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Given Ep. 8- Time is Running Out · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your Oh my god, not that again, Michelle.
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Speaker 1: I guess I don't know how that went, but that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I'm back. It is seventy degrees out, which means it's
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Speaker 1: like forty degrees warmer than it was when I recorded
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Speaker 1: last week, which is pretty amazing, I guess, but not
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Speaker 1: really because that's what weather does, and I guess it's
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Speaker 1: kind of spring. So we're doing that now. But uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about given episode eight. I'm slowly starting
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Speaker 1: to catch up on things anime wise, not enough, you know,
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Speaker 1: but I just wanted to say that the last episode
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Speaker 1: so would be this past week's episode for you if
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Speaker 1: it's on Thursday of Jujitsu Kaisen was just beautiful again,
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Speaker 1: I mean animation wise, like Sokka Galore and stuff. I
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Speaker 1: wish it was a better show, but honestly, I also
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Speaker 1: wanted to say that I'm liking this arc better animated
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Speaker 1: than I did in the manga, so that's good. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna like love it or like come
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Speaker 1: out like clapping at the end or something, but it's
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Speaker 1: so beautiful, Like all of the battles are just like gorgeous,
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Speaker 1: So it's hard not to kind of like it a
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Speaker 1: little bit. You know. Also, I caught up on you know,
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Speaker 1: Sentenced to Be a Hero whatever that's called in Japanese
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Speaker 1: because it's definitely not called that, and it's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: It's so interesting, Like I like it, and I really
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Speaker 1: like Silo. He's kind of my type of main character
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Speaker 1: sort of, but at the same time, like I'm not
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Speaker 1: loving it, and I really want to because there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of like blood and like sadness and shit and
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Speaker 1: the government's evil, so I like really really want to
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Speaker 1: love it, and right now I just like it a
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Speaker 1: pretty decent amount. But you know, I mean that's something.
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Speaker 1: And then of course there's a shibo yugi that's going
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Speaker 1: on that I it's just weird all the time. That's
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Speaker 1: really cool though, Like if you haven't watched that one,
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Speaker 1: that's about this girl's play in death game so that
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Speaker 1: she can you know, it's basically her job and it
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Speaker 1: is just tragic the whole way through. But you know,
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Speaker 1: the art style is really interesting. When they get further
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Speaker 1: away from characters, they just remove all facial details from them,
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Speaker 1: but it like looks like it's a style and not
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Speaker 1: like it's we just didn't want to draw the faces
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Speaker 1: because it's hard to draw phases when there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of action, which is probably what it really is. But
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Speaker 1: it looks cool. There's like a cohesiveness to how it's done,
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of like what's that thing called
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Speaker 1: like where there's letterboxes at the top of the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the screen. You know, there's a lot of changes
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Speaker 1: in like the resolution size of the actual anime that
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Speaker 1: I think is really cool. So yeah, that's a good one,
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Speaker 1: even just for like the interesting kind of mood that
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Speaker 1: it sets. But that's that's all I've caught up with.
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Speaker 1: I know you didn't actually care about that, but now
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Speaker 1: you know, in case anybody asks you, like on a
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Speaker 1: quiz like what Michelle antisocial watch recently, that it would
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Speaker 1: have to be a quiz like right now, because it'll
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Speaker 1: be wrong soon, but like you can get it right,
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Speaker 1: you can just ace it. So good for you. I guess,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's stop doing whatever this is that
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Speaker 1: I'm doing. Talk about given episode eight, which is called
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Speaker 1: Time is Running Out. That is also a song by Muse.
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Speaker 1: It was a single from their third album called Absolution,
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Speaker 1: which came out in two thousand and three if you
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Speaker 1: know kind of radio rock, which is kind of what
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Speaker 1: I think this is, because it was on the radio
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Speaker 1: a lot, and it was two thousand and three, so
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Speaker 1: there were still like music videos, so this music video
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Speaker 1: did pretty well too. What I'm saying is, if you
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Speaker 1: know kind of like radio rock, you probably know this song.
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Speaker 1: It was a big hit for them, and it's a
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Speaker 1: totally okay song in my opinion. It's basically maybe about
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Speaker 1: a relationship that's not going well and it's probably going
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Speaker 1: to end. It probably has to end because it's not
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Speaker 1: going super good and he feels trapped in it and
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Speaker 1: shit like that, and you know, it's hard to know
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Speaker 1: exactly what's going on because it's all just a shit
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Speaker 1: ton of metaphors. But it's not a good thing. Some
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Speaker 1: bad thing is happening and it's gonna get worse and
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Speaker 1: it's all gonna end, which is a totally different song.
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Speaker 1: That is a subhuman song. Yeah, that I was just quoting,
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Speaker 1: which I love and I think about all the time.
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Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there, so I don't actually
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Speaker 1: think that works. The kind of concept of the song
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Speaker 1: is not related to given at all. But time is
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Speaker 1: running out is a pretty good title, because time is
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Speaker 1: fucking running out. We gotta do this show, right. I
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Speaker 1: don't mean my show, I mean the show in given
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna do. I mean they're gonna do. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's just kind of get on with it. So if
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Speaker 1: you remember, at the end of last episode, Huddocky had
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Speaker 1: just told oh you no Yama that he was like
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Speaker 1: losing his punch and if he didn't get his shit together,
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Speaker 1: Mafu You's sound was gonna overwhelm him, which is exactly
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Speaker 1: the wrong thing to say to someone who's stressed out
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Speaker 1: about shit, like you're doing a bad job whatever it
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Speaker 1: is that's going on with you. Stop it. It's like,
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Speaker 1: that's not actually helpful, but whatever. So we don't start
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Speaker 1: exactly there, but it's probably not too far off. We
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Speaker 1: are outside I guess the venue that Mafuu works at
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Speaker 1: at night, and then we see like a still shot
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Speaker 1: of inside and people are talking and stuff, and Hidragi
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Speaker 1: walks by and he spots Subaki, you know, the person
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Speaker 1: who works there, and he's like, excuse me, and he
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Speaker 1: walks over to her. Subaki's like hmm, oh, Hidaki says,
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Speaker 1: is Mafu you here? Subaki's like he's off today. Hiragi's like,
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Speaker 1: I see when's his next shift? Subaki siys and looks
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Speaker 1: kind of annoyed, and she's like, can't you ask him yourself? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she did the absolute right thing there. In like retail
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Speaker 1: type jobs, which I'm gonna count this, someone comes in
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Speaker 1: and asks about your coworker schedule. You don't give it
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Speaker 1: to them because they can just ask them. You don't
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Speaker 1: want like stalkers and shit. So anyway, Kiaggi kind of
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Speaker 1: chuckles and he's like, yeah, well, he looks at the floor.
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Speaker 1: He kind of hates me right now. And that's why
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Speaker 1: you don't give someone the person's schedule, because you don't
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Speaker 1: want that anyway. Now, we see the exterior of an
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Speaker 1: apartment building and we see mafu U's hands like holding
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Speaker 1: out I guess Kaji's helmet and jacket to him and
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Speaker 1: he says, thank you very much. Kaji takes them from
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Speaker 1: him and says, sure, make sure you send over the
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Speaker 1: lyrics when you're done. Mafulu's like sure. He bows slightly
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Speaker 1: and he turns and starts to walk into the lobby.
