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Banana Fish Manga- Garden of Light · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I'm back again. I guess
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  Speaker 1: to do this again. So hopefully you didn't hate Angelize
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  Speaker 1: that much that you didn't come back, but who knows,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, before we go into this, I
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  Speaker 1: realized that there were a couple of things I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say last week that I needed to say. The most
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  Speaker 1: important one is that one of the reasons, probably actually
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  Speaker 1: the main reason I wanted to share Angelize with you,
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  Speaker 1: was because of the connectioned episode nine, where remember Shorter
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  Speaker 1: looked up and he saw that like stone angel and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of like snapped out of the effect that
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  Speaker 1: Banana Fish was having on him. I think even like
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  Speaker 1: in the moment, I said something about it, about how
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  Speaker 1: it related to the manga and how it was like
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  Speaker 1: a really cool callback and not something that actually occurred
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  Speaker 1: in that section of the manga. It was like something
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  Speaker 1: that was thrown into the anime. It's like a really
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  Speaker 1: nice reference to Angelize. So that's where it's from. It's
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  Speaker 1: interesting though, because it's like, oh, that's that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: that reminds you of Ash, the angel that you used
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  Speaker 1: to jack off to. Anyway, I hied myself so much.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was probably the only thing. There must
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  Speaker 1: have been something else, but who cares, right, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it was, And yeah, let's just do Garden
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  Speaker 1: of Light. I was reading through this earlier today to
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  Speaker 1: make sure I was ready, and like I cried a lot,
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  Speaker 1: So no promises that I'm not just gonna break down
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of this, So let's just find out
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  Speaker 1: what happens. As I said last week, Garden of Light
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  Speaker 1: is directly after Angelize in the manga, so that would
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  Speaker 1: make it in volume nineteen. It's the end of volume nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: It's really the end of all of the manga that
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  Speaker 1: we have in the US of Banana Fish. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: start with a like the title page, I guess, so
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  Speaker 1: it says Garden of Light, obviously, and there's a picture
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  Speaker 1: of two people standing on a porch like a front point.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is like a small like maybe child
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  Speaker 1: or teenager, with short hair, and there's also a really
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  Speaker 1: tall dude next to them whose face is kind of
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  Speaker 1: in shadow. They both have black hair, but looking at them,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know who they are. They don't look like
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  Speaker 1: any of the Banana Fish characters that I'm familiar with.
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  Speaker 1: And also in between them is a dog sitting there
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  Speaker 1: with its tongue out or mouth open or something. They're
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  Speaker 1: clearly looking at something, potentially the person who took this picture.
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  Speaker 1: And also I should just specify this porch does not
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  Speaker 1: look like it's in New York City. This looks like
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  Speaker 1: it's at I don't know. The house just looks like
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  Speaker 1: it's somewhere more suburban or rural. You know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a city look to it. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to explain it. Let's move on. So the first page,
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  Speaker 1: there is a picture of a gallery. There's people in
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  Speaker 1: the gallery looking at artwork, and there's a sign outside
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  Speaker 1: of the gall and it says photographs by Shunichi eBay athletes.
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  Speaker 1: We have some narration here, but we don't know who
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  Speaker 1: it's from, and it says the first time I ever
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  Speaker 1: met O Kamoda San was at uncle Shunichi's very first exhibition.
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  Speaker 1: We see Shunichi, who, by the way, in the manga
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  Speaker 1: does on of a beard. He just has a mustache.
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  Speaker 1: I prefer this look. And also he's black hair. He
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  Speaker 1: looks like he might be waving to someone, but we
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  Speaker 1: have a close shot so we can't see who it is.
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  Speaker 1: And the narration continues. Uncle Shunichi is my dad's little brother.
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  Speaker 1: He chose to become a photographer even though my grandpa
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  Speaker 1: and dad were against it. We see kind of Shunichi's
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  Speaker 1: like arm is in the frame, and then there's somebody's
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  Speaker 1: head who's a lot shorter, and then they appear to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at Agi, who is standing a little bit away,
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  Speaker 1: and the narration continues. Okamodasan was the first subject of
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  Speaker 1: the very first pictures that Uncle Shunichi sold. He worked
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  Speaker 1: as Uncle Shunichi's assistant while he was in college. Now
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  Speaker 1: we see Ag up close and he says, Hi, so
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  Speaker 1: you're a Kida kun Akira. I guess this small child
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  Speaker 1: just kind of looks at him, and Ag bends down
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  Speaker 1: towards her, and the narration, which I believe is Akida says,
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  Speaker 1: aside from thinking I was a boy the first time
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  Speaker 1: he aside from thinking I was a boy the first
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  Speaker 1: time we met, he was really nice and he always
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  Speaker 1: played with me whenever we saw each other. We now
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  Speaker 1: see maybe Akira looking down at a piece of paper.
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  Speaker 1: The narration continues. Now Okamuda sands a photographer himself in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. She puts the piece of paper into
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  Speaker 1: her pocket. It's been three years since I saw him.
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  Speaker 1: We get a clearer shot of Akira now she is,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, probably a teenager, and the narration continues, I've
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  Speaker 1: come to New York to stay at his house. She
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  Speaker 1: looks at her watch. It looks like she's probably in
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  Speaker 1: an airport. There are people with luggage walking around, and
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  Speaker 1: she's standing and waiting, and it says August nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: which means we are nine years after the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: Banana Fish in the manga, and eight years after the
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  Speaker 1: end of Banana Fish, because the very end was in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. Anyway, the narration continues, he got his
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  Speaker 1: green card two years ago, and I guess he's staying
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  Speaker 1: here forever. She thinks, where is he? He's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: come to the airports. She looks over and she sees
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  Speaker 1: this really tall dude with short black hair and sunglasses,
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  Speaker 1: and he has a sign that says welcome Akira eBay
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  Speaker 1: with like a dog smiling on it and like lots
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  Speaker 1: of little hearts, and he says, are you a Kira.
