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No. 6, Ep 5- Angel of Death · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Guess what? I just recorded
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Speaker 1: like 17 minutes of this using the wrong input so
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Speaker 1: it wasn't going through my microphone. So I have to
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Speaker 1: start over. Awesome. Just what I wanted to do. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I hope you're doing really okay today. I'm doing... Well,
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Speaker 1: I was doing better before I fucked that up. But
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Speaker 1: I just got my chimney repaired. Woo. Yeah. Clapping. Thank you. Um...
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't know because I didn't tell you,
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Speaker 1: but my chimney has for maybe several years had these
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Speaker 1: gigantic holes in the mortar between the bricks near the top. Big,
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Speaker 1: big areas where there's just not mortar anymore. And that's
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Speaker 1: not very good. And I know this. But the last
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Speaker 1: quote I got was very expensive. And they were going
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Speaker 1: to do things that I didn't understand why they would do.
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Speaker 1: So I'd just been putting it off. And then lately
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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about how the chimney is just going
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Speaker 1: to fall down and kill someone. So I got somebody
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Speaker 1: to fix it and they just finished fixing it like
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Speaker 1: a half hour ago. And it was amazing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was, yeah, it's amazing because now my chimney is
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Speaker 1: not scary anymore. I was going to say that that
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Speaker 1: makes me way less anxious, but I have generalized anxiety disorder.
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Speaker 1: So the anxiety just shifts somewhere else. But at least
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Speaker 1: I'm not anxious about my chimney anymore. So I want
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Speaker 1: to pretend that that's a win. It's not, though. And
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Speaker 1: if you remember, I think a couple episodes ago, I
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Speaker 1: told you that you should look at your chimney and
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Speaker 1: make sure it's okay and not leaning. I hope you
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Speaker 1: really did that. My chimney was not leaning. It was
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Speaker 1: just weird. But it's still important that your chimney doesn't
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Speaker 1: fall down. So this is your second reminder to make
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Speaker 1: sure that it's okay. Yeah, I don't... You can do
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Speaker 1: whatever you want. It's fine. I don't know. Anyway. Amazingly,
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Speaker 1: unlike the previous episodes, I am running on time again
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Speaker 1: instead of early. So I'm recording this the Tuesday before
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Speaker 1: this airs, which is kind of scary. It was much
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Speaker 1: nicer when I was recording everything super, super early, but
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Speaker 1: it just doesn't work like that forever. So I'm back
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Speaker 1: to real time. Now I'm only a couple days in
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Speaker 1: the past instead of like a month in the past.
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Speaker 1: So I could talk to you about stuff that's going
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Speaker 1: on right now, I guess, or something. But anyway, I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to, you know, quickly talk about the current
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Speaker 1: fall anime season and tell you what I'm watching a
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Speaker 1: little bit, maybe. So first of all, I'm caught up,
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Speaker 1: at least right now, because there's another episode coming out
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, I think, with Magic Knight Rayearth, the reboot.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, I'm like really liking it, which I didn't
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Speaker 1: expect to because I watched Magic Knight Rayearth back maybe
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Speaker 1: like a couple of years ago, the original. And I
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Speaker 1: was like, wow, this is not very good. So I'm
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Speaker 1: surprised that I'm three episodes in and I'm like, yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying this. I think for me, the main
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Speaker 1: changes are hopefully, first of all, that they, um, hopefully
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Speaker 1: they will go more in the direction of the manga
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Speaker 1: instead of just changing things like the first anime did. But, um,
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Speaker 1: some of my biggest complaints with the original version is, um,
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Speaker 1: The characters getting all chibi in spots that didn't feel
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Speaker 1: like that was the right thing to do and attempts
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Speaker 1: to be like comical and having them just fall flat.
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Speaker 1: So I actually think that this adaptation so far has
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Speaker 1: fixed both of those. The characters still get chibi because
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Speaker 1: they do in the manga too, but it feels like
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Speaker 1: it's only in places that make sense, you know, that are,
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Speaker 1: you know, not serious, basically. And the kind of newer
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Speaker 1: jokes that have been put in, because there's definitely new things,
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Speaker 1: like Fu, who's one of the three main characters, really
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Speaker 1: likes role-playing games now. Like, that wasn't in the original.
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Speaker 1: So she talks about, like, role-playing games and, like, how
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Speaker 1: this is like a role-playing game a lot. And I
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Speaker 1: think it works really well. But, like, any attempt at
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Speaker 1: humor that they've done so far has actually worked nicely.
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Speaker 1: So I'm actually very happy with this so far. And
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Speaker 1: I am... Excited to see, you know, how it goes
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Speaker 1: from here because I think like the first couple of
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Speaker 1: episodes of the original anime pretty much follow the manga too.
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Speaker 1: So it's after that that we start branching out and
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Speaker 1: changing things. So I'm hoping for good things. But I
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Speaker 1: also wanted to say at the end of the last episode,
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Speaker 1: episode three, there was fucking Ferio. Ferio was there. Yay.
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Speaker 1: Now I know what you're saying. Who the fuck is Ferio?
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Speaker 1: I don't even watch this. Why are you telling me
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Speaker 1: about this? And I totally appreciate that you feel that way.
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Speaker 1: But Ferio is a character that I loved dearly as
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Speaker 1: a teenager. So I'm just like happy to see him again.
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Speaker 1: See if I still feel like a weird person who
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Speaker 1: likes anime characters like that or not. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I don't want to say it anymore though.
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Speaker 1: So let's go on to a different show that I'm watching.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching From Far Away 2, which is a shoujo isekai.
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Speaker 1: actually I'm watching a lot of shoujo isekai right now
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Speaker 1: and for some reason there's like a push right now
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Speaker 1: to reboot 90s shoujo isekai because you have magic knight
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Speaker 1: rayearth which is that and obviously from far away and
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Speaker 1: then also red river that was like the good part
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Speaker 1: of isekai in my opinion so it's cool but anyway
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Speaker 1: I haven't read from far away but uh it's pretty
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Speaker 1: decent so far I'm not super jazzed about the character
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Speaker 1: designs or the animation especially not the animation but But
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Speaker 1: so far, the story's okay. You know, it's about a
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Speaker 1: girl who ends up in a different world, as you do.
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Speaker 1: And this very handsome-ish, mysterious guy with a really dark past,
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Speaker 1: because it's Shoujo, shows up and saves her. And now
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Speaker 1: they're traveling together. But they don't speak the same language.
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Speaker 1: She can't understand anybody in the world at all. And
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Speaker 1: he obviously can't understand her because, yeah. So they're traveling
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Speaker 1: and they can't understand each other. So I mean, besides
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Speaker 1: the fact that like people are trying to like capture
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Speaker 1: her and all that stuff because, yeah, she's like the
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Speaker 1: chosen thing or whatever. Like, it's interesting to see an
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Speaker 1: isekai done like this where there's a language barrier because
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Speaker 1: usually by the power of magic or whatever, everybody can
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Speaker 1: just speak everybody's language. And I understand that because otherwise
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Speaker 1: you have to do what this is doing where you
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Speaker 1: got to be like, well, we can't understand each other
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Speaker 1: and now we got to learn each other's words, which
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Speaker 1: is cool, but not whatever he wants. So I am
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Speaker 1: enjoying that so far. I think I'm like an episode
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Speaker 1: behind on that, though. And I heard terrible things about
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Speaker 1: the Red River adaptation, which I believe aired last season.
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Speaker 1: But I'm still going to watch it because fucking 90s shoujo.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Another thing I am watching right now. No,
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Speaker 1: that's not true. I am not watching it yet, but
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Speaker 1: I should be watching is Cyberpunk Edgerunners the second season.
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Speaker 1: I'm just really, really overwhelmed and tired all the time.
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Speaker 1: And every time I try to watch something, for the
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Speaker 1: most part, it takes me like three or four times
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Speaker 1: to watch a show because I fall asleep during it
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Speaker 1: because I'm just exhausted. So I haven't started watching yet.
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Speaker 1: As of right now, there's one episode out. And I
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Speaker 1: am so excited because I really, really like the first
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Speaker 1: season of it, like a lot. Like I'm actually thinking
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Speaker 1: about doing it for the podcast because I think it's
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Speaker 1: like really, really good. And I know this is an
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Speaker 1: independent story because, you know, it is. But I'm excited
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that it's going to be on par
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Speaker 1: with the first season. And if it's not, because it's
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Speaker 1: a different story, it doesn't affect how I feel about
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Speaker 1: the first season, which is great. And then the other
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Speaker 1: thing I'm watching right now is Apothecary Diaries, which has
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Speaker 1: been good and sad because, you know. But that's really it.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to stop talking about things now because, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there are plenty of other good things to watch right
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Speaker 1: now that I'm not watching. But man, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm really fucking overwhelmed. So that's what I got right now.
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Speaker 1: But enough of me talking about things like I just said.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about number six, because that's what we're supposed to.
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Speaker 1: So number six, episode five is called Angel of Death.
