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AWTY 27 - Slappin' Meat Bags (Scum's Wish)

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Speaker A:

Hello and welcome to our week. There yet an exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

Speaker B:

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

Speaker C:

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime scum no joke this week. I'm just Weebie scum.

Speaker A:

Finally, he admits it on air. We've been trying to get this this whole time.

Speaker B:

We're never recording another episode.

Speaker A:

Sorry to pull you into our sting operation, but this had to be done.

Speaker C:

This audio file will be sold off for millions on the black market.

Speaker A:

All right, so what do we have going on this week, dana?

Speaker B:

This week we're watching kuzuno Hong ki, which translates to scum's wish. We're watching the first three episodes. It came out in 2017. I watched it as it was airing, and I really liked it.

Speaker A:

Fresh anime.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

I like my skull fresh.

Speaker B:

It's not exactly brand new, but it is new.

Speaker C:

Er, in the last but yeah, two or three shows we watch, those are 90s centric. Yeah.

Speaker B:

So now we're back in the 2010s.

Speaker A:

Brendan, do you have any experience with this show?

Speaker C:

I heard a lot about it when it came out, and I got a general premise of it from someone that someone's videos I watched that, like, reviews anime, so I don't know fine details, but I know the basic plot of it and that's about it. Got you.

Speaker A:

Yeah. I know this is something I also heard a little bit about, but I'm concerned because all I heard about it is it's very horny.

Speaker B:

Yeah, like I said in the last episode, I was kind of like, I don't know how you guys are going to feel about it. But like I said, I really enjoyed it when I watched it. I'm not sure if I'm I don't know because I don't have vivid memories of it.

Speaker C:

As long as it's just horny for horny's sake and not horny for murder. Like elephant lied, I think we'll do better. We'll see.

Speaker B:

Well, one can only hope.

Speaker C:

All right, we'll see. Yeah.

Speaker A:

We are watching the first three episodes. I hope it will work with my puritan. Oh, God. This is the sound of settling.

Speaker C:

I'm so sorry.

Speaker B:

I don't I don't know this joke.

Speaker A:

It's a Death Cab for cutie song. The Sound of Settling, which is basically what the show is.

Speaker B:

Excellent.

Speaker C:

I didn't know it was a reference. I think I just understood words just went with it.

Speaker A:

Well, that was a joke for me, then.

Speaker C:

Okay.

Speaker B:

Brendan makes those all the time.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

Is this how you feel?

Speaker C:

Always. All the time. It's like that one episode of Murphy Brown. Guys, you get it, right?

Speaker B:

Okay, so I watched all three episodes subbed.

Speaker A:

I watched all three dubbed conflicts.

Speaker B:

And the point that I didn't know.

Speaker C:

It'S pretty new. So it's rarer to have newer shows dub right away because it takes time. So yeah. I'm not sure how popular this dub is or how out there it is or where it aired. But, yeah, I did the usual dub sub dub.

Speaker B:

I also feel like it's a show that I never felt like would be dubbed because of the content, but I.

Speaker C:

Don'T know all that gor and violence. Give it on over to America. We love it. Sex. Oh, no. My mom don't don't do that.

Speaker B:

Sex handled in, like, a slightly different and matureish way. Weird.

Speaker C:

Sexy. Who's. Not for advertisement unheard of.

Speaker B:

Well, let's get into it.

Speaker A:

All right.

Speaker B:

Episode one starts off it's July. It's the end of school, I guess some kids are walking home. You see some kids walking home. And then we get a girl in the classroom. And this girl in the classroom is hanabi. She is the main character in my notes. I just called her Hana because I think it's cheesy that her name is hanaby because it means firework. And I just think that it's cute.

Speaker C:

But Cheesy a bit on the nose.

Speaker B:

Yeah. So she's in that classroom, and she's, like, caressing the desk and having a.

Speaker C:

Moment, I'll say, knowing what the show was about before going into it. As soon as I saw the scene, oh, no. Is it getting right? Like, right away? Are we going into this? I was like, okay, is she going.

Speaker B:

To fuck the desk?

Speaker C:

I don't know. I was sure if someone coming behind her or what. I wasn't sure.

Speaker B:

Yeah. So she is in her in this classroom. She, like, leans on the desk, and then the teacher comes in and she says, oh, niche on. So we find out. And he calls her by her first name, Hannah. They remind each other that that's not right because now they're in a professional relationship, student teacher relationship. But they grew up together.

Speaker A:

So this is where my confusion in the dub began. Because they call him brother. No was very concerned right off the bat.

Speaker B:

No.

Speaker C:

Yeah. I wasn't sure if it was, like, a literal brother or if it was.

Speaker B:

Like, you look similar.

Speaker C:

Yeah. Or if it was, like, family friend, grew up together. You might as well be family. Quote brother.

Speaker B:

That one.

Speaker C:

Okay. This makes it slightly better.

Speaker A:

But right off the bat, I was like, oh, no, dana. What are you showing me?

Speaker C:

Incest. Two weeks.

Speaker B:

I don't condone.

Speaker A:

But still, it is off putting for this character to be named Brother as we'll get to throughout the rest of these episodes.

Speaker B:

Yeah. So then they're interrupted by the beautiful music teacher. Her name is gawa. And throughout my notes, I really just called her music teacher because I wrote her name down once and then forgot what it was and never went back to it.

Speaker A:

I missed it the first time.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

She's the goal, not the person. These three episodes, she's very pretty.

Speaker B:

She's very cute. And onichon sensei, whatever we want to call him that guy Brother. He obviously is, like, flustered when she comes in. He thinks she's cute and she's bringing him a folder that that he had left in the teacher's lounge. And she hannah gets upset, and she leaves the classroom, and she bumps into Muogi, her boyfriend.

Speaker C:

Her boy a boy.

Speaker B:

Her boy, a handsome blonde boy. He they bump into Warren High School, who's club, and he says, I think it's interesting because at this point, you don't know they have a relationship. She hasn't said, like, we're dating yet, but he just says, I thought you'd cry. And I think that's so it's an interesting way to introduce their dynamic because they know each other's feelings very well. We'll get into it, whatever. And then they go behind the school, and they mack on each other.

Speaker C:

Just start going at it.

Speaker B:

And we get this is I was kind of like, oh, no. They got one of those spit trails, which I feel like is like a very henty thing.

Speaker C:

I wouldn't know. I don't watch that filth.

Speaker A:

Not in this household.

Speaker C:

No, man.

Speaker B:

But as we see the scene of them making out, we get Hanabi's inner monologue of how they're essentially just using each other because she's in love with the teacher, her homeroom teacher, Onichon, and he is in love with the music teacher. And then we get the Op, which is very reminiscent of music that I listened to in, like, middle school.

Speaker A:

Jet and club bangers.

Speaker B:

Hell, yeah.

Speaker C:

A lot of my Chemical Romance or was that me?

Speaker B:

I think it's a nice pop e song.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I did. Like this.