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Speaker 1: Kaji looks up at the sky and is like, just
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Speaker 1: one more week. Huh damn it, and we still don't
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Speaker 1: have lyrics, and then we go to the opening. Yay
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Speaker 1: I guess now we see oh, you know Yama standing
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Speaker 1: I think in a hallway. He's mostly obscured. We're just
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Speaker 1: kind of seeing part of his chest in his head,
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Speaker 1: like you know, below his nose, and he like puts
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Speaker 1: his hand on a shelf that's next to him, and
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Speaker 1: he's like kind of moving around like he's maybe putting
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Speaker 1: on his shoes. But you know, it would be nice
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Speaker 1: to see this instead of just getting this weird movement,
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Speaker 1: so I knew for sure. Yayoi leans out of a
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Speaker 1: doorway and is like, got your umbrella? Waeno Yama says, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you always like what about your guitar? Yeah, Wuno Yama
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Speaker 1: does not have his guitar on his back, which he
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Speaker 1: like always has. He just has a normal backpack. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even know he had one of those. Wueno Yama
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Speaker 1: turns the doorknob and he's like, we're not practicing. He
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Speaker 1: opens the door. Yeah, you always like, huh, we gotta
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Speaker 1: flashback to how do keep saying that Uo Yama's gonna
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Speaker 1: be swallowed up by mafuu? Sound like I just said
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago, and the door closes behind
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Speaker 1: Dueyno Yama. He stares blankly like out for a second,
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Speaker 1: and then he turns and walks down the hallway. Now
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Speaker 1: we see a blackboard that's as udy haul on its yay.
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Speaker 1: Etaya has his head down on his desk and like
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Speaker 1: an open notebook, looking kind of stressed, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I wanna play basketball a for baby. Ueki and Uyenoyama
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Speaker 1: are both at their desks, which are behind him, and
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Speaker 1: Awaki says, go play. Then Etaia springs up and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to play by myself. Everyone just keeps
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Speaker 1: talking about our stupid finals. He falls face first back
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Speaker 1: down into his notebook. Awaki's like, how about you ouey
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Speaker 1: and Oyama that you're busy with concert prep? WU know.
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Speaker 1: Yama's like, uh what a taias like, who cares about
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Speaker 1: my finals? I'll still be there for your show. We know.
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Speaker 1: Yama's like sure, Oweki says if we get below a
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Speaker 1: seventy in world history, we get extra homework Atias like seriously,
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Speaker 1: OUI know. Yama looks a little upset, not about the
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Speaker 1: extra homework, just in general. We now see a crosswalk
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Speaker 1: light and it's green and it's cloudy for once. It's
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Speaker 1: like never cloudy in this show. It's always partly cloudy
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Speaker 1: or partly sunny, but this time it's just cloudy, weird.
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Speaker 1: And we see Uinoyama crossing the streets and he sees
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Speaker 1: Mafuyu waiting at the crosswalk that is perpendicular to the
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Speaker 1: one that he crossed. He sighs and walks over to him.
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Speaker 1: So Uinoyama is like facing Mafuyu, and Mafuyu is facing
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Speaker 1: the crosswalk, so he's not really looking it away anyway.
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Speaker 1: Uino Yama doesn't say anything, and like I said, mafuy
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Speaker 1: is looking forward, so I don't think he even sees
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Speaker 1: uayino Yama, and he's just silence. Ouayino Yama moves slightly closer,
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Speaker 1: but you know, nothing changes. He kind of grunts and
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Speaker 1: looks at his hand and kind of flexes it, and
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Speaker 1: then he lifts it and suddenly like bats Mafu you
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder. Mafuyu gasps and looks over and is like, oh,
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Speaker 1: uino Yama says, studying for your finals. Mafu's like not really,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'll fail modern Japanese. Maybe you should
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Speaker 1: study for it. Then we know Y'ama half laughs and
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Speaker 1: he's like, I know what you mean. Well Siya. Mafuy
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Speaker 1: is like, okay, bye bye o. We know Yama walks
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Speaker 1: a bit, and then he stops and turns back and
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Speaker 1: he stares back at Mafuyu, who is still waiting to
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Speaker 1: cross the streets. Now we see Takei Chan yay Taki Chan.
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Speaker 1: He is sitting at the counter of the coffee shop
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Speaker 1: that Hot Doo Ke works at, and he has like
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Speaker 1: his gig bag with his guitar in it next to him, which,
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Speaker 1: since I haven't explained, gigbag is just another term for
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Speaker 1: a soft case guitar bag that you put over your
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Speaker 1: shoulder or something. Anyway, how do Kei is at the
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Speaker 1: counter obviously, and he says, take Chan, you're on your
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Speaker 1: way home from practice. Taki's like, nah, I'm heading there
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Speaker 1: right now. How Doki says Yike sounds rough. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what time it is, but I guess it's late.
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Speaker 1: Take drinks some beer, and then he's like, we're all
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Speaker 1: working adults, so our schedules never match up during the week.
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Speaker 1: The next time we can practice together is during the
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Speaker 1: rehearsal on the day of the show. Oh, it's scary
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Speaker 1: as hell. How do Kei's like, tell me about it?
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Speaker 1: You guys could practice. Take continues, well, anyway, we're sounding
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Speaker 1: pretty good, so look forward to the show. Had Key's
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Speaker 1: like sure. We now are focused on a window and
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Speaker 1: it starts to rain outside, and had Ki's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's raining. Oh thanks, Taduki. I just said that. Take
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Speaker 1: looks over and he's like, shit, I don't have an umbrella.
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Speaker 1: Had Key says, if a disposable one's okay, I've got one.
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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it be okay? Takei's like my hero. We
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Speaker 1: see outside of the cafe, and then we fade to black.
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Speaker 1: We fade into the exterior of Kaji's house. It's daytime
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Speaker 1: and it is still raining, so we're doing a lot
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Speaker 1: of rain now because things are probably bad and that's
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Speaker 1: why it rains, I guess. We see Kaji's feet as
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Speaker 1: he walks across the floor, and we hear a door
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Speaker 1: open and we see like one of their windows. It's
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Speaker 1: really high up and it's made out of those glass blocks.
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Speaker 1: They're structural, by the way. Then we see a coffee pot,
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Speaker 1: a tea, kettle and an empty mug, and a voice
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Speaker 1: on the radio says, next the national weather. We see
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Speaker 1: that U gets who is laying in bed. He might
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Speaker 1: be asleep. He's on his stomach, so we can't see
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Speaker 1: his eyes, and the radio continues, the rain will continue
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Speaker 1: throughout the entire Conto region due to incoming low atmospheric pressure.
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Speaker 1: Kaji is in the bathroom. He has a toothbrusht in
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Speaker 1: his mouth, but he's not brushing his teeth like. We
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Speaker 1: can't see all of him, but it sounds like maybe
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Speaker 1: he's washing his hands. I don't know why we don't
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Speaker 1: get to see this. And then we see coffee being
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Speaker 1: poured into a mug, and the radio continues and it
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Speaker 1: will increase in strength this afternoon. Now we cut to breakfast.
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Speaker 1: On a table. There is toast soup. I guess I
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Speaker 1: don't know what kind of soup, and eggs and bacon
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Speaker 1: eggs are sunnyside up. I think there's only one of them. Actually,
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Speaker 1: Kaji SIPs some coffee and I thought he was standing,
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Speaker 1: but he's actually at a low table. He's sitting against
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Speaker 1: the bed by the way, but on the floor. Who
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Speaker 1: gets to pot up and kind of moves himself over
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Speaker 1: to Kaji and his eyes are closed and he kind
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Speaker 1: of sighs, and he's like, give me a bite. Kaji
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Speaker 1: turns and looks at him like super pissed off. And
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Speaker 1: U gets Who opens his mouth and Kaji feeds him
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Speaker 1: like an entire piece of bacon, Like really, that's a
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Speaker 1: lot of bacon, but maybe the bacon piece was small,
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Speaker 1: but it just didn't look like that to me. Who
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Speaker 1: gets Who's like, I wish the humidity would just die.
