Skip Beat! Ep 7-9: Moko Joins the Party

the action. It's Jojo here. Sarah, that's me and Jo recapping Jojo anime series. And so look I used a little acting lingo there. Yeah, we're using any anime series, none particular genre. Yeah, and then I'll end it with cut. This isn't the intro. We aren't in it already. We are. Pripping. I'm just saying. Yeah, that was a rehearsal. Yeah, for us on the end. OK. Oh, dear. Yeah, so before we jump into our coverage, let's get the episode seven, eight and nine. We will catch up a little. Wait, what?

In the episodes, did we start? Yeah. Oh, OK. I just look up from the up. No, I just thought we were doing a bit where you were like like prepping what we're going to do to intro and then we were going to be in it. No, I didn't. Oh, it didn't sound bad. No, no, it was fine. I just I was like riffing because I thought we were not in it. Well, we watched skimpy seamless. And we watched some more skimpy. Yes. Yeah, we did. We're recording a little late because Joe had more fun adventures in life.

Why don't I was on vacation? I went on vacation to my friend. Yeah, in Orlando, Florida, right before the hurricane, I was going to say Orlando basically at all. Oh, really? But somehow this. Yeah, like nothing. How like I was at Hollywood Studios like what was coming in. And it was like windy. It was pretty windy and like some rain came down, but it was otherwise pretty light. It rained harder on like Saturday. Gotcha. So yeah, so that was pretty normal.

Oddly. Yeah. Oddly, it affected like Columbus got a really bad storm that knocked out people's power and that I missed because I was in Orlando. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was visiting my college roommate and who works at the park works at Disney World. Oh, yeah. Did you ask to go a lot? If it did you tell him about the tragic Kingdom fun fact I had? No. No, I forgot. Socks don't work at Disneyland or at least in like the 80s or 90s. Well, anyways, that that must have been fun. Yeah, we did that.

I went to the Hollywood or I went to the Horror Nights thing. Halloween Horror Nights at Universal. Oh, that sounds super cool. Yeah. I enjoyed. Did you go into the parks and like ride rides at Universal at all? Or just that? Yeah, I went to the Island of Adventure. I went to the Jurassic Park one. Yeah. Was it good? Did you ride the Velocic coaster? I did. It's so good, right? It was good. Yeah, it also broke down when we were on it.

Oh, no. Yeah, it was at the end, so we were fine, but we just have to sit there for 20 minutes. Oh, OK. But was that night or were you baking under the sun? No. It was under the sun. I would have been pissed. It was OK. It was kind of in the shade a little bit, so it was all right. OK. Well, other than that, yeah, I really did. Did you do that the river ride for Jurassic Park? No, that was closed. Oh, dang. So OK. Well, I went at night. They were doing something really cool.

Yeah, I've been on it before, so I do like it. Yeah, you rode some of the new rides at Disney World at the time. Like they just opened a Tron one, which has you sitting these weird light bite seats. That's fun. And what were you just living up the Kingdom Heart dreams of the Disney characters? Yeah. They don't have, you know, Kingdom Hearts is not really a main part of it. They should have unknown reasons. I don't know why they are.

No, I got to see a like rep because like Universal is opening up a new park. Yeah, the one thing. The what? No, they have a dream works part already. This is like that's going to have the Mario Land stuff where they're cutting out all the old classic tune, Looney Tunes or what? No, not Looney Tunes. That's yes. There's six. Right. It used to be like old cartoon, like the. No, they still have that. It's a new park. They're not getting ready.

I thought they were getting ready to redo some stuff is what is what my friend told me. Like they're redoing. They shut down the Atlantis ride, which is like kind of sucks, because I like that one. It's from the movie. No, this is the first. Atlantis. I guess I don't. Yeah, they had like an Atlantis ride because they had like there's like the little area that's like lost world stuff, not Jurassic Park, but like. Um, some stuff in between.

Oh, my God, the like Doctor Sue stuff and the Harry Potter stuff. OK. But I guess they're redoing that and making it something else. I don't know what he said it was going to be. OK. Yeah. So that's going to be different. But yeah, the new park they're opening up is going to be like. Mario is going to be Mario World and like Donkey Kong. Yeah, and it'll be like Universal Monsters, which is like, you know, Frankenstein and Dracula and that kind of stuff.

OK. And then there'll be like another Harry Potter thing. And then how to train your dragon is also going to have like its own land, which is kind of interesting. It's a very popular franchise. Is it still? I mean, I don't know how many freaking fan art for that is insane. Um, uh, no, aren't they there was like a TV series? Like, I don't know. My kid siblings are like my kid sister is so into that show. So I think there's been continued content for it. Longevity. It was interesting.

Life action or something. What? I think so. That sounds like a. Bad idea. It sounds like awful. Yeah, I know. Lose all the time. It would be so expensive and not look very good, I feel like. Maybe I'm totally wrong. Anyways, oh, yeah. No, it was just interesting because, like, you know, I went to because I went to the, like, Star Wars, whatever Galaxy's Edge thing.

And like I went to a Jurassic World and it's like so bizarre to see like all these franchises that are like what we have to lead into, like the newest iteration, even though it doesn't seem like people like them all that much. What do you mean? Like the newer like all the Star Wars stuff is like for the sequel series with Ray and Kylo Ren and stuff like that. And I'm like, I do not care about these guys. I do not care about these movies.

Like I would rather than do the prequels and just like have a bunch of crazy stuff all over the place. And like, I don't know. I didn't watch all the Jurassic World stuff, but I have not heard great things about it. And it's just funny that that's the thing they got to go with is like all the newest iterations, which makes me feel like franchises are in a bad place. Go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say I went there last year for my 30th birthday and the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park.

So they had like a 30th anniversary theme and dedicated tribute store and stuff with like old movie stuff and special merch. And so maybe when I went, it had a lot of the more nostalgic original stuff. So I haven't been here without that. But it's just funny because it's like all the time. I mean, even like the new Harry Potter thing, they're going to open up as like for fantastic beasts or something. And I'm like, does anybody care about that?

Like, it's just so funny to me to be like, you guys are stuck in your latest iteration of these franchises, which are all pretty bad. Yeah. Oh, would you rather they pick new franchises or just like visit the classics elements more? I mean, it's like, I don't think it's like wrong to do that. It's just funny that that's just kind of what they're left with. I would have just gone with like whatever was cool. And I focus so much on like what the current IP is.

But, you know, I'm not executive brained, executive pills. So. Yeah. Like the Velosa coaster is fun, but it is based off the new movies. But the the river ride, that's based off the original. Yeah. Theme. It's true. Yeah. Did all the new rides and stuff. It was good. It was hot. Oh, man. I'm back and it's cold here now, which is kind of nice. I'm so jealous. Oh, it's like finally like comfortable, early morning and late at night, but still quite hot during the day.

But tomorrow's October in October is when it starts to get better here. So you're hoping. Oh, nice. Climate change hasn't thrown it off so much that that's not the case still. Oh, what if I had the weight even longer? I would lose my mind. Well, every year. I'm like just a few more weeks of my life will be considerably better. It'll be colder and Dragon Age, Belgard will be out and then I'm just gonna be a happy camper. Uh-huh. Oh, my goodness. Um, OK, well, anything else exciting?

Oh, that was pretty much it. I mostly did that stuff. It also went to like, you know, like a burlesque show and like. Oh, you got all the cool little drag show. Also. The best. Did that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, is that a gay club? Because, you know, I haven't seen any kind of show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're fun. Yeah. I'm just gonna hang out. Austin has so much stuff like that. I'm sure. Yeah, they probably have a bunch.

Yeah. And I just like wish I had a built in friends because I like really prefer groups than one on one hanging out. But like, I don't have a very collective group of friends. Like one off things. So I normally like if I want to go to a thing, I'll like bring my family. But maybe. Bring your family to a drag show. Bring your family to a burlesque show. That sounds good. Bring them to a nightclub. Come come with your nightclub with your family. Oh, man, I didn't have to go. Let's see.

Um, this week for me. This has been like not yesterday is my first day not doing something work related for like two weeks. No. Uh, cause on Saturday, I think it's called the Eastside mini open, which is like East Austin has a series of bars that participate in this thing that generates donations for a nonprofit and it's like each venue has its own couple of golf holes that they've designed themselves and then players participating will vote on their favorite.

And then we were a sponsor of the event. So I was a judge for the costume contest and the Potter contest. And so it was like a freaking all day event, but we, we had a gal with a putter with Alf on it. Like it was a little slip cover for her putter with Alf. Do you know who that is that? The guy reads cats, the puppets. Yeah, that. And then, uh, the winners of the costume contest or like, uh, steam punky and really cool. Um, but yes, I had to stay out late.