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  Speaker 1: She like runs for it, and he like grabs her
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  Speaker 1: and says in Japanese come back here. You're a Kira, right,
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  Speaker 1: EBA's niece Akira, And she's like, that was Japanese. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's Japanese. The guy takes sunglasses off. He is he
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  Speaker 1: looks like a man. He actually looks a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like Blanca honestly, but is not I promise. So he
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  Speaker 1: takes his glasses off and he says in Japanese, uh uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Japanese. I'm Chinese American. My name's Sing. Nice
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  Speaker 1: to meet you. It's Sing. He's so giant. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Like the last time we saw Sing, he was like
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  Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen, and he was like a little kid,
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  Speaker 1: and he just looks like a grown man now, a really,
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  Speaker 1: really tall man. Akira is kind of besides herself and
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  Speaker 1: she thinks he's huge. Sings like, I'm a friend of Aji. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: He picks up her luggage. Agi got busy with work,
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  Speaker 1: so I came to get you instead. This all your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Akira's like, uh yes, and he says okay, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: They're walking away and Sing is like humming, and Akira thinks,
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  Speaker 1: who is this guy? Nobody mentioned him to me before. Really,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's ever talked about Sing. What if he's actually kidnapper
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  Speaker 1: or something. Sing looks back and she kind of jumps.
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  Speaker 1: He stops and he hands her something and says, ah,
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  Speaker 1: he don't trust me. Here, let me show you some proof.
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  Speaker 1: He hands her a picture and it is a picture
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  Speaker 1: of her like as a child, like a really small child,
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  Speaker 1: on Agy's shoulders and she has chop sticks up her
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  Speaker 1: nose and he says, that's you right. She like is
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  Speaker 1: so embarrassed, and she thinks you gave him this, Okamara
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  Speaker 1: San he recognized me from it too, and she kind
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  Speaker 1: of like starts crying comically. Next we see looks like
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  Speaker 1: some sort of Brownstone I guess, and then maybe a taxi.
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  Speaker 1: They're like getting out of the car and taking out
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  Speaker 1: the luggage. Then they I guess go inside and it's
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  Speaker 1: like a big nice apartment or maybe just like house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure because it has stars and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So Akita's like, wow, this is like the apartment in
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  Speaker 1: that movie Ghost and sings like the one with Demi
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  Speaker 1: Moore and she's like, yeah, that one, and he says
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  Speaker 1: you think he I guess goes over the window and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, Age's back, and he's says ag Akida
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  Speaker 1: runs to the window too, so they're both like looking
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  Speaker 1: out of it, and she says, oh, Kimona, san Agi
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  Speaker 1: is just like shutting his car door. He has some
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  Speaker 1: sort of sedan of some kind, and he is a
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  Speaker 1: dog next to him too, and he looks up and
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  Speaker 1: he says, Aki cham, we should just stop and talk
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  Speaker 1: about this real quick. So Ag doesn't look anything like
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  Speaker 1: we remember. I mean, he's definitely the same person, but
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  Speaker 1: he looks older, obviously because it's been several years. And
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  Speaker 1: he has long hair tied back in a ponytail. And
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  Speaker 1: he's wearing glasses, which I wonder if, because I've been
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: thinking about this, it's like, why is AG wearing glasses?
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  Speaker 1: We've never seen him wear glasses before. Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't shoot very well. Maybe he's you're sighted, but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he's wearing glasses. Akida is excited to see him, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess he comes inside, and so does the dog,
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  Speaker 1: who looks like maybe a Golden Retriever or a yellow lab.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what the difference is, I mean
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  Speaker 1: by the way they look, and Sing leans over and
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  Speaker 1: pets the dog and says, yep, she's here. Hey, buddy
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  Speaker 1: and Agi t Singh says, thanks for going. Sing Akita
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  Speaker 1: thinks his hair's grown. He looks kind of different. He
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  Speaker 1: looks very different. He also looks, I don't know, thinner
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit more muscular, just like a
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  Speaker 1: slightly older person, you know, since he's at this point
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  Speaker 1: almost thirty. Anyway, Age says, aki Chan, is that really you? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: You've sure grown a lot. That's right, geority in middle school.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry he couldn't pick you up at the airport.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think I'd forgotten about you? Akira is like, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was fine. Aside from your hair, you haven't changed
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  Speaker 1: a bit. O komotives on. I gaut some narration here
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  Speaker 1: from Mikira says he should be twenty eight by now,
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  Speaker 1: but he seems just the same as he always was,
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  Speaker 1: like a college student. Agi smiles, Well, you've changed, aki Chan.
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  Speaker 1: You're more girlish now, a real young lady. Akira does
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  Speaker 1: not look happy, and she says no, I'm not. Sing
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  Speaker 1: cuts in and says, so how did go? And Age's
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  Speaker 1: like okay, it's gonna happen. Sing's like cool, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Agy Akita is confused. Singh turns to her and in
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  Speaker 1: Japanese says he's gonna have to show at a really
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  Speaker 1: famous gallery. Akira's like, wow, really that's great. Agi says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Aki chan, I have tomorrow off, so if there's any
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  Speaker 1: place you want to see, I can take you there.
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  Speaker 1: Aki's like, really, then let me see I know Greenwich
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  Speaker 1: Village and Age's like, that's where we are. Aki is
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed and she's like we are, oh okay, then oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tiffany Sing is like, might have guessed, betcha The Empire
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  Speaker 1: State Building comes next, but it does not. She says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go see the New York Public Library, No,
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  Speaker 1: the one with the statues of lines that was in Ghostbusters. Fuck.
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  Speaker 1: Ag is surprised that he doesn't say anything, and Sing
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  Speaker 1: looks over. Akira is obviously a little bit confused about
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  Speaker 1: this sudden silence between them, and finally Sing says, why
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  Speaker 1: don't I take you there? I have to return some
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  Speaker 1: books anyway. Then we'll stop at Tiffany's and meet Ag
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  Speaker 1: in Central Park for lunch. How's that? Akira is like,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a picnic. Now. They are sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: couch and Akira is looking at a book or I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's like a photo album. And Akida is like, no, wait,
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  Speaker 1: this is you sing and Sing says, yup, I was
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  Speaker 1: a total shrimp until I was sixteen, but now I'm
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  Speaker 1: six three. Yeah, he's definitely six three. Akira is like,
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  Speaker 1: you were so tiny. Singh says, leave me alone. She thinks,
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  Speaker 1: sings Japanese is really good. He kind of scared me
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  Speaker 1: at first, but he's actually pretty nice good. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's later now it looks like maybe Ag is tucking
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  Speaker 1: Akira into bed, and then back in the living room,
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  Speaker 1: sing is sitting on the couch with him, and Singh
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  Speaker 1: says she is asleep, and he's like, yeah, I thought
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: she might be wired from the time difference, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess she's just real tired. And then he says thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Singh puts his hand on his head and says, you
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  Speaker 1: aren't over it yet, huh. Ag is not looking at him.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's getting some coffee and he says, and you,
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  Speaker 1: sing puts his hand over his mouthg continues, are you
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  Speaker 1: over it yet? Sing? Are you? Eg pours the coffee
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  Speaker 1: as stares at him. Not sure if you can ever
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  Speaker 1: get over something like that. Probably We cut to sing
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: in a room looks like an office maybe, and he
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  Speaker 1: is at a computer and he is looking at something
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  Speaker 1: on the computer, and I'm going to try to read this,
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  Speaker 1: but it's kind of blurry on my computer, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure I can. I am sorry
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  Speaker 1: because it would probably be fun. Let me see if
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I can. Sooner or later, the world economy will be
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  Speaker 1: unable to move forward without taking China into account. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese government's productive stance toward financial reform anticipates the
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  Speaker 1: country's entry into Oh Man, I can't read this. And
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  Speaker 1: with a population one fifth of the global total, that
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  Speaker 1: is to say, a huge potential market, the opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: companies worldwide are obvious. Banking on the promise of rapid
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  Speaker 1: further development, China is moving steadily toward becoming a market economy.
