It's October. Spooky season is here. And to get you through the scary season, is none other than your absolute favorite podcast show, Joe, with your co-host Sarah, that's me and Joe. I'm the ghost of Joe. I have before the terrible fate. Oh, let's tell me what happened to you. I am deceased for four weeks only. I'll be back to normal. Oh, man, I never get the Halloween cereal. But I always see it because I don't eat cereal anymore. So I'm like, this is probably a waste if I bought this.
But I'm kind of like, ooh, look at all these. Frank and Barry is where that is my favorite, the trio. But you like Dracula, so you should get Count Dracula. Yeah, I should get Chocula. I do like chocolate the best out of all of those. Maybe I will anyway, you know, I can make terrible financial decisions for no reason. It's only like, actually, cereal is expensive now. Everything is expensive. The kind of ease of ruins.
Yes. There's a shitty knockoff version of these like Halloween gimmick cereals. Yeah, maybe. Oh, man. Oh, my God. Yeah, I've had stuff happen to me. I've had an eventful. Oh, call us call us good because I had like almost nothing. Oh, yesterday I got surgery on my finger. They cut it open and took a thing out of it because I had growth or sister something. And like, it was not like.
Cancer is anything so it's totally fine, but they did do it, which was pretty neat actually because they was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to like cut this V because it's at the joint of the finger. So it's like, they got to cut like a like fan out from it. And then they were like, and I didn't they didn't put me under right. They just numb my hand. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So I'm like sitting there.
I'm like talking to the nurse because like they had like a nurse like hang out with me while I was doing it. And we're just like, you know, talking about like, oh, where are you from that kind of thing. And I can just hear the doctor being like, this bone's kind of sharp here. That's kind of weird, right? Yeah. So my bones are sharp. Oh, you were awake. Oh, my God. I like it was chill for me. Just my blood games drawn, let alone freaking hand being cut open. I mean, I couldn't see it.
They had like a shield of I can't watch them do it. It was just it was fun. I mean, it was it was actually turned out to be pretty cool. I don't know. I like medical stuff. Like it doesn't bother me like needles. Like I watch myself get poked with needles because I'm like cool. Okay. I'm like stressed out just thinking about that. Yeah. So now my, I like, you know, my hand is like wrapped up or my finger is wrapped up in a little cast. Are you all your friends going to sign it?
No, it's not a hard gas. It's just like wrapped. It doesn't mean I have like one gigantic fat finger that is on my index finger, which makes it hard to type, which means that this episode's because I wrote them after I got the surgery. I use using the voice office dictation function. So it may be really weird. Let me tell you dictation, not good at figuring out show's name is show and not the word show like show and tell. It's actually just pretty bad with all the names. So instead then.
Oh my God. Yeah. So we'll see how what it's like when I read it. So are you like Wolverine from X-Men origin so instead of the blades, he has like bones coming out of his hands as his little claws. It's not coming out of my hand. It was just, it was just, you know, he looked at my joint and he's like kind of protruding there on the bone. That's weird. I'm going to take a little sample and we can run it and make sure nothing weird is happening. Oh, okay. Well, we got a little sample.
Keep us posted on that. So that was, that's my big, that's my big life update is like a finger surgery. Pretty neat. And in other news, let's see, I finished, I finished all of armored trooper bottoms. I did it. I watched all the OVA's. I have consumed all the bottoms content. Cool. So you don't have to hear about it again. So you don't have to hear about it again. Did you go see whatever that movie is in theaters? Dude, I convinced so many people to come with me.
No, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's tomorrow. Okay. So this is the first show that's going to be on Wednesday and it's showing on Sunday. So this is the first Gundam, like mobile suit Gundam from the seventies compilation movie where they just kind of like cut the episodes of like the first, like third of the show into like a movie compilation. And I think maybe they added some new animation. I don't know. Uh, but I have, I'm going to that on Sunday. So I'm going to that tomorrow.
And I have fixed like four other people to go with me. And I don't know if they're going to like it or not. Probably not. So I'm going to be watching so many movies in the next two days. Oh, I'm seeing a movie on Tuesday. Oh, what you get? What you watching? Uh, it's called my old ass. It's some like comedy thing, but we'll see. It's mostly just an excuse to hang out with my work friend who is hard to pin down. Oh yeah. That's nice. Yeah. It will be nice. Girl time.
Yeah. Yeah. The fried pickles at the Alamo draft house are incredible. You must have the Alamo draft house, right? I do miss the Alamo draft house. We have some cool like independent theaters here, but they don't, they're not like, I'll have you know. Is this public information yet? I don't know. You can like break it in the air. No, I'm going to look it up. Okay. It's still here. There are a couple of ones here.
Okay. They're not quite as like tongue in cheek funny, but they offer some cool like movie select. Well, you'll be happy here. Sony has acquired Alamo draft house. Oh, am I happy about that? We'll see. Are they going to wash it out? I don't feel like Sony acquisitions. That's what my concern is. Maybe they'll just have faith that they're doing it right already. Um, I just do not change the menu. I love that menu. Oh, we'll see. Um, right.
At least my 18th birthday, I think we went and saw spaceballs because they play like old movies like that sometimes, which is fun. Yeah. Um, oh yeah. Movies. I haven't seen one quite some time. Have an Alamo in Indianapolis. Go there. I don't. What are you working at? Don't maybe lock you up. Oh my God. Okay. Let me think of things that are been full in my life right now. Uh huh. Freaking on Thursday morning, I woke up to the sound of like a. Crowing rooster or something.
In my apartment complex. Okay. Like North Austin area. I'm like, that's not right. Is it like someone has a dog that just sounds like a chicken. And then that night I saw a chicken hanging out on one of my neighbors balconies. Like what the hell? I found the culprits. Should they be doing that? I reported them. So. Wow. I don't want to be woken up everybody by God damn chicken. Yeah, that's fair.
Oh my God. Um, and I put in a complaint for my neighbors that like party every like once a month until three in the morning and wake me up. Um, Nice. Get them. Lived They form directions and then turn back to the Red Sea. I get an amendment from myself every week. loves me. I don't know. I guess everyone else just treats them terribly. I'm like, why would you do that? They're here fixing your stuff. They do kind of important stuff.
This is like the benefit of renting is that I don't have to fix these things. Right. So and I know they go in and out of the leasing office, so I should be fine. I think they even fix my carpet thing for free. They might not have. I don't know if they reported that or not, but they love me. And they look. Yeah. Well, my apartment is certainly memorable. With both. Yeah, that's pretty, you know, interesting. Yeah. Interesting neighbors. Yeah. Oh, God. Don't.
Because I've lived up to complex before in a different part of it. But I'm like, I don't know what's happening. I started to think someone might just straight up not be going to the dumpster and just throwing their trash out their patio or something. Because I'm like, why is all this trash coming from? So I'm going to be like looking at the freaking if it's like mail, I'm going to look at the address and see if it all is the same apartment. That is this trash coming from because pissing me off.
Like it bears me to be an apartment complex. Those are just litter everywhere. Yeah. My neighbors are weird, too. Sometimes like it doesn't happen that often, but like I have had very bizarre things happen to me in this apartment complex. And I live in a kind of nice apartment complex. Yeah. Why is this happening? People just like get door dash and it just gets left out there for like. Oh, that's right. I saw that. Why would you buy? Why would you buy this?
What are you doing? Yeah. Because people get like milkshakes and it just sits out there. And it's like, I look at the next day and it's still there. I'm like, what's happening? I remember seeing that. Yeah. Because my complex is expecting to get this food. Old and individual buildings, but yours is like one of those new ones where it's all internal. Yeah. So. Yeah.
And one time I was going to say when I stayed there, your neighbors were like rearranging furniture or something in the middle of the night because they are so noisy. Oh, yeah. I just kind of tune it out. There was a lot of time when I would hear like somebody under me or something have like a domestic dispute every weekend. Oh my God, somebody, but it was just yelling. So I don't know. I know. I've also been like my last apartment that I was in. I was like, what is like the chick?
Like a week after I moved in, she basically like had her car full of random crap and moved out and I was like, OK, good, they won't be fighting anymore. She's gone. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I've had like because my apartment complex said, oh, if you hear loud party people, just call the cops next time. I was like, that seems drastic. Like, yeah, that's like a step up. Yeah. But and yeah, I've heard like I'm just like, who talks to each other like that?
I have never raised my voice, but I'm also a quiet, angry person. I see silently. The worst thing that's happened to me, my apartment complex, I think I've probably told you this before is it's like a big building, right? And it's also mostly inside, which is nice, because in the winter, it's like, oh, I can just like take a walk through the building, right? And like, I'll do it because I work from home.