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Speaker 1: And then underneath that in parentheses, I wrote, God, I
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Speaker 1: hope so. I don't really know why I wrote that,
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Speaker 1: but it seems kind of mean. So fuck me. After
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Speaker 1: watching this episode, I think Angel of Death is like semi-appropriate.
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Speaker 1: It feels like a lot of these episode titles have
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Speaker 1: been a little bit more threatening than they needed to be.
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Speaker 1: And I kind of agree with myself again here, but
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Speaker 1: at least I feel like it's kind of on the
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Speaker 1: right path because something is happening. So that'll be fun. Maybe.
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Speaker 1: Or not. And I don't know if you remember from
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Speaker 1: the last episode, but we ended with Shion's mom, Karin,
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Speaker 1: like holding a note from him that said that he's okay.
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Speaker 1: And her saying like, thank you, Nezumi. And that was it.
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Speaker 1: So we don't start there. Also, before I start fully,
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Speaker 1: if you were freaked out by how long I ranted
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Speaker 1: about episode four, good news. I am not going to
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Speaker 1: rant that long about episode five because I don't have
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Speaker 1: quite as much to say. So yay, I guess. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: we start just with the opening. Yay. Back from the opening.
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Speaker 1: We're like panning over those flower fields that are in
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Speaker 1: front of that like assisted living facility, nursing home, remember?
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Speaker 1: And it is snowing, which I mean, I guess maybe
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Speaker 1: it's an early snow because otherwise you'd think that the
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Speaker 1: flowers would be dead by now because usually there's like
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Speaker 1: a frost first, you know, flowers don't like just live
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Speaker 1: in the cold like that, but whatever, who knows? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: we see inside the assisted living facility or whatever, which
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Speaker 1: is called Twilight House. I just looked it up because
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Speaker 1: I forgot. and we're like in this like big room
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Speaker 1: got kind of like a wide shot of it with
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Speaker 1: like orange floors and it wasn't clear if it was
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Speaker 1: carpeted or if it's like linoleum or something and then
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Speaker 1: there are like couches on the side and like a
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Speaker 1: bunch of plants around very much I guess like a
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Speaker 1: common room for the people who you know live in
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Speaker 1: the facility also over by the window there are four
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Speaker 1: wheelchairs like looking out onto the snow and we hear
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Speaker 1: a voice say it's so beautiful here we see Safu's
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Speaker 1: grandmother which I'm just gonna call grandma and She is
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Speaker 1: sitting in a wheelchair, obviously, holding her knitting basket with
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Speaker 1: just that one knitting needle. So fucking she didn't get
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Speaker 1: another one or whatever. So I was right. Like, she
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Speaker 1: just can't knit anymore because she gave Saffu her other one?
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Speaker 1: What the fuck? Anyway, Grandma says, it truly is. The woman,
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Speaker 1: who I'm pretty sure was the person who said it
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Speaker 1: was beautiful there, that's in the wheelchair next to her,
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Speaker 1: is like, hey, I've been meaning to ask you. Grandma
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Speaker 1: looks over at her. What? The woman points at her
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Speaker 1: knitting basket and says, why do you have only one
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Speaker 1: knitting needle? Fuck, dude, get another one. Grandma smiles and
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Speaker 1: laughs and says, that's because, and she's cut off by
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Speaker 1: a voice saying, it's time for your injections, everyone. I
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Speaker 1: wonder what they inject them with. Grandma looks over, I guess,
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Speaker 1: quickly and she accidentally drops her knitting needle on the
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Speaker 1: floor and it kind of rolls away from her a little.
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Speaker 1: And she's like reaching down, like trying to get it,
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Speaker 1: but she can't from her wheelchair. And luckily, a nurse
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Speaker 1: with brown hair and glasses like walks over and picks
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Speaker 1: it up and says, here you go and hands it
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Speaker 1: back to her. And grandma's like, thank you. The nurse
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Speaker 1: smiles and we zoom in on her as she thinks, oh,
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Speaker 1: I wish I could quit this job. Fuck. Now we
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Speaker 1: see her in a red coat, holding a red umbrella,
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Speaker 1: and it's a close-up shot, so it's not clear where
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Speaker 1: she is, but obviously she's not at work anymore because
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Speaker 1: she's not in her work clothes. And she says, these
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Speaker 1: old people can't do anything for themselves, yet they're always smiling.
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Speaker 1: That really unnerves me. She is looking at a guy
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Speaker 1: on the holographic screen that, like, comes out of a
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Speaker 1: wrist cuff. The guy's like, you've been working hard. How
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Speaker 1: about I treat you to something delicious? We see now
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Speaker 1: that she's standing like on a sidewalk, I guess, on
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Speaker 1: a street that like has all these shops, like big
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Speaker 1: bright display windows and it's night and it's still snowing.
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Speaker 1: And she says, that sounds wonderful. See you later then.
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Speaker 1: She turns the screen off. And that she turns and
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Speaker 1: she looks at herself in the window of the storefront
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Speaker 1: that she's next to. She smiles and kind of chuckles
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Speaker 1: and then starts to walk away. But she stops. It
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Speaker 1: makes kind of a surprise noise and turns back and
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Speaker 1: looks at herself again. There's a black spot on her cheek,
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Speaker 1: and she watches, pretty freaked out, as it starts to grow.
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Speaker 1: She backs away from the window and kind of trips
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Speaker 1: over herself or the curb or something and loses grip
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Speaker 1: of her umbrella. So that's gone now. And she's just like,
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Speaker 1: what's happening? She puts her hands on her cheeks and
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Speaker 1: stares at herself in the glass as she begins to
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Speaker 1: age rapidly. We see her hands as she looks down
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Speaker 1: at them and they shrivel and gray. And she's like, no!
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Speaker 1: Everyone looks over because, yeah, okay. And her skin is
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Speaker 1: just continuing to gray and get liver spots. I think
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Speaker 1: that's what that is. And she cries in horror as
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Speaker 1: her now white hair just falls the fuck out of
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Speaker 1: her head and her teeth do as well. She falls
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Speaker 1: down dead. People start to gather around her. We cut
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Speaker 1: to a red flashing light and then the interior of,
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Speaker 1: I guess, an ambulance with some dude and her body
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Speaker 1: in a body bag. And the door closes. The guy
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Speaker 1: who is sitting with her, who looks like he's maybe
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Speaker 1: a doctor, but I don't know, puts... like his phone
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Speaker 1: to his ear, which I think is interesting because why
13:37
Speaker 1: don't you just talk to people on your wrist like
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Speaker 1: everyone else does? And he says, we've retrieved the sample. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the ambulance drives off and we hear a voice say, everyone,
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Speaker 1: please come this way. The people who had gathered look
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Speaker 1: over and they see this police guy. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of cop cars and police in the distance,
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Speaker 1: but this one police guy is walking over and he says,
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Speaker 1: I'll be conducting an investigation into what happened here. It
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Speaker 1: won't take long. Yubi like doesn't kill these people or something.
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Speaker 1: Everyone walks over, but they seem worried and maybe a
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Speaker 1: little annoyed because they were doing shit before this. We
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Speaker 1: cut to a shot of the sky as a wasp
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Speaker 1: flies off through the falling snow. We fade out. Now
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Speaker 1: we cut to a wide shot of a city, I guess,
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Speaker 1: surrounded by water. I thought it was like an island,
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Speaker 1: but it's not. Maybe it's like a bay or something
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Speaker 1: that it's by. And there's like a big bridge between
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Speaker 1: it and something else that we can't see. And it
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Speaker 1: has like a really futuristic looking building that I can't
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Speaker 1: really explain. And the sky is blue and partly cloudy
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Speaker 1: and seagulls are crying like they do. We pan down
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Speaker 1: to a neighborhood that's across the bridge from the city.
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Speaker 1: And there are all these little yellow houses with orange
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Speaker 1: and brown roofs. We see Safu walking down the street.
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Speaker 1: Someone says, Safu! Safu stops and looks back. She's walking
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Speaker 1: up like this very steep hill. that's like flanked by
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Speaker 1: these little Tudor houses and the ocean or whatever that is,
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Speaker 1: is in the background. It's very nice and kind of
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Speaker 1: looks like maybe San Francisco or something. I mean, not
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Speaker 1: the Tudor houses, but just the general look of everything
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Speaker 1: or Pittsburgh. There's also like lots of vegetation and flowers everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And it's obviously warm out because she's wearing short sleeves.
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Speaker 1: So I guess this is in a different area of
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Speaker 1: the world where it's not winter. So anyway, these two
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Speaker 1: girls are like running down the street to catch up
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Speaker 1: with her. And there's a red haired girl and she says,
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Speaker 1: happy new year. And the black haired girl who was
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Speaker 1: also there, she's got short black hair, says, happy new year.
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Speaker 1: This is happy new year in English, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Safu is like, happy new year, Anne and Betty, also
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Speaker 1: in English. Betty, who is the girl with the black
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Speaker 1: hair and she's glasses too, says, Safu, how's your homework
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Speaker 1: for winter break coming? Safu says, I finished it, of course.
