down and the lights
23:55
Speaker 1: come up on four, and then they start playing. Yeah,
24:00
Speaker 1: they're doing it as they are playing. Mafau thinks I
24:03
Speaker 1: always wanted someone to understand that we are seeing them play,
24:07
Speaker 1: but not really their hands, except we can see Kaji
24:10
Speaker 1: like hitting the drums and shits, which is nice. Mafu
24:12
Speaker 1: You continues even just a little bit. He takes a
24:16
Speaker 1: breath and he starts to sing fuck he did have lyrics.
24:22
Speaker 1: Kaji and how do Key both look over at him
24:24
Speaker 1: like shocked, and of course so does Ui. No Yama
24:27
Speaker 1: and Kiagi and she's a Zumi are just wide eyed,
24:30
Speaker 1: and Ugetsu also looks totally shocked, and he thinks, what
24:34
Speaker 1: the fuck? So I'm gonna stop here. I don't really
24:37
Speaker 1: know how to do this and make it cohesive because
24:39
Speaker 1: obviously there's a bunch of things going on while mafu
24:42
Speaker 1: You is singing, and he does sound really nice. He's
24:45
Speaker 1: got a nice tone to his voice, but the lyrics
24:49
Speaker 1: are also really cool. So I obviously can't play the
24:52
Speaker 1: song for you because that's probably reaching you know, copyright
24:57
Speaker 1: or something. But I guess I've decided before I actually continue,
25:01
Speaker 1: I'll just read you the lyrics of the song, or
25:03
Speaker 1: like a decent translation of them, so that you can
25:06
Speaker 1: know what this song is about and you can feel
25:09
Speaker 1: the emotions that everyone was feeling when he sang sort of.
25:13
Speaker 1: But if for some reason you're not actually watching these episodes,
25:17
Speaker 1: it would probably behoove you to search for winter song
25:22
Speaker 1: or I guess it's a winter song given and actually
25:25
Speaker 1: listen to the song so you can kind of understand
25:28
Speaker 1: how emotional this is because it is so. First of all,
25:32
Speaker 1: I will tell you that the song is in four
25:35
Speaker 1: to four or something like that common time basically, so
25:38
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the four beats probably per measure. And
25:41
Speaker 1: the chords are pretty okay, like there's an F chord
25:45
Speaker 1: and there's an A, there's a D minor, and there's
25:48
Speaker 1: an A minor, and I guess a B flat and
25:52
Speaker 1: then a B minor and then a G minor and
25:55
Speaker 1: then an A minor and that kind of thing. I
25:58
Speaker 1: can't do much more than that, unfortunately, but it's nice,
26:02
Speaker 1: you know, but it is less technical than we heard
26:05
Speaker 1: them playing kind of in the beginning of the anime,
26:07
Speaker 1: where they were playing like a not common time signature.
26:10
Speaker 1: So this is more stand or rock anyway, let's do
26:14
Speaker 1: the uh, let's do the lyrics. So the lyrics are
26:16
Speaker 1: like this, and again this is a translation. This is
26:19
Speaker 1: not an official translation, so it's basically this. The first
26:23
Speaker 1: verse is. I mean, I don't need to tell you
26:25
Speaker 1: where the verse and the chorus begin or whatever. I'll
26:27
Speaker 1: just run through everything. So it is like snow in
26:30
Speaker 1: the shade that hasn't completely melted. I carry on with
26:33
Speaker 1: these feelings inside me? With what word should I choose
26:36
Speaker 1: to close the door of this love? You're everything that's
26:39
Speaker 1: lost it's tomorrow and is now wandering eternally along with
26:44
Speaker 1: me who was unable to say goodbye or move on
26:46
Speaker 1: from you, just like a spell that's still unbroken, or
26:50
Speaker 1: maybe like some kind of curse. I'm holding onto my thoughts. Hey,
26:54
Speaker 1: what kind of tomorrow should I look for? In this town?
26:57
Speaker 1: The cold tears that fall freeze under the sky, they're
27:00
Speaker 1: just pretending to be kind as they fall down my face.
27:04
Speaker 1: Two people who are always together are now torn apart.
27:08
Speaker 1: And that's all there is to this story. Even if
27:10
Speaker 1: your everything loses its shape one day, you're always with
27:14
Speaker 1: me as I try to move on again, even though
27:17
Speaker 1: I couldn't say goodbye to you. I'll carry on because
27:19
Speaker 1: I know you'll always be with me, and that's it.