Um, you know, out in the bars and like everyone else had definitely been drinking the entire day. And I was like, hello everyone. Um, I don't know. I just was like, walk about this, walk about that, trying to spread the word, but there was this one cool. I think my favorite hole was this guy who had made one based off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where there was like pipes, like sewer pipes for the ball to go through.

And then there was like slime pits for them to fall into and like warehouse and a bunch of figurines and stuff is cool. Um, cool. Yeah. I feel like this is the only thing outside of just continuing the. Slog that is Dragon Age and position. Um, the base game. And then I don't know how long the DLC takes, but I should be done in time for Veil Guard. Uh, yeah. Uh, still, uh, keeping up with my here academia on the anime front. And that's it. Jiji Tsukai-san ended this weekend.

I read the last chapter. Jiji Tsukai-san. Okay. Look at all these. It's over. Now all these like current big shown in our ending all at once, who are going to be the standouts for the next generation. Right. Uh, well, we can, I mean, question. Well, the popular thing it showed in jump seems to be, um, like exorcists or whatever. So I guess it'll be something based on that question. My question.

My question mark blue exorcist series that's been, I feel like it's on hiatus or something for a while, but yeah, they're also in their last arc, but like it just, I feel like it updates very sporadically. Okay. Um, yeah, I don't know. Right. That one's old also. I think right because we had the big three when we first kind of started getting the anime was Naruto, bleach and one piece and one piece is still ongoing. Um, it will never end.

Uh, and, and then what after that, Jiji Tsukai-san demon slayer. Um, no, my hero academia was before those. I hear. Okay. It's been going for a while. Yeah. It's been going on for a while. And then one of the ones, uh, I don't, to be honest, I don't think, I don't think I'm gonna remember. Yeah. That's true. Oh, it's gonna be. Um, yeah, go ahead. Oh, no, just remind me that there is something else I have to talk about. Uh, okay, but, uh, it's spy family.

The answer is spy family, which is a show to jump. Is it? Okay. It's so not very shonen in my mind. It's very like slice of life. I don't see. I like don't think of it as a shonen. Um, yeah, but there you go. Okay. Uh, well, uh, another cool thing I did this last week was that, uh, for my weekly work stream walkabout Wednesdays, I have some special guests join me from the tooth and claw podcast, which is that animal encounter series I told you about like way when we first started.

And they're like a pretty big podcast. And I had mentioned that I found out that they played walkabout, so I finally got to do something with them. And it was cool. And I, I know I was the worst. I'm not that good at this game. I thought I worked on and play every week. I thought you were a gamer. I play a lot of games that doesn't necessarily equate to skill. You know, like quantity does not equal quality. Um, I'm not very good at video games.

I like don't play games that are for being good at them's sake. You know, um, but yeah, I was pretending it was so my guests felt good about themselves. Yeah. Huh? You threw on purpose. Totally. Um, always be throwing on purpose. Okay, but I got the, I got the chance to slide in or mention our podcast and then they were like, Oh, cool. I'm going to give it a follow. So I think we have a uni listeners from that possibly. Yeah. Not that many animal attacks in shows. Um, that's far.

Have there been? No, I can't think of anything. Just wait till we get the fruits basket. Then we'll be, then we'll be rolling around in animals. Yeah. And well, I know two of their hosts are super into one piece and they came up just wait till we get to one piece. Nope. Nope. Nope. Never. There's, I mean, most podcasts are covering one piece. That's the only show they're covering because it's because it's out long. Yeah. Do we think one piece is on the scale of like, uh, women are in it.

How, how, I got out of a 10. How many women are in one piece? Like, is it like a two out of 10? Uh, well, I've only watched up to like episode 500 ish. Oh, God. Only. I know, right? Well, as far as the crew composition at that point, we've got Nami and Robin. Yep. Yep. I guess that's it. What have I told you? That is still it. Um, I just know that Nami like gets more well endowed and her hair grows longer or something somehow. I feel like that's the thing. Um, I don't know.

I like that princess, uh, from S whatever the, the burrow, the desert place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I liked her. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's been on this as it keeps being like, well, she's kind of like a main character, even though she's literally in one arc and then like never again. Yeah. That doesn't count. She makes like cameo appearances later. Okay. Uh, so I'm trying to think, I don't know.

What about that freaking annoying ass chick who's supposed to look like Thoros childhood friend and like get rid of those glasses? I hit them. Oh, uh, the chick who's a smoker. Yeah. She's like a sidekick to a sidekick. Yeah. Um, we got the smooth, smooth fruit lady. Um, pirate, what meanie used to be big, now slim slim down. The lady from like episode one that Kobe. I see you remember all the beginning stuff. I don't remember any of that.

Yeah. Um, oh, but you're telling me to get a design where she, she used to be, is she used to have a unique design and now she's just like slim lady with huge bust because that's how it all the women in one piece look like. Yeah. Yeah. There should be varying degrees of endowments. You would think, you'd think the designs would become more diverse over time and yet the opposite has happened somehow. Okay. Now I've got my cat pushing on my mic. Oh my God. Moxie get out of here. Missy.

I'm trying to find all kinds of problems. Um, okay. We're talking about one piece of show we're not covering. Nope. We should probably get to the show we are covering. Want to do that? Yeah. Yeah. You know, so I'm very excited. I feel like I'm excited. I'm excited. Action packed for the show so far. No, these were good episodes. I was having a good time. I like watched it before this and I was like, oh man, I got to watch all these and I'm like, oh, this show is actually really good.

It turns out, turns out maybe this is the best show we've covered so far. But we'll see. Oh, dang. It's my favorite manga. Um, I haven't watched the anime in a while. I just remember being like, damn, this isn't as good as my manga, but maybe it still stands out. I never got a season two. So we'll see. Yeah. But remember we like looked at that like on the first episode and it's like the studio got absorbed like a couple months after this ended or something. Oh yeah. That's true.

Well, this our coverage will reignite people's passion and the little man to season two. Yeah. I was like how they kickstarted the English dub for the show. We're going to have to like just read all the manga for some of these. We're going to have to like finish out. I already have. You already have, but I'm going to have to. Pour me nine volumes in like two weeks, I think. Oh my God. I could not stop. It's so good. Well, we're on stage seven.

By the way, these episodes I realized are called stages, so I'm going to call them stages now. Okay. Yeah, look at that theme. But before we do that, I'm going to listen to another voice actor because that's that's a fun bit we all love. Hey, we're just doing this for us and you love it. And that's all that matters. That's true. It's fun to do this voice actor loves the shout out. I'm sure they definitely know this is happening. Let's see.

The voice actor for Ren Saruga, our boy we love to hate is voiced by Katzuyuki Koshin Konishi. Sorry. I like looked at the wrong word when I said the other thing. Let's see. I was like, when you questioned, he is known for, he is known for voicing Kamina in Gurrenlaghan. Oh, okay. Well, this is such a serious role and that's such a like out there, a boisterous role. Yeah. I mean, you know, voice acting, they got the range.

Yeah. Yeah. Currently, it seems like he is the voice of Ashikaga Takoji in the elusive samurai, which is a show that I think might be popular right now. I have never heard of it. Wow. Also, often does the voice of Porygon in Pokemon. So that's pretty good. He is the voice of Tengan Zui in Demon Slayer, who's like the jewels guy. Oh, he's the hot guy. Yeah, the flashy guy. The sound Koshura. He plays like the main character, Kaburagi and Dekidense.

If you've ever watched that, that's a pretty good show. Never heard of it. You've never heard of Dekidense. It's so fun. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Is this like where there's big bug things? No. Yes. Yes. There are big bug things in it. I have watched part of that and I did like it. I never finished it. It's got like a orange-haired chicken and some like older dude. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I do like that show. I watched Netflix or something. So I watched part of it.

Yep. He plays Shuhei Hisagi in Bleach, who's the one captain that has a 69 tattoo on his face or not captain. He's like Lieutenant. All for hot. I remember being like, oh, hello, Lieutenant. And like when I was 16 watching. Apparently voices the character. In the show, Helk never heard of it. I feel like I don't know. Maybe I've heard of it. He plays the voice of blood in the faraway Paladin, which I think is the skeleton dad who's good. What if your dad was a skeleton? Wouldn't that be great?

