Welcome back to Shoujo, the anime recap and discussion podcast where I, Sarah, introduce my friend Jo to Shoujo anime series. Our current series that we're covering is Chihayafuru season two, episodes four through six. Uh, and so if you guys haven't started watching it yet, you know, watch that and then get back to us here. Or if you're just here to listen to us two randos talk about the things we've been doing in our lives and then aren't here for the anime. Well, we do recap
it. I don't know how, I don't know how good the recap is if you don't watch it. That's a good point. I feel like Chihaya Fever specifically is a little bit harder because I'm like, anyway, they play Carter and it's like, that's like 10 minutes of animation, but I just say that in one line. Yeah, it's a much more visual, like, not dialogue heavy or dialogue that helps to pick the scene. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, we're. We're here on a three -day weekend. Yep. I had
a four -day weekend. Wow. Yeah. We have a Friday of the month off, and so if there's an already long weekend, we'll put it on that to make it longer. I never do anything fun with my long weekends. I just do more of the same. But that's still nice. That's not bad. What have you been up to for your long weekend, Joe? Or just your previous week? I keep hanging out with people, but everybody wants to get dinner, so I keep
getting dinner. But then I have all this leftover food and then I just can't eat it because everybody keeps on like, I'm going to get dinner tonight or something. Like, why do I keep getting dinner? Am I like? And then my dad's going to come visit me in a couple of days. And so like, we'll be going out to eat then. So it's like, I'm never going to have time to eat any of this food. It's going to just go bad in my refrigerator. You'd have to eat all of it at the restaurant. Just
bring it with me. Just get a little salad. Hey, can you reheat this for me? Thanks, guys. Yeah. Yeah. So for some reason that keeps happening. So I've gone out to eat a lot and will continue to do so. I watched it. Chapter two. I have a friend that I was watching for the first time. No, this was the second time. So I watched we'd watched part one like forever ago, but I'd already seen it. I'd already seen both of them for some reason. And then we watched chapter two. It was
my first. It was my second time seeing it. I didn't like it the first time because it's a long movie. And I don't like how it doesn't really stand up on its own and it keeps doing flashbacks to kids stuff that you didn't see in the first movie because that it just like doesn't really work as a story without any of the kids stuff, which I thought was weird. But I was pretty impressed with everybody's with all of the acting of like
you have to act like this kid did. You have to like vaguely kind of look like and then act like the way they did. And I think they did a pretty good job, especially Stan. With Bill Hader in it, right? Yes. Yeah, I watched those as well. I like the first one a lot. It's because it's very similar vibes to Stranger Things or I just like seeing kids in like an era I didn't get to experience and then cool like eerie things happening at the same time as fun. I couldn't
hang with Stranger Things for some reason. I watched the first season and then I started watching season two and I'm like, I can't do it. I would say just the first ones, you know, the first one's really good. So, yeah, if that's all you watch, that's fine. TV shows too long. Yeah, it's it's too it's too much. Well, I feel like. Well, is it like only like more serious shows like that that go too long? Do we like it when
like little sitcoms go longer? Because those are just smaller usually shorter, like 30 minutes. Are they? No, I mean, like season length. Oh, I mean, a number of episodes. I guess so. Like there's something about hour long TV shows where if it's not cut in a way that's like interesting or like they're not really putting all into like creating like a like a specific vibe or like doing some kind of interesting character work.
It's just it's excruciating for me. Like, there's some shows I can watch and I'm like, OK, this works. Yeah, because if you watch the ones that are like, oh, everyone likes this one. Like if I watch Mad Men or if I watch The Sopranos or if I watch, you know, something that's like acclaimed or whatever, I'm like, oh, this is great. I can watch an hour of this. No problem. Like I could I could watch two episodes of these in a row. But if I watch just like whatever hour long TV
show on Netflix, I'm like, this is painful. This is painful to me to watch. And it's like. If I'm like someone's one, he's like, watch a show with me and we do a whole episode and I'm like, we need to stop. They'll like put on the next one. I'm like, no, I need to like get up and go do something. Yes. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know what that's about.
You know, something about I don't I don't know what about the show is, but it's like some shows I can sit through the whole thing and there's other shows I'm like, I cannot believe. This is this long. Well, some people don't have like a lot of hobbies and there's TV shows. They're only hobbies. So they need to take up more time. But it's not good. This is the thing. It's like the TV show is just like it feels like it's just wasting a lot of time. Yeah, you know. But I
don't know. I don't know how to describe why I'm not into it. Like this happened when I was watching the live action one piece with like my friends. I wanted to watch that. And I'm like, this show is so boring. Yeah, yeah. I mean. It's based off of action series and action is supposed to be fast paced but And if you stretch it out with if you stretch it out like loopy Yeah, it
Isn't as good. It's not although I guess I mean, yeah, the episodes are short But also half the episode at the beginning of one piece is recapping So is that still happening in one piece that's coming out now? Well, did they so okay notoriously a problem? on certain arcs. So some arcs go just fine. Like, I'll watch stuff with, like, one pace or whatever where they cut it down. And some of those just, like, are not that changed from the original. But some arcs especially are.
So, like, Dress Rosa, for example, extremely cut down, like, extremely long, terrible, like, just... One pace. Yeah. Where do you watch? What is that? It's like a fan done thing. You can find that somewhere. But yeah, so that one extremely long and like overdoing it. Wano apparently also like a lot of the newer ones are extremely long. And that's because like you need to give yourself time to catch up with the manga or like to have some runway for that. And also you got to make
this every week. So you can't make that much new animation every week because the time schedule is crunched. So they end up. Don't know not having that much new stuff per episode. It's kind of brutal. It's bad. I don't People have been better about this newest one. So I'm assuming it's not happening I've stopped watching the anime like a long time ago, and I'm just reading it got Gotcha. Gotcha. I don't know. Well and anything else going down in Joe town? I don't think so.
I thought I can really remember I guess I'm playing some games. I'm almost done with thousand times resist. I'll probably talk about that when I finish it, though. OK, I have a game to recommend you that seamlessly transitions into what I've been up to. OK, that game fantasy life I've like for months been like, oh, when this comes out, we should play it together. I don't know if you'll like it, but like I am. I. It's so I don't know
if it's addictive, but like I just like. playing it like it's comforting to play and because it's like cozy but it's got combat and it's got um like a plot and stuff in a world to explore and you're super adorable and i just can't stop playing it i have it on my steam deck and so i like have survivor running on the tv and then i have the game music off and i'm playing that while i'm watching survivor so i get to like multitask and It's so I like because you can do multiplayer.
