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Given Ep.1- Boys in the Band · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I think this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be interesting for multiple reasons. One, I'm just getting over
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  Speaker 1: a cold, so I don't know what my voice sounds like,
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  Speaker 1: but it's probably not great. But it's not like it
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  Speaker 1: ever sounds great, So I think it's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're not expecting much voice wise, probably so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But also like, I have a guitar and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do all sorts of things maybe or not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know what's gonna happen yet, So this is either
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  Speaker 1: gonna be really cool or really stupid or maybe both.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds good. So, as I said last week and
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  Speaker 1: the week before, we're gonna be starting Given today, the
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  Speaker 1: anime series Given, you know that thing, And uh, this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit different for us because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever done a show that didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any like action element to it. So hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make you really sad and hate everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I hope it makes you sad in the right place parts,
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  Speaker 1: but not sad that you watched it. Yeah. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't even really talked about what Given is about,
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  Speaker 1: so I figured we would just kind of very briefly
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  Speaker 1: touch on the fact that given is in the boys
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  Speaker 1: Love genre, which I assume you know what that means,
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  Speaker 1: because it's what it sounds like. It's anime or manga
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  Speaker 1: that's about guys in homosexual relationships. And just a side
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  Speaker 1: note before I continue this, if you're like, wow, you
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  Speaker 1: sound really different in this area as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the episode, Michelle, it's because I am re
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  Speaker 1: recording this section several days later because I did not
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  Speaker 1: like the first take. I didn't think it was cool
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  Speaker 1: or informative enough, so I'm trying again. And also my
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  Speaker 1: cold is kind of cleared up, so that's what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, boys love makes sense, right. Boys Love, which
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  Speaker 1: sometimes in the West we might call like yawie as well,
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  Speaker 1: is specifically an offshoot of shojo, which is interesting, right.
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  Speaker 1: It's manga or anime about men in relationships with other
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  Speaker 1: men that is geared towards women, which is different than
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  Speaker 1: something like bata, which is men in homosexual relationships that's
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  Speaker 1: geared towards men. Yeah. I don't really know either what
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  Speaker 1: happened there. I mean, I've heard people say, well, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just women fetishizing gay men. I mean, like, I
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  Speaker 1: could understand that, but you gotta work with me here,
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  Speaker 1: because that would mean that women who read shojo fetishize
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  Speaker 1: all relationships. Because Uri, which is girl's Love, is also
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  Speaker 1: an offshoot of shojo, and a lot of shojo has
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  Speaker 1: heterosexual relationships in it too, so women just like people
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  Speaker 1: in relationships, I guess, or at least that is what
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  Speaker 1: the people who write shojo think women want. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. But anyway, boys love comes from shojo, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we call it yawi here. Usually in Japan, yawi
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  Speaker 1: is specifically used for dojenshi, which are self published manga,
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  Speaker 1: and those self published manga are usually sexual, like explicitly sexual,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not exactly the same, but it kind of is.
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  Speaker 1: And I also just wanted to point out that yawi
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  Speaker 1: is a port man to is that how you pronounce
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  Speaker 1: that a port manteau? I don't know of like a
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  Speaker 1: phrase in Japanese which is yamanashi ochi nashi im nashi,
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  Speaker 1: which means no climax, no point, no meaning. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a self deprecating thing to say, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: just care about sex. We don't put any of that
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  Speaker 1: plot shit in our dojenshi, which I think is funny
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  Speaker 1: and it makes me respect them a little bit more. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: not that I don't respect them, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: upset of bits. So anyway, back to boys love specific
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  Speaker 1: this genre has been called a bunch of different things,
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  Speaker 1: including shown an eye and stuff, but we kinda it
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  Speaker 1: seems like it's mostly referred to as boy's love. And
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  Speaker 1: that term was first used in nineteen ninety one by
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  Speaker 1: Image magazine, and it kind of caught on in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four, so since then it's been it's been boy's love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the first boy's love shojo, but what we consider
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  Speaker 1: to be the first boy's love Shojo was published in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, specifically in the December nineteen seventy issue of
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  Speaker 1: Basatsu's show Jo comic, which is now known as Betsukami,
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  Speaker 1: And you might recognize that because it's the only shojo
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  Speaker 1: manga magazine that we've talked about at all. And it
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  Speaker 1: makes me like, have just this great dwelling amount of
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  Speaker 1: pride and respect for them, So I'm super happy it
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  Speaker 1: happened to be this one. But anyway, this first Boy's
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  Speaker 1: Love was called Sunroom Nte and it was by Keiko Takemiya. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tragic love story and it was a one shots. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: later Keiko Takemiya did publish something that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a full series version of this called Kase Toki no Uta.
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  Speaker 1: But before they published Sunroom Nte, Keiko Takemiya had tried
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  Speaker 1: to get Kase Toki no Itita published, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: really work out. Like basically, her publishers refused because a,
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  Speaker 1: there's gay guys in it and they weren't ready to
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  Speaker 1: do that, or I don't know if they ever thought
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  Speaker 1: they were gonna be ready to do that. And it
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  Speaker 1: featured and this is the thing I kind of want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, It featured a male main character, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't think that women would want male main characters.
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  Speaker 1: Now I just find this really surprising. But then not
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, there seems to be a disconnect
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  Speaker 1: where for some reason, and this is continued to today
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  Speaker 1: to people who make stories and shit, or people who
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  Speaker 1: publish stories or you know, they believe that the reader
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  Speaker 1: cannot connect with a character unless they look like them
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  Speaker 1: or they're in some way like them physically, which I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have no evidence that supports that, and we really
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  Speaker 1: never have, so yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason to believe that women wouldn't want to have
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  Speaker 1: male leading characters, and we know that that simply just
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  Speaker 1: isn't true. I mean, obviously, from the plenty of boys
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  Speaker 1: Love that exists, women are totally fine with male main
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  Speaker 1: characters the same way that men are okay with female
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  Speaker 1: lead characters. And also we can tell from what happened
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  Speaker 1: with boys Love that you know, straight women are okay
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  Speaker 1: with gay lead characters. So what I'm trying to say
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  Speaker 1: is people are going to like your characters if you
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  Speaker 1: make them likable and relatable, regardless of what they look
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  Speaker 1: like or their sexuality or whatever. And it's really important
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  Speaker 1: that we have kind of like a natural diversity of
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  Speaker 1: you know, main characters in a sense that it's it's
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  Speaker 1: important that we understand and that publishers understand that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be one specific way to be relatable
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  Speaker 1: and likable, is what I'm trying to say. But moving
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  Speaker 1: on from that, there is a little bit more I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to tell you about sun Room Nete and about
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  Speaker 1: Keiko Takemiya. So anyway, Keiko Takemiya was like, cool, I
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  Speaker 1: can't get my fucking shit that I want to get published.