27:23
Speaker 1: And honestly, that's so fucking sweet. I love that. So yes,
27:27
Speaker 1: let me go back to what I was doing. Anyway,
27:30
Speaker 1: he's singing this song, so we have all this stuff
27:32
Speaker 1: going on while he's singing, so I will do that now. So, yeah,
27:36
Speaker 1: they're playing the song. We have some shots of them
27:38
Speaker 1: actually kind of almost playing, and I'm pretty sure some
27:41
Speaker 1: of them are computer animated, but there's not a lot
27:43
Speaker 1: of detail of what their hands are doing or anything,
27:46
Speaker 1: which is kind of sad. But what are you gonna do? However,
27:49
Speaker 1: MafA you singing looks pretty fucking cool. Honestly, he's really sweaty.
27:54
Speaker 1: He just looks like he's really into it. And the
27:56
Speaker 1: crowd is watching this like shocked. Some girl puts her
27:59
Speaker 1: hand over her mouth, and we get a flashback of
28:02
Speaker 1: Mafuu as a kid, like under that tree, you know,
28:06
Speaker 1: and Yuki's like holding a plane and looking at him,
28:08
Speaker 1: and then we go to a shot of cops in
28:11
Speaker 1: front of like their houses like Mafuyu and Yuki's, and
28:15
Speaker 1: someone who is too much in the foreground for us
28:17
Speaker 1: to see very well being led out in handcuffs, and
28:22
Speaker 1: it looks like the two kind of moms like Mafuu
28:25
Speaker 1: and Yuki's moms are standing together. We can't see their
28:27
Speaker 1: heads though they're kind of cut off, and it looks
28:30
Speaker 1: like Yuki's mom is trying to comfort Mafui's mom, and
28:33
Speaker 1: mafuy and Yuki are standing behind them. Mafou looks, I
28:37
Speaker 1: don't know, like sort of concerns, sort of blank, and
28:40
Speaker 1: Yuki just looks pissed. They are holding their hands and
28:43
Speaker 1: watching him leave, and then they squeeze their hands tighter.
28:47
Speaker 1: We fade into their holding hands but older and it's raining,
28:51
Speaker 1: and Uki pulls Mafuyu away from these kids who are
28:54
Speaker 1: yelling and I don't know what the deal was, and
28:56
Speaker 1: then we see them holding hands like on a bed
29:00
Speaker 1: uh okay and yeah, so that And then we see
29:05
Speaker 1: that Yuki is on top of Mafou and they're kissing.
29:09
Speaker 1: Mafuu is breathing hard and he has his hand over
29:12
Speaker 1: his eyes and Yuki touches his palm and Mafuyu moves
29:16
Speaker 1: his hand and Yuki touches his cheek and smiles. He
29:20
Speaker 1: is very sweaty and he does not have his shirt on.
29:23
Speaker 1: So yeah. Now we see Yuki's hand touching Mafo You's
29:28
Speaker 1: shoulder and Mafua You brushing it away, and then Mafuu says,
29:31
Speaker 1: are you willing to die for me? Then? Oh, now
29:37
Speaker 1: I understand, Okay, let's keep going. We cut back to
29:41
Speaker 1: now as everyone, including Pake, is just watching him in
29:45
Speaker 1: astonishment as he just spills all of his guts onto
29:48
Speaker 1: the stage metaphorically, we hear him think a story that
29:52
Speaker 1: took place one winter, a story about one evening. We
29:56
Speaker 1: see Mafo You standing now at a subway station alone
30:00
Speaker 1: and he looks over to the side and he kind
30:02
Speaker 1: of sees the ghost of him and Yuki together talking.
30:06
Speaker 1: He continues, no matter where I go, you're there. We
30:09
Speaker 1: see him walking with the current band and he continues,
30:13
Speaker 1: You're always in my head. Oh I know. Ya'm a
30:16
Speaker 1: who is walking ahead of him turns back and as
30:19
Speaker 1: he turns, his face kind of morphs into Yuki's. And
30:23
Speaker 1: then we see Yuki and Mafu You eating something outside
30:26
Speaker 1: of a store and MafA You continues, You're everything I see.
30:31
Speaker 1: We get a bunch of shots of them together and
30:32
Speaker 1: Yuki smiling. No matter where I go, I can still
30:36
Speaker 1: see you there. I can still smell your sense I
30:39
Speaker 1: can't forgive you. We get a kind of dark place
30:42
Speaker 1: with a shot of Yuki's profile sort of obscured but
30:47
Speaker 1: kind of looking down like maybe it's hanging, and mafu
30:51
Speaker 1: you looking up at him horrified. I can't forgive myself.
