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Given Ep. 3- Somebody Else · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. Maybe then I'm here and
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Speaker 1: you might be here too or not. I don't really know,
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Speaker 1: but if you are, that's nice. Thanks for coming back.
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Speaker 1: As you know, we're you know, going through given l
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Speaker 1: anime Given, and so we're gonna do episode three today.
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Speaker 1: I don't really think there's much I need to talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, besides, given, pretty much everything I'm watching this
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Speaker 1: season is still pretty good. No, I'm sorry, Almost everything
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Speaker 1: that I'm watching is still really really good, except of
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Speaker 1: course for try gun Stargaze, which I just totally hate.
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Speaker 1: But we don't need to go into that. So yay,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about Given, because that's what you're here for,
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Speaker 1: right you think this is okay and you wanted to
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Speaker 1: hear more, I think, I hope, just for you know,
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Speaker 1: your information. I guess there's no guitar in this episode
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Speaker 1: at all, Like none of me playing the guitar or
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Speaker 1: like singing. Not that I sang in the last episode,
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Speaker 1: but I almost did, and then I cut it out
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Speaker 1: because it was embarrassing. So you don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about that if that's been bugging you. This is, you know,
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Speaker 1: no guitar show. I kind of miss it. But there's
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Speaker 1: just nothing to do for it. So yeah. Oh and
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Speaker 1: before we get truly started, I did want to say
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Speaker 1: I have been reading ahead in the manga now and
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Speaker 1: I am just kind of floored at how much of
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Speaker 1: what we're watching is anime original and I'll try to
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Speaker 1: point that out while we're going through the episode, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that somewhere. Okay, So given
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Speaker 1: Episode three is called somebody Else, which is the title
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Speaker 1: of a song by The nineteen seventy five from their
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Speaker 1: second studio album called I Like It When You Sleep
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Speaker 1: for You you Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of
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Speaker 1: it Gross, which came out in twenty sixteen. You probably
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Speaker 1: might be familiar with this song. I don't know song titles,
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Speaker 1: so I was like, what is this and then I
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Speaker 1: listened to it and I was like, oh, the song
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Speaker 1: about that. So I will say right now, I don't
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Speaker 1: think the song fits this episode. When I originally started
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Speaker 1: the episode and saw what song it was, I got
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Speaker 1: excited because I was like, this is perfect, but I
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Speaker 1: failed to realize that the part of the anime I
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Speaker 1: was thinking of is not in this episode. So what
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is somebody else is a song
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Speaker 1: about I guess jealousy. It's about some dude, I guess
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Speaker 1: the singer maybe, and he is I guess, not in
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Speaker 1: a relationship with this person anymore. But he just found
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Speaker 1: out that that person is now in a new relationship
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Speaker 1: and he's not happy about it. That's basically what the
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Speaker 1: song is about. It's about like, he doesn't want this
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Speaker 1: person back, but he also doesn't want them to be
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Speaker 1: in a new relationship. It pisses them off. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's either about jealousy or about just disliking someone enough
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Speaker 1: that you don't want good things for them. I'm not
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Speaker 1: really sure, but either way, it doesn't really work for
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Speaker 1: this episode except yeah, I don't know, so huh. I'm
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Speaker 1: interested as to why that was chosen anyway. If you
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Speaker 1: remember from the last episode, we ended with oh no
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Speaker 1: Yama asking Mafuyu to join the band after he heard
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Speaker 1: him sing because it was that good. Yeah, we don't
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Speaker 1: start there, which is super fucking annoying. We see a gray,
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Speaker 1: cloudy sky and snow is falling down slowly. We pan
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Speaker 1: down a city street with cars like waiting for a
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Speaker 1: red light, you know, to not be read anymore, and
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Speaker 1: then we see a crosswalk light that's on red, and
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Speaker 1: we hear mafu You say, I'm not lone. He's waiting
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Speaker 1: at a crosswalk with like lots of people who have umbrellas,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, no, I don't think you should have
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Speaker 1: an umbrella in the snow. Snow is fun and it
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Speaker 1: should get on you, or you should have a hat
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Speaker 1: or something. But I guess in Japan, or at least
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Speaker 1: in this area, everybody has umbrellas to prevent the snow
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Speaker 1: from falling on them, except for Mafu You. He does
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Speaker 1: not have an umbrella anyway. This kind of voiceover of
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Speaker 1: him continues, even though I'll never see you again, He
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Speaker 1: kind of clutches or hugs his guitar, even though I
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Speaker 1: still don't have any words. The crosswalk light turns green
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Speaker 1: and people start to cross, but Mafu You doesn't move yet.
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Speaker 1: He continues, I'll take the thing you loved with me.
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Speaker 1: We see his breath condensing in the cold air, and
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Speaker 1: he starts to walk. We cut to his boots as
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Speaker 1: he walks, and then to his face. You know, we
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Speaker 1: see his breath again, and he continues. Story that took
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Speaker 1: place one winter, A story that took place one morning,
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Speaker 1: and then we go to the opening theme. Yay, I guess.
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Speaker 1: Back from the opening theme, we see some like white
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Speaker 1: buildings hanging around each other and like one of them
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Speaker 1: has a clock tower, and it's eleven twenty and there's
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Speaker 1: some trees in the foreground and it is still partly
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Speaker 1: cloudy out because that is what it is all the time,
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Speaker 1: except for just that last scene where it was snowing,
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Speaker 1: and there's like kids sitting on benches like that are
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Speaker 1: kind of wrapped around trees, like wooden benches around trees,
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Speaker 1: and then like standing on like what looks like a
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Speaker 1: big wooden deck of some sort, like a really big
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Speaker 1: one because yeah, I don't know. Anyway, a bunch of
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Speaker 1: kids are standing around on this wooden deck like talking
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Speaker 1: and like groups as you might. And then we panned
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Speaker 1: to Hodocky, who is leaning on like one of those
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Speaker 1: little bike racks, or he's kind of sitting on it
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Speaker 1: like by a fence that also might just be a
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Speaker 1: bigger bike rack, I'm not really sure, and he's looking
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Speaker 1: at his phone and we see that on his phone
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Speaker 1: he has like a text screen open and he has
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Speaker 1: said I'm at the bike racks on campus. It says
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Speaker 1: that it's sent at eleven fifty four, so maybe I
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Speaker 1: misread the clock. And then the other person says, okay,
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Speaker 1: got it at eleven fifty five, be there in about
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Speaker 1: ten minutes. And then how dock he says, Roger at
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Speaker 1: eleven fifty seven, so yeah, I just can't read. I
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Speaker 1: guess either that or they didn't do the clock right.
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Speaker 1: How dock. He looks up and he seems kind of annoyed,
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Speaker 1: and we see the Kaji has pulled up on his motorcycle,
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Speaker 1: which is red. I thought you should know, and there's
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Speaker 1: some girl on the back with like long, you know,
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Speaker 1: dark hair, who we're supposed to know is Yayoi. You know,
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Speaker 1: we know ya. I'm a sister. So anyway, he pulls
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Speaker 1: up like the visor that's on his helmet, and I
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Speaker 1: thought he looked over at Hodokei, but he was really
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Speaker 1: just looking back at Yayoi and he says, can you
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Speaker 1: get to and you're always like yeah, Hadoki looks like
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Speaker 1: I don't know, like maybe he's sick of this shit.
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Speaker 1: As she like gets off the bike and thanks, Kaji.
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Speaker 1: Kaji says, your hair's a mess, and he puts his
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Speaker 1: hand on her head to like, smooth it down. He
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Speaker 1: needs to control how much he touches people because they
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Speaker 1: all have crutches on him. I think. Yayoi kind of
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Speaker 1: gasps as he fixes it, see what I mean? And
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Speaker 1: Kaji looks up and he sees Howdokei slumped over head
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Speaker 1: and hands on the bike rack and he says, dook
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Speaker 1: Haddoki thinks drop dead, you obvious heartbreaker. Yeah. Kaji starts
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Speaker 1: to walk over to him, and he waves to Yayoi
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Speaker 1: and says, well, see you later. Ya always like later.
