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Banana Fish Ep. 1- A Perfect Day for Banana Fish · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess here back after
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  Speaker 1: two weeks to do something that will probably just make
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  Speaker 1: everyone stop listening to the podcast, and that is to
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  Speaker 1: talk about banana fish. Yay, why are we doing this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, well I do know, actually sort of.
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  Speaker 1: It's because this is currently my second favorite anime. You
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  Speaker 1: may remember when we were watching Ree zero, I said
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  Speaker 1: reezero was like in my top three, but like I
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  Speaker 1: think I might have said, like it's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like not set in Stone top three,
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  Speaker 1: like Mob is one, and then I don't really know
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  Speaker 1: what happens after that. But well I do now because
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  Speaker 1: this is now my second favorite anime and I finish
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  Speaker 1: the manga and it's my just favorites manga now, so
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  Speaker 1: hooray you get to find out some more weird shit
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  Speaker 1: about what I like, like you didn't already know, right,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna go over this and hopefully it'll
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  Speaker 1: be okay. So let's just start with kind of some
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  Speaker 1: background information that you may or may not be aware
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  Speaker 1: of or care about. First of all, the anime is
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  Speaker 1: based on a manga by A. Kimi Yoshida, and it
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  Speaker 1: was serialized in a monthly showjo magazine called Visatsu Shojo
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  Speaker 1: Comic that is no longer the name of the magazine.
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  Speaker 1: It is now Betsukami. In case you were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I never heard of that or something. I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: of either of them, so whatever. So anyway, it was serialized.
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  Speaker 1: It ran from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: so it had nine year run. And besides having a
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  Speaker 1: nine year run, that would make it the oldest story
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  Speaker 1: that we've ever paid attention to on this podcast. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting. So anyway, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about a Kimi Yoshida. Her first published story, because it
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  Speaker 1: was a story not a manga, was in nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven in that say Shojo magazine, and it was called
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  Speaker 1: A Slightly Strange Neighbor. And I have not read it,
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  Speaker 1: and I would really like to. Her style has been
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  Speaker 1: compared more to shown in than shojo, and actually in
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty two magazine interview, she said, and I
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  Speaker 1: quote in English, at least being a secret jojo manga
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  Speaker 1: artist suits me just fine. Hidden in some corner of
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  Speaker 1: the world, staying out of people's way. I can actually
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  Speaker 1: do some pretty outrageous things, which is great. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you men can just shut up girls, let's just have
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  Speaker 1: our own fun right here. End quote. More or less,
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  Speaker 1: so that will probably end up giving you a lot
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  Speaker 1: of insight into her and why this is so weird.
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  Speaker 1: You will see as we go. I suppose I kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel like she is the comic artist I would
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  Speaker 1: be if I had absolutely no filter, but thankfully I
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  Speaker 1: do so Anyway, the manga takes place in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: five and nineteen eighty six and maybe eighty seven. I
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  Speaker 1: and get really confused because there's no one who's telling
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  Speaker 1: me what year it is anymore. And it takes place
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  Speaker 1: in the US in the Northeast, mostly in New York
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  Speaker 1: City in Manhattan, but also in New Jersey in Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Actually, there's not another one, So that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting for us, as at least on this show,
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  Speaker 1: Like I haven't covered anything that takes place outside of
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  Speaker 1: Japan or fictional Japan or like another world or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, so it's going to be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: how they do that. Maybe poorly, but anyway. The anime
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  Speaker 1: adaptation is actually from twenty eighteen, so it took a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time for this to get animated for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: And according to what I've read, this is like one
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  Speaker 1: of the best selling shojo manga of all time. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it took so long, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's fine that it did, cause at least we
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  Speaker 1: had a major studio adapted, which was Studio Mapa, who
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  Speaker 1: you may be familiar with because we have done shows,
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  Speaker 1: or at least one show from them before, which was Chainsawman.
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  Speaker 1: They also are responsible for a jiu Jitsu Kaizen's Vinland
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  Speaker 1: saga Attack on Titan, the later part of it, at
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  Speaker 1: least Zombielan saga, if you like that. I like that
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  Speaker 1: a lot. And the first season of Doro Hedoro, which
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  Speaker 1: is getting a second season and I'm super excited about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually thinking about covering the first season next, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. So it is released in twenty eighteen. It
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  Speaker 1: is two consecutive cores, starting on July fifteenth and running
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  Speaker 1: through December twentieth, so that is twenty four episodes. They
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  Speaker 1: change some things, though, and the worst thing that they
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  Speaker 1: changed that you made all the other changes happen is
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  Speaker 1: that they change the setting from nineteen eighty five to
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  Speaker 1: sometime in the twenty tens, so that affected quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, in the manga, things have happened right after
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  Speaker 1: the Vietnam War. There people who have been involved in it.
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  Speaker 1: There are incidents that I have to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: So in the anime they had to update it and
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  Speaker 1: make it the Iraq War. It's just not exactly the same.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Vietnam War had a draft, so the
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  Speaker 1: people who were there like it just makes more sense
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  Speaker 1: than it does in twenty ten or twenty fifteen or
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  Speaker 1: whenever they were trying to set this. Also, some locations
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  Speaker 1: aren't there anymore, which will go over as we get there.
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  Speaker 1: And the biggest problem that I have with setting it
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty tens is that New York is not
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  Speaker 1: the same city It wasn't nineteen eighty five like at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you who are listening
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  Speaker 1: to this have been to New York or know that
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  Speaker 1: much about New York City, but that is my ancestral homeland,
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  Speaker 1: so it is very kind of important and sentimental to me.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't lived there since I was a young child.
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  Speaker 1: And as much as I love it, and I really
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  Speaker 1: do love it, for some messed up reason I could
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  Speaker 1: never move back there because I am far too poor
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  Speaker 1: to even live in the shittiest areas of the Bronx
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  Speaker 1: where I'm from. So yeah, it sucks. Like I could
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  Speaker 1: buy like a studio apartment and then I'd still have
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  Speaker 1: to pay like seven eight hundred dollars a month in
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  Speaker 1: HOA fees, Like how is that even possible for people?