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Speaker 1: Betty gasps. All of it? That's amazing! Safu smiles. Anne
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Speaker 1: kind of like walks up in front of them and says,
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Speaker 1: I wonder. Hopefully it doesn't turn out like your report
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Speaker 1: on Botticelli. She stands really straight and kind of looks
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Speaker 1: over to the side like she's doing a presentation and says,
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Speaker 1: the proportion of tempera paint used in the birth of
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Speaker 1: Venus is... Betty starts to laugh and Safu blushes and
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Speaker 1: is like, hey Anne! Anne runs off in front of
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Speaker 1: them and Safu chases her and Betty starts to follow.
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Speaker 1: We hear Anne say, sorry, I'm sorry. And Safu's like,
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Speaker 1: you went too far this time. We pan up and
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Speaker 1: we see this really big building on the hill, like
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Speaker 1: way in front of them, like big and long and
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Speaker 1: kind of prestigious looking. And I think it's probably a university.
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Speaker 1: We get a closeup shot of the building now. And
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Speaker 1: it is like, I guess a stone building, like cut stone,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's limestone, who knows? And it has arched windows.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, it's probably the university. And we hear
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Speaker 1: someone say, Now let's have everyone present the poems they
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Speaker 1: wrote about their winter break. The teacher, who was the
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Speaker 1: person talking, says, Safu-san. Safu is seated in the back
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Speaker 1: of the classroom. It's kind of one of those auditorium
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Speaker 1: style classrooms where like the seats kind of go up.
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Speaker 1: So I guess you can see the teacher good. And
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Speaker 1: she stands and says, yes, sir. Anne looks back at
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Speaker 1: her and kind of chuckles. Safu exhales. I gaze upon
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Speaker 1: the world, the sun shining, the stars sparkling, the plants growing.
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Speaker 1: The animal's feeling, huh? And in humans, a soul resides.
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Speaker 1: I gaze upon the soul. The soul listens to the
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Speaker 1: voice of God. It breathes in its sweet fragrance, tastes
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Speaker 1: its words, and lightly touches it with outstretched fingers. We
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Speaker 1: head to her like outside, looking out at the city
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Speaker 1: across the bay. She continues. I gaze upon the world,
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Speaker 1: gaze upon the soul, and realize that the path I
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Speaker 1: walk is illuminated. The wind picks up and she smiles.
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Speaker 1: We go to the school exterior again and we see
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Speaker 1: Safu now walking through the grass. And then like around
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Speaker 1: the corner of a building, she's obviously going somewhere. And
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Speaker 1: in the shade of this building against the wall, she
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Speaker 1: sees Anne and some blonde guy kissing. Like Anne has
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Speaker 1: her back to the wall and the guy has his
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Speaker 1: hand on the wall next to her, you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of leaning down and kissing her like you do. Safu
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Speaker 1: stops walking, and they happen to also stop kissing at
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Speaker 1: this point, and they look over at her. The guy
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Speaker 1: is blushing. Anne stares for a second before she connects
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Speaker 1: what is happening and is like, Safu! She looks down
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Speaker 1: and blushes like she's ashamed. The guy looks stressed and says, Hey, Safu!
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Speaker 1: Safu smiles and waves and is like, Hi, Roy and Anne!
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Speaker 1: And then she starts to walk away like this is
18:43
Speaker 1: no big deal. We hear Anne say, Safu! Safu stops
18:47
Speaker 1: and looks back at them again, and they're starting to
18:49
Speaker 1: walk over to her, and Anne says, Can I ask
18:52
Speaker 1: you to keep this a secret from everyone? Safu's like, Why?
18:56
Speaker 1: There's no need to be embarrassed about kissing. That's true.
19:00
Speaker 1: It's a display of our desire to reproduce. Yeah, Roy
19:04
Speaker 1: and Anne look kind of freaked out by that, Safu continues,
19:07
Speaker 1: as well as a movement-based expression of such. Anne and
19:11
Speaker 1: Roy kind of look at each other for a second,
19:13
Speaker 1: and then Anne starts to laugh and is like, Safu,
19:16
Speaker 1: that's at least something that hasn't changed about you since
19:18
Speaker 1: you came to number five. Safu looks confused. What do
19:22
Speaker 1: you mean? Anne says, it means you've changed in every
19:25
Speaker 1: other way. Anne and the guy start to walk off,
19:29
Speaker 1: and Anne has her arm around his, and she says,
19:33
Speaker 1: your poem was truly wonderful. I thought it was just, like,
19:37
Speaker 1: really okay, but sure. Safu just kind of stares after them.
19:41
Speaker 1: We hear Shion now say, You have rightly chosen, said God.
19:46
Speaker 1: We get too close up of him looking down, maybe
19:48
Speaker 1: reading a book, but we can't see it. And he continues,
19:52
Speaker 1: for in my garden of paradise, this little bird shall
19:54
Speaker 1: sing for everyone. We see that he is sitting on
19:57
Speaker 1: the floor in Nezumi's room and there are like two
19:59
Speaker 1: kids sitting in front of him, a little boy and
20:01
Speaker 1: a little girl. And Nezumi is on his bed, lying down,
20:05
Speaker 1: facing away from them towards the wall. And also, like,
20:08
Speaker 1: there's just a big brown dog in the corner of
20:10
Speaker 1: the room just hanging out. I don't know what this
20:13
Speaker 1: dog is doing there. Anyway, Shion continues. And in my
20:17
Speaker 1: city of gold, the happy prince shall praise me. The end.
20:21
Speaker 1: He closes the book. That, I guess, was the happy prince.
20:25
Speaker 1: The girl's like, that was great. The boy says, can
20:28
Speaker 1: we come again tomorrow, too? Shion's like, of course. Oh,
20:32
Speaker 1: that's right. We have some leftover soup. Would you like
20:34
Speaker 1: some before you leave? He stands up. The boy looks
20:37
Speaker 1: like so excited because he is always hungry. And I
20:41
Speaker 1: know that from the light novel. But the girl just
20:43
Speaker 1: like starts to shake her head and she says, no,
20:45
Speaker 1: it's OK. Mom said we'd be able to eat dinner tonight. Oh,
20:49
Speaker 1: Shion smiles like a little bit. And we cut to
20:52
Speaker 1: the kids standing at the top of the stairs, like
20:55
Speaker 1: down to that basement area where Nezumi lives. The boy
20:57
Speaker 1: waves like down at Shion and the girl says, see
21:00
Speaker 1: you later, Shion. Bye. But she says sayonara, which was weird.
21:05
Speaker 1: And the boy's like, bye-bye. And then Shion waves and says, sayonara,
21:08
Speaker 1: Karen and Riko. I don't know why everyone's saying sayonara.
21:12
Speaker 1: I guess we're just being super, super polite for some reason.
21:15
Speaker 1: Because I'm pretty sure they're coming back tomorrow. But whatever.
21:19
Speaker 1: We hear them walk off because we're like looking at
21:21
Speaker 1: Shion now. And Shion turns back and heads back in
21:26
Speaker 1: and kind of exits the frame. We hear Nezumi say,
21:29
Speaker 1: you're still such an idiot. Shion closes the door behind
21:32
Speaker 1: him and looks at Nezumi and is like, me? Why? Nezumi,
21:36
Speaker 1: who is still on the bed facing away from him
21:38
Speaker 1: towards the wall, says, random acts of kindness won't get
21:42
Speaker 1: you anywhere in a place like this. Sure, dude. Shion's like,
21:47
Speaker 1: then you're an idiot too. You've been showing them kindness
21:50
Speaker 1: as well. Ooh, I guess. Nezumi's kind of like, huh?
21:54
Speaker 1: Shion continues, that sweater that Kanon was wearing? Nezumi, like,
21:59
Speaker 1: lets out a slight gasp. Shion continues, was the one
22:02
Speaker 1: that I gave you four years ago. And then I
22:05
Speaker 1: was like, what? And so I had to go back
22:07
Speaker 1: and look and make sure. And yeah, it was the
22:09
Speaker 1: sweater that Safu gave to Shion that Shion let Nezumi wear.
22:13
Speaker 1: And I guess he took it home. So yeah, yeah,
22:17
Speaker 1: that tracks. Anyway, Nezumi looks kind of ashamed now. And
22:22
Speaker 1: Shion continues, when did you give it to her? Nezumi
22:25
Speaker 1: closes his eyes and sighs and actually gets up. And
22:28
Speaker 1: Shion says, you going to work? You've been going out
22:31
Speaker 1: every day lately. Yeah, people who work have to go
22:34
Speaker 1: to their jobs. Nezumi, who is like partially off screen,
22:38
Speaker 1: but clearly doing something, maybe getting fully dressed, I can't tell,
22:42
Speaker 1: like rustling around, says, It's because I have an altruistic roommate,
22:46
Speaker 1: he's walking towards the door, who surrounds himself with neighborhood
22:49
Speaker 1: children simply because one of them has the same name
22:52
Speaker 1: as his mother. Yeah, there's a katan there. There are
22:55
Speaker 1: two katans now. He continues, I need to earn enough
22:59
Speaker 1: money to move out before this place becomes a kindergarten.