I haven't played with anyone yet, but it's just so cute. And I don't I'm trying to think if it's like grindy, like you wouldn't have to grind to progress in the story. It's more so I think if you like want to because you have like these different professions, basically. Yeah, like cook or. blacksmith or, uh, you know, like a mercenary and stuff. And so you like can level up those to unlock better skills and stuff. But like, I don't think it's necessary to do that,
to go through the story really. So it's more optional, but, ah, I'm loving it. Fantasy life. I think it's fantasy life. The girl who steals time. Yep. That's what it looks like. Yeah. Uh, so that's what I've been mostly doing this week. Uh, I saw the movie Friendship last night, uh, with. Oh, dear God. Is it Rob? No, Rob. No, I've never heard of this. It's got it's got. Oh, Tim Robinson. Yeah, him. Um, it's not playing in all theaters, and I can tell you because it's
a weird. It's a weird one. It's weird. I. Did not. Do you not like it? Do you like Tim Robinson? I do like actively hate it. Well, I've never watched anything he's been on, but I see all the clips from that one sketch show thing he's on, and those are all really funny. But it was like almost scary. I was like, is this going to turn into like a horror movie or something? Because it was just bizarro. I should see this. Should I see this? I'd be interested to hear
your thoughts on it. Maybe you like it more than I do. Maybe I will. Yeah, it's got the kid from Shazam, the one who's the friend who turns into Adam Brody in his transformed version. Okay. Yeah, so I saw that. Yeah. Oh, I did an interview for work, my first like little interview kind of with the press thing. Oh, that's exciting. So that was cool. I know, right? I think I posted a link in the Discord. But yeah, I thought that was fun. And then also, I got invited to be a
part of a panel at TwitchCon. So maybe if that works, I'll do that. Because then I'll be like, oh, look at me freaking talking. Talking. Yeah, so I'm like. Maybe I'm getting more recognition for my work right now. That's good. Do you feel like doing this podcast has helped you talk a lot? I think so. I think the streaming has helped a lot. Because I'm trying to think like in college and stuff, you know, doing like presentations and stuff was not like ideal for me. You know,
but yeah, I don't know. I guess in like recent years, I've. Or I'm like so confident in like knowing like the work we do that's easy to talk about. But yeah, I definitely think so. The like, you know, the kind of like, you know, in the I like live stream because then I don't have to edit it. And it's just like, I just got to make sure nothing terrible happens during it. And then editing is like, you know, if you mess up, you can change it. But because I like apparently
there's questions. Like, I had a time to look up, but I didn't get those in time. So I was just winging it. But I think I did pretty good. I do, it is hard when you watch it and you say like, uh, or um, a lot and it's like, uh, that thing, that, yeah. You just have to get used to that. I've like given so many press like doing a PhD or whatever. I've gotten like so many presentations on things that now I can just like, yeah, I'll just go up and say stuff. It's fine. Like, whatever.
Yeah. I've just done enough, given enough presentation at this point that I'm like, yeah, I'll just go up and say some things here. Try not to say I'm going to all the time. Try not to just stop talking. I have had times when I was giving a presentation and I'm just like out of things to say. I just stopped talking and I'm like, well, hmm. Uh, well, cause with the presentation, okay, cause right? I'm made of honor and so I'm going to have this made of honor speech at my
sister's wedding. And my sister's like, have you prepared? And I'm like, I'd rather just wing it. And she's like, at least like have a bullet list or something. Cause I think it's more. Like doing a presentation. It's like you got to make sure you hit all the points and but I'm like Brain will just like skip a section and then I miss a part or something So I like just but also right where I interrupt myself constantly Yeah, and pivot to something totally different
than never come back to the other thing. So I don't know. My biggest thing is like no embarrassing stories about her, you know Which is like, you know, I'm fond of all the stories where she's been clumsy or Uh, this or that, but, and I also don't like being super, like, feely, so. This is a wedding speech. I'll lean more into humor, but I don't want to be all like, oh God, I boohooed at my mom's wedding. I hope I don't cry at hers. You should just stand up and burst into tears.
And that should be the whole speech. Uh -huh. God, we'll see. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Yeah, I've come a long way. like pre -subway job, like crippling anxiety doing interviews and stuff. And then once you're like on the job, I felt, you know, and I'm very much like, oh, you know, I got to do things. I'm a good worker. So like, then you just like put it in situations where you have to, you know, overcome for the sake of the job. And so I think just all the
different jobs I've done. Yeah, comfort zone. Yeah, it's like. Yes, well cuz like I know I know someone who you know like I kind of grew up with and We were very similar as kids and now and now I see like oh if I hadn't really overcome it That's what I would have I would have been a much more reserved like smaller World around me, but I get I'm not that I'm like super going out and doing so but like No, I don't think I'm like super Like I This is character development.
Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, and yeah, like the last year or two is like put me in situations where I had to like I have to address things I super don't want to and then Yeah, just the more you have to do stuff the easier it gets the next time Sorry, this is I don't know what this turned into That's good. We'll go through your resume. Get your career path planned out. We're having a little career counseling. I'm going to crush it at the Game of Life board game. I've only
played it once. I'll demolish that game now. OK. I played a game called Smart Ass. That was fun because I like games where it's like I get to be a know -it -all. Sounds like the perfect game for you then. Or when we played when we play Pictionary, like. Uh huh. I think. OK, we need. I don't know. There's no Pictionary tournaments, but I think we're a good pair at Pictionary. Sadly, we weren't on the team that much. So it's be like, I know what it is, but I'm not on your
team, so I can't say. I feel like it's like that when you play games like that, where it's like you always connect with the person who you're not on the team with. You're just frustrated the whole time. Well, because there's like very. You know, the straightforward things to draw to depict something. But then, like, you know, we consume very similar things. And so I feel like we, like, jump to a different thing to depict it than maybe a normal person would. Yeah, that
may be true. Like the sirens. Yeah. I love that so much. I still have like a Fire truck or something. Joe drew like a like a mermaid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a mythological siren. We all know this. This is common knowledge. Everybody knows that that's what a siren looks like. They sing little songs. I loved it. It's so funny. My family did not get it. The mast. Yeah. Lord. OK. Yep. I guess we have to talk about the show at some point, huh? Yep. Joe! How are your feelings about
those episodes? Oh, I should have my notes out. I'm like 10. You should have your notes out. I'll tell you when we get through it. Just top line. Top line. What are your feelings? Fine. Fine. All right. All right. I guess we'll get into it then. On these fine episodes. But first, I'm going to talk about some voice actors because we didn't do that last time. And we have two new characters. I guess they're like the only two new characters. Huh. Is that true? Of note.