Not very good hogs. I would think probably not. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I also a lot of other stuff. I once again, extremely long IMDB page. Nice. Yeah. I tried to highlight some of the stuff we know. So that's fun. So that's that's another actor voice actor in this. Okay. So we do one for every episode. Yeah, I thought so. I mean, I don't know if we're going to get through everybody, but we'll get through some people and that's fun. Maybe someone's only ever done this. That would be pretty funny.

Yeah. I went down with a feeling. They just decided to hate it. Stage seven. Oh yeah. A lot of those. People. Stage seven is called Princess Revolution. All right. So we're still in the previous arc with Ruri, but we're finishing this episode. So don't worry about it. We open on Ren complimenting Kyoko on her determination. But really, if her leg is messed up, she should just like stop and not try to do this episode. But Kyoko says that she's not going to stop.

She tries to breathe through the pain and she gets flashbacks to her youth where shows mom tells her that she needs to perform for the customer. No matter what the scene begins and Kyoko pushes through the pain as if nothing had happened. Everybody is shocked that she can ignore pain. They're like, wow, she's doing it. She's acting. She performs the tea ceremony basically perfect. The crew comments that she must have been trained on this before, which she's not going to stop.

Which we know the audience that she has. Then Ren starts to like say his lines for the scene after she finishes doing like the first part of the tea ceremony. Kyoko starts to say hers, but realizes too late that she was like supposed to say it sadly. So she's like, oh, I forgot to do like the stage direction basically. Then she looks at Ren who is looking extremely serious. The director is excited because this means that Ren is finally giving it his all.

He's really he's really thrown himself into his work now. Kyoko is intimidated by Ren's intimidating aura, but she recovers and starts to act her part with similar ferocity. She's like giving it a go. However, Ren's next line read is so natural that Kyoko is like momentarily forgets that she's acting and she just like reacts as she would react.

The director likes her reaction because it's authentic and tells Ruri that she needs to get Ren to act seriously to get that kind of reaction that Kyoko is having right now. Kyoko tries to regather her composure as Ren goes on a little monologue, but she's still out of it at the end of it and the director decides to end the scene. He tells her that they can stop there, but Kyoko says that it can't end here.

Ruri sees this and remembers the first time she did a recording on I guess one of her albums and where her nerves got the better of her and she just wanted to like push through it. She's like, no, we can keep going, which is kind of like basically what Kyoko is doing right now. The director reassures Kyoko that it's all good. She should just take a break. But Kyoko looks out of it and responds that she can't get up first because the customer is still there.

Ren takes this as a cue to step off the set and Kyoko seeing that immediately fades. I gotta say in the manga, the director has to tell him, Ren, get off the stage. Oh, really? Yeah. And this he totally pieces it together. Yeah. Nope. I feel like the director got more like attention in the manga. Yeah, he doesn't come off great in this episode particularly. No. He's got bad. I don't know. You gotta do what you gotta do, I guess. Yeah. We'll see. Kyoko is taken off in a stretcher.

Ruri asks the director for another chance at the scene and the director says that that's what he's been waiting to hear from her from the very beginning to like, you know, want to be in this movie. Evening arrives and Ruri's agent comes to apologize for Kyoko for what Ruri put her through. We see that Kyoko has had her leg in a cast now because she like visited the hospital and was taken back. So she's back on the set now, but she went to the hospital.

Elsewhere, Yashiro, who's like Ren's agent or whatever, her manager, tells Ren that while Kyoko was unconscious, Ruri got the part. So, you know, Ruri's acting in the movie. Ren says that that was to be expected because the director had always planned to use Ruri from the beginning. Then he turns to the director to confirm and the director confirms saying that he was using Kyoko to motivate Ruri.

Just as we suspected last episode, Ruri comes to visit Kyoko, who's recovering at the set and gives her a 100 point stamp. Kyoko asks her why she would do that after everything and Ruri says that for a hyena, she tried pretty hard. Kyoko glares at her and thinks to herself that the only reason she tried hard was to like take her spot. So, it would be rewarded for that. Yeah, she's like, I don't really know if I'm like did the love me stuff real good there.

Ruri accuses her of thinking that she only got the role by sucking up to the director. She's like, oh, you probably think I only got it for that. But Kyoko says that she thought that Ruri won the contest on the count of the fact that Kyoko passed out and you can't win a contest if you're passed out. Ruri agrees and is like, yeah. But also she says that she starts liking Kyoko and Kyoko is mouth open shocked at this and Ruri gets embarrassed and leaves.

Kyoko sees Ren in Yashiro walking outside and gives him a serious look. She's like, there he is, the guy who was who I hate. Back at base, the director gives Kyoko a framed picture of her in costume and she's so happy to have a photo of her dressed nicely. She's like, this is the greatest gift I've ever received in my life. So sad.

She says that she says that the director is a great man while his crew whispers to each other that a great man wouldn't use an injured girl as a pod in his scheme to get the actress to act. But he did that. The director kills Kyoko that even though she lost to Ruri for the part, her acting was excellent and she was, you know, just as good as if not better than Ruri at doing some of the scenes. Kyoko said that she's glad that she lost because at a certain point she wasn't even acting.

She was just reacting to Ren. It's just like her reaction just happened to fit what was going on in the script. But, you know, it's not really like she was acting. The director reassures her saying that Ren tends to do that with all his cut of scars, but he didn't like let their guard down and then just like reacts like authentically, which can be kind of nice.

But Kyoko is not happy about that and complains that he's a weird manipulator for doing that and then adds that to the list of things she doesn't like about him. Just then, Ren. I mean, yeah, it would be weird. It's like, yeah, you get compelled to do something. Yeah, he's rolling high charisma scores. It does seem like that would be a problem. Just then, Ren passes by and the director asks him for a favor. We cut to Ren, Yashiro and Kyoko all walking together.

Kyoko thinks Yashiro and only Yashiro for walking her to her room. Yashiro thinks that's weird and tries to make some small talk by asking Kyoko how long she's been doing tea ceremonies. Unfortunately for him, this unlocks a core memory from Kyoko where she realizes that she learned to do a two ceremony when she was 12 because shows parents were grooming her to take over as like the proprietors of the inn, which is the same as grooming her to Mary show.

So like her whole goddamn life and all of the skills she has acquired is centered on like becoming show's wife and she doesn't have anything about like herself. Upon this realization, she collapses on the ground. Yes. Ren turns around and helps her up and Kyoko resolves to do something for herself and decides that that will be acting with Ren in a movie without like the breaking character ever.

We transition to the director thinking to himself that he can't wait for Kyoko to learn how to act properly so he can have her in a movie. Back in her room, the makeup artist tells Kyoko that she needs to remove the makeup or it'll flake off but Kyoko doesn't want to remove it because this is the only type she's ever got to wear nice makeup.

Ren tells her that she won't be able to beat show who's currently doing like an ad campaign for like some kind of concealer if she doesn't take care of her skin. So she agrees. The next morning, Yashiro and Ren see Kyoko. Yashiro asks if her leg is OK from collapsing last night and she's like, oh, it's fine. I didn't collapse because of my leg. I collapsed because I was thinking about tea ceremonies and I remembered a guy I hate.

Yashiro is like white and Ren is like, oh, wait, you mean that one guy you've talked about? And Kyoko is like, yeah, that one guy and Ren gets up and he says that she's doing well in her revenge mission. Huh. And she's like, yeah, I am doing well by revenge mission. And then he gives her a minus 10 point stamp. He didn't even give her a job to do. He didn't even give her a job. You can't do that. He's just taking away 10 points.

Yashiro asks Ren what that was about because he thought he was like warming up to her and Ren tells him that, you know, he likes her determination, but doesn't like her motivation. Kyoko is pissed and curses Ren's arugas be cut to credits. Yeah. Well, she right. We had like a nice. There's a brief moment where she. Well, no, they didn't really in the manga, it's more like. Inspiring how she's like this thing I want to do is like be able to act on the same level as this man.

Like instead of like trying to beat him. And but then after he does that, then she's like, I just want to show him. Up and just kidding. I want to crush this guy. I want to crush this fool. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah. So we ended this arc. We ended the arc. It was good. Yeah. I. Okay, so there's like the moment where she bows like last time and then this time when she like first sits up and does her and then they do like a backdrop.

Instead of just keeping the scene backdrop, they just do like a color backdrop to highlight the moment. I don't like that. I don't like it. Oh, like that specific scene. Yeah. Yeah, this is like when the scene starts, right? And she starts to do the ceremony. Yeah. Yeah. That's to show that she's really good.

Yeah, I know some things just work better in print or if they had done like more work with this animation, but right, they have like the moment where rank gets serious and then like freaking purple essence is like coming out of him. Anime. Yeah, the transition is tough. Yeah, I like, you know, I like that. Once again, it has to rely on like her experience doing all their weird things in her life, which turns out to help her even though all of those things were done.