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is the New York today is
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  Speaker 1: a totally different world than it was in the seventies
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  Speaker 1: and eighties and nineties. Really, New York in the eighties
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  Speaker 1: was horribly overrun with crime, Like it was really bad.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of what happens in Banana Fish, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of makes sense with New York City in that
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  Speaker 1: time period. In the twenty tens, New York is one
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  Speaker 1: of the safest cities in America. It really still is,
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  Speaker 1: even though people think that it got worse. Everything got
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  Speaker 1: worse in the country, but New York got worse in
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  Speaker 1: a way that Philly wished it could get worse, like barely,
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  Speaker 1: and like there are connections with the mafia and stuff
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  Speaker 1: that really don't exist the same way that they did
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  Speaker 1: in that time period. So I wish that it wasn't changed.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is a cardinal mistake, and if
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  Speaker 1: I could direct it, I would have just said it
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  Speaker 1: in eighty five, because I don't think anyone would have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, blinked. Really, it's not like we don't have
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  Speaker 1: shows set in the Viking era or the nineteen twenties
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  Speaker 1: or something. It's another cool, interesting time period. We could
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  Speaker 1: have done it. So now that I've complained about that,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you some information about the folks who were
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  Speaker 1: involved with the production. So the director was Utsumi Hiroko,
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  Speaker 1: and he hasn't directed that much, but he did direct
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  Speaker 1: Skate the Infinity, which I actually really liked and I
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  Speaker 1: believe is getting a second season, so yeah, that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: He also did key animation, episode direction or storyboards on
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  Speaker 1: Clan Ed and Klanad The After Story, Bungo, Stray Dogs,
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  Speaker 1: and Chaon, and it looks like he directed Bucci Giri
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, which I heard was
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  Speaker 1: not very good, but whatever. On series composition and screenplay,
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  Speaker 1: we have my absolutely favorite series comp person, Hirochi Seco,
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  Speaker 1: which you would know from Jujitsu, Kaizen, Chainsawman, Mob, Psycho
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. He's responsible for script or series composition of
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming Dondadan anime. So he just always does a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic job. And I actually couldn't figure out who it
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  Speaker 1: was until yesterday and then I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it's hirochie Seco. So whatever. For character design, we have
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  Speaker 1: Hayashi a Kemi, who did an okay job. Honestly, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little not thrilled with the designs because they weren't
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  Speaker 1: updated well enough like the main cast, Like the core
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  Speaker 1: main characters, most of them got design updates to match
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  Speaker 1: with the twenty tens, but all of the background characters
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  Speaker 1: look like they're in nineteen seventies or nineteen eighties New
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  Speaker 1: York and it's very, very off putting and confusing. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're watching this, and I've heard this from several
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  Speaker 1: people now that it feels really nostalgic, and that's probably
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons. And if you kind of watch
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  Speaker 1: this and not think of it as twenty ten, twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: and you think of it as eighty five, but for
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  Speaker 1: some reason they have cell phones, it's actually going to
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  Speaker 1: serve you a lot better. But yeah, so not thrilled
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  Speaker 1: with the character designs, But what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: So that's really all I need to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: Banana Fish. Before we start, you have hopefully already listened
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  Speaker 1: to the content warning, and if you haven't, best of luck,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. So before we
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  Speaker 1: go any further, I just wanted to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about show Jo, because this is the first time
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  Speaker 1: that we have watched covered whatever a show Jo anime
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, we've spent all our time on
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  Speaker 1: showon In and Sanin and those are good, they're just
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  Speaker 1: different demographics. So if you don't know what shojo, anime
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  Speaker 1: and manga even is, I will break down the categories
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  Speaker 1: for you. Sanan is for adult males, shown In is
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  Speaker 1: for teens and young adult men, Joe Say is for
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  Speaker 1: adult women, and Shojo is for teen and young adult women.
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  Speaker 1: So we are in the younger girls category. And the first,
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  Speaker 1: like the earliest show Jo that we have record of,
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  Speaker 1: was in the early nineteen hundreds. Of course, looked kind
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  Speaker 1: of different than it does today, and it kind of
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  Speaker 1: formalized in the nineteen fifties and at that point, really
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  Speaker 1: all shojo was written and drawn by men for young women,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting. It wasn't until the sixties and seventies,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of a new wave of women artists started
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  Speaker 1: getting involved in shojo and it became very very female dominated,
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  Speaker 1: and it is to this day. I don't really know
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  Speaker 1: if there are men writing showjo. There are definitely women
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  Speaker 1: writing shownen and you know, sanan and stuff, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to go the other way. And that might
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  Speaker 1: be because media for girls is not taken very seriously,
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  Speaker 1: and that is in this country and in Japan, and
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of why. Like that Akimi Yoshida quote that
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  Speaker 1: I just read, she explained that she could do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things because she was kind of not being
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  Speaker 1: watched as much. Yeah, you can do or at least
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  Speaker 1: you could do a lot more in shojo because it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really watched, it wasn't taken seriously. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that we're still not taking it seriously in the West,
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  Speaker 1: at least some of us. I was recently on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: x whatever the fuck, and someone happened to post a
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  Speaker 1: picture of a tape in a bookstore that had a
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  Speaker 1: sign that said essential Manga on it, and on the
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  Speaker 1: table was just shown in insane in manga, and they
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  Speaker 1: were like, where's the showjo. Now, it would be nice
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  Speaker 1: to have all demographics represented, but who knows who put
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  Speaker 1: this together. Just some person who really likes these things
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  Speaker 1: so put them on the table. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: anything wrong with that. It's not something I'm upset about.
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  Speaker 1: What I am upset about is the comments, and there
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  Speaker 1: were plenty of them suggesting that shojo is not something
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  Speaker 1: that is suited for anyone outside of young girls, and
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  Speaker 1: the same doesn't go for shown in. Shown In is
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  Speaker 1: for everyone, but shojo is just for girls, because why
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  Speaker 1: would a guy read girl media? And that is a
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  Speaker 1: problem for everyone. That's a problem for women, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a problem for men too, because then you miss out
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of cool things if you really feel
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  Speaker 1: that way, or you don't feel like you're allowed to
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  Speaker 1: like things, and that's not fair. Everyone should be able
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  Speaker 1: to kind of intermix and enjoy all of these genres.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know where I'm going with this. What
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to say is that this is my home demographic.
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  Speaker 1: I am sort of a female sort of thing person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not totally but a little bit not kind of,
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  Speaker 1: and I, for lack of a better term, grew up
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  Speaker 1: on shojo with stuff like Magic Night, Ray Earth and
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  Speaker 1: Fushigi Yugi and Sailor Moon. So this all feels very
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  Speaker 1: normal to me. And if you are not used to
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  Speaker 1: reading or watching these kind of stories, you may hit
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  Speaker 1: into tropes that you are not familiar with that are
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  Speaker 1: off putting. And if we run into them, I will
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  Speaker 1: try to go over them, but be aware that things
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  Speaker 1: are going to be a little different than what you're
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  Speaker 1: used to if you're just used to like battle shown
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  Speaker 1: in anyway, it's nice to get back into some showjo. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it made me feel so home. Oh my god, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like gushing about this and then we're gonna actually
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  Speaker 1: get into it and you're just gonna be like, what
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  Speaker 1: the fuck? So yeah, anyway, I think that's really all
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to say about it. It's been about eighteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes or something crazy, so we really should stop talking
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  Speaker 1: about it and just get into the fucking episode. So
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  Speaker 1: episode one of Banana Fish is called a Perfect Day
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  Speaker 1: for Banana Fish. Yeah, all of the episode titles besides
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  Speaker 1: this one are based on literature written by Lost Generation writers,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll try to talk about that. Technically, this title
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  Speaker 1: is too, but it'll come up in the episode, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to. Here we go, So we start
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  Speaker 1: the episode with a black title screen that just says
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  Speaker 1: banana fish in yellow, and it's there for like a
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  Speaker 1: really long time, like too long, and then we cut
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  Speaker 1: to a sky, you know, like a blue sky with
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  Speaker 1: like some clouds, and there's some sort of wrap type
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  Speaker 1: bird flying and it kind of looks like it could
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  Speaker 1: be a bald eagle because the head is a different
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  Speaker 1: color than the body, but it's like far away, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't really tell. And also it's making these sounds
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  Speaker 1: that are like hawk sounds, not eagle sounds, because eagles
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  Speaker 1: make like cheap, cheap sounds. They actually don't sound that
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  Speaker 1: scary at all, and this guy is like sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a bird of prey that you are used to hearing
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  Speaker 1: in like movies and stuff. So then we come down
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  Speaker 1: and we cut to three military tanks driving through the
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  Speaker 1: desert and we kind of like pass some discarded military
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  Speaker 1: gloves and boots and stuff, which it's just like fucking
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  Speaker 1: pick those up, guys, And then we cut to a fire,
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  Speaker 1: like a campfire at night, and there is a group
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  Speaker 1: of guys and they're camping out in this partially bombed
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  Speaker 1: out building, and some dude is just singing, oh my darling, Clementine,
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  Speaker 1: but just oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine,
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  Speaker 1: just that part over and over again, and the manga
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  Speaker 1: someone asked him what the fuck is his problem? And
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  Speaker 1: he's like, that's the only line I know, But they
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  Speaker 1: don't do that in the anime. So the guy that
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  Speaker 1: was singing stops and he looks into the distance where
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  Speaker 1: it looks kind of light on the horizon, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: bombing's starting again, and he lights a cigarette. Another guy
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  Speaker 1: says it's been like this ever since the occupation. The
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  Speaker 1: first guy exhales some smoke and he's like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to get back to the States. And another guy,
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  Speaker 1: who might be the second guy but I wasn't sure,
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  Speaker 1: said did you hear about that drug? And the first
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  Speaker 1: guy's like the one that killed Billy? I hope not,
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  Speaker 1: And guy too says I heard he suffered pretty horribly.