Yeah, that's true. Of note. So the voice actress for Sumire is Megumi Han. She is the voice of Moji Soma. Oh, Momiji Soma from Fruits Basket, which is a little rabbit. Little tiger one. Yeah. Oh, no, you're right. J .K. No, you're right. I don't know. I haven't watched that far in Fruits Basket before. Also the voice of Akko from Little
Witch Academia, the main chick. This is why I was saying that, like, you look at the IMDb, and it's like, oh, here are their top things, and then you scroll down, and it's actually, like, way bigger stuff that just isn't mentioned in their most notable stuff. The voice of Obado Ochiha in Naruto Shippuden. Oh. A pretty important kid. For Sumire? Yeah. It's a chickplank? I guess so. I haven't watched the Japanese version, but... I haven't either, but that's how it's listed
on this. Okay. Yeah, big character. Big, giant character. Yup. Also, the voice of Gon Freaks in 2011 Hunter x Hunter. Oh, wow. I can't believe that isn't the number one thing. For real? That's what I scrolled down and I was like, what? That is peculiar. And for me, she's the voice of Salem Mass in Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin. Stop. So she's new sailor. OK. For the other one, Tsukuba, he is voiced by Miyu Irino, Irino, Irino. Sorry,
I said that weird. Who is the voice of Haku in Spirited Away because we're doing kid voices also. Long, long tenure. He's the voice of Ritsu Kageyama, which is the brother in Mob Psycho 100. He's the voice of Konshi Sugawara in Haikyuu, who's one of them. Oh. Do we know who that is? Wait, which character? Sorry, say that again. Konshi, I'm like searching it now so I can tell you who this person is. Sugawara. Oh, he's the gray -haired one. He's the gray -haired one.
He's cute with the little like mole by his arm. Yeah, yeah, that's it. The second string. A setter. And for me, he's the voice of Sora in Kingdom Hearts. Just the whole thing. OK. So there we go. I guess. Oh, I mean, when you played that, you played, I'm assuming as a kid, you played the English version. Did you ever play through it with the Japanese? No, I don't think those discs had the audio for it. Oh, now the new one. Like I got it on PC. It probably does. But those
originals did not. I don't think. Gotcha. I remember playing Final Fantasy 13 and there was like DLC where you could download the like Japanese. But it was like 30 gigs. I'm like, no, I'm not going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So there we go. New characters get the voice actors who have longer resumes than I feel like some of the other ones we've had. So what? Maybe this is a bad pick on my part because I'm like, I really like watching Chihaya Furu. Maybe it's just not as
good to recap. I mean the recap's fine. It's my bad. I just like, do we have any analysis? Like, we can just say what happens, but it's just like, yeah, we'll talk about it. All right. So Chihaya Furu, season two, episode four is called To Tell the People in the Capital That I Make for the Islands. It's a good name. I'm liking these poems starting from the ones from
last season. Oh, yeah. We open on errata in his family praying at his grandfather's grave His dad is extremely dismissive and we learn that they had a bad relationship because he didn't care about carida This is apparently what also that's like hmm. I was gonna say if I had a kid and they didn't like video games I'd be like oh, dude. He just like does not care about grandfather like his dad's grave He's just like whatever is that his dad or is it his father -in -law?
Do we know I'm assuming it's probably his No, it has to be his father, since he's like, he didn't like me because I didn't play, which you wouldn't hold that against someone who's been marrying into the family, I imagine. Yeah, that's wild. Apparently, this is also what instigated Arata moving to Tokyo in the first place. Arata tells his parents that he hasn't been messaging Chihaya and Taichi very much recently, and he thinks about Chihaya and how he wants to see
her again. And then he tells his parents that if he wins the regional championship, he's going to ask them for a favor. Which maybe you'll be like, what could that favor be? Hey parents, can I be in season two of Chihaya Furu, please? Can I be a character that shows up? Well, I have a note, I'm like, cause who, he had bought himself, I can't remember, did he buy himself a phone or did Chihaya buy one for him? But he has the
cutest, girliest little phone. It's like pink with like a cute flower, floral, like dust or wallpaper on it. Oh, does he? Or rather his phone. No. Yeah. I don't know. I don't remember. His parents are like, or his dad's like, if you don't message them, they're going to forget about you. And he's like, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure they're not. I'm pretty sure I cast a large shadow over them. Yeah. Pretty good. Like, dang. Yes. We cut to Dr. Hirata walking with two women from
the Karate Society. They're going to cheer on the kids at the high school tournament. Dr. Hirata comments that Taichi is going through a rough spot, but he doesn't really know why. He has the skills to be Class A. It's just kind of weird that he hasn't made it yet. And then one of the women comments that she's seen Taichi play, and her diagnosis is that he's super unlucky. Poor guy. Which I guess is true. Was it? It didn't really seem like what his problem was, but...
Well, right, when him and Nishida... Went against each other when they were both Class B. They had the luck of the draw thing and he didn't get his call. Yeah. So I think just that just like keeps happening to him. Well, and we see more examples of it in these episodes. That is ridiculous. Back at the tournament, Sumire presents Tai Chi with a bunch of cookies she made herself, but he tells her that he doesn't like to eat anything solid before a match and she's bummed.
She's putting in so much work. You think she actually made them? Probably. She made it for Tai Chi. I guess so. Dr. Hirata shows up and tells the team that he isn't here for just them today. They're all like, what does that mean? And then he shows them the team, that team Mizusawa, coached by Tsuboguchi, the guy at the Card Society that wanted more girls in his classes here. Also, they're going to play in the next tournament. They grapple with this sudden challenger. We
see team Mizusawa. It's four normal people and one weird girl. Tsubaguchi is like the has big new teacher energy is what I said here, because he's like all PEP. Oh, yeah. He's all jazzed up about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Totally mundane and then one one distinct character. Yep. Tsubaguchi wishes Taichi good luck, but Taichi is worried because he knows that Tsubaguchi is like going
to take it super seriously. The other two women that came with Dr. Hirata give Taichi good luck charms, which confuses him because he is not aware that that is his problem is luck. Then Dr. Hirata tells him that an individual match is also a team match, which confuses Taichi. What could that mean? The next game starts. Taichi is paired against the weird girl. Chihaya's opponent is some guy who immediately hits on her. She gets all flusters, and we see that this is a
deliberate tactic by Tsubaguchi. Not so much to mess with Chihaya, who's going to lock in as soon as the game starts, but really a tactic to mess with Taichi, which seems to work. Yeah, it's so good. Taichi clocks him immediately as the culprit for why that guy's doing it. Lots of people hitting on other people at this tournament. Yeah, that's true. Just kind of keeps happening. What's going on here? I'm surprised he hasn't gone against, because it's only Chihaya, or it's
only like guys hanging on girls. There's no, but we see how like, Hai Chi is popular with chicks. I'm surprised we haven't seen like any of his female opponents just be like, goo -goo eyes at him during a match or something. Yeah. This might be the only woman he's faced though, this chick who's like just being weird. I don't know. We didn't get to really see those first
two games, so who knows. No, the game starts and we see that there's a new reader He sucks at his job though and keeps screwing up the timing to read and this is a problem for experienced players because they are used to the normal rhythm Taichi tries to encourage Satomi and Kana as they play Nishida and Shihaya are on their way to an easy win, but Taichi is having some trouble with his opponent She's super weird is doing
like some like sorcery stuff or something. She's like casted spells or something He's like what is happening? We get her backstory about how she always wanted to become card a queen But she's weird and off -putting and nobody was into it like her but then like super Gucci shows up And she's like oh, there's somebody who cares about this how nice At one point we learned her name, I didn't write it down. Nah, not important.