So she could marry show a guy she hates now. Yep. Yep. You know what I say, use all your skills, use all your skills, whatever. Yeah. Who cares about the reason why you learned them. Yeah, I guess she just feels like nothing in her life is ever done for her just for this. Oh, I mean, she's right. Yeah. Her life sucks. Yeah. Uh-huh. But I think she should still use that, you know, sometimes you go through a thing and it just kind of sucks.

But you know, you get on the other end and you're like, I guess I have these skills now. Anyway, I went to grad school. I just remember there's something I like made note of the first episode I never brought up. But interestingly, I feel like I don't see this in other anime, but the inner dialogue of all the characters has like some kind of filter on it. Like it sounds different than when they're actually speaking. I guess to imply that inner monologue, but like, I don't think I like it.

Is it like echoey? I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah, I may echoey is the right word. Pay attention for I guess next time. But yeah, I just, because it's not just Kyoko, it's just anyone with who's thinking it sounds like that. I see. Which I feel like normally you just tell that they're thinking because their mouth isn't moving, but they do something to it. Anyways. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you think about her getting her putting put into a trance until the customer leaves?

Well, I mean, it's the pain. She's like in retail mode. Well, the pain is like overcome. And so yeah, she's kind of tunnel vision. I don't know. I've never been that freaking dedicated to a customer. I can't really. Yeah, me neither. I guess I've never like had customers that were like regular people. Yeah, I feel like, oh right, she just so her leg, it's not broken, but a fracture basically. And doing the acting. Exaggerated the injury or made it a little worse.

So we'll see her with a cast for a little bit now. And offer 100 points and then she got 10 points taken off that bastard. Yeah. I feel like there should be a higher stamp for like 100 points. I feel like she should have earned like way more points than this. Well, I think there should just not be negative points. Maybe, you know, there could be negative points. It's just like, I feel like you should get more than 100. Because like next episode, they're like, wow, she did that one day.

That was like a possible. Oh, dude. To 100 stamps. There's enough room on the little booklet for multiple students. I'm like, honestly, I don't. Who is keeping track of the stamp? I mean, the stamps are bullshit, right? It doesn't matter. Yeah. Okay. I don't know, especially after this next art, there's like a little mini arc. I can't imagine like her doing this and then not getting hired. Oh, for sure. That would be insane. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's get to it. Stage eight.

Stage eight is called sink or swim together. We open on Kyoko in her apartment cursing the posters of show and Wren. Wren's poster is noticeably larger. Yes. Than last time, but it's still smaller than shows. She says that she will become an amazing actress and show up both of them. She will beat Wren and she will kill show. So. It's the next day.

President Lori is talking to Mr. So while writing a camel down the hall, he tells So that Kyoko was able to fix Wuri's motivation problem in like a single day, which is impressive because she's really hard to work with. So, I mean, that was incredible. They pass by an elevator that Kyoko steps off of. She is reading the LME brochure about their acting department. She decides that she needs to get some proper training to get good at acting so she can rival Wren.

But then she sees that their acting program has a tuition fee that she probably can't afford. It's a lot. Yeah. Why did you see how much it was? I remember from the manga. I feel like the entrance fee was like $2,000 or something. Oh, gosh. Sounds about right. She bumps into someone in the hallway and it's the angry woman from the audition. You remember her? Yeah. The woman who was angry. She's like, why are you here? And Kyoko thinks that she can't tell her about the love me section.

So she just kind of doesn't say anything. She notices that the angry woman has the same booklet as her and that's why she's reading the brochure. And the woman whose name we learn is Kotonami Moko. Nope. Kane. Kane is her first name. Kotonami, I think is her last name. And Moko is a nickname. Kyoko coins. All right. Cool. I'm going to call her Moko because I didn't say the first name. They only said the last name. Let's see.

She tries to make up some excuse by why she has this, but then right then the like the director of the acting section shows up and tells Moko that he's glad that she came back because she has a lot of talent. If only she can get over her roadblock, but don't worry about it because now she's going to be in the love me section. Kyoko is confused because it seemed like Moko did a pretty good job at the audition and probably passed, right?

And then the acting director explains that she failed the second round test where they had to do like a, they had to like read a script and then do a Q and A section over it. And the like questions were family themed and apparently Moko's read of the character was like extremely cynical. And they all kind of realized that she was just acting the whole time about like, you know, reacting on the cell phone and all that stuff, but she actually lacks love.

I am like not that I'm not in a disagreement with her. No, she's totally like, like this is the thing. Like both Kyoko and Moko, which by the way, I have to call them Kyoko and Moko now. Both of their like performances in the audition, I feel like we're just better. I feel like they're just correct and better. Yeah, but you know, I have not, I don't like the, I don't like the director very much or the president very much. So I don't like his voice actor. It's so deep.

It doesn't seem in character. Yeah, I have a wacky guy with this. Yeah, I think they're wrong. I think they're wrong about this. Just like leaning to like schmaltz. You know what I mean? Like it's too like interesting women with new perspectives. Oh yeah. Can't be like even a little bit cynical. Even though Ryan is so he's terrible. Right. It's because he's a man like a hundred percent.

That's because like the women need to be like positive and like lovey-dovey and all that stuff, but like Ren can be demure, you know. Boo. Boo. Kyoko is confused. No, I already said that. Kyoko thinks of Moko as a kindred soul. She's like, oh my God, you're also in the love me department. Kyoko tells her it's okay, Moko, don't worry about it. Moko, the love me section is a stupid name. It's a good way to start a career. You get to like know everybody and everything.

Moko is like, why are you being nice? I'm just going to like go to some other agency, forget L and me, whatever who cares. But then Kyoko latches onto her leg and says, no, you're not going to way leave. You are going to wear this stupid uniform with me and do this dumb job. And then she drags her into the locker room. Elsewhere, President Lori is getting an update about some fuss that's been thrown up near the like actor training session. By a certain a certain girl who is misbehaving.

We got back to Kyoko who's happy to not to be like not the only person in the love me section. Moko is not happy about it at all. And she's kind of like in disguise wearing like a like a bandana and glasses. It looks pretty good actually, though. Yeah, stylish. Yeah. They're fine. They do like little comedy bits together. It's pretty good. I like their dynamic. The acting director calls them over with a job.

He tells them that there has been a girl at the training camp that keeps disrupting the class with like various pranks and just kind of like being obnoxious, which is a problem because it's the president's granddaughter, Maria that we saw from before, the girl, the little girl from the audition. And at this point, I have to ask how old is the president? He has a granddaughter. He looks like he's like 40. Um, I don't know. Japanese people age well. I guess. I guess he's rich.

So, you know, it's not real. Age isn't real. It's anime. It's anime. That just really took me by surprise. I was like, he's a granddad. She's only like seven. So she is seven. But yeah, I guess so. I don't know. Kyoko interviews president, Lauria, about his granddaughter. He says that she hasn't been the same since the incident left unknown at this point.

He says that the story and the play that they have that they're like rehearsing as part of the like curricula for the acting training stuff is triggering for her. Kyoko says that she probably can't do anything about like actual childhood trauma because she's just she's just an employee. Yeah. She's just here. She's trying to like get into an agency. I don't think I could be her therapist and Laurie protest saying that she was able to help Ruri.

So like maybe she can help out Maria and Kyoko doesn't seem to understand that she really did anything with Ruri. So she's like, I don't really know what you're talking about. Laurie says that Maria won't listen to him or Ren and Kyoko thinks that this is an opportunity for be able to do something that Ren couldn't. So she could find a little stage of something. Laurie tells her. Yeah. Laurie tells it. Sorry. Now you're good. Laurie tells it. Laurie tells it after the audition.

Maria was asking about Kyoko. So like, I don't know, she seems to like you. Maybe you can help with this. Kyoko asked Laurie if she can get a favor. She's able to help out with Maria elsewhere. Moko is embarrassed just like hanging out in like the little place where they do the like the training for the acting. Some of the girls there in that program make fun of her dumb outfit.

She decides to flex on these girls by reading through their entire play script and then acting out all the parts with her like super fast memory because that's her special talent. She does this and all of the girls are defeated. It's so fun. We also see. Switching between her. Oh yeah, she's incredible. I love her. She's just like we just get like a cut back and she's like doing the like women's part and she's doing the guys part and she's like doing all the parts.