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Speaker 1: Kaji says, this is what you get for living in
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Speaker 1: the basement. Who gets his? Like shut up? We see
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Speaker 1: the drum set in the corner, and Kaji says, mind
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Speaker 1: if I play some drums in the mornings. Who gets?
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Speaker 1: Who's like, huh why? Oh? Got a show coming up?
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Speaker 1: Whats so you're actually serious about this? Now? Kaiji looks
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Speaker 1: over at him and he's about to smoke a cigarette
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Speaker 1: like it's in his mouth, and who gets his? Like what?
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Speaker 1: Kaiji is silent for a second, and he says, you
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Speaker 1: want to come? Who gets? Who smiles? Are you a
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Speaker 1: level that you don't mind showing me? This kind of
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Speaker 1: upsets Kaji. Yeah, I don't really like Hu Getsu anyway?
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Speaker 1: Who gets, He's like, oh, I see you suck so
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Speaker 1: bad you couldn't even answer geez, dude. He puts his
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Speaker 1: head down. I'm not gonna go. Kaji lights his cigarette
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Speaker 1: and who gets who like reaches for it and Kaji
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Speaker 1: kind of pulls away and he's like, hey, but who gets?
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Speaker 1: Who grabs it and then he takes a drag of it?
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Speaker 1: What the fuck dude? And Kaji says, who gets you?
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Speaker 1: You should come? Who gets too, narrows his eyes and exhales.
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Speaker 1: There's no point in seeing a show if the performers
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Speaker 1: aren't even trying. Geez. Kaji slams down his mug and
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Speaker 1: he's like, I am trying. Shit, it's really all I
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Speaker 1: got going for me right now? Who gets to exhale
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Speaker 1: some smoke and says, hey, finally some enthusiasm. Kaji's like, thanks,
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Speaker 1: jerk O gets to chuckles. Play some violin with me later.
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Speaker 1: Then Kaji's like, play with your new veil. The boyfriend?
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Speaker 1: Who gets who kind of laughs again and he's it's like, nah,
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Speaker 1: I only like him for his face. Kaji says, that's
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Speaker 1: so who gets just like it is? Okay? Now we
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Speaker 1: see a bunch of still shots, right, so we have
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Speaker 1: students at desks, which includes Mafou, so I guess it
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Speaker 1: is class. Then we see Kaji and u Getsu playing violin,
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Speaker 1: so he did that's nice. Then we see it Taya
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Speaker 1: passing sheets either up or back in the classroom, and
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Speaker 1: Uino Yama is just asleep on his desk, next Hodge
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Speaker 1: practicing bass as he sits on his bed, Kaji practicing
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Speaker 1: the drums, Uno Yama playing his guitar in his room.
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Speaker 1: Mafuyu standing, I guess at a crosswalk, maybe holding a
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Speaker 1: clear umbrella looking real fucking blank, and then the cloudy
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Speaker 1: sky with rain coming down from it. We fade to black.
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Speaker 1: Now we see a shot of the city with like
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Speaker 1: the canal in the middle, and it's still raining. Rain
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Speaker 1: is falling on Mafuu's window, and he is lying in
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Speaker 1: bed looking kind of like at his which is next
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Speaker 1: to him, like on the bed, but it's not on,
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Speaker 1: like the screen isn't on, so maybe he's waiting for
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Speaker 1: a text or something. He sighs and he closes his eyes,
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Speaker 1: and then we see kind of the corner where his
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Speaker 1: walls and ceiling meat. For some reason, he thinks about
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Speaker 1: Kaji saying do you want to express it or do
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Speaker 1: you want to run away from ever having to verbalize it? Yeah, Kaji.
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Speaker 1: His phone beeps and we see it and it says
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Speaker 1: it's nine to twenty. He has a message from Hiragi
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Speaker 1: Kashima and it says you awake. It beeps again, and
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Speaker 1: then there's another message from him and it says hey.
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Speaker 1: Mafu buries his head in his pillow and we hear
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Speaker 1: another beep, and now it says, look out your window,
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Speaker 1: chee dude. Something pings off of Mafui's window and he
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Speaker 1: sits up because someone is throwing things at his window.
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Speaker 1: And then he gets up and looks out the window
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Speaker 1: and he sees that Hiragi is standing in the parking
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Speaker 1: lots that's next to the apartment building, holding a clear
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Speaker 1: umbrella and he has his phone to his ear like
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Speaker 1: he's calling maf you. Well, he definitely is, because Mafi's
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Speaker 1: phone starts to ring or beep or something. MafA you
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Speaker 1: just holds his phone as he stares down at Hidaki.
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Speaker 1: We see Hidagi holding his phone up to his ear
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Speaker 1: listening to it ring or I guess troil is the
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Speaker 1: right word, And then we cut back to Mafuu, who
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Speaker 1: again is just staring at he do aggi and he
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Speaker 1: starts to lift his arm. We cut to Hidaki. The
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Speaker 1: line trails a couple more times, and then he hears
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Speaker 1: Mafu you say hello. He Doggi's like, Mafu you, hey,
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Speaker 1: come hang out with me for a bit. Go to
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Speaker 1: the eye catch. Right back from the eye catch, we
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Speaker 1: see a bunch of shots of playground equipment and it's
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Speaker 1: still raining, and we hear someone say who I think
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Speaker 1: is Hidaki And it's a little weird because it's the
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Speaker 1: third person, but he says, Kashima Hidagi won't meddle because
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Speaker 1: is there really any point. Hidagi is sitting on a
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Speaker 1: bench which is kind of like underneath like a sheltered
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Speaker 1: area in the park, and Mafou is standing in front
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Speaker 1: of him, staring at him. Mafou says, why now, why
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Speaker 1: bother with me? Kiodagi looks up at him. Mafou continues,
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Speaker 1: You've just been standing on the sidelines this whole time.
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Speaker 1: Kiodagi looks away. You're right, I didn't do anything. We
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Speaker 1: see a school exterior at Sunsets and Hidagi is walking
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Speaker 1: down the hall and he stops and looks, and we
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Speaker 1: get a voiceover from him that goes, even when you
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Speaker 1: and Yuki started going out. We see Mafou and Yuki
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Speaker 1: together in a classroom alone, and they're kissing and the
18:38
Speaker 1: curtains are blowing in the breeze. Yuki opens his eyes
18:42
Speaker 1: and he sees that Hidagi is looking at them. Kidagi
18:44
Speaker 1: looks shocked. The voiceover continues, I knew everything, but I
18:49
Speaker 1: didn't say a word. We see his feet as he
18:52
Speaker 1: turns and walks away, cutting back to now he is
18:56
Speaker 1: sitting with his hands folded, and he continues, and now
19:00
Speaker 1: I regret that. There's a long pause. We can't see
19:03
Speaker 1: Mafu Whu's eyes because you know, hair is over them
19:06
Speaker 1: and that's never a good sign. And Hidagi looks up
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Speaker 1: at him and says, hey, I get how you feel,
19:13
Speaker 1: but mafu You cuts him off. You have no idea
19:15
Speaker 1: how I feel. There's a pause, and then Mafu You
19:18
Speaker 1: gasps because he didn't realize he was gonna do that. Done,
19:22
Speaker 1: just more silence. Hidagi puts his head in his hands
19:25
Speaker 1: and he says, you're right, I don't and I regret
19:29
Speaker 1: that right now too. I get a voice over now
19:31
Speaker 1: of Hidagi again saying Kashima. Hidagi wants to be forgiven.