Speaker C:

Yeah, it grew on me with each episode. Like, I was like, that's all right. And then by the third one, I was like, yeah, it's pretty good.

Speaker B:

I like the end line, specifically, like, how the melody goes. But so after that, we go back to April. There's cherry blossoms. It's spring. How exciting. Romance is in the air.

Speaker C:

We got to add cherry blossoms to the bingo card.

Speaker A:

Absolutely. There's also roses in the intro.

Speaker C:

Oh, yeah, that's true.

Speaker B:

Good point. But so she says it's like, the first day of school, and she knew that Onichan was going to be a teacher, but she didn't think that he was going to be her homeroom teacher, but he was, and that makes her excited because now she gets to see him every day.

Speaker C:

Oh, she said it was the beginning of junior year.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

So is that junior of high school?

Speaker B:

Yes.

Speaker C:

Okay. We have some flashbacks and other episodes and threw me off, so I wasn't 100% sure. Yeah, okay.

Speaker B:

They're teens. They're older. It's after school, I guess, or whatever. And Hana is bringing some papers to the teacher's lounge to deliver to Onichan. It's hard because I don't think they ever say his name. I don't know his name, so I can't call him anything else.

Speaker C:

Brother.

Speaker A:

I very much don't want to continue with brother.

Speaker C:

Older sibling, older blood relative.

Speaker B:

Because they're both stop it because they're both in love with teachers. So I can't just say teachers.

Speaker C:

Eda kind of looks like eda. Everyone in classes does.

Speaker B:

Let's go with that. eda. She's bringing papers to him, and she opens the door, and she's like, hey. And then she sees him flirting with the music teacher. Oh, no. Flirting with a woman's own agenda crimes. How dare he?

Speaker C:

This hussey. Yeah, I'm referring to eda. eda's the hussey.

Speaker B:

No. And then she's kind of, like, ruminating on this, and she gets upset because she knows him so well that she can tell that he's, like, smitten. Like, he loves this woman already, and.

Speaker C:

That makes her hot to trot.

Speaker B:

Angry roar. He's my man. My tennis years older than me, man.

Speaker C:

My brother.

Speaker B:

No, my brother. My brother and me. No. So then it's later on, and he is having dinner at hana's house with her mom, and it looks tasty. They're having some noodles.

Speaker A:

See, this also threw me off because they were calling him brother. And then we see them at home with them together and being like, oh, this is delicious. I was like, oh, they are family. Oh, no, this is much more.

Speaker B:

It takes a minute, I guess, but we'll get there.

Speaker C:

This is the first time where he's like, oh, your mom is so nice, instead of like, our mom. So I was kind of like, Wait, what is happening? And then he's like, oh, I was out fishing.

Speaker B:

Truth.

Speaker C:

He's like, Your mom cooks all these meals, and I'm outfishing with my dad, and the mom says, like, oh, we're neighbors after all. I was like, oh, it's the parent trap. The parents get together, and then technically, they're siblings. And I was like, no, that's not it. It was just a mistranslation.

Speaker B:

But it's confusing with the parents to get back together.

Speaker C:

It's difficult here.

Speaker B:

Yeah, see, another reason why it should have never been dubbed.

Speaker C:

Hot teas.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but so oh, he says, that's delicious. And then hanna's mom is like, yeah, Hana actually helps. She doesn't usually. And I was just like, oh, mom dragging her out. Make some dinner for her mans. That isn't her man's. And while they're walking back to his place, he comments on the fact that it's just him and his dad at home and he doesn't get these delicious home cooked meals and that he really wants a wife. Soon.

Speaker C:

He could learn how to cook.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

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Speaker C:

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Speaker B:

Oh, wow.

Speaker C:

There, you plug them enough, they become sponsors on their own, right? We just start getting money, right?

Speaker A:

Yeah, you just say it, and then they're like, well, you did the ad.

Speaker B:

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Speaker A:

Here's $10,000.

Speaker B:

I guess as he's saying that, she says, like, oh, he hasn't talked about this in a while. And she has a flashback when she was in elementary school, and I think he must have been in middle school. They were having a lot of school.

Speaker C:

Maybe.

Speaker B:

Yeah, I don't know. I don't really know their age difference exactly. I think he was it's hard because every once in a while we get an image of her in like, a middle school uniform and then I think he's in a high school uniform. I don't know their age difference.

Speaker C:

It's significant.

Speaker B:

Yeah. Like at least six years.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

They're having some kind of field day at her school, and she won the three legged race with him. And one of the kids points out that he is neither her mom or her dad. And then another little girl named noriko, she's relevant later. That's why we get her name, accuses her of cheating, and she starts yelling, cheater. cheater. And then she's just like, you're cheating. You have special shoes.

Speaker C:

Special shoes. This big, pumped up pink kicks.

Speaker A:

They were banned by the teachers.

Speaker C:

They're laser steroids.

Speaker B:

Hannah'S feeling real upset about being accused of cheating, so she runs off and, like, sits behind a building and he follows her. And she's like, It's not cheating. And he's like, no, it's not. Let's share this delicious bento that your mom made for us. And she's like, what? She had work, so that explains why her mom couldn't be there. And he's like, yeah, she stayed up all night making it. And I'm like, oh, that's nice. And it looks delicious.

Speaker C:

Oh, can we check off Dead Mom Club for eda?

Speaker B:

Yeah, we don't know. I don't know if it ever gets into that, actually.

Speaker C:

He's not that important.

Speaker B:

Not yet.

Speaker A:

Anime dad Club for because she doesn't have a dad.

Speaker B:

We don't know what that means. But while they're eating the bento, she says, like, oh, you get to go fishing with your dad. I don't have a dad.

Speaker C:

Her mom asexually reproduced like a sea sponge.

Speaker B:

Just bond.

Speaker A:

I mean, it's just stork work, baby.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

So they're having this conversation and he ends it by saying, we'll help each other when we feel lonely. And that's something that she's obviously held on to very deeply throughout her whole life. And when we cut back to present day, he's leaving, waving goodbye, and she just goes, wire. And I oof, I like this show a lot.

Speaker A:

Emotion.

Speaker B:

Real emotions being dealt with. It's interesting. So it's like the next day, Hana is back at school. It's whatever it is, I guess it's the next day.

Speaker C:

Sure.

Speaker B:

And she hears yeah, she hears some teen boys in the hallway talking about how hot mina gao essentially is. And she gets all steamed up about it because she's like, what's so great about her? And then she turns to walk down the hallway and she bumps into her oh, no. Awkward. And she drops her she drops her music everywhere. And she's like, Are you okay? And I'm like, goddamn, you're hot. She's so cute. Easy mookie with her long strawberry blonde hair and her lip gloss. She's so pretty. She says she smells like shampoo, but.

Speaker A:

Like, too strongly like shampoo, like old person shampoo.

Speaker B:

Yeah. So she's not really helping her pick up the papers, but then mugi, this is where we meet moogie officially. He comes and helps Minigawa pick up her papers and when he hands them to her, she calls him by his first name and he's like, oh, we're at school. You can't do that. And it's just like.