30:56
Speaker 1: He is pulling the strings on his guitar, but I
31:01
Speaker 1: I miss you, still singing now he is starting to cry,
31:05
Speaker 1: and we see more shots of them playing, and then
31:08
Speaker 1: Mafuyu looks over it. Oh we know, Yama, Oh we know.
31:11
Speaker 1: Yama looks back at him and smiles like he's having
31:14
Speaker 1: a really good time, and Mafoyou looks a little shocked,
31:19
Speaker 1: and he really looks like he's about to cry. The
31:21
Speaker 1: song finally ends, and the last chord is still ringing out,
31:26
Speaker 1: and we see Mafyu breathing heavily as the house lights
31:30
Speaker 1: come up. There's a pause where everyone is silence, including
31:34
Speaker 1: the crowd, and then they just start cheering and clapping,
31:38
Speaker 1: and we see Jesus Zuma in the crowd looking real shocked,
31:42
Speaker 1: and he looks over at hid Agi and realizes that
31:45
Speaker 1: hid Agi is kind of hunched over with his head
31:47
Speaker 1: down and his hair and his eyes. Ogetsu leans back
31:51
Speaker 1: against the wall and crosses his arms and thinks, ah,
31:54
Speaker 1: I get it. He looks at Mafou, who looks pretty
31:59
Speaker 1: surprised at all of this warm reception that he's getting,
32:02
Speaker 1: and continues, He's another one that's been blessed with natural talents.
32:07
Speaker 1: As the crowd quiets down, Mafoo puts his head back
32:10
Speaker 1: down and just slowly starts to walk towards Uino Yama.
32:14
Speaker 1: W we know. Yama puts his arm around him, and
32:17
Speaker 1: then they just walk off stage. No, guys, how do
32:22
Speaker 1: He's like, uh, hello ouway? He turns to the audience. Uh,
32:26
Speaker 1: our guitarist just kind of walked off. But the song
32:29
Speaker 1: that we just played is a new one that our
32:31
Speaker 1: guitarist u Weo Yama composed for us. We see Uino
32:34
Speaker 1: Yama and Mafuu walking backstage and we hear how do
32:38
Speaker 1: he say? And the lyrics were written by Actually he
32:41
Speaker 1: just sort of left us too, but our vocalist Mafou
32:45
Speaker 1: came up with them. Mafou grips the front of Uyama's
32:49
Speaker 1: shirts like his chest and his hand is shaking and
32:53
Speaker 1: he's looking down at the floor and he says thank you.
32:57
Speaker 1: Thank you for getting me this far. He's would have
33:00
Speaker 1: puts his head on Uhio Yama's chest, which is real,
33:03
Speaker 1: real sweet, and then he looks up at him and
33:05
Speaker 1: he's like thank and ohio Yama just grabs him and
33:09
Speaker 1: kisses him. Ooh weo Yama, that's a salt. Mafu, you
33:14
Speaker 1: looks shocked. We haven't even had a discussion about if
33:17
Speaker 1: you guys like each other or not. And he has
33:20
Speaker 1: tears in his eyes, and Uyoyama puts his hand on
33:24
Speaker 1: Mafuu's face and says, you did so good out there.
33:30
Speaker 1: He puts his hand down and continues, I'm gonna play
33:33
Speaker 1: another song, and he just kind of walks off. What no,
33:37
Speaker 1: what you can't just leave after that? Mafo You just
33:40
Speaker 1: looks down at his hands, like totally confused, and then
33:44
Speaker 1: tears start to land on them. He's actually crying now.
33:49
Speaker 1: Anyway we know. Yama walks back on stage and how Dooki,
33:51
Speaker 1: who looks super stressed. It's like, oh hey, our guitarist
33:54
Speaker 1: is back, so we'll play some older songs. Everybody cheers,
33:57
Speaker 1: and how he says, Fujimoto son song number three please.
34:01
Speaker 1: We cut back to Mafuu standing off stage. His hairs
34:03
Speaker 1: in his eyes, and we hear how to Keys say
34:06
Speaker 1: this will be an instrumental number. Mafou slowly sits down
34:10
Speaker 1: against the bottom of the stairs as they start to play,
34:14
Speaker 1: and he's just, you know, holding his guitar tightly, and
34:17
Speaker 1: he thinks, I'm not lonely. I'm having fun. I love music.