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  Speaker 1: And another guy's like, poor dude, he didn't deserve to
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  Speaker 1: go out like that. And the first guy, I think,
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  Speaker 1: looks around and he's like, hey, where's Griffin. And then
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  Speaker 1: we see a guy kind of appear in a doorway
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  Speaker 1: and the first guy's like, damn it, Griffin, don't scare
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  Speaker 1: us Like that, Griffin is standing still in the doorway,
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  Speaker 1: looking at them blankly, and the second guy says, that
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  Speaker 1: was one long piss and Griffin walks into the room
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  Speaker 1: and the first guy's like, just three days and we're
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  Speaker 1: out of here, and another guy's like, hey, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And Guy one is like, what are you gonna do
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  Speaker 1: after and the second guy's like, you know. And while
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  Speaker 1: this is happening, Griffin reaches down and he grabs a
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  Speaker 1: rifle and he takes the safety off. Oh. Guy one
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  Speaker 1: notices something is wrong, but before he can do anything,
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  Speaker 1: Griffin just starts shooting wildly at them and like screaming
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  Speaker 1: while he's doing it, which doesn't make me concerned at all.
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  Speaker 1: So the group of people are just getting shot to
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  Speaker 1: fucking death, and the first guy is like Griffin and
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  Speaker 1: the second guy pulls him behind a wall and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: dumb ass, get back. So Guy one and Guy two
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  Speaker 1: are hiding while Griffin is just murdering everyone else, and
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  Speaker 1: Guy one takes a breath and you know, aims, and
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  Speaker 1: while Griffin is busy killing his friends shoots him in
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  Speaker 1: both legs. Yeah, I guess. Griffin drops the gun and
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  Speaker 1: falls to the ground, and we see that everyone is
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  Speaker 1: on the ground covered in blood, probably dead, except for
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  Speaker 1: those two guys. So the two guys approached Griffin, who
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  Speaker 1: is just sitting there bleeding from his legs, and Guy
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  Speaker 1: Too is like, you, bastard, how could you? And he
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  Speaker 1: tries to like attack Griffin, but Guy one, like pretty
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  Speaker 1: calmly stops him and kneels in front of Griffin and
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  Speaker 1: then he says, gryffin callan reyes, do you know who
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  Speaker 1: I am? It's Max, your buddy, Okay, his name's Max. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Griffin looks so out of it and like drool is
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  Speaker 1: running down his face and he says banana and Max
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  Speaker 1: is like what and Griffin just has this like intense
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: fear in his eyes and he says banana fish and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they stare him in shock. And then we cut to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the Statue of Liberty. So we've established where we are
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: where on the East Coast, probably in New York, even
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: though the statue liberties in New Jersey. I assume that's
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what they were trying to get us to understand. From there,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: we go to a dark, heavily graffitied alley that's kind
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of green, like it's got a really nice green overtone.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I actually forgot that I really like the background art
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in the show, or I didn't realize that. Anyway, it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a cool alley, and we hear sirens kind of in
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the background. They're not close, They're just kind of ambience.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: And it's important that I tell you before we move on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: There are only four alleys in all of New York City. Four.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: There is no way this works in real life here.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what everyone's obsession is with having alleys
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: in New York City or why New York City doesn't
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: have alleys, But if you want to set your ceedy,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: weird thing in an alley, don't do it in New York.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Do it in another city, like Philly or Boston or
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh or probably Milwaukee, or like literally any other city
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that has alleys. Plus, this show would have worked better
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in Detroit or Philly or Chicago anyway, because they are
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: still incredibly crime written cities. Sorry everybody, they are anyway.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: So we're in a fictional alley that probably doesn't really
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: exist in New York. Someone walks through a puddle. We
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: can see he has red like Chuck Taylor's on and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: he is walking and he has a hood up, so
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we can't see exactly what he looks like. And there
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: is some like steam there for a second, like maybe
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: he crossed the steam grate. I wasn't really sure, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: he stops and turns back for a second and then
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: continues to walk, and he comes around a corner and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: he sees someone like stumbling towards him, and we get
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a low shot of this person, so we really don't
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: see what they look like. We just see like shaky legs,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and then we see the man collapse and he's wearing
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a suit, and the guy who sees this we get
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: kind of a better look at him. He has green eyes,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: he has blonde hair. He's wearing a blue jacket with
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like a gray hoodie underneath and ripped up jeans. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: he runs over, and the guy in the suit looks
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: real fucked up, like he's got blood all over him
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and stuff, and he looks beat up, and he starts
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to reach out towards the blonde guy and he's like,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: help me, and the blonde guy takes off his hood
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and leans down and is like, are you okay? And
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: then he sees that he's covered in blood and he's like, yeah,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I guess not. And the suit guy reaches up towards
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: him and he says, take this, and he hands him
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: something and we really don't see what it is, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the suit guy says forty two westward Los Angeles, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: then it sounds like he says something else, but we
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's like mumbled or something,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and the blonde guy looks shocked by whatever he said
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, how do you know that? Hey?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And the guy is no longer responding because he's probably dead.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And then in the other direction, we see two guys approaching.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: All these characters are pretty young, like maybe they're in
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: their late teens or their early twenties, and the first
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: guy who's approaching says this way, and the blonde guy's like,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on? And the two guys
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: who just got there see him and jump, and the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: second guy says boss, and the first guy's like why,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and the blonde guy's like answer me, and the guy's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: flinch and the second guy looks at the first guy
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and shakes his head. No. But then they hear what
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is possibly the safety being removed from the gun in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the blonde guy's pocket, and the second guy's like, wait, boss,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: don't shoot, and the first guy says it was Dino.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: He told us to and the blonde guy's like he did.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: And then they hear police sirens, this time definitely approaching,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and the blonde guys like, get lost, I'll talk to Dino.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: The two guys take off running, and the blonde guy
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: puts his hood back up, looks down at the suit guy,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: who is really probably dead at this point, and runs
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in the other direction down the alley. Then we cut
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to the exterior of a mansion, like a really big
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: mansion with a waterfall in front and like a gate
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and shit. And it is in North called Well, New Jersey.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It does not say that in the anime, but in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the manga they make that very clear. Why am I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: telling you this because it's important. North called Well, New
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Jersey is in Essex County and it is technically a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: rich suburb of New York City. If you're like, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: wonder why that sounds familiar, Well, it's because that's where
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the Sopranos House was. Why this coincidence. I have no
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: idea actually, and don't forget that this all was before
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the Sopranos, so it's not a reference to it or something,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so I think it's just kind of a happy accident. Anyway,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we see this kind of olderish, you know, middle aged
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: guy who is wearing sunglasses and standing like out in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: front of the house, like on a porch, and he's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: wearing like a brown suit, and he's singing something to himself,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what he's singing, and he's like
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette. So the guy looks up and he
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is kind of shocked and then kind of chuckles to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: himself as he sees that that blonde guy is approaching.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Nobody has names yet, and it's very frustrating. And then
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and he says, Ash, what are you doing awake this early?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And the blonde guy, whose name is Ash thank god, says,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I came to see the old man. Old people get
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: up early in the morning, so I figured. And he