Yes. And like the other actresses are like, oh my God, how is she able to do this? She looked at it for like 10 seconds. It's incredible. Maria sees this while wearing like a like a pig mask. She's like in disguise. Then Moko gives a speech about how great she is and how like the love me section is for all the talented people. So stop being me and you guys don't know anything. No, look at how great I am wrong. She's like, she says, yeah, go ahead.

She's like, ah, that department's lame blah, blah, blah, basically leading up to being like I don't belong there or I'm not in it or something. And Lori and Kyoko step out and she hears him saying, OK, so if you guys can help out with this Maria thing, I'll waive your fees. And then she's immediately like, team love me because she does not want to pay those either. That's true. They commiserate on how ridiculous the pricing is when they first encounter each other in this episode. That's yeah.

Okay. Yeah, that makes more sense. That whole section, this it's hard to summarize this because that section had like a million cutaways because it's like President Lori says something to Kyoko. Yes, Moko says something as part of her speech. We cut back and I'm like, oh my God. Yes, it's good to watch. It's terrible to summarize. Yeah, it I was going to say with how much information is being thrown at us. It is a lot to be cutting between. Yeah, it's good though. I like the cutting.

Like I think cinematically, it's like this is a much more like engaging show to watch in terms of yeah, like I like all that stuff. Let's see. President Lori tells the girls that Maria is missing. So you're like, you're going to have to find her on top of everything else. All right, bye. Many leaves. Kyoko dumps out her bag of dolls that she makes to curse people on the ground and she's like, maybe we can use these.

Moko is surprised by how detailed they are. They're all like one to one like clothing that the people wear like in the commercials. Like there's one of show and it's like, dang, this is like spot on. And there's one of rent and she's like, wow. She thinks that Kyoko must be like a super fan of them to make such detailed dolls of them. She was like, dang, I thought you liked show, but it turns out you also like rent. You're like the ultimate fan. True believer. She does not say this out loud.

So Kyoko does not correct the fact that she actually hates these two people. Yeah. No. Maria walks over to see one of their to see the doll of Ren and she ditches her outfit to take a better look at it. We get a cut to Kyoko explaining that voodoo dolls and human shaped candles are expensive. So she just makes dolls and set out of various junk she finds. And that's just like her hobby and what she does. And that's why they look like this.

Maria is impressed and says that she's impressed that she's able to make dolls and the two of them bond over it. The actresses from earlier is that we're making fun of Moko, see them hanging out with Maria and speculate that they get special treatment from the president because like look, they're hanging out with their granddaughter and stuff. Maria tells Kyoko that the two of them are on the save wavelength. She's like, we're like the same.

And then she asks to borrow Redd's doll so she can curse it to make him fall in love with her. And we get a fantasy sequence where roundtiles Maria marry him with the words child predator laid on top of him, which is incredible. It's such a good scene. And the manga is she says like, now just wait until I'm 16 or something. Oh, yeah. The exchange is very funny too. Because Ren's like, Maria, I'm madly in love with you. Please marry me. And Maria is like, oh, Ren, I'm only seven.

Surely you can wait. You don't have to be impatient over life with child friend. It's so funny. Oh my God. Kyoko doesn't think curses can like work like that. But Maria says that her powers to curse are too weak and maybe Kyoko can lend her some of her power. Just then President Laurie shows up and demands that Maria apologizes for being disruptive in the acting class. Maria is indignant and says that the play that they're doing is stupid and naive. The heroin in it caused her mom to die.

And yet the people around her in the play still love her. Her older sister like stands up for her and her dad still loves her in the end. It's ridiculous. Even a child like me would never be able to believe that story. During this rant she has about how the play is unrealistic. We get some interspersed scenes of Maria's like flashback to her life where some time ago her mom died in a plane crash coming to see her.

And presumably like a bunch of people blamed her for that, including possibly her dad who doesn't seem to have come around on her yet or at all. Kyoko thinks about her own mom abandoning her in a plaud's Maria speech. She says that she agrees that it's unrealistic that the heroin's big sister would be so supportive.

One of the girls in the acting class gets angry and tells Kyoko that the role could work if you acted it out properly and challenges her to play the big sister role to prove that the love me section has any talent. Kyoko wonders what she should do as we cut to credits. And I did want to clarify because it might not, it's not as easily understood. Not even in the manga but seeing the manga in the anime makes more sense. The nickname Moko is because Kanye says G's a lot like.

And I guess Mo is the noise or the sound she makes and she does all those kind of like complaining noises. And so I guess she just says so much that Kyoko's made that and added it to co which I guess is just like a kind of basic like ending her a female name. So Moko. That's pretty good to explain that. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. I didn't even think to look up her name because I'm just like well she calls her Moko so we're doing it.

Yeah, I mean she's Kyoko will be the only one who calls her that. But yeah, she's got a, you know, follow software of the jumpsuit. You know what? Yeah, it's fun. And when we go to conventions together, let's just get vibrant pink jumpsuits and make our own. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to be wearing a bandana and some glasses. Yeah, do it. Do it. Yeah. Now this is very funny. I really liked it that I really like Moko a lot. I think she's very funny.

I like how even at like even at the end when like the other actresses like challenge Kyoko being like oh we'll see if the lovely section is any talent. I mean your friend over there already showed that she had talent but maybe she's an outlier. And Moko was like oh yes thank you. Yeah. It was pretty good. Yeah, she's definitely she's a very intensely focused person. And yeah, she's she's a hoot. She's also a hater. Love it. Love it. I mean, we love the Love Me section. See, they're already.

The Love Me section is so good. The wall section being made of the two biggest haters of the company is so good. yes Well, do you want to forget? of Maria's speech being like nobody would ever believe this dumb story. And Kyo was like, you're right. Nobody would ever believe this dumb story. Good. It's so funny. Man. Yes, I know. Well, let's dive into this traumatic story some more. Stage nine is called the Maracas language of angels, which is the name of the fake play that they're missing.

Kyoko wants to take this challenge, but has no play acting experience. But I guess she goes through with it anyway. Maria is upset because President Laurie has decided that this should be Kyoko's like test to see if she could get into like the acting school thing. But Maria says this is like way too difficult as an entry test. And she's a total beginner. Like if she just took the normal thing, she'd be fine. Laurie comments that Maria must really like Kyoko.

And Maria says that Kyoko says what she really feels instead of paying loop service to her like like treating her like a kid. And most adults just tell her stuff that she knows isn't real. She was impressed with Kyoko when she accosted her in the audition for crying because she said what Maria has been thinking about the whole time, which is like you could just cry to get adults to feel bad for you. Yeah. And the manga, it's really funny because she first says what Kyoko said.

And then Laurie is like, oh, my God, how could she say that to a child? Kind of horrified. But then he sees Maria's reaction and being like, oh, my God, she's so cool. And then he's like, oh, my God, what's wrong with my granddaughter? Like, why? Why does she think that's so good? Yeah, that's because you need to like talk to your your grandkids. You shouldn't just assume they're like stereotypical children. Well, he's not a stereotypical human. So yeah, you think he'd be better at this.

We get a flashback of Laurie yelling at Maria's father for blaming for him blaming Maria for his wife's death. Laurie reassures her that she had nothing to do with her mom's death, like back in the present, and that she just wanted to spend time with her mom, just like a normal kid, like it's normal to want that. It's not your fault. Kyoko is trying to prep for the part, but she doesn't think her motivations are all that good for this. She's trying to amp herself up, but she can't really do it.

Moko watches her and thinks to herself that it's hard enough having to act in a play for the first time ever, but it's even worse when she has to play a part that she like fundamentally doesn't believe in. Then she turns to see Kyoko messing with her dolls and she gets angry. She's like, why are you doing that right now? She stomps over and tells Kyoko to get it together. But Kyoko says that the script just doesn't make any sense to her, so she doesn't really know what to do.

Moko tells her that it doesn't matter if the script doesn't make sense. You just need to act out the script as faithfully as possible. Just like do the acting job. Kyoko flips through the again and then comes to a realization because she has a plan. It's playtime. The other actresses are not happy and accuse the lovely section of being a nepotism plant. You know, like you probably just like know somebody or whatever.

This pisses off both Kyoko and Moko who don't want to be in this dumb section and don't have either of those. Oh yeah. And also don't have any connections. Maria tells Kyoko not to listen to those girls and Moko tells her that she needs to beat them. You need to beat these loser actresses. They piss me off. So the pressure is on. It's good.

The instructor explains that they'll start off by following the script of the scene, but they can start, you know, improvising as the scene changes because like Kyoko can diverge from the regular script, but the other actresses are going to like, you know, just play along when that happens. The other actresses agree and accuse Kyoko of being rich and having loving parents as they like go to their like start positions. Neither of those things are even remotely true, which is very funny.