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Speaker 1: Kaji says, make sure you go to class yeah you
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Speaker 1: always like yeah. Yeah. Kaji reaches where Haddoki is sitting
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Speaker 1: still with his head in his hands, and he says, hey, hodoge,
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Speaker 1: what do you doing? How do? He is like vibrating
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Speaker 1: just slightly, and Kaji continues, did you see that text
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Speaker 1: from uey Noyama? How dock? He lifts his head slightly
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Speaker 1: and he looks sick, like he's got blue lines over
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Speaker 1: his face. Whatever that's supposed to mean, and he says
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Speaker 1: I did. Kaji sits down next to him on the
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Speaker 1: bike rack. He wants to let Mafuyu join the band. Huh,
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Speaker 1: He's like I figured this had happened eventually, but this
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Speaker 1: is far more expeditious than I anticipated. Kaji says, what's
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Speaker 1: with the big words? He takes out a cigarette and
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Speaker 1: lights it, because that's what he does. How dick. He
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Speaker 1: finally lifts his head and is like, I figured it
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Speaker 1: would be after he made more progress with the guitar.
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Speaker 1: Kaji's like, yeah, I thought so too, So I asked him, why, oh,
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Speaker 1: there you go communicating? How do? He's like, isn't that
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Speaker 1: a little mean? You know who? She likes that kid? Oh?
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Speaker 1: He does. I don't really. I don't think anyone has
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Speaker 1: ever specifically said that. But okay, and Kaji's like it
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Speaker 1: just slipped out. He exhales some smoke. He was like,
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Speaker 1: you'll get it when you hear him. How do? He's
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Speaker 1: silent for a second and he says, what's that mean?
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Speaker 1: Now we see an exterior shot of the school. It
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Speaker 1: is still partly cloudy, and we hear Unoyama say, what
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Speaker 1: the hell is that supposed to be? Damn it? He
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Speaker 1: slams his head on a desk on the damn it. Jeez,
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Speaker 1: he's getting a little bit frustrated here. I liked that
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Speaker 1: transition between what does that mean, and what does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Everyone looks over at him. They were in the classroom
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Speaker 1: kind of cleaning it up and moving desks, and he
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Speaker 1: was in the middle of moving a desk when he
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Speaker 1: just shoved his head into it, which was not good.
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Speaker 1: And he is kind of breathing, like really loudly, like
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Speaker 1: he needs to get a grip. The guy with the
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Speaker 1: reddish hair who has a name, which is Ittaya. It
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Speaker 1: was said once in episode one, but I wasn't sure
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Speaker 1: it was referring to this guy because I wasn't really
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Speaker 1: sure who was talking in the episode. But I know
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Speaker 1: it is him now, so his name is Etaya. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: he says, what's going on? Uwayo Yama? Everyone has already
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Speaker 1: gotten back to work, thankfully. I guess maybe he has
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Speaker 1: these little fits often, and Etaya continues, you've been real
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Speaker 1: weird lately. Waynoyama lifts up his head slightly and is
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Speaker 1: like he's the damn weirdo. Etaya looks super concerned, and
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Speaker 1: Unoyama continues, you know mafu usato, right, Etaya says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the guy from class next door Ouyenoyama says, I invited
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Speaker 1: him to join our band, and he thinks, and yet
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Speaker 1: that bastard. Wait what. We go to the stairwell windows
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Speaker 1: and we hear Awaynoyama say you want to join our
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Speaker 1: band mafoo. You gasps and then looks at the floor.
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Speaker 1: He like clasps one of his hands over the other
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Speaker 1: and says, I don't think I should wait what he
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Speaker 1: turned him down? Uo Yama thinks, huh what why was
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Speaker 1: that even supposed to mean. We go back to them
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Speaker 1: cleaning the classroom, and Ittaya says, oh, I get it.
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Speaker 1: You didn't think he'd reject you? Oh god ou We
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Speaker 1: know Yama looks over at him angrily, and Etaya's like uh.
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Speaker 1: And we cuts it to the clock. It's three eleven,
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Speaker 1: and we hear like something kind of slam, like a
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Speaker 1: stick slam into something, and we cut back to them
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Speaker 1: and Ui know Yama is hitting him with like the broomstick,
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Speaker 1: not like super hard or anything, but he's upset, and
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Speaker 1: we hear some girls say, come on, you stupid boys. U. No.
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Speaker 1: Yama is now just kind of like punching Ittaya in
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Speaker 1: the back, and he thinks, yeah, that's right, I didn't
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Speaker 1: think he'd reject me. He goes back to sweeping, but
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Speaker 1: he thinks of Mafu you singing. I mean, he gulps
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Speaker 1: and tenses up. Damn it, No way in hell, I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna give up. Yeah. I mean, normally, when someone
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Speaker 1: says they don't want to do something, you just aren't
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Speaker 1: supposed to bother them about it anymore, and you're supposed
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Speaker 1: to respect their feelings. But okay whatever. That girl with
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Speaker 1: the shortish brownish hair that we see all the time
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Speaker 1: is just kind of staring at him. During this, we
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Speaker 1: see the red crosswalk lights again and Mafoou is waiting
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Speaker 1: to cross the streets. This is all anime original and
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Speaker 1: we hear we know Yama say Sato. Mafou looks over
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Speaker 1: to see no Yama walking up the sidewalk towards him,
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Speaker 1: and Mafou says, we know, Yama kun, don't you have
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Speaker 1: worked today? We know? Yama's like, you want to learn
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Speaker 1: to play guitar? Right, Mafoo. You just kind of blinks
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Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, we know. Yama says you're interested
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Speaker 1: in bands, right, Mafoo. You's like, yeah, we know, Yama says,
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Speaker 1: and you can sing, right, Mafoo. You is silence ou.
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Speaker 1: No Yama goes You're supposed to say yeah again. Instead,
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Speaker 1: Mafuyu looks up and he's like, oh, it's green. Uno
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Speaker 1: Yama looks kind of comically devastated, and Mafooo points and says, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm going this way so and he starts to walk
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Speaker 1: across the street, and we know Yama's just like huh
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Speaker 1: Mafulu finishes crossing the street and he turns and waves
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Speaker 1: to Uyenoyama, who is just standing there seething. He's got
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Speaker 1: to find a better time to talk to him. We
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Speaker 1: see some apartment buildings at night, and Uleinoyama is sitting
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Speaker 1: on the floor in the living room looking at his phone,
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Speaker 1: while Yayoi lies on the couch behind him looking at
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Speaker 1: her phone. Yay phones. We see that Uyenoyama is staring
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Speaker 1: at a blank Poyo search like, I guess it's like Google,
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Speaker 1: but Puyo like a chicken in Spanish. And he thinks
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Speaker 1: it's not that he doesn't like our band, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a scary feeling when someone might not like your band.
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Speaker 1: I get it. He thinks of Mafoyu practicing at the
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Speaker 1: studio and then saying he had fun after and then
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Speaker 1: he thinks, I mean that's what he said. He's typing
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Speaker 1: bondo how to invite in Japanese into poyo. Now I
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Speaker 1: could only read Bondo because it's literally bound. The other
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Speaker 1: stuff is who knows what it is? I mean someone
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Speaker 1: who can read Japanese does. But the translation says how
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Speaker 1: to invite, so I believe them. The screen of his
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Speaker 1: phone shakes slightly with his frustration and he looks up
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Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, Yayoi. Yayoi's like, hmm, we know.
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Speaker 1: Yama says, how do you keep getting a hold of
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Speaker 1: Kaji sent even though he dumped? And he gets hit
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Speaker 1: in the face with a pillow and falls over, probably
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Speaker 1: dramatically because it didn't look like the pillow really hurt.
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Speaker 1: Now we see kids walking into school and Mafoyu is
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Speaker 1: walking in slowly too, and then he stopped and we
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Speaker 1: see that Wueno Yama is resting against some lockers in
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Speaker 1: front of him, looking at his phone. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: doing in this episode, looking at phones. Mafu You says,
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Speaker 1: Wayna Yama kun Waa. Yama looks up and is like, yo, Mafo.
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Speaker 1: You walks over and says morning, what are you doing?
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Speaker 1: We know Yama's like, huh nothing. It kind of looks away.