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  Speaker 1: So what does she do? I'm not really sure, but
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  Speaker 1: it ends up that she decides to submit sun Room Nete,
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  Speaker 1: which again is kind of a condensed version of the
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  Speaker 1: story that she wanted to published, and the publishers turned
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  Speaker 1: her down to Betsu Kami, and she submitted it to
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  Speaker 1: her editor like right right before the December nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: issue publishing deadline, and I don't know how this happened,
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  Speaker 1: but it was so soon before the publishing deadline that they,
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  Speaker 1: I guess didn't have time to reject it, so it
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  Speaker 1: just went through. Yay. I'm thinking that's an actual strategy
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  Speaker 1: and not that was just her late getting it to
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  Speaker 1: her editor. And it really fucking worked out for her
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  Speaker 1: because not only was this published, but it was really
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  Speaker 1: really well received and critically acclaimed. So again, everybody was
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  Speaker 1: just fucking wrong. But anyway, let's talk about given a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, because I could talk about Boy's Love forever
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  Speaker 1: and that seems mean so given. The anime is based
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  Speaker 1: on the manga by Natski Kizu, which ran in the
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  Speaker 1: bimonthly Manga magazine Sherry Plus from twenty thirteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, which is a boy's love magazine by the way,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what bi monthly means. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it means twice a month or every other month.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I couldn't figure it out. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it has ended already. There was a Given tenth mix
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  Speaker 1: which premiered in Sherry Plus in January twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's already over, but that takes place ten
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  Speaker 1: years after the manga ends. I also think there's like
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  Speaker 1: an oba of it which you didn't know about until
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  Speaker 1: recently either, so I feel pretty dumb. But yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to look into Natzki Kizu. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she is any other like serialized works like this.
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  Speaker 1: I think she might have had a one shot at
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  Speaker 1: some point, but this was like this is like her
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  Speaker 1: big thing, so yeay. I think that she's a really
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  Speaker 1: great artist actually, and I really really like her character
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  Speaker 1: designs a little bit more than I like the anime's designs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the anime character designs are totally good in everything,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that some of the characters, especially in
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  Speaker 1: Ma Fuyu. She's just like gorgeous in manga, and I
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  Speaker 1: think he just looks fine in the anime. So yeah, again,
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  Speaker 1: feeling weird about this. So I did find some contents
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  Speaker 1: from an interview that Natzki Kizo did for pesh or
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  Speaker 1: something in twenty nineteen, and I learned some fun stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to tell you about. So, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: this is a music manga an anime obviously, and they
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  Speaker 1: asked her, like what kind of music they were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be playing, because you know, when you're writing like manga, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't write the music in unless she's like actually
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  Speaker 1: writing in like the notes, that actually be really cool
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  Speaker 1: if like she just was like, here's the sheet music,
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  Speaker 1: this is what they're playing. But she didn't do that,
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  Speaker 1: so they were like, well, what was it supposed to be?
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  Speaker 1: And she said she never decided what kind of music
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  Speaker 1: they were playing, which sure, I mean, which is really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to me because I don't know how you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: know how it would sound. But that's just someone who
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  Speaker 1: writes music in my head a lot, So maybe if
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  Speaker 1: you don't, maybe that would be normal. I don't really know,
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  Speaker 1: but I found it very very interesting. They also asked her, like,
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  Speaker 1: what's her experience with music and stuff. She basically said
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  Speaker 1: she really likes music, but she's like never been in
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  Speaker 1: a band or anything, and she did like study music,
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  Speaker 1: but she didn't do too much with it, Like she
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  Speaker 1: was talking about studying specific instruments, but it didn't say
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  Speaker 1: what instruments those were, so I don't know. I did
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  Speaker 1: learn that she went to university for something related to movies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what, but that's pretty cool. And then
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  Speaker 1: one other thing that I thought was really interesting. And
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  Speaker 1: you either will think it's super interesting or you will
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  Speaker 1: just want to hit me when you hear this. So
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  Speaker 1: she was asked like, what was her influence, like her
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  Speaker 1: boys love influence when she was writing Given, and she
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  Speaker 1: said that she didn't have a boy's love influence, but
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  Speaker 1: she specified that her influence was banana fish, So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. I don't know, man, what do you want
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  Speaker 1: for me? Apparently her dad really really liked banana Fish,
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  Speaker 1: so she had all the manga and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know. So now you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: inspired probably slightly a little bit by banana Fish. So
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  Speaker 1: I promise it's not like that, and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry, but uh yeah, I thought that was really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So as for the anime itself, the anime just has
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  Speaker 1: one season and a movie and maybe some obas that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about. But the season of the anime
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  Speaker 1: came out in twenty nineteen and it was done by
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  Speaker 1: Studio Lurch or Lererche I don't actually know how to
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  Speaker 1: pronounce that, which you may know from asobe Asso Bass Assassination, Classroom,
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  Speaker 1: Daganne Rahmba, and Toilet Bound Honakokkun, which I liked, and
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  Speaker 1: they all have kind of a nice flare to them.
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  Speaker 1: So yay Given's director was Hikatu Yamaguchi and this was
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  Speaker 1: her first full season anime directorial debut. Basically she had
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  Speaker 1: done storyboarding for Kintama Bleached the thousand Year Blood War
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  Speaker 1: part of it, and I didn't write anything else down.
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  Speaker 1: So those, yeah, that's what I got for that. As
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  Speaker 1: for the voice actors, I wanted to point out the
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  Speaker 1: character that we will really be introduced to and following
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  Speaker 1: very much first and is, you know, basically a co
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  Speaker 1: main character if not the main character. Uino Yama Ritzka
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  Speaker 1: is voiced by Yuma Uchida, which that sounds familiar to
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  Speaker 1: you it might be because he's done a lot of
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  Speaker 1: voice acting, and he's also voiced two of the main
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  Speaker 1: characters in series that we've watched or I've watched and
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  Speaker 1: then told you about that you might remember. You can
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  Speaker 1: say them now and then I'll yeah, that one and
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  Speaker 1: the other one too. Good job. So the ones that
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: you would know from this show are Sakara Hadika from
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  Speaker 1: Windbreaker and then ash Links from Banana Fish, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that he sounds a little bit more like ash
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  Speaker 1: Links than Soaka in this particular one. He's also the
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  Speaker 1: voice actor of Megumi Fushigo from Jiujitsu Kaizen and Soma
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  Speaker 1: Kio from Fruits Baskets. And that's all I wrote down.
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  Speaker 1: Yay As for our second kind of lead male character,
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  Speaker 1: I will not tell you his name yet because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a name for like the first half of
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  Speaker 1: the episode, but his voice actor is Shogo Yano, who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of voice acting credits that I
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  Speaker 1: was familiar with, but was Miura Kai in Honeylemon Soda,
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  Speaker 1: which I did not watch, but I thought maybe you
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  Speaker 1: would know and you'd be like, oh, And then we
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  Speaker 1: have two supporting characters that are very important. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is voiced by Masamoto Nakasawa, who I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know anything about, and the other one is Takuya Uguchi,
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  Speaker 1: who you may remember as Julius from Ree zero and
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: if you like Spy Family, he's Lloyd. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everything is going really really fast, and
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  Speaker 1: you're getting like scared something terrible is gonna happen or
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  Speaker 1: that is happening already. I swear this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a really easy show, like a nice palate cleanser, sort
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  Speaker 1: of firm everything else we've been doing before we get
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  Speaker 1: into whatever's next time, which I'm sure will be terribly
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  Speaker 1: sad and horrifying. This is pretty sad too, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: so now that I've said a bunch of things that
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if we're correct or if you understood,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: let's do this thing that we're gonna do. So every
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  Speaker 1: episode of Given is named after a song, particularly an
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  Speaker 1: English alt rock song. So the first episode is called
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  Speaker 1: Boys in the Band. Now, this was difficult for me
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  Speaker 1: because if you just search for Boys in the Band,
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  Speaker 1: or if I do at least, the first song that
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  Speaker 1: comes up is in new Kids on the Block song,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, really but seems terrible. But after
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  Speaker 1: doing a little bit more searching, it's also the name
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  Speaker 1: of a Libertine song, which I think is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going for, And that particular song came out in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two and it was part of their album
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  Speaker 1: Up the Bracket. I don't know if these songs are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be relevant to the episodes or if they're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be cool fun titles because Boys in the Band
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  Speaker 1: make sense for the episode as just the title, But
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  Speaker 1: after kind of looking into the lyrics and the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of the Libertine song, it also almost kind of sort
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit makes sense. Basically, the Libertine song
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  Speaker 1: is about groupies and like being in a band and
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  Speaker 1: being like followed by groupies who don't actually really know
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  Speaker 1: anything about you as far as I can tell, which
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  Speaker 1: almost again almost kind of works just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't have any experience with groupies. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if a lot of bands do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: once you're at a point where people actually care, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who cares. I don't care,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad I don't have any experience with grupies.