34:23
Speaker 1: We cut to the band and he continues, I'm having
34:26
Speaker 1: fun at lunch. We see them playing basketball, and then
34:29
Speaker 1: we see Uino Yama playing his guitar on the landing.
34:33
Speaker 1: Mafi continues and I have someone new that I'm in
34:36
Speaker 1: love with. Wow, if only I could talk to you again,
34:43
Speaker 1: And then we go to the eye catch Yeah yeay.
34:47
Speaker 1: We see that sign outside, that little a frame sign,
34:49
Speaker 1: and Subaki is closing it and taking it down, and
34:53
Speaker 1: there are some people who are walking out and she's like,
34:55
Speaker 1: thanks for coming. One of the girls who just walked
34:57
Speaker 1: out is like that was so good. Then the two
35:00
Speaker 1: guys walk out and one of them says I love
35:02
Speaker 1: that second band, and the other one's like, I know right.
35:05
Speaker 1: Yeyoi is standing on the sidewalk looking worried, and after
35:10
Speaker 1: a minute she finally starts to walk away. Yeah. We
35:14
Speaker 1: cut to food on a table, fried navy chicken, I
35:18
Speaker 1: don't know, nuggety things, French fries, little you know, cups
35:22
Speaker 1: of ketchup and maybe mayonnaise, and two cups of some
35:26
Speaker 1: sort of beverage. Then we hear like, there are bunch
35:29
Speaker 1: of people talking, and I don't think any of them
35:30
Speaker 1: are the main characters. So the first person says, great show, guys,
35:36
Speaker 1: and the second person says, I think I had goosebumps
35:38
Speaker 1: all the way down to my toes. The third person's like,
35:40
Speaker 1: for real, The fourth person says, wasn't that song sick? Though?
35:45
Speaker 1: The fifth guy's like, the vocalist sucked a guitar, though
35:48
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's new at it. We're kind of
35:51
Speaker 1: slowly panning over from this big shot of the crowd
35:53
Speaker 1: to Kaji Hodoki and take, who are standing around like
35:57
Speaker 1: a little table, and I think the chicken is there.
36:00
Speaker 1: And now I'm starting to wonder if maybe dinner is
36:03
Speaker 1: literally just dinner and not a band. But I really
36:06
Speaker 1: don't know, because I don't know how we do things
36:10
Speaker 1: at live houses. But that'd be kind of cool if
36:13
Speaker 1: you get to watch a bunch of bands and then
36:15
Speaker 1: you have dinner. I don't know, but they're definitely having
36:17
Speaker 1: dinner anyway. Someone else says if he's a newbie, he's
36:21
Speaker 1: gonna be huge someday, for sure. We cut into I
36:24
Speaker 1: guess their conversation now and Kaji's like, right, how do
36:27
Speaker 1: Ki says? Praise us more? Taki's like no, seriously though,
36:31
Speaker 1: for real? That vocalist of yours? Where'd you find him? Kaji?
36:36
Speaker 1: And how do he clink their cups to Takei's cup?
36:38
Speaker 1: And they're like yay, and Taki's like okay, okay, how
36:42
Speaker 1: many toasts you guys want to make? Seriously though, why
36:45
Speaker 1: don't you guys set up a social media account? How
36:48
Speaker 1: do He's like, I know? Right? We see now Mafuyu
36:52
Speaker 1: outside kind of leaning on a fence by the canal,
36:55
Speaker 1: and he's just looking like totally shocked. We hear he
37:00
Speaker 1: k Doaki say hey, kind of kicks Mafuu's leg. Mafuu
37:04
Speaker 1: looks up and says, why are you looking at me
37:07
Speaker 1: like that? We see that Hidragi looks a combination of
37:11
Speaker 1: angry and like he's going to cry right now. Kidagi's like,
37:15
Speaker 1: shut up. He sits down next to Mafuu. That's quiet
37:19
Speaker 1: for a minute. Kidagi continues, Yuki knew you liked music.
37:23
Speaker 1: We cut to Kidagi opening a door and walking into
37:26
Speaker 1: a room. Okay, it's not a room. It is the roof,
37:30
Speaker 1: probably of a school, and the others are sitting down
37:33
Speaker 1: on the ground. Mafuye he's humming that song quietly while
37:36
Speaker 1: Yuki just stares at him, totally like engrossed in his being.