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Speaker 1: Mafu You says, oh, by the way, thanks for lending
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Speaker 1: me that guitar book. He takes off his guitar and
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Speaker 1: leans down. You can have it back now. I guess
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Speaker 1: he's getting it out of like the pouch in his
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Speaker 1: case or something. We know. Yama's like, Oh, it's not
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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna use it anytime soon, so you can
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Speaker 1: just hang on to it. I mean, he looks at
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Speaker 1: his phone. On his phone, the screen says how to
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Speaker 1: ask someone out even after they've rejected you once. No,
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Speaker 1: the important part is to remain composed. Try to remember
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Speaker 1: back to when you first asked them out. Did you
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Speaker 1: ask them without even thinking about how they'd feel? Right? First,
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Speaker 1: show them how relaxed you are by talking about something
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Speaker 1: like click here for more details. This is all anime
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Speaker 1: original Ouio. Yama thinks what's important is to hermain Come,
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Speaker 1: it's not the same thing, so it starts with me.
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Speaker 1: He takes a deep breath and then exhales, I think
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Speaker 1: our band is pretty awesome. He's such a mess. Mafu
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Speaker 1: you looks kind of confused because this is weird. Ou know.
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Speaker 1: Yama's like, I've been in a few other bands, but
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Speaker 1: this one's the easiest to play in. That's the point.
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Speaker 1: The bell rings and Mafou starts to look around like
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Speaker 1: he doesn't know what to do because he's got to
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Speaker 1: go to class. And I totally understand this feeling. And
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Speaker 1: this doesn't even kind of slightly phase Wuno Yama, Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think he even realizes it happened, because he
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Speaker 1: continues Kaji San and Hanukis are both super skilled people
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Speaker 1: are like running to make it to class now, and
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Speaker 1: Lafuyu is not feeling confident about his chances. And Uoyama continues,
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Speaker 1: I mean they like to mess around sometimes, but they're
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Speaker 1: actually serious when it counts. We've been an instrumental band
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Speaker 1: this whole time. Oh, instrumental means a Mafuu's like oino Yama.
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Speaker 1: Kun ouyeno Yama says, h Lafu's like, can I go
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Speaker 1: get the class records now? I have class duties today?
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Speaker 1: Yeah again. Ouio Yama looks kind of comically devastated by this.
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Speaker 1: You've got to pay attention to what's going on with
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Speaker 1: the other person, dude. You can't just say a bunch
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Speaker 1: of things. When the bell rang already and he realizes
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Speaker 1: that and he kind of steals himself and he says
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Speaker 1: go ahead. Mafoyu says sorry, see you later, okay, and
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Speaker 1: he walks away. Oo Yama sighs, I guess we can
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Speaker 1: talk about it at lunch. We see the windows of
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Speaker 1: the stairwell. It is super bright outside, so we can't
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Speaker 1: even see anything through them, and we see that uino
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Speaker 1: Yama is sitting alone on the landing with his arms crossed,
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Speaker 1: and we go to black and then we hear a slam,
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Speaker 1: which is uino Yama. He is slammed open Mafuyu's class
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Speaker 1: door like it's a pocket door, so it slams into
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Speaker 1: the pockets. Yay. I've done this before once and no
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Speaker 1: one was excited about it, and I felt really stupid afterwards.
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Speaker 1: So he's in the doorway and he's like, aren't you coming.
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Speaker 1: Mafuyu is at his desk and he says, I forgot
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Speaker 1: to do my homework. Uio Yama slumps forward, maybe with rage,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. And then we hear a bell and
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Speaker 1: we see the class two nine sign and we hear
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Speaker 1: a voice say, Sato, there's a kid standing in the
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Speaker 1: doorway with Uino Yama in front of him, and the
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Speaker 1: kid says, he went home already. Yeah, he's not doing
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Speaker 1: too well. We cut to the studio exterior and we
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Speaker 1: hear Hadopi laughing, and then we see inside the studio
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Speaker 1: where Hadoukei is just laughing wildly as Kaji is like
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Speaker 1: trying not to chuckle, but he kind of almost is.
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Speaker 1: And o. We know Yama looks pissed. How do Ki
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Speaker 1: says that's hilarious and he's laughing so much that he
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Speaker 1: starts to cough because he's a smoker. Kaji's like, come
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Speaker 1: on stop, how do he cannot stop? And He's like sorry.
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Speaker 1: Kaji is still kind of trying not to laugh, and
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Speaker 1: he says, oh, he's gonna get mad. We know Yama's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: shut up already. How Dooki is still laughing. We know
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Speaker 1: Yama looks around and he says, and he didn't even
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Speaker 1: show up? Is he avoiding me? It kind of feels
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Speaker 1: like that's what's happening. You are being real weird. Oh no, no,
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Speaker 1: he had a job interview today. We know Yama's like, huh,
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Speaker 1: how did you know that? How Dooki says what he
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Speaker 1: texted me. He puts his hand on his chin. What
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Speaker 1: could it be the you don't have Mafuyu's contact information? Uechi?
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Speaker 1: O know, Yama just kind of stares at him blankly.
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Speaker 1: Kaji kind of glance is over at him, and we
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Speaker 1: know Yama kind of mechanically sort of it's really weird
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Speaker 1: shaky movements, kind of turns his head to the side
20:08
Speaker 1: to look at Kaji and he makes kind of like
20:11
Speaker 1: augh noise, and Kaji says, I don't have it. We
20:17
Speaker 1: see one are the amps in the practice space. We're
20:19
Speaker 1: kind of panning down on it so we don't have
20:21
Speaker 1: to see them talk. And how do he says, So
20:24
Speaker 1: Mafu is doing what we asked him to. They're all
20:27
Speaker 1: just kind of sitting on the floor. How do he continues,
20:29
Speaker 1: He's been pretty serious about finding a job. This is
20:32
Speaker 1: also he can keep making music. We know, Yama says,
20:35
Speaker 1: So Kaji and how Doki kind of look at each
20:39
Speaker 1: other and sigh. And how Doki says, Uechi, did you
20:43
Speaker 1: actually ask Mafu you why? We know Yama's like, huh,
20:49
Speaker 1: how do he says, when you were wondering why he declined,
20:52
Speaker 1: did you think to actually ask him we know Yama
20:57
Speaker 1: is silent for a moment, and then he kind of
20:58
Speaker 1: gasps how to sighs. He didn't even bother to get
21:02
Speaker 1: his number. You should probably hear him out. Yeah, Kaji
21:07
Speaker 1: says music is all about communication. For some reason, they're
21:11
Speaker 1: saying communication in English in this episode, I worry about
21:14
Speaker 1: you sometimes. OI know. Yama makes like a pain sigh
21:19
Speaker 1: and then we see Kaji and how do He's smoking
21:22
Speaker 1: on a bench which I thought was outside, but it's
21:24
Speaker 1: actually in the hallway, which is gross. How Doki says,
21:28
Speaker 1: do you think I said too much? He crosses his arms.
21:30
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, we know Yama is trying his best,
21:33
Speaker 1: but he kind of like grumbles a bit. Kaji kind
21:38
Speaker 1: of like starts to muss Haddaki's hair, which catches him
21:42
Speaker 1: really off guard. And when he stops, how dog, he
21:44
Speaker 1: blushes and he's like, what the hell? Kaji just kind
21:48
Speaker 1: of chuckles because I think he just might be totally oblivious,
21:52
Speaker 1: and how dook he continues, ugh huh. He's incredibly flustered.
21:58
Speaker 1: At this point. Kaji's like, get a grip. You're everyone's
22:01
Speaker 1: big brother, right. He stands up and starts to walk.
22:04
Speaker 1: Come on, let's head home. Cheez Hodoki thinks there's no way.
22:08
Speaker 1: Aki goes two years younger than me. Kaji presses the
22:12
Speaker 1: down button for the elevator so they can go down,
22:15
Speaker 1: and he looks at these two keys he has on
22:18
Speaker 1: a keychain in his hand. Yay. Now we go to
22:22
Speaker 1: a train station. I guess it's like outside of the
22:26
Speaker 1: train station, like it looks like it. There's an elevated
22:28
Speaker 1: line above this street or something. And it's night, so
22:32
Speaker 1: I think it's the same night. And uino Yama is
22:35
Speaker 1: walking looking at the ground. Maybe just coming out of practice,
22:38
Speaker 1: I assume. And he thinks back on Mafuyu's surprised face
22:42
Speaker 1: when he asked him to join the band, and he
22:44
Speaker 1: stops walking and he says communication again in English. He
22:49
Speaker 1: takes a sharp breath and turns around. Go to the
22:52
Speaker 1: eye catch yay. We see a city street at night now,
22:57
Speaker 1: and then we cut to a room with lockers and
22:59
Speaker 1: like a TV and a jube box and tables and chairs,
23:02
Speaker 1: some sort of multipurpose room. I don't know. Mafou is
23:06
Speaker 1: sitting with two people at a table and he is
23:09
Speaker 1: facing us, but the two people are facing, you know,
23:12
Speaker 1: the other way. So we can't really see what they
23:14
Speaker 1: look like. And one of them is a guy I
23:17
Speaker 1: guess with like longish grayish hair maybe, and he says, okay,
23:21
Speaker 1: you'll start here next week. Wow he got a job.
