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Banana Fish Ep. 9- Save Me The Waltz · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Probably back again. I really
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Speaker 1: don't know why or how, but I am back, still
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Speaker 1: doing this. So I don't really have anything non beneficial
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about today, thank god, right, But
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Speaker 1: I do want to start by saying, Yeah, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about episode nine, and it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: and I expect this episode to run fairly long, and
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Speaker 1: I've been trying to think of, like how I'm going
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Speaker 1: to structure this because there's a lot that needs to
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Speaker 1: be discussed, so I may stop multiple times, you know,
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Speaker 1: and discuss thing instead of doing it at the end,
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Speaker 1: which I already you know, do, But I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to put that out there. I'll do what I can
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Speaker 1: to make this make sense and not be a horrible
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Speaker 1: experience for you. But let's face it, it might be.
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Speaker 1: You know, this show might be a horrible experience for you.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised, especially episode nine. So let's just
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Speaker 1: get into the horrible experience. Maybe, But first, remember last
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Speaker 1: season when we did Windbreaker. I mean, it's only been
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Speaker 1: nine episodes into Banana Fish since then, but maybe this
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Speaker 1: has traumatized you so much that you don't even remember
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Speaker 1: it anymore. But you remember when Swoe was fighting one
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Speaker 1: of the dudes from Sishtorin and he was like really
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Speaker 1: pissed off, and he was telling him about how you
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Speaker 1: become an adult, and he said that in order to
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Speaker 1: be an adult, you had to be able to empathize
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Speaker 1: with people, right, And you remember what he said, you
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Speaker 1: needed to have empathy. It's okay, take your time, that's right.
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Speaker 1: To have empathy, you need to have imagination and experience.
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Speaker 1: I've been waiting to do this for nine weeks. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: maybe this is the experience part of Banana Fish for
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Speaker 1: some of these characters. Hopefully that scared the shit out
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Speaker 1: of you. Let's do it. So. Episode nine is called
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Speaker 1: Save Me the Woltz, which is also the title of
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Speaker 1: a semi autobiographical novel by Zelda FitzGeralds, which I guess
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Speaker 1: is the wife of f Scott Fitzgerald or whatever. It
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Speaker 1: was a novel that she wrote that sounds fine from
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Speaker 1: the Wikipedia description, but I wanted to just tell you
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Speaker 1: only sold approximately thirteen hundred copies and netted her about
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty dollars, so it was not successful.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, obviously this was written in the nineteen thirty,
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Speaker 1: so one hundred and twenty dollars was a lot more
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Speaker 1: than it is today. But it's not like a million
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Speaker 1: dollars or anything, and thirteen hundred copies is nothing. So
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Speaker 1: people didn't really like it. I don't think the critics
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Speaker 1: liked it, yay, But I love this episode. So from
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Speaker 1: one thing that wasn't really well regarded to another thing
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Speaker 1: that might also not be well regarded. But I don't
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Speaker 1: really know, but I like, so let's let's do it.
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Speaker 1: I guess I really hope I can do a good job,
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Speaker 1: but I'm sorry in advance if I do not. So
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Speaker 1: you remember where we ended the last episode, the Gang
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Speaker 1: ash Max and Shunichi, and I guess also Alexis. We're
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Speaker 1: all being taken away as Alexis's home like just burned
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Speaker 1: to the ground. So yeah, so that's where we are.
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Speaker 1: So the episode starts with an outside shot of Dino's
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Speaker 1: mansion and we hear Dino say it's an honor to
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Speaker 1: meet you, and then we cut to inside where Dino
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Speaker 1: and Hua Lung are shaking hands and Huaalung says, the
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Speaker 1: howner's all mine. I simply lent my brother a hand.
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Speaker 1: Dino thinks to himself, what an ambitious young man, and
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Speaker 1: Huaalung thinks there's no messing around with him. Huh. Now
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Speaker 1: we cut to a room where Yue Lung is sitting
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Speaker 1: in a chair and Shorter is, I guess, sitting on
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Speaker 1: like a small couch like a love seat with ag
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Speaker 1: resting on him, and there are dudes from the Corsican
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Speaker 1: and Chinese mafias like kind of standing around them. Shorter
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Speaker 1: to Yue Lung says, why are you here, and Yue
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Speaker 1: Lung responds for the exact same reason as you two.
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Speaker 1: My big brother sent me as a token of friend
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Speaker 1: from Chinatown. Shorter kind of pauses to take this in
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Speaker 1: and then says, you poor guy being used like that,
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Speaker 1: And one of the Chinese mafia dudes is like, asshole,
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Speaker 1: and Yuilan is like, it's fine, it's the truth. At
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Speaker 1: this point, the door opens and we see Dino Arthur
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Speaker 1: and two other guys they like walk in and Dino
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Speaker 1: looks over at Shorter and Shorter gulps because I would
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Speaker 1: be afraid of him too, and Dino's like, so we
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Speaker 1: finally meet Shorter Wong. Some of the Corsican mafia guys
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Speaker 1: start to close it on shorter, and he takes out
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Speaker 1: his knife and he's like trying to keep them away,
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Speaker 1: but they grab him. They put their arms like around
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Speaker 1: his neck and they pull Ag away from him, and
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Speaker 1: then they like maybe knock him out, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: really sure, but we don't knock people out because traumatic
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Speaker 1: brain injuries. Guys, please don't do that. Dino sits down
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Speaker 1: and Juile Loung says, this is our youngest brother, Yueilon,
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Speaker 1: and Dino's like, oh my, he's so beautiful. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was a woman. Qui Loung says, if he pleases you,
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Speaker 1: our brother says you're welcome to keep him. Really, guys,
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Speaker 1: Dino's like, oh that's wonderful. I'll take care of him
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Speaker 1: as a dear guest. Wa Loong to you along says,
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Speaker 1: wake him up. Uelong pokes AG's neck with like a needle,
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Speaker 1: and Wua Loong says it's acupuncture anesthesia, which isn't a
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Speaker 1: real thing. Ag then opens his eyes slowly and he's
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Speaker 1: like trying to figure out where he is, and Arthur
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Speaker 1: like leans in over the couch like right next to him,
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Speaker 1: and he says, remember me, samurai boy. AG's eyes widen
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Speaker 1: and he's like Arthur, and Arthur says, don't worry, ashe
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Speaker 1: will be here soon enough to try to save you,
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Speaker 1: and Dino's like, nice to meet you, young man. AG
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Speaker 1: turns because he hasn't even realized that Dino is there.
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Speaker 1: He's really just been focused in on Arthur and he
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Speaker 1: sees that Dino is sitting across from him, and Dino says,
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Speaker 1: I'm Goalzen, I'm the owner of your best friend Ash.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck? So quick quick pause here, just to say,
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Speaker 1: remember when I was talking about how I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be free? This person literally thinks that he owns him,
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Speaker 1: and maybe he does anyway, At this point, I think
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Speaker 1: Ag like fully understands what is happening, and he like
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Speaker 1: stands up and he tries to get away, but he's
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Speaker 1: weak obviously, and he stumbles, and Yue Lung catches him
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Speaker 1: and says, careful, your muscles are still numb. AG looks
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Speaker 1: at you along and is like, yow she they caught
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Speaker 1: you too, Ag, You're so sweet. Arthur laughs and he's like,
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Speaker 1: how naive can you be? Ash must have had his
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Speaker 1: hands full taking care of you. That boy's the little
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Speaker 1: brother of the Lee guy that sold you out. AG
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Speaker 1: looks at Yue Lung super confused, and Arthur continues, but
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Speaker 1: that's not all. Check out who betrayed Ash and kidnapped you?