19:37
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter by who, he just wants to be forgiven. Fuck.
19:42
Speaker 1: We go to black. Now we see a sign on
19:45
Speaker 1: like a little post by a door that's a saw
19:47
Speaker 1: though on it and also has a doorbell. A little
19:50
Speaker 1: hand reaches up and I think rings it, but I
19:52
Speaker 1: can't tell. And we see that it is little Hidagi.
19:56
Speaker 1: Maybe he's like seven years old or something. I don't know.
19:59
Speaker 1: He all brown hair, no like weird blonde tips or anything.
20:04
Speaker 1: He stands at the door for a moment and then
20:06
Speaker 1: he runs next door to a house with like a
20:07
Speaker 1: Yoshida plaque on it. We see another kid with like
20:11
Speaker 1: dirty blonde hair, and he like opens the door and
20:13
Speaker 1: smiles mischievously at Hidagi. And then we cut two lots
20:18
Speaker 1: of toys scattered on a floor, and we hear Hidagi say,
20:22
Speaker 1: Sato Mafuyu, Yoshidi, Yuki and I were childhood friends. Yuki
20:26
Speaker 1: and Hidagi walk into the room and we see that
20:29
Speaker 1: Mafuu is sitting on the floor looking at like a
20:31
Speaker 1: bunch of trains that he has laid out in front
20:33
Speaker 1: of him. Then we cut to a still shot of
20:36
Speaker 1: Shisusumi being introduced to the class. He has a band
20:39
Speaker 1: aid on his forehead, so I don't know if he
20:40
Speaker 1: gets into like a lot of fights or someone hits him,
20:42
Speaker 1: or he just falls down a lot, but it doesn't
20:44
Speaker 1: make me feel good about it. And we hear here
20:46
Speaker 1: Aki say later she's Susumi moved nearby and joined us.
20:50
Speaker 1: We see them like all running around, and then their
20:52
Speaker 1: backpacks are like all together bunched up under a tree
20:55
Speaker 1: in the grass, and Kidagi continues for as long as
20:59
Speaker 1: I could remember everything happened within that little world of ours.
21:02
Speaker 1: Hidagi is playing now like on a phone or a
21:06
Speaker 1: switch or something like a you know, like a Nintendo
21:08
Speaker 1: switch in the park, and she'sa zoomy's watching him, and
21:12
Speaker 1: he gets like really upset because I guess he loses.
21:14
Speaker 1: And then they both look over and Mafou is kneeling
21:17
Speaker 1: down looking at a white cat that is sleeping on
21:19
Speaker 1: the ground. Yuki runs over and pets the cat, and
21:23
Speaker 1: he's talking him off with you, but we can't hear
21:24
Speaker 1: what they're saying, and Kidagi continues, especially with Mafu. You
21:28
Speaker 1: and Yuki, who were latchkey kids with single moms. Mafoyu
21:31
Speaker 1: slowly moves his hand to bet the cat, and Kiadaki continues.
21:35
Speaker 1: They were both missing something from the start. Mafou smiles
21:39
Speaker 1: back to Hidagi. It was like that each had what
21:42
Speaker 1: the other one was lacking. So Yuki needed Mafuu and
21:44
Speaker 1: Mafu you needed Yuki. They just gave the impression that
21:47
Speaker 1: they were made for each other. We see Hidagi looking
21:50
Speaker 1: at them, and we cut to Hidagi older, maybe in
21:54
Speaker 1: middle school or something, and he is looking at Lafou
21:59
Speaker 1: andy and I guess they're in school, and he continues,
22:04
Speaker 1: Yuki was flashy, domineering and moody. Yuki is like laughing
22:09
Speaker 1: with some kids. And I don't know if I've explained
22:12
Speaker 1: what he looked like before. So he's blonde hair, and
22:14
Speaker 1: he's got a black undercut. He's got multiple ear piercings.
22:17
Speaker 1: He's pretty edgy. I like him. Then we see Mafuyu
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Speaker 1: sleeping at his desk with a math book open in
22:22
Speaker 1: front of him. He Doggy continues, Mafuyu is docile, introverted,
22:27
Speaker 1: in quiet. We cut two ginkgo leaves like a pile.
22:31
Speaker 1: They're bright yellow, so I guess it's fall. He Doggie continues,
22:35
Speaker 1: while everyone around them wondered how they ever got along.
22:39
Speaker 1: We see Mafuyu walking outside and Yuki runs up from
22:42
Speaker 1: behind him and like grabs his hood and starts talking
22:44
Speaker 1: to him. He doggy continues, like how opposite polls on
22:47
Speaker 1: magnets are attracted to each other. It seemed like their
22:50
Speaker 1: own little world was complete with their own set of rules.
22:54
Speaker 1: Now we see Hidagi Yuki and She's assumed walking with
22:57
Speaker 1: instrument bags and they turn and Yuki waves Hiadaki continues,
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Speaker 1: when we started high school, we went to separate schools.
23:06
Speaker 1: Mafou is waving them off. Kiadaki continues, and Yuki and
23:10
Speaker 1: She'suzumi and I started playing music together until a small
23:13
Speaker 1: fracture appeared. Now we see Yuki delivering pizza for look Pizza.
23:19
Speaker 1: Hidaki continues. Yuki worked part time jobs so we could
23:22
Speaker 1: play in the band and spend the rest of his
23:24
Speaker 1: time in the studio. We see them in the studio.
23:26
Speaker 1: Mafou is standing now alone at a subway platform, and
23:31
Speaker 1: we see a hand reach out for Mafuy's shoulder. Mafoy
23:35
Speaker 1: brushes it away, though Hidaki continues, Mafuu and Yuki had
23:39
Speaker 1: a stupid little fight. It was a pointless argument. Hidaki
23:43
Speaker 1: and she's Asumi watch as Mafuyu starts to walk away
23:48
Speaker 1: and Yuki is still reaching out to him, and we
23:51
Speaker 1: see Yuki yelling but we can't hear him, and Mafuyu
23:54
Speaker 1: looks really upsets. Hidaki continues the kind of silly scuffle
23:58
Speaker 1: that everyone's had before. Both Mafuu and Yuki are now
24:02
Speaker 1: yelling at each other, and then we see them with
24:04
Speaker 1: their backs to each other. Yuki starts to walk away,
24:07
Speaker 1: this time he stops. He tells Hidaki something and then
24:10
Speaker 1: he keeps going. Kidaki looks back at Mafuyu, who's standing
24:14
Speaker 1: with his back to them. We go to black. I'd
24:17
Speaker 1: like to know what the argument was about. We fade
24:19
Speaker 1: into a bedroom. We're like looking down from basically the ceiling,
24:23
Speaker 1: and we're panning across the bedroom from the door. So
24:25
Speaker 1: we see a gigbag on the floor, and then we
24:28
Speaker 1: see like a table with a bunch of beer cans
24:30
Speaker 1: around it and under it and shit, and then we
24:33
Speaker 1: see Mafuu or Yuki's guitar on the floor. Hidaki continues.
