Yeah, it's pervy and then some.

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

I'm an anime expert, dana Hollandeur.

And I'm Brandon mikhaila, your anime smart guy starring tj Maori.

All right.

I don't know a lot about this show. I had to look at what the plot was and then find any reference I could. And that applies to smart guy starring tj Maori.

Cool.

Also, if only there was an accessible high school show reference you could have made, like anything ever.

No. What's? The one Neil Patrick Harris did.

Doogie houser. He was a doctor, but it had.

A very young student going up, like being put in a place they don't belong. So that applies, I guess, but still.

You'Re making the strangest reaches.

But I mean, I found out tj maori's name isn't just the letter T and the letter J.

It's T-A-H-J-I have no idea what you're talking about. Welcome to our show where we immediately alienate the audience with brendan's references.

Except for you, one person that understands it.

I don't even know what this was. This is a short lived Disney Channel show that it didn't matter. It doesn't matter in the scope of history.

So this week we have a recommendation from aj Garanos. We are watching azumanga dio.

Thanks, aj.

Thank you. We always say it at the end well, at the top. If you have recommendations for us, reach out to our Twitter. And Brendan just sent us the wikipedia for smart guy.

Yeah, just wanted everyone to know. Well, I'm not that insane. It existed.

But yeah, you can send your recommendations to us on Twitter or email us arubaria@gmail.com and we'll watch your show. And don't be surprised if we don't like it.

Yeah, we like you plenty. We just don't like your taste in anime.

Two be happened before, it will happen again.

To be fair, sometimes we don't like each other's taste in anime. So it's not you particularly.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. But we still all like each other, right?

We'll see.

So this seems.

I assume everyone at this point to listen to last week's episode. So you know already.

I'm trying to remove it from my brain. So we're watching cute little high school comedy show.

Yeah.

It was released in, I believe, 2004. There are 26 episodes total. And it seems it seems cute and fun.

Yeah, I don't know much about it. I've I've seen clips here and there on the internet throughout my years, but I've never felt compelled to watch it.

I've seen memes of it a lot. I've seen like, people taking it and photoshopping it or snoop dogg and turning it into a weed reference a lot with this show. So I only know it in the corner of my mind and I never actually knew the name of it, so I couldn't watch it if I did. All I know is there's a young child prodigy that is a ten year old who gets bumped up by high school. And that's all I got.

Yeah, there's like a weird yellow cat mascot that I feel like I've seen in a lot of places, but beyond that, I know nothing.

Don't implied hooray. The blind leading the blind.

So we have our first three episodes that we're going to watch.

Let's Get Turned and learnt.

What a.

Cute little fun little romp.

What a romp.

I don't like the opening. I'm going to say that right away. The opening music to this show is very unsettling to me, and I fucking do not like it at all. It reminds me of like a badassed trip with clowns in Japan. I don't like this music at all. And I want to get that immediately up front.

I don't really remember it all that well, honestly, because it's forgettable. It's not that good.

I thought it was fine, but it is a long opening. It's a minute 30 seconds for this opening song.

I definitely watched it in the first episode because I had to and then just skipped the rest.

I forced myself to watch it every time because I forget what show it was. There was another show where I was like, oh, I didn't like it in the first episode, but by third I liked the opening. I was like, oh, maybe in my opinion it'll change. No, I really don't like that music. The opening, like visuals and stuff is fine. It introduces the characters. Nothing special, but that music is horrifying.

We're off to a great start.

Sorry, that was my immediate impression with the show. So, episode one, we open with just a few kids walking to school, getting ready for school. That's why you walk to it with school. Sorry, it's been a long week. We're going to be kind of all over the place. It's been a weekend and a half for us. And we hear someone practicing baseball, just like hitting baseballs at practice, I suppose. And we get a few different clips of people walking. And we see the title of the show up in the sky. And one of the baseball hits it and knocks it over. So I was like, we're going to get that fourth wall meta humor.

Yay.

And we see presumably a teacher biking the school. And her chain comes off her bike. And she's all pissed off, saying like, ah, goddamn, I'm going to be late now. And we see a student also biking school. Like, oh, geez, I'm going to be late on my first day. Oh, who's that? That's the teacher. And he stops to help and it's like, well, I can't be late if there's a teacher with me. Like, that'll be my excuse. Ha ha. And he sees me, he's like, oh, your chain just fell off here. I can help you. That, by the way, miss his teacher and he turns around and she stole his bike and his bike in the school, on his bike.