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: kind of scratches his head and walks forward, and then
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: he says he's in right, and the older guy is like, hey,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: watch your mouth. You call him Popadino, get it? And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Ash is like, I came here to cedno, not you,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and he walks past him. The older guy's like hey,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and Ash stops and the older guy's like, aren't you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: gonna make any more of those videos? Huh? Maybe Ash
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: is an aspiring film director, and he continues, I was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a fan of yours, you know. He kind of chuckles
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and says, even now, I could still it kind of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: trails off. Okay, and Ash, who is almost completely off
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: screen at the moment so we can't see his reaction
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to this, says, you scumbag, and the older guy's like what,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And Ash says, you're a scumbag, Marvin, and he kind
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: of turns back to Marvin, who's the older guy, I guess,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and he like half smiles and says, you're a pig.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Now before we continue, if you watched the anime and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you watched it on like Amazon Farm or something, you
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: may realize that my choice of words was different than
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: what you saw in these subtitles, because what you saw
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in those subtitles was probably a slow or for gay people.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Now why did I change it? Well, because I was
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: thinking and I was like, I wonder if this is
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: really what he's saying. So this morning I bought the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: first copy of the untranslated manga because in the English
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: manga he's not saying that. So I figured somebody's taking
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: license here, and I don't know who. So I bought,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you know, the first issue of the Japanese version of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the manga for like a dollar thirty or something. Thank
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: god it was cheap, and went through this section and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: found out that the word that Ash is using is guessuyado,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I believe, which just means scumbag or asshole or something
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like that. It is not an attack on someone's sexuality,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: so yes. And then I thought, well, that doesn't mean
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that that's not what he's saying in the anime. So
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I watched this scene again and I clearly heard him
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: say guess u YadA. So yes, that is a really
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: interesting liberty that the translator is taking. And I'm assuming
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: they did it for a reason, but I don't think
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the reason is good enough to do that, because you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: can use so many words here that would piss someone
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: off that aren't a slur. And I'm not saying there
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: aren't slurs using this show at all. I'm just saying,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: why would you put another one in there if you
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: didn't need to and it was wrong, so I just
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: wanted you to know that. Anyway, It still pisses off Marvin,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: even though he didn't call him that, and he says,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you little brat, shit if Papatina didn't like you so much,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And we cut to Ash and some other dude who
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: are like walking through a hallway now. And this other
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: dude who I don't ever know, if I ever really
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: figure out what his name is, he knocks on this
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: really really nice wooden door and he says, Papa Ash
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is here, and someone who's probably Dino from inside the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: room says, come in, and that guy opens the door
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and Ash walks into the room and Dino says, morning Ash.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: And he's sitting at a table eating breakfast, and there's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: like a butler standing there too, and he's either bald
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: or has like a really cleanly shaved head, kind of
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: an older guy, and he's wearing a robe kind of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: heavier set, and he says, I was just having breakfast.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Care to join me? And he is eating two sunnyside
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: up eggs and something that looks like Canadian bacon maybe
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: or ham, I don't know, And also there was like
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: two slices of what looked like potato maybe, and also
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: a piece of broccoli, so that's weird. And Ash's like,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I'm here for business. Dino says, I've told you over
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and over to take your hands out of your pockets
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: when you talk to me. I guess Ash has his
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: hands in his pockets, and then he continues, you want
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: my men to take it off for you? Is that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a threat? Ash sighs and takes off his jacket and says,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: why'd you make them do it? And Dino's like, go
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: behind your back. That wasn't nobody, He wasn't worth your time.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: At that point, Ash fucking slams the food and everything
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: off the table and he's like, nobody, a man's dead.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And two dudes hear the commotion and they come inside
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the room with their guns raised, and Dino's like, it's fine,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: wait outside, and they leave, and so does the waiter.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: So now Ash and Dina are alone, and Dino says,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: calm down, Ash, I'm sorry I left you out. Ash
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: turns and walks away from the table and he's like,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that's so not it, and he sits on the couch
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and he says, you promised you wouldn't kill anyone. Dino
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is like, this was an exception. He was a rat,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: not a member of the syndicate, and he starts to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: walk over to Ash and says, that's why I had
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: them do it. He puts his hand on the top
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of the couch kind of near Ash and says, but
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: how did you find out? Ash looks kinda sad, maybe,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and he says the guys were acting weird, so I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: was keeping an eye on them, and Diino says, good,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: that's how you be a boss. I knew you were
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: cut out to be a leader. At this point, he
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: puts his hand on Ash's right shoulder and caresses it slightly.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't have a better word for what is happening,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and then Dino says, do put that right arm to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: use for me? Yeah? I don't. I'm not sure what
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that means for what. Ash chuckles and says, sure, I'll
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: help you walk, And Dino's like, I see you've acquired
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a bit of cockiness. Used to cry like a baby
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: every time I gave you a task? What? And Ash
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: is like, I guess I have a bad memory. Dino says,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is that so, well, there's something you shouldn't forget I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: took you off the streets. Remember that. Oh we have
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: another former homeless character, one of my favorite types. I'm
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: so excited. And then he puts his hand on Ash's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: cheek and Ash like doesn't react or move at all,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Andantino continues, you know, I love you, sweetheart, and he
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: actually uses the word isi teru for like love, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, what like? Cause in Japan, like you
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: almost never say I love you like aishataru, even say
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like you like the person. But love is like not
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: something you really throw around. But then again, this is
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: set in the US, so we do say love a lot,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: but I thought it was weird. Anyway, that's enough of that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: We cut to a street sign that says East Ninth Street.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I could tell you that we are in the lower
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: East Side of Manhattan. Ash is outside leaning on a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: motorcycle that is parked in front of a diner of
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: some sort maybe, And this is kind of when I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: realized that the backgrounds are actually really nice. And he
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: is looking at his phone, maybe texting someone, and drinking
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: soda out of a plastic bottle that soda would come in,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and a voice says Ash, and we see this kind
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of you know teen or early twenties dude with sunglasses
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and eyebrow piercing and a purple mohawk, awesome chewing gum.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: As he approaches and Ashes like, yo, Shorter, that's not
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a great name. And Shorter says, why are you up
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: so early? Did something happen? And Ash is like, not really,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I just went to see you, old Mandino, And Shorter
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: is like, so, I'm guessing you butted heads with Marvin again.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Ash drinks from his soda bottle and then size and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Shorter is like, be careful with him. He's vindictive and gay. Okay, sure,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: let's just put that in there, and Shorter continues he's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: got a thing for green eyed blondes. Sure. Ash tosses
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: his bottle into the trash can and gets on the motorcycle,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: which I guess is his, and says, stop worrying, or
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: you're gonna go wald. And then he puts on his
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: helmets and he starts his bike and says see you
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and rides off, and Shorter smiles and kind of rubs
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: his hair and says, I'll definitely go bald. Huh. Then
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: we cut to another street with a bunch of closed
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and shuttered storefronts on the block, and we see that