Speaker A:

Parallelism.

Speaker B:

And Hannah says, I know those eyes. And I'm like, you also want to bang a teacher?

Speaker C:

Those classroom eyes.

Speaker A:

This also made me mad because she said that standing behind him when she could not see his eyes and when they talk, he has to turn his head around. So there was no way she actually saw his eyes.

Speaker B:

Well, she saw them while he was helping her pick up her papers.

Speaker A:

She was behind them the entire time. I rewound it too. Okay, that bugged me for no, come on, anime.

Speaker C:

This is the hill and this is where I die.

Speaker A:

I was on board until this very.

Speaker B:

Scene and then I stopped watching it for a few.

Speaker A:

Tell you what happens after this.

Speaker C:

We're going to have 20 minutes of.

Speaker A:

Dead air, but so that happens.

Speaker B:

And then hannah's kind of like, hey. And he's like and then it shows them outside talking about their issues that they have in common. And he's like, yeah, she was my tutor in middle school. I never thought that she would be my teacher, but so he pretty much just has a huge crush on her. And they're both just talking about their crushes, pretty much. And in her inner monologue, she says, we're both vindictive people. And at this point I'm like, hell yeah. I love that they know that they're shitty, shitty people.

Speaker C:

The self awareness, but then lack of it at times.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I mean, they're teenagers. They're allowed, but it is nice that they do acknowledge it at points and not go, how unfair for us.

Speaker C:

Everyone's mean to me.

Speaker B:

That's what I think is so interesting about this show. Like they are teenagers. So like, she's aware, she's mature enough to understand what's happening is wrong, but she's also like, I just want to fuck him.

Speaker C:

She's remote enough to not stop it.

Speaker B:

She mentions that they've the more they talked, the more they moped. And they just kind of bonded over their depression of not getting to be with the people they really want to be with. And we get a scene of them hanging out in his room and he's playing video games and she's moping because that's all they do as a teenager. And while he's playing, she kind of sneaks up behind him and hugs him from behind. And he asks her if she's sad and she just says, Aren't you sad? And then they take things to the bed and I couldn't remember if this scene happened right in the beginning. It does. So they're laying on the bed and he's on top of her. And he says, you could pretend that I'm him. And she's like and then he starts kissing her neck. And they're having some steamy moments. They're getting steamy, all hot and bothered. Yeah, like teens do in my notes I wrote. So begins their extremely toxic relationship, just them using each other. It's awful. They're awful. He suggests that she closes her eyes so she can imagine that it's on each one. And she does. And he kisses her and he pulls away. And she's like, oh, that was my first kiss. And he's like, oh, cool. And it's like it's like it's ugh. It's interesting because it's like, sweet, but it's also so terrible.

Speaker C:

Yeah, it's definitely a very toxic relationship between the two of them. But they're not like outwardly toxic. Toxic to each other. Like, man, I fucking hate you. You want to bang. Like, it's not so hard, but still.

Speaker B:

Be they like each other, but they.

Speaker C:

Don'T want to they don't like like each other.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but they're not even like friends is the thing. They just condone each other and then they just beg. But so then he leans down and puts his tongue right in her mouth. And at this point I was like, oh, we're doing this now. Okay. And then I also put I feel like it's going to be hard to explain why I like this show.

Speaker C:

Hey, welcome to my world.

Speaker A:

I do want to say though, out of all the shows we've watched, this is one of the least fanservicey ones we get because there's no I know. Like anime titty wobbles. Because they're like, yeah, you're going to see them fuck, but we're going to do it tastefully.

Speaker B:

Exactly.

Speaker A:

And I was scared it would just be a raunchy fuck fest for the sake of being a raunchy fuck fest. But there's, like, reason behind it. What? I don't understand how you can do that in an anime.

Speaker B:

Yes. One of the notes I wrote afterward is that this isn't hentai. It's not an etchy. It's a show where people have sex because that's a thing that people do in media.

Speaker C:

And it's like adults.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but as teenagers, it's normal for, like, other shows to, like, have moments like this, at least in America. I don't know about Japan, but yeah.

Speaker A:

It'S a teen high school drama.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but with anime, it's either like, oh, you're fucking in this show or you're not.

Speaker C:

Are we fucking or not?

Speaker A:

Or just like, hey, let's stop the plot to say, look how hot this girl is. Aren't you so attracted to her?

Speaker B:

But so yeah, they have a moment. They do not bang. But he unbunds her shirt and fills up her boobs and takes off her skirt. And they're enjoying each other. Sort of. They're enjoying each other while pretending that they're someone else. And she says, like, I have to keep quiet so he knows that it's not me. Like, I don't want to ruin this for him.

Speaker C:

Illusion.

Speaker B:

Because she's like, oh, he's not making noise. He's being considerate of me. I have to make sure that I'm considerate of him. And then they stop, and she gets a text from eda quote, and he says, like, thank you for the dinner last night. And she's like, don't talk to me. And then mugi asks her if she'd be interested in continuing to do things like this. And then we're shown a scene at school where a guy has confessed his feelings for Hana. And she's like, I I'm sorry. I don't like you. And he's like, hey, I waited a week for your response. I feel like I deserve this, essentially. And she says, there's nothing more revolting than the affection of someone you're completely disinterested in, is there? And I'm just like, oh, fuck God.

Speaker C:

Dangle.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I wrote that down too, because that is so savage, very uninterested.

Speaker C:

It's clear, though. It really hammers home, like, hey, there's no chance, man. Fucking move on.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but so she goes up to the roof of the school. She talks about how when he asked her that, moogie, she was like, oh, I can't answer. I can't let go of my feelings. I can't let go of myself. And then he meets her on the roof, and they have agreed to fake date. And she's like, So we're like, friends with benefits. And he's like, no, we didn't have sex, and we probably won't. And I'm just like, okay, sure. And they promised each other that they won't fall in love with each other. I also wrote down this quote. They say you can have everything but my feelings. And they're also like, when one of us makes it with the person we love, our relationship will end. And I'm like, yeah, okay.

Speaker A:

Good luck with that.

Speaker B:

The ending is also a nice song.

Speaker A:

Yes, I like this one, too.

Speaker C:

Yeah, the art style of the ending, it was like watercolor ink blot, sort of like kaleidoscopy. It was really cool. And also paired well, really, with the theme of the show.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

So, yeah, we start off episode two. They are now sort of established as a couple in school, and they're getting ready to walk home together. And hana's friend sanai wants to walk with her home. But when Mookie comes out, also, let me address this in the dub. It is not muggy, it is muki.

Speaker C:

Mookie. Yes.

Speaker B:

In the subtitles, they have a G.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I see it written out as, like, M-U-G-I but it is very clearly like moo K-I-E in pronunciation. So I'm going to be saying Mookie because that's what I wrote down.

Speaker B:

That's fine.

Speaker A:

It's also my friend's cat's name, and I find that hilarious.

Speaker B:

That's also one of merle High church's kids, mavis and Mookie.

