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Wind Breaker Ep. 3- The Man Who Stands at the Top · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Hey, it's your person, I guess, Michelle. I'm back again to
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talk about Windbreaker episode three. There is something else I want to talk about
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a little bit, but I'm gonna wait until after we were done talking about
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the episode. I guess. So it's nothing like important. You don't have
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to stick around or whatever if you don't want to, Like, really,
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it's not important. I don't know what I'm doing anyway. I'm kind of
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in a weird mood right now. So we're gonna see how this goes because
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I don't know, all right. So episode three is called The Man who
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Stands at the Top, which is just fine, Like it's an okay title,
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Like I'd like us to do a little bit better here, get a
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little bit more creative, but I don't know if that's gonna happen. But
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anyway, we kind of start where we ended last episode, so to refresh
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your memory since it's been maybe a week since you've into this. Sugishta had
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barged into the classroom the guy that has long black hair, and I think
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I said he was lanky. He is, and he had thrown a desk
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at Sokra. So they are now standing facing each other down and Suo is
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smiling and he's like nice, wonderful sparks are flying, and Nire thinks,
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what's so nice about this? Then we have the section that's juxtaposed between Suo
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explaining things and the kind of fight going on between Sakra and Sugishta. So
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Suo says, soakraa, when you're in Sishta's presence, and Sakra turns to
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Suo to talk to him, and then he turns back just in time to
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dodge Sugishta's punch, and Seoul continues, it's best not to say taking the
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top spots, and Sakra smile and he's like, damn you or something,
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and then Suo turns to Nira and says, Sugicha Kun's been visiting since middle
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school. And then we cut back to Sokra, who's dodging like sugich does
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like super wild punches and kicks, and Suo says, and he was the
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only person allowed to say he was a member of Boforan before entering high school,
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and we cut back and Soccra is still evading Sukeche does punches, and
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Suol continues and his allegiance to the current top spot is more like worship.
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It's a bit much from a third party perspective. He's a fanatic believer in
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Furin's leader, and Sugishta goes in for kind of like a low kick at
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Sacra, but he manages to jump away, and Seuol continues and since you
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said you'll take his spot, well, and then this guy who's also watching
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in the class is like, don't just stir the pot stop them to Suo,
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and Suo's like, huh, why can't you do that? And the
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guy's like, we can't. If you don't hurry and stop them, the
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outsider's gonna get killed. And Soakra dodges again, but as he steps back,
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he like slips and loses his balance and Sukishta comes in to punch him,
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but he just gets nothing but air, and we find Soakra has kind
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of fallen to the ground to evade him, sort of he's kind of like
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in like a limbo e position. So I was trying to figure out how
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to explain this to you, and I think the best thing for me to
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say is he's kind of in a position like if he had just done a
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German suplex, kind of like bent over like that. And I don't like
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watch wrestling or anything. So I have to shout out Gto for saying that
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in an episode. I just watched him and going like, oh, that's
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what that's what it would be called. Kind of yay, no, you
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know something sort of. So anyway, Soakre, who's still kind of backwards
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on the ground, is like, too bad, you missed, and he
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lifts up his leg and he fucking kids Sugichta in the nose and everyone shocked.
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And Sugishta wipes the blood off of his face or from his nose,
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but actually he just kind of spreads it all over the side of his cheek,
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so the bottom quarter of his face is kind of just covered in blood
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now, and he looks really cool. Sorry, but he also looks really
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pissed off. But he also has looked pissed off the entire time, so
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I don't know if he's pissed off about the kick or not. So Sakura
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says a fanatic, huh, so you can't think for yourself or decide anything
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on your own, huh. And he adjusts his jacket and he's like,
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someone like that can't take me down. Yeah, And then we go to
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the opening theme. Hooray. Back from the opening and maybe a commercial.
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They are staring each other down again, and Sakura is looking pretty spug,
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which I get it. He just kicked the guy in the face, and
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Sugista looks pissed still, and nine says Sakra San, and then they rushed
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each other and an announcement starts on the loud speaker and someone is mic checking
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and they say, uh, which button am I supposed to push? Wait,
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it's already on. You should have told me, and everyone has stopped
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in the classroom, and Soccera is like, what the fuck? And we
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kind of briefly see someone's face, like partially, and they smile, and
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the voice very loudly says hey, grats and welcome to the school, and
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another voice says, tone it down, idiot, just talk normal. First
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voice says what I mean, this is my first speech, and the other
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guy says, your regular voice is loud enough. We'll get complaints from off
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campus. And Sakaa, who is picking his ear like he does, it's
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just like the fuck things were just getting going. What do they want?
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And then he looks at Suguishta and he's like, okay, let's keep going,
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but Suguishta is listening intently. Actually everyone else except for Sokata, and
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Sokara is just like, what the fuck, What the hell is this?