She keeps taking several cards against Taichi, and it appears that she's just kind of guessing and getting lucky. Dr. Hirata notes that Taichi won't believe that his luck is just bad, and he's gonna always think that he's just unskilled instead, which is gonna cause him to self -doubt and spiral. No, Taichi, no, you're so good. Taichi surveys the field. Chihaya and Nishida have decent leads. Only Taichi is lagging behind. He tries
to come up with a strategy. while not thinking about how everyone has more talent than him, which is incredibly sad. I still feel bad for Taichi. Everybody is just more naturally talented than him. I know! No, he's very skilled. Like, his memory is incredible. That's a great asset. Uh -huh. We see that he's sweating a lot. It's because the AC unit above him is broken. His luck is truly the worst. We're really leaning into actually he's just been unlucky this whole
time. I guess it's gotten worse. Well, they were in the Hakamas, which makes it even hotter. That's true. They were in heavy clothes. Dr. Hirata and Tsubaguchi talk about the game and Tsubaguchi explains that their strategy is to split Taichi's attention by having him try to lead the team while also playing against an opponent that relies on luck to sow self -doubt. It's all a master plan. And Tsubaguchi comments that in the master
match, he didn't really try his hardest. So he's trying to make up for it now or in the master qualifier match or whatever. Dr. Harada is very skeptical of all of this. I mean, it seems like, you know, other schools, everyone but our team has like teachers or guides that like play the game. And that's and this team has like a very good player guiding, you know, like that seems like a big possible advantage. This almost works for me, but then I remember that all of the player
matchups are basically random. So it's like, you can't really have you can't really do this strategy matchup. No, I mean, I'm sure some teams are just like, we're just going to use the same. Yeah, but we know that Chai's team doesn't do that. So it's just random. So, like, all of this being a master player, it's like, it's not real. You kind of just got lucky. Yeah. Well, I don't know. You know, sports anime, they got to add as many potential aspects of it as possible.
Yeah, I just don't know why they drew attention to that before. They literally have to make up, like, that retro can do divination in a later episode to make it make sense. That happened before. The fact that we have to give this kid a superpower in order for this to make sense is very funny. Anyway, let's see. Nearby, Sumire and Tsukuba are watching together. Tsukuba is absorbed in the match, but Sumire is distraught that she can't get Taichi's attention. What the
heck am I supposed to be doing here? She's like, it's been two months and these people it's like super obvious that Taichi is just in love with Chihaya, but Chihaya basically just isn't paying attention to him. Why is he so hung up on her?
We see their advisor show up to the match and the room is hot as hell Taichi is riding the struggle bus in the heat and he gathers enough confidence eventually to ask for a towel and immediately all the women who came to watch throw towels at him and to his left Chihaya has leaned over Tsutomu to hand him a towel too. There's no way I'm like, uh I'm annoyed. I'm like Chihaya
buzz off. You can't just like in the mo - Just in this moment You pay attention to him, but like, and then he's going to get hopes up and then nothing. She has like a big grid on her face, too. I'm like, you are such the mascot. I can't like not see. Yes, I got goofy little man. He picks someone. But she's paying attention to him because they're playing the game like she still considers it a team. Yeah. And so she's like, oh, like we're a team. Like I got to support
my teammates or whatever. And it's like, oh, my God, he hesitates before taking the towel from Chihaya. And then thanks, everybody. Bro, she's not into you dude. She's just doing this
cuz you know This is heartbreaking. He's never gonna You have to save him He thinks about how he's embarrassed to lose in front of everybody and how he'll have to push past that to get stronger He starts playing better and focusing more in his game while calling things out to his teammates Sumire sees that Tai Chi has locked in after receiving Chihaya's towel and decides that, like, she's seen enough, I'm just gonna go do something
else. She goes to scout the next round's opponents instead, because she's like, I gotta do something more useful than sit here and watch my crush be in love with someone else, which is so true. Incredibly true. Tai Chi starts to clean house and takes five cards in a row. It's now one to six, so his opponent tries to do the tried and true strategy of lining up all of your cards and then just smacking them all at the same time.