President Laurie notices that Kyoko's aura changes, which he comments that only pros can do on command. So like maybe she's got it. No, what's happening? What? No. What's happening? It seems like Kyoko is just kind of pissed off. I like he is the president of an acting class. Like he is the president of an entertainment agency. You think he would be more like in tune with those things, not just listen. Oh, I've heard that.

Yeah. If I've learned anything about like upper management, like the writers strike and other stuff is that those people don't know shit about anything. You're right. They're basically just bankers and just know how to like get like get investment money. And that's it. They don't know anything about the actual industry they work in most the time or they may not. OK, yeah. This is why I'm not that hot on the director. I listen. Listen, we haven't really come up with this yet.

I'm not going to be super hot at any of the rich people with these shows mostly. Now, I know that in Angelic Layer, what faces dad is the only good adult in the whole series. That's a good pair. He's the only good pair. Coyote's dad is the only supportive parent in like the whole series. And he's like the CEO of some company. But that's going to be an exception, I think. Lori's not doing it.

He's, you know, the fact that you have to like get some random temp to like solve your family issues because you can't do it. You can't figure it out. Maybe I have us watch Boys Over Flowers next, which is all about like rich kids and then all their parents to. I love stories about rich kids. I can't like solve their problems when their problems are like, hey, have you ever just like had a conversation with somebody as a human being before? No, I haven't. It's fine.

Anyway, the scene starts and basically the scene is like there's like there's like one actress who's like playing the child. There's like the child role. And then there's like these two other actresses that are like comforting her. The child believes that like her dad blames her for her mom dying and that's kind of the scene that plays out and the other like actresses and the scene are trying to reassure her and, you know, Koko's playing the older sister.

So her her like original role in the script is also to like reassure her and like try to convince her that her dad doesn't hate her. So the scene starts with the other actresses talking and Maria remembers all of the things people told her when her mom died about how like, you know, oh, nobody blames you. Even though she secretly knew that they did blame her, which is why she can't trust grownups. It's a good it's almost.

Yeah, but also, I mean, like you're probably surrounded by like, yes, man, like, you know, people that are like your that work for your dad, like they're your real friends. You need some real family friends. Where's your like uncle? You know what I mean? Doesn't have it. It's almost Koko's line where it's like her turn to say something and she's supposed to enter the scene while crying. Koko, however, doesn't cry and instead she enters the scene by starting to laugh.

But she does say the original line from the script. So she is keeping that part. Everybody is shocked by this change and is a little freaked out except for Maria, who is like eating it up. She's like this rules. Koko takes on more of an abrasive persona for the scene, but is mostly sticking to the script of like stuff. She's supposed to say she's just like saying it more accusatory than like sympathetic.

She says that their father may hurt people in ways that he doesn't intend, but you must understand it is possible for the parents to truly hate their own child, which that is a change from the original script of it not being possible. Then Koko says kind of menacingly that their father does hate her in a shocking change to the script. We get a flashback of Maria being told that her father doesn't hate her.

He just moved to America alone for work and he hasn't been calling her writing her much because he's like a busy guy and that she's being told this by various adults. But Maria did not believe them and like was resentful that nobody was saying anything that felt real. She gets another flashback of one time when she was hanging out with Ren.

Ren's take on the situation without her father might not know how to relate to her and he might just be like, you know, he's like, he's just be like scared to reach out to her, you know, I'm Maria didn't really believe Ren either and thought that all adults liked her. So everyone's batting zero. Instead, she kept her expectations very, very low. We cut back to the present. Maria loves Koko's changes. Koko keeps going telling the like child actress that the father doesn't love her one bit.

The actress then protests as one ought to when challenged in this way, but doesn't have any like anything to protest with. So instead what she does is she takes the older sister's lines that she's supposed to say in response. So now Kyouko and the like actress playing the child are like flipped so that the kid is using the older sister's lines as like a defense to Kyouko who's using the younger sister's line as a tax.

So the way the scene is supposed to play out is like the older sister says, oh, no, dad's not this way. You know, he like goes to your school plays and then the little sister is like, yeah, but like every adult just goes to their plays. It would like look bad on the adult if it didn't go. But in this case, Kyouko's flipped it. So Kyouko's accusing her or accusing the dad of not loving her and the little sister is having to defend it using each other's lines. So it's like a nice inversion there.

You think it's a good to explain that. Yeah, let me tell you. I had to rewrite that several times. They do this back and forth for a while. And Maria begins to get defensive about her own father who has been reaching out, even if he's been reaching out in what seems to be an extremely meek way.

Eventually, you know, the scene becomes too much and Maria is driven to defending her father in place of the child actors and flirts out that she like her dad loves her because he sends her emails twice a day. Which like, OK, it's very funny. Like Japan always refers to like email text messages and all that stuff is like kind of falls to the email category. So I don't think he's sending her like outlook emails. I mean, he might be. It's just funny to be like, my dad emails me.

Kyouko turns to Maria because like to address her now and she's like, yes, so what? I bet they're all the same. Like I bet he just uses the same like email template. And Maria protests saying that like it's super late in America when he sends them. So like he is putting effort into it, even if he kind of picks the same words. Kyouko keeps going and they kind of have an exchange, like a few like back and forth from there.

And eventually Kyouko swaps back to the older sister's line as she accuses the little sister of not understanding their father. Maria thinks about her own father and that may be the reason that all his emails sounded the way like all sounded the same and kind of robotic. Is that she never writes him back. So like he wouldn't know anything about her. She keeps playing at the scene with Kyouko until Marina finally says that her father must love her because he says so at the end of every email.

He signs all of them saying that he loves me. President Lori stands up and Maria says that she never responded to any of the emails because she thought her dad was only sending them because Lori had told him to then she starts to cry, regretting that she never took them very seriously. At this point, Kyouko like breaks character and you know comfort sir. It's later on. Moko and Kyouko are waiting for President Lori.

Moko accuses Kyouko of planning that all out in advance and Kyouko says that it was like a pretty good plan right to like swap the characters lines. She figured that the actress playing the little sister would go for the older sister's line since that's like all you'd have to remember at the time because that's in the script. Later on, Lori, Maria and Moko are waiting for President Lori to say that Lori, Maria and Moko and Kyouko are all writing in a limo together.

Maria is pissed that Kyouko has to pay for her tuition fees for the training because the other actresses accused her of cheating by acting with Maria instead of the actual actresses in the scene. You would think that the president of the company would have to find my way. What a piece of shit. Fuck that guy. Are you kidding me? That's crazy. Kyouko says it's fine because she could just pay in installments, but it's not fine. You're rich ass dad.

I just solved all of your child trauma in like an hour. Oh, my God. Can't even give me like a waiver. It's not even real money. Like just waive the fee. It doesn't matter who cares if there's one more person in the class. It doesn't cost anything. Don't tell them. Don't tell the other. It's like in it's like for getting in grad school when it's like, oh, you need to fill out this form so we can like waive your grad tuition fees because you're an RA, but it's just money.

It's fake money that they pay themselves. It's not even real money. Why are you acting like this is what you're doing? This is real money. Why would I have to pay taxes on it? It's stupid. This is bullshit. Kyouko should burn this place to the ground. But she's all fine with it. She's like, I could just pay in installments like, yeah, okay.

Then she asked her about or she asked Maria what she's going to do about her dad, but Maria doesn't know what to say and they kind of like a little back and forth about it. President Lori is very impressed with Kyouko's performance today and thinks that she may be able to surpasses expectations as we cut to credits, but not enough to like pay her tuition fees. I hate this man. Oh man. Yep. So yeah, lots of cool like making acting seem cool moments, right? Yeah. Yeah. This is like very engaging.

This is like a really good way to end this to be like, oh, I just like flipped all the lines. So like instead of me being the person comforting them who's protesting, I'm doing the oppa. I'm on the attack because I'm Kyouko and I'm aggressive. I'm pissed. Yeah. We haven't seen her like, well, I guess when she was playing in the Ruri thing, her character was more soft spoken. But yeah, I feel like she's going to rely on her guts and like that person of being tough a lot.

Yeah. Well, but I mean, this is where she shines. This is her whole advantage. This is what makes her good. It's not like she can just fabricate new personas. It's like she has no training. Yeah. But it's also like that naturally comes off pretty well. You know what I mean? Like it's good. Yeah, this rules. Kyouko's great. I love that she's just like, you know what? I can't just say here and comfort this. My fake little sister in this story. That's dumb. Nobody would ever do that.