37:43
Speaker 1: We hear Hidagi say his eyes were always glued to you,
37:45
Speaker 1: whenever you'd start randomly humming or something. We cut back
37:49
Speaker 1: to now, Yuki wanted to write a song for you,
37:52
Speaker 1: but you wanted him to say, let's do it together,
37:55
Speaker 1: didn't you. Oh? Fuck. Mafu closes his eyes and looks
38:02
Speaker 1: kind of hurt. He says, Hidaki, how was the show?
38:06
Speaker 1: Hidaki kind of chuckles and he's like, you suck dude.
38:09
Speaker 1: Your fingers were barely moving. Yeah, it's hard to play
38:13
Speaker 1: guitar and sing at the same time. We went over that.
38:16
Speaker 1: It's quiet for a second, and Mafu you says Hidaki.
38:19
Speaker 1: Hidaki's like, what, MafA you says, I have someone new
38:23
Speaker 1: that I like. Hidagi looks surprised, but then he kind
38:27
Speaker 1: of smiles and he's like, sounds good to me do
38:30
Speaker 1: your best. Mafu's like, you should cheer me on. Hidaki says,
38:35
Speaker 1: that's too much work. Mafu you size. We cut to
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Speaker 1: a train platform where Yama is waiting for a train, obviously,
38:43
Speaker 1: and we hear Mafu you say, a story that took
38:47
Speaker 1: place one summer. We're panning up now from buildings to
38:51
Speaker 1: the sky, a story that took place one evening. And
38:55
Speaker 1: then we go to the ending theme and that's it. No,
38:57
Speaker 1: it's not. It's one of those trick endings. It's not
39:00
Speaker 1: at the end of the episode. So we do the
39:02
Speaker 1: ending yeah, yeah, yeay, and at some point and I
39:04
Speaker 1: don't know when the ending switched from the piano version
39:08
Speaker 1: to the full version of this song, and I didn't
39:10
Speaker 1: catch it until right now, but whatever. Anyway, back from
39:13
Speaker 1: the ending, we see the interior of a bus. We're
39:16
Speaker 1: getting like a close up on a gigbag, and then
39:18
Speaker 1: we hear someone not MafA You, humming Mafu you song.
39:22
Speaker 1: We see a wider picture of the bus where Mafu
39:25
Speaker 1: You and Yuki are sitting together and there's like one
39:27
Speaker 1: or two other people. It's pretty empty anyway, Mafiyu's head
39:30
Speaker 1: is on Yuki's shoulder and he says, what the hell
39:33
Speaker 1: is that weird song? Yuk's like, weird song? Really, it's
39:38
Speaker 1: what you were humming the other day. Mafiu's like was it?
39:41
Speaker 1: Yuki says it was. Mafiu's like really, Yuki says really.
39:48
Speaker 1: We now pan across a partly cloudy sky and then
39:51
Speaker 1: we pan down to Yuki and Mafuu. They have scarves on,
39:55
Speaker 1: they're not really bundled up, but it looks like it's
39:56
Speaker 1: kind of cold out and it's a little windy, and
39:59
Speaker 1: I think they're on the beat. Yuki is hugging himself
40:02
Speaker 1: tightly and he's like, whoa, it's freezing. How stupid is this?
40:05
Speaker 1: Let's go home. Mafu You's like, you're the one that
40:07
Speaker 1: wanted to come. Yuki says it seemed like a decent
40:10
Speaker 1: date spot to be fair. Beaches are usually colder than
40:14
Speaker 1: everywhere else, so I get it. Mafo You says a date.
40:20
Speaker 1: Yuki sneezes, and MafA You continues, you never even asked
40:23
Speaker 1: me out. Yuki like rubs his nose and he's like,
40:26
Speaker 1: well that goes for the both of us. You never
40:28
Speaker 1: did either. Shit, do you have any tissues? Mafo You
40:31
Speaker 1: hands him a travel pack tissues. Everyone thinks we're going out,
40:36
Speaker 1: Yuk He's like, well, we basically are. Mafo You says,
40:41
Speaker 1: what's the difference. Yuki's like, like, maybe a one percent difference.
40:47
Speaker 1: I can't the ocean is killing me. Mafo You gasps
40:50
Speaker 1: and looks out at it. Uk He's like, huh what.
40:54
Speaker 1: MafA You says, I think this is the first time
40:57
Speaker 1: I've been to the ocean. Fuck you just figured that out.