It works for a little while, but eventually Taichi is able to take one before she can hit the cards because he's kept track of all the dead cards with his wild ass memory and then wins. After the match, Taichi returns the towels to the women and all the guys hate him for being popular. Taichi tries to return Sumire's towel too, but she thinks that she'll have to watch out for
Chihai after all of this. Uh, because it turns out she is kind of paying attention to Tai Chi, which is pretty conditional as to whether or not they're playing Carta. Yep. Yep. Yep. God, she looks at their opponents. While we do this, Chihaya looks at their next week's opponents, which is Retro's team, as we cut to credits. Oh, right. Sorry. I was going to say, Taichi, he should just never have ran into Chihaya again. That would have been better for him. Just doomed
from the premise of the show. He should have just not done that. You know, I'm like screaming at the screen, like, don't get off here. Stay on the tray. Don't understand. Hang out with your lame girlfriend instead. She's kind of annoying. I just, I'm like, I don't understand the appeal. You can find an earnest girl who, like, isn't a lunatic at the same time. But this episode, I mean, it's a Tai Chi episode, so I end up liking
it, right? Like, you know, playing the individual match where he needs to, like, focus on his own stuff and not worry about everybody else's is pretty good. you know, that end up being the individual match is also a team match or whatever the other way around. I don't remember how they said it. Yeah, we get a lot of Tai Chi time in these episodes, so hopefully that means we're leading up to him, like, succeeding. I can't believe his, like, his problem is that he's just
unlucky. It's like, OK, not only does he not have that much talent, he's also unlucky. Like, we're just making things as bad as possible for him. You just have to believe in yourself, Tai Chi. Guess but it's very funny to be like, oh, he's just gonna blame himself because he doesn't have luck But it's like what else he's supposed to do. You can't just like make yourself be luckier. Yeah, uh Cuz he was so cocky as a kid like and now he's so not I'm like, can we get like in
the middle? Like just a normal person who like police is enough. So what? Okay, yep, Samir again He's so cute. Being a champion. Sorry. Yes. Yes. I'm rooting for her. She is easily the best. She's like, I can't believe that he's just in love with her and she just doesn't pay attention. I don't want to watch this. And I'm like, yeah, I don't really want to watch it. Yeah, that would be so awful to like experiencing, you know, experience
watching it. Oh, man. In person. Yeah. God. It's like a dude friend who like is aware of the world around them and isn't just like in, you know, like spoofy characters like Nishida and Satomo, but like he needs a male Kana to like see what's happening and be like, hey man, you know, like you're doing, you know, he needs like a... He
needs a confidant. Yeah, I mean he would right, but I feel like that's why we can't get one I feel like that's why all the guys have to be these like dopey little cartoony guys Yeah, I guess so, but yeah, I mean that is like another mature Yeah, there's only cartoony it's like we have the two beautiful people in the club and well and Sumire is like a normal -looking character too So you have three now and then kind of kind and then the other two are super
cartoony So it's like I mean they do get serious moments despite being cartoony, but uh, I don't know They're all like casually friends, but he doesn't have like a phone to rely on Talking about their feelings or, like, shared secrets or anything. We're not getting anything like that. Just goddamn Canada. No. Why aren't we getting that? All three of these episodes are just tournament time. Yeah. I want them to hang
out. Yes. Maybe next time. I mean, already, compared to other sports animes, they get tons of time to, like, to spend time together compared to other sports animes. Is that true? So this is, like, yes. How can that be true? How is sports animes something people like? There's literally no time. Who would like this? It's like half an episode. It's always tied to sports. There's nothing that exists outside the sport. I had
a thought. I had a thought. Which is like, you know, I was thinking through last episode or like last of our podcast episode and being like, OK, so nobody can explain why they like Cardiff, but it obviously has some draw. And at the end of these episodes, it's going to draw in everybody and everyone's going to be all on board. It's less it's less operating like a hobby or like.
Like an activity you just like to do and it's operating more like a religion You know because it's like, oh, I don't know what's fun about it But you just got to do it like you just got to keep doing it You just got to keep committing to it and that's like Just kind of how it's operating in my mind now. Well, we just need like normal people being playing. I just feel like no one's like a normal person. No, and they're gonna get less normal the longer this goes. Yeah. All right,
should we go to the episode five? Yep. Episode five is called Be as Dear Now. These were the good old days. We open on Retro's team. PSP kid has been promoted to captain after pseudo left and he's like, well, since the top two teams advanced this year, I guess we don't really like matter if we win or not. And Retro is like. Oh, come on, man, we got to avenge ourselves from last year. But PSP kid is not convinced. But like, whatever, we got to play this game anyway.
Also, Retro could do the divination so we could just like do counter whatever their lineup is. We jumped to Chihaya's team where Nishida is like, well, we advanced anyway, so I guess this game isn't that important. But then Chihaya says that if they're going to be undefeated from here on out, they can't lose. And Nishida is like, ah, all right, fine. Anyway, hey, remember two episodes ago where Retro said he had a secret
weapon? What's up with that? She deters to look at Retro doing his divination and is surprised to see his sister is there with Retro. He remembers that she said that she got a boyfriend recently. Is it Retro? Is she dating Retro? Is this the secret weapon? This was pretty good. Yes. Did not come up as much as I thought it was going to in this episode, but it was still kind of funny. No, yeah, yeah. Minor details, but there's
a slight payoff, I guess. Sumire mentions that while she was watching the other match last episode, she overheard PSP kids plan, which is basically to try to beat Taichi and forget about Chihaya and Nishida. This pushes off Taichi, Satomu, and Kana. Cause PSP kids like, we'll just line up our best guys against those three and just win. Taichi selects the order and Tsukaba tries changing it again and Nishida's like, dude, what the hell? And they start arguing. Taichi has
had enough though. And he says that none of the guys can start the sentences with but anymore. His mom made him do that. And now they have to do that too because it forces you to make better excuses and be less cartoony. Their opponents have two class A players, including a new first year, and the rest are all class B. Man, having an actual teacher, sir, is useful, huh? It's crazy how everybody else has coaches and we just are like five people. Actually, we're like seven
people now. They start calling the like player assignments. We see Retro's team order is not correct because clearly Retro has sabotaged it.
Retro or no the player assignments are called out and no one is against who they thought they'd be against except retro who's up against Tai Chi essentially what retro did is put them like their top five in order against The other team's top five in order so it's all straight matchups PSP kid yells at retro and retro admits that he wanted to beat them in a fair fight not taking advantage of his ESP They all get into a little argument that's broken up by the sudden appearance
of sudo He's not here to watch, though. He's here to be the reader. Sudo's back. Haven't we missed him? Your favorite character ever. I can't believe those guys. I need to get rid of some of these guys. The guys in this show are not good. Let me just say that. Truly. Tai Chi and Arata are like the only... I don't even like Arata that much. Well, they're like the only detailed drawn characters, male characters in this show. I don't know. Is it like? I like.