Love it.

She's got no time to waste and no shits to give. And that's when we see she gets to school. And amelia just runs into class saying like, alright, soon's first day, we're going to be going over the stuff and soon raise the hand like, excuse me, Mrs. What's her name? yukari.

Her first name is ukari.

Ukari.

I forget what her last name is.

Yeah, everyone just calls her ukari, so that's how we'll refer to her. And he's like, oh, Ms. ukari. And she's like, oh, stop it's. Such an appropriate question. I can't tell you my measurements here on the first day in front of everyone. How inappropriate. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like she immediately starts talking about like her measurement. Measurements mean like, oh, I'm not like outlandishly large, but like I'm a good shape. These are good measurements. I think I'm a good shaper teacher and all this. The student's just kind of like, oh, cool, you're in the wrong class. This isn't your class. You teaches the other class. She's like, great and runs over to the next class. Kind of like, all right, this is a weird show.

She's so funny.

She is like manic as hell.

I love her.

She is hopped up on something.

Yeah, alcohol.

I want to point out something I really appreciated for this show. She is the school's English teacher, but to represent because I was watching all three episodes dubbed.

Yeah, I did. Dub. Sub. Dub.

I just did dubbed.

I mean subbed, sorry, but yeah, in the dub, since she's the English teacher, but she's speaking English, whenever she slips into speaking a different language, they make it Spanish. Occasionally she just speaks in Spanish to represent her speaking in English in a Japanese classroom. And I thought that was fun.

That's great.

That's very confusing though. But it's an interesting take. Also when we get like a shot of the school, we just saw that weird cat thing flying outside of it. That was odd.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

So after yakari goes to write class, she also introduces the new transfer student. Check that off. And it's chio who is titular main character. Well, not titular.

No one's titular.

No one's titular. Apparently the title of the show is actually based off the author's name. So it's just like great king and then whatever his name is. So it's like, oh, that's an interesting title, but yes, chio is the main character and she is ten years old and is smart enough to be in high school. So she got transferred up. She is the smart guy. She is the tj. mallory of the show.

Oh my God.

Right? I am in Brendan. Hide in however you can.

I try. I try to make it make sense for me and no one else.

Don't you justify your mistakes here.

And in this class, we see chio talking with another student, and I guess they're saying something, but this part wasn't translated for me in the video I watched, so I don't know what they were saying in the subs.

There was no audio. They were just like, talking. Wasn't important, so I guess we just don't get to hear it.

Okay.

I guess it was a source thing and not like a bad dub. Yeah, we were hypothesizing before.

Okay.

Yeah, it's just like a weird transition scene that lasted a little too long, I guess.

Okay, weird. But then the teacher comes up and it's like, oh, good job, chio. Like, you're asking help on your first date. You're not afraid to ask for help when you need it. And when the other student just kind of starts crying, and she's like, no, chio was actually helping me. So she's asking both the new student and the ten year old to help her out with whatever this was. And then we get some old dude outside, makes, like, a weird reaction face or something. And then we see chio just, like, doing a little cooking segment.

I love her little song.

She sings this little song and, like, cooks I already forget what it was to cook something right the first time, and then the second thing she cooks was wrong, and then that's it. So I guess it's like a commercial bumper.

Yeah, it's just a very weird interstitial that ties into nothing.