So it's like, I just need to go take like a five minute break and I'll just like go walk around. So I'll just like put it headphones and walk around. And one time I like walked out of the stairwell and just like open the door and turn the corner and I stepped in dog poop inside the building on the floor that's carpet. That is awful. Someone's dog just like taking just like a poop on the floor inside the apartment complex and they didn't do anything. So I had to like go and clean off my shoe.
It was like, that's about right. I know. I believe this happened. No one picks up here and it's yeah. I was inside the building. I'm like, I guess this is I don't look at the ground when I'm walking inside. But maybe I don't know. Like it would have been. No, it was like a large land mine. Yeah. But it was like right outside the door. So it's like I opened the door and stepped out and stepped in it. I'm like, what the heck is this? I don't know.
Maybe some jackass is like letting their dog just free roam in the hallways and then come back or something. Gross. Well, you would think your place would be more like strict. The stuff my my place is like old dumpy apartment. So it's like to be expected, but yours is like new and working people are dumb. Yeah. You look just morons. I don't know. Sure. And speaking of morons. So I've talked about there are a lot of I don't know if it's a lot of them. It's like.
She gets called an idiot by her end. So that's true kind of. And then yeah. Well, let's let's let's talk. All right. We'll get into skip beat. Yeah. Stage 10. Stage 10. OK, so once again, I do have to preface that I didn't do his dictation for this. Mm hmm.
Uh, you know, I'm reading through it right now because I didn't really have time to read through it because I was like in between because when they numbed my hand, it like, you know, you know, it numb my finger, but I also numbed it like the next two fingers. So it's like I really just couldn't use my hand yesterday. Now I probably could. But at the time, it's just like it wasn't able to do anything. That's like I got a. Uh, God, what's the cloud when they take a sample?
I got like my skin cancer. I had like a biopsy done and like my whole half of my head felt. Excuse me. Felt numb. I was like, oh, like half my head's numb from this one little spot on my forehead. It is wild. It feels so weird. Yeah. So your hand is useless. So my hand was useless. Now it's better. Now I can feel the other two fingers. So it's just a big one and I can't. No sense. It doesn't make no sense. It's just not the greatest of all time. It's okay.
I can fill in if there's any like weird. I like have this. Like the the vets of skippy are so ingrained in my mind. I am confident even if I didn't watch the anime, I could like discuss the parts we're talking about because I read the manga. So and hmm. Okay. Okay. Well, I guess getting back into the little thing. Should I talk about a voice actor and skip beat? Okay. Who's it going to be? Moko. Yes. The voice of Moko is Risa Hayami. Zoo. I like the name who I can't find like I talk again.
A lot of credits, but there's a lot of credits for characters that like don't have names. So I guess the biggest one is from Basilisk. She was the voice of Kaguro. I've never seen Basilisk. So I don't know, but that's 16 episodes. So that must be somebody important. That's like a ninja guy and some pretty girl. Right. I feel like yeah. Yeah. Yes. Their second like known for credit on IMDb is Naruto as ninja dot star village ninja two episodes. So she appears to do a lot of work.
That's like side stuff. Right. So like she's in Chihara Furu as Shinobu's grandmother. Okay. What? Oh my God. I love Shihara Furu so much. It's my favorite one of my favorite enemies ever. We shall cover it one day and then we'll hear Moko. Man. The ancient Magnus is bright as Stella's mother. So maybe like mom coded here. I guess she's kind of like angry scolding sounding. She's in Watamote as Tomoko's mother. Oh my God. Okay. She's in tight cast. All the mobs. Have you watched that show?
It's kind of funny. I gremlin girl. It's like a total dweeb. I think it's one of those things that like I'll see gifts of or like screen caps of but I don't like watch it. I haven't seen the episode. Yeah. The ancient Magnus bright thing might be one week. That's show Joe. I think I think so. I've seen that. I don't know. Big skeleton guy is not very cute. Not doing it for me, but you don't like the big the big scary man cow head guy. No. Uh huh.
Um, do you turn to see what else is some of this stuff? I've never heard of never heard of mischievous kiss or by the way, this is a star. One thing, but yeah, this is a this is one that she appears in more episodes and other stuff. She plays a character or she plays several characters in Pokemon that I don't recognize. Not polygon like Ren. Not not poor you go on. That's awesome. Imagine being the poison poor you gone. Don't kick ass. Good. So good. Okay. But still active. So there's always.
Yep. Cross overs. Man. Yeah, she appears to still be active. So plenty of opportunity anyway. Skip Beach stage 10 is called the blue of her palm. We open on an angry moco getting out of the stretch Hummer limousine that they were in last episode, which I guess was a stretch Hummer by the way. It wasn't just a limousine. It looks terrible. Yeah, it looks awful.
Um, moco gets off and storms off as Kyoko calls out to her, but she doesn't turn around and we get some internal dialogue that shows that moco was frustrated because she has underestimated Kyoko up to this point and consider her a rival now as the OP plays after the opening. President Lori tells Maria that it's time for her to go because this is around the time that she receives an email from her father that she should actually respond to this time.
Maria is somewhat worried about what she's going to say. So she asks Kyoko what she talks to her dad about Kyoko informs Maria that her father isn't around anymore. Um, and Maria apologizes and Kyoko is like, oh, it's fine. Like don't worry about it. It was a long time ago and then Maria is like, well, okay.
So like if your dad's not around, what do you talk to your mom about and Kyoko thinks about her mom and how she abandoned her as a child and doesn't say anything and Maria is like, Oh, is your mom also not around? Yeah, and Kim says no, she's around, but like, don't worry about it. Then Kyoko leans down and gives Maria some advice saying that she should tell her father to come visit her. And if she says that her father will certainly come.
Maria is concerned that if she does that her father could die in a plane crash, but Kyoko reassures her telling her that is that that won't happen because she is going to pray for his safety. Then Kyoko tells her that she will give her a human shaped candle so she can pray for her father's safety and reveals that she thinks that Maria has been trying to get into occult stuff, not so that she can get written to fall in love with her, but so that she can make her father love her again.
And we get a flashback which reveals that that is the case. Maria leaves and Kyoko thinks that her and her father will be able to mend their relationship because they both equally are invested in doing so, which is not something that can happen if only one person is invested in a relationship kind of like the way that all of Kyoko's relationships have been to up to this point.
President Lori asks Kyoko if she's really got permission from her parents to become a celebrity like she said she did when she signed up for the audition. And if she didn't actually do that, then they're going to need to get her mom's approval before they can go forward. And he says that, you know, if there's some like family issues that she has, she should bring it up with him and they can figure out something to do, you know, together or whatever.
Then we cut to a future point where President Lori is standing in his penthouse suite thinking about what Kyoko said after that flash or after that and we get a flashback to the same conversation we were just in. Kyoko tells President Lori that her mom does not care where she is or what she's doing. So with that in mind, does she really need to get her parents permission to do anything back in the present?
President Lori thinks to himself that he couldn't ask any follow up questions after that point and then wonders that if her performance today and like the play rehearsal where she said it is possible for a parent not to love her child is like actually based on something personal that's going on in her life. Any thoughts about this scene? Move on to the next huge chunk of text.
Yes. Okay, in the manga, the President's like he says that he said not necessarily to Kyoko in response, not that he just didn't ask anything else, but he kind of said like, oh, maybe we can find a different way to do it. So slight differences.
I mean, at least because this is like there's so many moments in the show where it's like, okay, this is I like remember this page because it's like one of the like super high detail like pretty full page images like and they've done a pretty good job at making them look the same except for this one where she like looks because they see it looks like sad and then there's like a little music shift when she's talking to the president and I feel like they the animation didn't linger
on her face long enough to like indicate it's just like a weird shift in tone. Kind of yeah. Like I get I get what's going on in this scene where it's like oh President Laurie has to learn about Kyoko's stuff. But like in terms of what's happening here, this guy sucks. I hate this guy. Like who cares if she gets approval for her parents? This does not matter. She already told you that she did. So you have plausible deniability. Oh my God, she's also already 17 or whatever.
So like it's not like this is going to matter for very long anyway. Yeah, I'm still mad that he didn't pay his tuition and then he's like, oh, did you not actually get your parents permission? Like what are you a cop? Go away loser. Gotta hate this guy. Oh, President Laurie. I mean, he doesn't do anything, but it's like why even bring it up like this? Yeah, you could bring it up in a much more compassionate way than being like, oh, you might be in trouble. Like fuck off. I don't like him.