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: there are apartments above them, and there's like lots of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: graffiti and stuff, and ash knocks on the door. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: think the door's green, but I don't remember, and I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: didn't write it down, and a small, like young black
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: kid opens the door, like really cautiously, and he looks
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: younger than he does in the manger for some reason,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and also more like he's in the seventies than he
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: did in the manga. But whatever, So the kid sees
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: him and is like, boss, you're back early. They both
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: walk inside and we see that like maybe it's a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: studio apartment. There's a bed in the room. It's kind
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: of sparse but clean, but also like dingy, like it's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: never actually going to be clean because it's a rental,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and the dirt is just ingrained in the fabric of
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the apartment now because it hasn't been taken care of.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And there are kind of brick walls, and I believe
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: they are painted white. At first, I thought there was
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a parge coat on them, but in other scenes it
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: looks like they're just white painted brick walls. So whatever,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I told you that, but I'm a home inspector,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: so I'll like to notice things whatever. So Ash says,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: any news. He sets his jacket on a chair and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he sits on the bed, and the boy says, Charlie
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: called and said the Japanese guys are coming the day
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: after tomorrow, and Ash is like for the magazine, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I said no, and the boy kind of chuckles and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he's like, but the cops will owe you one now,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and he winks and Ash sighs, and he's like, fine,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: anything else, and the boy says no, same as usual,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and he looks over at an interior door and says
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: him too the door. And Ash's like, okay, cool, thanks Skip,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and he puts his hand in his pocket and Skip
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is learning to put on his jacket and he says
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: it's something wrong, and Ash's like, no, no, it's nothing,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and he hands him some cash and Skip takes it
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and thanks him and turns to leave, and then turns
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: back and says, hey, rumor has it that Arthur's got
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: something to do with what happens? And Ash's like, yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I figured I'll have to settle things with him sometime soon.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: See you, Skip, And Skip also says goodbye and leaves
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and Ash reaches into his pocket again and takes out
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a necklace. Then we go to Dino, who is in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a greenhouse watering orchids, and the door opens loudly and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: he turns to see an out of breath man with
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: red hair and glasses, and Heno's like, careful with the doors,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you're gonna hurt my orchids. And the guy is like,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to hell with your orchids. That's mean it's it's gone,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and Heino's like what. And then we cut back to Ash,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: who is still sitting in that room, and he's rolling
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: this necklace with this charm that kind of looks like
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a bullet it's like bullet shaped charm on it. He's
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like rolling it on the desk and he kind of
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: flicks it and then he picks it up and shakes
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it and it rattles, and he's like oh, and he
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: struggles to kind of get it open and the top
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: comes off and inside there's a tiny bottle of white powder.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: He kind of exhales and opens the door to the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: other room. So now we know it's not a studio.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: It's actually a one bedroom. This is the bedroom, and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: there's someone sitting in a wheelchair inside and we can't
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: see this person's face, and Ash says, what's this banana
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: fish keep mentioning? He kind of gets on his knees
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm begging you. The man said it
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: before he died too, Okay, that's what the guy said. Anyway,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: We cut to that guy in the suit saying banana fish,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and Ash says, did this banana fish do this to you?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And he looks up at him like pleadingly, and he's like,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: say's something Griffin, Oh my god, is the dude from
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: that first scene who killed everybody? And then we see
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: him and he looks like he's not there anymore, like
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: there's just nothing, you know, behind his eyes. Then we
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: are somewhere else and we see someone put their hand
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: on the glass and an airplane taking off, and we
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: kind of pull back and it's this dude, also kind
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of teen's early twenties looking dude with you know, black
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: hair and kind of really dark brown eyes and luggage
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and he's looking out an airport window, maybe at JFK,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: but we don't get specification, and someone from behind him
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: says a chan and I guess we're gonna call this
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: dude chan for a little while he is startled. And
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the other guy is older and he is brown hair
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and a beard, and he's like, you coming, and a
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Chan runs to meet him and is like, oh yeah.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And then we see the city skyline as night fades
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: into morning, and we cut to a robin on a
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: chain link fence looking over as two gun shots ring out,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and of course the robin flies away because that's really scary,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and the aperture shifts. I think I got that right,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and we see behind the robin are these two dudes
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: who are standing up against a graffited wall in the background,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and they are the guys who Ash confronted in the alley.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: And the first guy looks terrified and he's tearing up
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and there's a cut on his cheek and Ash is
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: aiming the gun, probably at this guy, and a bunch
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: of folks are standing behind him and watching. The guy
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: is like, we're really sorry, boss, and Ash sternly cocks
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: his pistol. I guess it's double action pistol. In fact,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: it absolutely is, and he's kind of just doing it
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: for effect, because I'm sure he could just pull the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: trigger once, but whatever, and the guy hearing this falls
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: to the ground, puts his hands on his head and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: he's like, don't kill us. And Ash puts down the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: gun and he says, get out of my sight. Oh,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: he's nice. I guess. Both of the guys run off
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: as fast as they can, and Ash turns to face
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the guys behind him and says, let me remind you, guys,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: we are not the Mafiast dogs. We do business with
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you know, as equals. If you want to be his pet,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you're free to go to him, right and he turns
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: his head. Arthur. Uh. Oh, Arthur, like everyone else, is
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a teen's early twenties, someone with blonde hair that kind
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of sticks up Likeash the Stampedes a little bit, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: not to that extent. And he has blue eyes, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: he's like, you're the boss. Ash puts his jacket on.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I guess it is a cold time of the year
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: because everyone is wearing jackets, and he says, glad we
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: agree if you mean it, that is. And everyone's kind
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: of walking off, and Arthur has not started walking anywhere yet,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: and and he's standing next to some guy and he
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: goes you think he knows something and the guy's like, nah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: he couldn't even hit those guys, and Arthur's like, he
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: missed on purpose, dumbass, and he starts to walk away,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and the guy starts following him, and he continues, he
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: just got close enough to nick their skin. Wow, that's accuracy.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: He doesn't look it. But you gotta play dirty if
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you want to beat him. And the guy kind of
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: gasps and is like, are you really gonna Arthur is
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: holding his right hand up and we see that there's
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: a scar running across his fingers, and he's like, gotta
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: pay him back for these fingers. Okay, but it's a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: really cool scar. I don't know why you're upset about it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Then we cut to a crowded, narrow city street that
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: is absolutely one hundred percent Chinatown. Yeay. A guy with
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: a beard and glasses wearing scrubs pulls back a curtain
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: and we hear Ash say business is good, hun Doctor Meredith.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Meredith frowns and we see Ash and he is sitting
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: at doctor Meredith's desk and he says, back, Alley, doctoring
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: must make good money. Doctor Mereth says, I told you
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: this is a restricted area. Troublemaker. The meds are on
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the desk. Leave your money, there, Ash picks up a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: bottle of pills and tosses it up in the air
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: gently and says thanks. Doctor Meredith is putting on a
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: lab coat and says, you know these are like nothing
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: better than a mere consolation. Get drug with something that