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And we see a sign that says broadcasting. I guess we're going to a
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different location now, and that voice says, well, then let's get back
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into this, and we see like part of a face and the dude has
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white hair and he's like, I'm Bofu and rep Umemia Hajime and Soakta gasps
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and he clenches his fist and he's like, so this is the top of
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Furan and he smiles widely and he's like the strongest guy at Furan and Ummia
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says uh, and then there's silence and he's like, sorry, I forgot
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what I was gonna say, and Sakara is getting kind of worried, and
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Umimi is like, oh right, you guys, enjoy your youth, and
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we see the kanji four enjoy and youth on the screen and he says got
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it. And everyone in the classroom looks mildly confused and dumbfound it at this
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point, except for Sugishta, who is listening like super attentively still, and
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Umamia says, I mean you made it all the way to high school,
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and Sugishta's nodding at like everything, and Umamia continues, go make tons of
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memories and make your lives meaningful, and Sakra is staring at Sugishta, just
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disgusted, and Umamiya continues, it'd be nice to go to the beach or
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the mountains, by the way, I prefer the beach, and Suo is
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standing there, smiling very politely, and he's like, yeah, I couldn't
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care less, and Ummia says, okay, we'll all head out to the
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beach this summer. Let's chow down on shaved ice. And Nire is like
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shaved ice, And Sugishta puts his hand on Nide's head and is like,
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was any of that weird? And Nire's like, no, no, not
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at all. You're God in Buddha's grateful words make me extremely delighted. And
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back to Umamia, who says, oh, I just said all out of
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habit, and Nire rushes to hide behind Soakta and Umamia continues, but with
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this many guys, I'm sure some of you won't get along. I'm sure
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a lot of stuff will happen too, though surely no one's gonna fight on
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the first day, and Sugishta like wildly wipes the blood from his face,
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and Maimia continues, I won't tell you guys to be best friends, but
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you all get along, okay, and Sooa says you can wipe the blood
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off, but we all saw you fighting, and Umia continues, anyway,
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I know I at least want to say this. You guys protect this town,
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and everyone kind of starts listening excitedly again, and he continues the name
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given to us Boforin Guardians of Fuin live up to that name. Protect the
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people, they're their beliefs. Protect everything you value. That's the one and
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only rule here. Really, there aren't any other rules at the school.
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And everyone's like yes, sir or something, and Soakura looks shocked and Omaimia
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says, that's it, all right, I'm leaving the rest to you guys,
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and then there's a pause and he's like, okay, I'm done.
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Let's get something to eat, and the other voice says, you're still broadcasting
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and Sakara thinks it's not like he's standing right in front of us. What's
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the sense of solidarity, And then all the kids are talking about how cool
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Umamia is, and Sakara thinks, would simply being a strong fighter do this
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much? I don't think so what kind of guy is he? And Suo
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looks to Sokka and Sugashida and says, hey, hey, both of you,
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don't you need to make amends. I know, maybe shake hands and
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call a truce. That's the spirit of youth. And Sugushita and Soccura both
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say huh at the same time, and is like, why should I we
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haven't even settled the score. He's the one who assaulted me. And Niray
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is like, Soccara, why is your face so red? Oh? Okay,
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so we're counting flushes. Now, that's one blush. Actually it's the
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only one in the episode, so this isn't gonna be a great count,
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but it will be in the future. So anyway, Sacara kind of punches
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Knieray in the head lightly, I guess, and it's still blushing though,
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and Slow says, since you're striving for the top spot, something like this
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should be trivial, and Soccara gulps and Swoll continues, Sugista kun if mi
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Asan heard that you attacked a classmate, what do you think, he'd say,
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and Sugishta like grimaces and everyone kind of gasps and we look and Sugishta
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is reaching out his hand. Oh, and Sakara thinks we're shaking hands for
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real, and Neiray's like, hurry up, take his hand. Soccara flexes
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his hand kind of you know, back and forth and thinks, I just
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need to grab his hand, not slap it away, not flinging aside.
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You're killing me, dude, And he walks forward and he reaches out and
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he thinks touching someone else outside of a fight. And they shake and he
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thinks feels strange. Oh fuck, dude, that's a lot to unpack.
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Yeah, so they both look kind of pissed, but everyone is really really
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impressed, and so I was like, great, nice, this is enjoying
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youth. And Sakara and Sukushida are both still shaking hands and they're like squeezing
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each other's hand like violently, and he rais like, how is this nice?