Yeah. And I was very confused. And then the teacher oh, shit, I mixed it up. This is where they're practicing whatever they're doing. Anyway, so it comes back after the cooking segment, and she is having lunch with some new friends, talking like, oh, join us. We can get to know you better. And she is talking about like, oh, it's so much different being in high school, and you have to get up early, and I have to make my own lunch. I have to get up even earlier. And they're kind of blown away. It's like, oh, you made your own lunch. And then she opens it up and it's like, adorable. You get the standard little octopus hot dog, like the hot dog cut into the shape of an octopus. It's cute, too. She can do both. He is a prodigy. And now gio is doing this. Another student was doing that string thing, like the cat's cradle and all that, and chia walks by and is like, oh, can I see it? Does was it the bridge to the palace or something? I don't know what the fuck this thing is. I don't know the names, but she's able to do configuration with the string, and I guess it's difficult. Wow, you can do that too. And the student with the class is like, oh, gee, you're good at everything. She's like, no, I'm not good at everything. I'm bad at tongue twister. See? And just starts babbling in some sort of tongue twister, and then it's just like it's almost incoherent, but it's just like, oh, she's like a young child, and she's got that little kid lisp. So they're just like it's adorable even if it's not right. And then we get to another class and there's a teacher in the front yelling at all the students, saying, like, who didn't do their homework? I'm sick of this bullshit. Get up to the front of the class and everyone that didn't do their homework lines up. And he kind of just has a rolled up book and just pops them on the head, like going down the line. And then he gets to chia, who I guess didn't do her homework, and she just starts crying, and it's kind of like apologizing. I'll try and do better. I'll make sure I don't mess up again. Please don't be mad at me. He's just kind of like, sized, and it hits her on the head still. It's just like a light bunk. Yeah, you got a little tap. It didn't stop him permitting her, but it's not hard. It's a tap. And then we get another treatment.

We should establish now before we get in much further. There's not really narrative here.

No, it's like Kobiachi Drag Me where it's a lot of smaller scenes and it's kind of just sporadic and jumps around a lot.

Yeah, just a loose framework of these girls are in high school.

That's about all we got. And it's not our notes, I swear. It's the show. It's a show that's confusing, not us.

For once, we didn't do a bad job.

And then we get another little cooking transition thing, and she makes cakes, cookies, and then she's, like, talking to the camera, like, all right, now we get to set them all up. And then you see the two other girls in the back just immediately eating all the cakes and cookies. And that happens. Then we're back to geo and class collecting career questionnaires. Sure. I guess it's just whatever the students want to do for careers after they graduate. And as she's collecting them all she goes up to, she says, a scary person, and she's kind of intimidated by her, and she collects her questionnaire. It's like a vet and then it's like a stuffed animal seller. I forget already, but all the jobs were related. Okay.

It's veterinarian, florist, and stuffed animal store owner.

Okay, so they weren't all animals like I thought. No, but they're all very kind and gentle careers for as scary as this person is. And, I mean, she's just a tall girl, and she's just kind of quiet. She's not, like, really intimidating, but everyone else seems to think she's so she's the cool girl. Yeah.

The intimidation is just how laid back and mysterious and cool she is.

Yeah. And then we see that cool girl in the locker room getting chained for gym class. And there's two other girls in the background who are kind of gushing about how cool she is, and we find out her name is Sukaki, and she's like, the coolest girl in the class. She's so cool. And they're just gushing over. And as they're getting changed, one of them, like, blushes. And we just get a shot of, like, a little cat. Out of nowhere. She's like, oh, I saw something cute. It's like, okay.

Here'S what I'm assuming. Yeah, the cute cat was on Sakaki's underwear.

That's what I was thinking.

Yeah. So she saw it and she was like she likes cute things.

Yeah, she was surprised someone so cool and kind of intimidating with, like, cute cat underwear. But I don't know. They made a weird way of, I guess, explaining that or showing that, if that is what happened. I'm just not sure. 100%. And after class, that blushing girl, because I don't think we ever get a name for this girl, at least on these episodes.

I just don't remember anyone's name. takaki and yukari, but other than that.

Yeah, I think at some point they flash people's names in Japanese. But at least for the dub of this episode, it wasn't translated.

I got name names with those, but I just didn't write them down because I was like, I'm not going to remember all of who everyone is anyway.

We'll talk about them if they're important.

Yeah, we give them nicknames. Anyway, after class, the blushing girl who saw the cute thing comes up to Saikaki and talking about, like, oh, are you in any club side? I'm in the astronomy club. And it's like, pretty cool. We look at sores and moons and stuff. And then akaki is just like, oh, really? And then the girl gets all flustered, and it's like, yeah, it's cool. I mean, whatever. And then just runs off nervous, and the sakaki laments out the window. She's like, I wish she asked me to join the club. Which is what the girl was trying to do before she got all clustered. And we see suicide.