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  Speaker 1: That's really true. Cool, so saying is reading this, and
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  Speaker 1: then he's like, hard to believe this was written by
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen year old sheesh precious, a little bastard. His phone,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: I guess cell phone starts to vibrate in his bag
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  Speaker 1: that's on the floor, and he gets it and picks
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  Speaker 1: it up and says, it's me from Hong Kong put
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  Speaker 1: him through. At the other end of the line, we
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  Speaker 1: hear someone say hello, Sing, how are you? Sings like, okay,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: what about you? The other person says, a little tired
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: from crisscrossing Guangdong for the past month. Sings like the
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  Speaker 1: special economic zones. The other person says, exactly, we're going
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to be setting up a joint venture over here. Sing
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  Speaker 1: kind of smirks, and he's like, you're sure you can
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  Speaker 1: trust the Chinese government. The other person says, yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is very clearly you along. By the way, Sing
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  Speaker 1: continues kind of ironic. Huh so, now you'll be playing
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  Speaker 1: psych out with your own countrymen. Great way to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you die young. There is a pause on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and Sing says, what Ue Lung's like, you're starting to
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  Speaker 1: sound like him the way you just said that, Your tone,
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  Speaker 1: your inflection just like him. Sing does not look happy
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  Speaker 1: to hear this. Uelon continues, well, you practically idolized him
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  Speaker 1: after all, Sings like, I'm hanging up if you're done
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  Speaker 1: with business. Ue Lung says, you're delving through his database,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you? Have you found anything interesting? Sing seems a
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: little bit more relaxed now and he says, it's all interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, damn, he is stuff in there on everything, economics, history, pharmacology,
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  Speaker 1: you name it, and all neatly filed away and labeled folders.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew he was so organized. Come on, of
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: course he was, ue Lung says. His ability to gather
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: information was nothing sort of phenomenal. Sing says, I found
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of files with essays he wrote too.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: I can pronounce someone facts him to you if you want.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would believe a kid of seventeen or eighteen wrote
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: them eight years ago. Man. Mind blowing and somewhat annoying,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: ue Lung says, you seem to be enjoying yourself. You
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: always sound so animated when you're talking about him. A
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: journey into Ash's mind very intriguing. I'd like to take
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: it myself. Are you camping out at AG's all the time?
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: By the way, Singh says, I'm not camping out, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not all the time. Ue lungs like, you don't
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: have to keep it a secret from me. I bear
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  Speaker 1: some responsibility for the obligation you feel toward him. Do
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: whatever you feel you need to. I'm planning on leaving
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  Speaker 1: New York in your hands eventually, So as long as
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  Speaker 1: you keep that in mind, I don't intend to interfere
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  Speaker 1: with your private life. Just one piece of advice, though,
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  Speaker 1: and I say this as your friend. Don't fight your
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: memories because you're never gonna win. Singh says, I'm hanging up,
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  Speaker 1: and ue Lung's like say hi to ask for me,
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  Speaker 1: and sing ends the call. He looks out the window.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a different day. I assume we see like
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  Speaker 1: a shot of the sidewalk with trees, probably outside of
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  Speaker 1: AG's apartments, and I guess this is a letter that's
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  Speaker 1: Aquina is writing. It just kind of looks like narration
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  Speaker 1: and it says, dear uncle Shoon, how are you? New
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  Speaker 1: York is a lot of fun. I'm really glad I
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: had the courage to come. Thanks for talking mom and
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: dad to letting me do this. We see Ag looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's taking a photograph at his studio and there's
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  Speaker 1: some other people there too, and the narration continues. Guess what,
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  Speaker 1: Okamora son is gonna have an exhibition. He's really busy
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: getting ready forward in between his assignments. I'm helping him out.
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  Speaker 1: Akira is sitting at a table, and the dog is
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  Speaker 1: there too, and it continues. I got to know everybody
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  Speaker 1: at the gallery, and I've even learned a little English.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Sing walks in and she says Hi Sing and sings
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: like Hi. Akia ag around and she says yeah. In
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the dark room, we get some more narration. Sing is
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: hard to figure out. Sing is bending down to pets
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  Speaker 1: the dog. I guess his name is Buddy, and it continues.