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Speaker 1: And he points and we see Shorter being held up
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Speaker 1: by some dudes who are like behind Arthur, and AG
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Speaker 1: looks at Shorter like super confused, and then he looks
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Speaker 1: back over at Arthur and he says, you can't trick
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Speaker 1: me into believing that. And at this point AG kind
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Speaker 1: of takes Arthur by the collar like lightly and says,
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Speaker 1: Shorter isn't a coward like you. Arthur like brushes him
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Speaker 1: off and says, you hear that he really trusts you,
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Speaker 1: doesn'ty Aj makes his way over to Shorter, who is
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Speaker 1: I guess not really passed out right now, but we
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Speaker 1: can't really tell because he's still got a song last son,
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Speaker 1: and AG says, there's no way you'd betray Ash. He's lying,
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Speaker 1: right Shorter. Shorter is at this point clearly awake, and
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Speaker 1: he doesn't say anything. He just looks so sad and
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Speaker 1: so ashamed of himself, and AG understands. I think two
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Speaker 1: guys pull Ag away from Shorter, and Age's like Shorter
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Speaker 1: and Shorter is like Ag. And two other guys are
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Speaker 1: like pulling Shorter away, and Age's like he's lying, right,
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Speaker 1: tell me, Arthur's lying, and Shorter says Agi, I promise all.
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Speaker 1: And then the doors close and they drag him away.
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Speaker 1: Two of the guys hold Agi down in front of Dino,
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Speaker 1: and Dino says, we have a big job waiting for him.
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Speaker 1: Oh no. He then grabs Agi by the chin, which
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Speaker 1: which never fails to make me uncomfortable, and says, and
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Speaker 1: for you too. And at this, of course Ag looks
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Speaker 1: fucking terrified, and I'm pretty terrified too, And then we
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Speaker 1: go to the opening. Yay I guess back from the opening,
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Speaker 1: we have an exterior shot of a plane and a
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Speaker 1: voice saying you'll see the skyscrapers in about thirty minutes,
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Speaker 1: and then we see that it's like that really terrible
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Speaker 1: dude that has been like leading the kind of Chinese
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Speaker 1: mafia part that you know, took Ash and everybody hostage
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and we see that Ash, Shunichi and Max
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Speaker 1: are like sitting on the floor of the plane like
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Speaker 1: a kind of a cargo y plane. I don't really
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Speaker 1: know how to explain it. And the guy says, it's
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Speaker 1: your home, sweet home, New York, right little links. Ash
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Speaker 1: does not look happy back to Dino and Arthur, and
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Speaker 1: Arthur says that you a lungboy. He's poisoned bait thrown
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Speaker 1: here from Chinatown. Dino is reading a newspaper and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I don't need you to tell me that. So have
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Speaker 1: you rounded up all the downtown gangs? And Arthur's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: except Ash's group. They chose Ash over you, And Dino's like,
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Speaker 1: same goes for you. Ashe refused my help and he
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Speaker 1: still became their boss. He did it all himself. This
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Speaker 1: looks like it maybe pisses Arthur off a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but then he chuckles and says, you still regret losing him.
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Speaker 1: Dino sets down the newspaper. He's still holding it though,
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Speaker 1: and he says, I raised him, and he's gripping the
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Speaker 1: paper tightly. I found him, and I polished him and
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Speaker 1: taught him. I created him. He looks so pissed off,
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Speaker 1: by the way, and now I have to kill him.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't understand. And there's a knock on the door.
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Speaker 1: Some guy opens it and says, Papa, everything's ready. Dino's like,
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Speaker 1: let's get ready to receive our guests. We then go
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Speaker 1: to kind of like a medical sciency looking room. I
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Speaker 1: can't think of what it would be called. You know,
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Speaker 1: everything is like chrome ish and very clean. Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: Shorter is in the center of the room and he's
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Speaker 1: strapped to a chair, shirtless, while a bunch of scientists
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Speaker 1: maybe or doctors or something are like busily working around
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Speaker 1: the room. And Shorter to Abraham, who's there, says I've
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Speaker 1: seen you before. Abraham is busy doing something and not
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Speaker 1: looking at Shorter, and Shorter says, you shot Griffin. At that,
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Speaker 1: Abraham gasps and walks over to Shorter and he's like,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't my fault. Shorter's like, try telling that to Ash,
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Speaker 1: the little brother of the guy you killed. Abraham gasps,
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Speaker 1: and Shorter smiles and says he'll kill you for sure.
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Speaker 1: Abraham is pretty shaken by this, and he's like shut up,
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Speaker 1: he's powerless, and you know's like be quiet. And they
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Speaker 1: both look over and there's like this kind of like
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Speaker 1: balcony catwalk area observation deck thing above the room. Dino
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Speaker 1: Arthur and that guy that I don't know his name
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Speaker 1: because they don't ever give his name. I actually wrote that,
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Speaker 1: and then I was like I have to find it
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Speaker 1: because I remember that in volume seven of the manga
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Speaker 1: they say his name. His name is Gregory yay. So
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Speaker 1: that's like another of Dino's kind of right hand dude
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Speaker 1: people's and I see him all the time and he
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Speaker 1: just like doesn't have a name, so Gregory's there. So anyway, Arthur,
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Speaker 1: Gino and Gregory are on this balcony catwalk observation thing
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Speaker 1: and Dino says, is everything ready? And Abraham's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna go perfectly this time. Great. I don't like
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Speaker 1: where any of this is going, and Shorter to himself
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Speaker 1: is like, is he talking about banana fish? And then
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Speaker 1: to everyone says, you got all this equipment and all
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Speaker 1: you can make is dud drugs. Huh. Abraham is filling
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Speaker 1: a syringe with something white, and he says, you tell
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Speaker 1: us if it's a dut or not. Fuck. He holds
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Speaker 1: the syringe menacingly and suddenly understands the situation and he says,
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Speaker 1: you're using me as a labret. A couple of doctors
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Speaker 1: strap him down and he's shaking because I would also
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Speaker 1: be shaking. And then we hear ag from offscreen say
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Speaker 1: Shorter and Shorter looks over and he sees a handcuffed
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Speaker 1: Ag being pulled into the room by two guys. Shorter's
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Speaker 1: like AG, and Dino says begin at this. Abraham slides
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Speaker 1: the syringe into Shorter's arm and Shorter's like, shit, you bastards,
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Speaker 1: I'll kill you. And Ag is struggling as he's watching
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Speaker 1: this happen, and he's like, no, stop. Actually he says
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Speaker 1: ya mero, like really really loud, and it makes me sad.
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Speaker 1: And then the last of the drug enters Shorter's bloodstream,
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Speaker 1: and Shorter like gasps and he looks like he's in pain,
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Speaker 1: and Dino to Arthur says, now watch closely. This is
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Speaker 1: what Benanafici is all about. Now quick pause there to say,
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Speaker 1: oh fuck, Like, I didn't expect Shorter to actually get injected.
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Speaker 1: I thought something would happen and stop this from happening,
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Speaker 1: because I, as far as I'm aware, there's not really
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Speaker 1: something you can do to stop someone from having like
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Speaker 1: a really terrible reaction to banana fish. Apparently, like this
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Speaker 1: is it. Once this happens, there's no going back. So
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Speaker 1: what are we just gonna? Is this it? For Shorter?
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Speaker 1: Like I was just really caught off guard here anyway.