Speaker A:

So sonia sees that they're going to walk home. He's like, don't let me interrupt you're having boyfriend time.

Speaker B:

Wait, sinai is her best friend.

Speaker C:

Yeah, best friend.

Speaker A:

Okay. redhead, long hair.

Speaker B:

In the subs, she calls her At chawn.

Speaker A:

So why did they do this to us?

Speaker B:

I don't know.

Speaker C:

That's why I watch both. I'm the translator between you two.

Speaker B:

I caught on quickly. It's fine. Continue.

Speaker A:

So they're walking home and they're about to smooch on their Walk and a blonde girl comes out and says, hey, you, stop that right now. And this is norco, the girl we saw earlier, saying, hey, that's not your parent for the three legged race. All grown up.

Speaker C:

I mean, kind of grown up. She's very small.

Speaker A:

Yes, grown up in age, not size.

Speaker C:

She is quite tiny.

Speaker A:

So we get her flashback. She is in love with Mookie and the cycle continues. But she is more upfront about it because when they were friends as children, they were compared to looking like a prince and princess. And she latched onto that and became as Princess Lee as possible and is just waiting for her prince.

Speaker C:

This character was introduced and immediately dead to me within a minute of her backstory. It's like, oh, you're like a prince and princess. And she based her entire personality around that. One comment from some random lady. I'm just like I'm done. This character sucks. Fuck her. Yeah.

Speaker A:

No, she's the worst.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but she's not just waiting for, like, a prince. She is waiting for her prince become her prince.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

So very possessive, very latching on to him, even though he's latching onto someone else.

Speaker B:

Everyone's doing it.

Speaker A:

It's the hot new craze in Japan. unrequited feeling.

Speaker B:

It's healthy as fuck.

Speaker C:

It's like smoking in 50 years. We look back and you go, oh, no, we shouldn't have done that.

Speaker A:

So they also sort of established that she is Hanabi's sort of nemesis. They don't get along throughout their school history. So Hana grabs her by the shirt and is like, hey, back off. Don't be clingy's.

Speaker B:

Quote in the subtitles is so I wouldn't go around clinging to things that aren't yours.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

Which savage.

Speaker C:

But also lacking self aware at this exact moment.

Speaker A:

Yeah, see, I thought it was self aware to be like, hey, I'm going through this too, champ. You don't want this.

Speaker C:

Back the fuck off and go down.

Speaker A:

The same road as me or else I'll be banging your crush, telling someone.

Speaker C:

What she needs to hear sort of thing.

Speaker B:

Yeah, I can see that.

Speaker A:

But, yeah, they're reflecting on this interaction later on, and mookie's like, hey, that was a little bit harsh, don't you think? And she's like, I guess I am a little. I'm not jealous. I'm possessive. And we get a princess lamenting on the train saying, oh, no, my man is sullied by that hussey that harlot my stars.

Speaker B:

That Hannah suggests that moogie just tell her that he doesn't like her.

Speaker C:

Or is it actually yeah, it was up on that roof. Same scene.

Speaker A:

Yeah, it was in there saying, like, hey, just reject her and get it over with.

Speaker B:

Yeah, because I feel like that's an important thing to add, is, like, she's not just saying it because you're my fake boyfriend. She's saying it because she's like, you know, in the long run, this is going to be better for her. Like, you should tell her.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

Another thing of being mature and self aware, but also stupid as fuck.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

They're all over the place.

Speaker C:

Mugi says, I don't want to make her sad because I like her, just not in that way. And I know if I just flat out deny any chance of it ever happening between us, it'll crush her.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

So Princess does the mature thing and tags along wherever they go and tries to win back affection, stealing food when they're on their lunch date. And finally, Hana is like, hey, back the fuck off. Go away.

Speaker C:

I will end you.

Speaker A:

Sanai sees this interaction as well.

Speaker B:

Noriko also is yelling at them because she's like, you don't like him. I can tell you don't. You're just using him. And sonia hears that, and that's one of the things she overhears. And she now she's found something to hold on to.

Speaker A:

All right, we'll get to that.

Speaker C:

Sanai seems to be all over the place. Interesting.

Speaker A:

So we get the next day at school, or whenever it is, hana is helping eda carry papers to the teacher's lounge, and she's like, oh, no. When we get there, we'll be all alone.

Speaker B:

Hello. I hate you.

Speaker C:

I feel like I've done the last, like, three episodes.

Speaker B:

Disgusting.

Speaker C:

Yeah, I'm mad, not wrong.

Speaker A:

So she's like, okay, while we're in this room together, I just need them to see me. Not as a student or, like, the kid friend, but as a woman, as she's about to, like, reach out and, like, get his attention. Lovely piano music comes from the music room where his lady is playing. And he's like, I just love coming here so I can hear that beautiful music.

Speaker B:

Okay.

Speaker A:

She deals with this very well by taking Mookie to a karaoke room and just, like, scream singing to get some aggression out. We lost up one anime reference I get.

Speaker B:

Yeah, babies first.

Speaker A:

I'm getting there, guys. So she's, like, singing along, trying to hone her musical abilities, and he's like, hey, you're not excellent at this. And she makes him sing along as well. And they're both, like, scream singing to get their feelings out. And naturally, they're alone in a room, so they start making out.

Speaker B:

After boogie asks her if she considers giving up, and she's like, do you? And he's like, oh, shit. You got me there.

Speaker A:

You win. Want to make out? So, yeah, they're just fantasizing about their crushes and all that fun stuff as they're making out, and all of the.

Speaker B:

Weird energy.

Speaker C:

Just slapping meat bags up against each other.

Speaker B:

I can't. I won't.

Speaker C:

It happens so frequently. I have to think of. Different words to describe it, but you.

Speaker B:

Don'T is the fake.

Speaker A:

Those words are criminal. So I'm quickly moving on. So we see sunai on a Train also being all reflective and stuff.

Speaker C:

And before that, when they're back in the karaoke room, we got little flashbacks of moogie or muji, whatever you call them, of another girl asking him to touch her. Yeah. And that's when they start hooking up, and that's when it cuts to tonight. Yeah.

Speaker A:

So we see she's reflecting on that interaction she saw of the lunch date gone awry. latching on.

Speaker C:

Lunch day gone soon.

Speaker B:

I thought, I'm going to go with a rye bread pun.

Speaker C:

No, I got to relate it back to the show.

Speaker B:

All right.

Speaker A:

So she really latches on to the thing Princess said of, hey, you're just using or he's just using you, you aren't actually interested. And she's like, oh, interesting. What a development.

Speaker C:

I'll have to use it to blackmail someone later.

Speaker A:

So we also see the next day that some girls are talking to Hana about relationship advice and wanting to pick her brain on stuff since she's part of the hot new couple. And mookie suggests, yeah, go for it. You don't have a lot of female friends, so this will be a good way to actually interact with other people instead of me.

Speaker C:

Yes.