24:39
Speaker 1: Two days later, Yuki, who couldn't even drink down a
24:42
Speaker 1: huge amount of alcohol and Mafu you found him. We
24:46
Speaker 1: get a close up of the guitar, back to the presence,
24:50
Speaker 1: still on the playground in the rain, and Kidaki's hands
24:53
Speaker 1: are still over his face. Kiadaki says, I knew everything,
24:57
Speaker 1: and yet I and there's just silence. Mafo You sits
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Speaker 1: down next to him, and it's quiet for a while,
25:03
Speaker 1: and then Mafu You says, we're playing a show on Sunday.
25:08
Speaker 1: Kid Dogi sits up and looks at him, astonished, You're
25:11
Speaker 1: okay with me being there? Mafo You says yeah. He a.
25:16
Speaker 1: He's like, can Jesu come too. Mafo You says yeah,
25:20
Speaker 1: invites Hizu Chahan. Hidagi stares at him and then looks
25:24
Speaker 1: away sadly, and Mafo You continues, I took my frustration
25:28
Speaker 1: out on you, Hi dog He's like yeah. Mafu You
25:32
Speaker 1: continues Earlier I said you had no idea how I felt.
25:36
Speaker 1: But the truth is I'm the one who has no
25:38
Speaker 1: idea how I feel. What I didn't want to face
25:42
Speaker 1: how I really felt, so I've been avoiding it. Oh,
25:46
Speaker 1: I understand everything now. Ki Doggi slaps him on the
25:50
Speaker 1: back and he's like, idiots. There's silence for a second,
25:53
Speaker 1: and then he stands call me some time, you dumbass.
25:57
Speaker 1: Mafu You's like okay. We see Hidagi walking off and
26:00
Speaker 1: Mafuyu says thanks. He know, he stops, but he doesn't
26:04
Speaker 1: turn around, and he just kind of like raises his
26:07
Speaker 1: hand like he's gonna wave, and then he walks away,
26:11
Speaker 1: leaving Mafu You alone on the bench totally despondent. We
26:15
Speaker 1: hear Aggie say again, Kashima Hidagi wants to be forgiven.
26:20
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter by who, he just wants to be forgiven.
26:24
Speaker 1: We get a close up shop with his eye as
26:26
Speaker 1: he walks and he closes them and he looks like
26:29
Speaker 1: he's just so hurt, but more than anyone else, he
26:34
Speaker 1: wants Mafu You to forgive him. Fuck Mafu You is
26:39
Speaker 1: still sitting alone, looking horribly sad, hands folded around his
26:43
Speaker 1: umbrella handle, and we fade into his hands folded around
26:48
Speaker 1: his knees. He's smaller and Zakiyas are yelling in the background,
26:52
Speaker 1: and he's under a tree, you know, sitting against the trunk.
26:56
Speaker 1: We hear a kid go whoosh. We see a hand
27:00
Speaker 1: and holding like this green model plane over some bushes,
27:04
Speaker 1: so kind of MafA you can see the plane or
27:06
Speaker 1: we can see the plane, but nothing else. And then
27:09
Speaker 1: the plane goes down below the bushes and we hear
27:11
Speaker 1: the kid go boom. At this point, Yuki pops up
27:15
Speaker 1: from the bushes and he's like, huh, hey, what are
27:17
Speaker 1: you doing, Mafo you just just looking at the grass
27:22
Speaker 1: and he's silence, and Yuki says, can't you talk? Still silence.
27:27
Speaker 1: Yuki starts to fly the plane around again and he
27:29
Speaker 1: says whoosh, and then Mafo You finally says when I talk.
27:34
Speaker 1: Yuki stops and looks back. MafA You continues. My dad
27:39
Speaker 1: hits me, Oh, I thought you didn't have a dad.
27:42
Speaker 1: I guess you just don't have a good dad. Fuck.
27:46
Speaker 1: Yuki stares at him for a second and he's like,
27:48
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not your dad. We cut back to now.
27:53
Speaker 1: We cut back to now with Mafo You still sitting
27:55
Speaker 1: on the bench, and then we fade out and we
27:58
Speaker 1: cut to a street with like of telephone wires everywhere,
28:02
Speaker 1: and it's still cloudy, but it's not raining anymore. And
28:06
Speaker 1: then we see that venue that I guess Mafia works at,
28:10
Speaker 1: and there's like lots of people and how dock. He's there.
28:12
Speaker 1: He's looking at a sheet of paper and I don't
28:14
Speaker 1: know what's on it. Uio Yama is there as well,
28:17
Speaker 1: and he is looking at his phone. Kaji walks over
28:19
Speaker 1: and we know Yama says hey. Kaji's like, where's MafA
28:22
Speaker 1: you O? We know? Yama says not here yet. He
28:25
Speaker 1: looks pretty stressed. Kaji's like, well, let's see how things
28:29
Speaker 1: go with rehearsal. We know. Yama's like, huh how. Doki says, yeah,
28:34
Speaker 1: who knows? He might blow us all away at the
28:36
Speaker 1: very last minute. Waya Mayama size and he thinks of
28:39
Speaker 1: MafA you standing at the crosswalk looking all blank, and
28:44
Speaker 1: then he kind of nods. And Kaji's like, if Mafu
28:46
Speaker 1: you plans on singing it all, we should hold out. Ha.
28:49
Speaker 1: Doki says, we'll be fine as long as it all
28:51
Speaker 1: works out when we're on stage. I mean, yes, either
28:56
Speaker 1: it's gonna work or it's gonna be terrible. I don't
28:58
Speaker 1: know how that was helpful. Noyama nods and he's like, yeah,
29:02
Speaker 1: we hear him. Awful. You say good morning and they
29:04
Speaker 1: all look over at him. I'll just stop there because
29:07
Speaker 1: I wanted to say this and it's just not really
29:09
Speaker 1: a big deal, so I don't want to wait till
29:10
Speaker 1: the end. I guess in Japan you have rehearsals before
29:14
Speaker 1: you do a show like this. In the US, it
29:17
Speaker 1: would be very abnormal for a high school slash college
29:21
Speaker 1: band to have a rehearsal before the set, unless you're
29:24
Speaker 1: at like a very very large venue, and by very large,
29:27
Speaker 1: I mean it looks like a mid size venue. If
29:29
Speaker 1: you're playing at like a small club or in somebody's house,
29:33
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do a rehearsal. Everyone's gonna get there
29:35
Speaker 1: basically when the show starts, and we're all gonna just
29:38
Speaker 1: hope we can do a good job. So it's kind
29:41
Speaker 1: of nice that they have rehearsals, but it's weird to
29:44
Speaker 1: me anyway. We see some stage lights and we hear
29:48
Speaker 1: who I think it's hot o Ky say we're the Seasons,
29:51
Speaker 1: thanks for having us today. They are on stage and
29:54
Speaker 1: we hear a voice say, okay, let's start with the drums. Now.