Okay, I need this this story to end with her becoming the new president. Well, maybe Laurie dies in a plane crash. Oh my God. Maria has been through enough. She doesn't even leave her grandfather the same way she lost her mom. He went to a plane. He take like a freaking submarine or some weird. Yeah, that's true. He would do some weird like that. He takes like a rowboat. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess this is the end of the Maria arc. Like this is the actual end of it.
Yeah. So maybe we should talk about it here. Yeah. Any final thoughts? See her a bit more just kind of around. But yeah, I mean, well, right. We don't see how her father is going to respond. So we don't actually know if it's going to be all fine and dandy or maybe he continues to be the worst dad. But yeah, I mean, I like Maria. She's quite the intense seven year old. Yeah. Very pretty mature.
I do think it's like cute to be like, oh, you were actually into a cold stuff because you're trying to get your dad. Yeah, that was trying to curse your dad into falling in love with you again. That's pretty also makes sense to why she thinks you can like curse people to do positive things. You know what I mean? She's like, I'm only thought about it in negative ways. Yeah. She's like, I don't think you can curse somebody to fall in love with you. And she's like, no, you you definitely can.
I also like that this is like the first instance where this is going to happen basically at the end of the last episode we cover where the Kyoko gives somebody advice and like cool. So what am I supposed to do? And she's like, oh, I don't I don't know. Yeah. I don't actually I don't actually deal with this myself, but I just know this is what you're supposed to do. Well, she should realize by now that the love me sections basically her just hearing trauma and she needs to follow through.
Oh yeah, like the love section is the answers that we now talk about is like emotional labor or thing that doesn't like compensated at all. And it's also a thing that's like delegated to women most of the time and now she has to do it without any real compensation and also the entire section is made up of women. Oh man. Crazy. That's true. I can't believe it's not a dude added to the department at some point. Yeah, but we haven't seen any sensitive guys in this show. I wonder who knows.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's the most like he's kind of just observant. You know what I mean? Like you never know. Yeah. It's hard to say me, but he just pays attention. That's true. It is showbiz. I wonder if we will kind of sucky dudes there probably. That's true. There also are only like three male characters in this show. So, but I you know, I wonder if I saw a Sawaara. I like him. But he's not sensitive. I know I do like him. He's just like a dad.
I'm just like, oh, it's the dad guy who had just like works a job. Yeah. There's a good moment with him and later. Yeah. We covered. Okay. I'll get back to it then. We got to Kyoko sitting in the stairwell and she's looking at her blue rock gem again. That she always that always calms her down and she thinks about how it always calms her down. She's like, I love this rock. It always calms me down after thinking about my mom behind her.
Mr. Sawaara shows up and he's like, oh, hey Kyoko and he ends up startling her so much that she drops the rock like down a hundred flights of stairs. One of those stairwells that like coils or whatever. So there's just like a big hole in the middle. Yeah. We cut to the rock sitting at the like on the ground floor and who would pick it up? But Ren Saruga himself, he just leans over and is like, oh, what's this? And then red turns.
Yes. Ren turns to see a very frantic Kyoko rushing down the stairs with like her broken leg and everything. And she's like ramming herself into the wall because she can't stop her momentum. Kyoko shape holes in the wall for. Yes. She's bashing lots of walls in these episodes. He asks her why she's in such a hurry and she says that she dropped her purpleish blue stone that she keeps calling corn.
Instead of giving it to her, he just kind of watches as she searches around frantically for it, shouting the word corn. Mr. Sawaara follows down or follows her down carrying her crutch and asks if she named the stone corn and Kyoko says that she didn't name the stone corn, the person who gave it to her was named corn. And then we get a flashback in the flashback. A tiny Kyoko tells us that when she was a young child, she would often cry and like be sad.
But a local boy would make her feel better and we get an image of her running to like the bank of a riverside where the boy is waiting for her. But the boy's face is entirely cast in light so we can't make out who it is. His name is corn and he gave her a stone when he had to go away as like a memento of him. Ren hears the story and is very touched and also intrigued.
And upon hearing it, he bends down and pretends to find the stone on the ground even though he just had it in his pocket the whole time. Kyoko's relieved to have recovered the stone and Mr. Sawaara thinks to himself that he's never seen her smile quite so genuinely before as she has now when she has corn with her. Ren asks her if she used to live in Kyoko and Kyoko looks shocked that he would ask that question and also that it's true, she did live in Kyoto.
We get the eye catch and then we cut back and Kyoko says, yes, I did used to live in Kyoto and Ren tells her that those stones are mined there and are often sold to souvenirs. She's shocked to learn the news that her precious stone is actually just some souvenir you could buy in a shop. And Ren tells her that she's very gollible and maybe she should stop being so gollible because you know, unscrupulous men can take advantage of her if she doesn't like if she just believes what they say.
Then he comments that because he just made that up. It's not actually mine. Kyoto. He just told her that story and then she immediately fell for it. And that's why you say, oh, right. Then he's like, oh, wait a minute. Did that guy you hate? Did he trick you because you're so gollible? And then like, did he dump you and Kyoko is pissed off that they're even having that conversation. She's very angry, but decides not to say anything because every time she talks to him, bad things happen.
So she just decides to keep her mouth shut. Ren admonishes her saying that if there are going to be rumors or people are talking bad about her or saying stuff about her, that she has to be able to deny them vehemently or else she's not going to make it in show biz because she's going to have a bad reputation because everybody just makes up rumors about everybody else all the time because show business is terrible.
And honestly, she should already know that, you know, she should deny rumors and she shouldn't have somebody explain it to her. This makes Kyoko even angrier and she decides that she's just going to exit the situation. So she turns away and just walks off and thinks to herself, how she's just going to avoid red in person from now on to avoid situations like this. And are you going to, and she does a gesture. We don't see. She doesn't do the gesture in the scene, but she does.
She does give me thumbs down while walking away. Yeah. So that's what they depict is like what she ends that encounter with is a thumbs down. But in the manga, it's like a gesture that maybe means like F you in Japanese or something because it's like in the manga, she like has her forearm like up with like, and then as this shoes like pushing her other sleeve backs, I don't know what like that means, but like it's like a show it up yours kind of thing. Yeah. Something like that.
Not just a thumbs down, like you're no. Yeah. It's like a thumbs down. Clearly like she's flipping them off, right? Yeah. Basically. Yeah. We cut to Ren sitting in his car thinking about stuff as Yashiro shows up and he's like, Hey man, you seem to be zoning out and Ren tells him that he's been thinking about stuff, including how like Kyoko has changed like she sure has changed and we get a cut of her walking down the hallway as she does the gesture. This is where we get the cut of the gesture.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Then he thinks to himself that after all, maybe he's the one that's changed and we get the big reveal that it turns out that he was corn from the flashback. It's Ren. Ren is corn. Best name ever. Why was his name corn? It gets explained. I don't know that gets it. We get to the point where it gets explained in the anime back and I'll probably do like a, he was like kind of answer unanswered questions, maybe at the end of our coverage that gets answered in the manga.
Okay. Sure. But what do we think about this reveal? Well, I knew it was coming. What do you think? I find this to be unnecessary and kind of ridiculous. I will say it is. We'll like learn more about what the relationship between the two of them at that time was and it's kind of more of like Kyoko's weird like delusions. So like there's more funny parts that come from it.
I guess it's just like, it's more of just like a, you know, I like their relationship that you don't need to add that they were all so child friends to this. You know what I mean? Like it just seems like unnecessary to like throw some tropes in there. And why doesn't she recognize him? Yeah. And why is his name not corn? And why isn't his name corn? That's not a real name. You don't know that. He was. His name. Oh, man.
Yeah. So we'll see how it plays out, but I kind of grown at this a little bit. Really, we got to like make him part of her backstory. I guess. Just be a guy she met is part of her backstory that the other main male needs some connection to her past as well. Yeah. I mean, like you can see how much she's grown. Like, I guess so or something. I don't know. It just feels like because he's already seeing how much he's growing in real time, right? Like, I don't know.
I just, I don't know what this gives you. Like it feels kind of goofy and I don't know what advantage this gives you in terms of like the relationship. I will say it's more like reveals more about rents past than hers. Like it's a little blip kind of in her. It's more like a peak at his background, which there's. Yeah, which you'll never find out. Oh, okay. It does feel like this just gives him the excuse to eventually fall in love with her kind of thing.
Well, it's better than falling in love with Maria. Less likely get that child predator late. Oh yeah, that's true. That's true. He doesn't have a lot of, well, I'm sure he has many prospects. We don't get to see any of them on screen. What? Ladies throwing themselves at him. Yeah, you'd think there'd be some love. There'd be some rivals or be some people trying to take the throne here, but I don't see it. The throne of his lap, you know, is unattainable. He's everyone's cause I hire.