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And then they both let go and at the same time they think is
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he a gorilla or what? At that someone just randomly throws their arm around
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Saccra and he's like tossed to the floor and he's like, oh, what
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the But then they like start patting his head and this other guy is like
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headlocking him, like really playfully, and this guy with a bun is like
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you're really something. You actually landed a blow on Sukista, and another guy
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is like that kick was wicked, and some other guy is like, you're
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so flexible, and everyone's talking about how cool he is, and Soccra thinks,
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now that I think about it, it's been nothing but this stuff since
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I got here. And we kind of flashed the people who have been nice
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to him so far, and then we cut to a group of people just
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kind of walking away from him. Maybe like the past, I feel like
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it represents how usually people just leave him. And then this brown hair kid
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who is giving him headlock still is like what's wrong. You're really quiet,
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and a kid with a buzz cut is like you didn't strangle him unconscious,
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did you? And Sacara smiles and punches the guy with the buzz cut and
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he's like, you'd think I'd go down that easily, and he thinks the
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human body is a lot warmer than I thought. Soccra, this is not
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good, Like, have you just never like what when was the last time
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somebody, you know, platonically just kind of touched him or patted him,
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Like does he have a family? What is going on? How long has
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he been alone for? This is terrible? So that's okay though, and
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they're kind of like play fighting, and then all of a sudden, this
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dude with a pompadoor and like partially shaved eyebrows like slams the door open and
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he's like, hey, you chumps, we're rolling out. Get outside,
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and Soccer is like, ha, we just came to class and who are
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you? And then we cut to them painting over graffiti and Nine is like
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Soccer, San, that coat's uneven, and Soccer's just like the fuck and
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Swa was like holding a bucket of paint and he's like, I've brought more
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paint and Soccer is like what is all this? And SWO says, Neira,
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you're so good at painting, and Nira is like getting all happy and
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he's like you think so. And Sakara is painting just looking totally dazed and
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he thinks what kind of messed up shit is this? And then we have
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the eye catch. It's double eye catch yay. So in case you were
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confused, because I was. We now go back thirty minutes in the past
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and we see everybody's standing outside of the school and Soccer is like the hell
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we just got to the classroom, and the dude with a pompadoor is like,
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shut up quick yapping in heads to the courtyard. If you guys are
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too slow, they're gonna yell at me too, And Suo says so much
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tongue rolling, and we can take a pause there so that I can explain
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that. So the pompadoor dude, who I still don't know what his name
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is, he is rolling all of his rs to like hell, like so
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fucking hard. He's really really going overboard with this. And in case you
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aren't familiar, kind of the intense r roll that he's doing and you may
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here in other anime when you have tough guys is just to sound tough.
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I think the first time I ever heard an anime character roll there ours was
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in Fushigi Yugi. I think Tosky did it, and I was just like,
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what is that. It's like like an accent? Is that a regional
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dialect? And so I looked it up and it's just like, no,
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they're trying to sound tough. I don't know why our rolling sounds tough,
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but I guess it does. So anyway, he is going overboard rolling his
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rs and then anyway he says, move it. And then we see someone
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looking at a phone but we can't see like what they look like. And
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he's like, it took you guys seven minutes, forty eight seconds and twenty
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six eventy seconds to get out here. And then we get a good look
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at the guy and it's the guy with the blonde, spiky hair who saves
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Sakra when he was getting beat up in the first episode. Remember those guys
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came at him with like a bat when he was trying to save Kota Ha.
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So it's that guy, and we see that his name is Hiragi Toma.
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So Hiragi says even kindergarteners can move faster, and so was like he
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even counts the seventy seconds, and then Soakka remembers him and he's like,
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that's the guy from yesterday, and Nire's like, you know him, and
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Soccra says yesterday when I save that cafe girl, and Nira's like, oh,
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you mean Koto Hassan and then Hiragi hears this and he flinches and he
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sprints over and he grabs Sakkra by the face that kind of mouth, and
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he like pulls him away and he tosses him to the ground, and Soccer
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is like that hurt? What are you? And Hiragi says, I told
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you never ever tell anyone that Kotowa chan was there, and Soccra is like
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gross, stops spitting at me, and Hiragi says, you don't get it,
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do you? And Neira and Swow are standing a little bit back,
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and he's like, what are they talking about? And so I was like,
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I wonder too, and Hiragi continues, I told you. If he
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finds out she was in danger, there's gonna be hell to pay. And
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then he grabs his stomach in pain and he's like, anyway, koto Ha
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chan was not there, and Soakara is kind of uncomfortably like wiping spit off
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his face, I think, And Hiragi says, and don't ever talk about
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what happened yesterday or else, and he reaches into his jacket and Sakara prepares
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himself for whatever he's going face, and Hiragi pulls out a package of gas
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Coon ten for upstead stomachs, and he says, I'll be coughing up blood.
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He takes some out and Sagara is so confused, and Haragi's like,
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sheesh, and he takes two of the gas coon ten and he says,
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I have no idea why you came here from all the way out of town,
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but you ended up at a place with a ridiculous leader. And he
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just walks back to the group and Soccer is like what And he walks back
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over and Niray is like, what were you talking about? And Soccer is
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just like nothing, and Neira says, what's he like? And Soccer says,
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he got pissed off for no reason, started hurting and took gascon ten
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here, dude, And Neira says, heartburn medicine and he writes it down
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in his little notebook and Soccer is like, why are you writing that down?