23:25
Speaker 1: Mafou bows and is like, thank you very much. We
23:28
Speaker 1: hear the guy say, Subaki, son, can you take care
23:30
Speaker 1: of the rest, and we hear a girl say sure,
23:34
Speaker 1: sato kun Mafu. You looks up and he sees a
23:37
Speaker 1: woman with short brown hair standing in front of him,
23:40
Speaker 1: who I guess is Subaki, and she says, want to
23:44
Speaker 1: take a look inside if you have some time. Now
23:47
Speaker 1: we see a desk with like magazines below it's maybe
23:50
Speaker 1: they're for sale or something, and like a beverage fridge
23:53
Speaker 1: behind it, and a sign on the wall that says
23:55
Speaker 1: no re entry, and we hear Subaki say, this is
23:59
Speaker 1: the reception desk. You hand out and accept tickets here.
24:02
Speaker 1: Now we see the table and the jukebox again, chie contenuse,
24:06
Speaker 1: you'll be mostly cleaning it. First. We see doors to
24:10
Speaker 1: a room with lots of posters, and Subaki says, but
24:15
Speaker 1: it's dangerous around the stage because of all the equipment.
24:18
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could trip. Now we see
24:20
Speaker 1: a stairwell with purplish light, just full of posters. I
24:24
Speaker 1: guess we're heading down towards the stage or something. Subaki continues,
24:28
Speaker 1: so you'll be cleaning the other areas until you get
24:30
Speaker 1: used to it. Mafui's like, okay. We see now a
24:34
Speaker 1: set of two green double doors, and one of them opens.
24:38
Speaker 1: We see Subaki and Mafuu you on the other side.
24:40
Speaker 1: And then we see a stage with drums on it
24:44
Speaker 1: and like amps, and there's like two people bending down
24:48
Speaker 1: doing stuff on the stage like texts. I guess. Subaki says,
24:52
Speaker 1: if there's a show where alcohol isn't served, we'll have
24:55
Speaker 1: you work the bar too. Now we cut to a
24:57
Speaker 1: laptop placed on a soundboard. These are all like still shots.
25:01
Speaker 1: By the way, a mufful who says the bar. We
25:04
Speaker 1: see a wooden bar surface yay Zubaki places her hand
25:08
Speaker 1: on it and says, this is the bar counter and
25:11
Speaker 1: bar is in English. Huh, you hand out drinks here.
25:15
Speaker 1: You also get a really good view of the stage
25:16
Speaker 1: from here. Mufflou stares at the stage and one of
25:21
Speaker 1: the guys is like fucking around with a mic stand
25:23
Speaker 1: now and Subaki says, if you ever get a show here,
25:26
Speaker 1: let me know, and we'll give you a bit of
25:27
Speaker 1: a discount. Hmm. I want to talk about that, but
25:31
Speaker 1: let's just wait until the end, because I am not
25:34
Speaker 1: usedtabbing to pay for shows. We hear a door open
25:37
Speaker 1: and we hear a guy say hey. Subaki looks over
25:40
Speaker 1: and there's this dude with like kind of his hair
25:44
Speaker 1: is like in a ponytail, but it's like shaved down
25:46
Speaker 1: the side. He's got like dark brown hair and really
25:48
Speaker 1: thick black glasses, and he's wearing a black hoodie. He's
25:51
Speaker 1: like peeking into the room, and he's my favorite person
25:52
Speaker 1: in the whole world. Subaki says, take chan yay. Taki's like, oh,
25:57
Speaker 1: he finally sees them because they're like on the side
25:59
Speaker 1: of the room. I came to talk to you about
26:01
Speaker 1: the show. Sabaki's like, oh sure, and walks towards him.
26:05
Speaker 1: Mafu you just kind of stares at the guy who's
26:08
Speaker 1: messing with a mic stand now for just like a
26:10
Speaker 1: really really long time. That's uncomfortable. Sort of. Now we
26:14
Speaker 1: see Mafo you exiting the building from above. We're looking
26:18
Speaker 1: down on him. I assume this is the building because
26:20
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a sign. Or anything, and he stops.
26:23
Speaker 1: He sees Uo Yama leaning against the like railing for
26:27
Speaker 1: train tracks which are kind of running parallel to this streets,
26:30
Speaker 1: and he's looking down and Mafou says, ou we know
26:33
Speaker 1: Yama kun uina Yama looks up and is like, oh,
26:37
Speaker 1: mafoou walks over. Oua Yama says, so you had an interview.
26:41
Speaker 1: Maful's like yeah. Ua Yama says, uh, so how to go?
26:49
Speaker 1: Mafoo you says, they asked me to start next week.
26:52
Speaker 1: Ouina Yama's like, oh, he thinks, I guess he had
26:56
Speaker 1: at least some social skills if you manage that. Then
27:00
Speaker 1: loud he says uh, and then he thinks communication communication
27:07
Speaker 1: out loud. He's like, so, uh, you poor guy. Then
27:12
Speaker 1: we hear someone say mafo you. Mafulu turns slowly and
27:17
Speaker 1: there's this dude with brown hair that's got like blonde
27:19
Speaker 1: tips on it, and he has got a guitar case
27:22
Speaker 1: on his back too, and he's standing like maybe a
27:25
Speaker 1: yard away from them, and he just looks like kind
27:29
Speaker 1: of shocked, and he says again, mafoo you. We cut
27:33
Speaker 1: back to Mafoou. We get a close up of just
27:36
Speaker 1: like one of his eyes and part of his mouth.
27:38
Speaker 1: His eyes just wide and his mouth is open slightly,
27:41
Speaker 1: and he just looks so terrified. Oh, I know. Yama
27:45
Speaker 1: sees Mafuu's reaction and he turns to look at the
27:48
Speaker 1: other guy and he's like, huh, We're now seeing maful
27:53
Speaker 1: kind of his side profile, but like he's just kind
27:56
Speaker 1: of slightly in frame and very close up, so we're
28:00
Speaker 1: just seeing kind of the bottom of his face and
28:01
Speaker 1: the top of his torso he's kind of on the
28:03
Speaker 1: left side of the screen, and he starts to kind
28:06
Speaker 1: of back away out of the frame. The guy is sweating,
28:11
Speaker 1: and he's like, what what are you doing. We cut
28:16
Speaker 1: to Mafuyu's boots as he takes a step back, and
28:20
Speaker 1: guy says, you just fell off the face of the earth.
28:25
Speaker 1: Mafulu's foot slides back further. He's clearly getting ready to run.
28:30
Speaker 1: Guy says, hey, wait a second. Mafuyu is continuing to
28:35
Speaker 1: make these little cautious steps backwards, his eyes wide. He
28:39
Speaker 1: looks like a really scared rabbit. You know, like, if
28:42
Speaker 1: you've ever tried to approach like a rabbit outside, if
28:46
Speaker 1: you have those where you live, and you think it's
28:48
Speaker 1: really cute and you want to go see it. When
28:50
Speaker 1: you start getting too close, it will just freeze and
28:53
Speaker 1: just stare at you like it's just getting ready to
28:56
Speaker 1: run because you know you're dangerous. Not really, you just
29:00
Speaker 1: want to hug it, but it doesn't know that, and
29:02
Speaker 1: also maybe he doesn't want to be hugged. But anyway,
29:05
Speaker 1: that is exactly what Mafluu looks like. Basically, he is
29:09
Speaker 1: just preparing to run. And the guy says, what the
29:13
Speaker 1: hell that thing on your back? Fuck? Ou know. Yama
29:18
Speaker 1: looks at Mafuo, who is still backing up, and says,
29:20
Speaker 1: what you know this guy? The guy says, is that
29:25
Speaker 1: you he's guitar? Fuck wu know. Yama makes some sort
29:29
Speaker 1: of confused noise, and the guy says, are you playing
29:34
Speaker 1: music now? Maflou is now just totally frozen, and we
29:40
Speaker 1: cut to black, and then we cut back and we
29:43
Speaker 1: see one of his boots slide back another step and
29:47
Speaker 1: he thinks, I never know I'm supposed to react, and
29:52
Speaker 1: then to black, and then to his boots as he pivots,
29:56
Speaker 1: and then to black and we hear him think at all.