He just, I do like how Red just kind of seems to like not like any of the people around him. It's just all very shallow interactions. Yeah, he's just so into work. He just likes doing the work. I don't know. It's interesting. Yeah. Anyway, we cut to some point in the future where both Kyoko and Moko are now in the acting class that they have to pay for themselves. I hung up on that. Yep. They participate in the class.
However, Moko has been avoiding Kyoko for some time and Kyoko wonders why because it's been like weeks since she's talked to her. Kyoko thinks it's over in an elevator and then two guys get on and as a reflex from trying to avoid Ren all the time, she's like ducks out real quick. And both the guys think that's really weird. Kyoko is annoyed that now her reflexes have like forced her just to like divert all of her commute away from anything that has people.
And she just like got off this elevator, which didn't want to. And she's like, dang it. I need to like figure out a way to like fix my routine. She walks past Mr. Sawara who is talking on the phone about how they need a replacement for somebody. And he looks over at her and thinks that he's going to have a request for the love me section to fill the slide.
We cut to Kyoko bursting into the love me section locker room to find Moko who was drinking water and she like spits it all out because she's surprised. No, because it's bringing Kyoko enters the room saying her first name without. She also calls her can I. Yeah, she's like, can I my friend is like, excuse me. You can call me by my name.
Yeah. And Kyoko thinks to herself how she always wanted to do that because she's never been able to have any girlfriends growing up in high school or anything because everybody was always jealous of her relationship with show. And like they all hated her. They were they were all resentful for her for it. Moko is like, what are you doing? What's going on?
And Kyoko tells her that they have a TV job as we do a cut to Moko telling the producer of the show that the love me section will take on any job. And then we see Kyoko being thrown into a chicken costume. Bow the chicken. We learned that the replacement job is for Kyoko to be the chicken mascot of this TV show named Bow because Moko refuses to do it because she's a serious actress and can't do gigs like wearing a chicken mascot costume. Kyoko.
No. I mean, Kyoko seems willing to do it, but is also worried because this is her first time ever appearing on TV and Moko is like, you don't even have any lines. It's like you don't have any lines. All you got to do is gesture. It's fine. If somebody talks to you, just wing it, whatever. And then they drag Kyoko off to be on TV. Because she's a chicken.
Okay. Moko thinks to herself that she doesn't want to be friends with a rival and that this will free them both up to pursue their own careers separately. The show starts and it turns out it's some kind of like musical interview show called Kamagure Rock and it's also hosted by like some musicians and they interview musicians and there's just like a chicken mascot. I don't really understand it. Yeah. It's like a trio called Bridge Rock that are from LME.
I guess they're kind of up and coming group. I assume they're musicians, right? Well, like, why do they have time to host a show like this? Like shouldn't they be like making music and performing and stuff? It is weird to be like, it's a music show, but also the hosts are also musicians that are active. You know what I mean? They have to have like the MTV like shows or whatever they interview people, but like the people hosting that were just like TV hosts. It's Jockeys, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe they're like that. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know that explicitly says they're musicians. I feel like it's just like they're just some group of boys who are famous. Just assume. Don't exactly know what they're famous for. Yeah, maybe they're also like. But like why would they be a group if they're not performing? Yeah, there's three of them, which is a lot of hosts. That's weird. Well, whatever. This is the first episode of the first guest on the show is none other than show Fuwa.
It's show. He's here. Yeah, Kyoko sees this and freaks the hell out. We get a cut to backstage and we learn from a discussion with Mr. Soara that the sponsor of the show is a big show fan. And that's why he gets to be the first guest.
Mr. Soara thinks that because Kyoko is such a big show Fuwa fan that she's going to be freaking out under the costume and she better get a cut to Kyoko, who is a freaking out under the costume because she hates show so much and thinks this maybe is the perfect opportunity to like humiliate him since she's in disguise and we'll be able to get away with some stuff.
A stagehand brings her a giant basket of eggs and tells her to you know, bring it out to the hosts because they are requests and questions from the audience that they're going to ask show and she sees as the perfect opportunity for her revenge. Yeah, Patty, get it girl. Love it. She gives like a little she gives like a little model. I guess she brings them out being like I bring the the the ingredients for your downfall show. These are the footprints of destruction. It's very funny.
She has like squeaky shoes because this is like a big chicken outfit. It's like rotund. It's cute. Cute chicken. It's pretty good. She brings them out and the interview asks show if he likes to watch TV and he says no, he doesn't really like to watch TV. This pisses off Kyoko because she was always annoyed by how much he enjoyed TV, even though it wasn't very good. Even her at the time with her blindness could tell how like lame it was that he was.
Yeah, she brings out the eggs and thinks this is the moment that he is going to get his show gets his first question and the question asks what his real name is because the audience member who wrote it heard a rumor that he had a funny name. Show freaks out because this isn't any like this isn't even information he entered in on his application or is like public in any way. So how would somebody know that he had a funny name?
We got to Kyoko looking menacing because she has replaced the questions with personal questions that show just not want asked about him. She thinks to herself that shows real name is show tarot written in simple Chinese characters, which I guess is embarrassing or something. I don't know. I didn't really understand that. I don't think that was the thing they mentioned in the manga.
So I don't know what those I just thought tarot was such like a basic like almost old school sounding name like tarot. I feel like that's the older not current name ending. Yeah, I don't know. I just it's hard to believe that that would be embarrassing though. I mean, but whatever. I mean, you know, they're like children. They're like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So sounds cooler, I guess. Yeah. She waits for his answer, but instead of giving a like I'm saying what his name is.
So gets very serious and says his old name. Is something he gave up when he entered. So like show biz. And that's his ticket to admission into celebrity and fame is to shed himself with his old name. And if he were ever to speak his true name, he would no longer be able to speak his true name. So he's like, I don't know. I don't know what his name is. And so he's like, oh, I don't know what his name is. And thus he cannot do it. And the audience eats this up because they love how dramatic it is.
Kyoko is dismayed that the show that show gave such a good answer and falls to her knees and defeat. But then she thinks to herself that this is open. This is only the opening salvo of a series of challenges that will destroy him. She declares that he is about to enter the depths of hell as we cut to credits. She gets to be pissed off. It's great. I love angry Kyoko. That's right. I feel like the egg chicken premise is kind of lame.
But I guess Japanese Japanese shows game shows are all kind of kooky like that. Huh? It's so weird because the show, the hosts are just normal. It really does feel like an MTV interview thing, right? Like the Japanese version of the show. And it's like, you know, it's like a real hard time. And the logo is like kind of like 90s grungy. But then it's just Kyoko with a chicken outfit. Bring it out eggs. Yeah, weird. I wonder if the duration of it isn't an hour time slot. I don't know.
I don't know like with how much is happening. I'll go on to the next episode because we kind of just pick right off. Skitbeat, stage 11 is called the true face of the storm. We open on show wondering how somebody could have known to ask him a personal question like that. And Kyoko, as Kyoko looks on menacingly.
The next request is from an audience member saying that she heard a rumor that show used to play badminton in middle school show once again is surprised and irritated that somebody appears to know something about his past and keeps writing into the show about it. And then the next request continues. He was not in the club. And also in the manga, he's like why is it he's starting with I heard a rumor again like like makes it go my god.
The request continues saying that they that show should show off his badminton skills by playing a game. The hosts are like, well, that's fine, but we don't have any of that stuff. And then Kyoko just brings out a racket so that show and Kyoko dressed as a chicken can play a game and declares that whoever loses has to do an embarrassing thing where they like strike an animal pose and spin around three times and say some stuff. Did you watch this on Crunchyroll?
Yes. Did you see a problematic subtitle situation when show yes refer. OK, yeah, I was like, why is happening? This show is old. It used to listen. People used to just say that it's from 2008. Listen, I would say in the manga either. He just calls it lame. Yeah, my god. I mean, this is how much like. Language has changed in the time. Yes, I feel like you could like just change that easily enough. Like maybe they should be betting old subtitles on their platform.
Yeah. I mean, it feels a little in character that show would say this because he that's true. I guess so. Anyway, she brings out the stuff to play badminton and now they got a problem. And so they're her with 36 lands and him zero. Yes. And they yeah, because it turns out that Kyoko is playing against show a lot as kids and she always beats him. So she's like, finally, I'm going to make him. He's going to have to do this penalty for losing.
And also he will suck at badminton, which will maybe embarrassing for him. And we get a subtitle that says thus begins the badminton match out of nowhere. Kyoko is confident in her badminton skills because she's won a lot of games against show up to this point. The match starts, however, and show is actually putting up a pretty good front and Kyoko is somewhat surprised. Why is he still good at badminton? What's happening in the manga?