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Speaker 1: I guess a little bit of time has passed because
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Speaker 1: Shorter has electrodes like strapped to him now, and he
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Speaker 1: seems pretty calm. And a doctor who is looking at
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Speaker 1: you know, monitor and stuff says, pulse ninety eight, blood
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Speaker 1: pressure one fifty over eighty. Brain waves are altering. Pulse
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Speaker 1: is rising. Now we see Shorter looks terrified, but kind
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Speaker 1: of in a blank sort of way, kind of the
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Speaker 1: way Griff did earlier in the show. And Abraham says,
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Speaker 1: the hallucinations are starting great, and Ag is like, Shorter,
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Speaker 1: stay with me. Abraham continues, I can make him subconsciously
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Speaker 1: believe anything now, and then he grabs Ag by the
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Speaker 1: hair and he like slams him into the table and
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Speaker 1: he lifts him. That seemed unnecessary, and to Shorter, says,
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Speaker 1: now take a good look at this face. Shorter stares
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Speaker 1: at Ag in terror, and AG's like Shorter and Shorter like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. He processes this for a few seconds,
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Speaker 1: and then he like panics and screams and starts hyperventilating.
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Speaker 1: Abraham leans in close to Shorter and he says, this
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Speaker 1: is fear you're feeling. Oh, no shit, your fear has
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Speaker 1: materialized right in front of your eyes. You can't run
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Speaker 1: from it. He pulls Ag in close, and Shorter tries
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Speaker 1: to back away, but obviously he strapped to a chair,
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Speaker 1: so we can't. And Abraham says, this is what's causing
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Speaker 1: your fear. Shorter starts screaming, and that's just wonderful, Abraham continues.
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Speaker 1: If you don't kill him, you'll suffer indescribable anguish. Fuck.
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Speaker 1: Ag looks on with tears in his eyes, and Abraham says,
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Speaker 1: kill him, tear him apart. Ag looks away and starts
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Speaker 1: to cry. Abraham's says, it's the only way you'll be
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Speaker 1: free of this misery. And you know, I guess to
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Speaker 1: the folks up in the balcony, says this is what
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Speaker 1: banana fish can accomplish. We're gonna show this to Ash.
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Speaker 1: He'll watch is his best friend rips apart that boy
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Speaker 1: that means so much to him, it'll be pure hell. Arthur,
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Speaker 1: who like actually looked pretty terrified until this moment, now
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Speaker 1: is super happy to hear that. Then we cut to
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Speaker 1: like an airport, like like a runway pretty much, and
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Speaker 1: looks like we're behind like a chain link fence looking
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Speaker 1: into the runway area, but we can't see who we're with,
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Speaker 1: like it's their perspective, whoever they are, and a voice says,
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Speaker 1: Ash links and another voice is like, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: And we see Ash being like put into a car,
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Speaker 1: and another voice says, is shorter there too, and the
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Speaker 1: first person's like, we have to tell the boss. Oh.
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Speaker 1: Then we cut to someone on a phone that we
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Speaker 1: can't really see who they are, the partial obscured, but
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Speaker 1: it's clearly Dino because we can hear his voice and
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Speaker 1: he says, I see and he hangs up, and then
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Speaker 1: he like walks away from the phone and he is naked. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So then we see that he's obviously in a bedroom
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Speaker 1: and Yue Lung is laying on the bed, definitely naked,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, you leaving. Dino is putting on a
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Speaker 1: robe and he says the Lynx has arrived. Yue Lung
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Speaker 1: sits up and is like, but we were about to
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Speaker 1: have so much fun. And he looks over and we
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Speaker 1: see that Ag is tied to the other side of
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Speaker 1: the bed, definitely naked. Wincing, yue Lung says he must
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Speaker 1: be disappointed too. I don't think he's disappointed. Dino's like,
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Speaker 1: it can't be helped. I invited them to dinner. You'll
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Speaker 1: be dining with us too. Ue Lung starts to put
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Speaker 1: on his robe and is like, I can't wait reuniting
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Speaker 1: with my dear friend ash Lynx. Dino enters a code
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Speaker 1: on the door lock, which means that you have to
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Speaker 1: enter a code to leave this room, which is just wonderful,
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Speaker 1: and he says, I'm sure he feels the same way. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yuey Lung watches intently as he enters the code and
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Speaker 1: Dino leaps. He then stands and looks over at super
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Speaker 1: terrified Ag and he says, something on your mind, and
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Speaker 1: Ag says, are you okay with all of this? Yue
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Speaker 1: Lung's like, what sleeping with him? Or how he was
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Speaker 1: going to enjoy us both at the same time, And
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Speaker 1: at this point he is untying Ag, and Ag winces
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Speaker 1: and sits up, and he's like both and Yui Lung's like,
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Speaker 1: sound like it's that big of a deal. Ash has
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Speaker 1: done it too. He was one of Golzine's prostitutes. He
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Speaker 1: made his way up with his skills and intelligence. No
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Speaker 1: use glossing over it. He did what he had to
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Speaker 1: in order to survive. Seems like you had a much
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Speaker 1: happier upbringing. Though ag looks down, Uelun continues, maybe that's
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Speaker 1: why you irritate me so much. But you can't go
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Speaker 1: away from this anymore. You need to toughen up and
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Speaker 1: face it. This is the world Ash lives in, so
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Speaker 1: quick pause to say, yeah, that's the rest of it,
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Speaker 1: more or less. I mean, there's more, but that's the
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Speaker 1: most of it. But why did Uelung know? Why does
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Speaker 1: everyone know? I do want to say that in the
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Speaker 1: manga hear this conversation is a little bit longer, a
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Speaker 1: little bit more informative. But also Uelung gets a couple
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Speaker 1: of things wrong, so I guess it's fine that it
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Speaker 1: was cut in the manga, though, like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's really clear that yue Lung probably doesn't like himself
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Speaker 1: from this conversation. He talks about this as being Ash's
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Speaker 1: dark side, which is so concerning. I guess because this
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Speaker 1: is something that was done to him. It's not a choice.
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Speaker 1: But either way, this is Yeah. I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really know what else I
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Speaker 1: was gonna say here, so I'll just stop. Anyway, we
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Speaker 1: are now in a dining room looking down from above,
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Speaker 1: and Dino, Arthur Yue Lung, Max and Shunci are seated
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Speaker 1: and there's like waiters in such standing around, and Max
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Speaker 1: is looking at his suit and maybe two Shoonici says,
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Speaker 1: why the hell am I wearing this? What the hell's
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Speaker 1: this guy up? To? Shunichi definitely to Max says where's
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Speaker 1: a chan and the others? Dino to everyone says, seems
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Speaker 1: like our guest of honor is running late. But then
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Speaker 1: we hear the doors open and we see feet walk
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Speaker 1: into the room and Max and Shunici go like pale
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Speaker 1: or like blue in shock, which is what they do
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Speaker 1: in this anime, and Arthur looks pissed and we see
19:35
Speaker 1: that it is Ash in a suit. Dino smiles and
19:38
Speaker 1: he's like, so beautiful, and there's kind of a long
19:43
Speaker 1: pause on Ash, and I bet we actually go to
19:46
Speaker 1: commercial here, because it feels like we come back and
19:48
Speaker 1: Dino says, so beautiful again. So that's the perfect time
19:51
Speaker 1: for me to pause and tell you that if you
19:54
Speaker 1: thought the reaction that Max and Shonnici had was kind
19:57
Speaker 1: of overblown to the way Ash looked, because he does
20:00
Speaker 1: look cleaned up and everything, But you know, it's not
20:05
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. In my opinion. What's happening
20:08
Speaker 1: is that you're getting the reaction from the manga. In
20:11
Speaker 1: the manga, this is a really big deal. We basically
20:14
Speaker 1: have the beginning of a new character design, more or
20:17
Speaker 1: less for Ash. So throughout the course of the manga,
20:20
Speaker 1: Ash and AG's character designs have kind of changed, especially Ashes,
20:25
Speaker 1: and to an extent, that's because when you draw characters
20:30
Speaker 1: for a long time, you get better at drawing them, right.