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  Speaker 1: So let's do this because I feel really weird about
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  Speaker 1: it for some reason. Side notes, you should know that
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: within the last maybe two years or so, I have
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: realized that I'm probably a fujoshi, So I might really
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  Speaker 1: really vi into this and it might worry you. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. There's really nothing I can do about this.
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  Speaker 1: That was too much information, but I said it, so
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  Speaker 1: let's just do it. So this first part of the
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  Speaker 1: episode is just all silent, like we have background noise
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  Speaker 1: and you know, sound effects, but there is no music.
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  Speaker 1: So we fade into a bedroom with a bed and
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  Speaker 1: that has like a blue comfort on it, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a dresser and a table and has like medium gray walls,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a ray of light kind of cutting
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  Speaker 1: across the floor and then up onto the wall. It
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  Speaker 1: looks to me like a door is cracked, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the door because the door is in view. It's
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  Speaker 1: probably like like a gap in the blinds or something.
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  Speaker 1: And we hear a clock ticking, and then the door
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  Speaker 1: that's in frame opens and we see legs walk past
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  Speaker 1: the bed. A hand reaches and lifts a soft guitar
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: case that you would put like an electric guitar in,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and then we see someone with orange hair put the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: guitar on their back. We're seeing it from behind, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't know like what their face looks like. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: then we cut to a hand taking you know, power
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  Speaker 1: plug out of a phone. Next we see a dark,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you know, semi dark hallway at least with a small white,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: fluffy dog on the floor panting, and we hear the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: sound of the door opening, and the dog starts like
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: running in circles. We see his legs walk towards it,
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  Speaker 1: and a hand rubs its head and it makes like
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  Speaker 1: really cute sounds like it's super happy, and the hand
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  Speaker 1: lifts and we see like boots being put on. We
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  Speaker 1: hear the door open and see like a profile of
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  Speaker 1: a guy really just the farhead to the bridge of
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  Speaker 1: his nose as the light from outside the door hits
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  Speaker 1: him as he's opening the door. His eyes are like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: kind of brown or reddish lightish reddish brown. Next, we
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: see the door close and the dog is still in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the hallway, just wagging its tail. Then we see a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: hand as it turns the key in the door lock
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and it clicks. We cut to a down cast looking
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: teenage boy with kind of reddish hair in the manga,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it's more like red red. In the anime, it's kind
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: of like orange ish brownish ish color with brown eyes.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I guess, actually guitar on his back, and he's standing
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: kind of in the middle of the screen, framed by
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like an out of focus, like really bright, over exposed
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: city behind him, and we hear him say, I guess
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he's thinking this. I keep having the same dream. He
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: turns from the door and he starts to walk down
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: like an exterior hallway of like an apartment complex that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I don't really see here a lot, but apparently he's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in Japan A bunch. He continues over and over again.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: We see now some large like city buildings, and this
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: guy is walking with like a ton of other people
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: down the streets. His head is slightly down, and also
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: he's wearing a brown sweater. I thought you should know that. Next,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: we see a clock like on the wall, like an
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: analog clock in a subway station, and it clicks to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: seven thirty six, and we hear a voice say thank
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you for waiting. The ten car rapid express bound FIRSHN
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Djuku is now arriving at platform three. Okay, so we're
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: probably in Tokyo. Since Shinjuku is a ward of Tokyo.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The guy is standing at this you know, subway station,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: kind of hugging his guitar, and some schoolgirls are kind
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of to his rights or kind of in front of him,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and they're looking at their phone and like talking about
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it and laughing together. He looks over at them, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he continues to think over and over. He clutches the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: bottom of the guitar case, and then it fades to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: him clutching the bottom of this red is semi hollow
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: guitar without a case. Obviously, we pull back and we
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: see that he's holding the guitar and he's looking up
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: at someone with dark hair. We can only see just
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: like kind of the corner of the top of their heads,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: sort of in the top of the frame. But there's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a rope in the frame too, which I don't even
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: know if I caught the first time, but yeah, there's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just a little bit of a rope. Now we see
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the floor. There were two beer cans, look like they're empty,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: they're lying down, and then maybe the legs of a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: stool that has been knocked over, and at the very
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: back of the screen, two feet wearing socks dangling. We
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: get a closer shot now of our red haired guy,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: wide eyed. He grasps the guitar's neck and forcefully pulls
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: down on the fifth through first strings, and one of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: them snaps. We vades a black Now we see him
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: opening his eyes, and a voice says, the rapid Express
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: bound for Shinjuku is now departing. Please stay clear of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the closing doors. He's standing on the train kind of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: next to the door, which is a good place to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: stand if you want to get off quickly, but also
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: super annoying if people keep getting on and you to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: move out of the way. But whatever. The door closes,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and he turns to the window in the door and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: he's looking out at the people walking by, and he
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: looks looks sad, which makes sense given what we've just seen,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: or kind of like he's longing for something. A lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of the emotions in the show were really subtle, which
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: we've done before where I've said, like, it's gonna be
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: hard for me to get these emotions right because they're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: really subtle. This is another show like that. But anyway,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: he closes his eyes and he rests his head on
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the guitar. We hear him think I'm not lonely. Yeah,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. Now we see an exterior shot
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of a generic looking anime school, which is just like
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a big white school with many floors, and it has
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a clock just on it, like a you know, analog clock.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And I have never seen a school in the US
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that has just a clock on the outside of it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe there are some, but not where I live, so
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I always think this is interesting. Anyway, a bell is ringing,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and we cut to inside the school in a hallway
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: where we see a sign for classroom two ten. Then
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: in inside the room, we kind of pan down where
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a black or like dark blue haired guy is sitting
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: next to a window because he's that kind of guy,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: with his head on his desk. We can hear someone
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: walking over, and all we can see as they come
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: into frame is that they're holding a basketball under their arm,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and the person says, ouwey no yama, wanna go buy
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: some bread? That's the weird thing to ask someone. The
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: person puts their hand on this guy's shoulder, who I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: guess is uway no Yama, and shakes them like really gently,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and we get a better look at who this kid
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: is who's bothering the sleeping kid, and he has like
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: lightish brownish oranges hair and eyes. I guess that's just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: kind of a non colory brown. I don't really know
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: how to describe it. And we see the black haired
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: kid rise and he's mostly out of frame except for
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: like the top of his head, and he says, now,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'm too tired. The guy's like, aw, wanna play some basketball?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Then yeah, he's he's he like too tired to get forehead,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: but he can play basketball. Sure. Uno Yama, who has
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: blue eyes by the way, yawns and he stands up
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm gonna go take a nap, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he starts to walk away. The guy's like again, yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: he needs to get more sleep, apparently. Uno Yama starts
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to leave the classroom, and as he's doing so, a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: girl with chin length kind of light brown or orangeish