Or even if they did do that, it wouldn't work. You know what I mean? Like it never works. You've comforted people before. I've done this before. You're like, oh, things aren't that bad. It's not how you do it. I'm bad at comforting people. Have you tried doing this? Have you tried just attacking them? I haven't. Maybe I'll give that shot next time. Yeah, just make them feel bad. Yeah, you'll need to read the manga. It's so good. It's good. You like this is really good. Better.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I bet it is. I probably do need to read this one. Yep. Yep. Yep. Um, it's so the scene where Maria has the like one, two punch of being like, oh, your dad doesn't hate you. He just moved to America by himself. Oh, your dad doesn't hate you. He just can't call it right you because he's busy. Yeah, like because we do like damn, maybe your dad does hate you.

Well, they do the little, you know, thing where, oh, what parent, something's, if a parent didn't go to a kid's, you know, school rehearsal, something's wrong with that parent and clear that those the case for Maria's dad says, he's like, ooh, and then just like anyone with whatever. Nope. I've lost my train of thought. Yeah. I mean, it seems like from what I understand being somewhat of an absentee parent, especially for like fathers, it's not that uncommon in Japan, or at least it wasn't.

I remember it. So I took some Japanese classes in college and my instructor who was like a, you know, Japanese woman, you know, yeah, came here to teach. Um, she, we had like a unit where we talked about like it was like somebody to, you know, somebody was talking with their family and they're like, oh yeah, my dad just like comes home and like you, you know, you, he, he like lay out his slippers for him and he comes and he drinks beer and then he goes to sleep and that's it.

And I'm like, wow, that's kind of sad. Like you just don't really interact outside of that. And my teacher was like, yeah, my dad was like that. It was just kind of like that. I'm like, that's kind of a bummer. And she's like, I guess. Okay. Yeah. I guess it's more like the family unit is together for the sake of like functioning, you know, like making money or having food and everyone has their role and it's not about being close as a family necessarily.

Yeah. I mean, it's just like, it's the, it's the, I feel like it's the very like sixties dynamic they would have. It's like I'm watching an episode of Mad Men. You know what I mean? It's like the extent at which Don Draper interacts with like Bobby or someone is like basically nothing. Hmm. Yeah. And it's just continues to be the case a bit more there. Um, there you go.

Yeah. He's bad, I feel like you don't see that many, I feel like, well, they're just so formal socially, even amongst their own family sometimes like we don't, they don't push their feelings or overshare or express. Yeah. I'm sure it's like, I'm sure it's like, you know, completely arbitrary. It's like what your family dynamic is. I'm just like, I just, it doesn't seem like this is that uncommon. Yeah. And like, this is the reason why like, and people are being like, Oh, it's not that weird.

He's just doing this. You know what I mean? Whereas I would be like, yeah, you know, it's great that your dad never calls you. Yeah. I know. Well, it's like when you have a friend who is like broken up with their boyfriend. So you're like, yeah, he was never right, blah, blah, blah, but then they like get back together with him and then it's like, well, now they know how I, what I think of that person. Oh, yeah.

Like that is so funny when like, yeah, you have a friend that brings up with someone and you're like, yeah, that person, like that person was a terrible match. They were really annoying and they get back to him later. You're going to be like, oh, maybe I should walk back some of that, but I'm not going to. No, yeah. Very funny. Yeah. I just don't like, I just end up crying too if they're crying instead of being able to offer any comforting words. Man. But yeah. She does something that Rin can't.

Yeah. She can. Does it? Maria's commiserate with Maria. I feel like it's unbelievable that any human's voice sounds like that naturally. Dude, I love when people voice kids is crazy. I'm like, how do you do this? Kids don't sound like nobody sounds like this. It's great. Yeah. It's so good. Maria's great. I love that she's like so she's like as soon as Kyoko like starts like maniacally laughing and like being like terse. Maria's like, this is the best thing that's ever happened.

Yes. It's like, listen kids love villains. I don't know. It's great. Right. She's we'll see. Well, I don't know if we'll see in the anime, but she's right because she's tried all these other like voodoo kind of things before. So clearly she has an interest in kind of darker things and she dresses kind of Lolita style gothic style. So she very clearly that what she's into. Is like darker thematic thing. So she's all about it.

Yeah. Well, it's interesting because it's like, you know, they're like, oh, none of us can connect like none of us. She won't listen to any of us, but it's like none of you like really take any time to figure out what she's like. I don't even have faces. You just shadowy face. Yeah. I mean, it's even like like Ren's take on the situation was correct. Yes. But like the problem is that like he doesn't know anything about it.

Like I'm sure he could have said that differently if it's like, you know, if he knew anything about it's also like it's a place to step in and say that necessarily. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's you know, but it's like you're not really like speaking from a place where she's at. You know what I mean? You're speaking like an adult like she's like a, you know, 20 year old man like he's talking to appear or something. Yeah. It's like not.

Yeah. You know, they do talk down to her and it's nice that Kyo Kyo like doesn't do that. And it's like, oh, you're kind of like, you know, I'm talking to you like you're my friend. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Check out these doodles I make. Check out these cursed dolls I make. Isn't it? It's insane. Like the detail she's putting into these dolls like unreal. Yeah. She could make so much money selling those. I mean, but this is how like you connect with kids, right? That's how she makes money.

Sell those things. That's true. I like that she's always complaining about money. I can relate to that. Yeah, of course. It's like the most real shit ever. It's great. I can't believe she like doesn't care about having to pay an installment. So I'd be losing my mind. Hmm. Hmm. I guess she's just happy for her new little friend, Maria. I love it when I'm writing in a limo, but I still have to pay my tuition and installments.

Oh, you know, give me the money for the limo ride instead of the limo ride. It's fine. Oh, for real, man. Right. If you could, I know, I like to tell my my mom like, imagine how much money I've saved you by not liking soda and all the free water I've drank my entire life. That's so much money. Yeah. Oh, uh, yeah. So what do you think? No, that's good. I don't know. I mean, that was kind of its own arc. Yeah, it's a lot of this is a series of many smaller arcs. I mean, I feel like this.

Yeah. The connected tissue is that like, oh, she's getting into acting somewhat, right? So maybe she'll start to do some of the acting training stuff. And then she'll probably do something with Moko. Yeah. It was also like the acting person. So nice. Yeah. Well, I like the next arc. So it's good. You'll it's more like clever delivery.

You know, it's like interesting portrayals of things that, you know, it's them acting of a thing that we'll never see the entirety of, but like they make it interesting for the bits that we do see. Yeah. I'm going to be honest, this place sounds terrible. It sounds incredibly boring. But you know, whatever.

Yeah. But I do like how everybody like Kyo-Ko's able to connect with people just by like treating them normally for the most part or like reacting pretty normal to people and not just being like fake nice to them. Well, she's done. That's the whole thing. It's just like, yeah, I'm just kind of like, so this is just how we interact with people. So that's what I do.

It never wins like, ooh, I thought you were going to like get mad at me or like talk about me behind my back and instead she's like, no, I just stay so to your face. Hmm. Yeah. Yep. Kyo-Ko rules best. So good so far. Yeah. Yeah. Cause she, yeah, right. She expresses well. She does not hide things like so many people seem to do. Which is like, again, the weird thing about the love me section is it seems like they're trying to push them towards doing that.

Yeah. Even though that just seems like the wrong thing to do. I mean, again, like even Moka was like cooler when she's just being normal, you know what I mean? Like, I mean, maybe just the existence of the department and embarrassing name is enough to make them think about things more rather than actually making them do it, but at least they'll be more mindful. And I, yeah, I feel like your criticisms are not like words in this series. Oh, they're just, they've just kind of, yeah.

So, uh, no, I mean, it's just, it's me like, I reflect that closely at themselves, I guess. Well, it's interesting because on one hand I get that it's like, okay, you're like a public, you're going to have like a persona, right? So you need to like act like this and you know, you can't like snap people like that. Like, you know, I understand that there's that, that coaching part, but it's always couched in like, Oh, well you as a person are incapable of feeling love.

This is like a character flaw you have instead of like a PR flaw that you might have. Yeah, yeah. Where she's like, I feel like you could just coach someone to be like, listen, man, you just go like, you got to know when to get mad and when to just like brush things off. So many celebrities are shitty on this. I had the idea. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like people do this all the time.

I'm sure like that actually exists, but this is, this is framed as like, oh, you as like a person have a deficiency and it's like, I don't think they have a deficiency, man. Yeah. Uh, whatever is a good show. It's No, it's good. It's funny that the framing is always like in that like this is the problem, but it's also the only reason why they're able to succeed at everything they do. No, yeah. Like if Koko is just like nice and loving, she wouldn't have been able to help out.