Speaker A:

Sonia is your one female friend, and I think I'm your one male friend. So you have two friends. Let's expand. So there's a whole long convoluted subplot of this girl's relationship troubles of, like, the crush that she has went to a different school and cheated on her, and now she's cheating on him, blah, blah, blah. And now she's trying to pick between the crush that goes to the different school and the person she ended up seeing at her school and sort of going through the do you actually go for the person you have, or do you hold out for the crush and sort of how that indecision is killing me. So sort of some more context on what do you do? What do you do?

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

Hanaya says, like, oh, just pick the one. Whatever. Just says, pick the one you like more. And the girl is like, I just can't pick. Yeah, I can't choose.

Speaker B:

I like them both so much.

Speaker C:

That's the other point.

Speaker B:

You're a dumb bit.

Speaker C:

Yeah. She's like, I can't relate to that at all.

Speaker A:

That's an insane concept, weird being interested in two people.

Speaker C:

Right.

Speaker A:

So she then goes and talks to sanai, and they're discussing crushes, and Hana is like, hey, who are you crushing on? And she freezes up. And he's like, oh, I don't want to talk about it. Mine is so bashful.

Speaker B:

No.

Speaker A:

And Hana invites her over for a sleepover because she's been spending so much time with mookie that they need some.

Speaker B:

Time to themselves, some girl time to talk about boys.

Speaker A:

Right?

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

Just a couple gals being pal gals.

Speaker A:

Because when we get to Senate packing for the sleepover, she's like, oh, no. I am so in love with Hana.

Speaker C:

If it wasn't obvious enough and I.

Speaker A:

Need to talk about it. In the dub, she has a cat in her room, which is a very clear middle aged man just going, I am the only one who saw this subbed or subbed, and I need you to know I need to put a clip of that because it is so great.

Speaker C:

That would be the cool one.

Speaker A:

We have this lovely reveal of a gay crush, and just in the background, there's a man going.

Speaker C:

Because it's like a cat. This is the only time this is like the cat ever me out. Or just like, fucking whatever. And they just kind of make it a joke. I enjoy those. Those are very fun to me.

Speaker B:

It's an artistic choice.

Speaker C:

Oh, man, that's great.

Speaker A:

So, yeah, she goes over for the sleepover and I wrote down the quote. What's it called when it's between girls? It's called being gay.

Speaker C:

Gay.

Speaker B:

Shit, you're gay.

Speaker C:

So gay.

Speaker A:

And then we see later on that evening, a quick, like, flash forward. sanai kisses hanabi and that's where we end the episode.

Speaker B:

The gay is here.

Speaker A:

You know how to get me on board with a show.

Speaker C:

As long as they don't turn into dragons. Wow.

Speaker B:

Bitter.

Speaker C:

I like that show and no one else did.

Speaker B:

I thought it was fine.

Speaker A:

Sanai is not Hanabi's pet. That's a different hey, don't kick shame.

Speaker C:

So, episode three open with a black and white flashback of Shit. Because I watched the last one sub, they kept calling her, like, at chen and then called on this one, if I slip, that's why my brain is working against my notes. Yeah. So black and white flashback of sanai get molested on the train because it's Japan, and that happens way too frequently.

Speaker A:

That needs to be added to the bingo card. This is like the third show we've seen a train grouping.

Speaker C:

Yeah, we got to stop watching train anime.

Speaker B:

Train anime?

Speaker A:

How to train your anime?

Speaker C:

Stop molesting people. That's rule one. And then I'm going to call her Hannah because I've been slipping into hanai because of sunai, and the names give me problems. That's why I usually nickname everyone.

Speaker B:

That's fine.

Speaker C:

Hannah takes a picture of the guy molesting her, and once he sees that his face is on her phone, he leaves. He stops and leaves because he's a fucking coward and an asshole.

Speaker B:

Yeah. I think all people who would sexually harass a stranger on a train are cowards.

Speaker A:

Absolutely.

Speaker C:

Yeah. And when they get off, Hannah comforts her and is holding her hand, trying to talk her through things. And on the train, us. And I also showed her her entrance exam. I don't really know why.

Speaker B:

I don't know either.

Speaker A:

I think it may have been like, hey, we're going to the same school. Let's be friends.

Speaker C:

Yeah. After they get off the train, they're like, hey, I'm also going to that entrance exam. Like, we can go together. And the whole way they're holding hands like Hannah is still comforting sin I the whole way. And that's when I get a little voiceover from sani saying, like, that was my first love. And I don't know why she's saying first, because at this point, it's her only love. Cut back to the sleepover.

Speaker B:

Well, she also says, I thought I hated men, or just that I wasn't interested in romance. But yeah, here we are.

Speaker C:

Here we go. Turns out you're gay. And this all happened three years ago because they're juniors in high school. So, yeah, I'd be there for them. So she's been carrying this crush for, like, three years, and it's intense. So we got the two main characters pining after other people who are pining after each other, with the main characters having other people pining after them. And they hate fuck each other all the time. That's what this show is.

Speaker A:

Sounds like high school.

Speaker B:

No one is hate fucking, but they hate fucking.

Speaker C:

I thought about that earlier. I was waiting to use anyway, it's cut back to the sleepover, and it's before the incident that we got teased in the last episode. And Hannah is telling us and I about the diner date she went on with the two other classmates hearing all their bullshit. And she's basically just like the one girl can't choose between the two guys and she's not going to end up with either of them, and she's going to, like, be alone. And I just don't feel like dealing with their shit. So I left. And at that point, I guess just from exhaustion of dealing with those people or recounting the story, and it just kind of like, passes out on the bed, just like, flops over. Are you on the bed now? You tired? Okay, guess the sleepover is over. And it shows them in bed together, sleeping in hannah's one bed, and tonight.

Speaker B:

We have to share a bed.

Speaker A:

I'm sorry my bed is so small.

Speaker B:

Oh, I'm sorry. Your arms are touching.

Speaker C:

All flustered. All red is her hair. And they're lying face to face in bed, like, talking. And that's when Hannah asked sinai Valley. So tell me, who's your crush? Like, who you really hot over? As when sania just you make it.

Speaker B:

All sound so icky.

Speaker A:

Yeah, this show is we get a lot of fucking, but it's more pure than brendan's making it out to be.

Speaker B:

She says, Tell me about your crush. Like it's innocent, like it's not.

Speaker A:

She says, According to Brendan, who do you want to fucking plow tomorrow?

Speaker C:

She says, who gets your engine revin?

Speaker B:

Who gets you don't it really just rustles your jimmy's?

Speaker A:

Who gets you hot under the collar?

Speaker C:

If you don't want me here, just say it. If you don't want me on the show anymore, because this is all it is this is all I do. I don't have any. We keep him.

Speaker A:

We can't watch another sexy anime, which eliminates half of anime.