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: bad and you're gone for life. Who is he anyway?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: And she's like, none of your business, but I have
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a job for you. Doctor Meredith sits down at his
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: desk and says, oh, you get a girl pregnant or something,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and Ashes like, absolutely not. It's this and he slides
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: over a piece of folded paper. Doctor Meredith opens it
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and Ash says, can you tell me what it is?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Doctor Meredith sees this white powder? Obviously it's from the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: file that Ash found in that necklace, and he rubs
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: it between his fingers and he's like, doesn't look like heroin. Wow,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: he's good at this, I guess, and Ash is like,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I want you to figure out what it is. Then
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: we cut to the mansion and Dino says Ash did,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and he is sitting on a chair with a really
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: cute tabby cat on his lap, and the guy who
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I never know what his name is says yeah. When
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they got there, Ash was with him, uh oh, and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Dino says either they talked or he handed him something,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and Marvin's like, shall I make him talk? And Dino,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: who is petting the cat as it purs says no,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: we don't want to get him too curious about this.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Leave it to me. We cut to Ash, who is
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: now in the mansion I guess several somethings later, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: he is standing in front of Dino as Dino was
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: sitting in a chair and Ash says, can you stop
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: calling me over like this? And Dino's like, tell me, Ash,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: did that man tell you anything? And As says what man?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And Heno's like, don't play stupid. What did he say
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to you? And Ash kind of pauses for a second
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and he says help me, and Dino chuckles and is
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: like I see. And Ash turns and is like, if
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: that's it, I'm leaving, and Heno's like, okay, one last thing.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Did he hand you anything? And a s says nope,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: but He's still kind of facing away from him, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Dino's eyes narrow and he says really, and Ash turns
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: his head and says really, later, old man, next time,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: make an appointment and he leaves and he know's like
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that sly fox, he's just not doing a great job lying.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I guess. Ash is now walking down the hallway of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: this mansion and he passes Marvin and he says, bye, Marvin,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: thanks for driving me here, but I won't need your
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: services on the way home. And Marvin to himself says,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that little brat, just you wait. And Arthur kind of
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: approaches and half laughs and says take it easy, man,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and Marvin's like, Arthur, what are you doing here? And
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Arthur says, I've got an offer for you. I'm sure
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: you'll like it. That's not good, And then we cut
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to some really large building and inside the building, a
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: chan is walking I guess down a hallway and he's
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: like wow, it's just like Cusig New York. And he's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: looking around like super excitedly and he's like just like TV.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: And the brown haired guy is like, stay with us,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: a chan, and they're like walking down a hall and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: there's this red haired guy in like a suit that's
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: leading them. Then we cut to a dead dude covered
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: in blood slumped against the wall. Yay, and a voice
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: says suicide huh, and we see that there's a large group,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: you know, a moderately sized group of people sitting around
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a table looking at this image on a projector screen.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: And one of the guy says, a trader, a real
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: estate broker, and a nightclub owner. Interesting combination. And we
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: flashed through pictures of these dead guys that are like
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: covered in blood, and one of the guys says, this
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: is the third case this month. And this guy who's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: kind of like balding and overweight says, they don't seem
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the type to commit suicide. I can't seem to figure
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: it out. I don't think there's a type to commit suicide,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: but whatever. A guy opens the door and says, captain,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: your guests have arrived. Then we cut to that balding
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: guy shaking hands with the brown hair guy, and the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: brown hair guy says, thanks for having us. I'm Shunichi eBay,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: and the balding guy says, I'm Jenkins. Must have been
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: surprised to hear about Max huh SHUONICI says, yeah, we
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: came here to see him, but I didn't expect it
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: to be in jail. Thank God for Charlie. That's the
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: red haired cup by the way, and Charlie says, I
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: did go to the police academy with him. Han is
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: behind them, kind of not really listening and just kind
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of looking around, and Jenkins is like, oh, is that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: your son? And Achan turns and Jenkins says, you're helping
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: your dad out and a Chan is like not happy
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: about that, and Shunzi's like, no, actually, he's my assistant,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: and Ashan looks kind of frustrated, and he's like, I'm
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Agi O Komura. I'm nineteen and I'm in college. And
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: everyone's like what and Agi is not happy about this.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: So a Chan is just his nickname that Shunichi's been
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: calling him, So we'll call him ag from now on,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: as that's what almost everyone calls him, except when they're
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: trying to be funny. So anyway, Shoonnichi says, I know,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: he looks pretty young, even for a Japanese and Jenkins
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: is like, forgive us, but it actually might be good
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: that you look so young. They don't trust adults, and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Shunichi says, are the street gangs here really that dangerous? Yes,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and Jenkins says it depends on who you're dealing with.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: They're all dangerous guys. They're all dangerous anyway, he continues,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the guy you're meeting today, Ash, he's a pretty sharp one.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: In no time, he got all the neighborhood gangs under control.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: And Charlie says, and he's only seventeen, and he's like really,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and Jenkin is like, yeah, plus he's white, but he
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: hasn't had any problems with the Puerto Ricans or Mexicans
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: or blacks, and that's a pretty big deal. And Ag thinks,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Ash like cinders, what's he like? And that tells you
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: right there that Ag is probably important, and so is Ash,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: because nobody asked that question unless they're going to be important,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna find out what they're like. So I'm excited.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: And then we cut to Ash in his apartments and
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Ash's like, I know it's that'll bastard turn a place
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: upside down. Everything looks totally okay, by the way, and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Skip is like, isn't it always like this? And Ash
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: takes off his jacket and lays on the bed and says,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: I can tell seems too is really desperate. There's no
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: way I'm handing it over. And then we cut to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: an elaborate chandelier and we hear Dino say, are you sure,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and we see that he is sitting at a long
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: table in a dining room and the guy is like, yeah,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: there was nothing in ashes room, and Dino says, so
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: he's already hidden it. That's so like him. But now
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: we know for sure. But if you found it, you'd
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: also know. It's like a it's like a catch twenty two.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Either way, you know that he has it. Okay, Dino continues, Marvin,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: he's yours. Oh. Marvin is surprised, and Dino says, hurt
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: him in any way you want make him talk? Now,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: let's just pause there and say anyway could mean different
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: things based on different shows. So yeah, Marvin says, got it,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and Dino's like, but keep him alive, understood. Then we
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: cut to I don't really know, a blue counter with
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: alcohol on it, I think, and a voice which I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: was pretty sure was Arthur, says old man. Dino said
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: that he's all loved ash just like you. What, And
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: then we see that it is Arthur and Marvin and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: they are at a bar. So Arthur continues, but anyways,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: this solves our problem. So how about you? Were you in?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: You got to keep your promise, though, Marvin takes a
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: drink and says sure, I'm in, and he cuts to
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: black and we hear a voice say, you say he
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: was drugged in ract with something bad, and we see
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: that we are in first person perspective of someone who
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: has their eyes closed, and doctor Meredith is kind of
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: opening the person's eyes and I guess looking at them,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and then we pull back and we see this griffin
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and ashe says, yeah, by a quack at a veteran hospital,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Doctor Meredith is like, who is he to you? Anyways?