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: hair notices, so I think she's important. Next, we see
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: his feet as he walks down the hallway. He's like
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: slumped over. He yawns again because I can't talk about
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yonning without yawning, and he gets tears in his eyes
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: because it's that big of a yawn. He walks down
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the stairs and then like into a gym, and he
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: like waves to some kids who are playing basketball. But
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: he walks through the gym. Then he pushes open a door,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: yawns again damn it, and starts to walk up like
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a quiet staircase. There's no one else there that I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: guess is attached to the gym. For some reason, we
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: see like a card of basketballs and stuff in the corner.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you need this staircase, but whatever. Anyway,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he looks up the stairs and he sees that on
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the landing, you know, between the sets of stairs, is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that red haired kid laying down hugging his guitar. He
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: looks like he's asleep. Well, okay, no, he's not asleep.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: He opens his eyes and he sees Ueyo Yama, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Ueyo Yama flinches. The red haired kid sits up, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Uayo Yama kind of like groans a little, and the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: red kid like slides over like towards the wall, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: he puts his hand up like, you know, you can
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: go past me. It's okay, kind of deal like you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: would do, which is kind so Ueya Yama doesn't have
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to step on him or over him. Oh heyo Yama
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: makes sort of like a really confused noise, but then
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: he walks up the stairs and he also sits on
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the landing because I guess that's where he was going.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: The red kid is like, who are you? Ueyoyama kind
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of flinches and it's quiet for a second, and he says,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the name's Uwayo Yama. The red kid looks away like
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: he's thinking about something maybe, and there's just silence. After
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of seconds. Ueyoyama let's have kind of a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: really frustrated sound to exhale, and he's like, seriously, say something,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: would you like use your damn words? You're creepy as hell.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The red kid like looks kind of confused, which I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: don't think you should be. You did ask who he was,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe you should tell him who you are, and he
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: still doesn't say anything. So finally, Ueyoyama like points to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: his guitar and he's like, your strings are rusty, that's
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: why one of them broke. Fix it already. He turns away.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Why do you want a guitar if you can't even
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: maintain The red kid just kind of leans over him,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: which kind of throws uay No Yama off, and he
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: shrinks back, like what the fuck is wrong with you?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Shrink back and he's like what the red kid says,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: this can be fixed? He moves closer. Oh Weeya Yama
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: shrinks back again, and he's like huh. The red kid
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: moves closer again and says it can be fixed way No.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yama shrinks back again and says, of course it can.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Back off, would you. The right Kid's like, really, we
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: can see now that the string that broke it was
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the fifth string on the guitar, which is the A string.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Just so you know. Ohayo Yama is just like what
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the right kid says, couldn't you fix it fast?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: We know?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yama's like, well yeah, the right kid says, could you
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: fix it now? O Aya Yama's like, uh, I mean
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: probably not right now, like I don't have tools. Red
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: kid sighs and he looks so forlorn, and there's just silence. Eventually,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Ueya Yama makes some sort of sound like he's frustrated,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and he turns a little bit and he seems pretty
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: stri The red kid is still quiet, and Uayo Yama
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: starts like rocking his leg like super annoyed and then
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: his eyes snap like wide open, and we cut to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: him pushing the classroom door open like really forcefully, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: then opening the stairwell door again, and then to like
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a string winder and a wirecutter and a pack of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Dio Bronio Excel regular light gauge strings, and he says,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: would just stop looking at me, like the whole world
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: ended over a broken string. He is now turning the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: tuning pegs, cutting the strings of the wirecutter and pulling
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: strings out of the pack, and he's like, now I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: feel bad, like I got your hopes up just so
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I could crash him back down. The Red kid is
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: just watching this astonished. Ooh hey, no Yama continues, give
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: me back my nap time, damn it. He trims the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: strings by the tuning pegs and it's done. I guess.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: The Red kid like claps and he's like, oh Ueyoyama
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: is like, be happier, praise me, pay me for the guy,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: damn strings. He puts his hands near the tuning pegs
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and the Red kid leans in to touch it or
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I guess, maybe take it back, and uay no Yama's like,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: not yet, hold your horses, nuby Red kid puts his
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: hands down as uey no Yama tunes the guitar, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: then he strums the open strings like that's and the
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Red kid gasps and he grabs a very confused looking
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: uay no Yama by the collar and says, please teach
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: me how to play that thing. Wuyo Yama just stares
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: confused and horrified because what the fuck, dude, and we
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: hear him think it all started with that chord I played.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I had no idea that I was strumming hard on
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: his heartstrings with my own fingers. I think that's kind
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: of lame, but that's okay. And then he says out loud,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the red Kid's still holding him by the collar. By
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the way, uh I need to tune it first. The
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: camera rushes up to like a bunch of windows, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: uay Noyama thinks, thinking back, it was this encounter that
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: set in my world racing forward at full speed. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: then we go to the opening theme yay, which is
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: kizuatough I think by senti Milimental, which is actually a
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: pretty cool name. I like that a lot, actually like
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the song a lot too, and it's just pretty decent opening.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: We see that red kid walking and we see ouey
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: no Yama looking out the school window, and we see
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this bartender that we don't know yet, and a guy
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: smoking in a parking lot, and some other people that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: like we really really don't know, and then like uey
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: no Yama running and the Red Kid looking at the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: ocean while it's snowing, and then uey no Yama and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: some other people that we don't know playing on stage
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and the Red Kid is singing, and then the Red
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Kid looking up as uey no Yama approaches the stair landing.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: That kind of deal. That's the basic gist of it. Yeah, anyway,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: back from the opening, we see lots of tops of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: billings like in a city. There's birds chirping. There's a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: wall clock that reads seven O four here ticking. We're
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in a room with the blinds closed, and there's a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: black Fender I guess telecaster. It's the closest I can
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: figure is what they were going for, which is an
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: electric guitar next to a Marshall amp on the floor.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: And we hear somebody breathing heavy like they're sleeping. We
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: see that Oueyoyama is asleep in bed, and we hear
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the door open and then some black box or briefs
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: just land right on his head. Yeah ouio Yama makes
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: like a startled noise, and it's like, what the hell.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: A girl is standing at the edge of his bed
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: with kind of medium length black hair, and she's like,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: your gross boxes were mixed in with my stuff, so
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: your dear sweet sister brought them back to you, you
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: dumb ass O we know. Yama sits up and is like,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: how many times do I have to tell you to knock?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He yawns.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Fuck.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I hope that he doesn't yaw on the whole show,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: otherwise we're gonna have a problem. His sister's like, so, mitzka,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you got band practice today. Oueyo Yama, which we now
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: know is his last name, says huh. He looks up
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: at her and she's now facing away from him, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: he's like, like, I said, don't bring your relationship issues
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to my band. Oh sides, didn't Kaji san dump you already? Fuck?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: His sister's like, he didn't dump me, she I guess
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: throws a half empty bottle of like tea or something