It's like, sheer will is keeping him from not like he's like, I don't want to look lame. So I must for the first time ever be able to return of Ali. Yes. I mean, it seems like they play like he like he has basic skills or whatever. He just can't do like anything advanced. Well, I'm like, how good could how good could she be if he's pretty bad and she's able to beat him. She never would have gotten good enough to beat anyone better. I mean, she isn't a chicken suit. Disadvantaged.
He's stroking there. Yeah, it's a huge disadvantage. The fans watch this and are also surprised that she's not going to be able to beat him. The fans watch this and are also surprised that shows good at badminton and they start eating it up and they love it. Kyo-ko's dismayed that this is not making him less popular. She tries to pull out the big guns and does her special move. She kind of like spins the racket and then lobs the shuttlecock real high
in the air. Kind of likes like the sun gets in your eyes and we get a flashback of show of her doing this to show his kids and he could never return it. And she says that she invented this mood so that she could make it harder for him because he was complaining that it was too easy. They just like rally back and get brown hair back in the day. And he had brown hair.
It turns out that show is getting this flashback in real time and he like zoned out so he thinks he's going to lose the match but it turns out that Kyo-ko accidentally lost because she hit the shuttlecock so hard it got stuck in the ceiling light. Is that the name for it? I've never heard it before. Isn't just a birdie? A birdie. No, that's a type of shot and golf where you know what you never heard shuttlecock? No! Racquetball ball. What's it called? Racquetball badminton.
Badminton? Is that what I... Yes. Birdie? I call it a birdie as a kid. Hmm. Got racquets and birdies. Okay now this is saying shuttlecock. Okay. Yeah, it's called a shuttlecock. I hate it. Wow, is it because it has the word cock in it? Stop! She has a chicken though. No! Moving on. Say shuttlecock right now. I already said it once. Move on! Your mother's listening. Oh my god, this is what it's called. It's an Olympic sport. Yes, badminton is the Olympic sport. I don't watch the Olympics.
The summer Olympics just happened. Well, I didn't watch. Except for when that one guy pulled out a Yu-Gi-Oh card. Get it, my dude. We love anime references at the Olympics. Yeah! Anime is cool now. Look, continue. They cut to commercial and show things that the only person who would know his name and knows that he hates badminton could be Kyoko. It's gotta be her, right? Cause they'd have to know me from like middle school. And also, they'd have to know I play badminton.
I only ever played with her. He tries to go confirm his suspicions. I know. He tries to confirm his suspicions. However, he's stopped by his manager who says they need to like do make up or something. He has to go do something and he's dragged off before he can make contact with her. Soko! The manager. Uh-huh. If anyone's a child predator. That's true. She's the closest to reality.
Backstage, Kyoko gets in trouble with the producer for changing up the script and he's like, listen, if you pull that again we're gonna take you off the show. Kyoko wonders why despite her best efforts, show is coming off looking better than before. And she's the one who's getting in trouble and like, might get fired from the show if something doesn't change. You're totally changing the format of a show live up. Girl, obviously. Your pet.
Yeah, this is like an insane thing to do but she's like, why am I getting in trouble? They're still on break and Kyoko is forced to serve tea to show what she hates doing. Show sees that it's the chicken serving him and asks the chicken if they're a boy or a girl and Kyoko does not answer. Because of this show just tries to pull off the mascot head so he can see for himself but he isn't able to get it all the way off and Kyoko starts to wrestle with him as he tries to take the head off.
She's pecking him to death and they spill it on the floor and she ends up on top of him in what would be a romantic pose where she's pinning him to the ground except she's wearing a giant chicken suit and also she hates him.
Kyoko can't get up because of the giant chicken suit it's unwieldy so she starts flapping her wings trying to shift her weight but she can't do it and show pushes her away by putting his hand on her chest in the exact same place where her like boob would be so it's kind of like he's feeling her out. He comments that normally it's guys in these suits because like any woman that would get in a mascot suit must not be attractive enough to just be on TV themselves and Kyoko gets pissed.
We got to cut to Kyoko in a cage because she's been banned from the set because apparently she tried to choke show after he said that. She did say she's going to kill him. She did say she's going to kill him.
Kyoko is angry that she got in trouble and then banned from the set even though the second time that she had a scuffle with show it was his fault she didn't even do anything but she figures that it's just the way how things work because he's a famous celebrity and she's an upstart and has no clout so you just need to have clout in order to like get away with stuff otherwise you'll get blamed for everything.
She resolves to become a celebrity in her own right as she watches the show do the part of the show where he gives a concert because there's still like a music themed show after all. The show ends without any further incident.
Kyoko leaves but is depressed that she was the one that got banned from the show despite the fact and despite the fact that she hates show she actually thought he looked kind of cool when he was giving on his concert which annoys her that she even thinks that and she's like bash her head against the wall being like what is wrong with me chicken suit shape holes in the walls yes after the show show tries to figure out who was in the chicken suit but nobody knows because Kyoko was a last minute
replacement for the normal actor he thinks to himself that it doesn't matter if Kyoko's trying to catch up with him in show biz because she'll never make it ahead of him we come back to Kyoko who's lost making her way through this building she tries to figure out where she is and she runs into Ren Saruga who's looking rather sad sitting by himself she wonders why he's looking so sad but decides that she should leave because she doesn't want him figuring out that she's in a chicken suit
she tries to sneak away but her feet makes these big squishy sounds because she's in a mascot costume when she walks so he immediately notices her he looks over at the mascot and is relieved and asks if the mascot can possibly help him out Kyoko tries to get away but she's also intrigued as to what Ren could possibly want from a mascot she disguises her voice and says that she'll try to help him out and he asks her for a cell phone because he didn't bring his
and she's like oh, actually I don't have my cell phone either and he goes back to being sad she asks him why he doesn't just borrow his manager's phone and Ren's like oh yeah, well my manager has a phone but it's in the shop today which is an extremely funny thing to say did people used to send their phones to the shop?
I guess so it's just like oh, his phone is in the shop ah, the past she tries to figure herself why he would want to borrow a stranger's phone when it's not like he'd have anybody's number saved in a stranger's phone or anything and then she looks down to see that there's a script next to him she pieces together that the reason he needs a phone is so that he can use the dictionary or search function built into it because he needs to look up a word that he doesn't know
she asks him if he needs a phone to look up a word he doesn't know and that's why he needs help and he immediately denies it with a pleasant smile and she looks at that and says aha, that's the smile you give to people when you're lying to them because you're embarrassed that you don't know a word in your script and Ren's like nope that's definitely not what's happening and she's like oh, it certainly is, I know it because well, she doesn't say this
but she knows it because this is the thing that he said to her last episode about having to deny anything that's embarrassing otherwise people will start rumors about them Kyo-Koo keeps pressing him on his fake ass smile and then Ren suddenly gets very serious and she thinks that she's pissed him off but instead he says that he's like how could you tell that I was lying she feels bad that she made him mad and starts apologizing saying that she only said all that stuff
because she kind of hates him for that but sorry anyway Ren sees her apologize and thinks it's funny and starts laughing and she's like oh, you're not mad and he's like no, I can't be mad at somebody who would genuinely apologize to me like that it's also kind of funny to hear somebody telling me that they hate me to my face instead of just doing a bunch of backhanded compliments or whatever people normally do Kyo-Koo thinks that maybe she's misjudged Ren and maybe he's like a lot more mature
than she thought and she starts to think back to the conversation that had it earlier where she denied being dumped by show and like being tricked by show and thinks to herself that maybe she should try to atone for like being rude to him earlier by helping him out here so she tries to convince Ren to let her help him Ren relents and lets Kyo-Koo help him out but he still doesn't know that she's in the chicken costume so he thinks just some chicken man is helping him he explains the problem
which is that the script got changed last minute and now he has to say a different line than he had before but he doesn't know like exactly what to do here he says that the line he has to say is in response to somebody saying that they were dancing to somebody else's tune and his response is to say that that must have been rough but his issue is that he doesn't know how to deliver the line because he doesn't know what kind of tune that person was having to dance to like was it jaunty
or was it frantic depending on what it was I'm going to have to say it different Kyo-Koo finds all of this extremely funny because he doesn't understand that that's like a phrase this is like a Japanese phrase that he just doesn't get I guess because he's lived overseas they use like a different word so it's not as apparent as it is here but yeah it's a funny misunderstanding because I guess Ren has been out of the country for a while she burst into laughter and Ren gets embarrassed
she apologizes and said that this is a phrase but before she could explain what the phrase means a door opens and some lights pour out from like a stage where somebody is on stage doing a thing and she's reminded of the performance of show on the TV show that she was just on and because she remembered something about shows she gets sidetracked and thinks that she always loses focus whenever show comes up and it pisses her off because she can't do her normal job whenever she thinks about him