This is why they can't help out. Rory and Maria. This is why they don't understand any of the people like around them. Yeah. They're like, oh, this impossible task that Koko solved in like four hours. Yeah. I know she's. She this time she's actually paying a financial price. But last time it was like an injury. She sustained doing this stuff for other people. Ah, she's taken. Oh yeah. Like the whole idea of her being like I'm I'm not going to start living for other people.

I'm going to start being selfish and then it's just like all self sacrificing nonstop. Yeah. She's still doing that. It's still happening. Instead, she's just motivated. She's just pissed off the whole time, which is pretty good. Yep. But she still is self sacrificing. Well, it is much more than fucking rent. Saruga probably is or the president is or anybody that works there. Indeed. Indeed. Yeah. Well, hopefully that'll just make her stand out and kill show if she wants.

This I want this series to end with her becoming the president like she just like does like a coup and the executive board. She takes over L and me. I think Moko would be a better president. She's more stern and like business minded. She can be somewhere in the C sweet. I don't know. You know, maybe she could be like she could maybe kill could be like the like the like diff not the de facto leader, but like the figurehead.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, like she's the CEO, but she doesn't really do anything. It's really, you know, this other person that does like the CFO or does everything. You know what I mean? Yeah. That would be good. That's the that's the ideal ending. Okay. Well, I don't know the ending. So maybe they could happen. And then she can start like a line of like like dolly. It's like the Bratz dolls or whatever about being angry. And then we can popularize girls being angry.

Yeah. We need girls should be angry. Yeah. We have plenty of reasons to be. Yeah. You know, it's all it's all talking about each other behind each other's back and like that and being caddy and stuff. Ever tried just like actually just yelling openly. You just being mean and like a straightforward way, you know, I hate the man. Yeah. I got everyone equal opportunity. Yes. That's right. Um, okay. What this is running along. Let's go to recommendations. I've got one in mind. If you want, I can.

Yeah, go ahead. I know. Okay. So I know I am going to recommend a video game. Uh, tails from the borderlands. The original one apparently the sequel sucks, but this one is probably the funniest game I've ever played. Like I just I need to replay it by just so distinctly remember being so entertained. Um, it's got two characters that you kind of switch between playing. It's a telltale game. So it's, you know, that like kind of dialogue time response game play.

Uh, it's just set in the world of borderlands on Pandora. And, um, one of the characters, he ends up being shown in borderlands three, but, um, basically you play as Reeze who works at that, uh, Hyperion company that handsome Jack is the antagonist of borderlands.

Two, um, he's like a flunky and then kind of gets the boot and it's just kind of huffing it on Pandora with like the normal folks and then they run into this con artist lady named Fiona and they just kind of have a bunch of wild adventures and they are both so funny. Um, and I really it's I just cannot emphasize how much how funny it was. Um, it's probably I try to think of the telltale games if it's my favorite that this in Wolf among us maybe are the best ones in my opinion.

I mean, I don't know. Everyone knows the walking dead ones, right? That one's fine. I think I like these ones better though. And, but yeah, just and there's even a cute little drone thing in this one. That's super adorable and we love cute stuff and yeah. So tales from the borderlands. I have a steam. Uh, it's probably on all the things, but make sure you don't get the sequel. Just the normal one. Apparently the sequel is bad. We hate sequels here.

Well, it's called I think the new one's called new tales from the borderlands. Oh, bad name. Yeah, I've not heard good things about. So let's just stick with their original one. And yeah, it's you know, it's. Well, I guess it's canning because Reeves made it into the third game. So yeah, a levelable cast and easy, you know, not too stressful to play and yeah. So that's my recommendation. How about you, Joe? So I watch stuff when I eat lunch or whatever, right?

And also when I eat dinner sometimes because I live by myself and I'm going to watch things when I eat stuff. Otherwise I'm just in silence. Yeah. Yes. And normally I'm watching some Gundam thing. I took a little break between G Gundam. I just started when I watched the first episode of Gundam wing like right before this server. But right, you know, ratcheting it back up. So a lot of the times I've been watching stuff.

I just like I'm going to throw something on like, you know, and like leave it on in the background. So I've been watching a lot of like pro Age of Empires 2 games. You remember the video game Age of Empires 2? Well, there are pros at it. And it's very engaging to watch because it's like a really fun like game to watch like tournaments and stuff. You know what I mean? I like bring you know, some of them are sponsored. I think but like so I watch a lot of those.

One of the castors I really like is T90 official. This is YouTube name. Good casting and like kind of goes through a lot of the different stuff that like happens in the game and like the different ages and who's winning and like what's this person did this thing and that's good for this reason. So it's like a really engaging commentary to watch, especially, you know, if you haven't watched it for a while, it's nice to get some understanding of what's going on in the game.

So this is a channel I really like watching to watch some video games as sports while I'm just kind of hanging out not doing much. It's fun. Age of Empires 2. Age of Pathology retoll just came out. I've been playing some of that. But they're not as I don't understand that game well enough to like enjoy the pro or like good people play it. But Age of Empires 2 has been around forever. And it's fun to watch people.

I've enjoyed like I've really shifted over time in terms of like what type of video game stuff I like to watch like I used to watch like comedy people, you know, like I used to watch like Game Grumps a bajillion years ago and now it's like I want to watch people that are good at video games. Just like hang out and be good at video games, you know, like here's look at this person they're doing some crazy strat like I like to watch speed runs. Uh-huh. And I like to watch pro games. It's cool.

Nice. Yeah, I have never been that into watching people playing games until I started doing it. I don't try to think of who I like, but I think they're just like cute voices like if they I don't know like nice voice streamers is what I like to listen to. Oh yeah. Uh-huh. But yeah, sweet. Those are recommendations and we've got one more thing we suggest you do and that is to leave us. Oh, you're not going to say it. Read us five stars. Give us five stars.

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Recommend us to your friends. Yeah. Skim beats good and also it's old, which means a lot of people probably haven't seen it. Yeah, I don't tell them to watch it. Yeah, I think it is one that definitely flew under the radar. Um, yeah, it's good. I'm like a light and get a lot. Yeah, I know. Oh, just wait. There's yeah, I didn't think about it until you start phrasing in it arcs. But yeah, it's like got so many arcs in it. They don't just drag on forever. So that's fine.

No, it's really refreshing to be like getting in and out of a thing, you know? Yes. Um, so yeah, okay. Uh, we're excited to cover episodes 10, 11 and 12. That's right. Double digits. And until then, uh, if somebody's been emailing you and you're like, why do they say the same stuff? Consider responding and then you'll have stuff to talk about. Unfortunately, in the year 2024 that no longer holds up. If someone's sending you the same email over ever again, they're a bot. Your dad's a bot kid.

I don't know what to tell you. Determinators got him. Oh my goodness. Yes. I mean, maybe next time. You're all concerned, I guess. Dude, it was great when they showed the flashback of like the plane that went down with her mom and it's like, oh, it's like a like a commercial airline. It's not like a private jet. It's like a big ass airplane.

I was like, oh my God. Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like the celebrity plane crashes are always private jets, which are just terrible from the firemen anyways and dangerous. So just, you know, let's go back on that. But nope. That was like a commercial airline. I guess like some flight went down. I was like, dang man. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, maybe I don't know if like she's a model. So maybe people don't get past her as much as a model, depending on what kind of modeling you do.

Yeah. I mean, you don't make like super bank. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. So if your kid wants you to come home for like the holidays and you don't do it, just don't do it. Just say whatever. Send him an email. I love that. Just email your seven year old. They love using the computer. Yeah. For sure. And on that note, I'm a cheery, loving, love me section. Yeah. Very well. Right. Remember.

Uh, people you hate, put up posters of people you hate and then every time they do something that makes you hate them more, get a bigger poster of them and put it up. I simply do not have the room for more posters. Well, you got to figure out your layout. You got to start. You got to like a dedicated wall. I think my biggest poster is a Revan one. So maybe I guess that's who I hate the most. Wow. Nice little Republic. Hate myself. Yeah. Or who you once were. No, maybe still are.

Oh, no, I do have a big drastic or a big T-Rex poster. Oh, we hate dinosaurs. We love Rex. These we hate him. Her. We hate her every day. No, we'd love. We got. I think she's so glad that we killed you. Oh my God. I'm so glad you died a gajillion years ago. Yeah. I use your car. Oh my goodness. Okay, we're ending it. It ends here. All right. Bye everyone. Bye everyone.