Speaker C:

That's the catch 22. Most of my lists are sexy anime. No, it's going to get weird. So Hannah asked about, like, the crush. And that's when tonight just kisses her and then pushes her, kisses her again. And that's where we see the scene where she was on top of her from the last episode. And snack calls her out for not really liking mugi, saying she's been watching her like the whole time because she has a huge crush on her, has been following her, saying, like, it's clear you don't really like each other, so why are you with them? Hannah just confesses everything, why she's with them, and she actually is after interested in someone else. But they can't be together. And neither like a movie, so it's just like an agreement they both have. And sonia asks why she can't be with her and tells her that she loves Hannah. So yeah, it all comes out. And there's no dancing around. There's no beating around the bush. It's just like, here's this character next episode, I love you. It's like, oh, it's refreshing how quickly they get to the shit in the show.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

Cut to the next day. And we see Hannah alone and her mom asked her to go out and buy groceries or something, saying like, you've been kind of out of it ever since your friend left you. Okay. And as hannah's, like, walking down to get groceries, we get flashbacks of her shutting down that guy from earlier from the last episode. And it was got a quick little flashback of suniah leaving and apologizing, saying, we're like, sorry for making it weird. And she's kind of remembering what she said of like, there's nothing more unattractive than someone being interested to you and you having no interest in them. And it's kind of paralleling with sunai, which is unfortunate. She's my favorite character.

Speaker B:

She feels hana feels super guilty.

Speaker C:

Yeah. Turns out you're using her own words against her.

Speaker A:

Yeah, it doesn't apply, but I just really needed to get in Hana bai in there.

Speaker B:

Wow.

Speaker C:

I wanted to let that one sit for a while to make sure it wasn't me.

Speaker B:

Wow, that's a good one.

Speaker C:

Oh, wow. Okay.

Speaker B:

You haven't made any puns like that. I accepted the one about the lunch date one. Whatever.

Speaker C:

You I already forget. So as hannah's, like, on the way to the store, she passes by Princess, and Hannah is like in her mind. So she just doesn't even see or hear. The princess is like, oh, you're just going to ignore me? I'm not even worth talking to you. Thank you. Such hot shit. And she's just going off and she's just yelling, like, call me a guard house. She was just like, so blunt with it. She says, why did you take muogi from me? He's supposed to be with me. Why did you steal him away? And just, like, very earnest, we're just screaming in the middle of the street. And as Hannah gets, like, a little further away, she's looking at her phone, she's starting to realize how similar she is to Princess and how she's pining after someone who's been taken away from her. And then she also quickly realizes she's the same as her classmate from earlier she met at the diner, where she can't pick. She doesn't want to make the wrong choice between the two options, and she doesn't want to make the wrong one. And she realizing how similar she is to all these people that she hated just the other day in all these situations. And I think she kind of breaks down the cries a little here.

Speaker B:

It's hard to face yourself.

Speaker C:

Yeah. Especially when you're a shitty teenager.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

It's just a blanket rule. All teenagers are shitty, in my opinion. It's a shitty period of life that we all go through, and it sucks.

Speaker B:

Sorry if you're a teen, but you will look back on your teen years and be like, wow, that sucks.

Speaker C:

Wow.

Speaker A:

I was a real shithead.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

That's the universal teen experience.

Speaker B:

I had that yesterday, last night, and I was like, oh, fuck, let's not.

Speaker C:

Let'S do this ever again.

Speaker B:

Time to repress this again.

Speaker C:

Anytime I hear someone say, like, oh, if I could go back to high school and do it all over again, I'm like, I would pay you endless amount of money to never go back to high school and relive those moments. I am super fine with never reliving.

Speaker B:

Any of that same.

Speaker C:

And then we get a flashback to four years ago when mugi is a freshman in high school. This is where I started getting confused with the grades and where everyone is. Yeah, anyway, he's a freshman somewhere.

Speaker B:

They say the guys he's with are like, junior high girls. Yeah, they're older. So I think maybe he's like, a first year in junior high.

Speaker C:

That's what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure because, like, freshman, junior, senior, like, those are terms that are, like, unique to America. So I think that just is, once again, like, they did it in the dubbing, and it made it more confusing than it needed to be.

Speaker A:

Yeah. We have firmly established that we do not know how the Japanese school system works.

Speaker B:

We've had this discussion on multiple occasions.

Speaker C:

Yeah. So, yeah, he's a new kid in middle school, and there are some older middle school girls. There, like, scout out, and they're like, oh, some of these new boys are pretty cute, and they're like, oh, hey, mate, you're kind of zoning out, not getting enough sex lately. She's like, yeah. They're like, oh, shit. What? Really?

Speaker B:

But also, if they're in middle school, she's, like, 14 at the oldest, which.

Speaker C:

Is that's what makes it weird.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

And it shows in this flashback of her. May and moogie hooking up all the time, and he's kind of saying, like, her passion didn't seem normal to him. And it's basically saying, like, she was too much for him to handle. She was a lot more than he was expecting, and he was young and kind of scared and inexperienced, so he wasn't really sure what he was doing. And then he wakes up from Wet dream, and hanabi is there.

Speaker B:

It's not I almost don't want you to talk about the part.

Speaker C:

That's exactly what it is. He wakes up.

Speaker B:

Look, is that boner?

Speaker C:

He doesn't okay, he didn't.

Speaker B:

But also in his dream, it's more of like a flashback.

Speaker C:

It's like a memory.

Speaker B:

Yeah, but she says, Sorry to rob you of your adolescence.

Speaker C:

In the dub. She says, Sorry to ruin your childhood. That line really hammered home. I'm like, they are in middle school, aren't they? It's just like, no, but I'm going.

Speaker B:

To I want to talk about this part because I don't want Brendan to talk.

Speaker C:

Wow. Okay.

Speaker B:

I didn't think it's I don't know.

Speaker A:

You picked this show. You knew what was happening.

Speaker C:

I'm going in blind here.

Speaker B:

I forgot about this part.

Speaker C:

You should have picked a different episode then.

Speaker A:

You can talk about it if you want.

Speaker B:

I don't know.

Speaker C:

All right, I'll clean it down. han is there when he wakes up, and he's just in his room. She's like, I texted you. I rang the doorbell, and no one answered. So I just came in. And she just starts crawling into bed with him, and he starts getting all anxious because he still got the boner, and he's trying to stop her. But, hey, you picked this show. This is your fault.

Speaker A:

I know. You knew he had to talk about one of these episodes.

Speaker C:

Yeah. You could have gave me episode one.

Speaker B:

I think episode two would have been safest, but I wouldn't want to hear Duke talk about this either.

Speaker A:

You set yourself up for a lose lose situation.

Speaker B:

I know what I did.

Speaker C:

So, Anna carlson, listen to your friends.

Speaker A:

Describe teenage sex together. Brendan back to his boner.

Speaker C:

Tell me about that high school boners. You got to lean in hard to it. Just lean in hard to it, which is what Hannah does.

Speaker B:

Lean in hard, which is what she does hard.

Speaker A:

And that's what sex is.

Speaker C:

Absent. It's the best education anyway.

Speaker B:

No, it's not.