20:33
Speaker 1: But the other characters in the manga have not changed
20:38
Speaker 1: as much. They look very similar to the way they
20:40
Speaker 1: do in the beginning. So this is a conscious shift
20:43
Speaker 1: that Kemyoshi is making. And there's this big shift between
20:49
Speaker 1: the way Ash looks when he is in La and
20:53
Speaker 1: the way he looks when he enters the room. Here
20:57
Speaker 1: in the manga, they do explain that, like there were
20:59
Speaker 1: stylists and they probably cut his hair or whatever, but
21:02
Speaker 1: he looks different. He looks really different. It's not like
21:05
Speaker 1: the character design is totally different or it's totally inconsistent,
21:09
Speaker 1: but that hairstyle change and everything is so like stark
21:12
Speaker 1: and different from what we've seen Ash as so far.
21:16
Speaker 1: That it's really interesting and I didn't even catch that
21:19
Speaker 1: that's where it happened the first time through, but it
21:22
Speaker 1: happens right as he walks into the dining room. So yeah,
21:27
Speaker 1: so I actually really appreciate this, but I don't think
21:29
Speaker 1: it comes off as dramatic of a change in the anime.
21:33
Speaker 1: So anyway, elaborating on what's going on, Ash's hair is
21:38
Speaker 1: really styled, and he's wearing like a green earring and
21:41
Speaker 1: obviously a suit, and Dino says, like a born aristocrat.
21:46
Speaker 1: And then I guess we cut to a couple of
21:48
Speaker 1: minutes later because Ash is seated at this point and
21:51
Speaker 1: he looks over at Yuey Lung and then Arthur like chuckles,
21:54
Speaker 1: and he's like more like a Sphinx than the Lynx.
21:57
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like that joke didn't land
21:59
Speaker 1: for me, but whatever. Some dude pours some wine into
22:03
Speaker 1: Ash's glass and Dino says, let us begin. I chose
22:07
Speaker 1: this especially for you. Can you tell me what it is?
22:10
Speaker 1: Ash lifts the glass and he kind of swirls it around.
22:13
Speaker 1: I guess to see what like legs it has. I
22:16
Speaker 1: know very little about wine because I don't drink. Then
22:19
Speaker 1: he kind of sniffs it and he takes a sip
22:21
Speaker 1: and he says, Romani Conti. I believe it's a sixty nine. Nice.
22:27
Speaker 1: Oh no, I really don't feel comfortable saying nice after
22:29
Speaker 1: sixty nine in the show, but whatever, Just so you know. Apparently,
22:33
Speaker 1: according to Wikipedia, Romani Conti is one of the most
22:37
Speaker 1: sought after and expensive wines in the world. Woo in
22:40
Speaker 1: twenty ten, seventy seven bottles sold in the US for
22:44
Speaker 1: a total of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, So
22:47
Speaker 1: that's what's going on there, So it's expensive wine. Anyway,
22:52
Speaker 1: Dino says, Bravo, I see you still remember what I
22:55
Speaker 1: taught you. Max is smelling his wine, trying to figure
22:57
Speaker 1: out like how you would even know that, and like
22:59
Speaker 1: really stressing about it in the background, and he does
23:01
Speaker 1: this for a couple of minutes while Dina was talking,
23:03
Speaker 1: and I was like, Eh, we probably didn't need that
23:06
Speaker 1: comic relief, but whatever. Dino continues, this will be a
23:09
Speaker 1: wonderful night. Do you like the present I got you?
23:12
Speaker 1: And Ash says, you think i'd be happy that you
23:14
Speaker 1: punched a hole in my ear? Dino is like that
23:18
Speaker 1: jade was found especially to match the color of your eyes.
23:21
Speaker 1: I'd say it's worth about four hundred thousand dollars. Max
23:24
Speaker 1: does a spit take and he's like four hundred thousand,
23:26
Speaker 1: and Shunichi's like forty eight million yen. Now we know
23:30
Speaker 1: the conversion, and Ash is like, no wonder, it's so heavy.
23:33
Speaker 1: At this point, they get maybe served the first course.
23:35
Speaker 1: It's like a little stack of like meat and things.
23:38
Speaker 1: I didn't really know what it was. It looked good,
23:40
Speaker 1: I mean, if you like meat and eating things, which
23:43
Speaker 1: I do like eating things, but I couldn't really tell
23:46
Speaker 1: what exactly food it was. Anyway. Now, Dino says, you
23:51
Speaker 1: might not know this, but ASH used to be precious
23:53
Speaker 1: merchandise at a club I own. This merchandise is divided
23:57
Speaker 1: into detailed ranks. The highest category was comprised of those
24:01
Speaker 1: with platinum blonde hair and light green eyes, just like
24:04
Speaker 1: precious gems. The wearer, the more expensive. Ash is just
24:08
Speaker 1: kind of drinking the wine like mostly unfazed, which is
24:13
Speaker 1: honestly impressive. And Dino continues, Ash was my most expensive
24:18
Speaker 1: piece of merchandise, and Max thinks, that filthy bastard. It's
24:24
Speaker 1: worse than that. Max, that's so tame. Anyway, Ash is like,
24:29
Speaker 1: why aren't Agy and Shorter here? Adino says they weren't invited,
24:33
Speaker 1: but don't worry, you'll see them later, and Arthur cuts in,
24:36
Speaker 1: I'd worry more about yourself if I were you, and
24:38
Speaker 1: Ash says I can say the same for you, and
24:41
Speaker 1: Arthur's like, what did you say? And Tino's like, drop it, Ash,
24:46
Speaker 1: I gave you books and a good education, and I
24:48
Speaker 1: also taught you how to shoot a gun, but I
24:50
Speaker 1: never imagine you'd point that gun me. Why not? Ash
24:54
Speaker 1: is like smirking slightly here. Now in the manga, he's
24:59
Speaker 1: been on off smirking through this whole conversation, including when
25:03
Speaker 1: Dino was describing how he prices his merchandise, which he
25:07
Speaker 1: does for a lot longer in the manga, going through
25:10
Speaker 1: all of the eye colors and hair colors and how
25:14
Speaker 1: they're ranked. So, yeah, I actually wish that that was
25:20
Speaker 1: in here more because it's very clear that Ash is
25:23
Speaker 1: just ruminating in the absurdity of all of this. But anyway,
25:27
Speaker 1: Dino says, you are the most beautiful and most dangerous
25:31
Speaker 1: beast there is, and that kind of makes Ash's face fall. Anyway,
25:36
Speaker 1: at this point, a bunch of guys rush into the
25:38
Speaker 1: room and for them point guns at Ash's head. Dino says, now,
25:42
Speaker 1: then dinner's over. Some of their dudes aim their guns
25:45
Speaker 1: at Tunichi and Max as well, and they look terrified,
25:49
Speaker 1: but Ash looks mostly unfazed, and Dino's like, let's take
25:54
Speaker 1: you to this show venue. Great. So it's important for
25:58
Speaker 1: me to cut in here and say, hey, remember how
26:01
Speaker 1: I was just asking why yue Lung knew all this
26:04
Speaker 1: shit about Ash? Why does everyone know? This is why
26:08
Speaker 1: it seems like Dino likes to brag a lot. I mean,
26:12
Speaker 1: maybe he's just telling Max and Shunichi and Yue Lung
26:16
Speaker 1: and Arthur because well, he knows that Max and Shunichi
26:20
Speaker 1: are probably not gonna get out if you're alive or whatever.