30:00
Speaker 1: We cut back to his boots kicking off the ground
30:03
Speaker 1: as he just bolts Ooh, I know, Yama looks so
30:07
Speaker 1: fucking surprised. We got to black again and we hear U,
30:10
Speaker 1: we know Yama, say Sato. We have a quick first
30:14
Speaker 1: person perspective of mafuy running down the streets, and then
30:18
Speaker 1: we cut to his boots and he thinks everyone else
30:22
Speaker 1: can manage it so well. And it's important to say
30:25
Speaker 1: that while Mafui is running, the only sound we have
30:28
Speaker 1: in this episode besides what he's thinking, is his boots
30:31
Speaker 1: just hitting the pavement. It's fucking perfect. We cut to
30:34
Speaker 1: a black and white image of people sitting in a group.
30:38
Speaker 1: Looks like they're at a funeral. They're all kind of
30:40
Speaker 1: out of focus except for Mafuyu, who is lit differently
30:44
Speaker 1: and he looks just flat and solemn, and we hear
30:48
Speaker 1: him say, but I can't we see his face now
30:53
Speaker 1: as he's running. Then we cut to him laying in
30:56
Speaker 1: bed covers like wrapped up around him, maybe looking at
30:59
Speaker 1: his phone. He continues, just like how everyone laughs and cries.
31:04
Speaker 1: He pulls the blanket over his face. We cut to
31:07
Speaker 1: three guys standing together in like a little circle with
31:10
Speaker 1: guitars on their backs, so two of them are kind
31:12
Speaker 1: of standing like perpendicular to him, Like we're seeing their profiles.
31:16
Speaker 1: Oh right. One of them has a drum instead of
31:18
Speaker 1: a guitar on the back, like a snare or something.
31:20
Speaker 1: The one in the middle has his back to the camera.
31:22
Speaker 1: Mafou is standing there kind of behind them, just kind
31:25
Speaker 1: of looking on and we cut to black again and
31:28
Speaker 1: we hear muffle you say, I just can't do it. Well.
31:33
Speaker 1: We hear uino Yama say, Sato. We cut to his
31:37
Speaker 1: profile as he runs, He's like trying to catch up. Now, hey, Sato.
31:42
Speaker 1: We now see that Kaji is sitting on his bike
31:45
Speaker 1: kind of parked, taking off his helmets close by, and
31:48
Speaker 1: he's like hmmm. He turns. We hear uino Yama say,
31:52
Speaker 1: are you listening? Damn it? Mafulu is still running. His
31:56
Speaker 1: head is down so we can't see his expression, but
31:58
Speaker 1: I assume it's not good. And uino Yama's like, Sato,
32:03
Speaker 1: mafoo you. He reaches out and grabs his arm. It's
32:07
Speaker 1: kind of cool that he called him his like given name.
32:10
Speaker 1: There they both stop totally out of breath and they're
32:15
Speaker 1: just silent for a while in this position, trying to
32:17
Speaker 1: catch their breath, which I really liked thought it added
32:21
Speaker 1: some I don't know, like a really nice sense of
32:24
Speaker 1: reality to this that they're just like there's a lot
32:26
Speaker 1: to say, but they're exhausted. First finally, Uinoyama says, Mafo you.
32:33
Speaker 1: He pulls his arm closer to him, and Mafuu turns,
32:36
Speaker 1: and uino Yama gets a good look at him and
32:39
Speaker 1: let's go of his arm and is like, are you crying?
32:42
Speaker 1: He kind of bends down because remember Mafou is kind
32:45
Speaker 1: of hunched over, and he brushes Mafuu's bangs like away
32:49
Speaker 1: from his eyes so he can see his expression, and
32:52
Speaker 1: Mafou is not crying, but he just looks like incredibly hurt.
32:56
Speaker 1: He shakes his head. No. Uino Yama thinks, what's with
33:00
Speaker 1: that face? The wind kicks up and rustles through the trees,
33:06
Speaker 1: and Uainayama says, are you okay? What's up with that guy?
33:10
Speaker 1: Who's Yuki? Mafuyu is just silent and still Uinoyama continues,
33:18
Speaker 1: is it something you can't tell me? It's just silence?
33:23
Speaker 1: Wuinoyama says, does this have something to do with why
33:26
Speaker 1: you don't want to join the band? Mafoyu shakes his
33:29
Speaker 1: head now and says, no, it doesn't. Ouenayama's like, then
33:34
Speaker 1: why Mafou is silent for a second, and then he says,
33:39
Speaker 1: if you're in a band, you have to express yourself
33:41
Speaker 1: in front of people, right. People always tell me that
33:44
Speaker 1: I look like I'm not thinking about anything, and sometimes
33:50
Speaker 1: I think they might be right. Oh God, I think.
33:56
Speaker 1: He looks up at Ouainoyama. I'm really bad at expressing
33:59
Speaker 1: my self compared to everyone else. Fuck. Uinoyama is just
34:06
Speaker 1: staring at him at this point and thinks, what the
34:09
Speaker 1: fuck mafu you continues so he looks off to the
34:14
Speaker 1: side again. Ouinoyama thinks, I can actually feel my blood
34:19
Speaker 1: beginning to boil. Mafu He looks down again, so I
34:24
Speaker 1: we cut to Ouinoyama's tightened, shaking fist, and then he says,
34:31
Speaker 1: you idiots. He steps forward and grabs a very confused
34:36
Speaker 1: Mafu you by the collar. Are you shitting me right now?
34:40
Speaker 1: There's no way you're not thinking about anything. He takes
34:43
Speaker 1: a breath and kind of calms down. You're not good
34:45
Speaker 1: at expressing yourself. The whole reason I invited you into
34:49
Speaker 1: our band. He like really pulls him in now and
34:51
Speaker 1: takes a breath is because your song shook me to
34:54
Speaker 1: my core. Geez Ouinoyama is now breathing really hard, because
34:59
Speaker 1: it is hard. It's hard to say that kind of
35:01
Speaker 1: shit to someone. Mafu You just stares at him in
35:04
Speaker 1: total shock, and then his face kind of morphs and
35:08
Speaker 1: he looks like he's like really about to cry, like
35:11
Speaker 1: tears are starting to wel in his eyes. O. We know.
35:14
Speaker 1: Yama thinks, how could you say something like that with
35:16
Speaker 1: such a pained look on your face? Oh my god.
35:20
Speaker 1: He finally calms down and releases Mafuu's shirt and says, Lafu,
35:25
Speaker 1: you sing for me. I like that song too. Mafuyu
35:32
Speaker 1: is quiet, and then he starts to sing Ou I know.
35:36
Speaker 1: Yama puts his hand over his face and he looks
35:39
Speaker 1: just exhausted, and he thinks, ever since I met you,
35:43
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've been a complete mess. Mafou is
35:46
Speaker 1: still singing, and U I know Yama thinks, shit, it hurts.
35:52
Speaker 1: We pan down the street and see that Kaji is
35:54
Speaker 1: standing kind of behind the vending machines, listening as he smokes,
35:59
Speaker 1: and he thinks, well, I definitely didn't expect this, and
36:04
Speaker 1: we slowly fade to black. Okay, I want to stop
36:07
Speaker 1: there real quick because I got really excited, but I
36:11
Speaker 1: didn't explain why. So we just heard Mafo you say
36:16
Speaker 1: that he didn't feel like he was good at having
36:19
Speaker 1: emotions basically, and that upset Uyenoyama because obviously Mafo you
36:26
Speaker 1: looks like he's having an emotion right now. He looks real,
36:29
Speaker 1: real sad, So uh, what are you talking about? Basically?