Speaker C:

So she's in bed, and she rubs up against, like they start holding each other, and she feels it, and he just gets nervous and just mashes her head into his chest, thinking that's the solution. And that just makes her notice it more. So when he pulls her head away, he just like it's kind of in, like, an awkward moment or a tense moment, and he just says, Touch it. But then we get another flashback. Another flashback with May. And it's her saying, like, yeah, I'm not going to high school, so I'm just going to go off and do my own thing. And that's where we see, like, they split. And she's like, yeah, sorry I kind of jumped you into that. Sorry. Everyone real intense. It was fun.

Speaker B:

It's been fun. Sorry I fucked you up mentally and physically. Physically and probably emotionally.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

I'm sure this will have no repercussions by.

Speaker C:

And mugi says, like, yeah, he couldn't keep it casual, so it's kind of implied, like, he got emotionally attached to her and she didn't want that cut back to the present day. And hannah's touching it, and he tries to stop her and saying, you don't have to. Don't worry about it. She's like, no, I want to. And he doesn't want her. mugi basically doesn't want him to be her May. He doesn't want to ruin her adolescence with that flashback we just saw.

Speaker B:

They're the same age. Yeah, but she's just further behind in.

Speaker C:

Terms of experience intimacy. Yeah. She said she's a virgin earlier in another episode. And she says, like, no, she wants to do it with him. So they continue a little further and she realizes how easy it is to please Muogi. It's super simple. And then she remembers.

Speaker B:

This is okay. I don't want to say I like this scene.

Speaker C:

You like the scene with the hand job?

Speaker B:

I like it. I like the scene with the hand job. Because it's like if you had a cat as someone who was a teenage girl and is no longer a teen or identifies as a girl. This is very relatable. I hate to say it, but the moment where she's like, oh, it feels good for him. Like, this is cute and fun. It's very relatable. It's cool to see someone have a sexual awakening, I guess, is like what I'm getting at.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

Because, like, even though she wasn't necessarily having a pleasurable time, like, she was enjoying it because she was enjoying the reaction she was getting. Now I'm just getting into, like, sexology.

Speaker C:

Yeah. It's good seeing a show that is about sex and relationships, but it's not showing the sex. It's about the emotions involved in the awkward kind of fumbling moments between two people learning about each other. So, yeah, it's refreshing to see it in that way versus just Titty monsters, like in a lot of other anime. So she's surprised by how the Titty.

Speaker A:

Monsters come in into the next scene.

Speaker C:

Yeah, it's episode seven, and she's talking about how she's talking to herself in her head, how easy it was to please Muogi and remembering she couldn't touch Tsunai like that the other day and kind of like wondering why she couldn't. And she says she feels, like, more comfortable around mugi and he's still lying in bed. She's, like, sitting on the edge. That's when she turns around and starts teasing him and giving him a crap for ruining her dress and stuff like that. And then she just starts crying, saying she really wants to try loving Muogi. She wants to put more effort into this, being more than just like an agreement to settle for each other in the meantime, while they're waiting for their crushes. And then it cuts to them. Out to diner. Out to a diner having dinner.

Speaker B:

Excuse me. They're at bannies.

Speaker A:

Bannies.

Speaker C:

I got a little later when the camera pulls away and we see it. bannies, which is the classiest place you take a girl after.

Speaker A:

She's just get their signature slam dunk special.

Speaker B:

If you're in high school, that's fine.

Speaker C:

Moon'S over my manny.

Speaker B:

I know you just made me come, but all I can really do is take you to Danny.

Speaker C:

You want some pancakes? At 930 at night?

Speaker B:

What a grand slam.

Speaker C:

I already had mine earlier. You were there.

Speaker B:

You helped.

Speaker A:

Thanks for the hand job. Now some sausage.

Speaker C:

So after having dinner, movies kind of like confessing to her, saying, I'll wash your clothes. Like, sorry I ruined her. She's like? Good. You better. I like that dress. Like, don't fuck it up. She's like, does it wash out? Of course it washes out. Imagine if it didn't wash out.

Speaker B:

Does it come out?

Speaker C:

He's like, Imagine if it never washed out. She's like, oh, yeah, I guess that makes sense. It's so obvious. And at this time, they see the music teacher walk by with a man that's not eda.

Speaker A:

Oh, no development.

Speaker C:

And the whole time during this interaction, boogie is just kind of, like, shut down. He doesn't even seem to really react once he sees her. So she's talking to Hannah and the guy is kind of, like feeling her up while she's talking to two of her students because this guy is an asshole and at least can't keep it down.

Speaker A:

And yeah, we're in front of two children. Let me feel you up a little.

Speaker C:

We just fond of you in public here. And the music teacher basically kind of gives like a wink and an eye, like, let's keep this quiet between just us. And as she leaves yeah, that's when we see the bany sign. The next day, we see, I guess Hannah is outside in the stairwell looking out a window, like, watching her, the music teacher. And moogie comes up saying, like, oh, yeah, I remember that guy. Now. That the teachers with yelp last night. He's an old student of hers. She would tutor him the same way she tutored me. So it's cool. He's just a friend. There's nothing going on and just fucking.

Speaker A:

He's just a friend.

Speaker B:

Oh, wow.

Speaker C:

How many references is that?

Speaker B:

Delusional?

Speaker C:

Oh, yeah. He's in hard denial mode right now.

Speaker B:

His attitude toward this is much more upsetting than hannah's attitude toward her situation.

Speaker C:

Yeah, at least Hannah is, like, aware and aware of what she's doing and how she feels and how it looks from an outsider perspective. But movie is just in full denial of, like, no, it's cool. Just denying reality here. So Hannah leaves and starts, after talking to him, realizes how blind he is and start realizing, is she any better? Like, she is, but, like, how much? She starts questioning herself with the same way. And as she's running around, she bumps into the music teacher and she asks, like, hey, it's that guy last night. Your boyfriend and music teacher's. Like, nah, he was just a friend. Like that. There's nothing to worry about. So hannah's kind of like, she's fucking with me. Like, she knows I know he's not just a friend. So she's saying she kind of gets, like, really in her head, thinking the music teacher is, like, playing head games. It's fucking like Death Note right now. I know. He knows he isn't. It's confusing.

Speaker B:

Wow.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

Before she approaches mina gawa, as she's, like, walking through the school to find her, I think she has this there's, like, this super cool line where she says, like, this is an emotion I feel like I haven't felt. Like, this is like seething? And then when she sees her, when she faces her, she says, this is hatred. And I just think, oh, it's so good.

Speaker C:

I didn't catch that.

Speaker B:

Maybe it's different. Did you watch this one dubbed?

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker B:

It might be different in the sub. It might be, but I love that moment.

Speaker C:

And the teacher once again says, like, I keep between us and runs off. She's like, oh, I'm late to class. And she's like, Meet me after school. We can talk about this little in detail in private. And as she's running off, swin, hannah realizes, like, hey, she kind of smells like cigarettes. She's wearing the same clothes from last night. It's like walk ashamed. Don't worry about it. And that's it. That's the end of episode three.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

Oh, boy.