I think that when the door opens there's like a check on stage and then it starts playing music like the opening song so I think they must have inserted whoever the person who sings the opening song for this anime as a character in the show in that moment oh that's cute I think that's what it is that's really fun I like that because she just gets lightheaded and REN she gets lightheaded and REN she gets lightheaded and says no don't take this chicken head off I got fired today
and I want to wear this chicken outfit for as long as I can REN says if you get too attached to a job you're never going to make it big and she's like oh well I bet you never got fired from a job and REN is like oh no I got fired I got a ton of jobs when I was starting out for not following directions and ignoring the director he lists about a bunch of times and he got fired Keiko was like oh wait this was hard for you at the beginning and REN's like yeah it is like that
and then she asked him why he never talks about it I bet if you went on a tv show and talked about how hard it was starting out that would definitely be a good interview REN just kind of shrugs and she's like what were you trying to save face so you could make it big in Hollywood or something and he just kind of shrugs again because yep he is trying spent a lot of time in America was going to Hollywood and he's like a big shot actor and that annoys her that he's being so like stuck up to clarify
she's basically saying weird I would think that a big actor like you would if you had struggled so much that would have come out now that you had a pass like that so why hasn't that she's like well maybe you weren't basically saying oh were you trying to be an actor in Hollywood and not here in Japan and that's why we don't know about that here and then he shrugs doing an American gesture to kind of like be like oh you got me kind of deflecting like he did when she asked how he knew about Kyoto
so he just deflects a lot because she's very easily distracted I see I watched this scene three times and I still didn't really understand it so I was like okay yeah some things I think I feel like maybe the author relies on a lot more or especially with the script thing there seems to be a lot of Japanese based references that don't go aren't as clear when it's translated and stuff so it kind of goes over her head a lot so it's not I guess everything is more complex
that's being covered in the show anyways than a normal show Joe because it's people and industry and then stories within these things are acting out so it's like a lot of different moving pieces to keep track of yeah well there's it's like if you were like a Japanese actor and you want to go to Hollywood is that like the equivalent of you like selling out like I don't know what that means you know what I mean what is the implication of that think that being big in Japan you're only big in Japan
versus if you're big in the United States and you're like known worldwide so that would be like a more coveted thing is to be an actor in America rather than here but like is there a like if you're like aiming to be that is that like I don't what does that look like upon us I don't think that's been implied in the show at all I don't know if that's the case in reality but the show doesn't seem to make it seem that way okay sure yeah anyway Kyoko leaves and she
wanders around some more and finally finds her bag and is about to like leave the set but then she runs into red who comes up and says thank you chicken man for helping me with my lines today and she is impressed that he would thank somebody so genuinely she starts to think that maybe she was wrong about him and maybe she got to know him better she would like him more and also maybe she should have thanked him because she doesn't feel so depressed about show anymore
she heads home with resolve that she will do her best even if she gets hired or even if she gets fired from some things because that's just how it is as we cut to credits credits these are so long I'm just gonna I'm gonna blast through it okay skip beat stage 12 is called her open wound we open on Kyoko coming out of the set of the TV show still dressed as Beau the chicken because she's been made a regular on the show as the host explained that they got such an outpouring
of support for Beau on episode one that they demanded her comeback the producer still doesn't like her though because of what she did in the first episode so he just ignores her all the time and she resolves that she will become so good and important that even he cannot ignore her any longer as we played the opening we cut to Kyoko walking in the LME lobby like not dressed as a chicken anymore she's just normal thinking that she needs to prepare for tomorrow
when she catches sight of Ren Saruga walking in she thinks to herself that if she dressed up like Beau the chicken she would run up and tell him that they made him a regular and Ren would probably be happy for him or for her but she's not so she's not going to do that she thinks to herself that she does want to thank him for like helping her out getting your confidence back and stuff and maybe because she likes she's like seeing him being a cool guy instead of being a jerk when she's
dressed up as the chicken that maybe she would want to spend some time with him or something and maybe like he isn't so bad while she's thinking this Ren turns and makes eye contact with her and then starts beelining towards her she gets freaked out because he has the smile on his face that he always has when he's secretly angry about something and she starts to very quickly walk the other way so that he's just chasing after her as they both are fast walking down the hallway
she tries to retreat into the girl's bathroom before she can make it Ren catches her up to her and is like oh pretty rude for you to run away after you make eye contact and she's like oh yeah sorry and he's like I bet you're thinking that I'm like a pretty lighthearted because I'm just like all good that I can greet you after you were so mean to be the last time you saw me and she's like uh that's not what I'm thinking and he's like mmm and she's like alright yeah I was thinking that
because I guess he just came to tease her for this he just like came up to her and like mess with her Ren's manager Yashiro sees this and he's like what are you guys doing Ren makes some excuse in the manga he really plays up like what are you doing are you harassing a girl in front of the woman's bathroom the woman's bathroom he's like horrifying Ren makes some excuse about how he's like teaching her how to greet people properly or something and Yashiro is just like alright well you need
to not do that in front of the women's bathroom they all walk through the parking lot together Kyoko wonders why Ren keeps teasing her all the time even though he was serious with her when she was bowing the chicken why is he different when I'm a woman and she asks Kyoko why she's here and she says that she's doing a job for the love me section and does not want to tell them about being a chicken and then they ask her why she's not wearing her love me uniform
and she says that it's kind of embarrassing so she doesn't really want to like stand out when she's just walking around Ren then corrects her saying that she should want to stand out at a TV set because that would land you better jobs in the future people can like remember who you are if you want to be successful in showbiz you should try to stand out as much as possible and Kyoko thinks that he's trying to give her some advice and that's actually kind of nice for him to do
Ren and Yashiro give Kyoko a ride home and during it she tells him that she's actually going to try out for an audition for a commercial tomorrow Ren tells her that she's definitely going to try to stick out tomorrow if she wants to like land that role so she's prepared to do that and then he tells her to do her best as he drives off it's the next day and Kyoko goes to the audition on the way up she sees one of the actresses get comforted by one of her friends
and thinks to herself how she wishes she had friends growing up but didn't because of show then she thinks about how maybe Moko could have been her friend except like recently she's been avoiding her nonstop so I guess that's not happening she gets to the door of the audition and pauses for a second to think about what she's going to do and right then the door opens and like smashes her in the face and she falls down on the ground on the other side of the door is a blonde woman who looks like
or no who looks at Kyoko on the floor and Kyoko apologizes and the blonde woman just turns behind her to tell the person behind her that she should just go home because we all know who has the talent here and who's going to win the audition yeah and the manga she's like you're welcome for opening the door like for you um Kyoko is a really good superman yeah Kyoko is pissed because she got ignored and also this woman just bashed her in the face with the door
and then realizes that the person that the woman the blonde woman is talking to is actually Moko who's also here for the audition the blonde woman continues saying that she always gets the main roles while Moko always plays the chump roles so that's what's going to happen this time see might as well just give up we cut to this blonde chick being served by like three handsome butlers because I guess she's like a rich popular girl named Erika which is like a European name which is also interesting
um some of the other actresses comment that they've seen her before and that she's the daughter of some famous CEO Kyoko wonders what's up with this chick and Moko is like a flashback of Moko telling Erika that she has talent in acting when nobody else is around and Erika is like oh what do you mean by that it doesn't really seem like Kyoko really knows what that means either like the back and forth like basically the responses oh you're just good at acting
when no one else is around it was like what the hell does that mean then Kyoko gets annoyed that Moko didn't say hi to her even though they're like she's the closest thing she has to a friend and she's like hey how come he didn't say hi to me your best friend and Moko's like why are you saying you're my best friend you're not my best friend you're like my rival at best so I'm ignoring you um Kyoko is like why would we be rivals with me we're like best buds we're both in the love me section
Moko is like I'm not being best buds with you uh nearby Erika hears this um that like Moko considers Kyoko her rival and suddenly takes an interest in her and her and her butlers comment on how Kyoko looks like she's poor and is not very impressive which also pisses Kyoko off more yeah they really dig into this in the manga where it's like she it's clearly she brings to carries bag every single day can you believe it like oh it's really funny it's only got one bag yeah uh the audition starts
but the director isn't there Kyoko comments that it's not very encouraging but Moko counters that this actually may be like good because it'll make the first round something that's actually fair all of a sudden out of nowhere Erika bounces up and introduces herself as the first person in the audition and she like pirouettes and does some ballet moves saying that she does stuff like this and also uh she's part of the Koenji yeah Koenji or something Koenji okay great