41:00
Speaker 1: Yuki's like, are you fucking kidding me. Mafo You just
41:03
Speaker 1: looks at him like I don't ever kid, and Yuki continues,
41:07
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just said the ocean was gonna kill me.
41:09
Speaker 1: Mafi's like, what do you mean. Yuki says, the Ocean's awesome,
41:14
Speaker 1: It's the best. Mafu You's like, lying is as easy
41:17
Speaker 1: as breathing for you. Huh. We see the sky again
41:20
Speaker 1: and the sun is beginning to sets. Yuki is humming
41:23
Speaker 1: the song again. We follow their footprints through the sand
41:26
Speaker 1: as they walk along the beach. Yuki is a bit
41:28
Speaker 1: ahead of Mafu You, and Mafu You says, hey, let's
41:31
Speaker 1: go home already. Yuki's like, just five more minutes, MafA
41:35
Speaker 1: You says, why Yuk He's like, I'm drilling it into
41:39
Speaker 1: your head that I'm the first person you ever came
41:41
Speaker 1: to the ocean with. Mafo You says, most of my
41:44
Speaker 1: first are with you, Yuki, you still want even more
41:47
Speaker 1: of them. Yuki stops walking and looks back at him, smiling.
41:50
Speaker 1: You might remember when you come to the ocean again
41:52
Speaker 1: on another day in the winter when the wind is
41:54
Speaker 1: straw or you might remember when you randomly start humming
41:57
Speaker 1: that weird song. Mafo. U's like, I'm not gonna forget
42:01
Speaker 1: even if we don't spend another five minutes here. Yuki says, Nah,
42:05
Speaker 1: you're gonna forget. Mafo you like lightly gasps. Yuki starts
42:10
Speaker 1: to walk again, and he continues, you remember it next year,
42:14
Speaker 1: and probably in five years from now. He stops walking,
42:18
Speaker 1: but you probably won't think about it much in ten
42:19
Speaker 1: I bet MafA You thinks, I'm pretty sure that I'll
42:23
Speaker 1: always remember this day even ten years from now. Yuki
42:27
Speaker 1: finally says, Okay, let's go home, and they start walking again.
42:31
Speaker 1: Mafo you think, so this is a voiceover. I'm not sure,
42:34
Speaker 1: but I'm sure I'll start to forget. Little by little,
42:37
Speaker 1: he starts to follow Yuki. We see their footsteps start
42:41
Speaker 1: to get washed away by the ocean, and we cut
42:43
Speaker 1: to a sign that says henoden bus kaigan dori next
42:48
Speaker 1: stop tanasei azumacho for Kamakota station. Mafo You continues the
42:54
Speaker 1: name of the bus stop we got off today, the
42:56
Speaker 1: color of the sweater I was wearing, the words that
42:59
Speaker 1: were popular between the two of us at the time.
43:01
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll start forgetting those little by little. They're
43:04
Speaker 1: still walking. Yuki says, let's have sex in the bathroom
43:08
Speaker 1: when we get back. Oh and sex is in English,
43:11
Speaker 1: which I think is really interesting. MafA You thinks, apparently
43:16
Speaker 1: that's called loneliness. Then out loud, he says, yeah, let's not.
43:21
Speaker 1: Yuki laughs, well, which is it? MafA You says let's not,
43:26
Speaker 1: and thinks one day atop of burning blinding stage, I'll
43:30
Speaker 1: learn that for myself. And then we go the title
43:33
Speaker 1: card number zero nine, a winter story. Then that's it. Yeay, okay,
43:40
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. So that's a bunch, So let's start out
43:43
Speaker 1: with the end there. When Yuki said you want to
43:46
Speaker 1: have sex in the bathroom, I didn't hear toy day
43:49
Speaker 1: in there, so I think it's like a bathroom that
43:52
Speaker 1: has like a bathroom. It not like a bathroom that
43:55
Speaker 1: has like toilet stalls bathroom. If that means anything to you.
43:59
Speaker 1: I also gonna look up, so I'm gonna do it
44:01
Speaker 1: right now. So I did. I just did it write
44:04
Speaker 1: this exact second, and it looks like the word that
44:06
Speaker 1: they're using is sekusu, like sekkusu I guess would be
44:12
Speaker 1: how you'd spell it in English. So it's obviously kind
44:17
Speaker 1: of just a really common way to say sex, just
44:21
Speaker 1: saying sex, which is interesting to me. There's other words
44:25
Speaker 1: that you can use to say sex and Japanese too,
44:27
Speaker 1: that are not based on English, but this one apparently
44:31
Speaker 1: is cool or something like the cooler way to say sex,
44:34
Speaker 1: like sex versus intercourse. I don't know why am I
44:38
Speaker 1: doing this. I'm going to stop, but now you know.