36:35
Speaker 1: So when Uinnoyama was thinking like, how could you say
36:38
Speaker 1: something like that with such a pained look on your face,
36:42
Speaker 1: I was like, is this a Banana Fish reference? Because
36:46
Speaker 1: if you remember from Banana Fish, if you were with
36:49
Speaker 1: me for Banana Fish, the main character doesn't think he
36:55
Speaker 1: has emotions, like he thinks that he's a monster because
37:00
Speaker 1: he doesn't feel anything when he kills people basically, and
37:04
Speaker 1: when he says that, he is crying, and my reaction
37:08
Speaker 1: to that was just like, what do you mean you
37:10
Speaker 1: don't have emotions? You're crying? So I was like, huh,
37:14
Speaker 1: that really reminds me of Bananafish, even though the characters
37:16
Speaker 1: are different, it's kind of a similar, like you expressing
37:20
Speaker 1: an emotion and saying that you don't think that you're
37:22
Speaker 1: good at expressing emotions or you don't have them. So
37:25
Speaker 1: I got real excited, and then I got even more
37:28
Speaker 1: excited because I remember that the mangaca like said banana
37:33
Speaker 1: fish was one of her influences. So it is a
37:35
Speaker 1: banana fish reference. Yay. There should be confetti and it
37:39
Speaker 1: would come down and it would say like Michelle got
37:41
Speaker 1: a banana fish reverence, right, I would be so happy.
37:46
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just wanted to tell you that because
37:48
Speaker 1: I got to tell someone who doesn't think I'm crazy.
37:51
Speaker 1: Not that you don't think I'm crazy, but maybe one
37:54
Speaker 1: of you somewhere doesn't think I'm crazy. Maybe, or even
37:59
Speaker 1: if you do, I can't hear you say you're crazy,
38:02
Speaker 1: like towards your whatever you're listening to this on. But anyway,
38:07
Speaker 1: if you are listening to this and you're like, oh,
38:10
Speaker 1: I don't even know what banana fish is, maybe you
38:12
Speaker 1: should look into it. Anyway, let's continue with the episode.
38:17
Speaker 1: We see some people standing in line, like partially out
38:21
Speaker 1: of a door into the sidewalk area, so I'm thinking
38:24
Speaker 1: it's at a venue, and there's like a sign next
38:27
Speaker 1: to it that says today's events. Mixed Model twenty nineteen
38:31
Speaker 1: in English. Now we see inside where like there's lots
38:35
Speaker 1: of people talking. It's really crowded. This is definitely a venue.
38:38
Speaker 1: And there's this guy with like brown hair walking through
38:42
Speaker 1: the crowd and he looks over and he sees the
38:45
Speaker 1: kid with the blonde tipped hair who just basically destroyed Mafuyu,
38:49
Speaker 1: sitting alone at a table, looking like real bummed. He
38:53
Speaker 1: walks over and he says, Hiragi, Hiragi. The guy with
38:57
Speaker 1: the blonde tips is just silent and we can't see
39:00
Speaker 1: his eyes, and this guy's like, what's up. Kiragi looks
39:05
Speaker 1: up and he says, jess, assume me I saw Mafu. Oh.
39:10
Speaker 1: Now we see a street light and we hear a
39:12
Speaker 1: beep of like the vending machine, and then an orange
39:17
Speaker 1: soda can lying in like the bottom part of the
39:19
Speaker 1: vending machine where you take out the things whatever that's
39:22
Speaker 1: called wuaya Yama takes it and walks to a bike
39:27
Speaker 1: rack where Mafou is sitting and he holds it out
39:30
Speaker 1: to him and he's like hmmm, and he sits down.
39:34
Speaker 1: Mafoo looks up and Ouya Yama like puts it in
39:38
Speaker 1: his hand and maful you says thanks. He stares at
39:42
Speaker 1: it for a while and then it is like, but
39:45
Speaker 1: I can't drink fizzy drinks. This is anime original too,
39:50
Speaker 1: by the way. Wuna Yama's like, uh. He looks at
39:54
Speaker 1: the coffee that he got for himself and he holds
39:56
Speaker 1: it towards Mafou, like offering it to him, but obviously
39:59
Speaker 1: he can't do words right now. Mafou shakes his head
40:03
Speaker 1: and oh you know, Yama just kind of rubs his
40:05
Speaker 1: neck and makes a bunch of I don't know what
40:07
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to say or do right now, noises Mafoous
40:11
Speaker 1: like it's okay, and it's silent again. Oh we know.
40:15
Speaker 1: Yama looks at Mafou, who is still pretty clearly distraught,
40:22
Speaker 1: and he starts to drink his coffee, and Mafou says,
40:26
Speaker 1: are you sure you're okay with me? We know? Yama
40:29
Speaker 1: glances at him and says, how many times do I
40:32
Speaker 1: have to say? Yes? Mafuyu's like, I'll do it. I
40:37
Speaker 1: want to join your band yeay? Oh we know, Y'ama
40:40
Speaker 1: looks shocked. We see Mafoyu is looking at him very
40:44
Speaker 1: sweetly actually, and he says, I look forward to working
40:47
Speaker 1: with you yea. We get the title card number three
40:52
Speaker 1: somebody else. Then we get the ending theme hooray, and
40:56
Speaker 1: then I thought that would be the end, but it
40:57
Speaker 1: wasn't the end. We see a tile floor. It looks
41:01
Speaker 1: like it's kind of at the front of a house,
41:02
Speaker 1: you know, it's like style, and then there's like a
41:05
Speaker 1: transition to a green carpet, and we see two pairs
41:08
Speaker 1: of shoes, one that is red high heels and one
41:10
Speaker 1: that is boots, sitting there like this is the area
41:13
Speaker 1: you take off your shoes in a Japanese house. And
41:16
Speaker 1: we hear a door open and we see some shoes
41:19
Speaker 1: with beating them step in and Ohio Yama takes off
41:24
Speaker 1: his shoes. They're his shoes, and he runs down the
41:27
Speaker 1: hall past the living room where a Yeyoi is laying
41:30
Speaker 1: on the couch as she always does apparently, and she's like,
41:34
Speaker 1: you're so freaking loud. Pipe down. Ouino Yama turns the
41:38
Speaker 1: light on his bedroom and throws his jacket on the
41:40
Speaker 1: bed and he takes a twenty nineteen July burst Jamada
41:45
Speaker 1: music lesson maybe book off like a bookshelf, and then
41:49
Speaker 1: we see just his hand like looking at the bookshelf.
41:52
Speaker 1: Like he's trying to locate something, and then he pulls
41:55
Speaker 1: out song Door magazine. Okay, he opens a where he
42:00
Speaker 1: has many different color guitar picks a pen and cleaning
42:04
Speaker 1: cloths for like a guitar, and I think like some
42:06
Speaker 1: strings in the back we cut to his floor as
42:09
Speaker 1: he tosses a pad of pink posted notes and a
42:11
Speaker 1: memo pad onto it, and there's already like some line
42:15
Speaker 1: paper and some other kind of pad on the floor.
42:18
Speaker 1: He plugs his instrument cable into his Marshal MG one
42:22
Speaker 1: oh one FX amp, which is a real amp and
42:24
Speaker 1: it was only made from twenty nineteen to twenty twelve.
42:27
Speaker 1: And then we see him sitting on the floor with
42:30
Speaker 1: his guitar, his headphones on paper like split out in
42:35
Speaker 1: front of him. He makes some kind of face and
42:38
Speaker 1: he starts to bend down like he's getting real fucking serious. Now, yeah,
42:44
Speaker 1: I guess maybe, And that's the end of the episode. Hooray.
42:48
Speaker 1: I think closing thoughts, there are some things I wanted
42:51
Speaker 1: to talk about in this episode, Yay, So let's see.
42:55
Speaker 1: I think, first of all, the thing that I kind
42:57
Speaker 1: of alluded to at the beginning of the episode is
42:59
Speaker 1: a lot of this is anime original, like half of
43:02
Speaker 1: the episode is, and I don't think it's like coming
43:07
Speaker 1: from like an omake or something, you know, like a
43:10
Speaker 1: extra thing. I haven't found any of that yet. I mean,
43:13
Speaker 1: there are omake and some of the stuff the click
43:15
Speaker 1: that comes from extras, but we have like whole new
43:18
Speaker 1: scenes that are not coming from the manga. The manga
43:21
Speaker 1: moves really really fast. And I don't mean fast because
43:24
Speaker 1: things are always happening. I mean fast. We just go
43:26
Speaker 1: through everything like quickly like in the manga, as far
43:31
Speaker 1: as I can tell. And I kept rereading it because
43:34
Speaker 1: I was like, you're kidding, right, It doesn't look like
43:36
Speaker 1: maf where you ever accepts the invitation to join the band.