Yeah, those three are like the only good looking characters in the entire world in this show. It's crazy. No, Shinobu looks cool, too, I guess. I'm like, not many, very many characters get the detail. Guy characters that I like in the show, Tai Chi, Dr. Hirata. Yeah, I guess. Arata is OK. And Satomu is OK. There we go. Bad, bad lineup, bad guy lineup. Yeah. It's not feeling very shojo to me, you know? That's true. Well,
I guess it's just it's all about the three. Is it is it all about the three or is it about mostly the two? And then like we see we see like a five second scene with Arata in every like two episodes. Well, I feel like the author is like team Chihaya Arata and then like Tai Chi is the champion of the people like we all have. Him and it's a feeling
it's just not gonna work out for him. Well, we'll see how this game works out for him Retro's team is feeling the pressure from their old team leader pseudo being right behind them as he reads these out Chihaya's coach gives their team all husky, which are like this little band You can wrap around your shoulders to give your arms for your movement in their clothes She is like, wow, our coach might not know anything about this game, but she's still trying to look out for us, which
is nice. That's cute. Yeah. Taishi thinks about how Retro has been kind of in the same boat as him since being stuck in Class B. They both have been to a lot of tournaments together and haven't won. I'm sorry, you were going to say something? Oh, yeah, I was going to say, oh, she says like, oh, I put the finishing touches on these just now. I'm like, what do you mean? They're just strips across. What finishing touch did you put? I don't know. Maybe there's something special
about them. They're so cute, like embroidery or anything. I mean, they're purely functional. Yes. We see that PSP kid is up against Chihaya. The game starts and she starts losing. Nishida's opponent is the Class A first year who's also pretty good. In better news, Kana is doing surprisingly well because Sudo is a very precise reader, and we get backstory about Sudo learning to be a reader. And basically, to sum it up, if you understand a reader, you can beat any opponent basically,
which is what the current master does. You know, if you can like figure out how they read the cards, you should do that. So Sudo became a reader to do that. I don't care about Sudo's backstory, but this was like... you know, three minutes of screen time or something. She is still struggling. She keeps dwelling on her mistakes and practices cards that just got taken away. Retro team clearly has the advantage because they're all used to pseudo reading, except for Kana, who's doing
really, really well at it. So that's not great. Their coach thinks about how Karuta is an equal opportunity game or gender, size and age don't matter. This kind of comes out of nowhere. But it's true, I guess. Yeah. Is it true? I guess it's true. Sure. I mean, there's probably advantages to like having longer arms and stuff. But but basically, like you can make up for those differences. Like this is, you know, this is like a sport where it's like a girl doesn't stand a chance,
you know, because it's more strategic. There's so many components to it rather than just like athleticism. This is the thing that messes me up, though, where it's like, oh, this is a this is a game where like gender and age and that stuff doesn't matter, except we separate off the best card of players by gender and all of the best players are like below the age 25. So that's true. Is any of that true? I mean, Arada's Arada's grandpa was like an answer for a while.
I think when he was older. Yeah. So I guess we just haven't seen it. Yeah. Suddenly, Nishida's game ends with him losing by 13 cards, which is a massive upset. And now Chihaya's team is in a bind. Nishida says he was distracted by his opponent's weird hairpin, which like wasn't even that weird. And also by the fact that his sister was there cheering for his opponents, which was pretty weird. So I'll give him that.
Yeah, because he's been like, he hasn't really gotten a lot of like focus on him, but he's just kind of there to count as like a win for the team reliably. Um, so at least this is something different. Yeah losing. Yes Taichi surveys the field. Kada's match is neck and neck and Chihaya is losing by five cards. That's not good. Taichi's match is also close. So things are looking pretty bad for them. Chihaya tries to assess the situation. She is not fast enough to beat her opponent on
speed alone. Because why couldn't she? Why was she not putting him on speed alone again? Well, cause she, Dr. Hirata is like, you can't, you need to, don't take cards with your speed. Kind of like a task for her, a challenge to like develop different skills rather than just that. Cause she would like make a lot of mistakes and stuff doing. And so like for the last, right. I think they say in the next episode, like the last nine months, she's been trying to be a more like a
well -balanced player. And so. But now she's got to kick it into high gear and pull out that her old hat trick. Right. So now she needs to lean into her strength of listening and speed. And then she takes the car as we cut to credits. So she's just like holding back this whole time. I was like, not really. I wasn't really sure why she was losing so badly. Well, yeah, I guess. Well, maybe she's in her mind. She's like, oh, we're both going to. the next level anyway, so
I don't know. Basically, it seems like she's treating it like a practice round rather than like in a competition that her team relies on her. So it's kind of a little selfish, like, you know, like, don't do that right now. Focus on the match you're in and not like, you know, like. Yeah, I mean, she was like, she's like, you know, she's like practicing after each one and everyone's like, oh, it sounds like you're not taking this seriously. But like, is that
not taking it seriously? I don't know. Basically. We have PSP Kid makes a comment and Dr. Harada agrees, but basically she should be like focused in like in the match she's currently playing and like like working towards the next card and not just like dwelling on the card she just lost. Yeah, yeah. So I don't know. That seems like a more like she's analyzing the. the game as she's playing it versus like doing that after the fact. That feels like because then it's like
you're distracting yourself from. Proceeding. I guess it's just kind of like it doesn't feel like a thing that she does. It feels like a thing that Tai Chi does. That's true. Whatever she was doing. I don't know. I was just kind of confused as to like what changed because it's like all of a sudden she started doing better because she's like, I'm turning on hearing mode. Super hearing mode activate. We also get like a freaking. Guy talking about Kana's chest to her. Oh, I
forgot about that. Yeah. Booby girl. I'm like, this is like harassment. Yeah. What the hell? This tournament's full of, like, creepy guys. It's pretty bad. Yes. My God. Yeah, I don't have that many more things to say about this episode. I still don't like Retro's team. We didn't get to learn anything. OK, is... Is the new, the first year, the secret weapon? What's the secret weapon? OK, that's what I was thinking, right? The secret weapon is, well, there's three different
possibilities. It's the new class A freshman. It's the fact that Nishida's sister is there. Or I think they have, where their teacher told them if they win, he'll take them to like Yakitori or they'll take them to like a big... Meat dinner or something which is like always the which is always like the incentive in sports anime where it's like Oh, yeah, we're gonna get you know,
barbecue after this. We gotta do it guys kind of I don't feel like any of those things are a secret weapon I feel like the first year the new player is the only one that could be yeah, but we didn't get to see his game. There's no focus on him. He wears kind of a weird hairpin and destroys Dishida Essentially, so I don't
even know what he did. Yes Okay, I will say the good thing about this show is that like in a lot of sports anime there's You know, like each team you play has distinct characters and you learn and then like one match is like You know half a season or something, but then you get all the backstory of all these players on the other team which like I think It's a good thing here that we don't do that, because we don't have any, like, a lot of time with any of the
teams, even if we play with them again. Like, we're very brief backgrounds on them, and then we get to move on. It's not like it's taking up a ton of time. They're not making the opening credits scene, you know what I'm saying? Like it kind of works and it kind of because it still does it right like cuz last episode we had like oh the weird girl is we get Like a little flashback, but it's so generic and nothing. I'm like why
is this even here? Yep, so it's like yeah. Well just imagine it was either Are you think it'd be better if there was more time with it? I feel like you should either have something to say and make it interesting or just not do it. And it's like there's it's still kind of doing it. I mean, you're saying it's like, oh, yeah, this thing that sucks is not doing it that much, which is good. But like, you just don't have to do
the thing that sucks. It is my opinion. I'm like, you don't have to give us backstory on this stuff. But I don't know. I don't. This is why I don't like sports anime. People like this. People like the the bad backstories of characters that don't matter. Uh huh. Yeah. Oh, last episode. Episode
six called to set the. tatsuta river ablaze uh we open on the game chihaya is starting to take cards again and she can hear the intonation of the first syllable Um that sudo is reading and guess the card because that's how she is good at taking cards quickly And sudo figures out
that she's doing this because he's mr. Learn the reader guy now We were reminded through montage that this is shihaya's strength They like recap us from last season of like hey remember that one time satomu tells her that she has 21st syllable cards or whatever and it's cute Well, that's still that still matters. Um bsbk is starting to fall apart as shihaya equalizes the match So PSPKids starts playing really defensively. We jump to Satomu's game where he's wearing his
opponent down. Last year, he got stomped by this guy by 15 cards, but this time he's doing way better. And Satomu takes against him even when he was covering a card. So that's how good we're doing, which is great because like... Yeah, I like the shout out to like the progress he's made by facing against the same player again. Especially because like earlier in the tournament, it's always like, oh... It's like three wins
to two or something. Like, Satomu and Kana are not just, like, winning their matches normally anyway, still. Well, I think they just don't count on it. We just didn't super see, like, maybe there was a match or two where they got, like, four wins instead of just three. Yeah, but they haven't had any, like, triumphs yet. Because it's not like when you... Yeah, true.