44:42
Speaker 1: So besides that shit, I liked this episode despite how
44:49
Speaker 1: wrong it was about strings and what to do if
44:52
Speaker 1: your guitar string breaks. Before show, the things that were
44:57
Speaker 1: pretty normal, of course, is asking the band be for
45:00
Speaker 1: you to keep playing a little bit longer if you're
45:02
Speaker 1: not ready to play. That's pretty normal, and yeah, I'm
45:07
Speaker 1: glad that they did a good job. I'm glad that
45:09
Speaker 1: everything was well received, and I really liked that song
45:14
Speaker 1: and I like that we have a little bit more
45:15
Speaker 1: context about Yuki and Mafuu's relationship, which seemed like it
45:19
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Of course, in their argument, when Mafuu
45:23
Speaker 1: basically shouted like, would you die for me? Then that's yeah,
45:28
Speaker 1: I totally understand. Now. I'm sure Mafuu feels like he
45:32
Speaker 1: has some sort of responsibility for Yuki's death, considering it
45:37
Speaker 1: was after that argument that Yuki killed himself. Of course,
45:42
Speaker 1: everyone's actions are their own actions, and Mafuu didn't actually
45:45
Speaker 1: mean he wanted him to kill himself, and I'm sure
45:48
Speaker 1: that that's not the way Yuki took it either. But
45:51
Speaker 1: if I said that and then my partner that doesn't
45:54
Speaker 1: exist died and they did exist, I would probably carry
45:58
Speaker 1: that forever and always think that it was my fault
46:01
Speaker 1: even though it's not. But uh, I get it, And yeah,
46:06
Speaker 1: that would fuck you up for sure, And you know,
46:10
Speaker 1: it's very telling them off what you said that he
46:12
Speaker 1: can't forgive Yuki and he can't forgive himself, because yes,
46:16
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody has basically the right to just stop
46:19
Speaker 1: their lives whenever. But you're gonna hurt people. You're gonna
46:21
Speaker 1: hurt a lot of people if you do that. Even
46:23
Speaker 1: if you're listening and you're like, no, nobody cares, they
46:25
Speaker 1: totally do. I even care, And I don't know you.
46:29
Speaker 1: So I get him not forgiving Yuki, and I get
46:32
Speaker 1: him feeling like he played a role in it and
46:34
Speaker 1: not forgiving himself. Yeah, I liked this. There was something
46:40
Speaker 1: else I wanted to say about things. Oh, I wanted
46:44
Speaker 1: to talk briefly about what's going on with Yayoi because
46:48
Speaker 1: it's sad. She obviously has feelings for Kaji. I don't
46:52
Speaker 1: know if Kaji knows that. Honestly, I don't think that
46:57
Speaker 1: he's purposely leading her on. I think that he's just
47:01
Speaker 1: a really friendly guy and she's nice and he likes
47:04
Speaker 1: to hang out with her, and he doesn't realize how
47:07
Speaker 1: much she's pining for him. But I think in this
47:10
Speaker 1: episode she kind of realized that, like, she's not really
47:13
Speaker 1: a priority, you know, Like I mean, obviously he was
47:17
Speaker 1: more concerned about what was happening with the band than
47:19
Speaker 1: what was happening with her, and that kind of makes sense.
47:21
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't exactly because it was broken string guys,
47:25
Speaker 1: but it were at a show, but like the way
47:28
Speaker 1: he dismissed her, it probably really really hurts. So I
47:32
Speaker 1: feel bad, all right. And then the big thing I
47:35
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about is the kiss between Mafuu and
47:39
Speaker 1: Weena Yama, because eh, you like probably shouldn't kiss people
47:44
Speaker 1: that you haven't talked about being in a relationship with
47:47
Speaker 1: at all. Like it works out here because obviously Mafou
47:51
Speaker 1: likes Wuo Yama and Ueno Yama likes Mafu. It's mutual
47:55
Speaker 1: likeing of each other. But they haven't even had a
47:59
Speaker 1: conversation yet, so there's really no way to know for
48:02
Speaker 1: sure that mafuy Likesuo Yama in a romantic or sexual way.