26:23
Speaker 1: But I just get the impression, based on the way
26:24
Speaker 1: he talks about his merchandise and pricing children, that he
26:29
Speaker 1: doesn't care who he tells. He is so far up
26:33
Speaker 1: in the underworld that he can just do this shit
26:35
Speaker 1: and he just gets away with it like it's no problem.
26:38
Speaker 1: It's also very evident that he doesn't think of Ash
26:40
Speaker 1: as a person, at least not in the traditional sense.
26:43
Speaker 1: Maybe somehow in his sick little mind. But the idea
26:47
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't understand how Ash would turn on him
26:51
Speaker 1: is super fucking impressive to me, because like, there is
26:56
Speaker 1: no reason for Ash not to turn on him, really,
26:59
Speaker 1: And I understand he gave him an education and he
27:01
Speaker 1: taught him how to shoot a gun, which you probably
27:04
Speaker 1: didn't because Ash had already killed someone at that point,
27:06
Speaker 1: but whatever, I'm sure like he helped him become a
27:08
Speaker 1: better shot or whatever, and he like fed him and shit.
27:11
Speaker 1: But like, and this is a terrible comparison, but it's
27:13
Speaker 1: the only thing I can think of. It's like if
27:16
Speaker 1: you have a parent and they're like, I took care
27:19
Speaker 1: of you, I fed you, I clothed you, Like what
27:23
Speaker 1: else do you want for me? Type deal? That is
27:26
Speaker 1: the bare minimum you can do for someone feeding your child,
27:30
Speaker 1: keeping someone alive, fucking in this case, not like having
27:35
Speaker 1: them just overdose and discarding them. Like that's the fucking
27:42
Speaker 1: bare minimum of being a person. Like, fuck, you do
27:46
Speaker 1: not get thanked for giving this kid in education after
27:50
Speaker 1: all the shit that you put him through. Sorry, So yeah,
27:55
Speaker 1: it's impressive. Now we cut to a rundown graffiti building exterior.
28:01
Speaker 1: I mean it looks like it's abandoned. It's night by
28:04
Speaker 1: the way, and inside there's a bunch of punks sitting
28:07
Speaker 1: around on like chairs and boxes, like around a lantern.
28:11
Speaker 1: For some reason, I guess there's not any power and
28:14
Speaker 1: I'm like, yay punks. And there's footsteps and we see Alex,
28:19
Speaker 1: who we met in episode one and two, who you
28:22
Speaker 1: know is part of Ash's gang, and I was super
28:25
Speaker 1: excited to see him, and he's like startled and he's like,
28:27
Speaker 1: who's there. And I also wanted to say that he
28:30
Speaker 1: has brown hair and blue eyes and he just looks
28:32
Speaker 1: like some guy. He aims his gun at the door.
28:35
Speaker 1: And Bones, who we met in episode two I believe,
28:38
Speaker 1: who's got like red hair in a braid and he's
28:40
Speaker 1: wearing overalls. And Kung, who we haven't met yet but
28:43
Speaker 1: is important and is a like a black dude who's
28:46
Speaker 1: got like a mohawk, and it's more heavy set. They're
28:48
Speaker 1: like ready for action two and a group approaches and
28:51
Speaker 1: a voice says the once famous group led by Ashlynx
28:54
Speaker 1: now living here quietly among the rats. And it looks
28:57
Speaker 1: like it's like an Asian gang maybe, And the guy
29:00
Speaker 1: who's talking is like in the front and he's like real,
29:03
Speaker 1: real short, and he looks real, real young and he's
29:05
Speaker 1: got black hair, and Alice kind of like stops aiming
29:08
Speaker 1: the gun at them and says, who the hell are you?
29:11
Speaker 1: And the short kid says, I'm sing Su Ling, the
29:16
Speaker 1: boss of the Chinese, and Kng's like the boss, a
29:19
Speaker 1: tiny rat like you, and Bone says Short is the
29:22
Speaker 1: boss of the Chinese and sings like he's been banished
29:26
Speaker 1: and Alex says what and Sing continues, the guy's at
29:29
Speaker 1: the top got mad at him for hanging out with
29:31
Speaker 1: ash anyways, do you want to start a war with us?
29:34
Speaker 1: And Alex is like a war and Sing says, Ashling's
29:38
Speaker 1: is back in New York. Kng's like what, Singh says,
29:42
Speaker 1: he's being confined at Golzine's mansion. If you're up to it,
29:44
Speaker 1: we'd be willing to work with you. Alex says, but
29:48
Speaker 1: your bosses will get angry, right, and sings like it's
29:51
Speaker 1: true that they made a deal with Golzein, but that's
29:54
Speaker 1: their business, and he like crushes a can under his
29:56
Speaker 1: foot and he says, for us, Shorter is the only boss. Yeah,
30:00
Speaker 1: And then I guess Alex and the Ash gang kind
30:03
Speaker 1: of pause for a second, and Alex says, fine, let's
30:06
Speaker 1: hear you out good, save them hurry up. Back at
30:10
Speaker 1: the mansion, we see like a door opening and yuey
30:15
Speaker 1: Lung exits a room and he's like, what an easy lock?
30:19
Speaker 1: And outside of the mansion, a dude is showing some
30:24
Speaker 1: guys in and yue Lung is watching from the window
30:27
Speaker 1: and he's like, that's Republican senator. It's Senator Kipperd by
30:31
Speaker 1: the way, who we met I think last episode. And
30:33
Speaker 1: a Colonel two, which is Colonel Holstock. Yeay, And then
30:36
Speaker 1: we cut to Ash who is chained up by his arms,
30:40
Speaker 1: like his wrists are Like, how do I explain this?
30:45
Speaker 1: It's not very hard to explain, but for some reason
30:47
Speaker 1: my brain is like not sure how to tell you. Anyway,
30:50
Speaker 1: he's like wrists or chained up, so he's being kind
30:53
Speaker 1: of forced in a standing position, and I guess his
30:56
Speaker 1: arms are chained to something above that we can't see.
31:00
Speaker 1: I hope that made sense. Anyway. He doesn't look happy
31:04
Speaker 1: and Arthur is like, look at you now, Ash, Max
31:08
Speaker 1: and Shunichi we see are chained to like a support
31:11
Speaker 1: post for the room. I guess. Also, Alexis is there
31:15
Speaker 1: and he's being held by two guys, and Arthur's like,
31:19
Speaker 1: you know this room, huh, this is Papadino's execution room.
31:23
Speaker 1: It seems like a pretty good room. It's like a
31:25
Speaker 1: large brick kind of circular room, round room or whatever,
31:30
Speaker 1: with like a really high ceiling, and it's got pretty
31:33
Speaker 1: low light, which I guess is good for killing people.
31:36
Speaker 1: I don't really know. And then there's like a balcony
31:38
Speaker 1: that's like overlooking it, which you know, it's pretty nice
31:41
Speaker 1: if you want to watch people be killed, I guess.
31:44
Speaker 1: Arthur continues, I bet you never imagined you'd be the
31:47
Speaker 1: one tied up here. I think he probably did, but
31:49
Speaker 1: that's fine. Ash smirks, and Arthur says, still acting tough, huh.