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: You can tell me. I'm taking care of him for you.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Ash pauses and then says, he's my big brother. Oh,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: they're related. Now we know why. I mean, I figured
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't that hard. He's obviously related to them,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: but whatever. Doctor Meredith is like, I thought I saw
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: a resemblance. I'm not an expert, so I can't say
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: for sure, but there aren't really any reported cases of
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: flashbacks continuing like this, And Ash says flashbacks and doctor
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Meredith's like spasms, he is Caesar's and says nonsensical stuff right,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and Ash's like, yeah, banana fish, he's always muttering that,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: and doctor Meredith's like Wow, clever choice of words. Did
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: he like Salinger? And Ash's like what, And doctor Meredith
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: says it's in one of his novels, if you come
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: across a banana fish at sea, you'll suddenly feel like dying, okay,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: and Ash says, die, I didn't know. And we cut
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: to a streets and we see Ag and then he
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: is walking down some stairs into a basement shop probably,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and Shunichi is saying something like this is more like
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: And they're walking down this highly graffitied starewell and Skip
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: is leading them, and Age says they said that they'd
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: bust in if anything happened, but he looks back towards
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the street and Skip's like, you're coming or not. They
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: walk in and it is a bar and some kind
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: of hard rock is playing, and Agy looks around in
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: tenses up and there's like all these tough dudes at
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: the bar and they're all looking at them, and also
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: they're all smoking, which is probably not something that would
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: happen in twenty eighteen, but whatever. And I was looking
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: at this bar and going like, oh my god, I've
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: totally been in this bar before, not in New York,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: but I felt like a bar that i'd been in
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: in Philly. And anyway, Skip is ahead of them and
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: they were just standing at the doorway, and he's like,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: what are you so scared of? Come on? They start
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to walk over to him, and we see that there
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: are a bunch of pool tables ahead of them, and
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Skip says, here they are Ash, the guests from Japan.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: And Ash is playing pool, which is so nice for him.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that he gets some time to playpool and
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: not do terrible things. And he says right, and AG
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: thinks he's not how I imagined, and Sunichi says, uh, I'm
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: a photographer from Japan. I wanted to ask you about
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: your gang for a magazine article, and Ash says what
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: do you want to know? And AG and Shoonichi think together, man,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: he's intense. Yeah. Shoonichi then says, can I take a
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: few pictures first? And Ash just like, not the face?
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: And I guess he is shy or smart because you
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: don't want everyone knowing that you're a criminal, and Shoonichi
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: is like, no problem, Echan, get ready, and AG's like okay.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: So AG and Shoonichi are going through their expensive camera
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: gear in this bar of criminals and Ash says, use
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: kids as assistants in Japan, and Agi turned towards him,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: frustrated and is like, I'm older than you, and Ash
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: is like, oh, well, excuse me. AG turns back to
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: setting things up and thinks, look who's talking, And then
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I guess. We cut to a little later and he
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: is standing against a pillar watching Ash as he talks
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: to some dude at the bar and they're like laughing
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and stuff, and AG sees the gun tucked into Ash's
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: pants and he just says, is that a real gun?
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: And Ash turns and says, what do you mean? And
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: AG blushes and thinks, of course it's real, man, I'm
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: such an idiot, and then out loud says guns are
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: illegal in Japan? Can I hold it? What? Ag? And
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: this takes everyone around them by surprise. Shunichi rushes over
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and says hey, and then, quietly to AG says, don't
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: ask them that, and AG's like what, and Ash pauses
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: and then smiles and says sure and walks over to AG.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: And the guys at the bar are super surprised. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I see that who he was talking to was Alex,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: who is going to be important later. But I got
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: really excited because I didn't even know we saw him
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: this early. And Ash then hands Ag the gun and
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Ag takes it excitedly and he's like, wow, it's really heavy,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: and then he hands it back and he says, thanks
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: for trusting me with it. Ah Uh, can I ask
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: you something? And Ash just like what? And Ady says
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: have you ever killed anyone with it? And Ash says yeah,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: and AG's like you have huh? And Ash just like
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: such a baby and Ag is not thrilled. Then a
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: little confused. Ash then says, bring on the questions, and
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: then Skip comes over and he's like, hey, e chan,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: let me buy you a drink. And then we cut
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: to Ag and Skips sitting at a table and a
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: waitress brings them drinks and Skip says that was so cool.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you had it in you And AG's
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: like what, and Skip says, Ash never lets anyone touch
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: his gun. Once a drunk I tried to and he
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: got his fingers blown off, and Ag looks like really sick,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: and he's like, now you tell me. Skip says, look
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: on the bright side. Ask seems to like you, and
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: he lifts his drink and he's like cheers to your
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: nerve and keeping your fingers, and Ag takes a sip
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: of the drink and then he spits it out and
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: he's like, this is alcohol, and Skip is like, it's
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: just rum and coke. Then AG is looking over at
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Ash and he says, I heard he's a sharp shooter,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and Skip says he's more than sharp. He uses a
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson three fifty seven magnum and the barrel
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: is cut short too. He never misses a target at
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: twenty five yards and AG's like, really, and he looks
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: a bit drunk. And then I'm like, wait, is he
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: drunk because he's like he's kind of red faced, kind
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: of like he's blushing. So I thought, well, maybe the
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: drink is getting to him. But it's been like thirty seconds.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Is he blushing? And he says ash Lynx huh, And
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Skip's like, it's just a nickname. It means wildcat, which
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: is really for the benefit of the Japanese audience, is
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: not the American ones, because we obviously know what Lynx means.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: But Skip continues, nobody can tame him. He's totally wild.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I wish it's a perfect name for a boss. It
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: is a really good alias it is and Agi is
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: still pretty red and I really like at this point,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: like are you fucking blushing? Age? Age says, you really
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: look up to him? Huh. Skip kind of laughs, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: then we see Shoonichi walking over and he says a
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: chan and Age's like, did you get to talk to him?