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And he was like, why you ask? Hiragi is one of the
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four kings of the school. Oh, and he continues, Oh, Mayia
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reigns at the top of Bohoran. Under him are four kings. Each of
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them are like captains for a one class of each of the three grades.
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And we see like a diagram of this, and it looks like each grade
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has three classes. So I don't actually know what this means, because shouldn't
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there be like nine captains, like one for each class. I actually think
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this may have just been a translation error and that maybe they're captains of the
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three classes in the one grade, but I don't really know. So anyway,
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Soccer says, so we're team one because we're class one, and he
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is like, oh no, bofor is based on the four Heavenly Kings,
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and the names starting with class one are Tamon team, ji Koku team,
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Sojo team, and Komoku team. We're part of Tamin team. And then
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Hiragi, addressing everyone, says, split up into groups of four to five
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guys. Each group will have a second or third year as a supervisor.
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Follow their lead, learn our ways and what to watch for. All right,
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let's go, and he starts to walk off, and Soccer is like,
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where to do what? And Hirogi stops and looks back, and he
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says, we're going to patrol the town. So then we cut to them
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walking and Sokra says patrolling is fine, but what do I gotta be with
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him? And we see that Sugishta is in the group and he is ignoring
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Sakara, and Hiragi says, I told you only me asked me to keep
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an eye on you two. And we see that the full group is Sugishta,
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nire Suo, Sokra, and Hiraki, and Hiragi says, I mean,
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you guys already fought right, And Soccer is like, he just came
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at me swinging, So I kicked him in the face, and we see
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kind of sparks flying between Sokra and Sugishta, and Haragi like pushes them apart
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to the side of the screen, and he's like, I don't care.
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You guys stay apart as you walk, and so I was like, he's
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like a kindergarten teacher, and Soccer says, you know, you say patrol,
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but we're just strolling around. If we wanted to protect the town,
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wouldn't it be more efficient to look for guys messing around and pummel him.
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And Hiragi's like, no, idiots, that wouldn't be protecting the town.
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That's called reading. Soccer's like what, and Hragi says, there's meaning in
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us walking around just walking in our uniforms has kept a lot of the smaller
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teams away. Our fights are to protect others. We don't need to make
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the first move. And Soccer is like, for real, that sounds like
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super dull, and Hiraagi says, you're the dult one if fighting is the
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only fun you have. And someone steps on like a metal step and Hiragy
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gasps, and we see that it's an old woman and she's getting on a
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step stool and Hragi says, hey, come on, granny, that's dangerous,
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and he like runs to go help and he's like stop that, and
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everyone is just kind of staring blankly at the situation, and Hiragi's like,
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you guys, come with me. And then we are back to where we
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were with painting, and this man says this helps a ton we erase and
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a race, but they keep drawing graffiti though it happens less lightly now and
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Nera's like, oh, no problem, and Soccer is like, the hell
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is this and Nera sa says, this is part of our job. Is
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both florin and Hiragi says, hey, boss, this side's all done,
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and the man's like, oh, thank you, thank you, and he
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gives them those little fish pastries they like are shaped like fish, they're not
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made out of fish, I don't think, okay, So according to Wikipedia,
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they're called taiyaki and they are like a street food usually, so they're
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a fish shaped cake and they're usually filled with bean paste, but they could
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be filled with other things too, like cheese, chocolate, custard, sweet
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potato. So now you know, there, I did something right. Anyway,
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the guy gives them the pastries and he's like thanking them and like waving
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as they leave. So now they're just walking and eating their taiyaki, and
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I think Suo doesn't want his, and he gives it to like k nera
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stuff like that. I don't think Suo like eats a lot, I think,
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but whatever, And Hiragi is standing next to Sakara and he says,
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you can't have fun unless it's a fight, though I know it should be.
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We used to be just like that in the past too, but in
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exchange of words, kneading and being needed stuff like that could be pretty fun
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too, sure. Whatever, And we see a train pass on an l
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unelevated you know, subway line above them, and they stop at like a
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graffitied underpass for the train, and we see like some like closed buildings.
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It looks like a really like quiet area, and Soccer thinks, so a
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bar alley stretches this way, and he looks up at the top of the
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arch for the underpass, and there is a graffitied kind of like black and
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white symbol and he thinks a dog, and then out loud he says,
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that's an ugly dog. And Neiray's like, don't say stuff like that,
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and he looks around scared and is like hiding behind Soccra and says, we
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don't know where those guys are hanging out, and Soccer is like those guys,
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and Neira says, this is a territorial border between BOFUR and another team.