23:02
Speaker 1: We hear the door open and we see him start
23:04
Speaker 1: to walk out and Shion's like, Nezumi? Nezumi stops. Would
23:09
Speaker 1: I be able to come with you? I'd like to see. Aw.
23:14
Speaker 1: Nezumi grits his teeth. No! Shit, dude. Shion gasps and
23:20
Speaker 1: the dog looks up too. Nezumi, who is in the
23:22
Speaker 1: doorway now, looking towards the hall, is silent for a
23:25
Speaker 1: second and then says, Just because you've gotten used to
23:28
Speaker 1: living here. It doesn't change the fact that you're a
23:30
Speaker 1: clueless brat from the ignorant and prideful number six. He
23:34
Speaker 1: shuts the door. Fuck dude. We cut to the exterior of,
23:38
Speaker 1: you know, Inukashi's hotel and people are like walking down
23:41
Speaker 1: the street and shit. We hear Inukashi laughing and we
23:45
Speaker 1: cut to Shion who's scrubbing a dog, you know, in
23:47
Speaker 1: the courtyard as she laughs. She's sitting on like the
23:50
Speaker 1: side of the fountain, by the way. And she is
23:53
Speaker 1: just totally out of breath from laughing at this point.
23:55
Speaker 1: And she says, What did you expect? You'll never be
23:58
Speaker 1: able to understand Nezumi. He's a beast in human clothing. Actually,
24:02
Speaker 1: she said yokai, which is more like a spirit or
24:05
Speaker 1: something than a beast, but whatever. Shion's like, I wonder
24:09
Speaker 1: why Nezumi hates number six so much. Inukashi says, I've
24:12
Speaker 1: got no idea. Shion's like, what does he want to accomplish?
24:17
Speaker 1: Inukashi says, I don't even know. She's like petting a
24:20
Speaker 1: really small dog next to her. I have no interest
24:22
Speaker 1: in number six anyways. We hear a voice, which sounds
24:26
Speaker 1: a lot like Rikiga, so maybe it is, say, though
24:28
Speaker 1: you sure seem to know a lot about it. We
24:31
Speaker 1: see feet in like dress shoes walking over and then stopping.
24:35
Speaker 1: And it is Rikiga. He's just kind of looking around
24:37
Speaker 1: and he has his hands in his pockets. And Shion's like, Rikiga-san, um,
24:43
Speaker 1: you sound so happy to see him. Didn't you just
24:48
Speaker 1: try to kill him last time you guys met in
24:50
Speaker 1: the last episode, Shion? Anyway, Rikiga's like, huh? He looks
24:55
Speaker 1: up and starts to walk over. I guess he finally
24:58
Speaker 1: saw Shion and says, Shion, you've been working in a
25:00
Speaker 1: place like this? Inukashi looks fucking pissed now. Rikiga walks
25:05
Speaker 1: over and sits down on the edge of the fountain
25:08
Speaker 1: and he pulls a flask out of his jacket. Obviously,
25:11
Speaker 1: he is also not weirded out by the fact that
25:15
Speaker 1: Shion almost killed him a couple of days ago. What
25:17
Speaker 1: the fuck, guys? Anyway, Inukashi says, you're Rikiga, right? I
25:22
Speaker 1: heard you've been racking up a fortune making use of women. Hmm.
25:26
Speaker 1: Rikika's like, you're one to talk. I heard you're a smuggler.
25:29
Speaker 1: You steal scraps of food and clothing from the correctional
25:32
Speaker 1: facility and move them directly into West Block's black market.
25:36
Speaker 1: Using those dogs of yours, that is. Yeah, I'm totally
25:38
Speaker 1: okay with her doing that. That doesn't sound bad at all.
25:41
Speaker 1: He takes a swig of his alcohol from his flask.
25:44
Speaker 1: Shion looks surprised and turns to Inukashi and says, the
25:49
Speaker 1: correctional facility? Hmm. Rikiga says, seems like it's pretty profitable too.
25:55
Speaker 1: Inukashi still looks really pissed off. Rikiga continues, you're probably
25:59
Speaker 1: making about as much as a low-level janitor now, right?
26:03
Speaker 1: Fuck you, dude. Inukashi narrows her eyes, yeah, and all
26:07
Speaker 1: the dogs kind of like get up and start to growl.
26:10
Speaker 1: They kind of stare at each other for minutes, and
26:13
Speaker 1: then Inukashi kind of looks over-surprised, and Rikiga's like, hmm? Oh,
26:17
Speaker 1: it's that brown mouse. That totally has a name, but
26:20
Speaker 1: I forgot what it is. But it's gonna come up,
26:22
Speaker 1: so I'll just wait for that. It squeaks. He just
26:25
Speaker 1: screams and stands up, spilling his alcohol. And he, like,
26:29
Speaker 1: falls back on his ass and starts scooting backwards away
26:31
Speaker 1: from this mouse. He points and is like, a rat!
26:34
Speaker 1: A rat! Quick, someone chase it away! He's, like, screaming
26:38
Speaker 1: and shit. Inukashi doubles over with laughter. And she's, like,
26:41
Speaker 1: slapping her leg like that. And she says, weren't you
26:45
Speaker 1: a fan of Nezumi's? Rikiga throws his hat on the
26:49
Speaker 1: ground in disgust, I think, and says, shut up, I'm
26:52
Speaker 1: not anymore. At this point, the mouse runs over to
26:55
Speaker 1: him like on the fountain ledge and squeaks again. And
26:57
Speaker 1: Rikiga's like, huh? And he looks over and screams in
26:59
Speaker 1: horror because he didn't realize the mouse had moved and
27:01
Speaker 1: scoots back again. And he's like, that's enough already. Just
27:04
Speaker 1: do something about that thing. We hear Shion say, over here, Kravat.
27:09
Speaker 1: That's the mouse's name. Cravat runs over and Shion picks
27:12
Speaker 1: him up in his hand. And Rikiga is, like, starting
27:15
Speaker 1: to get himself together. And he, like, pantomimes, like, drinking
27:19
Speaker 1: from his flask. Like, he didn't even realize he wasn't
27:21
Speaker 1: holding it. And then, I guess, when he doesn't get
27:23
Speaker 1: any alcohol, he realizes that it's not in his hand anymore.
27:26
Speaker 1: And he starts looking around for it. He finally finds
27:29
Speaker 1: it behind him on the ground, completely spilled all over.
27:33
Speaker 1: He gasps. My booze. And slumps over. Inukashi says... what
27:38
Speaker 1: the hell did you come here for, old man? Rikiga
27:41
Speaker 1: makes kind of like a frustrated sound. It stands up,
27:43
Speaker 1: puts on his hat that he threw down in disgust
27:45
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago and says, for information. I want
27:49
Speaker 1: some information. We hear Inukashi say, what kind? Depending on
27:53
Speaker 1: what you ask, it'll cost you. Rikiga's like, we may
27:57
Speaker 1: as well barter with goods. To tell the truth, I've
28:00
Speaker 1: heard some strange news. Inukashi and Shion turn and look
28:04
Speaker 1: at each other. We cut to a reddish pink wallpapered
28:07
Speaker 1: room Specifically the room that Inukashi took Shion and Nezumi to,
28:12
Speaker 1: I think in like episode two or whatever. It's just
28:14
Speaker 1: kind of this once was very nice room that's, you know,
28:17
Speaker 1: kind of worn. And Inukashi says, an incident number six.
28:23
Speaker 1: She is on the couch and Shion and Rikiga are
28:25
Speaker 1: standing before her, basically. Rikiga says, yeah, more accurately, I
28:31
Speaker 1: suppose it's more like a strange disease. Healthy humans who
28:35
Speaker 1: age instantly and die within seconds. Oh, we know that one.
28:39
Speaker 1: Shion clenches his fist. Inukashi's like, What kind of story
28:43
Speaker 1: is that? Surely it's just a baseless rumor. Rikika says,
28:46
Speaker 1: One of my girls heard it from a regular at
28:48
Speaker 1: the sanitation bureau. You can at least be assured that
28:51
Speaker 1: it's not merely a rumor. He's quiet for a second. Well,
28:54
Speaker 1: have you come across anything like that? Inukashi crosses her
28:58
Speaker 1: arms and looks away. Then we hear Shion say, The
29:01
Speaker 1: parasitic wasps. They're both like, What? And they turn and
29:05
Speaker 1: look at Shion. Shion continues, The parasitic wasps are active. Yeah,
29:10
Speaker 1: about that. The camera starts to, like, shake around like
29:15
Speaker 1: the gimbal isn't working right. And Shion continues. But why?
29:19
Speaker 1: It's still winter. I can explain. And I will do
29:23
Speaker 1: so after this scene. So just hold that thought. Inukashi
29:27
Speaker 1: grabs Shion's shoulder and says, Shion. Now that you mention it,
29:31
Speaker 1: you were saying something about that when we first met, right?