Right? Because I guess we haven't seen... I'm assuming each person plays through their entire match, even if it's... been determined that your team is going to lose because three people on your team already lost. It's not like you then end your game. You like finish it out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know where I was going with that thought. Oh, yeah. It's like, I guess you could just start throwing at the end if you don't
care. Let's see. We're down to the last few cards, but all four are still playing and Nishida is like, oh, this is bad because if it comes down to luck of the draw, we're only going to win two out of four, which means we're going to lose.
It comes down to luck of the draw in all the matches Retro's team starts moving their cards around to quote -unquote split their cards And what this means is that half of their team has one of the cards and the other two have the other half So if either card gets read they should win two out of the four games which will let them win the match They spent a lot of time explaining this incredibly specific scenario So that means Chihaya's team will have to take at least one
card from their opponent, which is basically impossible in order to win. Chihaya realizes this is the last moment and looks over to see Nishida blaming himself. Chihaya starts practicing swings to take from her opponent and then Taichi joins in and he in his head goes over all the remaining dead cards and there's one duplicate in the remaining dead cards. Retro sees this and thinks so hard about blocking Taichi that when the next card is red, he taps his card while
defending it and faults losing the match. So now it's back to luck again because there's three and... It's two and one. A PSP kid tries to get out on it and starts practicing his swings too, because he's like, uh -oh, I might have to take Chihaya's card, and I can't just be defensive. The final card is... Practice swings are so embarrassing. Sorry. Taishi points it out in season one, but
I'm like, that's so embarrassing. Oh, God. That's like, there's this thing in paintball where, like, I never did it because I was like, what the hell are you guys doing? But they would, like, hold their arm out, like... And like pretend it was the scope of their or the barrel of their paintball gun. I was like, oh, you guys look so weird. Like, what are you doing? Mm hmm. Shadow boxing. But it's but it's. Yeah. The final card
is red. takes and then wins, Satomu's opponent takes and wins and he loses, and Shihaya and PSPKid both try to tap his card on his side. None of the spectators can tell who tapped the card first, and PSPKid says he took it first, but Shihaya says that they did it at the same time, and technically that means that the person
who cited it on wins, so she loses. After the match, Sudo asks PSP Kid if their team was the strongest, and he says no. He only moved because Chihaya did, and it was kind of just a luck anyway that he won. And Sudo uses that to encourage them, I guess. Chihaya tells him that that was a fun match, and then they all go home. Sumire breaks off from the group, and we see Sumire, Tsukaba, and his brothers join the car to society. Because religion, baby. Take First Communion.
Chihaya and Taiji board the train together. Chihaya gets an email from Hirata asking if she had fun at the high school regional. She starts crying and thinks that this was the most fun she's had yet as we cut to credits. OK. I mean, because, right? First season, it's Nishida gets Kana and Satomo to go to his society. So at least this time, Dr. Hirata is getting some new disciples. I guess that's true. Good for him. They spend a lot of time this match describing splitting
your cards. A thing that can only happen in a team game in which multiple people go down to the final two cards. This is just a scenario that almost never happens, right? They're acting like this is such like a known strategy. And I'm like, when would this ever happen? It's so unlikely. Well, that's true, because I'm trying. Is it? Cause right, we're seeing, we've only seen team matches in like the school system.
Are there team matches outside of the school system or once you're not in school, there's no opportunity for team matches anymore because then it's like those kinds of matches wouldn't be broadcast. So people would never see that scenario happen. I don't know. It doesn't. I don't know. Weird. And then, of course, Tai Chi and Chihaya. And then she starts crying after
freaking Errata. Oh, my God. She cries. She's like, I got an email from Errata and Tai Chi's doing his like sad boy look where it's like the hair is covering his eyes. He's like, read it. Just get just get wrecked. Basically, I. I think she's crying because she's, you know, a little discouraged that they lost when she wanted to win. But also, girl, then you should have been playing to win in your match and not playing
to learn. Or pay attention. Yep. You know, some, I mean, yes, right, Tai Chi learns the lesson of like, it's an individual match, but it's a team match and blah, blah, blah. But Chi Hai, like, is super the opposite where he's worried about the others and she, like, doesn't look at them at all. Yeah. So there we go. That's the end of that's the end of this episode. How do we feel about it? Um, I'm I'm let's see. Um, yeah, I mean, it's fine. They don't have to.
Well, now I'm like, if they don't bring a trophy is old geezer from the last. episode's going to be like looking into their club because they didn't get another win. It's like, oh, they didn't win this time and they don't have members now. We can super shut them down. I don't feel like that plot point's ever going to come up again. OK. I feel like that's such a cliffhanger that didn't really matter. Pay off. Yeah. Well, I guess. Hopefully Sumire starts getting good.