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  Speaker 1: He's twenty three, five years younger than Okamoto San, and
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  Speaker 1: a student at the City University of New York. He
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: has a really fancy house out on Long Island, but
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, he spends most of his time at
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  Speaker 1: Okamoto San's. Sing I guess, in response to him being
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  Speaker 1: in the dark room, says, is okay, I'll wait for
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  Speaker 1: him to come out. We see some food on a
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: table now, and the narration continues. He even has his
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: own room here. It kind of seems like this is
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: where he really lives. She says, are you cooking for
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: three people again? Tonight? Okamona san ag is doing stuff
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen and he says yep. She's like, but
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Singh said he was going to eat out tonight at
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a French restaurant. AG's like, I bet he shows up
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: here though it's only a business dinner after all, Akira
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: is like, business dinner, What do you mean? Ag says,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Sing's a businessman. He's the president of a trading company
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and he owns a few buildings down in Chinatown. Akura
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: is like, what, No way, I thought he was a student.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Ag continues, the educational system is different here than it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: is in Japan. It isn't uncommon for somebody to do
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: business and go to school at the same time. That's true.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Once he gets his degree from CuNi, Sing's hoping to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: get into Harvard Business School for his NBA. Having an
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: MBA makes a huge difference for doing business. Apparently, Akira thinks,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: guess that's why he studies so late every night. American
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: college students sure have it tough. We hear something like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the door open and Sing is there in a suit
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: with his hair slips back. He looks so much like
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: an adult, and he says, Age, give me something to eat. Uugh,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: if you ask me, French food is total crap. Akida
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: goes over and says, you wear suits sometimes, Sing, you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: look so different, like a different person. Sing kind of smirks,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and he's like, make you swoon. You in love with me?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Akira and she's like ew, no way, and he says, oh,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: why don't you just admit it, kiddo, and she's like,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I am not. Agy looks over and is like, hey
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you too. Dinner's almost ready. We see chopsticks holding a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Tempora prawn and someone says, mm, that's what I call
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: good food, and Akira's like, it's because we're from and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Singh says the land of Chopsticks. And there's like music notes,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: so I just don't know what that's supposed to be.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: They're saying a song that they know, I guess, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: smiling at each other, and Ag says, hey, Aki chan,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: do you like New York? So far Aki eats some
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: food and says, I love it here. For one thing,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: nobody ever says that's a boy's name. When they hear
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: my name, sings like, what is Akira a boy's name?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: She says, mostly what about your name? Sing? Does it
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: mean anything? They have a large spread of food in
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: front of them at the table. Sing is eating and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: he says demon lion and also guilt. They're silent for
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a second. Agi looks hurt, and then he says, hey,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Aki Chan, don't you like your name? Aki, who has
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a bolder face, says I hate it. Heg's like, I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: love your name. Did you know that Akira means dawn?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: He smiles and closes his eyes. I know somebody whose
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: name means the same thing, Sing looks down. There's some
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: goes maybe Okamara San has changed a bit from the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: time he used to play with me. Okay, So back
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: at the gallery, I guess this like person with kind
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: of like shortish hair, it's kind of a little bit wavy,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: light colored hair is waving and he says, Ag, I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: came to help you out. There's a bunch of people
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: doing stuff too. AG looks over and says, hey, Michael,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Michael for real. Michael says, it's so
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: cool that you're doing the show. Mom and dad are
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: really excited about it too. They said they'd stop by tonight.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Michael, Michael and Max and Jessica. Ag
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in Japanese says, oh, Aki Chan, you haven't met Michael yet.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Remember Max and Jessica. We saw them last week, but
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't get to see them. Well, this is their son.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Michael and then in English he says, and Michael, this
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: is a Kira. She's eBay sans niece. She's visiting from Japan.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think you guys are about the same age, Michael says. Akira.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Hey Agi turns to Akira and says in Japanese, he says,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you have the same name as an anime. Michael's a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: big fan of Japanese anime and manga. And then in English,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: she says, what was it called? The one that you
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: liked best? Michael's like Dragon Ball, sailor moon Loom from
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Uda se Yatsuda. Akira thinks, don't tell me this kid
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: is in otaku. Oh, I understand that you hate us. Akira.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: She's looking at Michael as he does something. He looks
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like a teenager now, I mean obviously because he was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a kid when we saw him last. And she thinks,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: she Otako over here, pretty good looking. Michael looks over
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: hey Agi, aren't she gonna hang any pictures of Ash
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in the show? Age stops what he's doing, saying, looks
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: over a She's like, no, I couldn't find any good ones.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Akira looks confused and thinks Ash sounds kind of familiar,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: singh is carrying some sort of like big roll of something,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and he turns mikey, do me a favor and take
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that panel over to section eight three. Mike, who's holding
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: something else looks like a picture, says, sure, thing we
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: had to. Later, Akida is sitting on the couch looking
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: through a photo album and she says, wow, all these
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: pictures were taken in New York City. He's filled them
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in in the order they were taken. Well, he is
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a pro after all. She sees something and is a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: little bit surprised. We see some of the pictures. There's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a fire hydrant, there's someone who I'm not sure who
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that is. These are pictures taken in eighty five. Looks like,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: oh shit, like August of eighty five. She thinks, nineteen
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: eighty five. That's the year Okomutasn came to New York
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: for the first time with Uncle Shun. She sees a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: blank space. It says eleven twenty eighty five at the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: library with a. She thinks at the library with A,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and then out loud, she says, A, I wonder why
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: only this picture is missing. Wait, here's another one. There's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: another blank space that says ten twenty one eighty five
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Central Park. A. She thinks of Michael saying, aren't you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: going to put any pictures of Ash in the show?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And she thinks, oh, now I remember. We see her
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: remembering Shunichi talking to Ag on the phone, I guess
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a while back, and Shunichi says, you're applying for green card?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Does that mean you're still thinking about ash Agy? She
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: looks at another blank space actually, which is above a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: picture that looks like it is of bones and Kang
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: by the way, and it's dated seven, eighteen eighty five
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: in Central Park with A. She thinks A is for Ash.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So who is Ash? We go to somebody punching a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: one of those punching bags. Yeah, punching a punching bag,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: like super hard, like really going at it. It's sing
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: by the way. There's a dude standing, you know, holding
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the punching bag and he's getting like real beats by it,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, as much as you can be.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And he says, okay, okay, sing stop time out. Sing
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is breathing hard. And the guy says, your right's pretty good,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: but your left hook needs work. Sings like my left huh.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: The guy says, still, man, those were some good punches.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You got the height, you got the right build, you
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: got the guts, everything of going into boxing for real.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So long as you lay off the ladies, you could