29:33
Speaker 1: Tell me everything you know. Shion is sweating and looks
29:36
Speaker 1: really fucking freaked out and says, There are parasitic wasps
29:39
Speaker 1: that prey on people. I even knew two people who
29:42
Speaker 1: died from it. We get this kind of like weird
29:44
Speaker 1: shot from above and the room starts to spin slowly.
29:47
Speaker 1: Inukashi and Riki kind of gasp and Shion continues, Once infected,
29:53
Speaker 1: the host will age instantly and begin to die. He
29:56
Speaker 1: puts his hand on his neck. The wasp hatches from
29:59
Speaker 1: the base of your neck. Rikiga's like, there's no way.
30:03
Speaker 1: Shion continues. I was almost killed by one of them.
30:06
Speaker 1: Rikiga gasps. Shion puts his hand on his face. This hair,
30:11
Speaker 1: these eyes, this red pattern on my body are all
30:14
Speaker 1: indications of it. Nezumi saved me. If he hadn't been there,
30:18
Speaker 1: I'd be. He gasps. I have to tell him. And
30:23
Speaker 1: Yukashi's like, Nezumi? Isn't he after number six? If you
30:26
Speaker 1: tell him, he'll only be thrilled. That's exactly correct. Yeah.
30:31
Speaker 1: Shion says, I have to tell Nezumi. We go to black. Okay.
30:35
Speaker 1: Before we go any further, I can explain why they're
30:39
Speaker 1: still active in the winter, even though Shion and Nezumi
30:42
Speaker 1: thought that they wouldn't be. So people live in climate
30:46
Speaker 1: controlled environments. So the wasps aren't going to feel like
30:50
Speaker 1: they have to hibernate because it's winter because they're living
30:53
Speaker 1: in a person in a house. So yeah, that's, that's why.
30:58
Speaker 1: That's why they're not sticking to what you would think
31:00
Speaker 1: a normal life cycle is. Or they're like magic or something.
31:03
Speaker 1: I don't know. But that's my guess. Anyway, we fade
31:07
Speaker 1: into a large, maybe metal, weird building. It's like, you know,
31:11
Speaker 1: kind of futuristic with three buses parked out in front
31:14
Speaker 1: of it. We cut to Safu who's staring up at it,
31:16
Speaker 1: like pretty impressed. And Anne and Betty walk over and
31:20
Speaker 1: Anne says, are you that surprised to see a museum?
31:24
Speaker 1: I don't think there are museums in number six. Safu's like, geez.
31:28
Speaker 1: Anne chuckles. We hear a voice, who I believe is
31:30
Speaker 1: the teacher, say, Okay, everyone. Safu turns. We get an
31:34
Speaker 1: overhead shot of everybody and the teacher probably continues, Let's
31:39
Speaker 1: line up single file. Now we go to the kind
31:43
Speaker 1: of bigger city part of West Block, the bigger buildings,
31:46
Speaker 1: you know, lit up at night. We see a guy
31:49
Speaker 1: with like a mustache wearing a suit looking kind of stressed.
31:53
Speaker 1: And he's like, One at a time, everyone. There's a
31:57
Speaker 1: crowd kind of gathered around a building. And the guy says,
32:00
Speaker 1: please line up single file. Today is the final performance
32:03
Speaker 1: of Hamlet. Huh. Hamlet. Rikiga and Shion are standing in
32:08
Speaker 1: the back of the crowd. And the crowd, as far
32:10
Speaker 1: as I can tell from the little bit that we
32:13
Speaker 1: got of this, is just men. Yep. Maybe only men
32:17
Speaker 1: go to the theater. I don't know. Rikiga's like, how
32:21
Speaker 1: long are they going to make us wait? We hear
32:23
Speaker 1: that guy say, hurry up, hurry up. Rikiga looks over
32:26
Speaker 1: at Shion and notices that he is just kind of
32:28
Speaker 1: staring off and says, huh, what's wrong? Shion's like, I'm
32:33
Speaker 1: a little afraid. Rikiga says, afraid? Shion continues, of knowing
32:39
Speaker 1: more about Nezumi. When I told him I wanted to
32:42
Speaker 1: see him on stage, he got really angry. I wonder
32:45
Speaker 1: if it means I'll be seeing something I shouldn't. Um, yeah,
32:50
Speaker 1: he explicitly told you not to go. So the answer
32:54
Speaker 1: to that question is, Yes. Rikiya just kind of slaps
32:58
Speaker 1: him on the back, but like hard enough to make
32:59
Speaker 1: him stumble forward and says, get it together. It was
33:02
Speaker 1: you who said you wanted to tell them about the
33:03
Speaker 1: wasps as soon as possible. Man, you're actually the exact
33:07
Speaker 1: opposite of Karin, aren't you? Shion looks away. We cut
33:11
Speaker 1: to a crest with like a unicorn and a lion
33:14
Speaker 1: on either side of it. And we hear a voice
33:17
Speaker 1: that might be a teacher or a tour guide, I
33:19
Speaker 1: don't know, say, long ago, there was a country called England.
33:24
Speaker 1: Further proof that this is set in our world. This
33:26
Speaker 1: is its national emblem. Students are, like, standing around a
33:29
Speaker 1: painting in this museum. And the person continues, Or rather,
33:34
Speaker 1: it's the king's coat of arms. I drew a bunch
33:37
Speaker 1: of arms here. That is weird, Michelle. On each side
33:42
Speaker 1: of the shield, a lion and unicorn can be seen
33:45
Speaker 1: supporting it. Saffu is staring up at it, super excited.
33:50
Speaker 1: The person continues, If you look closely... You'll notice that
33:53
Speaker 1: the unicorn is bound by a chain. This is because
33:56
Speaker 1: unicorns were known to be dangerous animals and... What? Okay.
34:02
Speaker 1: We cut to feet walking up like rotten creaking stairs.
34:05
Speaker 1: It's freaky guh. And then he's walking quickly through, I
34:09
Speaker 1: wasn't sure what this was, but it is like a
34:11
Speaker 1: hallway somewhere. And he's like, shit, it's already started. He
34:16
Speaker 1: pushes open these like red double doors and Shion like
34:20
Speaker 1: runs up behind him. And the doors open onto a
34:23
Speaker 1: balcony of a theater. And they start to walk in.
34:27
Speaker 1: We hear a voice say, To be or not to be?
34:30
Speaker 1: That is the question. Shion stares down at the stage
34:34
Speaker 1: in awe, I guess, as the doors shut behind him.
34:37
Speaker 1: And then he slowly starts to walk over to where
34:39
Speaker 1: Rikiga is already seated. The voice continues, The fair Ophelia.
34:44
Speaker 1: Shion is just kind of blindly walking now, and he
34:47
Speaker 1: starts to walk past Rikiga, and Rikiga, like, grabs him
34:50
Speaker 1: by his coat and, like, pulls him down into the
34:52
Speaker 1: seat next to him. The voice continues. Are you honest?
34:55
Speaker 1: Are you fair? I am not good at Shakespeare, guys,
34:59
Speaker 1: so if I'm not doing this justice, I am very sorry.
35:01
Speaker 1: I just don't get Shakespeare, and I'm, you know, not
35:07
Speaker 1: a great person because of it. Shion, I guess, confused
35:10
Speaker 1: about being pulled down, looks over at Rikiga and Rikiga
35:13
Speaker 1: motions with his head to the stage. Shion turns again
35:17
Speaker 1: to watch. We hear someone else say, what means your lordship?
35:21
Speaker 1: Shion gasps in wonder because he's never seen any sort
35:25
Speaker 1: of art at all, I think. And actually, this is
35:28
Speaker 1: a nice parallel between him seeing performance art and Saffu
35:32
Speaker 1: seeing visual art at the same time. Anyway. There are
35:35
Speaker 1: two people on the stage. It's like a very sparse stage.
35:38
Speaker 1: There's like one like pedestal kind of sitting in the
35:41
Speaker 1: middle of it. But otherwise, there's no other decorations. The
35:44
Speaker 1: back wall of the, you know, the stage area is
35:48
Speaker 1: like fucked up, like it's missing plaster and shit. And
35:51
Speaker 1: there's curtains, but really nothing else except for these two people.
35:54
Speaker 1: One of them has their back to the audience, clearly
35:56
Speaker 1: a guy. And the other one is like on the floor,
36:00
Speaker 1: like all the way on the floor, like down kneeling
36:03
Speaker 1: sort of. And that looks like a woman. Also, we're
36:06
Speaker 1: seeing this all from the balcony where Shion is. So
36:08
Speaker 1: we can't really see their faces. They're tiny. Anyway, the
36:12
Speaker 1: guy says, I did love thee once. The other person,
36:16
Speaker 1: the woman, I guess, lifts their head and says, Indeed,
36:20
Speaker 1: my lord, you made me believe so. The man turns.
36:23
Speaker 1: You should have not believed me. I loved you not.