43:40
Speaker 1: It's just in the band now. I don't understand. It's
43:42
Speaker 1: just like it was said off camera at some point,
43:45
Speaker 1: which is weird to me because it seems like it's
43:47
Speaker 1: a big deal. So really, the changes that the anime
43:51
Speaker 1: made I actually really like, especially that scene with them,
43:56
Speaker 1: you know, sitting on the bike rack at the very end.
43:59
Speaker 1: I thought that was really good. I also thought it
44:02
Speaker 1: was really interesting that they just added the whole thing
44:04
Speaker 1: with uy no Yama trying to talk to Mafuu about
44:08
Speaker 1: joining the band, like pretty much any scene where he
44:12
Speaker 1: was like, hey, Mafu, you I want you to join
44:14
Speaker 1: the band, but I don't have time to tell you
44:16
Speaker 1: because you have to do something now, like where Mafuu
44:19
Speaker 1: started to walk away from him because he was crossing
44:21
Speaker 1: the street, or when the bell rang. That's all anime original.
44:25
Speaker 1: I like it because I thought it was funny, and
44:26
Speaker 1: I loved the idea that he basically couldn't find anything
44:30
Speaker 1: on the internet that would help you convince someone to
44:33
Speaker 1: join your band after they said no, so we just
44:36
Speaker 1: started looking for our relationship advice. Thought that was great
44:39
Speaker 1: for so many reasons. Yeah. No, but it's important to
44:43
Speaker 1: say that if somebody tells you they don't want to
44:45
Speaker 1: be in a relationship with you or band, you just
44:48
Speaker 1: need to leave them the fuck alone. Now, it's a
44:51
Speaker 1: little bit different in this case, obviously, because Mafu doesn't
44:54
Speaker 1: think he's good enough to be in the band. It's
44:55
Speaker 1: not that he doesn't want to, so I guess it's
44:59
Speaker 1: fine to keep bothering him about it. But yeah, don't
45:03
Speaker 1: do that when you're interested in someone romantically. It's weird
45:06
Speaker 1: and mean. People want to tell you the truth so
45:10
Speaker 1: just so you should assume that if someone tells you
45:13
Speaker 1: know about something, that that is the truth. I don't know,
45:17
Speaker 1: don't bother people if they've already told you know. It's
45:19
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. But the other thing that
45:24
Speaker 1: that bunch of stuff did that I didn't really like
45:28
Speaker 1: is that it did kind of make it look like
45:29
Speaker 1: Mafu you was avoiding Oinoyama, which in the manga it
45:32
Speaker 1: really doesn't look like that. The only thing we have
45:35
Speaker 1: is Mafuu saying I'm not going to join the band
45:38
Speaker 1: and then him missing the next practice, which he did
45:41
Speaker 1: because he had a job interview. But yeah, in the anime,
45:45
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like he is avoiding having the
45:47
Speaker 1: conversation with him. I know the timing isn't right, but
45:50
Speaker 1: he could have waited to cross the street until the
45:52
Speaker 1: next green light. You know. That wasn't that big of
45:56
Speaker 1: a deal. I don't know. So, yeah, that's all going on.
46:00
Speaker 1: What else do we got? So? I also wanted to
46:03
Speaker 1: bring up that I said earlier. There was like a
46:06
Speaker 1: spot where that girl who was working for the venue
46:10
Speaker 1: who has a name, Oh, her name is the same
46:13
Speaker 1: name as my favorite character in Windbreaker, Subaki, So Subaki
46:19
Speaker 1: had said that like, oh, you know, let her know
46:22
Speaker 1: if the band is going to play there, because she'll
46:24
Speaker 1: give them a discount. So I wanted to come back
46:26
Speaker 1: to that because I looked into that because hearing that
46:30
Speaker 1: they have to pay to you know, have a show there,
46:32
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, is just Japan doing the pay
46:35
Speaker 1: to play model? So yeah, it is. It looks like
46:38
Speaker 1: as far as I could figure, all venues, like kind
46:42
Speaker 1: of small venues like that in Japan where you just
46:44
Speaker 1: have like a you know, maybe like two hundred max
46:47
Speaker 1: capacity or something, you know, like a little venue, they're
46:50
Speaker 1: all pay to play. And what pay to play is
46:52
Speaker 1: is exactly what it sounds like it is, right. It's
46:55
Speaker 1: not good in my opinion. It's the venue gives you tickets,
46:59
Speaker 1: your band toickets, and you have to sell them. They
47:02
Speaker 1: give you, i don't know, like twenty tickets or thirty
47:04
Speaker 1: tickets or fifteen who knows. It probably depends on the venue,
47:07
Speaker 1: and you got to sell them. And if you don't
47:09
Speaker 1: sell them, you have to pay the venue what you
47:13
Speaker 1: didn't make basically for them. And in Japan you don't
47:17
Speaker 1: ever get paid, like even if you were to sell
47:19
Speaker 1: more tickets or people were to come to the show
47:22
Speaker 1: specifically for you. After you sold all the tickets that
47:24
Speaker 1: you said that you would, you still don't get paid,
47:28
Speaker 1: which sucks. It sucks, and maybe that is why you
47:32
Speaker 1: need to have a job if you're in a band
47:34
Speaker 1: in Japan. So yeah. Oh, and the way you get
47:38
Speaker 1: a show at a venue apparently is either you audition
47:41
Speaker 1: for them, get thrown on a show and you pay
47:44
Speaker 1: to play, or you rent out the venue, which would
47:47
Speaker 1: probably cost more money. So uh, kind of sucks. You
47:52
Speaker 1: can't have a booking manager or something. It's like not
47:56
Speaker 1: a thing in Japan, so that's what they do. I
47:58
Speaker 1: also couldn't find any evidence that there were like actual
48:01
Speaker 1: DIY underground shows. Every time I looked into that, these
48:04
Speaker 1: just kind of what they're called is live houses, they
48:07
Speaker 1: popped up as like, oh, that's where you listen to
48:09
Speaker 1: underground music, Like that wouldn't be underground music by my standard.
48:13
Speaker 1: If you have something at like a legit music venue
48:17
Speaker 1: like these live houses, that's not underground, that is on
48:21
Speaker 1: the ground, even if it's in a basement as many
48:23
Speaker 1: of these are, it is still a legal operating venue.
48:27
Speaker 1: That's not what I think of underground. I'm thinking underground
48:30
Speaker 1: like house shows, like just in some dude's house, or
48:34
Speaker 1: in a basement that is part of some dude's house,
48:37
Speaker 1: or under an overpass for some reason that just has power.
48:41
Speaker 1: So I couldn't find any evidence that that's happening in Japan,
48:44
Speaker 1: which made me kind of sad. How is any of
48:47
Speaker 1: this different than what we would do in the US.
48:49
Speaker 1: For music, there's absolutely venues in the US that you
48:52
Speaker 1: pay to play. I think it sucks. I've done it
48:55
Speaker 1: once or twice, but I don't I'm not good at
48:59
Speaker 1: selling pickets. People don't want to buy tickets from me
49:02
Speaker 1: because I'm scared of them, so it's hard for me
49:05
Speaker 1: to tell them that I have tickets. But I don't
49:08
Speaker 1: know what I'm trying to say. So a lot of
49:11
Speaker 1: times in the US, if you're playing in a very
49:13
Speaker 1: small band, like at a small venue or a coffee
49:17
Speaker 1: shop or somebody's house, you're kind of waiting for the
49:21
Speaker 1: door to make back their money, and then if they do,
49:23
Speaker 1: you will get paid a percentage of the rest kind
49:27
Speaker 1: of so you would make some money, which is why
49:30
Speaker 1: you might not need a part time job if you're
49:33
Speaker 1: doing well enough. That is so Yeah, now you know
49:36
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. I think unless you didn't
49:38
Speaker 1: understand any of the things I said, which you might
49:41
Speaker 1: not have because I don't know how I was explaining it.