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: go pro. Sing, is I guess taking his boxing gloves off,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and he says, no thanks. Guys like chicks mess up
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: your legs. One round in the sack and they're jello
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: what Sing kind of laughs and he's like, how about
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: if you go two rounds? The guy like sighs, and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: then someone off raime says, sing, you got a visit
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: her Sing looks over and he and some other dude
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: are surprised to see little Akira walk in the door.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Sing sits down and it looks like somebody's helping him
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: take off his boxing gloves. I don't really understand, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: he in Japanese says, Hiakira, how'd you find me here?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Akira says, Michael told me. The guy says, Yo, sing
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: jailbait more your style, dude. He kind of whistles and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: sing says, yeah, right, she's visiting Agy and then in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Japanese says, so what's up? He's taking the kind of
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: bandaging off his hands. Now. Akira says, do you know
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: somebody named Ash Sing just kind of stares at her,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and she says, you do, don't you. Sing, pauses for
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a second and says, why are you asking me this?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Akira looks down. I was looking through Okamoto San's files
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and everyone that says A has a picture missing. Sing
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: kind of looks to the side and then he says,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Ash it's the name of my computer. Akira. Kraa's like huh.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He's like, go on home now, I'll be there soon.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I guess. Later he gets home and they go into
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I guess that office room that he was in before,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and we see the computer and he says, see Akira,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Meat Ash Ash meet Akira. Akira is like, that's an
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: old model. Sing says, yup, but sure is, but it
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: still works fine. Akira looks super unimpressed. She says, did
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: this belong to that person named Ash? Sing says yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: it did. He's like putting or taking something out of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: his bag and he says, I'm musing it now with
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: AG's permission. Akidra, who is still staring at the computer, says,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: did o Kamara San love this Ash person? Okay? Fine,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I'll be okay, saying still messing with his bag not
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: looking up set. Yes, he did very much. Akira uh
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: looks a little annoyed, and she thinks a simple yes
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: would have been fine. She looks up at Saying and says,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was this ash person beautiful? Was this ash person beautiful?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Saying says, very beautiful, so beautiful you could hardly believe it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Blonde hair, green eyes, long arms and legs, graceful way
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of moving, i Q of two hundred, and the education
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to go with it. Akira is not impressed, and she says,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going back to the gallery. I ought to help
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: out some more cool. Tell aj I'll be there later too,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and she slams the door, and he chuckles and is like,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it's someone jealous. It's okay, he's very much dead. Anyway,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He puts his hand on his head and he says,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: hmm ash. He looks at the computer and he thinks,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I guess about what you alone told him and says,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: don't fight your memories, because you're never gonna win. He
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: drops his head to his knees. Anyway, Akita is walking
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and she's thinking about what Singh said. Very beautiful, so beautiful,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you could hardly believe it. O Ka Muda San is
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: he still stuck on that Ash person. She's back at
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the gallery now, and Michael's there and he is holding
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a snow cone, and he says, Hun, did you find Sing?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: He wasn't at the gym today. She just walks past him,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and he's like super confused, and she thinks that Sing's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a real Meani Sing is still sitting on the bed
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and he lifts off his head and looks at the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: computer and he says, you satisfied, Aggars forever? Is that
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: what you wanted? Of course not, he continues, Guess what.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He hasn't gone anywhere near the public library in seven years.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: He won't even go any place where you can see
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the public library. I keep wondering, what were you thinking
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: about that day? We get a shot of Ashes legs, feet, obviously,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and some blood on the floor, and Sin continues while
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the blood slowly drained from your body, and your blood
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: pressure and your body temperature dropped during those long hours
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: until death finally came. He leans back against the wall.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You must have suffered a lot because the knife missed
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: your vital organs. And yet we see you, know, like
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: fifteen year old saying standing in front of Ash's body,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I guess to identify him, and he continues, you were
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: smiling as if you were having a really good dream.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: He picks up a letter and he says, did this
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: have something to do with that? He opens it and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of course it is the note that Ag Wrotash, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it's you know, still staying with blood and everything, and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: we see the part written out that says you're not alone, Ash,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. My soul is always with you, saying
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: puts his hand to kind of his forehead and he
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: smiles like kind of sadly, and he says, geez, look
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: at this, it's practically a love letter. And he thinks
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: AG's letter staying with Ash's blood and with his tears.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: He says, out loud, it must have been this that
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: let Lao get you that day. He covers his eyes,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: because there's no other way he could have killed you otherwise.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He thinks, I can never say this to Agi. I'll
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just have to keep it to myself and live with
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it the way I'll always have to live with what
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Lao did. Then, out loud, he says, it's been long enough. Ash,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you hear me, let Ag go now? If you don't
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: let him go, he'll never be happy again. I need
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: him to be happy because until he is, I can't
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: listen to me. Ash. I'm getting him back from you
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: no matter what. Fuck ah. So I guess at this
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: point I did want to say this that in the manga,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: it is ambiguous about why Ash died. Akimi Yoshita makes
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a point to really say that, just like in this
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that Laud didn't hit any of Ash's vital organs, so
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Ash just fucking bled out. But uh so, and I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: didn't really talk about this in episode twenty four, but like,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: what could he have done? Like he couldn't go to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the hospital because he would have gone to jail. This
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: was eighty five. It's not like he could hit a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: cell phone, Like he kind of made the decision to die.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It's kind of suicide, kind of a little bit. It's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: kind of ambiguous, you know, But it didn't feel that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: way in the anime, and it just hurts a little
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: bit more to think about it that way. But anyway,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: let's continue. I'm gonna stop crying a little bit at
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: least for a couple of minutes. And uh yeah, So
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: now we see someone drawing a like a little female
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: anime character she's wearing like a dress. She's got like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you know, shoulder like peir and uh, there's like another
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: drawing that's been like crossed out and next to her
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on both sides. It says ash, Yeah, Akira is drawing it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: She thinks blonde hair, green eyes, long arms and legs.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Then Michael's like, what's that? Can I see? And just
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: scares the shit out of Akira And she just puts
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it behind her back real quick, and she's like, it's nothing,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I can't draw anyways. Michael's like, Age's about to get interviewed.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Guess he's hitting the big time. Akira looks over and
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: sees Agy with I guess the reporter. They're like talking,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and she thinks, oh, yeah, I heard that the Village
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Voice had requested an interview with him. Now we see
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Age sitting with this person, probably from the Village Voice.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: And she says, so most of the works in the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: show where featured in Vanity Fair or other magazines? Is
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that correct? Ag says, yes, that's correct. She's like, people