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I don't know about this team thing. We're just gonna say gang when
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they say team now because I don't understand it. You should never ever cause
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an issue on the other side of the tracks, just like how different countries
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have different laws. Our rules mean nothing over there. The gang that runs
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in the area is called She's shuturn the devotees of power anyway, Sakra says,
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devotees of power and he smiles and he's like sounds good. I like
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shit like that, and then we hear a voice say hold it punk,
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and they all look over to the underpass and Neere flinches and we see a
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kid running towards them and he's got like a black eye. He looks a
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little bit beat up, and Hiragi's like, assan middle school uniform, and
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then to the kid, he's like, what the hell are you doing over
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there? Hurry up and get back here, and we see that three people
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in orange like track jackets basically are chasing him, and it's she's shuittorn Oh,
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and Hiragi thinks, shit, he's not gonna make it. And then
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we see the kid trip and he's falling and someone is reaching out to pull
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him back, you know, on she shtorin and we cut to Hiragi who
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is looking super stressed, like he doesn't know what to do, and then
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all of a sudden, we see Sakra and Sukishta and they simultaneously kicked the
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guy closest to the kid, and we get this really cool landing shot of
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them, you know, after they've kicked this dude, and Soccer is like,
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damn it, you're in my way, and Neira's like we're an enemy
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turf and we struck first, and Suo is just smiling like wildly. And
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I want to pause here because I want to talk about Suo really quickly.
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He pretty much smiles and is polite every time we see him. He doesn't
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ever look angry or scared. And I think this face that he's putting on
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is have you ever worked in retail? You know how you're supposed to smile
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in retail even when you don't want to smile at people. Yeah, that's
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that face. That's the face that you give to someone when they're yelling at
26:17
you and you're just like, I'm gonna fucking kill them, but you're smiling
26:19
anyway. That's the face he has a lot, So this is interesting.
26:25
Anyway, Suo is smiling, and Soccer is like, what are you talking
26:29
about if he's one of us? And then Soccara and Suguista at the same
26:33
time say, then they struck first. Yeah, that's right, team,
26:37
I might eclipse there, And then we cut to Hiragi who is looking really
26:42
pissed, and Suo is still smiling, and Neira is panicking, and that
26:48
guy who they kicked is like way past out on the ground and Nie Ray
26:53
says, what exactly are you guys doing, and Soakra to Sugishta says,
27:00
I'll take care of the rest. You go over there, okay, I
27:02
wrote, and Sugishta used ignore, very effective, and Soccer is like,
27:06
hey, listen. And then one of the guys from She's tore him,
27:11
who has like a uncharged mohawk, like an uncharged brown mohawk, is like,
27:15
oh man, what are you doing? And he like moves the pasted
27:18
out kid's head with his foots and we see that his name is Arima Yukinari,
27:26
and he continues, well, shit, he's completely passed out. And
27:30
the other guy who kind of has his hair it kind of also looks like
27:33
an uncharged mohawk, but his hair is like in a little bit of a
27:36
ponytail, and his name is Kanama mi no Ru, and he like taps
27:41
the guy on the head and he's like going down after one kick, so
27:45
lame, and Soccer thinks, what's with these guys? Aren't they on the
27:49
same side, And then we cut two feet wearing geta sandals approaching, which
27:57
I think are cool get A sandals like the traditional Japanese geta with like,
28:04
you know, it's like sandal and they have those like pieces of wood.
28:12
You know, I don't know how to explain a ghetta sandal right now anywhere.
28:15
He's wearing Getta and he's approaching, and I think it's cool because I
28:19
like characters that wear Getta, And he says, what is it? And
28:26
the two she's torn guys flinch and whoever this is says what's going on?