36:27
Speaker 1: Rikika quietly is like, that's Eve. The guy says, get
36:31
Speaker 1: thee to a nunnery and walks off stage. Shion's like, huh?
36:36
Speaker 1: Rikiya says, look, Eve's right there. Shion gasps. Whoa, that
36:42
Speaker 1: lady is Nezumi. Nezumi stands and we're like seeing him
36:47
Speaker 1: from behind on the stage now. His hair is like
36:50
Speaker 1: super long, so maybe he has extensions in or something.
36:52
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. And he says, oh, help him, you
36:57
Speaker 1: sweet heavens. He is wearing a dress, by the way,
37:00
Speaker 1: and I think he has lipstick on. And he's got
37:02
Speaker 1: like a white flower in his hair. He looks very pretty.
37:06
Speaker 1: He continues. Oh, heavenly powers restore him. He's like tears
37:10
Speaker 1: in his eyes. Shion is fucking entranced by this. And
37:15
Speaker 1: he says, Nezumi? Nezumi continues. And I, Ophelia? And he
37:20
Speaker 1: looks up and notices Shion. He drops his head, kind
37:24
Speaker 1: of panicking slightly, but then exhales. We cut to feet
37:28
Speaker 1: as they step forward in blue light. It's Safu. She's
37:31
Speaker 1: looking at stained glass on the wall in front of
37:34
Speaker 1: her with bees. It's like stained glass of bees, which
37:38
Speaker 1: is cool. Like, it's really cool. It's blue with bees.
37:40
Speaker 1: Like I just said, there's three bees, you know, like
37:43
Speaker 1: the insect, not like a bee, like the letter. So
37:46
Speaker 1: it fits with the show, but also like, I don't
37:49
Speaker 1: know what this is. Anyway, it's really pretty though. And
37:52
Speaker 1: she's like in the light. The blue light is streaming
37:55
Speaker 1: in on her and she smiles like super brightly. We
37:59
Speaker 1: cut back to Nezumi as he stands up And I,
38:02
Speaker 1: of ladies most dejected and wretched, cut to green hills,
38:07
Speaker 1: breeze blowing through the grass. And as it does, back
38:11
Speaker 1: to Nezumi as his hair blows back. To Safu now,
38:16
Speaker 1: as her hair blows towards her. We see that she's
38:18
Speaker 1: holding a book called The Art of Something. I can't
38:21
Speaker 1: see the rest of it to her chest. Now back
38:24
Speaker 1: to Nezumi. The audience looks amazed at his performance. His
38:27
Speaker 1: hand drops to his side, kind of limp. And like
38:31
Speaker 1: a song starts up in the background. It has lyrics.
38:34
Speaker 1: I'm just going to read the lyrics really quick before
38:37
Speaker 1: we continue. It's kind of like this choral. It sounds
38:39
Speaker 1: very church-like song. I actually really like this here. It
38:45
Speaker 1: worked perfectly, in my opinion. Anyway, the lyrics are, Humans
38:49
Speaker 1: steal our hearts. Oh, earth. Oh, wind and rain. Oh, heaven. Oh, light.
38:54
Speaker 1: Hold everything within your embrace and begin your life here. Anyway,
38:58
Speaker 1: that is... in the background very slowly, obviously. And Nezumi
39:04
Speaker 1: at this point stumbles on the stage, catching himself on
39:07
Speaker 1: that like pedestal thing that's in the middle. And Shion
39:10
Speaker 1: gasps and stands up. Nezumi looks pretty fucking stressed and
39:14
Speaker 1: he's breathing really hard. We cut to Safu, her eyes widen.
39:19
Speaker 1: And then back to Nezumi, his hand on his head
39:22
Speaker 1: as it shakes. He's clearly in pain. He reaches out
39:26
Speaker 1: and he seems to be trying to say something. We
39:29
Speaker 1: get a close-up. shot of his eye as white flower petals,
39:33
Speaker 1: I think from the flower in his hair, like drift
39:36
Speaker 1: in front of them. Then he collapses. We cut to
39:40
Speaker 1: Safu on the ground in the blue light from the
39:43
Speaker 1: stained glass, paper scattered all around her. We hear a
39:46
Speaker 1: voice say, Safu? And then someone else, Safu? We go
39:50
Speaker 1: to Black. I actually really liked this scene. This might
39:55
Speaker 1: be my favorite scene in the show so far. I
39:59
Speaker 1: loved the juxtaposition, the kind of back and forth, the
40:02
Speaker 1: parallels between what's happening with these two characters. It's weird
40:06
Speaker 1: that it's happening at the same time. Why is it
40:08
Speaker 1: happening at the same time? What does this mean? But,
40:12
Speaker 1: you know, everything from first paralleling Safu and Shion about
40:17
Speaker 1: discovering basically art and how amazing it is which was
40:21
Speaker 1: pretty cool to Safu and Nezumi as they both collapse
40:28
Speaker 1: so I really like this is what I'm trying to
40:30
Speaker 1: say we're now looking up through like tall green grass
40:35
Speaker 1: like we're like in the grass and the sky is
40:39
Speaker 1: blue with some clouds above us they move quickly overhead
40:43
Speaker 1: as the grass blows And now we see Nezumi laying
40:47
Speaker 1: down in this grass. It's like a pocket. It's so tall.
40:50
Speaker 1: It's like enveloping him. And we hear a voice say, come.
40:55
Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, who's there? A bee flies through the sky. What?
41:00
Speaker 1: And the voice says, look this way. I'll teach you
41:04
Speaker 1: a song. Nezumi, who isn't moving at all, just laying there, says,
41:09
Speaker 1: stop it. The bee in the sky is joined by
41:11
Speaker 1: like a whole swarm of them now and When we
41:14
Speaker 1: cut back to Nezumi, he's a child. And the voice says,
41:18
Speaker 1: I'll teach you a song to go on living. A
41:20
Speaker 1: song of devotion, of coming praise. Nezumi's eyes widen and
41:25
Speaker 1: he says, stop! The sky is now red and the
41:28
Speaker 1: bees are moving closer. And we cut to hands sinking
41:31
Speaker 1: into like black something that looks like maybe it's supposed
41:34
Speaker 1: to be mud. I don't know. And... Nezumi is maybe
41:39
Speaker 1: a different age now. He's definitely not as old as
41:42
Speaker 1: he is, but he's got like longer hair than the
41:44
Speaker 1: kid that we knew him as and different clothes. And
41:47
Speaker 1: he is trying to pull his arms out of this
41:49
Speaker 1: like thick muck. And he says, help. He raises his
41:53
Speaker 1: arm and some of the mud flies off. Someone please
41:56
Speaker 1: save me. We're basically focusing on his arm reaching out
42:00
Speaker 1: and he's just like totally panicking. And my screen froze
42:03
Speaker 1: over here and I couldn't fix it. So I might've
42:04
Speaker 1: missed something. And then he says, Shion. Aw! Shion's arm
42:10
Speaker 1: reaches down and grabs his wrist. What? Cool! Nezumi gasps.
42:15
Speaker 1: Shion is standing over him. Nezumi! We see that Nezumi
42:19
Speaker 1: is on a bed and Shion is leaning down over him.
42:23
Speaker 1: He's still wearing a dress, by the way. He opens
42:25
Speaker 1: his eyes slowly. We see that Shion is holding his hand.
42:29
Speaker 1: When Nezumi realizes this is happening, his hand kind of
42:32
Speaker 1: twitches and he says, Shion... Shion is, like, right in
42:36
Speaker 1: his face, leaning over him. And he says, Are you okay?
42:41
Speaker 1: You recognize me, right? Nezumi's expression changes, but I don't
42:44
Speaker 1: know what to. I was confused. He sits up, and Shion, like,
42:49
Speaker 1: backs off a bit. And we see that they are
42:51
Speaker 1: in his room, which, wow, I guess somebody carried him back.
42:56
Speaker 1: Probably Rihiga? Anyway, Nezumi says, Somewhat. He puts his hand
43:00
Speaker 1: on his head. He is sitting up now. And Shion says,
43:04
Speaker 1: Is it okay for you to get up? Nezumi's like,
43:07
Speaker 1: was it you who carried me here? Shion says, what's
43:10
Speaker 1: three plus seven? Nezumi's like, huh? Shion says, answer me.
43:15
Speaker 1: Three plus seven equals? Nezumi's expression falls slightly. Ten. Shion says, okay,
43:22
Speaker 1: what's three times seven? We don't even know if Nezumi
43:25
Speaker 1: can do math, but whatever. Nezumi sighs. Shion, come on.
43:30
Speaker 1: Shion's like, answer me already. Jeez, dude. Nezumi says, 21.
43:36
Speaker 1: Shion's like, okay, what? Nezumi cuts him off. That's enough.
43:40
Speaker 1: Shion gasps. Nezumi's like, why'd you come to the theater?
43:44
Speaker 1: That place is filled with savages. Uh, really? He stands.
43:48
Speaker 1: People like that would eat you alive in one, and
43:50
Speaker 1: then he just collapses. Shion catches him. You should stay still.