um the dictation said this is the Koen Koenjo group so that's not right basically like she's part of some famous company um the daughter of the CEO I thought she works there yeah which is her dad's company um and she promises that the group's name will be on their new product if they hire her and it'll make it a big hit so basically she's just bribing the judges right out the gate um Kyoko and Moko see this and Moko's like yep there she goes again this is what she always does and Kyoko's like
she just relies on her family name and not on like any talent for doing anything and Moko comments that this is business and this is just how it works I guess they turn back to see that all the judges have basically completely on board with being bribed um and so I guess that's that but then all the other actresses in the audition get pissed off and start a ruckus and it all breaks out while Moko and Kyoko just kind of sit there we cut to some guy walking up
to the building they're in and it's clearly the director who's showing up late as all the other actresses are like leaving for like the end of the first round they all feel okay about the performance because I guess the first round actually did end up happening um so you know they got to do their stuff um and he comes into the break room where we find a sulking Moko and Kyoko we get a flashback to the first round of the audition where the proctor introduces the theme for the first round
which is like a Q&A section over everybody's sparkling youthful memories because that is like related to the ad campaign which is like for some sparkling water or something so I guess it's like youth water remember the good times I don't know uh when they ask Kyoko about her sparkling youth memories she answers that honestly or she answers honestly saying that she doesn't have any sparkling childhood memories anymore because her entire life became crashing down two months ago but then
she feels like an idiot for telling the truth she's like why didn't I just make something up all even two months wild it's only been two months making progress quick it's so funny to be like you're at like a job interviewing you're like oh what are some memories from your childhood and you're like oh yeah my life like totally fell apart two months ago so I don't know um Moko's answer was to talk about how she was the lead role in a play in the third grade and Kyoko
comments that she said this in a way that didn't seem very happy at all when she said it Kyoko asks Moko if she's like giving up on making it to the second round because it seems like she doesn't like try very hard after that moment and Moko says that she's already knows how it's gonna end so there's really no point Kyoko's like you don't know how it's gonna end also the director wasn't even there for the first round so like there's still plenty of opportunities to impress
them and then Moko explains that Erika has added out for her ever since she beat her for the lead role in the third grade play that she mentioned earlier and every audition they've had since them she's made it so that Moko gets eliminated in the first round every time so much so that she wasn't even allowed in the drama club yeah she's like I couldn't even be in drama club she kicked me out of that too yeah they show more montage like with imagery in the manga where it's like
she's basically just pretending to be uninterested in acting so that Erika will get off her and stop tuning into what she's doing so she actually acts without worrying about her interfering so Erika thinks she hasn't been acting up to this point and then she blames her for her bad middle school because she followed Moko because she wanted to I don't know she's freaking following her instead of going to the school she should have gone to she like went to a worse one
for the sake of pastoring this one chick it's bad freaking annoying Kyouko protests saying that she can still impress the judges and then Moko tells her that money is the only thing that makes the world go around and thus she knows that the director will just get bought off so there's nothing she can do so it's basically already over the director who's in disguise is sitting right there listening to all of this and he is shocked when Kyouko stands up and slaps Moko
and tells her that if she really thinks that money is more valuable than her talents do you really believe that?
Kyouko tells her that she can't give up because she hasn't even tried everything yet she needs to try everything and she's like when I first joined L and M I got eliminated first round but I kept on trying and now I'm here you can keep on doing it because she is echoing the lines from Chef Boss Chef Boss Taisho Taisho, he's here in the words of Kyouko Moko realizes that Kyouko is right she's never really fought for herself before and she gets it in her head that if she can fight
then maybe she can act all she wants to and doesn't have to pretend like she doesn't want to to avoid Erika and then the glimmer of hope is beaming she turns to Kyouko and is like maybe I should fight how do I do it, what do I do and Kyouko realizes that she doesn't actually have an answer for what she should do she's just like saying this because this is what Chef Boss told her Kyouko thinks about the advice that Ren gave her earlier that she should try standing out as much as possible
she turns to Moko and says listen I know how we can stand out in a way that everybody will remember us and Moko realizes what she's saying and is like you can't be serious and Kyouko is like oh I'm deadly serious as they run out of the room meanwhile the director says to himself he wonders what they're going to do elsewhere Ren is sitting on a set for some kind of film shoot and the actress approaches him and apologizes saying that she's holding them all up because she can't get the scene right
Ren comforts her telling her that she shouldn't be so worried and Yashiro sees this and is like he's always so nice to people that are like trying their best but also the things Ren are saying are extremely corny and he can't believe anybody could really buy this yeah it's bad he goes over to talk to Ren and tells him or like asks him why he was being so nice to Kyouko before and Ren doesn't seem to like realize that he was being nice to Kyouko and Yashiro tells him that it's probably because
she's trying so hard like you always like people who try hard Ren thinks to himself and says that Kyouko isn't trying hard because she wants to make it in show biz because her motivations are bad and Yashiro does not really understand what this means and Ren tells him that it's a good reminder that he should not be too nice to her in the future and walks off oh man, Haru sure is like I don't mean it like that this guy he's determined in his own way it's a beautiful
it's the next day of the audition and Kyouko have shown up in their love me uniforms and everybody thinks it's weird Kyouko tells her that they're in this together and they're going to beat Erika together and they'll make it through this as a team and Moko's like
how can we be a team? This audition is only for one person and Kyouko seems to just realize this for the first time but she's like it's okay because if I lose to you then I know I will have tried my best and it'll be fine because she has the warrior spirit it's funny because in the background when it like dawns on Kyouko it also dawns on those two girls we saw earlier who are clearly friends auditioning in this and they're like oh my god we didn't realize either Moko feels better
about taking on Erika now that she doesn't feel like she has to do it alone Erika shows up and sees the two girls wearing their outfits and she's like what is wrong with you two and then she goes on a rant about how much Moko ruined her life ever since the third grade and all that other stuff in another room the director announces a change to the commercial and that they're going to change the way they're going to do casting we cut back to the girls as Moko tells Erika that yes
she did ruin her life in the third grade but don't worry about it because it will all come to an end today she's going to set her free while her and Kyouko radiate energetic hate as we cut to credits well I mean they change the director says they're now going to be doing they're going to have two actresses they're changing like the commercial so I'm so sorry listeners I'm sorry that it took me so long to say dictation is crazy this was a little more than 6,000 words oh my god
listen I was in the hospital okay or I was in the outpatient surgery a day ago come be some slack no worries and yeah the next few episodes are going to be good I really like this little arc of the audition it's good so I'm excited for that yeah still liking the show yeah we get the Moko arc which is great because I love Moko she's great yeah we'll learn more about her as well this is just kind of the letting Kyouko in after like a month of ignoring her once again
Kyouko gets to bond with somebody by being a hater we can destroy your like cartoonist childhood bully who cares whatever we'll fuck her up it's fine yeah I like them as a duo they're good um yes it's I'm still on board for the like she's put into the love me section and that mostly involves her doing jobs about like being contankerous with people and like it's really just stoking the fires of her hate yes yes so good apparently still the emotional labor department which is pretty funny
I know it's like when you see people referring like why pay for a therapist and I can just like unload on my one friend oh yeah you're that friend Joe I know thanks for the free emotional labor sure so good I guess being both a chicken is just like a normal request like hey be a chicken stand in yeah so she's a regular on that show I wonder how much probably does not make that much but by popular by viewer demand she was brought back onto the show despite the producer hating her
which is very funny it's very fun to be like we love the thing where she played bad with show played badminton with the chicken mm-hmm I guess I would also love that can you imagine if you like this probably I don't watch variety shows but like I want to watch like a Hugh Jackman play like a soccer with a big mascot or something like that would be funny yeah that does sound fun sorry I had a little internet drop for a second there that's pretty good but this doesn't help
I mean she's wearing a mascot costume oh you there yep I am now although my computer is possessed and keeps trying to open stream labs this is this is helping in the past I don't know why this happens sometimes it like really wants me to login yep no internet boo doesn't help in ways are no right oh my god my computer is possessed I have it Elgat I think if I streamed it I would try to log in to that's so annoying okay anyways yeah or my stream deck my elf got through
yep but yeah she's on TV now I mean we can't see who she is so this doesn't help her career but she gets to be on TV yeah I know it's kind of a big deal being a regular on a TV series it's just that she doesn't get to promote her face or name doing it right nobody knows it's her but it's good for her resume or her portfolio Joe can you hear me what are you gone are you dead I'm here we're one out for show Joe has Sarah one day I can't hear you one day we'll appear back for