28:33
And we get a look at the guy who's been talking, and he was
28:36
wearing Getta, and he has like black, kind of messyish hair that might
28:41
be in a braid in the back, and he's wearing sunglasses, and he's
28:44
got like an orange track jacket on like this she's torn kids, and he's
28:48
wearing some kind of like traditional like roube or something underneath his jacket. He
28:52
looks cool. I think he's cool. And then he says I saw her
28:56
jackets zooming by, so it came chasing after you. And Hiragi says,
29:00
to think he'd show up? Of all people second in command of She's torn,
29:04
Tagame Joe Whoa and Togame who I spelled his name wrong here pulls down
29:11
his sunglasses and we see these green eyes, and he says, why do
29:15
we have furorin over here? And he looks around and then down at the
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past out member of she's torn on the ground, and he says, huh,
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saru Watari, what's with you? And Sakra thinks, what is with
29:32
this guy? And Hiragi steps past Sakra and says he was chasing after one
29:37
of our boys, and Togami is like hmm, and he looks up and
29:41
he's like, well, if it ain't Hiragi, hey there, and he
29:48
waves and the hand that is waving is holding an empty bottle of ramune,
29:53
that Japanese like soda that has like that little glass fall in it, which
30:00
is really good. I like it a lot. Anyway, Soccer thinks he's
30:03
so slow paced it's irritating, and Togami's like, so this, and then
30:10
he smiles says was done by you, guys, And everyone kind of stares
30:15
in shock, and Sacra starts to get pumped and he thinks this guy might
30:19
be a badass. And the hurt guy whose name was just on the other
30:23
page I already forgot it, starts to get up and he's like, enough
30:27
of those games punk. The rules were that we don't interfere on each other's
30:32
turf. This side is shith Torn's turf. And while he is saying those
30:37
things, the other two sheesh Torn guys with the mohawks are looking at him
30:45
with like a mix of fear and like cringe, and he continues, don't
30:52
be strutting around on our and then out of nowhere, Togami just smashes the
30:56
ramune over his head and he's down. Fuck, and Tolgame tosses what's left
31:02
of the broken bottle to the ground and he picks up the dude slightly by
31:07
his hair and he raises his fist and he's like our turf, and we
31:12
hear him hit the kid as Swoe watches unemotionally, and Niray hides his face
31:19
with his hand. He's only letting like one eye peek through, and Togame
31:23
continues, you lost, didn't you, And we hear the sound of him
31:27
hitting the kid, and then we get like a blood spatter on the screen,
31:32
and Tolgame says that means you're weak, and we hear hits and the
31:36
other guys and She's Torn look at the situation with like a sense of smugness
31:41
on their face and we hear more hits and we see like more splatters,
31:47
like this screen keeps flashing to like black but like red splatters, and they
31:51
get more, which actually thought was not very good and this could have been
31:53
done better, which was just kind of taken me out of the moment.
31:56
I would rather have just if we weren't going to show it, just stay
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on the faces of everyone and have them like cringe every time the kid gets
32:04
hit. But it liked that better, but whatever, So toyam continues and
32:10
you're fully aware, h and we get more blood and Soccer looks on in
32:15
horror because he is a good person, and Tokami's like the weak are and
32:22
he hits again and we get a screen filled with blood and Hiragy's like stop
32:25
it, and Tokami is still holding the kid by the hair, and he's
32:30
just like what and Hirogi says, your teammates, he's on your side,
32:36
right, And Tokami's like, huh, who this this guy? Nah?
32:43
He lost and now he's holding the kid by like the back of his track
32:46
jacket and he says, losing means you're weak the week and he pulls off
32:52
the jacket. Don't belong and she's torn, and he rais like, what
32:57
does that mean? And Solo says, I've heard rumors, but you really
33:00
don't get any good feelings from being around them, and soccer is like,
33:05
how lame, and he starts picking his ear again, and he's like,
33:08
devotees of power, put a joke, and Togami's like hmmm, and he
33:14
starts to walk forward, and Soccera says, you beat up. Some women
33:17
call it power, And here I was thinking you'd actually be interesting. Put
33:22
a letdown. And they are now staring each other down, and Hiragi puts
33:28
his hand over the bridge of his nose and sighs, and Sugishta and Swow
33:32
look totally unfazed, and Nier continues to panic, and Togame says, a
33:38
letdown, you say, And Minaru, one of those kids, says,
33:44
hey, did you hear that? Kill him? Kill him dead? And
33:46
Togame says, it's it's fine, don't worry anyway you, and he lifts
33:53
his sunglasses and says, have what amazing head. It's like an a Fellow
33:59
game, which I didn't even know what that was, but apparently it's also
34:02
called REVERSI and it's a strategy board game with black and white pieces, so
34:07
that makes sense because his hair is black and white and it's kind of like
34:10
a cross between checkers and chess or something, so he looks like a board
34:15
game. So Soccer is like, now you bring that up, and Togamme
34:20
says, you talk way too fast, and Soccer is like, huh,
34:23
you just talk too slow. And at this point, the camera is behind
34:28
a spider web, kind of looking through the spider web at them, and
34:30
the spider web is closer to Sakra, which makes me feel uncomfortable for him,
34:36
like he's going to be the prey of this situation. And Togami says,
34:42
oh see, I can hear so little. And then we get like
34:46
at a shift and he's like, it pisses me off. And then there's