48:09
Speaker 1: He could just really like him as a friend. So
48:11
Speaker 1: it's not a great idea to kiss someone that you
48:15
Speaker 1: don't know if they like you. It's just not And
48:18
Speaker 1: I had this whole thing with my mom about like
48:21
Speaker 1: is this assault or not, and she said no, but
48:24
Speaker 1: I think that it is. I mean, it's not. No,
48:27
Speaker 1: that's not fair, it's not in this situation because it
48:30
Speaker 1: ended up being consensual. But you should not kiss people
48:34
Speaker 1: if you don't know if they like you, because it
48:35
Speaker 1: might be a sault. And you don't always have time
48:38
Speaker 1: to pull away from a person who's going to kiss you.
48:41
Speaker 1: It's sometimes it's too late. So it's not like, oh,
48:42
Speaker 1: we could have just pulled away. Maybe he couldn't. Maybe
48:45
Speaker 1: he froze, you know, maybe he's doing the threat response thing.
48:49
Speaker 1: I don't know, h that was a lot of stuff
48:52
Speaker 1: I just threw at you. But yeah, also, like we've
48:55
Speaker 1: just gotten off stage, Mafu, you was like sweaty and
48:59
Speaker 1: out of breath and like just like on the verge
49:03
Speaker 1: of tears because all of these emotions and he's like
49:06
Speaker 1: thanking oui o Yama. I don't feel like that was
49:08
Speaker 1: the right time to kiss him. And I know it
49:10
Speaker 1: probably felt like that for Ueno Yama because he is
49:13
Speaker 1: just so like impressed and moved by Mafuu's music that like,
49:18
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the amount of feelings he has for
49:21
Speaker 1: him is like really intensified. So I get it. But
49:25
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful, dude, because not everybody wants to
49:28
Speaker 1: be kissed, especially if you don't even know if they
49:32
Speaker 1: like you. So again, it's all fine. It all worked out.
49:36
Speaker 1: They both like each other, so yay, but don't do
49:40
Speaker 1: that anyway. This felt like pretty much the climax of
49:44
Speaker 1: the show. We have two episodes left, where I guess
49:46
Speaker 1: we're gonna resolve other things. I don't really know because
49:49
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but even if I didn't, I wouldn't
49:52
Speaker 1: tell you because we're watching this together. So he'll be
49:56
Speaker 1: interesting to see where we end the show. And if
49:59
Speaker 1: I'm remembering correctly, the Mangaka had originally intended to end
50:04
Speaker 1: after this show, and I totally get that because that
50:06
Speaker 1: would have been an appropriate ending. I mean, I'm glad didn't,
50:09
Speaker 1: but it basically resolves a lot of things right there.
50:13
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, I think that's really all I have.
50:18
Speaker 1: I liked the end scene with mafuy and Yuki. I
50:21
Speaker 1: liked that Yuki's like, hey, you're not gonna remember this
50:24
Speaker 1: because that really is how shit goes, and it feels
50:27
Speaker 1: a lot more poignant when you know that he killed himself,
50:30
Speaker 1: like Mafu, you has to really try to hold on
50:32
Speaker 1: to that now because it's something that is a lot
50:35
Speaker 1: more important in a world without him than it was
50:38
Speaker 1: if they continued to keep dating and god like married
50:41
Speaker 1: or something. So yeah, yeah, I liked it. I think
50:47
Speaker 1: that's it. I hope that made sense. I hope you
50:50
Speaker 1: didn't hate it. I hope you're not super mad at
50:53
Speaker 1: me that I explained why it's not a big deal
50:56
Speaker 1: to break a guitar string. And I hope you come
50:59
Speaker 1: back next week. But if you don't like yet, it's
51:02
Speaker 1: it's my fault that I exist and I did things.
51:05
Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope the rest of your life's good
51:09
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but if you come back,
51:11
Speaker 1: or even if you don't come back, I hope you
51:13
Speaker 1: have a really amazing or good whatever whatever you can muster.
51:19
Speaker 1: And yeah, I will be back next week most likely.
51:24
Speaker 1: And oh, before we go, I'm almost one hundred percent
51:28
Speaker 1: sure I'm going to do Serial Experiments Lane next. It
51:32
Speaker 1: does have a legal source in the US now that's
51:35
Speaker 1: Apple TV or whatever, so I think we should do it.
51:39
Speaker 1: It's twelve episodes and it's gonna be real upsetting and
51:42
Speaker 1: maybe fun to analyze. So I just just throwing that
51:45
Speaker 1: out there. But again, I will see you later. Webs