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: because o hey no. Yama gets smacked in the face
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: by one and he falls back down. Now we see
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: treetops and we hear Ouayno Yama say ow be panned
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: down and he is walking with his guitar and he's like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: damn that Yeyoi. I think that's his sister's name, And
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: then he thinks, I started playing guitar in sixth grade.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: My dad gave me the guitar he wasn't using anymore.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: We see him sitting on the floor with a guitar,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you know, younger, and there's like a book, like maybe
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a music book on the couch. He's in the living
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: room and he continues, of course I wasn't gonna be
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: tom yorke or Keith Richards right away. He's like trying
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to play and it sounds really bad. Actually, they did
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: a really good job in this episode of making him
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: not sound good when he's learning, which is really important. Actually. Anyway,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: we see that Yayoi is also in the living room
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and she's like, you suck. He does kind of suck.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Now we see him sitting on his bed practicing still younger.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: We hear him say I never could handle things not
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: going the way I wanted. He has headphones on now
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and he is looking at a CD. But I guess
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: he's listening to by the Artistic Monkeys, which I thought
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: was hilarious because obviously they couldn't use Arctic Monkeys for
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: some reason. So I actually think Artistic Monkeys is a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: pretty good band name. But yeah, anyway, he continues, So
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I became obsessed with music. He smiles, and we fade
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: into him at his current age, wearing headphones, and he
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: takes them off and he's holding his guitar. He continues,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and around the time I first started high school. He strums,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and we see him now in a practice space. He continues,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I was finally able to play the way I wanted to.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He sounds really, really good, but before I realized it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Now we see him standing with a group of guys.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: They're kind of in shadow. The more I sharpened my skills,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: it looks like the whole group is arguing, and now
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: we see him playing in his room instead, the more
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: my old excitement faded. Yeah, sometimes that happens, especially if
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you're not conquering new goals. He stops and he stares
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: at the ceiling. Now we see him looking out the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: window at school, and he's thinking about the red kid.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: He continues, Now that I think about it. I guess
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I almost cried when I first broke a string too,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: because I thought i'd broken my guitar. Really, dude, Like, really,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: you didn't know that strings were replaceable when you started
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: playing guitar. Sure, we see the red kid sitting on
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the landing, falling asleep on the guitar case and way
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: No Yama is at the bottom of the steps looking
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: up at him, and he continues to think, So we
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: meet again, guy, I'm tentatively calling teach me guitar. Dude.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: He is smiling, but he looks stressed. I'm not doing it.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it, you hear. He's just thinking this,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: by the way. He starts to walk over and he
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: puts his hand on the Red Kid's head and he's like, hey.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: The red kid sits up, Oh hey, No. Yama looks
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: kind of smug but also not confident at the same
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: time somehow, and he continues to think, and I'm gonna
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: defend my napping spot to the death. Yeah, okay. Red
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: kid exhales and smiles and he's like, oh hey, no Yama,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: kuhn oh hey No. Yama kind of gasps and he
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: looks a little freaked out. Yeah, you're not doing such
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a good job, dude. Red Kid's like, thanks for your
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: help yesterday. He kind of bows slightly and uway no,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Yama's like sure. Red Kid's like here and he reaches
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in his pocket and he takes out a thousand yen notes, which,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: by the way, is about six dollars and thirty three cents,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and he's like, this is to thank you. He did
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: ask him to pay for the string, so that's pretty good.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Oh he know.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Yama's like uh, and he takes it and kind of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: stares at it. The Red Kid says, oyo Yama kun oh,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: we know. Yama's like he looks up at him and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: sees that he is holding the shiniest thousand yen bill ever,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: like it's radiating light somehow, and the Red Kid says,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: please teach me how to play the guitar. Oayo, Yama
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: thinks seriously, and then out loud he says, no, I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: don't need your money. The Red Kid puts it back
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: in his guitar case and is like, in that case,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: he takes out a package of manly and spicy yaki
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: sober bread. Apparently take this O WEEO Yama thinks he
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: looks kind of unnerved, and he's like, look, he sits down.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: You can try to win me over with money or bread,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: which is strange, but I've never taught anyone to play guitar.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He lays down on his side on landing, facing away
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: from Red Kid and says, just look up how to play,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: or you know, you could join the Light Music Club
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: try and form a band with some of their members.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: The Red Kid looks down at the bread in his
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: hands and is like a band o weaya Yama shoots
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: up and he's like, I need to explain that too.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: The Red Kid looks at him, and Uaynoyama's like, what
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the hell's with you? You carry around a guitar but
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you know nothing about it. Red Kid sighs and looks away.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Waynoyama's like, hey, hey, don't get all depressed. You need
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to pick what you're doing, dude. The Red Kid is silent.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Oya Yama kind of scratches his head and he's like,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't say it was a bad thing, you implied.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Red Kid looks back over and Owaynoyama has laid down again.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: The Red Kid's like really, and he kind of shakes away.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: No Yama, Oh, hey No Yama kun o Weo Yama's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: like what. The red kid pauses and he's like, please
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: teach me how to play guitar. This is gonna be
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a problem. Now we see a hallway. A door slides open,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and Uwayo Yama looks around both ways in the hallway, concerned,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: and then he turns and just bolts down the hall.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Two guys in the classroom where he came from are
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: just like what. Now we see Wuayno Yama walking down
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: the streets. We're seeing his feet and he stops and
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: he says, hey, stop following me. We see that the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: red kid is behind him. Way No Yama starts to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: walk again, and he walks for a little while, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: he stops and he turns and the red kid is
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: still fun allowing him and he gasps, and Uaynoyama's like,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I told you, asks someone else if you want to
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: learn guitar. He waves him off and he starts to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: walk again, and then he stops walking a third time
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and he turns back and the red kid is crouched
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: down like hiding behind a pole sort of, but you
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: can see the whole back of him. It's not working.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Out so well, and Uaynoyama's like, hey, the red kid
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: looks up and he's like, oh hey, no Yama kun
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: oo heyo Yama looks like he wants to just kill him,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: which I understand because he has asked him nicely to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: stop following him and told him he cannot help him
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: play the guitar and it's actually difficult to teach people
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: to play guitar, so yeah, gotta leave him alone kid. Anyway, Now,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: we see the exterior of like a block building, like
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: a building made out of concrete masonry units like cinderblocks,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: has maybe three or four stories tall, and it has
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: a sign on it that says some words, and then studio.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's like two words and the studio, and it looked
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: like they're in English, but I cannot make them out
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: for the life of me. They're kind of mushed together.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: We see a guy with short blonde hair and like
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: lip piercings and like a bunch of ear piercings holding
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a bottle of green tea and he says, so, uh,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: who's that. The red kid is standing behind a very
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: pissed off looking uway no Yama, and uway no Yama says,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like I picked up a straight puppy. The
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: other guys like, sorry, what he is sitting behind a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: drum set and this is clearly a practice space. O.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: We know. Yama's like I tried to lose him but
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I couldn't. The guy says sure, I have no idea