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: And Shunichi says, he's not really much of a talker.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: He's a young gang leader. There's gotta be more to him.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: There's so much more Shoonnichi, and you don't want to
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: know any of it, I promise. Then we cut to
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the bar where Alex is talking about something that Bones did,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: who is another character that will meet later, and they're
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: laughing and Ash takes a call, so Ash is like,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: what's up Shorter, and Shorter's like, get out of there
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: now it's Arthur and Ash gasps and Shorter continues he's
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: running up some guys. He's coming for you, but it's
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: too late because these guys just burst in the door
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: with bats, yay bats. And Shorter who we see now
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: who is outside I think in Chinatown. He's trying to
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: talk to Ash and Ash isn't responding and he's like Ash,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: ash shit and he takes off on his motorcycle back
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: of the bar. We're in full brawl mode now, and
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Ash punches someone in the face and dodges a bat
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: and says, shit, there's not enough room in here for this,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and he kicks some dude and then he gets up
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: on the bar and he's like, must you all do
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: this here? And he jumps and kicks a guy in
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the face, and then Charlie shows up the and he's like, stop, police,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that's good. I hope there's more. I think there was
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: another guy behind him too or something, and nobody is
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: paying attention at all, and someone fires a gun and
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Shoonichi is under a table and he's like covering his ears,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and I guess he sees Charlie and he's like Charlie
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: and Ag pops up from behind the bar because they're
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: behind the bar, and he's like, Charlie, fucking eg ag,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and Skip pops up and is like keep your head
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: down and pushes him out of sight. But some dude
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: saw them and is like there he is, and Skip
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: is like, Charlie's here now, we just have to wait
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: this out. And they're sitting behind the bar and Ag
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: lets out like a big sigh, and then all of
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: a sudden, someone has a knife to AG's head and
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: the guys like don't move, and Ag looks over in
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: fear and like goes into a full on panic and
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: starts like pantomiming to Skip like this guy, and we're
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: really lucky that Skip is there because he he smashes
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: a bottle of some sort of alcohol over the guy's head.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It looked really heavy, and then he fucking kicks him,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: and Skip grabs Ag by the hand and drags him
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: off and he's like, hurry this way, and they run
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: into another room, but there are guys following them now,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: and Ash notices them as they run off and gets
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: kind of distracted and like barely dodges someone who has
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: a bat and he's like, I see what you're after now,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: and he kicks a couple of guys down and he's like, Skip,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: get back here. It's a trap, and he tries to
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: run after them, but some dudes like grab him so
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: he can't, and then we cut to Skip and Ag
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: and Skip lips up a grate like in the street,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and Ag pops his head up and he's like, wow,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: an escape route, and Skip looks around and he's like
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: sh But then we see that they're not alone. Someone
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: is walking up from behind them and the guy says, yo, Skip.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: We see that there are two guys standing over them,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and then we cut two Charlie and he's like this
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: way eBay and Shunichi stops him and is like Charlie,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: A Chan's gone. Ash is still fighting to get those
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: guys off him, and he finally manages to just run outside,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: and he's running down the street towards a car and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: he's like Skipper and we see that Skip is being
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: pushed into a car and he calls out to Ash,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: and then kind of in the background, the opening theme
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: starts playing, which we will talk about in a second.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: The guy gets in after Skip and says go and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: they peel off, and Ash is chasing them on foot,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: but it's a fucking car, so he can't catch up
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: with them, because yeah, So he stops and he takes
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: out his gun and he calmly fires and he goes
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: right through the back windshield and one of the guys
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: gets hit right in the head. Ag covers his ears
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: and looks over in horror at the dead guy and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: the guy on the other side of them is like shit,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: he got Jack, and the driver's like, I know double himself.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: And Ag is panic quietly and sweating and thinking, calm down.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: I need to calm down. And there's blood on his
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: face from the dead guy and he thinks this is real,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: this is actually happening. I might be killed. Then there's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: a scene that I didn't quite understand where it looks
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: like the guy is violently pulling Ag and Skip out
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: of the car, but I think he's just trying to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: take away their cell phones. And Skip is like, hey,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: get your hands off him about Ag, and the guy's
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: like shut up, and he takes their phones and he
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: tosses them into the streets. Shinichi and Charlie are trying
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: to figure out where Age is based on his phone location,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: and it stops moving and we cut to Ash, who
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: as Shorter pulls up just in time, and he's like, Ash,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: you're alive, and Ash says, Shorter, I need this, and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: he pushes him off his bike and Shorter's like what
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and Ash takes off and Shorter's like hey, Ash, And
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: we're back to the car and one of the guys
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: looks back and he's like he's coming and the driver says,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: no way, he'd abandoned Skip bingo and one of them
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: is on the phone and he says it's me, And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: then we cut to the most beautiful abandoned warehouse I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: have ever seen, like so beautiful, like I wish this
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: was the warehouse that I lived in. It's got glass
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: all over it and graffiti and shit, and someone that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I guess we don't see says, okay, good, And then
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: we see Arthur and Marvin and they're in the warehouse
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: and Arthur is holding a phone, so he's the one
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: who's been talking, and he says, they're coming. Keep your promise,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: have as much fun as you like. What And Marvin
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: takes a drag from his cigarette and says, and after that,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: make sure he's lying in a pool of his own blood, right.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: He then tosses the cigarette and steps on it, and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Arthur smiles. We cut back to as he's riding down
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: a kind of a large street on Shorter's motorcycle and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if it's like the Henry Hudson Parkway because
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: it kind of looks like that, but I don't really know.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: And then we cut to the title card and it
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: says a perfect day for banana fish and that's it. Yeah,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that was something. Closing thoughts before we go any further,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: I will tell you that the opening theme was playing
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: at the end like I did just a minute ago.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: It is called Found and Lost and it is by Survive,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: said the Prophets, which is a pretty decently known Japanese
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: rock band. They have done some other work on other anime.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: They've done two of the Vinlin Saga openings, which were
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: both very very good. And I really like this song too.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: You barely got to hear it because there was action
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: over it, so we'll talk more about it next week
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: and the visuals along with it. Other than that, if
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you were listening to ash and you thought, wow, that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: guy sounds really familiar, that is because the voice actor
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: is Yuma Ochiya, and he plays suck A Hadika in Windbreaker,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: which we just saw. I actually don't think they sound
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: that similar, which I think speaks to his range as
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: a voice actor. He is also the voice of Fushigiro
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Megumi from Jiu Jitsu Kaisen and Kiyo from Fruits Basket
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: and plenty of other people, and I think he always
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: sounds a little different. So good job. But back to
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: what this episode was like. I want to start off
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: by saying that I like think I was partially asleep
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: when I watched this the first time, because I remember thinking. So.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: The story with this is that I had wanted to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: watch this since basically it first aired in twenty eighteen,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: but I didn't have access to Amazon Prime and I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: didn't really want to pirate it because it's just annoying.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: So I was like, ah, who cares. So I've been
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: trying to watch it since then, and I started watching
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: it at the beginning of May, so this is all
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: really new and fresh in my mind, and I was
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: really excited about it, and I watched the first episode
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and I went like, yeah, that's fine. I thought that
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: was a really good first episode. And maybe it's because
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: I know more about what's going on, but I like that.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Do I like it as much as the upcoming episodes.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess not. But there was a lot
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: that went on. We learned a lot about what's going on,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: or we have a lot of questions. We have most
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of the main cast introduced, at least the main cast
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: in this part of the show, So I mean, I
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: think it was interesting there's a bunch of things that
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: were kind of questionable that people said to Ash. That's yeah,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: but I kind of already pointed them out, like I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: was alluding to earlier. I'm not super thrilled with the translation,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and I don't just mean the kind of mistranslation of scumbag.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: There were episodes where I was like, man, we could
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: have said that better. You know, like, if you're gonna
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: translate things and kind of you know, change them to
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: make them more understood by a Western audience, you got
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: to do a better job. And that's kind of how
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I felt about Windbreak or two, and I didn't really
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: get a chance to talk about that. A lot of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: that translation. I had to like go and be like,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: what does this mean? So this isn't that bad. I
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: just think it could have been polished if you were
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: to read the manga. It's kind of the other way.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: The manga is a lot more slick. It's translating a
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: lot more liberally, but not inaccurately as far as I
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: can tell. I'd love it if there was a middle
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: ground for both of them, But hey, what are you
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: gonna do? Nothing? Because I don't really speak Japanese very well.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Or at all, so I don't think there's really anything else.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to say, Oh, yes there is. I like
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: shorter because I like punks, and I got really excited
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: to see someone with a mohawk. It just made me
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: feel safe. So now you know something very strange about
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: me pretending I haven't seen this. I am interested to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: see where the story goes, because we obviously have AG
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: and Skip who are kidnapped and Ash riding into what
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: is most definitely a trap. So hopefully everyone's gonna be okay,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll see next episode. So thank you
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: for listening to this. This was a very long episode.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they won't all be this long, because this was
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: twenty three pages of notes, which is more than it
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: may have ever been. So yeah, thanks for listening to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I hope you have a really
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: good whatever, and I'll see you next time later webs