I feel like last year it was like we had team matches and then the following day with individual matches for high school, but that didn't happen this time I mean they could just because the high school matches were by class right next time Yes, the individual matches are like so maybe hmm. I don't know But also, can you rank up from winning a school one? No. Or is the only right? Yeah. OK. Good Lord. Maybe it was maybe they would they just cut to the next individual
match. And that's why it was confusing. I mean, I just misremembered. What? Well, basically, I'm guessing the next episode is going to be everyone's training, whatever. What can be the other component to that? Maybe some Sumire making moves on Tai Chi or I don't know because it has to be something other than just training. We can't immediately cut to the next one. We gotta have a fucking training arc. Come on. This is the only time in an anime I'm asking for a training
arc. There's gotta be a full -blown... They gotta hang out. They gotta go to summer camp. Dr. Hirata's summer camp. We're all going to. Well, because what did they lose? They lost something that then they trained afterwards for because it wasn't because they they won this tournament last year. So what is it that they did that they made? I don't know. You're asking me to remember season one. There's not. OK. OK, well, we'll find out. Yeah, they got you. The show has to do some character
work now. We did the tour. We did the tournament. We did it. Yeah. And we're only on episode six. You know, this is episode six. That's fine. Whatever. Re -matching is a bunch of characters that I don't care about. It don't matter. But we did it. That's great. Satomu and Kana are just as good as those guys are now. So that's good. So great. We need I need them. to have actual interpersonal drama soon that needs to happen. Hey, remember when Shinobu saw, like, a shadow vision of Arana?
What's going on there? When's that gonna come up again? Yeah, because we... Well, maybe we'll get more time with him where he's, like, doing... We learn what his ask his request for his parents is which i'm guessing is the mood that i hope so So that he can be a character. Yeah, so but then tai chi's gonna be devastated. Let's watch
tai chi be devastated. Oh, no, no We love tai chi we want the No, yeah Yep, uh, I don't think I have any other opinions about points about this so That's our coverage of Chiaya Furu season two episodes four through six. Next time we'll do seven through nine. We could do four episodes if we wanted. No, you're just like looking up at your ceiling like that. I have to do the summaries for all of these basically tomorrow. So we're just going to do three again. We can maybe switch
to four. OK. I'm looking up at my ceiling because I'm just like, oh, my God. We got through it. So this is your favorite show. We got through it, you guys. This is one of your favorite shows. Is it still one of your favorite shows after we watched through it? I like watching it. Sports anime does have like a lot of things missing that I like, but also like it gets me hyped. So I just enjoy, like, Haikyuu, I like, yeah,
when I'm watching it. That, like, I get, like, this excitement level that I don't get in, like, a lot of other animes. But so I think it's just better for, like, binging than it is to analyze. It's not holding up under our criticisms, but I do love watching it. I feel like it's not only that. I feel like every episode we come back and you hate Chihaya a little more. Okay, but I'm sorry? Okay. I feel like you really don't
like her. Because even when she's being endearing in these episodes, I'm like, that's kind of cute. But you're like, God, Jihaya, just play the game. Stop being such a weird little freak. Oh, God. Yeah, I get... I've been, like, critical. Is she the protagonist I've been the most critical of, probably? Oh, yeah. I feel like it's not even close. I mean, I freaking hate... Marie Antoinette, but she's not really the show kind of also hates Marie Antoinette, so it's fine.
Yeah, yeah. I and then she's what's her Misaki is just like a what? Nothing. She's just like a nice kid. Yeah, I guess I just I like one. Particular, because there's like a lot of series where I don't like the protagonist because I'm like, oh, I don't want the like, I'm a loser and become better over time. I want someone who's like badass by default. I was born different.
I want like a protagonist that I like and then we get to go along with them for the ride and the ride isn't becoming a person that I end up liking. Like I want them to be. Likeable start as a person and then we see them in scenario like a normal person, please Yeah, I guess not.
I'm just impatient. This is not a show development Now it's super duper not but I like a door Tai Chi so much The only guy who's kind of normal is Tai Chi and he has he just gets like red every episode It's like he's either losing car to games or she hires like crying about errata in front of him or Well, I guess he went right. He's winning in a lot of ways where it's like, okay He's well his family's well off. He's good -looking. He's
smart Popular girls like him. So he's got like a lot going for him It's just that none of the things that he wants are like fulfilled by those. Yeah, which I guess is Good like makes him more likeable. But also it's like if he had everything then Oh, no. I mean, Tai Chi's great when he's like sad and pathetic. That's why I like him. Get wrecked, Tai Chi. Every episode, every time he's like something bad, I'm like, yeah, Tai
Chi's sad. Woo! Well, I know at least our rankings for Chihayafuru will change after we finish just front the left. Can we just make Sumire already sprinting to the top? She just become the main but POV character, please. She's already applied to be the Shojo protagonist. Well, hopefully we get more time with her. Well, in the meantime, rate us five stars on your podcast platform. Send us emails. If you have emails, if you want to nominate somebody else as the main character
of this show, email us at shojopod .gmail .com. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did we learn anything? And, uh, split your cards, Dan. It feels like this is not a thing you'd ever, like, today we're gonna learn about splitting cards, guys, in a scenario that will almost never happen. Well, it's not even, like, every episode is a, like, Monster of the Wink format where we learn something new, but... It's just, like, I don't know. And
will this ever come up again? Surely not. It's just really goofy to be like, and they all four matches go to the final card, the luck draw. And I'm like, really? All four of them? Nobody ever. Just like one, two in a row. At least Tai Chi won his, man. That's true. He just faked them out. That's pretty good. Right around. Yeah. I don't think I learned anything. If your sister starts dating somebody, maybe you should learn their name so you're not just caught off guard.
Maybe you should care about who your sister's dating. Yes. How old? I'm like, how much younger is your sister? And how old is Retro? Is he like too old to be dating her? Like, ugh, I don't know. Like, because if she was like a year below Nishida, she would be a first year too. I don't know. Maybe she's just like a very unimportant plot device. I mean, if she's one year, that's one year difference, it's nothing. Whatever. I know that's true, but I feel like if that was
the case, we would see her. And she doesn't like heart it. How'd they even meet? What? I don't know. I need the me cute. What happened? We saw her. She was just in like the she was like the little break because we had like the one random ass bonus, like just little short of the recap episode. And she was like in that. And that's the introduction of her. So she wasn't even actually like in the canon parts of the first season. Whatever. Yeah. Do that. That's fine. We didn't
learn anything. Figure out who your sister's dating. In advance. Yeah. Yes. Care about your family. The Shia. That's why you lost so bad at the beginning. Uh -huh. That and swirly hair pins. All right. Yep. Well, OK. Thanks for joining us for this episode, guys, and catch us next week when we... Chuck, more Chihaya Furu. Joe's favorite. He's just gonna hear and get more and more excited about our character. I need Shinobu to show up. Where is she? Yes, we do. We do need
our cool characters. I'm on Shinobu watch. Forever on Shinobu watch. Where is she? Why is she not in the scene? We need more snowman stuff. Every scene, I'm gonna ask where Shinobu is and why she isn't here. He has to be the mysterious rival. Yep. God, okay, whatever. Okay. Hey, bye. Bye!