43:55
Speaker 1: If you make sudden movements- Nezumi cuts him off. Shut up!
43:58
Speaker 1: And pushes Shion off of him. He- obviously didn't mean
44:02
Speaker 1: to do that because he gasps and shion gasps nezumi
44:07
Speaker 1: looks a little embarrassed and he kind of shifts his
44:09
Speaker 1: eyes away what the fuck is happening i'll talk about
44:14
Speaker 1: this at the end shion's like nezumi what happened to
44:18
Speaker 1: you back there nezumi's like the wind blew shion says
44:23
Speaker 1: the wind nezumi's like yeah the wind and then we
44:28
Speaker 1: cut to safu i heard a song Oh, fuck, the
44:31
Speaker 1: song is integrated. Safu is sitting in a hospital bed,
44:35
Speaker 1: and Anne is standing at her bedside, and she says,
44:38
Speaker 1: A song? Safu says, Yeah, and then, Nezumi. She looks
44:44
Speaker 1: worried and thinks, Who's Nezumi she on? Fuck. How are
44:49
Speaker 1: they connected? We hear the door open, and a voice says, Safu-san!
44:54
Speaker 1: Safu looks up and kind of gasps. It's what I
44:57
Speaker 1: believe to be the teacher. She comes in, and Safu's like, Sensei,
45:01
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to have worried you. I'm fine now. The
45:05
Speaker 1: teacher is like, I'm so glad. You'll be returning home immediately.
45:09
Speaker 1: To number six. What? Sappo and Anne are both like, huh?
45:14
Speaker 1: The teacher continues, stay strong now. Fuck! She's silent for
45:18
Speaker 1: a second. Your grandmother? Damn it! And we cut to
45:21
Speaker 1: an overhead shot of the stairs to, like, Nezumi's hallway
45:25
Speaker 1: to his room. And Nezumi says, are you sure? He
45:29
Speaker 1: and Shion are sitting on the couch. Shion's like, we
45:32
Speaker 1: heard it straight from Riki-kasan. He described people who suddenly
45:35
Speaker 1: age and die without a moment's notice. We can't risk
45:38
Speaker 1: doubting him. Nezumi leans back and kind of looks up
45:41
Speaker 1: at the ceiling, dazed a bit. He did just, you know,
45:44
Speaker 1: pass out and shit for a while. So, yeah. Shion says, Nezumi,
45:50
Speaker 1: I was... At that time, I was... Nezumi, still staring
45:56
Speaker 1: at the ceiling, says, it wasn't a wasp. Shion gasps.
46:00
Speaker 1: Nezumi continues, I didn't pass out because of a wasp.
46:04
Speaker 1: He smiles and sits up straight again. Guess I wouldn't
46:06
Speaker 1: mind having the same makeover as you, though. Shion's like, Nezumi!
46:11
Speaker 1: Nezumi chuckles and he sets the mug that he was
46:14
Speaker 1: drinking out of down on the table and says, Nevertheless,
46:17
Speaker 1: those wasps can be active in the winter, huh? We
46:20
Speaker 1: may even be able to observe number six being eaten
46:23
Speaker 1: alive before the advent of the holy day. He looks
46:26
Speaker 1: over at Shion and chuckles. Let's have an early celebration.
46:30
Speaker 1: He grabs Shion by the wrist and pulls him off
46:33
Speaker 1: the couch. We cut to the sheet music on the
46:35
Speaker 1: wall and we hear Shion say, you should be resting.
46:39
Speaker 1: Nezumi says, I'll teach you to dance. Oh, he continues.
46:44
Speaker 1: Do you have any experience? His hand is around Shion's
46:48
Speaker 1: waist now and he pulls him closer. Shion's like, of
46:51
Speaker 1: course not. Nezumi takes Shion's hand and lifts up his arm.
46:55
Speaker 1: And then he puts his other arm under Shion's arm.
46:58
Speaker 1: And it's real awkward looking because Shion is like, doesn't
47:01
Speaker 1: know what to do. And Nezumi says, thought so. Here,
47:05
Speaker 1: straighten your spine. He's like trying to get him into position.
47:08
Speaker 1: Raise your chin. Don't look at the floor. One, two, three. One, two, three.
47:13
Speaker 1: A waltz kind of starts up in the background. And
47:16
Speaker 1: Nezumi starts to pull him around. Shion is just kind
47:20
Speaker 1: of struggling and is like, Nezumi, wait a sec. But
47:23
Speaker 1: Nezumi is just kind of dancing him around the room now.
47:27
Speaker 1: Shion continues, there's no way I can learn to dance.
47:30
Speaker 1: We're going to damage the books. Nezumi is like, don't
47:33
Speaker 1: move so clumsily. We see that brown dog and it's
47:35
Speaker 1: like just sitting out in the hall. And we hear
47:38
Speaker 1: Nezumi's one, two, three through the door because he's just
47:40
Speaker 1: continuing to do that, you know, so he stays in rhythm.
47:43
Speaker 1: The dog yawns and we cut back to them dancing.
47:47
Speaker 1: Shion looking really stressed out and Nezumi is like, hey,
47:50
Speaker 1: you're doing just fine. Shion is doing a little better,
47:53
Speaker 1: but he looks sick. He says, I'm just being pulled
47:56
Speaker 1: around by your lead. I mean, that's kind of what
47:58
Speaker 1: the lead person does. So good job. Nezumi says, even so,
48:03
Speaker 1: you're pretty impressive. Aw, he's complimenting him. The lighting changes
48:08
Speaker 1: and things get like really orange and Shion looks pretty astonished,
48:12
Speaker 1: I guess, by Nezumi saying nice things to him. I'm
48:15
Speaker 1: not sure. And Nezumi continues, your movements are light. Everything
48:19
Speaker 1: fades into a burst of yellow lights. And then we
48:22
Speaker 1: see train tracks running through the wasteland at sunset, very
48:25
Speaker 1: much like 86. And the music is really picking up now.
48:30
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we've got more instruments and shit.
48:33
Speaker 1: And they are now outside dancing through a decrepit playground
48:38
Speaker 1: for like a slide and jungle gym and like a
48:40
Speaker 1: chain link fence around it. And we cut to a
48:43
Speaker 1: broken analog clock on the ground and stairs going up
48:46
Speaker 1: to either nowhere or they're for the slide. I wasn't sure.
48:50
Speaker 1: They're just dancing, you know, waltzing, I guess, as the
48:54
Speaker 1: camera spins around them. And we get this really weird
48:57
Speaker 1: perspective of them in the rubble with the West Block
49:00
Speaker 1: city area and the wall behind it that made them
49:02
Speaker 1: look like really, really big people. It was like a
49:05
Speaker 1: really weird forced perspective. And I don't think they're supposed
49:07
Speaker 1: to look like giants, but they did to me for
49:10
Speaker 1: a second. And I had to like stop it and
49:11
Speaker 1: go like, is this on purpose? And I don't think
49:13
Speaker 1: it was. Anyway, they're dancing around. We see their shadows
49:17
Speaker 1: on the rubble as they dance. And Nezumi kind of
49:19
Speaker 1: looks like a giant. down at Shion like kindly like
49:23
Speaker 1: in a way I don't know if I've seen him
49:24
Speaker 1: look at Shion and Shion is just kind of staring
49:27
Speaker 1: at him in astonishment at the dancing I guess We
49:31
Speaker 1: see now a messed up baby doll lying at the
49:34
Speaker 1: bottom of, I thought maybe it was a stream, but
49:37
Speaker 1: I think it's a puddle or something. And the water
49:39
Speaker 1: ripples as they dance around it. We see their shadows
49:43
Speaker 1: in it for a second. And the wind starts to
49:45
Speaker 1: pick up, blowing leaves off this tree that's nearby. And
49:49
Speaker 1: some sun rays poke through the clouds. And we fade out. Yay.
49:55
Speaker 1: We cut to Shion's crotch as he sits down on
49:58
Speaker 1: the couch. Weird. Weird. He sighs and he kind of
50:00
Speaker 1: like puts his head back and he's covered in sweat.
50:03
Speaker 1: And he says, I can hardly breathe. Dancing really works
50:07
Speaker 1: out the whole body, huh? Nezumi is standing, holding that mug,
50:12
Speaker 1: looking totally composed. You didn't know? Shion exhales. Nezumi drinks
50:17
Speaker 1: a little bit. We hear Shion say, well, your strength
50:21
Speaker 1: and ability are far above mine. Are you trying to
50:24
Speaker 1: show me that I shouldn't worry about you? Nezumi's like,
50:28
Speaker 1: More or less. He kind of closes his eyes contently.