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: what you mean?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Ou Weyo.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yama turns to the Red Kid and says, hey, show
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Kaji San some respect, dammit, Kaji. I guess this person
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: behind the drums is just staring at this like what
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: the fuck is going on? And uey no, Yama continues,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: just so you know, Kaji San looks really scary, but
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: he's a nice guy. He just looks scary. Yeah, yeah,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: we're kaji. We hear a door open and a guy
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: with kind of longish blonde hair comes in and he's
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: got like a little bit of a beard, like just
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: patchy at his chin and he says, hey, sorry, I'm late. Ah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: He looks at the Red kid. Whoa who the hell
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Uino Yama says hey, and then to a red kid says,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: this is our bassist, how Doki San? Red kid says
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: bassist Hodoki walks over. Well, he kind of backs away
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: towards Kaji and then quietly to him, says, hey, what's
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: going on. Ueyoyama is explaining what a bass player is
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: In the background while they talk. Kaji's like, I don't know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Ueyo Yama just brought him. We hear ueya Yama say
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: go on, and he pats Red Kid on the shoulder,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and Red Kid steps forward and is like, it's nice
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: to meet you. I'm Mafu Yusato finally a name. At
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: this his guitar starts to slide off him, and uay
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: No Yama has to catch it stop it from falling off,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and Mafuyu bows and says, I came to watch you play.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: How do He's like, watch us? Kaji says play. They
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: turn to each other and they like touch pointer fingers
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: and then suddenly like get all confident and looks sparkly,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and Kaji's like, well, in that case, how dook He says,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to show you what we can
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: do we know. Yama's like, uh, are you guys sure
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: about this? Kaji says, huh why not? O? Hey, No
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Yama quietly to Kaji says he's a total nub and
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: he doesn't understand shit. Kaji looks at Mafuyu as he
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: stares at him with like stars in his eyes, like
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: he's so fucking excited, and Uayno Yama continues, He's probably
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: expecting some kind of godly performance. Kaji and how do
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: he kind of both huh in unison and then they
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: nod at each other and they look super stressed. Kaji's like,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: this is bad. Well, only said the bar higher If
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: we don't say anything, how dook? He's like, wait, don't
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: say something makes it sound like he's right, really, ouina
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Yama's like, just how bad do you guys want to
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: impress people anyway? Yeah, he sighs, whatever, let's just play
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: like we usually do. We see a case of pedals
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: being opened, and we hear someone say I'm pretty sure
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: it's Kaji not happening. Ouina Yama's like, huh. Now we
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: see an instrument cable being plugged into an AMP, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: how do Ki says, first and foremost, we want to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: look cool. Kaji starts to tap his foot on his
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: high hat and he's like, I want to summon a storm,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: just like Yujito Ishahata. Okay so Yujito Ishihada One Best
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Actor at the Blue Ribbon Awards for like two films
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: from nineteen fifty seven, and one of them was called
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: The Man who Causes a Storm. So there you go,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and it's about a drummer, so it's perfect now you
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: know some history or something. Anyway, Paduk says, oh nice,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: it'd be cool to go retro. We see one of
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: those like plug in guitar tuoners getting tuned to D
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and he continues, might even sound new again. Mafuu sits
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: on the floor next day's guitar case and Kaji says,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: then we and the rhythm section will go with a
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: show whatever kind of flow. And then Kaji and Haduki
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: in unison pointed Wayna Yama and say, you'll top it
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: off with some fancy modern guitar play. Ouayna Yama's like,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: what the fuck does that mean? Okay, let me just
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: pause here to say that if you don't know, Showa
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: era in Japan is referring to nineteen twenty six to
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, but usually it's used when you're talking
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: about specifically the nineteen sixties through the nineteen eighties. So
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: there you go. Anyway, Oua Yama turns to Mafuu and says, uh, what's.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Your name again?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Mafuu's like, uh Sato mafuyu Wa. Yama says, what kind
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: of guitar do you want to hear? He shrums a
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: chord kind of sounded like it was a g but
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and mafu You says, what kind o we?
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I know? Yama's like, what kind of song do you
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: want to hear? Mafu You is quiet for a second
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and he gasps and he blushes slightly, and he's like
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: something cool. Yeah, yeah, oh I know. Yama smiles nervously
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: because that is the worst thing you can tell someone
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: to play, and he's like, talk about abstract and he
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: just kind of goes for it and starts to play
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: like this really upbeat, fast thing, but I obviously can't
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: share with you, but it's nice. How do He kind
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: of gasps, and Kaji thinks, oh my, how do? He
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: thinks he's totally into this. He looks over at Kaji.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Kaji looks back at how do he and thinks, well,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: we can't just sit here, can we? How do? Gee
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: starts to kind of sing a bass line that accompanies
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: you know. Yama's guitar, and Kaji seems kind of startled
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: by this. Then how do he kind of transitions into
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: actually playing the bass line as he sings it, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: he looks back at Kaji kind of like telling him,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: like come on, Kaji flinches and he kind of starts
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: to sing the bass line as well, and then starts
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to play the drums. So now everyone's playing super cool
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: and Mafuyu is just watching awestruck. So I'll try to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: give you a description of what's going on here. They're
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: playing something akin to I guess prog rock. I would
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: say it's very mathy like. There's a lot of technicality
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: to it that sounds so ridiculous. But I'm sitting there
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what time signature they're in, and
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: it's five eight, which is pretty cool and also something
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: that you wouldn't hear people who aren't like kind of
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: music nerds playing. So it works for prog rock. But uh,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna work out, but
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I figured I could explain what five eight is to
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: you in case you don't know, and you might know,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: you probably know, but basically, it's when you have five
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: beats per measure and if it really is five eight
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: and not five something else, which it could be I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: don't really know, they would be five eighth notes per measure.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: So they are not playing this that I'm going to
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: play because I can't do that. But basically, this is,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: you know, the gist of it. So anyway, if you're
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: playing something in four to four, it would sound like
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: if you're playing something in three, four or six eight,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: it would probably sound like like that. But if you're
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: playing in five eight, which is kind of a complex timing,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: would sound more like so like if you were, you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: doing something with.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: It sort of but not really, but that's kind of
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: what it sounds like, but not really.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna give up now because I've been trying
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: not to fuck that up for like five minutes. So
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: that's kind of what it sounds like. Maybe that just
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: made you even more confused, but I'm sorry. Basically, so
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: they are playing in five eights. They sound really good together,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and they're just kind of jamming like this is no
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: big deal. They actually look really cool, probably cooler than
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: they think that they look, and Mafuu is impressed as fuck.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: His eyes are just wide, and I understand Mafuu because
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: I am also easily impressed by complex timing and prog rock.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Then we cut to a black screen which I guess
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: did the eye catch and says given In the bottom
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: right corner, back from what was probably a commercial break,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: we are looking kind of up at the sky and
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: you know, telephone liars between houses. It's night, or at
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: least kind of dusk, and we pan down to a
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: narrow street where Mafu, you and uey no Yama are walking,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and Ueyoyama says, why the hell am I walking you home?