29:57
Speaker 1: A sound check is totally normal, but I assume the
30:00
Speaker 1: is like a full rehearsal, not just a sound check. Anyway,
30:03
Speaker 1: the sound check continues and Kadi starts drumming, and how
30:06
Speaker 1: do Ki and Una Yama are just staring at Mafuu,
30:09
Speaker 1: who looks We can't see his eye, so that's not
30:13
Speaker 1: a good sign. And then we see Take standing and
30:16
Speaker 1: like listening to this with his arms crossed like he's
30:19
Speaker 1: I don't know, in New Jersey or Philly in the
30:21
Speaker 1: hardcore scene. And I mean, Mafuu isn't really supposed to
30:24
Speaker 1: be doing anything right now because we're just testing the drums,
30:27
Speaker 1: but he does not look good, like he looks like
30:31
Speaker 1: he is fucking super unhappy. And we hear uino Yama
30:34
Speaker 1: say rehearsal started, and Mafuu still didn't sing. What did
30:41
Speaker 1: you guys talk to him about this? Because this seems
30:43
Speaker 1: really really bad. Now we see Takei's arm. He is
30:46
Speaker 1: holding a tablet or a clipboard, I don't really know,
30:49
Speaker 1: and he says, okay, let's get the introductions out of
30:52
Speaker 1: the way. We get a wider shot now, and we
30:54
Speaker 1: see that all of the band folks are standing kind
30:56
Speaker 1: of in a circle. Take is looking down at whatever
30:59
Speaker 1: the hell that is hand and he says, let's start
31:01
Speaker 1: in an order of appearance. So we're the Chashaw Boys.
31:05
Speaker 1: I'm the bassist Yatake. Yeay, he has a full name. Now,
31:08
Speaker 1: the road may have been a little rough, but hey,
31:10
Speaker 1: all's well. That ends well. We hear someone say nothing's
31:14
Speaker 1: over yet, man, and everybody laughs. Take smiles. I love him.
31:19
Speaker 1: I'm just hoping we have a blast out there. It's
31:21
Speaker 1: a pleasure working with you guys today. He vows. Everybody claps,
31:25
Speaker 1: which is real weird, and Take continues. Second up is
31:28
Speaker 1: the seasons. We see our group bow and they all
31:32
Speaker 1: kind of at different times say thanks for having us.
31:34
Speaker 1: Everyone claps again, which again it's a little bit weird,
31:38
Speaker 1: and Take says, you got anything you want to say? Uh? Hadak,
31:43
Speaker 1: He's like huh uh. He looks to the band and
31:47
Speaker 1: Kaji and we know Y'ama just stare at him, and
31:50
Speaker 1: Hadaki says, we'll do our best out there. Everyone claps again. Again.
31:55
Speaker 1: This is a lot of clapping for I mean, I've
31:58
Speaker 1: never had this happen at all before. We wouldn't be
32:01
Speaker 1: clapping every time somebody says something. But hey, I'm glad
32:04
Speaker 1: everybody is like so into it that they clap all
32:07
Speaker 1: the time. Anyway, Take continues. Okay, Next up is Ben
32:11
Speaker 1: Pen's I guess that's how that's pronounced. We see uyin
32:15
Speaker 1: Oyama just kind of looking at mafuy as he stares
32:17
Speaker 1: at the ground. Then we see some stage lights again
32:21
Speaker 1: if they're not on, and we hear take say, okay,
32:24
Speaker 1: that takes care of that. We got some newbies here tonight,
32:26
Speaker 1: so us old guys gotta watch out for him. He's
32:29
Speaker 1: a sweetheart. People kind of shout in agreements. And then
32:33
Speaker 1: we see a sign like one of those kind of
32:35
Speaker 1: a frame signs that kind of open up and sit
32:37
Speaker 1: on the ground, and it says music Carnival, which I
32:41
Speaker 1: wonder if is the name of the live house. I'm
32:43
Speaker 1: not sure summer camp. Okay, I'm just gonna translate from
32:47
Speaker 1: military time five pm start five point thirty prices. This
32:52
Speaker 1: wasn't translated, so I don't know what the prices are for.
32:54
Speaker 1: One of them is fifteen hundred yen, which is about
32:56
Speaker 1: nine to forty nine, and the other one is two
32:58
Speaker 1: thousand yen, which is about twelve sixty. I assume one
33:01
Speaker 1: of them is just to watch the show, and then
33:03
Speaker 1: the other one is to get like a drink, maybe
33:05
Speaker 1: like a drink ticket or something. Not sure anyway, the
33:08
Speaker 1: lineup five thirty Chashaw Boys six o'clock, The Seasons six
33:13
Speaker 1: forty five, Ben Tens seven thirty, Another hill a fifteen Dinner.
33:19
Speaker 1: I think Dinner is probably a band, but I'm not
33:22
Speaker 1: sure that's weird. Anyway, I wanted to point out here
33:26
Speaker 1: that the chash Auboys, which is Take's band, only have
33:29
Speaker 1: a half hour while everyone else has forty five minutes,
33:32
Speaker 1: which is super fucking cool. They're the opener, which is
33:35
Speaker 1: really cool. I want to talk about Pake, so I'll
33:39
Speaker 1: do that later, but I noticed that and it made
33:42
Speaker 1: me really happy. Anyway, continuing right along, we see people
33:47
Speaker 1: inside the venue. We have just like a still shot
33:50
Speaker 1: of them, and then we have a still shot of
33:52
Speaker 1: Hidagi and Chi'susumi. Then we see Etaya and Ueki like
33:55
Speaker 1: standing at the front desk with Subaki, and Itaya says,
33:58
Speaker 1: we're Etaya in Nueki. Yeah, I knew that. Sbaki is
34:02
Speaker 1: holding maybe a tablet, and she's like, Ittaya, kuhn Ueki
34:06
Speaker 1: kuhn oh, there you are. She hands tickets to Ataya
34:09
Speaker 1: and says, there you go. There's no re entry, so
34:11
Speaker 1: be careful. That kind of sucks. Itaya takes the tickets
34:15
Speaker 1: and he's like thanks, Svaki's like, go ahead and pick
34:18
Speaker 1: a drink. Ittaya says, I wantakola, what about you Ueki.
34:21
Speaker 1: He turns and he spots Uinoyama and Mafuyu and waves
34:25
Speaker 1: them and he's like, Uino Yama, Mafuu. Yeah. They look
34:29
Speaker 1: over at him. Now we see Yayoi there and she
34:33
Speaker 1: is wearing like a really nice red shirt with like
34:36
Speaker 1: a gold necklace. She looks real good and she says akihiko,
34:40
Speaker 1: and she's kind of blushing. Kaji and Haddoki look over,
34:44
Speaker 1: and Haddoki looks horrified. Maybe he doesn't like the competition,
34:48
Speaker 1: and he thinks she showed up. Kaji walks over to
34:51
Speaker 1: her and is like hey, Yayoi kind of leans in
34:54
Speaker 1: and quietly says hey is reads go okay. Kaji looks
34:58
Speaker 1: away sweat, and then we hear Ugetsu say akihiko. Thank god.
35:05
Speaker 1: They look over and Kaji's like, wow, you actually showed up.
35:08
Speaker 1: Ugetsu says I did, but I don't expect much. Kaji
35:13
Speaker 1: kind of punches him in the shoulder and is like,
35:14
Speaker 1: shut your mouth, mister perfect who gets to chuckles and
35:18
Speaker 1: he's like, I'll look forward to the show and he
35:20
Speaker 1: walks off. Now we see Ittaya and Ueki with drinks,
35:23
Speaker 1: and Uki says, there's a pretty good crowd here. Ittaya
35:27
Speaker 1: is like, I'm not surprised. I mean it's uino Yama performing.