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: who see your work sense an undefinable what shall I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: call it? Warmth, kindness in the camera's gaze towards its subjects.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Which might be considered odd with your choice of locale,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: that is to say, New York City. Indeed, the freshness
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: of your approach has caused waves in the New York
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: City art scene. What is your own attitude to this city?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I believe you were assaulted by a mugger several years
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: ago and left seriously wounded. Didn't that experience give you
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a negative view of New York? Ag kind of puts
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: his hand over his mouth and says, let me see,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: how should I put this. It's true that the people
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of New York are aggressive, both in the good sense
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and bad senses of the word. But he kind of smiles.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Everything is here, the sleazy, the sweets, the horrible, and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the good. As a friend of mine once said he
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: was talking about his hometown. Everyone is watching, including saying
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: who a little upset. Ag continues, in other words, in
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: other words, it's not all sweetness and light. So if
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: my photographs give the impression you described that, maybe because
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I love both the light and the darkness, She says,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I see, well, I think that your answer clearly shows
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: that you yourself are just as compassionate as your pictures.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Ag is a little embarrassed, and he says, not really,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: just as my assistance. Sometimes I lose my temper and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: yell at them. She's like, you lose your temper. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: can't even imagine. Akira is watching, but Michael's next to her,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and she says Michael, and he's like hmm. She says,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: do you know someone named Dash? He says sure did.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He was my hero still is. Akira is surprised, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: she says he. She walks over to Sing and says sing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: He turns back to look at her and says, what
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: is it kid? She says that Ash person was a man.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Singh looks at her for a second and says, let's
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: get out of here. We cut to a building I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: believe is in Chinatown. It's just real beat the shit
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: out of it's like cracked, and you know, it's an
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: apartment building, and Akita and Singer inside and it's just
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: covered in graffiti, like I don't think anyone lives there anymore.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's just totally vacant. And she's looking around.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Actually the graffiti I can see says it looks like
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that's fuck you, which is awesome. Good job Akimi Yosha
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: up And anyway, she's looking around, and she says, where
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: is this? Sing is overstanding by a window and he says,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: this is where my family used to live a long
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: time ago. Everything here, the sleazy, the sweet, the horrible,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the good. Who told you about ash O? Kira's like
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I found out from Michael was this ash person? Okomono
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: San's well lover, Singh says he was more than that,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Which doesn't mean their relationship was sexual, because it wasn't.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: But they did love each other, maybe the way lovers do.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: They were connected to each other soul to soul. Akira says,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: but he died right this ash person. Sing's like, yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: he was killed by my brother. She is surprised, and
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: he continues, my brother Lao was the one who killed
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: ash It happens seven years ago. Akira thinks, seven years ago.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: That's around the time Oka Murosan came back from New
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: York with those injuries. But then he went back to
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: New York almost right away with Uncle Shun before his
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: wounds had even healed. We see a picture of a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: very hurt looking Agi with Shuniji holding him, and then
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: just Shunichi alone and she continues, and then Uncle Shun
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: came back to Japan alone. Singh says Agi changed after
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that in every single way, his personality, the way he lives.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Ash's death totally changed him. It changed AG's whole life.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Sing and Akira look back at Ag is standing in
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the doorway, and he says, I saw the two of
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you leaving, and I guessed you might come here, Aki chan,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Could you go home ahead of us? I need to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: talk to sing Akira smiles, sure, see you later. I'll
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: make dinner for all of us, okay. Ag smiles at
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: her politely, and I guess she leaves and when she's gone,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Singh says, she's gonna make dinner for all of us.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty sweet kid, right there. Ag says, have
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I really changed so much? Sing I've grown up? That's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: all I think I'm doing. Okay sings like, that's not
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Ash is dead. Why can't you
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: accept that he's dead? Ag? He fucking pushes Ag against
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the wall and says, let him go, Just let go,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: damn it. He collapses onto Ag like hugging him now,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: and says, why can't you move on? I want you
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to be happy again? Ag. Ag looks, I don't know
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: slightly surprised but also not super phased about any of this,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and he says, Sing, I'm thinking you're going to Cape
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: God tomorrow. Sing stops hugging him, and Ag continues to
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: take some pictures. Why don't you come with me? I'm
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: taking buddy along in a curra two. We see a peer.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I guess we're at Cape Cod now and there are
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch of people on the pier and I think.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Akira says, gosh, it's really pretty here, and AG's like, yeah,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: it is. This is where Ash was from. Akira is
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: like really, Ag says, yep. Once when we were here
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: before we went to the river to go fishing. AG
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: sees something and actually he sees a dude with blonde
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: hair like the back of him, and he just fucking
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: takes off and kind of cuts in front of him
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and it's just some guy and he just says, oh, sorry,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I thought you were a friend of mine. Excuse me.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: The kids like, no problem, but Akira and saying are
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: obviously concerned, and obviously AG is suffering. We know it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: A little bit later, AG is looking through a camera
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and he says, move a bit further to your right,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Oki Chahan, Yeah right, around there and we see the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: picture from the cover and he says, okay, one more.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Akira kind of looks up to the right, I guess,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: or the left or something, and there's some light coming
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: through trees and she says, wow, see that how the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: light's sparkling through the branches. And then she's like, I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: gonna take buddy for a walk. One of them says, okay,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: have fun, but don't go too far away. Okay, Age
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and saying you're just sitting on the porch and sing says,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: why'd you invite Akira to come stay with you? Do
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you even know her that? Well? AG's like her parents,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: you see, aren't getting along very well right now, Akichan
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: thinks it's her fault. Her father. That's Ebaysn's older brother
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: was the one who named her. We see a Kira
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: like walking buddy and stuff, and Agy continues, well, according
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: to eBay San, he's not a bad person, but he's
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: kind of insensitive. He'd say stuff like I really wanted
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a boy, so only came up with boys' names, or
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I sure was disappointed when we had a girl. He'd
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: actually say that stuff in front of aki Chan. Fuck.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Sometime after she started middle school, Aki Chan started having
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: all kinds of health problems. eBay San wrote in one
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: of his letters that this coincided with the time she
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: got her first period, and what that suggests is she's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: having trouble accepting herself as a girl, and she thinks
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that the reason her father doesn't come home anymore is
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that she isn't a boy like he wanted. Shit. Singh says,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: so that's what this is about. I guess I was
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: wrong about you then, deep down, and you haven't changed
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: a bit. Ag. Yeah, he is not. You sure got
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: this amazing ability to sense the last desperate SOS signals
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: people send out, like the time you found buddy. Even nobody,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: but you would have noticed that tiny puppy in the trash.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Can you got a sixth sense for those who need help?