50:32
Speaker 1: We cut to a close-up of his eyes as they
50:34
Speaker 1: pop open wide. We're now seeing just their lower bodies,
50:37
Speaker 1: like part of their legs and torsos. We're panning up
50:41
Speaker 1: on them very slowly. Nezumi's left arm twitches. We hear
50:45
Speaker 1: Shion say, I kept thinking that one of those might
50:48
Speaker 1: pop out right from here. We are now far enough
50:52
Speaker 1: up that we can see that Shion has his hand
50:54
Speaker 1: on Nezumi's neck. Nezumi has his back to us so
50:57
Speaker 1: we can't see his expression, but I'm getting the idea
51:00
Speaker 1: that he's not okay. Shion continues. When I saw you collapse, I...
51:05
Speaker 1: I thought you might die. We cut to Nezumi's throat
51:09
Speaker 1: as he gulps, sweat beating on his face. Shion continues.
51:14
Speaker 1: You might not understand it, but I was absolutely terrified.
51:18
Speaker 1: He puts his hand down. Nezumi. We see Nezumi's hand twitch.
51:24
Speaker 1: As Shion says his name, the water in the mug
51:27
Speaker 1: shakes slightly. Fucking love this. And Shion continues, There are
51:32
Speaker 1: too many things I don't understand. But one thing I
51:35
Speaker 1: do understand is just how afraid I am of losing you.
51:38
Speaker 1: More than anyone, I'm afraid of losing you. Nezumi has
51:42
Speaker 1: just been standing there frozen this whole time, in shock.
51:46
Speaker 1: His mouth is open, his eyes are still wide, and
51:49
Speaker 1: he's just covered in sweat. He starts to get lit
51:52
Speaker 1: from below, like, I don't know why. And Shion continues,
51:57
Speaker 1: no matter how much you laugh or belittle me, that's
52:00
Speaker 1: how I truly feel. Nezumi's eyes finally narrow slightly. And
52:04
Speaker 1: we cut to, I guess, his perspective of Shion standing
52:08
Speaker 1: in front of him. And Shion is like starkly lit
52:11
Speaker 1: on a black background, kind of foreboding. And he thinks,
52:14
Speaker 1: who the hell is this guy? We cut to the
52:18
Speaker 1: wasteland at night. And then to Shion laying on the couch,
52:21
Speaker 1: sleeping peacefully. The camera pans over. to where Nezumi is
52:25
Speaker 1: sitting on his bed with his blanket over him, just
52:29
Speaker 1: staring at Shion. We see that the mice are curled
52:32
Speaker 1: up on Shion, by the way, which is really cute.
52:33
Speaker 1: And Nezumi thinks, I couldn't avoid his attack. He puts
52:38
Speaker 1: his hand on his neck. I left one of my
52:40
Speaker 1: vital points open. He caught me so easily. His eyes
52:45
Speaker 1: narrow slightly. Was I the one who didn't understand anything?
52:49
Speaker 1: We cut to a shot of Shion sleeping peacefully again.
52:52
Speaker 1: Nezumi thinks. Shion. Just who are you? We fade out.
52:58
Speaker 1: And then we go the ending theme and that's it. Hooray. Fuck. Anyway,
53:03
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. Okay, so there was some real good shit
53:07
Speaker 1: in this episode. Like I said earlier, I loved the
53:10
Speaker 1: juxtaposition between what was going on with Safu and what
53:13
Speaker 1: was going on with Nezumi and Shion. And we're gonna
53:15
Speaker 1: have to figure out like what the fuck is with
53:17
Speaker 1: this song and why did they both hear it and
53:19
Speaker 1: then collapse? That's a little weird. I don't have as
53:22
Speaker 1: much to say about this as I've had in other episodes, which,
53:25
Speaker 1: you know, was good for you, I'm sure. I think
53:26
Speaker 1: I have like two things. One, we've gotten so far
53:30
Speaker 1: away from the content of the light novel and manga
53:33
Speaker 1: now that like I don't even know how to compare them.
53:36
Speaker 1: And I'm also just not sure because I haven't read
53:38
Speaker 1: far enough in the light novel to know how the
53:41
Speaker 1: whole thing goes with Shion seeing Nezumi's performance. But I
53:45
Speaker 1: want to do that before I record another episode and
53:48
Speaker 1: I'll let you know what it's like because I'm just
53:50
Speaker 1: really confused. about what's happening here. I mean, yeah, Nezumi
53:55
Speaker 1: is wearing a dress and Eve is obviously like this female,
53:59
Speaker 1: you know, persona that he has. But I didn't see
54:04
Speaker 1: anything that made me think that this is a seedy environment.
54:06
Speaker 1: I really didn't. It's just a theater. And as you
54:09
Speaker 1: probably know, there was a time where, I guess, I
54:13
Speaker 1: assume all over, but at least in the West, when
54:15
Speaker 1: women just didn't act in plays so every role was
54:20
Speaker 1: played by a guy so this isn't actually that weird
54:23
Speaker 1: maybe it's weird that every role he plays is probably
54:26
Speaker 1: a woman because it sounds like that's what we're getting
54:28
Speaker 1: at but I don't know it just didn't come off
54:30
Speaker 1: like the way he was portraying it would be especially
54:34
Speaker 1: in the light novel and manga so I want to
54:37
Speaker 1: check on that and I'll let you know next time
54:39
Speaker 1: hopefully what I find out so we got that um
54:44
Speaker 1: I am pissed off that Shion betrayed his trust If you're,
54:48
Speaker 1: I don't know what they are to each other, but
54:50
Speaker 1: he asked him specifically not to go when he went.
54:53
Speaker 1: And that sucks. It really does. Besides that, the big
54:56
Speaker 1: thing is Nezumi's reactions to Shion in this episode, specifically
55:01
Speaker 1: to Shion touching him. And now I'm like, has Shion
55:05
Speaker 1: not just reached out and touched him before? Has it
55:08
Speaker 1: always been Nezumi doing the reaching out and touching? Because
55:12
Speaker 1: he was not comfortable with, When Shion caught him after he,
55:17
Speaker 1: you know, kind of collapsed, he was freaked out. I mean,
55:20
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if he was like freaked out from
55:22
Speaker 1: being touched by Shion or if he was just like,
55:24
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to help me. But his reaction
55:27
Speaker 1: freaked him out too, which made me think of banana fish.
55:32
Speaker 1: And yeah. And then we have what just happened here where,
55:39
Speaker 1: you know, Shion touching his neck just like freaked him
55:43
Speaker 1: the fuck out. And I guess by his explanation, it's
55:46
Speaker 1: because he let his guard down so much and he
55:49
Speaker 1: didn't even realize Shion was going to touch him. And
55:52
Speaker 1: Shion could have fucking killed him. Not that it seems
55:54
Speaker 1: like Shion would, but I get it. You never really know,
55:58
Speaker 1: especially because I'm thinking that, you know, he's probably had
56:01
Speaker 1: a rough past, a really rough past where he doesn't
56:04
Speaker 1: trust anyone and he doesn't want to open himself up.
56:07
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering, you know, how much of this is
56:10
Speaker 1: he let his guard down and how much of this
56:12
Speaker 1: is he doesn't want to be touched? Either way, he's
56:16
Speaker 1: freaking the fuck out. And it's interesting to see from
56:19
Speaker 1: him because we haven't before seen him kind of off
56:22
Speaker 1: his game and off his guard. So I'm wondering how
56:25
Speaker 1: this is going to go from here. Yeah. So those
56:28
Speaker 1: are the things I liked. I will say, though, that
56:30
Speaker 1: I do not like dancing in my anime or any
56:34
Speaker 1: sort of thing. I don't know why, guys. Like I
56:37
Speaker 1: like dancing. I like non-partner dancing. Like I like modern
56:41
Speaker 1: dance and jazz and that kind of stuff. I don't know.
56:44
Speaker 1: But I don't really like watching it in like a
56:48
Speaker 1: story arc of something. I don't know why that is.
56:51
Speaker 1: But I feel like this dancing was supposed to like
56:54
Speaker 1: feel like we were solidifying something between them and maybe
56:57
Speaker 1: feel romantic. Or I don't really know what dancing is
57:00
Speaker 1: supposed to be like, guys. I'm not into partner dancing.
57:02
Speaker 1: It's weird. I mean, me in particular. But like, I
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Speaker 1: just didn't feel that. I just felt like, oh, they're dancing. Yay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's nice, but this is just
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Speaker 1: a me hang up thing. It wasn't a terrible scene
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Speaker 1: by any stretch. I was just like, eh, I could
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Speaker 1: have done without them dancing. So that's really all I have.
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Speaker 1: I think, thank God, because I'm sure you want to
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Speaker 1: go live the rest of your life or at least
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Speaker 1: some of it and, you know, that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I am going to get going so I
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Speaker 1: can get something to eat because I'm really hungry again.
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Speaker 1: And I hope you have, like, a really good whatever. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and I almost forgot. Happy Halloween! It's in, like, a
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Speaker 1: couple of days. I hope you have a really good Halloween.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry that this was not a Halloween-y episode,
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Speaker 1: but not much I could do about it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: somebody did die in this episode and have all their
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Speaker 1: hair fall out, and that's bad. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: It's Halloween-adjacent enough. Anyway, yes. Have a good Halloween. And...
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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time unless, you know, we all die. Later, weebs.