31:54
Speaker 1: He pulls out a butterfly knife and kind of like
31:56
Speaker 1: flicks it open like you would with a butterfly knife,
31:59
Speaker 1: and he's slow guides it under Ash's bow tie that
32:02
Speaker 1: he's wearing, and the point connects with Ash's throat, and
32:07
Speaker 1: he says, let's see how long you lasts, and then
32:10
Speaker 1: we have like a quick bit of Ash staring him down,
32:14
Speaker 1: apparently like a boss like I wrote, and Arthur looking
32:17
Speaker 1: smug before Arthur slashes the bow tie off super dramatically,
32:22
Speaker 1: and it like flies and like hits one of the
32:24
Speaker 1: support posts. And then we cut back to Ash and
32:28
Speaker 1: we see that his neck is bleeding. It's not bleeding
32:30
Speaker 1: terribly or anything, but it is bleeding. And he's still
32:33
Speaker 1: basically smirking though, and Arthur, who is playing with the knife, says,
32:37
Speaker 1: you take all the fun out of torturing. He raises
32:40
Speaker 1: the knife again to Ash's throat and says, but for
32:43
Speaker 1: some reason, I still really want to torture you. And
32:47
Speaker 1: Ash says, it's because you're fucked in the head. Arthur scoffs,
32:51
Speaker 1: and he's like, I like that spirit, keep it up.
32:56
Speaker 1: At this point, two scientists and Ibraham walk into the
33:00
Speaker 1: room and Alexis is like Abraham, and Abraham's like, hey,
33:04
Speaker 1: bib bro, just watch and enjoy. I perfected the thing
33:07
Speaker 1: you chickened out of making. Alexis says, do you realize
33:11
Speaker 1: what you're doing? And Abraham, with an amount of craziness
33:16
Speaker 1: in his eyes that is disturbing, says this is a
33:19
Speaker 1: grand business venture. And Diino cuts him off and says,
33:23
Speaker 1: keep your mouth shut. He's in the balcony, by the way,
33:26
Speaker 1: hurry up and begin. Don't embarrass me in front of
33:28
Speaker 1: my guests. Abraham says, I won't. He looks over and
33:34
Speaker 1: he sees Ash and he gasps because to him, he
33:37
Speaker 1: looks like so much like Griffin, and Ash says, you're
33:41
Speaker 1: Abraham Dawson, right. Abraham flinches. Ash continues, you use soldiers
33:47
Speaker 1: in Iracus lab rats and then kill them. Abraham approaches
33:50
Speaker 1: Ash and he says, yeah, I did, because they made
33:52
Speaker 1: fun of me. That's the reason they called me a
33:55
Speaker 1: rat and a coward. It was just a viable revenge.
33:58
Speaker 1: Griffin was a nice guy, but he suspected what I
34:00
Speaker 1: was doing, so I had no choice. Ash smiles. Then
34:05
Speaker 1: I guess I have no choice but to kill you too.
34:08
Speaker 1: Abraham straightens up kind of in shock, and Ash says
34:11
Speaker 1: it it'd be justifiable revenge, right. Abraham's like, shut the
34:15
Speaker 1: fuck up. You're gonna die right here tonight. Then we
34:18
Speaker 1: see feet stepping forward slowly in sneakers. So that makes
34:22
Speaker 1: me really worried because most of the people are wearing
34:25
Speaker 1: like dress shoes, so there's only maybe two characters that
34:27
Speaker 1: would be wearing sneakers right now. And we see that
34:29
Speaker 1: it is shorter. Fuck and he's like all sweaty and
34:32
Speaker 1: he looks terrible, and Ash is like Shorter. Then we
34:37
Speaker 1: cut to Yueylun, who is in the hallway and he
34:41
Speaker 1: thinks to think Golsing had connections with them, what's he
34:44
Speaker 1: up to? He then like sees something and he walks
34:47
Speaker 1: over and he kind of looks into the window of
34:51
Speaker 1: the room, which is the room that all the shit
34:53
Speaker 1: is going on in, and then we hear Ash say
34:56
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're safe. Then we cut back to
34:58
Speaker 1: them and Shorter says I'm sorry, and Ash just like,
35:02
Speaker 1: don't worry. This isn't your fault. Oh, He's so kind,
35:07
Speaker 1: and Shorter's like, no, it's not that. Ash looks justifiably worried,
35:13
Speaker 1: and Shorter continues, I I can't, I can't anymore, and
35:19
Speaker 1: Ashes like what And we kind of go to a
35:23
Speaker 1: black screen for a minute, and then we see a
35:25
Speaker 1: door open, like from the perspective of the person opening
35:28
Speaker 1: the door into the room, so we don't see who's
35:30
Speaker 1: on the other side of the door, but Ash looks
35:32
Speaker 1: over and then we see the ag As being let
35:34
Speaker 1: in and Ash's like ag and so Andy She's like
35:38
Speaker 1: h and Max says you're alive. And Ash looks like
35:42
Speaker 1: so happy to see him. For a second, I'm like
35:44
Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic, but then he looks over. It's Shorter, and
35:49
Speaker 1: Shorter stares at Ag in terror, and he like begins
35:52
Speaker 1: to back away, and he puts his hands on his
35:54
Speaker 1: head and he doubles over and he's like my head
35:56
Speaker 1: and he's like whimpering and Ashes like it can't be
36:00
Speaker 1: and Abraham says, that's right, it's banana fish and Max
36:03
Speaker 1: says what. And Shorter's on the ground at this point,
36:06
Speaker 1: and he's like holding his head and shaking, and Arthur
36:09
Speaker 1: takes Ag by the collar and he's like, let me
36:12
Speaker 1: show you something fun. Ash. He pulls Ag forward and
36:16
Speaker 1: throws him onto the ground near Shorter, and he's like
36:19
Speaker 1: remember him, Shorter. Shorter looks up and sees Ag and
36:22
Speaker 1: he panics and he like falls backwards trying to get away,
36:24
Speaker 1: and he says, stay away. Arthur lifts Ag by the
36:28
Speaker 1: hair now because everyone's lifting and Ag by the hair
36:30
Speaker 1: in this episode and says he's your enemy. Kill him.
36:33
Speaker 1: Shorter looks at Ag in fear or confusion, or both
36:36
Speaker 1: of them, but then his eyes fill with rage. Arthur
36:39
Speaker 1: is still holding Ag by the hair, and he tosses
36:43
Speaker 1: Shorter a knife and he says, here you go. Shorter
36:45
Speaker 1: picks up the knife and stands. Arthur's like that's it,
36:49
Speaker 1: there you go, and Ash is like no, Shorter. Arthur,
36:53
Speaker 1: who is let go of Ag, now tosses another knife
36:56
Speaker 1: near Ag and he's like, come on and fight back
36:58
Speaker 1: if you don't want to die. Ag looks at the
37:00
Speaker 1: knife and he is terribly sad, but he doesn't pick
37:03
Speaker 1: it up, and he says, Shorter, it's me, can't you
37:06
Speaker 1: tell Shorter. Shorter approaches Ag slowly with the knife, breathing
37:12
Speaker 1: super super weird, and then he lunges at him and
37:16
Speaker 1: ashes like run Agy, and Ag kind of dodges, but
37:19
Speaker 1: his arm gets slashed and he is like still on
37:22
Speaker 1: the floor, like he hasn't had a chance to get up,
37:24
Speaker 1: and he winces in pain. Shorter is looming over him
37:27
Speaker 1: with the knife and like terror in his eyes, and
37:31
Speaker 1: ashe says, Arthur, if you want to kill me, kill me,
37:35
Speaker 1: and he's like pulling at the chains and Arthur says,
37:38
Speaker 1: of course it'll be my pleasure, but only after everyone else. Fuck.