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: He thinks. I bet this is why Ash loved him.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: He was probably the only one who sends to Ash's pain.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Ag says, but there was one signal that I ignored,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: and that was your sing. I pretended not to hear it.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Sing is surprised. AG continues, You see, I knew about
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the letter, Sing says, that's not and AG continues, I
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: knew that my letter was the reason he and sing's like,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: that's not true. Ag continues, I knew about it, and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you that. I knew how terrible you felt,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: but I didn't try to take the load off your shoulders.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I just kept asking myself why I didn't go see
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: him myself instead of asking you to take that letter.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I kept telling myself I should have gone, even if
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I had to crawl on my hands and knees. It
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: was killing me, saying looks down. Agy continues, So I
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: just got focused on hating Loo and ignoring your pain.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: It was the only way I could live with myself.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget Ash. I never want to forget him,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean I'm not happy or that I'll
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: never be happy again. At this point, Akira has returned.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Ag continues, Ash lived all out one hundred percent you
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: and I know that better than anyone else. I'm just
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: grateful and proud that I got to spend at least
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: a short while in the company of that brilliant, miraculous
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: life for us. He kind of smiles and saying, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: he says, I'm really sorry, Sing for me. Can you
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: live with that yourself? Singh says, I don't know if
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I even ought to be around you, but I know well,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I know I could never replace Ash. Agy smiles. Of
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: course you could never replace Ash, just like nobody could
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: ever replace you, sing. Ag looks back and sees that
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Akira is watching. He turns to her, and nobody could
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: ever replace you to either, Aki Chan. No one is
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: crying except for me. They're all fine. He continues, There's
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: only one of you in the whole world. Guess what
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Ash's first name was Oslon, and that means don just
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: like your name, well, not really, but whatever. Akira looks
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: kind of surprised, and she hugs him, and she thinks
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: of when he said I know somebody whose name means
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I love your name, Aki Chan, and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I love you. It's maybe night now. I think they
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: may still be in Cape cod because we're seeing a
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: house that does not look like it's in New York City,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and Age is looking at something, maybe like negatives, a
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: film or something. He's by himself except for Buddy. He's
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: like putting something into like a maybe projector I don't
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: really know, and he says, sorry for keeping you locked
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: up for so long. I hit away all your pictures,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: as if it would make any difference. He is looking
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: on a projector pictures of Ash, you know, just like
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Ash has a towel on his head, Ashes putting on
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: his pants. They're fishing together, just them together, Ashes sleep,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Ash reading a book, and he's just kind of staring
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: at them, and he just starts to cry. Then we
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: see a gallery with Agy's work in it, and there's
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: a picture on a wall. It's kind of prominent, but
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: it's kind of far away too, and we get kind
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: of a narration by Akira and it goes right after
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: we got back from Cape cod O. Kamona San put
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: this picture at the very back of the gallery. Its
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: title was Dawn. It's, of course a picture of Ash
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: sitting on a window sill with his uh head resting
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: kind of on his hand and on his knee. The
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: narration continues. The young man in the picture looked very peaceful,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: like he was sleeping or maybe praying. The side of
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: his face was gently lit by the morning sun. She thinks,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: so this was Ash. He really was beautiful. She's looking
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: at it and she realizes Sing is standing behind her.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: He looks up at the picture and he kind of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: half smiles and just starts to cry. Akira looks at
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: him and then grabs his hand. He looks over at
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: her and smiles. She smiles back, and they stand there
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: looking at the picture of ash. Now we see a
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: backpack and some luggage and someone says, you all packed,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and Akira says, yep, I think. We see Ag standing
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: behind Akira and sing and he says, hey, aki Chan,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: what about Gorbi And aki Chan's like, oh, he's on
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the desk. I don't know what Gorby is. Ag says,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: go on ahead, then I'll bring him and sings like okay,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I'll get this load into the car. Now, Sing and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Akira in the car and Akira says, sing, this car
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: is way too small for you. It is It is
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: a apparently Rover Mini and he like fills up everything.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like he's got a hunch down because he's
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: hitting the ceiling of the car or the roof, and
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: he says it used to fit me just fine. Before
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: she thinks his head's hitting the top and then she's like,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm really glad I was born a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: girl and sings like hmm. She smiles, and she's like,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: because then I can grow up to be a foxy
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: lady and get married to Okamura. San Sing is like,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: you big dope. By the time you're a foxy lady,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be an old man, silly, and she says, well,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: you'll be an old man too, so there. Sing's like,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: let's see when you're twenty, I'm gonna be thirty. She smiles,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and he thinks that's pretty old. Well, who cares come
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: back to New York when you've grown up to be
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: a foxy lady. She thinks, of course I'm coming back,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and she says okay. At this point, Ag gets the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: car with Gorby, which is some sort of large stuffed
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: animal thing that looks like a monster, I think, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Sing says, okay, let's get moving. Ag. I guess he's
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: in the car and he says, Sing, you're still driving
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: this car, and Akira is like see and singh says,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: leave me alone. I happen to like this car. Okay.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Ag says, you have your passport and Akira is like
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: uh oh, and we get a little narration here and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: it says, and I'll be so foxy Sink won't know
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: what hit him. And that's the end. So closing thoughts.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Obviously I cried through most of that. Sorry, well, I
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: mean at least the end part. Yeah. So there's a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff I want to talk about here. I'll
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: try to not make it super long winded or whatever.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: But I like this a lot because, Hey, I really
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: like Akira. I like the way that this was done
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: from an outsider's perspective, kind of of eg's like life
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and stuff, while still focusing on him. But I think
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I think this is really necessary as a wrap up,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and it answers a lot of questions from what I
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: have heard from people about the anime. I think the
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: director said something like, oh, like people that asked like,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: did ash die at the end, because it's you know
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: kind of we don't like see him die for certain
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: or whatever, so maybe he's alive, and the director said
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: something like, oh, you know, we wanted to leave it
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: open to interpretation. It is not open to interpretation. So
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I think this was her way of saying, like, it's
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: not he died. This was really bad. You know, it's
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: obvious in the anime that he died. It's obvious in
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the manga that he died. There was no salvation coming.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: This is never supposed to be open ended. I read
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: somewhere on Wikipedia that a Kemi Yoshida had two things
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: that she wanted to do with this manga when she
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: started it, and she apparently didn't have the entire storyline done,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: but she wanted it to be a romance between two
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: male characters, and she wanted the main character to die
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: at the end. So from the beginning, Ash was always
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: going to die, and he was always going to die.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: He was always going to be killed by kind of
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a lower level gang member, and she said something like
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: he needed to be punished for what he's done, kind
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: of which hurt me, like really really bad. And I
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: hope that if in this universe there is an afterlife,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: that Ash went there and was comforted and got to
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: like read and be healed, because I don't think he
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: deserved it. Jeez, Michelle. Sorry anyway, So we got absolutely
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: he's dead in this and we also got another thing
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: that I think was really really important, because in the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: anime and the manga there's never any clarification completely about
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the nature of Ash and Agy's relationship. I think it's
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: pretty fucking clear that this is not just a friendship,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: even though the only word we get for it is friends.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I think that I don't know if either of them
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: were comfortable calling it anything other than that, but it's
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: just not the same thing. And like I said, I
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: think when we're doing episode twenty four, like Ash was
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: not okay enough probably to call this anything else, but