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Mafou is just looking at the sky and Oueyoyama glances
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: at him and is like, hey, you're listening. He is
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: not listening, Oue no Yama says Sato. Mafuu finally looks
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: over and he stops walking, and he says, can I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: come see you guys play again? Oh uh Oue no
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Yama looks surprised for a second, and then he puts
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: his hand on the back of his neck and he's like,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: no way. Mafu, You says, teach me the guitar, please
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: wayna Yama's like, stop it already. I've never taught anyone.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to teach Mafu, you kind of
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: almost sighs and then says, please teach me. Fuck dude,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: oa Oyama is like, knock it off already. I'm telling
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: you you'd be better off joining the Light Music Club.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: He stops quickly because a car is coming down the street,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: and he grabs Mafuu's arm and he pulls him out
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: of the way, kind of like into his chest. Yeah.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Owayna Oyama is like, that was close. You need to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: watch behind you. Mafuyu stares up at him, still like
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: on his chest basically and says, but I can't see
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: behind me. Owayn Oyama's like, don't get smart with me.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: He lets him go. Just go check out the Light
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Music Club. They've all start to walk again. I'm not
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: trying to be mean. I'm telling you this for your
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: own sake. Mafuyu kind of sighs. Now, we see multiple
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: apartment buildings and the sky is dark blue, maybe because
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: it is the city, so it never really gets totally dark,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: because it's not like Pitch black. It's just kind of
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: like weird, unnatural city glow dark, I guess. We see
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Yayoi laying on the couch with her legs up and
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: she's wearing like real short shorts and a sleeveless shirt,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: and she says, you're late. Oayna Yama is like, yikes,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: gotta wonder about you both as my sister and a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: woman when you look like that geese dude. Yayoi is like,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to start baking the fucking pizza.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Oeyena Yama says, oh, sorry, Yayoi points and says, it's
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: in the freezer. Get to work. Oha No Yama kind
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: of makes an uugh sound, and we see his jacket
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: draped over a chair and his guitar leaning next to it,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and we hear him say, hey, Yayoi, do you remember
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: what I was doing when I first started playing guitar.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Yayoa's like, what, you were just strumming on it. Oio
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Yama puts this frozen pizza on a plate and says, yeah,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: my bad. It was stupid even ask you. He puts
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the pizza in what I hope is a convection of
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it and not a microwave, but I'm not sure, and continues,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: then again, I don't really remember either. He obviously, you know,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: starts making the pizza and it's turning and sounds like
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: a microwave. So I'm very upset right now because pizza
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: should not be microwaved. And I'm no, it's I'm gonna
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: just pretend it's a convection of and it's fine. Oueina
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Yama looks a little upset, and he thinks, see he
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: rubs his neck. Teaching someone how to play from scratch
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: is too hard for me right now. It's really challenging,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: so I get it. He thinks of Mafu Yu's starstruck
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: expression when they were playing. I wonder if my eyes
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: used to look like that too. Fuck. Now we cut
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: to the gym ceiling, which looks like a gym ceiling,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and we see hands kind of reaching up and like
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: grabbing a basketball, and it's Uaynoyama and some guy is
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: like etaya, block etaya. I guess gets in front of
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: him and Uainnayama shoots and he tyat is shocked, but
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: then it just bounces off the rim o. Wei no
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Yama falls down somehow. I guess when he was shooting
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: it he got off balance and he's like ow. A
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: guy says, careful man. Some blonde dude like walks over
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: and like reaches out his hand to help him up
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: and says, what's up a witchy? You see him out
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: of it? That is an interesting nickname. O weio Yama
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: takes his hand and gets up and is like nothing,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: just thinking. He rubs the sweat off his face with
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: his shirt and we suddenly zoom in on his face
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: and he thinks, h it's bugging me. He looks at
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the door that's you know, to the stairs in the gym,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and he continues, I haven't been over there since yesterday
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: because I had a feeling i'd give in if he
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: asked me again. Then out loud, he says, Josa kai
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: switch with me. He sits down against the wall and
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: he puts his hand over his face, and he thinks,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure he's waiting there. Even now. He
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: looks stressed as all fuck. And he winces and continues,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and with that lost puppy look on his face, I
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: bet he thinks of a fuzzy white puppy with flowers
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: around it for some reason, and he continues, damn it,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: why do I have to feel so guilty about this?
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Next we see like those windows in the stairwell and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: we pan down to see Uaynoyama looking up the stairs
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and he's like, huh, what, he's not here, Yeah, he's
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: not there, guys. He looks further up the stairs, and
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: then he looks next to the stairs because who knows,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: maybe he's somewhere else, but he's not. And he thinks,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: come on, why is this bothering me so much? Did
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: he give up? Well, I guess I didn't show up
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: yesterday or today. But we fade out to Uwayennoyama sitting
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: on the landing, arms crossed, and he thinks, huh. We
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: flashed him later at what looks like Golden Hour, like
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: it's an evening and he's like what. And then some
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: other time, maybe a different day, he's laying down on
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the landing and he thinks what becauts black? Now we
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: see a very drained looking Ouayo Yama and he is
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: kneeling and he's like looking at something on a grocery
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: store shelf. Someone leans slightly into the frame and says, ooh, Heeyoyama,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: your mouth's hanging open. Hey. The person walks over and
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: kneels down and we see that it's Kaji. They are
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: both wearing the same shirt. I think that they're working
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: at this store anyway, he knocks on the side of
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: ouio Yama's head. His head kind of like bounces back
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: and forth, and he's like, hello, any went home? Ooh
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Heinoyama doesn't move except for his head to kind of
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: slightly rock back and forth. He just looks totally dazed.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Kaji says, you've been making that weird face for a
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: couple days now. Ou Weeinoyama's like, Kaji son, this is
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: how I always look. No, it's not. Kaji's like No,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: the Uisama I know has a much more regal look
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: to him. Uino Yama says, what the hell does that mean?
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: We cut to a room, like a really close up
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: of a part of a room that has some lockers
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: and boxes, and we hear Kaji say, ah, I see
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: what was his name again? Sato Takahashi, Suzuki. He's taking
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: off his work shirt. O weeinao Yama is also taking
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: off his work shirt and he says it's Sato. Kaji says,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: why don't you look after the kid? Ou Weinoyama's like what.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Kaji says, I think it might be good motivation for you.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Ou weeina Yama's like what. Kaji closes the locker. I mean,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: we get this quick flash of Ueyo Yama playing guitar
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: at the rehearsal, looking like super fucking hyped. Kaji continues,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: you were on fire when you jammed the other day.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Uinayama looks like terrified. Now, Kaji continues, well, whatever, let's
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: just head to the studio. He starts to walk to
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: the door. Ueina Yama starts to sweat and he thinks, huh,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: what was it? Was it actually showing on my face? Yeah, dude.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Now we see the exterior of the practice space and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: then Kaji opening the door and Uyo Yama is behind him,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: and we hear her Ougi in the room saying, wow,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: you did that all by yourself. Awesome. Kaji's like, hey, sorry,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: we're lates, and we see that how Douki is talking
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: to Mafuu. He didn't disappear, he came back. Yeah, I
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: guess that's what you wanted, I think, Ueo Yama, but
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: not really, you're confused, I understand. Anyway, how Douki says hey,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: and he's like kind of shaking Mafuyu's hand, which I
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: still don't know what that was about and uio Yama,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: and Kaji just looks shocked because yeah, how Douki continues,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Mafulu Chhan came by again. Mafulu starts to turn around
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: because he was facing towards had Dooki, not the other two.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: And as he does, Ueyno Yama's eyes just get wider
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: and wider and his mouth drops open. On how do
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Ki says? He was just sitting outside the studio, so
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I let him in. Oh yeah, Akiko, did you buy
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: me that sea? Akiko is Kaji by the way, Owayna
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Yama looks terribly freaked out, and he's just like you,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing here? He walks slowly
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: and kind of weirdly towards Mafuyu. Kaji kind of grabs
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: onto him and is like, geez, calm down. Doki's like,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: more importantly, this is amazing. Listen Uichi Owayna Oyama's like, huh.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Mafuu has his guitar on and he's like, look, I
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: was able to change the strings all by myself. Do
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: he just changed them a couple of days ago. You
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: don't have to change them that off, and you're just