37:43
Speaker 1: I like to save the best for last, me too, Arthur,
37:46
Speaker 1: but still that's terrible. Ash grits his teeth and Shunichi's
37:51
Speaker 1: like watch out, and Shorter slashes at Age's chest and
37:54
Speaker 1: Ag stumbles back against the wall, and Arthur's like, good,
37:57
Speaker 1: that's it. Torture him to death. He's barely during him anyway.
38:02
Speaker 1: He kicks the knife over to Ag again and he's like, hey,
38:06
Speaker 1: if you don't want to die, you better fight back.
38:08
Speaker 1: Ash is still trying to help, and he's like, Shorter,
38:11
Speaker 1: please wake up, and Abraham's like, yell all you want.
38:15
Speaker 1: He can't disobey. He's in an unbearable amount of suffering.
38:19
Speaker 1: Plus it's not even gonna get better if he does
38:21
Speaker 1: do what he's told to. Once he's devoid of a target,
38:24
Speaker 1: he'll turn the knife on himself, and even if he
38:27
Speaker 1: does survive, he'll be haunted by waking nightmares for the
38:29
Speaker 1: rest of his life, just like your brother. And oh
38:34
Speaker 1: my god, Ash looks so horrified and sad when he
38:39
Speaker 1: says that, and Shorter screams and runs at Ag, and
38:44
Speaker 1: Ag manages to dodge, and he finally picks up the knife.
38:47
Speaker 1: We got some really nice animation of his hand trying
38:49
Speaker 1: to pick up the knife because he kind of like
38:50
Speaker 1: misses it first, like clumsily, and then he grabs it
38:53
Speaker 1: and he's holding the knife out and he's like, Shorter,
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Speaker 1: it's me, Ag, can you see that? Please? Shorter. Shorter
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Speaker 1: slashes again, and Agy does his best to dodge, like
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Speaker 1: multiple times and is kind of ongoing right now, and
39:05
Speaker 1: Shoonigi's like someone help, and maxys like stop them, and
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Speaker 1: Ash says stop and he closes his eyes and kind
39:12
Speaker 1: of like turns away and he's like, please stop, and
39:15
Speaker 1: Arthur's like, what a fantastic show. Dino and his friends
39:18
Speaker 1: are in the balcony still, and Dino says, how about it, gentlemen,
39:22
Speaker 1: with this drug, you can make people even kill their
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Speaker 1: own families. Back to the ground. We see drops of
39:29
Speaker 1: blood hit the floor, and Ag is pretty cut up
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Speaker 1: at this point and he's like trying to catch his breath.
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Speaker 1: Shorter is also looking pretty tired, and so there's like
39:39
Speaker 1: a pause in the carnage and Arthur's like time for
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Speaker 1: the grand finale, finish him off. Shorter, and Ash's like
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Speaker 1: stop Shorter, and Shorter screams and he lunges at Agy
39:51
Speaker 1: and asks yells Shorter, and Shorter stops. He's not looking
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Speaker 1: at Ash. Actually he's looking at a carved stone angel
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Speaker 1: on the way. The light returns to his eyes and
40:03
Speaker 1: then he turns to look at Ash. Arthur and everyone
40:06
Speaker 1: else are kind of confused. Shorter walks over to Ash
40:09
Speaker 1: and he says, Ash, I can't anymore. He grabs his
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Speaker 1: chest tightly enough that he leaves fingernail scratches on his
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Speaker 1: body doing it, and he says, set me free. I'm
40:24
Speaker 1: in so much pain. Ash starts to cry. Arthur lifts
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Speaker 1: Ag by his shirt and says, Shorter, your enemy is
40:33
Speaker 1: right here. Come on. Shorter puts his hands on his
40:36
Speaker 1: head and he's shaking in fear, but he also raises
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Speaker 1: the knife, and it's just like, don't Arthur finally lets
40:43
Speaker 1: go of Agy, just in time for Shorter to reach
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Speaker 1: him and Slash at him, and Ag is trying to evade,
40:47
Speaker 1: and Ash is begging Agi to run, And at this
40:50
Speaker 1: point Arthur holds out a gun to Ash and he says,
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Speaker 1: you've only got one bullet. Don't forget that. He places
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Speaker 1: the gun on the ground in front of As. At
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Speaker 1: this point, Shorter knocks the knife out of AG's hands,
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Speaker 1: not that he was really using it for anything, and
41:06
Speaker 1: Ag stumbles backwards and he lands on his back. Shorter
41:10
Speaker 1: rushes over and grabs Ag by the neck, and as
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Speaker 1: he chokes Ag with one hand, he lifts the knife
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Speaker 1: with the other and he's screaming and ashes like stop.
41:21
Speaker 1: And at this Arthur pulls like a lever that allows
41:25
Speaker 1: the chains to basically kind of release or goes slack,
41:29
Speaker 1: and Ash's hands drop and he dives for the gun
41:32
Speaker 1: and with the saddest look on his face, he shoots.
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Speaker 1: Shorter is hit, but we don't know where. Everyone is
41:39
Speaker 1: frozen in shock. As some of Shorter's blood drips onto
41:42
Speaker 1: Agy's face. Shorter drops the knife and we see that
41:47
Speaker 1: he's bleeding from his chest and a tear slides down
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Speaker 1: his cheek and then he collapses onto Ag. Ag grabs
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Speaker 1: him and he's like, Shorter, answer me. Shorter's face is
41:59
Speaker 1: wet with tears, but he's not there anymore, and Ag
42:03
Speaker 1: calls out to him. Ash drops the gun in shock
42:07
Speaker 1: and he looks down at his hands, which are shaking,
42:10
Speaker 1: and Ag is crying in the background as Arthur laughs
42:14
Speaker 1: and Ash is lifted back up and Arthur says, shot
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Speaker 1: right through him. How are you feeling now? He walks
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Speaker 1: over to Ash, who is you know, only standing because
42:25
Speaker 1: the chains are holding him up at this point, and
42:28
Speaker 1: is looking blankly at the floor, and he says, what
42:32
Speaker 1: a good friend you are? Shorter is a lucky guy.
42:35
Speaker 1: He grabs Ash by the chin and he forces him
42:38
Speaker 1: to look up at him. How's it feel shooting down
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Speaker 1: your best friend? Answer me. Ag is now being held
42:44
Speaker 1: back as Abraham goes to assess Shorter's condition, and he says,
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Speaker 1: right through the heart, and Ag is struggling, and he's like,
42:52
Speaker 1: don't you touch him? And he's crying obviously, and Abraham
42:55
Speaker 1: continues his brain's intact, which is great, and he looks
42:58
Speaker 1: over at Alexis, don't you want to know how this
43:00
Speaker 1: affects brain cells? Big brother? I don't think Alexis does.
43:06
Speaker 1: Arthur is like, take him away? And Ash looks over
43:09
Speaker 1: as two men are carrying Shorter out of the room,
43:13
Speaker 1: and Alexis is also being let out, and he's like,
43:15
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Take your hands off him?
43:18
Speaker 1: Shorter Shorter and he just, you know, he's just continuing
43:21
Speaker 1: to call for him, and we flash to everyone who
43:24
Speaker 1: is either crying or like about to cry as Ash
43:26
Speaker 1: is screaming for Shorter. And we see Shorter's body one
43:30
Speaker 1: more time as the doors close, and Ash is still
43:34
Speaker 1: calling for him, and then he's just shaking and crying
43:38
Speaker 1: and Arthur is so fucking happy and he's laughing and
43:42
Speaker 1: he says, this feels so fucking great, and then we
43:46
Speaker 1: go to the title card, Save Me the Last Waltz,
43:51
Speaker 1: and then we go to the ending theme Hooray. So
43:55
Speaker 1: closing thoughts, I didn't expect Shorter was actually gonna die.