Speaker B:

There's a lot to unpack. Let me talk about why I like this show so much.

Speaker C:

Go on.

Speaker B:

Let me say it.

Speaker C:

You're a dirty bird.

Speaker B:

Yes, but also in my notes specifically, I wanted to get my ideas down so I didn't sound like an idiot here. I like that the sex isn't sexy. Like, it's, like, awkward and weird and uncomfy because that's how it is in high school. Everything is awkward and uncomfy in high school. But especially intimate contact. And then we kind of talked about this before, but I've never seen an anime handle sex this way. And later in the show, every character you've been introduced to so far. So obviously, Hana and mui, ida, nagawa, sinnai and noriko, all of their sexuality is explored throughout the entire show. And I don't mean their sexual orientation sexuality, like, their sexuality, like, how they handle sex and their emotions toward it and how they feel about it. And I just think that's so cool because I feel like not even a lot of shows here do that. The show Sex Education that just came out on netflix was a really good example of this, too.

Speaker A:

But even that was, like, more gratuitous than this show has been.

Speaker B:

Yeah, that one was pretty nasty.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I thought it was going to be more gratuitous than it was a.

Speaker C:

Raunchy fuck fest earlier.

Speaker A:

What's that?

Speaker C:

Yeah, a raunchy fuck fest.

Speaker A:

Yeah. You know, but yeah, I thought they handled it very well, especially with it being like, this is high school sex and romance. We're going to get into the nitty gritty stuff, but we're not going to give you the titty shots you're expecting from an anime like this. And we actually deal with tough, complex emotions and how people deal with them for the first time because that's when it happens in high school with people actually going through it.

Speaker C:

The money shot isn't what you think it'd be with the show. It's all the moments that happened before and after sex.

Speaker B:

I was going to say it's Hannah crying on the edge of a bed.

Speaker A:

It's a savage beat down of anyone.

Speaker C:

Who comes cliff shut down. But yeah, it's like the lead up to sex, and it's like the recourse after sex. But sex is just like a thing that happens in the show. There are plenty of intimate scenes and interesting ways they handle it in the show. But I feel like that's not like, the crux of it. It's the relationships between the people having sex or intimacy. They do it well.

Speaker B:

Yeah. So are we there yet?

Speaker A:

I think we are.

Speaker B:

Yay. I was nervous about this one.

Speaker A:

Yeah. I was going into it. I was scared because of the expectations, because it was introduced to me as just a hornisha, and that's all I had. But, yeah, it's much more tame than I thought it was going to be. It got into complex things that we haven't even seen on Us TV that much. We see a functional, if not slightly toxic relationship because, as we saw in episode three, they start to develop feelings, or at least hanabi does. And it is weird to see these things of we're not seeing, like, the perfect romance blossom. We're not seeing the romcom, oh, he's the one we're seeing. Yeah. These are two people who are leaning on each other because they're so emotionally fucked up.

Speaker C:

There's no artificial trauma where it's just like they start hooking up on the roof and their teachers come out and they're like, oh, no, you caught me in this intimate moment. I think the most exaggerated one is the princess character, but her relationship with Muogi is still pretty realistic and understandable. It's just like her character herself is exaggerated and anime over the top, but it's still pretty grounded with her relationship with him.

Speaker B:

Yeah. As someone who is a sociology major and is in a sexuality class right now, I find this all very interesting. I've always thought that, like, people's relationship with sex is a very interesting topic. So when, like. When I watched this show, I was like, oh, fuck. Like, this is it. I love this. And it gets more interesting as it goes on, so I do highly encourage the both of you to finish it because it is short also.

Speaker C:

Yeah, like twelve episodes or so.

Speaker B:

Yeah.

Speaker C:

As someone raised the Irish Catholic, I had very little to do with sex growing up.

Speaker B:

But that's interesting, too.

Speaker C:

It's not. It's really not.

Speaker B:

It is to me.

Speaker C:

Oh, boy.

Speaker B:

Anyway, glad you guys liked it.

Speaker C:

You guys liked the raunchy shows?

Speaker A:

Oh, well, let's not go that far. Oh, no, I'm afraid you like to come down the pipeline, if that's what you're bringing to it.

Speaker C:

Oh, I got shows. We'll get there.

Speaker B:

Boy.

Speaker A:

It's like the Netflix suggested thing of, like, yeah, I watched this show. Cool. So now you want to watch nothing but Fast and Furious movies, right?

Speaker C:

Like no, you watch scums witches, don't.

Speaker B:

You like this show that had a car in it? Do you want to watch Fast and the Furious one through eight?

Speaker A:

Do you want to see this man fuck a car?

Speaker C:

No.

Speaker A:

What? whoa. One to ten there.

Speaker C:

I've seen that video, too. You've seen a show with one sex scene in it. Might I recommend just pornhub? Just all of pornhub. Just go into it.

Speaker B:

All right. Anyway, what's happening next time?

Speaker A:

So for next week, we have a pick for me, we are watching, like, the only anime show I remember watching growing up. We're watching zoids.

Speaker C:

Man, speaking of raunchy fuck fest. No.

Speaker B:

You've been waiting to say that this whole episode, and now I believe it because I've never seen zoids.

Speaker C:

You clearly don't remember that much about a dudes if you don't remember those scenes. Oh, no.

Speaker A:

The giant wolf mech. fucks another wolf mech.

Speaker B:

You're giving me an opportunity to mention no.

Speaker C:

To say robo gifting. I'm sorry. The mecca gift.

Speaker A:

Sorry.

Speaker C:

You don't get it. I did it.

Speaker B:

How many weeks was that in a row?

Speaker C:

Four.

Speaker A:

That's a month straight. dana, we need to talk.

Speaker C:

February is the month of giving.

Speaker A:

When we get to I didn't say.

Speaker B:

It when we were having serious talks about sex.

Speaker A:

Okay. We're going to have a board meeting, and we need to talk about intervention.

Speaker C:

Intervention.

Speaker A:

So since there are several series, we are watching the og. I believe it's something century.

Speaker C:

Chaotic century.

Speaker A:

Chaotic century. That's it. So we're going to watch the first three episodes of that.

Speaker B:

Cool.

Speaker C:

Yeah.

Speaker A:

And if there's a show you would like us to watch, feel free to tweet at us at Are We There Yet? On Twitter and Instagram. Or you can reach out to us at our gmail arwaver@gmail.com. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mrpatrick. dugan.

Speaker B:

You can find me on Instagram at Queen. Period, weebu and twitter at Queen. underscore weaboo.

Speaker C:

You can find me on Twitter at abts. Brendan stands for Almost Better Than Silence, which is a video game podcast I have.

Speaker A:

And thank you to camille ruley for our artwork. And thank you to Louis zong for the use of our theme song stories off the album Beats. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you, and we hope you'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime.

Episode Notes

Care to learn the birds and bees from three dorky weebs? We discuss depictions of teenage sexuality with Scum's Wish!

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