she's a ghost for the Halloween episode can you hear me she's fading in and out of reality yes I can hear you okay what is happening my computer is possessed oh you could not just be here oh no I wonder if SkipBee's going to have any holiday specials like continue like how Kimi and Toki had some Christmas episodes I hope it does any other thoughts or predictions I was just saying that I hope that they have some holiday specials in this show oh I don't know that there's a
dedicated Christmas episode it is show Joe though so you know obviously Valentine's Day will be a thing at some point but yeah I don't think well I don't think you get to see it in the anime okay that's fine I feel like the manga or the anime probably goes to like the first maybe uh huh you might have sewn down a guy guy dang it okay we got to wrap this we got to expedite this okay recommend sorry yeah recommendations uh you recommend something I'm gonna recommend the book Pachinko which is now
a show on Apple TV I think that is well received even though I'm watching because I don't have Apple TV but it's um let's see who writes this book Min Jin Li is the author but basically it's like the premise is is kind of it's like maybe the early 1900s or something but this young girl like lives in Korea back when it's just one Korea and she's just kind of like doing her thing working for her mama in and you know they're just barely scraping by she has some kind of getting seduced by this
older businessman she gets uh knocked up and then it's freaking out kind of and then this random nice dude who's offers to like pretend to be the dad of the child and he's like a officer or he like has to go work in Japan because I guess this is when Japan starts occupying Korea at the time um and so she moves to Japan and all the Japanese people are really mean to them so they're Korean uh and it kind of goes through a few decades so we even get to like she ends up having
that kid and they end up having another and they like survive the freaking bombing and kind of the fallout of that and just like what it's like being a Korean uh in Japan at the time they're traded very badly and Pachinko comes in at some point which is like a casino game or something uh but it's like it's really cool uh I like it a lot it's kind of I mean it's not the most upbeat like happy book but it's interesting and a good read and yeah read it and then check out the the TV show
if you have Apple TV apparently it's really good and that's my recommendation I'm recommending a movie I watched like two days ago I'm gonna recommend They Live which is a sci-fi action horror film John Carpenter from 1988 uh I'm pretty there's a lot of famous lines and scenes from it so you may have seen some stuff uh before it's about a I guess a drifter um let me just read the little thing uh the film follows a drifter who follows who discovers through special sunglasses
that the ruling class or aliens concealed their appearance of manipulating people to consume breed and conform to the status quo via saliminal messages and mass media and it's very ridiculous it's like a very goofy movie it's got Roddy Piper and Keith David in it it's very fun it's not super long it's like an hour and a half uh Keith David isn't that the guy who voices Captain Anderson in Mass Effect yes Keith David does a lot of voice acting there's also just been in a lot of stuff
like a ton of stuff he's the bad guy and the princess and the frog uh yeah so very fun very good movie it's like goofy it's like ridiculous they got some really good line reads in it they have like a very long action scene where Roddy Piper and Keith David fight each other in like an alleyway it's like ridiculous and over the top it's great so yeah it's horror it's horror season so watch them this isn't like a scary movie it's not even
really that much of a horror movie I guess it's just in that genre kind of but uh you should watch it anyway they live they live and Pachinko our recommendation this week that's right cool okay freaking lose a review five stars give us five stars please rate us five stars it's important also tell all your friends about this tell your friends you love skip beat you're I think you're watching along or you're just listening to me at this point you can just listen to me recap
because I'm recapping like lying per line same person I will fix that in the future once again sorry about the dictation but you know you should watch the show and you should tell people to watch the show and they should listen to this while they're watching the show yep yep yep like a fun way to break things up yeah you can even pretend to be a ghost in your review if you want just as long as it's five stars oh give us a spooky review that would be fun pretty please people it really boosts
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in the podcast chartable is closing down so I don't know how I'm going to check our ranking now I guess I'll do it individually we're going to have to rank it ourselves number one I've decided to rank yeah maybe maybe we need to start networking with other little podcasts somewhere well I frequently played with tooth and claw so if I could force them to do an anime episode on a pastry I'm sorry show about animal attacks yeah okay okay we gotta find
an animal attack somewhere in the history of anime and then we can cover that okay uh huh we gotta do the research um gotta do the research uh yeah okay well so that's our show sorry for the internet hiccup we'll see how that goes and go here at that is this episode is kind of a mess isn't it but that's what you show up for that's what you love you love everything you know it's like we're like this American life or whatever right like you really want to listen to that
no we're here you don't know what we're going to get of course not you want to listen to your two messy friends Joe and Sarah talk about a show for like an hour and a half because we're talking about three episodes it is getting longer it's getting longer uh yeah it's why we only did two episodes for Angelic Layer those were so long though like again these these summaries have been long just because I had to dictate it but like normally the skipy ones aren't as bad yeah
I look back at the Angelic Layer like file sizes and they're enormous I know and that's when I was like neurotically editing it by hand the entire time um but yeah I mean at least if we do three instead two we get to cover more series more quickly um yeah well these are also good like arc based I mean yeah that's the problem where like the arcs keep beginning and ending like not at the point you guys are just dying to hear our thoughts on what happens with this audition
they'll just have to stay tuned yeah well it's just like because we had because we had to finish the Maria stuff so we had a little conversation about that during the summary and then we did the entire show I'm a chicken arc where we had a little conversation about that and then we have the beginning of this next arc that isn't finished yet and we had to talk about that so like you know we've had to we have to talk about three different arcs in this one episode
well I don't know if I call the chicken one an arc it's just more like like it's like a mini arc well it's between arcs does everything have to be an arc or is it just a buffer between the next one okay I guess it's a buffer I don't know it's like one half one and a half episode one and a half episodes that's like five chapters yeah that's true uh yeah god I really recommend everyone check out the manga it really I feel like the humor is so good in the manga like the scene where
she sees Ren pick up the stone and she's like on the ground she like has her arms stretch out and then like slingshots herself up to him to get to the corn the rock faster like it's fine in the anime but the author is so good at making it so funny in the manga it's yeah so Joe you should definitely check it out I guess you can just read the entire series somehow that's true binge read it we'll probably do some cleanup of some of these shows to like read the manga through it
like we should probably read the rest of Kimi Nii to know if it's on point I'll read if it's on point I'm just like oh I gotta buy it I'm a maniac I don't wanna like I've already I've already bought the first two volumes of Kimi Nii to don't get I must finish the series two of all you're not two of all you're not in stars anymore don't just get a digital subscription is way cheaper and you can like read it all in like one month it's fine now you're the one telling me to get
physical copies of things that's for like TV shows and stuff because they keep taking them off I mean I get yeah what you can buy I don't know can you buy it like a digital copy of a manga that you can like download and save yourself I don't know they all subscription services now I don't know listen you can get whatever you want on the internet it's great so do what you gotta do to preserve media and also you know pay for stuff when you can yeah I know Sarah has some self control
I could not go to conventions anymore I seriously it's a problem from conventions for sure oh my god okay well I hope everyone's having a good start to your October be sure to eat all the pumpkin scones and pumpkin bread so good it's Han Solo season where all the girls wear their riding boots with leggings and their long sleeves with their little vests so look forward to that I don't think I've seen anybody wear that okay maybe that's only on college campuses
also it's too hot here it simply cannot happen yet this time tough yeah oh man don't worry guys you're gonna be like wow Sarah sounds like a new person now that the temperatures drop it's gonna happen oh my god life is so wonderful and this is gonna be so different yeah oh just a few more weeks oh my god Bale guard comes out soon ahhhh and life is strange the next one comes out okay I have a lot to look forward to the next few months that's good my finger will be normal
so I'm looking forward to that I don't think so apparently it's not normal pointy in there that's just because I have pointy bones I've always had pointy bones listen it's fine uhhhh you're not like slicing yourself open from the inside I don't think so not that I know of okay uh well anyway I'm gonna go for everybody ummm don't give out advice without solutions nah that works out it actually works out for you can give out advice just like wing everything
just don't just never think about anything ummm just become very memorable don't name your children corn oh my god if you're gonna come up with an alias for yourself pick something better than corn oh my god you could have been like like ummm like a man or like she was a child like uh I mean pick a bit a better like food item ummm you could have been like flour or like ummm pair is that better pair is that better than corn uhhhh no not really what about for cinnamon sure that's better
ummm then you call him cinnamon cinnamon is that from spider-man what that's the guy from spider-man he's like the jackass boss at the bugle or whatever right no no that's the actor wait what's that you think it's jay jota jason who's the actor that plays in that's what I'm thinking uhhhh and the new ones oh and then the the old ones oh man what a good cast that character I think he voices the character in the video game oh he does a ton of voices that doesn't surprise me
he's cave johnson in pool everyone boxback season 3 episodes the first 3 episodes are out and I like them so far there's lots more romantic elements and I'm like hyped yay okay alright bye thanks for watching