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: it clearly was something else. So I love having that
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: kind of confirmed here, and I love having it confirmed
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: that the relationship wasn't sexual. I mean, I'm sure you
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: knew that it wasn't because there's no evidence that it was.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: And if Akemi Yoshida wanted it to be, there was
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: plenty of rape and bana fish, there could be consensual sex.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: We saw it one time already, but because this manga
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: anime took course over about a year and a half first,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: so from eighty five to eighty seven, think the winter
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: of eighty seven, we didn't see everything that happened between
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Ash and Agy, so it's you know, maybe stuff was
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: going on. So she's saying no, nothing was ever going on,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: But this wasn't exactly a friendship. This was something else,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: and that's kind of what I caught from it. So
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I really liked seeing it confirmed. And I talked about
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: this in twenty four as well, about how as like
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: an aromatic asexual did I say aromatic? Sorry? As an
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: a romantic asexual, I don't really relate to romances and
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: relationships in media. Usually it takes a lot for me
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: to actually care about two characters being together or feel
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: like it's right, And this was a huge exception for me,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: and I think probably it's because without kind of knowing it,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Aikimi Yoshida wrote, like a really convincing queer platonic relationship,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: which if you don't know what it is, it gets
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: tossed around a lot in errow ace spaces. It's like
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: a it's like a non romantic, super important relationship where
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: it's like your life partner, but not in a romantic way,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: like maybe you lived together or you consider yourselves like partners.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: But it's just not a romantic and maybe not sexual relationship.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: But it's not a best friend, it's not a friendship.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: It's something kind of different than both of those. And
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I think that that's what this was. And I just
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: feel so bad for a g because I get that,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I get the his his kind of grieving, that kind
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of avoidance, greeving, as I guess I would call it.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to look at Ash's pictures and he
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to go near the library where he died.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Like that's my style of grieving. I know exactly what
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: that's like, to just not want to do anything with
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: it anymore. This is probably the most personal I'm ever
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: gonna get with a show with you guys, just so
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: you know, because this hits me so hard, just all
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: of it and a fish. But like, I have a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: friend who died like fucking I don't know, seven years
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: ago now, and I still can't listen to his music,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Like I can't listen to it a little bit, but
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: not really. It just hurts. So I get it then
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: it but it sucks because like they both loved each
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: other so much, so not seeing him, not looking at
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: his pictures is also gotta be really painful, because grief
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: doesn't go away just because you avoid it, you know.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: And ag is right sings a little bit off bass
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: talking about like him getting over Ash. You don't get
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: over something like that. It doesn't even get smaller. It's
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: just that the more experienced in life than you have,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the bigger the experience kind of palettes that you have
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: is so the smaller things appear in comparison, you know,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: like for instance, with this Ash died when AG was twenty, right,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: and now he's twenty eight, so he has eight more
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: years of people and experiences that just kind of are
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: filling in and making that space of experience bigger. So
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Ash is still there as big as he always was,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: but now there's more and all that stuff with like
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: the dual sides of New York City and the light
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: in the darkness, and how he loves it all and
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: how that's all just relating back to Ash and how
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: he loved all of him, and how like sweet and
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: good of a person Ag is still and he wants
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: to help people. It's just really beautiful, and I feel
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: horrible that he had to go through all of this
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and who really did change the course of his life.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I really do think that being back in New York
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: City is the only thing he could do to feel
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: close to Ash, you know, because New York City like
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: is him the kind of ambrasiveness and a scum of
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: the city and also just the kindest and I mean, yeah,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: I love that age He's still just the sweet, sweet kid.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Even after everything, he still wants to help and as
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: for what's going on with sing part of me when
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: I was reading this, I was thinking, do Sing like
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: like Ag, like, is he into him? I kind of
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: don't think so. I think if I'm remembering correctly, and
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I might not be, I think I'm in New York sense,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: which is AG's quote unquote photographs of New York, some
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of which are ash and some of which are taken later.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure like Sing might get married. I think
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Singh just felt this horrible, horrible obligation to protect and
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: age after all of the trauma that he caused. And
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: of course it wasn't all things fault and it was,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: you know, it was really nobody's fault in everybody's fault
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: kind of deal. Like they're both right. Had he never
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: gotten the note, he probably wouldn't have died then. But
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: he needed that note, you know, like, and you can't
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: you can't know what any of your decisions, especially the
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: ones that are supposed to be positive, are gonna bring,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: you know. So it does hurt that they both feel
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: like they're responsible. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: really all I want to say. I think, And I
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: know I said this in twenty four that I just
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: want to say again, like your importance. You know, you
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: really are and there are probably really good things about you,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: and there are probably things that you, you know, wish
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: were different, but you absolutely deserve to be accepted. She
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: didn't know that, which you probably did, right, Maybe I
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: need to hear that. Maybe that's why I'm saying it anyway. Yeah,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: that was rough for me. That was really rough. Anyway,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: I think that's really all I need to say about this.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: So next week might be the last week of Banana Fish.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking of after that, doing one more week where
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I talked to my friend who I forced to watch it,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: and he tells me about things that he felt about
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: it that probably will hurt me and make me upset
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: because I don't think he feels exactly the same way
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: as I do. I mean, not this amount of sadness
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: at least, So I don't know if I'm gonna do that,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: but I might. But the last manga thing we're doing
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: is gonna be next week, and that is private opinion,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: which takes place in the past. Again, so maybe crying,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: maybe not crying, I'm not sure. And it doesn't exist
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: in print in the US. There's only a fan translation,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and you can find it online. They're like really good,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like pirate manga sites. When I was looking,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: didn't have most of Banana Fish. They do have Private
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Opinion and then some of the other things that we're
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: not gonna cover because we just can't keep going forever.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: So you can find it online Private Opinion. It's fan translated,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: and it is the last thing I want to show you,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: I guess, and it's real fucked up, because of course
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: it is. So yeah, So we'll do that next week
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and that'll either be it or it won't be it,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: and then I'll probably take like two weeks off, I think,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: And then I think we're gonna do eighty six, at
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: least the first core of eighty six. We might do
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: all twenty six episodes. Trying to decide because they kind
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: of want to cover the Summer Hikadu Died, which airs
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: in the summer, which is nice, which is a horror
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: kind of boys love manga that's being adapted. So there's
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: a chance we will do the first core of eighty six,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: take a break, do Summer Hikatu Died, and then go
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: back into eighty six. But I'm not sure yet. But
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I am sure we're doing eighty six because I want
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: to cry some more. And yeah, I'm not gonna cry
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: like I cried for Banana Fish, because honestly, I don't
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: think I'm ever gonna cry about media quite the same way.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I haven't in my entire life, so but I probably
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: will cry a little bit. And I do really like
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: the main character, so I'll be all weird about him,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: but not this weird, but a little weird. So that
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: is it for now. I'm gonna go get fucking allergy
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: tested and find out what the fuck is wrong with me.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: And I hope you have a really good whatever, because
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: you fucking deserve it, you nice, good human who is
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: a combination of good and bad. And I will talk
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to you next week, probably unless we're dead anyway. Later
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: we