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: wasting money. O Weeinoyama's like, ugh, mafu You is like,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: also listen to this, Oh I know? Yama gasps. Mafu's like,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: did I tune it right? It sounds pretty good, sounds
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: kind of like my guitar just sounded, except the strings
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: are really new and my strings are really old and
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: his guitar is electric. But whatever, we see that Mafuyu's
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: middle and ring fingers are just wrapped in band aids.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I guess he's hurt himself changing the guitar strings, which
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: is very sad because it's you shouldn't get hurt changing
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: your guitar strings. But that's okay. Oh we know Yama
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: kind of size, and it's like, didn't you go to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the light music club? Mafu You is kind of strumming
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the guitar a little bit, and he says it did.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Haki is watching this intently with his hand over his mouth,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: and Kaji is watching Hookey and he like brushes some
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: of Hadoki's hair out of his eyes and Hadokey jumps.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: What the fuck, guys, mafu You continues, They had all
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: kinds of people and instruments and it seemed fun. He blushes, slightly,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: but you're cooler. Oh we know Yama kun. Oh my god,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: oh we know Yama kinda gulps and like an explosion
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: goes off kind of in front of him, an artistic explosion.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Kaji and Haduki both look up and they get like
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: an explosion in front of them too. Yeah, mafu you says,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: so please teach me more about guitar. Hoh huh, And
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: we get the title card zero one boys in the Band,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: and we go to the ending theme. It's Mahusuki and
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know who's by, but this is the piano
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: version of it, and it's mostly just mafu U's dog
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: walking around chasing a butterfly, looking in a puddle, see
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: in the night sky. It's totally fine. I don't really
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: like it that much, but it's not bad. It's just
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: not my thing. Then we go to a couple of
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: clips from episode two, which we don't have to talk
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: about because it spoils things. And we see the next
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: title card and it's called like someone in low. Yeah,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Hooray, we did it, and it was
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: probably very terrible for you. I can only imagine. So
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: closing thoughts, I don't know how well the guitar worked out,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: so obviously I haven't edited this yet or anything. So
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: if you're hearing this and you think I didn't really
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: like that, I'm sorry. I did the best I could
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: to make it not bad, I guess, But if it's stupid,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: I will probably not do it in the future. If
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: it isn't stupid, maybe I will do more. Who knows.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: It was kind of hard because I had to switch
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: back and forth. I had to keep picking up the
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: guitar and putting down the guitar. Stuff like that. But
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, so yeah, I guess.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't really talk about anything like why I'm doing
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: the show and what it means to me. I don't
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: see a lot of music based anime that I like
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: or that I think do a good job at explaining
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: what it's like to be a musician, and I think
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: this show does a pretty good job. I mean, not perfect,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: but better than a lot. And I think the music
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: is really good. So that's kind of one of the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: reasons I watched this. When I watched this, I guess
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I watched it when it was airing in twenty nineteen.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I did not expect to like it a because I
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: don't really like music anime very much, and the I
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure how I would feel about this being a romance,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: and I ended up just being really kind of swept
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: up in it in both aspects. So I hope that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: you like it too this episode, and it's hard to tell,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: you know, just from me talking it to you, but
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of really good use of like
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: silence and like long pauses that had some like really
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: nice comedic timing to them. I really liked the interaction
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: between Uinoyama and Mafuyu and god ouayn Oyama is so
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: high strung man like. I get it though, because it's
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: a big deal to teach someone to play an instrument.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm I mean, at least the guitar. I've
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: tried to teach people guitar before. I am not a
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: good teacher, especially not a good music teacher. So if
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: someone came to me and said, please teach me the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: guitar and like held my collar and was like, I
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: need you to teach me, I would have a similar reaction.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, no, I can't teach you. I don't
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: teach guitar. And I would eventually break down and teach
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: the person the guitar exactly like Uaynoyama did. I probably
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be as you know, I don't know, fierce and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: aggressive in the way I talked to this person, but
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the conclusion would be the same. I would teach them
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: to play guitar because they look so sad and they
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: need help and apparently I am wildly in love with
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: them or something. I don't know that yet. I mean,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: you know that this is gonna be about like a
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: romance thing because it's boys love, and if it didn't
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: have romance in it, it just wouldn't be boys love.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: It would just be shojo, even though shojo usually has
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: romance in it, but whatever, not all shojo, So you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: know that. But I thought the beginnings of this were
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: really interesting. I love that Mafuyu is like, no, I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: want to learn from you because you're really fucking cool.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: And I like the interaction that I'm seeing between Kaji
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and Hadoki, who obviously are on a really similar wavelength
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: about this and are noticing that they seem to have
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a good energy together Mafuu and uey no Yama, I mean,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: and that they might like each other. And I felt
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: like there was something going on between Kaji and Hodoki too,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: when Kaji kind of brushed Hodoki's hair off of his face.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: But we'll see what that is later. I don't know.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: I liked it, obviously. We don't know why Mafuu has
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: that guitar, by the way, which is a Gibson hollow
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: body guitar. I'll probably specify what a actual type it
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: is in the next episode or something, but he obviously
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't play it. He obviously hasn't changed the strings ever,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: which means when he saw what I assume is someone
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: hanging and broke the string, that stayed like on his guitar,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: like the memory of that horrible event was basically transcribed
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: on his guitar with that missing a string. That must
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: be horrible to constantly look at this guitar and just
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: see this missing string, which to him wasn't even a
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: missing string. It was something that he broke, like he
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: saw something that upset him terribly and he broke this
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: object doing so. So that's got to be rough. But
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: it's not easy or fun to carry a guitar around
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: all the time, and it's especially not if you're not
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: gonna play it, and they don't get this quite right.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: But bringing a guitar on like a fucking train is hell.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: It's bad. So I give Mafu you props for just
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: this is his life. He just carries around this guitar
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: all the time, especially because it's not like a small
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: electric guitar. It's hollow bodies, so it's wider, so you're
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: kind of in between an acoustic and electric. Hollowbodies are electric,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: but the body is hollow and it kind of changes
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: the sound. But because they're bigger, they're gonna be bulkier
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: and it's just gonna swing it into people on the train.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be bad. I know, trust me. I know
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: I've hit enough people with my guitar that I know.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know. I think I should probably
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: stop talking about this. A lot of this episode is
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: really self explanatory anyway. But I hope that you didn't
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: hate this. I hope that you're okay with this direction.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I know this is a pretty big departure, so yeah,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I hope that you thought it was okay, and hope
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: that you are interested in seeing what happens next, because
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: obviously Ueynoyama, who I can barely pronounce his name. I
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: could call him uweh, but I'm not. Obviously, he is
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: gonna teach Maufuyu guitar, so that should be cool. Maybe
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: if you think that learning guitar from a boy that
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: you are starting to fall in love with would be cool,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: which actually sounds terrible, but whatever. Yeah, I don't want
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: that at all, but people do. People want to fall
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: in love, and I am happy for them. So yeah,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: I think that's really all I have. I'm gonna go
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: away now because I still don't feel totally better and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I definitely don't sound totally normal, so I gotta like
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: stop recording. I've almost been recording for two hours. I'm
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: sure when you listen to this it will be less
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: than two hours, but I had to re record things
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: a bunch because I'm new to this show and I'm
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: fucking everything up and I can't say O, hey, no
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Yama for my fucking life. So yeah, I hope you
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: have a really good whatever, and I hope you stick around.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: But if you don't, if you're like I don't want
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: to do a gay romance anime with music, I think
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: that's sad, but I totally get it. You can leave
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: gracefully and I'll see you one day, but if you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: are sticking around, I will see you next week, as
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: long as there is a next week. Yep later weeps