34:51
a pause and he says, yosh, that's it. I'll beat you to
34:54
a pulp at a more proper setting. And he starts to turn away and
35:00
he says, I won't be forgetting your face, and he pulls his sunglasses
35:04
back down and him and the other she's tore our members start to walk off
35:08
and he says see you later, othello kun, and Soccer is like,
35:13
who the hell are you calling othello kun, And then Nira's like, both
35:15
of you, what exactly have you done? This is totally gonna cause a
35:20
conflict, bor, It's gonna be a war. And Suo puts his hand
35:24
on Nie Ray's shoulder and he's like, they're there, come down just a
35:29
bit. It looks like I'm a bit late to the party. And we
35:30
cut the Hiragi and he's just furiously putting a ton of Gascon ten tablets in
35:37
his hand and he looks really pissed off, and Suo says, but looking
35:42
at Hiragi, it's probably good I didn't participate, and Nira's like, Hiragi's
35:45
on, you should really follow the dosage and directions on the label. If
35:50
Soccara hadn't provoked them at the end, the whole thing about the kick might
35:52
have just blown over. And Hiragi pops pills into his mouth and he's like,
35:58
Togami, isn't that easy going ed ben amongst she'sh torn he's especially territorial,
36:02
yay, dislike me. It would have never ended just there, and
36:07
Nire like sighs and he's like, ah, that's so, and Hiragi says,
36:12
what's done is done, besides, I should have acted first. I'm
36:15
sorry, and everyone looks surprised, and he continues, let's head back to
36:22
school now, and he looks to the kid who got beat up and he
36:27
says, you from Sun Middle School and the kid's like, I'm Sasaki,
36:32
and Hirogi says, Sasaki, come with us, and then we see them
36:38
walking up the stairs in the stairwell and Hiragi says, I'll have you report
36:45
everything to Umemiya and he is holding his stomach in pain as they walk,
36:52
and Soakara is looking at him and thinks he really hates reporting to Umemia that
36:57
much. And then they come to a door at the top of the stairs,
37:00
like as far up as you can go in the stairwell, and Sokara
37:05
thinks, when I heard the broadcast, he sounded like an easygoing guy.
37:08
And the door is opening and he thinks, oo, Aimia, what kind
37:13
of guy is he? And we see that behind the door is the rooftop
37:19
of the school and it looks really nice. There's like a hammock set up
37:22
and there's all these gardening supplies and there's like a tree growing through the building,
37:25
which is not a good idea because now it's his structural support tree,
37:28
so you can't ever take it down, and also it's just going to destroy
37:34
the building completely, but whatever, and Soakara is totally confused, and everyone
37:39
is impressed, and Hiaki says, ou Aimia, and we see um Aimia.
37:45
He is facing away from us, leaning down near a planter, and
37:51
Sokara thinks, the top of furin the most powerful guy. And Umimia is
37:55
mostly obscured, but we can see that his hands are dirty, probably from
38:00
working with the plants that he's in front of, which is cool. And
38:04
he turns slightly and he says, oh, he roggy, take a look
38:07
at this, and he raises two of the plants up and he's like,
38:09
the eggplants and green peppers are growing strong, and he smiles like really brightly,
38:15
and he's like, let's get together for a barbecue this summer. And
38:19
they all stare at him like in total confusion because they weren't expecting someone like
38:23
this, except for Sudishta, who obviously has met him before and is just
38:27
looking like Sudista looks. And then someone thinks, and I didn't know if
38:30
it was Suo or Sakara, but one of them thought he's like a great
38:36
school kid, and then we go to the ending theme, Hooray, we
38:39
did it. We made it through the episode and we didn't die yet unless
38:43
you died while you were listening, And then I'm really really sorry, but
38:45
you can't hear me because you're dead. Sorry. Closing thoughts. I guess
38:52
before I forget, if you were listening to Ummia talk and you thought,
38:58
huh, he sounds like Kojo from Juzu Kaisen, you are correct. They
39:00
share a voice actor in Japanese. He also kind of looks like Gojo,
39:07
not really, Gojo is much prettier, but they both have white hair and
39:10
blue eyes. So there you go. Another thing that is really get to
39:16
me about the show that is not the show's fault, but is my fault,
39:20
is there's a bunch of names in this show that I just can't fucking
39:22
pronounce. So I'm trying my best. I don't know what it is.
39:27
There are two names, Sugishta and She's Torn, that both have a partially
39:31
silent she in them in the middle, So She's Torn is spelled she she
39:37
torn, So I have to keep checking myself before I say it. She's
39:43
Torn and Sugishta is spelled like Sugi Schita, so both of them, there's
39:50
like a syllable that's not that's like gone that I would want to say.
39:54
So I'm doing my best, but I'm gonna slip up sometimes and say it's
39:58
Sugi Chita or Cichi torn instead of she's torn and Sugishta. Also with Soakraa,
40:05
I have no idea why. Sometimes I'm like half rolling my r and
40:07
sometimes I'm not, but I'm really not in control of it. So apologies
40:12
about the episode. My biggest concern here, well, first of all,
40:16
it seems like Soccra is shaping up to be a pretty good guy. He
40:20
definitely doesn't like seeing people get beat down, even if there are people who
40:23
were trying to hurt that middle school student. Like he has a really nice
40:29
developed sense of empathy, which is great. And it looks like Sugishta does
40:32
as well, which makes sense because despite being angry and weird looking, he
40:37
does idolize Umamia, who probably you know, based on they're protecting the town,
40:44
probably also feels similarly to you know, Soccra about stuff like that.