35:30
Speaker 1: Whatki says, hm Ataya continues, He's actually pretty famous at
35:35
Speaker 1: venues around here. He used to make his own CDs
35:38
Speaker 1: and they'd always sell Outki says. Huh Etaia continues considering
35:43
Speaker 1: what a big shot Uinoyama is. I have high hopes
35:46
Speaker 1: for Sato since uino Yama invited him in. We see
35:49
Speaker 1: Ugetsu briefly, and then we cut to Hodogi, who is
35:52
Speaker 1: staring at that paper that I don't know what it is.
35:55
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a set list, maybe it is the list
35:57
Speaker 1: of bands, who knows. And as he is staring down
36:00
Speaker 1: at this paper, an arm slowly starts to reach into
36:04
Speaker 1: frame and it's Take, and he's slowly getting closer, and
36:08
Speaker 1: he says, had pete and slaps him on the back,
36:12
Speaker 1: and then he puts his arm around Haddo Key and
36:15
Speaker 1: how Key's like ouch and he tears in his eyes
36:18
Speaker 1: and Take says, hey, you guys gonna be okay. He
36:22
Speaker 1: looks at the side and kind of directs how do
36:24
Speaker 1: Key to look to the side because he's got his
36:26
Speaker 1: arm around him, and he says, the kid's you're vocalist, right.
36:29
Speaker 1: We see maful You standing hugging his guitar between Kaji
36:34
Speaker 1: and Ueeno Yama, and then we get a close up
36:36
Speaker 1: of mafu Whu's eyes and he does not look like
36:40
Speaker 1: he's okay. They stare at him for a second and
36:43
Speaker 1: Hadaki says take Chan. Takai is like, yeah, how doke?
36:47
Speaker 1: He continues, Uh, if shit goes down, could we get
36:52
Speaker 1: an extra song or two played before our sets? Thaka
36:56
Speaker 1: is like, you're in that much trouble? How Ki says,
37:00
Speaker 1: I mean you saw a rehearsal. Taki's like, yeah, you're fucked,
37:05
Speaker 1: he says right. Takis like, well, I when I ask
37:10
Speaker 1: you guys to play, he pats him on the shoulder,
37:12
Speaker 1: so I'll cover your ass if I have to. How do?
37:15
Speaker 1: He's like thanks. At this point, music starts playing and
37:19
Speaker 1: Kaji and we know Yama look up. I think maybe
37:21
Speaker 1: it's speakers. We also hear a crowd, so I'm thinking
37:24
Speaker 1: that Takei's band has started playing and that they're in
37:26
Speaker 1: another room, which no, if you're playing a show, watch
37:32
Speaker 1: the other bands. You should be watching the other bands
37:35
Speaker 1: go out there and watch Takai's band. I bet it's
37:38
Speaker 1: really good. Also it's polite. Ouina Yama looks ober at Mafu,
37:42
Speaker 1: you who still looks horrible. Honestly, Mafuu looks like he's
37:46
Speaker 1: having like the worst day of his life, Like I
37:48
Speaker 1: don't know, he's gonna be like executed. He's going to
37:51
Speaker 1: his execution instead of like going to play a show.
37:54
Speaker 1: Like this is not how you want someone to look
37:56
Speaker 1: when they're going to play a show or do anything.
37:59
Speaker 1: This is bad. Unayama sighs and he's like, well we're fucked.
38:03
Speaker 1: Let's go without vocals this time. Mafou gasps and his
38:06
Speaker 1: eyes wide and hum, I think you should have seen
38:08
Speaker 1: this coming. Oinoyama thinks, I'm actually relieved, kinda, what the
38:13
Speaker 1: hell is this? I'm the worst? Yeah, that's pretty shitty
38:16
Speaker 1: to think, and out loud, he says, I mean we've
38:19
Speaker 1: always been an instrumental band. Kaji's like, I'm not gonna
38:22
Speaker 1: fight you on this. We don't see Mafou's eyes anymore again,
38:26
Speaker 1: and Ouinoyama says, there's always next time. Mafoyu's like next time,
38:31
Speaker 1: when oly Oyama's like well, you don't have any lyrics,
38:35
Speaker 1: so what else are we supposed to do? For real? MafA,
38:38
Speaker 1: you grimsces and he's like, oh know, Yama kun, this
38:41
Speaker 1: is the first time I've heard you give up. Ou know.
38:44
Speaker 1: Yama's like, what, MafA, you grips his guitar nick tightly.
38:47
Speaker 1: You're always telling me to go for it. You're always
38:50
Speaker 1: telling me to go for it, that I can do it.
38:52
Speaker 1: Ou No, Yama cuts him off. Well, time to wait
38:54
Speaker 1: the fuck up, Mafo. You grips the guitar harder, bending
38:57
Speaker 1: the A string, and finally it's snap apps They both
39:02
Speaker 1: stand there totally stunned, and then we go to the
39:06
Speaker 1: title card number zero eight. Time is running out, and
39:10
Speaker 1: then we go to the ending theme and that's it. Yeay, okay,
39:14
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. Oh no, a guitar string broke. So the
39:19
Speaker 1: end I'm gonna talk about in the next episode because
39:22
Speaker 1: it's gonna continue over. But this is a very tense scene, obviously,
39:26
Speaker 1: and I do want to talk about the significance. I
39:28
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember from the first episode, but
39:31
Speaker 1: the A string, the fifth string is the same string
39:34
Speaker 1: that Mafui broke when he saw dead Yuki in his room,
39:39
Speaker 1: so it's like the trauma is repeating itself. We have
39:41
Speaker 1: another argument that Mafui is a part of that's maybe
39:45
Speaker 1: going to sever his relationship with Wuno Yama or something,
39:48
Speaker 1: and the same string breaks like a horrible reminder of
39:52
Speaker 1: that time in his life when he lost his boyfriend.
39:57
Speaker 1: So I really like that callback. I think that's really
40:00
Speaker 1: really cool, and I do understand being stunned at that
40:05
Speaker 1: moment that the guitar string broke. Yeah, it's definitely gonna
40:09
Speaker 1: derail the conversation having that break like that, and it's
40:12
Speaker 1: also gonna cause some more problems, but I don't want
40:15
Speaker 1: to talk about them again because it's kind of a spoiler,
40:17
Speaker 1: and I have a whole rant I'm gonna go on
40:19
Speaker 1: about in the next episode about how this isn't realistic,
40:22
Speaker 1: But breaking a guitar string is realistic, obviously, and I
40:25
Speaker 1: thought that that was done pretty well. I like that
40:28
Speaker 1: as a callback. Also, it's important, I guess for me
40:32
Speaker 1: to state that mafu you is just totally wrong in
40:35
Speaker 1: this argument because like what he's supposed to go and
40:38
Speaker 1: play with no lyrics, Like Ouno Yama said, the exact
40:43
Speaker 1: right thing, which is that they're gonna have to play
40:45
Speaker 1: an instrumental set because mafu You hasn't sung at all
40:48
Speaker 1: in front of them, or he doesn't have any lyrics,
40:51
Speaker 1: so what is he supposed to do? That's exactly the
40:54
Speaker 1: right thing to do, just you know, not play the
40:57
Speaker 1: song and fuck it up. But I also want to
41:00
Speaker 1: point out that I haven't really seen anybody ask maful
41:03
Speaker 1: you what's up? Right. Everyone is just staring at him
41:06
Speaker 1: and going like, wow, he looks really bad. He's just
41:08
Speaker 1: hugging his guitar and looking all like this is the
41:10
Speaker 1: end of the world. But I don't see anybody coming
41:13
Speaker 1: over and being like, Okay, what the fuck? Like we
41:16
Speaker 1: have take going over to hottokey and saying like, what's
41:18
Speaker 1: going on, dude? But we need somebody to go over
41:20
Speaker 1: to muffle you and ask him what's up? Because this
41:23
Speaker 1: should be a good thing. It shouldn't be a bad
41:25
Speaker 1: thing to play a show. Sure, he could be nervous,
41:28
Speaker 1: and that would be fine. This is his first show,
41:31
Speaker 1: I guess, but this shouldn't make him feel like he
41:34
Speaker 1: wants to die. And it kind of looks like that's
41:36
Speaker 1: what it's doing. So I'd like to know if anybody
41:39
Speaker 1: has talked to him, and I'd like to know if
41:40
Speaker 1: anybody has asked him about the lyrics, because has he
41:43
Speaker 1: said he doesn't have lyrics? Has he communicated anything to
41:47
Speaker 1: you guys, because like, I feel like there's kind of
41:49
Speaker 1: a breakdown here. You know, it sounds like he intends
41:53
Speaker 1: to sing, but he hasn't shown anybody any lyrics, So
41:57
Speaker 1: I don't know why he would be confused about Ulino
41:59
Speaker 1: Yamam just saying like, we shouldn't do this, you know,
42:03
Speaker 1: so ugh, we gotta resolve that because it's not good.