49:44
Speaker 1: But if you did, yay. And if you didn't and
49:46
Speaker 1: you want to ask me questions, you totally could. I
49:50
Speaker 1: might know the answer to them, or I might be wrong,
49:53
Speaker 1: and then you would spread that wrong information to other
49:55
Speaker 1: people and that might not be great. So I don't
49:58
Speaker 1: know what I want you to get out of that. Yay.
50:01
Speaker 1: The last thing I wanted to talk about is just
50:03
Speaker 1: the whole scene with Kiragi confronting Mafuu, which is kind
50:09
Speaker 1: of the big important scene in this episode. It kind
50:14
Speaker 1: of hurt me a bunch obviously. First of all, Mafu
50:18
Speaker 1: you really just looked so shocked and scared in a
50:23
Speaker 1: way that really did remind me of a rabbit, like
50:26
Speaker 1: just kind of like the frozen posture and slight movements
50:29
Speaker 1: backwards preparing to like just run for it and hope
50:34
Speaker 1: that you're going to survive. It's exactly the same, and
50:37
Speaker 1: it made me sad. And obviously we don't know who
50:42
Speaker 1: Yuki is, but he pretty much infer that the guitar
50:48
Speaker 1: that Mafo you has is or was Yuki's, because pretty
50:52
Speaker 1: sure Yuki's dead because we saw Mafu. You see a
50:55
Speaker 1: dead person who was hanging in the first episode, and
50:58
Speaker 1: it could be that Yuki is so someone else, but
51:01
Speaker 1: that seems unreasonable and unlikely, so we don't know who
51:05
Speaker 1: he is. We just know he's an acquaintance of Maflu
51:07
Speaker 1: and Hiragi and that Mafuu has been kind of just
51:11
Speaker 1: Mia for a while and we don't know why. But
51:15
Speaker 1: I assume none of this is good. Normally, when you
51:18
Speaker 1: see someone and then they confront you about why you
51:21
Speaker 1: have Yuki's guitar and then you run from them, it's
51:26
Speaker 1: not a good thing. So I'm really interested, I mean metaphorically,
51:32
Speaker 1: that's not how you use metaphorically, but whatever, because I
51:35
Speaker 1: already know what happens, but I'm really interested to see
51:38
Speaker 1: where this goes because it's probably not gonna be good.
51:42
Speaker 1: And then, of course, the whole thing about Mafou feeling
51:46
Speaker 1: like he doesn't know how to express his emotions and
51:50
Speaker 1: he's not sure he thinks about anything, just like really
51:53
Speaker 1: really hurt me. I don't know characters that have trouble
51:57
Speaker 1: expressing their emotions or don't feel like they're expressing their
51:59
Speaker 1: emotions correctly. That always, like really hits me because I
52:03
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that myself a lot. I don't know,
52:05
Speaker 1: and I could go more into that, but I just
52:08
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to put it out there that, like,
52:11
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Muffou has emotions, not just from what
52:17
Speaker 1: we've seen from him singing, which is just him singing,
52:21
Speaker 1: but also you know, from how he's reacted when he's
52:25
Speaker 1: seen the guys you know, play their music, and from
52:30
Speaker 1: this scenario where he just looks hurd and terrified, it's
52:36
Speaker 1: obvious that something's going on in there, and it's obvious
52:39
Speaker 1: that he has thoughts and feelings. And it really sucks
52:43
Speaker 1: to be told that the way you're expressing your emotions
52:48
Speaker 1: isn't good enough, or that you don't look like you're
52:52
Speaker 1: thinking about anything. And yeah, I've I get it, so
52:57
Speaker 1: like say that to people because it's like, hey, it's
53:00
Speaker 1: not true, and yeah, it's just mean, and yeah, I've
53:07
Speaker 1: totally had that happen before. Yeah, I once told someone
53:10
Speaker 1: that I was really upset about how our relationship ended,
53:14
Speaker 1: which yay, it ended because I wasn't really working out
53:16
Speaker 1: because I'm not really interested in people. But I just
53:22
Speaker 1: kind of said, like, I was hurt by what the
53:24
Speaker 1: person had said to me, and their response was that
53:27
Speaker 1: they didn't know that I had feelings, and yeah, that
53:31
Speaker 1: really hurt. So you don't say that to people. Also,
53:37
Speaker 1: you know, you are you just you know, speaking to everybody,
53:41
Speaker 1: and your emotions and the way that you express them
53:45
Speaker 1: are totally fine and normal and valid. I mean, unless
53:48
Speaker 1: you're killing people, which you're probably not right, or like
53:52
Speaker 1: doing things that other people don't consent to to them.
53:55
Speaker 1: I think you're good with the way that you're reacting
53:57
Speaker 1: to things. It's okay to feel the way that you've
54:00
Speaker 1: you know, and it's okay if you're expressing it differently
54:04
Speaker 1: than you think you're supposed to. If you are reacting
54:09
Speaker 1: in a bigger way then people think you should, or
54:13
Speaker 1: reacting in a smaller, quieter way, that's okay. The main
54:18
Speaker 1: thing is that you're being honest with yourself about how
54:21
Speaker 1: you feel and that you are not stifling how you feel.
54:26
Speaker 1: But you don't have to have big reactions to be
54:31
Speaker 1: honest about them and to express the way that you feel.
54:34
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just I wanted to put that in there,
54:37
Speaker 1: you know, so, and I'm sure you know all that stuff.
54:41
Speaker 1: You don't need to hear it from me. You don't
54:43
Speaker 1: even know me. But yeah, I'm rooting for you, I think, Yeah, no, totally,
54:51
Speaker 1: but uh, I don't know that's that's really the lot
54:56
Speaker 1: of it. But yeah, I it's always weird when I
54:59
Speaker 1: have a character that res with me because I don't
55:01
Speaker 1: have a lot of them, which you may or may
55:03
Speaker 1: not have noticed going through this podcast with me. So yeah,
55:08
Speaker 1: it just it just really upset me to hear him
55:10
Speaker 1: say that. But it's nice that of course he's got
55:13
Speaker 1: oh you know Yama there who knows that's not true?
55:16
Speaker 1: So again running back with the banana fish theme there,
55:20
Speaker 1: but you know that makes me happy. And then the
55:24
Speaker 1: last thing I want to say is that it's interesting
55:26
Speaker 1: to have a character that's like, I don't think I
55:28
Speaker 1: can express myself, so I shouldn't be in a band. Yeah,
55:31
Speaker 1: it's true playing music has to do a lot with
55:34
Speaker 1: expressing yourself, but it usually uses an outlet to express yourself.
55:39
Speaker 1: So if you're not expressing yourself in your daily life
55:42
Speaker 1: in the way that you want to, that doesn't mean
55:45
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be good at doing it through music at all.
55:47
Speaker 1: In fact, it probably means the opposites. So it's interesting
55:51
Speaker 1: to have someone say like, oh, I can't play music
55:54
Speaker 1: because I'm not good at expressing myself. It's like, that's
55:56
Speaker 1: what that's for. Im off of you, That's exactly what
55:59
Speaker 1: that's for. It'll be interesting to see how he uses
56:01
Speaker 1: music to express himself. Yeah, okay, I think that's pretty
56:05
Speaker 1: much it. I hope you're liking this. Okay. Again, I
56:09
Speaker 1: know it's a big departure from what we've done, so
56:12
Speaker 1: I hope you're liking it. Part of me is now like,
56:15
Speaker 1: should we just do Bochee the Rock next to see
56:18
Speaker 1: how they compare with how well they represent people in
56:21
Speaker 1: bands and have another character that makes me feel like
56:26
Speaker 1: I relate to myself. I don't know if I'm really
56:27
Speaker 1: gonna do that, but I'm thinking about it now. Sorry,
56:31
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm going to go and do something else
56:36
Speaker 1: that is probably less interesting than this, unless this wasn't interesting,
56:41
Speaker 1: and then maybe now that means the other thing is
56:43
Speaker 1: even less interesting than this was, which is sad, I guess. Anyway,
56:49
Speaker 1: I hope you have a really good whatever. And I'm
56:52
Speaker 1: still working to remove the hiss sound in the podcast,
56:55
Speaker 1: so I'm very sorry. If it's still there when you
56:57
Speaker 1: hear this. But yeah, I will see you next time.
57:01
Speaker 1: I probably later webs