40:50
So I like them so kind of really took a vacseat and didn't do anything
40:55
here, so hopefully he shapes up a little bit. And like I said
40:59
earlier, that smile is totally like a customer service smile that he's doing.
41:04
So it's interesting. And I know that Nira is kind of loud, but
41:08
I think all his reactions are totally appropriate to the situation, so I'm not
41:12
annoyed with him. I like Hi Ragi too. It'll be interesting to see
41:16
if he Ragy's fears of Umimia are real, because he does seem very very
41:22
scared of him, and all we've seen of Umimia so far is that he's
41:24
nice and friendly. So sometimes people have a different side to them though,
41:30
so we'll see. So the one thing about this show so far that I'm
41:35
just like, what the fuck are we doing? Actually there were two things.
41:38
One of them is pretty small. Now we've meant another team or gang.
41:42
She's torn. I don't understand what the town is like because they were
41:46
talking about protecting the town, so I don't understand like how the town is
41:51
laid out, like is it a big town, Like let's say it's like
41:54
Philadelphia, And when they say to protect the town, they really just mean
41:58
a neighborhood, So maybe if they're in Philly, they'd be protecting Germantown,
42:02
but they're not protecting something else near Germantown West Mount area, you know,
42:09
like the it stops there, or is it like there are two towns that
42:14
just kind of butt up against each other. So if you're in the Philly
42:17
area still it's like lands down in Upper Derby, there's basically just the street
42:23
is the divider between them, sort of in some areas. So like,
42:30
I don't know, either there are multiple towns next to each other or there's
42:32
one big town and they're only protecting part of it. I'm not sure,
42:36
but that's just that. Also, I don't know why there are no police,
42:39
but I you know how that is if this is a place where it's
42:45
like a very large town, which is what I'm kind of thinking it is.
42:47
Some areas police just don't help out and no if places are really dangerous,
42:52
sometimes you call the police and nobody comes. So that's kind of the
42:57
situation they're in. So now that I've all that kind of work that out,
43:00
my other concern is what the fuck is this school? So far,
43:06
I haven't seen any teachers. All they've done is go out and control like,
43:10
is this a real school. I don't know. I had a conversation
43:15
with my mom about it because I just tell her anime things and she gets
43:19
probably not excited about it at all, especially when I'm telling her about like
43:22
people beating each other up. But we were talking it through and I think
43:27
my take, and I don't know if this is true, and maybe we'll
43:30
find out during the show, is that this isn't really a school anymore,
43:35
that it's something that closed down and the kids kind of took it over and
43:39
just kind of treat it like it's still an active school, but it's more
43:45
like a gang hangout, but they still get students who can't go anywhere else.
43:50
Maybe I'm not really sure because there's no teachers. That's weird. So
43:55
those are my thoughts for this episode. We only got one Saccara blush in
44:00
this whole episode, which was weird because if you've noticed, he blushes a
44:05
lot, so I'm gonna count them from now on. So just won this
44:07
episode because there's gonna be a lot of blushing And yeah, that's honestly,
44:14
that's pretty much it. I am tired, so I hope that you're enjoying
44:19
this. I'm pretty much enjoying this. Yeah, So the unimportant thing that
44:23
I wanted to say is just that I started watching Banana Fish and I am,
44:30
I don't know, hurt by it very much so and it is a
44:35
lot, a lot, a lot, and it's a really nice play against
44:40
this show. They compliment each other really well, because this show is so
44:46
fucking posey, you know, like like positive pozzycore, like most posi delinquent
44:52
show I've seen, and Banana Fish is not positive at all. It's if
45:01
we're gonna paint delinquent category in broad strokes, it's the same genre sort of
45:08
we're you know, basing it around gangs. So if you are watching Windbreaker
45:14
with me and you're like, hey, you know this is okay, but
45:16
like I wish that there was more urgency and I wish it was more realistic
45:24
in all of the negative lights of being in a gang and how life is
45:30
terrible all the time, and I wish it was showjo. I highly recommend
45:37
Benedifice, even though I'm only about halfway through and the last episode made me
45:39
cringe so hard that I considered not even saying anything, but yeah, go
45:45
for it, but be advised that it is super super heavy. There was
45:50
a lot of sexual assault and discussion of human trafficking. So if that's your
45:57
jam or it's not not your jam, I really recommend it. I also
46:01
started watching gto Great Teacher Oni Zuka, which I don't really recommend, but
46:07
so I've just been watching a lot of delinquent anime right now. It's been
46:09
fun. So that's all I wanted to tell you. And yeah, I'm
46:15
gonna go now and do whatever the hell I was doing before I started doing
46:20
this, like work on work stuff, and yeah, I hope you have
46:25
a really good whatever, and I will catch it next time. Weeps.