44:00
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty evident by the end of the
44:02
Speaker 1: episode that he is very much dead, so it's not
44:05
Speaker 1: like a spoiler or anything. But yeah, I didn't expect
44:09
Speaker 1: it to go that way. I mean, once he was
44:11
Speaker 1: injected with banana fish, I was like, no longer as
44:16
Speaker 1: optimistic about how this was gonna go, because it's like,
44:19
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna get better. No one seems
44:22
Speaker 1: to get better from this. So even if he doesn't die,
44:25
Speaker 1: it's not like the rest of his life's gonna be good, right.
44:28
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know, I didn't really expect it.
44:31
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the time when I see
44:33
Speaker 1: these situations in anime or whatever, where you have a
44:38
Speaker 1: character who seems to care about the people around them
44:42
Speaker 1: and like Ash in this case, and it seems like
44:44
Speaker 1: they're gonna be forced to hurt someone or make a
44:47
Speaker 1: decision that is going to be really hard on them
44:51
Speaker 1: or terrible for one of the people involved, Like it
44:54
Speaker 1: doesn't actually come down to that. So I was kind
44:56
Speaker 1: of surprised that we actually ended up with Ash shooting Shorter.
45:02
Speaker 1: I mean, there was nothing else he could do. He's
45:05
Speaker 1: lucky he even had the opportunity to because Shorter was
45:08
Speaker 1: gonna kill AG, and AG wasn't gonna stop him. I
45:12
Speaker 1: mean he couldn't. Just some Japanese kid who's not used
45:16
Speaker 1: to this shit. So but yeah, it was he was
45:21
Speaker 1: really hard to watch that again, Honestly, both times I cried,
45:25
Speaker 1: not a ton, but usually character jets don't get me
45:28
Speaker 1: at all. And I just really liked Shorter for some reason,
45:31
Speaker 1: even though I don't think he's a great guy. I
45:34
Speaker 1: think out of kind of the main core cast that
45:36
Speaker 1: we've seen, he seems like he is in this kind
45:40
Speaker 1: of gang life for kind of like the least good reasons,
45:44
Speaker 1: Like this is just him, you know where I feel like,
45:47
Speaker 1: you know, Ash, there's there's a bunch of stuff going
45:50
Speaker 1: on there that he ended up this way. I feel
45:52
Speaker 1: like Shorter just like this is him. He's kind of
45:55
Speaker 1: a murderer sometimes, and he leads a gang, and I mean,
45:59
Speaker 1: he's not objectively a good dude, but I liked him
46:04
Speaker 1: and I didn't like seeing him suffer so badly. So yeah,
46:10
Speaker 1: and I'm actually kind of getting teary eyed as I
46:12
Speaker 1: talk about this, which is ridiculous, by the way, but yeah,
46:16
Speaker 1: I just wasn't I really wasn't expecting it. So I
46:21
Speaker 1: want to comment on what was happening with Shorter when
46:24
Speaker 1: he kind of got himself back together for a minute
46:27
Speaker 1: and he was looking at this angel statue that is
46:30
Speaker 1: not part of the manga. There is kind of like
46:33
Speaker 1: a break in his insanity in the manga, but there's
46:37
Speaker 1: not any angel statues. And I actually loved this. When
46:42
Speaker 1: I watched it the first time, I was like, I
46:44
Speaker 1: don't have any idea what that means. I was so confused,
46:47
Speaker 1: like maybe he's really religious and we just don't know
46:51
Speaker 1: because something's been cut out or whatever. But no, it
46:54
Speaker 1: is a reference to the follow up one shot called
46:59
Speaker 1: Angel Eyes, which I highly suggest reading after you were
47:05
Speaker 1: done watching this, not before, because it has spoilers. But
47:12
Speaker 1: it is a very clear reference to that, and once
47:15
Speaker 1: I realized that, I was like so overjoyed because I
47:20
Speaker 1: totally understand why seeing an angel would break him out
47:24
Speaker 1: of it for a minute. So really good job, either
47:29
Speaker 1: the scriptwriter or the director whoever decided to put that
47:31
Speaker 1: in there. I fucking love you for that. Really really
47:36
Speaker 1: good and also made me feel like whoever it was
47:38
Speaker 1: like kind of understood these characters and has you know,
47:42
Speaker 1: read the manga. So yeah, I really really appreciated that.
47:48
Speaker 1: But yeah, this was I mean, this was a lot obviously.
47:52
Speaker 1: So where we go from here is I guess anybody's
47:54
Speaker 1: guests with the chained up main cast, but uh yeah,
47:59
Speaker 1: things look really bad for our main characters. What else
48:03
Speaker 1: did I want to say? Oh? Okay, So I wanted
48:05
Speaker 1: to just briefly touch on this because I think about
48:07
Speaker 1: this a lot and I'm not even sure I'm right.
48:09
Speaker 1: So if you listen to this and you're like, that's ridiculous, Michelle,
48:13
Speaker 1: it just is, don't worry about it. I would understand.
48:16
Speaker 1: But my take on Banana Fish so far and going
48:20
Speaker 1: forward is that the main cast cries a lot, especially
48:25
Speaker 1: Ash and Ag to an extent, and since they're mostly
48:30
Speaker 1: men or all men. I feel like I don't see
48:33
Speaker 1: that very often. I feel like, normally, when a character cries,
48:37
Speaker 1: especially a male character, especially a male character that is
48:41
Speaker 1: like Ash's supposed to be kind of tough, it's like
48:44
Speaker 1: a really big deal, like it will happen once or twice.
48:47
Speaker 1: Like I was thinking about try Gun, like the ninety
48:49
Speaker 1: eight version or whatever, like how rare it was to
48:53
Speaker 1: see Fash cry shit like that, Or you have it
48:59
Speaker 1: go the other way where you have a character of
49:01
Speaker 1: that cries all the time, like say Takamichi from Tokyo Revengers,
49:05
Speaker 1: who's just like everyone calls a cry baby, which honestly,
49:10
Speaker 1: it's totally cool that he cries. The problem is that,
49:13
Speaker 1: you know, there's no balance to that. It's just crying,
49:16
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't do cool things and cry. So normally,
49:21
Speaker 1: I feel like we these are characters not crying unless
49:23
Speaker 1: it's like super super pertinent or we see them crying
49:28
Speaker 1: all the time. So I actually like this kind of measured.
49:30
Speaker 1: Everybody seems to cry when it would be normal to cry, Like,
49:35
Speaker 1: I mean, everything that's happening now, yeah, that would make
49:39
Speaker 1: me cry. I don't know why I'm harping on this.
49:42
Speaker 1: It's something that I've been thinking about. With this anime
49:45
Speaker 1: and the manga, there's just a lot of crying, and
49:47
Speaker 1: it all seems fine, like it's not too much crying.
49:50
Speaker 1: It all seems appropriate. So yeah, I don't know, man,
49:55
Speaker 1: Now you know what I think about, at least some
49:58
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know what else to tell you, guys,
50:02
Speaker 1: but I hope that you didn't hate episode nine. I
50:05
Speaker 1: hope you didn't hate me talking it to you. If
50:08
Speaker 1: you did, I am incredibly sorry and I will try
50:11
Speaker 1: to do a better job. But I don't really know how.
50:14
Speaker 1: So I'm just that terrible. And anyway, I'm gonna go.
50:18
Speaker 1: I hope you have a really good whatever, and I'll
50:22
Speaker 1: you know, see you next time or if you don't
50:24
Speaker 1: come back, have a great life later. Weeps.