42:09
Speaker 1: Besides that, so, I wanted to talk briefly about Kidaki
42:13
Speaker 1: wanting to be forgiven. I loved the way that that
42:16
Speaker 1: was done with Kidaki just wants to be forgiven by anyone.
42:19
Speaker 1: I thought that was great. It gave me chills when
42:22
Speaker 1: I was reading it, not when I watched it though,
42:23
Speaker 1: which was weird. But I'm still not sure what Hidagi
42:27
Speaker 1: wants to be forgiven for. Does he want to be
42:29
Speaker 1: forgiven for not reaching out the maful you sooner or
42:34
Speaker 1: not checking on Yuki when he could have, because it
42:37
Speaker 1: seems like he disappeared for a couple of days, or
42:40
Speaker 1: not being present and acknowledging their relationship or letting shit
42:45
Speaker 1: come between laful You and Yuki like I don't know,
42:47
Speaker 1: but it is not Kidaggi's fault what happens. So, I mean,
42:52
Speaker 1: the only thing that I would think logically would be
42:54
Speaker 1: that he hasn't checked on Mafou. It just kind of
42:58
Speaker 1: all let him go off and be sad and mourn alone,
43:02
Speaker 1: which is terrible. I mean, they were all mourning though,
43:04
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't totally not get it, but uh,
43:08
Speaker 1: I forgive you, Hiroki. I don't think that any of
43:10
Speaker 1: this is your faults unless somebody can tell me different.
43:14
Speaker 1: So but I liked that. I liked that whole thing.
43:18
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to know that Mafu You, who says
43:20
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a dad, totally has a dad. It's
43:23
Speaker 1: just a super abusive dad who if I'm remembering correctly
43:27
Speaker 1: from the manga, and I might not be, I'm pretty
43:29
Speaker 1: sure his dad's just in prison, which is fine because
43:32
Speaker 1: he's hitting him and shit. So yay. But uh yeah,
43:38
Speaker 1: so this is just kind of a quiet episode. In
43:39
Speaker 1: my opinion, this is all just tension as we prepare
43:42
Speaker 1: for this show that might suck because we had a
43:45
Speaker 1: rehearsal and MafA, you didn't even sing during the rehearsal,
43:49
Speaker 1: so what's going on. I mean, that would be the
43:51
Speaker 1: perfect time to make sure that you know how to
43:53
Speaker 1: sing a song in front of people. So I don't know, man,
43:59
Speaker 1: I think the only other thing I wanted to say
44:02
Speaker 1: is I wanted to explain like how shows work a
44:05
Speaker 1: little bit and why I like the take Chan's band
44:07
Speaker 1: is playing first, and that, like he only has a
44:11
Speaker 1: half hour set so we know that take set up
44:13
Speaker 1: the show, like he's the person who organized it, and
44:16
Speaker 1: I guess it's pretty much promoting it more or less. Yeah,
44:20
Speaker 1: if it's your show, you unless you're like a really
44:23
Speaker 1: really successful band, like you're afraid that people are gonna
44:26
Speaker 1: leave after they play, you want to play first. You know,
44:30
Speaker 1: give the other bands the better spots, cause you know,
44:33
Speaker 1: this is something that you're booking, that you're setting up.
44:35
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's about you know, showing the other bands
44:39
Speaker 1: off basically. So I like that and having a shorter
44:43
Speaker 1: set to I don't know, it just shows like some humility,
44:46
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna play our shit and then we're
44:48
Speaker 1: gonna have the real bands play. I don't know, I
44:51
Speaker 1: just like this. I guess one of the reasons I
44:54
Speaker 1: really like Take is that he just kind of reminds
44:56
Speaker 1: me of like every really awesome person that I know
44:59
Speaker 1: who's like put on a bunch of shows and like
45:01
Speaker 1: has done it really well. He's obviously like super stressed
45:05
Speaker 1: about it. He works, he's like trying to find ways
45:07
Speaker 1: to like make music with his band around everyone's jobs,
45:11
Speaker 1: and he's definitely overworking himself putting on shows. But he
45:14
Speaker 1: does it because he probably loves it even though it's
45:18
Speaker 1: killing him, you know, I don't know. He just reminds
45:22
Speaker 1: me of some really good people. So I like him.
45:25
Speaker 1: He's easily my favorite character in the show just for
45:28
Speaker 1: being that really stand up dude who's the reason that
45:31
Speaker 1: bands have shows to play basically. So yeah, I feel
45:38
Speaker 1: like I think more about Take than like anybody should.
45:41
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's he's cool. I think that's pretty much
45:46
Speaker 1: all I have. I assume next episode is the episode
45:50
Speaker 1: that we, like, you know, find out what happens with
45:54
Speaker 1: the show. I don't think we can do another tension
45:56
Speaker 1: episode all the way through. I think we have to
45:59
Speaker 1: get to how this band does and I hope it's good.
46:03
Speaker 1: But it doesn't look like it's going to be good
46:05
Speaker 1: because Mafu you looks like he wants to die and
46:08
Speaker 1: a string just broke, which is not an issue, and
46:11
Speaker 1: he just had a little fight with Uai no Yama,
46:13
Speaker 1: so we're not coming into this in the best way,
46:17
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I guess look forward to it.
46:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, something like that. I think that's basically
46:26
Speaker 1: it or something. I guess I'm gonna go and make
46:30
Speaker 1: dinner because it's late. I usually do this earlier in
46:35
Speaker 1: the day, but I did end today because I don't
46:39
Speaker 1: know talking to people and existing. So we gotta go
46:44
Speaker 1: make dinner and then eat the dinner. And I hope
46:46
Speaker 1: that you have a really good whatever and that you
46:50
Speaker 1: had some nice outside time while it was still warm
46:54
Speaker 1: out if you live on the East coast, especially the northeast,
46:57
Speaker 1: where it got colder again by the time you're listening
46:59
Speaker 1: to the So yeah, I don't know, man, I guess
47:03
Speaker 1: I will see you next week unless all of the
47:06
Speaker 1: bad things that I'm afraid have happened, and then we'll
47:08
Speaker 1: just never talk again. But probably not gonna happen, because
47:11
Speaker 1: that's just in my head anyway. Later weeps,