That flustered girl is just gay.

We see I think it's like episode three, we see so gay for Sukaki. Just like all on board.

Yeah.

And we see Sukaki walking home, and she sees, you know, just enjoying the weather and stuff, and she sees a little cat up on a wall. She's like, oh, she wants to be a veterinarian. So she likes cats. She goes up to it, and it's a little nervous because it's sleeping. It doesn't want to bother. And she goes to pet it, and it just consumes her hands. It just munches on her entire hand. And then we just get it cut to the next day of Sukaki in class with just all of her fingers bandaged up and, like, half her hands wrapped up. She's like, oh, jeez, what happens? And she doesn't really she's kind of sukhaki's kind of muttering to herself and like, oh, maybe he was in a bad mood. And she has no context and just hears that. And her bandage dance is like, oh, she get to a fight. Going off the persona, sukhaki suspicion.

She killed a man.

She murdered him. And on the way home that day, Sukhaki sees the cat again. It's like, oh, he's walking around, and he's awake now, so maybe he won't be cranky. Yeah, he seems, like, in a better mood. No, still bites her. Still just hunch. munch cranch.

That's a cat.

Yeah, that's what cats do. It seems like she liked animals and cats, but it seems like they don't like her. And then the next scene is I just wrote down, oh, God, no. tomo takado. No. Fuck off. I'm just so immediately repulsed by this character. It's his character who just introduces herself, I guess, to the audience because she's not talking to anyone and just gives the whole as, you know, Dave spiel about herself. And she says she's the hyperactive sports girl. And she just is, like, full of enthusiasm, running around, just a lot of energy for everything. It's like, all right, great. I hate her.

I just called her Energy girl.

I just called her tomo.

But now I think we should call her Power first.

Anna so much energy. She gets a class late and runs in. Teacher. Sorry I'm late. It's like, well, I'm late. You know what that means. I got to punch myself. I'll stand in the hallway holding buckets, see if she slams the door. And teacher, she's like, Man, I'll give a shit. I don't care if you're late. Just like you walked in. You didn't need to draw attention to yourself like this, but okay. And we see Tommy just holding buckets outside of class and see, like, five minutes, ten minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes. She's struggling to hold the buckets. And as she struggled, when she sees people walking by in the hallway and yelling out to them, like, hey, I like your shoes. What's going on over there? whoa, I fell. And we just get all this scene from inside the classroom, from the teacher's perspective, seeing her silhouette, and she's just like, God, that girl's exhausting. She's so loud.

She's also so athletic. She was trying to break her previous record of, like, how long she could hold up these buckets.

Yeah. And then once we're back in the classroom, tomos trying to challenge chio to everything because she's the new girl. She has to establish dominance, I suppose. And by everything, I mean everything. So the teacher calls on chio for an answer, and she doesn't know it. And then tomo runs in, saying, like, hey, teacher, I also don't know it. Ha ha.

It's just like, checkmate, motherfucker.

It's like, God damn it, I hate you, tomo, so much. And then it's lunchtime, and tomo says, like, I'm going to go on bread run. Who wants bread? You want bread? I'm gonna get you bread. It's just, like, so fucking hyped up about everything at all times. And she's like, oh, two girls are like, oh, I'll have some bread too. She's like, cool. Runs off and immediately runs back with just an armful of, like, all these various breads. Oh, okay. You were fast with that.

What was my time? He didn't time you?

Yeah. He goes like, why would I have done that?

And then want to see me run and get some bread and come right back? Want to see me do it again?

How many references do we make? Perhaps.

Not enough. It's true.

And then they're in gym class all of a sudden, and tomo challenges Sukaki to a race. And as tomo asked her, she asked her before the race to step back a few bit, like, take a few inches back because her boobs are bigger than hers, so that gives her an advantage. Okay. That's not how this works.

No, but okay.

Sukaki is what's the word I'm looking for?

A good sport.

A good sport. She does it. Yeah. She steps back and just sue guy who just blows her out of the water anyway, she's struggling by the end of it, barely gets over the line. And then she really makes a point that she's not a loser. She's a runner up. She, like, really hammers that home for some reason. A point of pride, I suppose. And then we get back to class, and there's a new transfer student. Oh, cool. What a twist.

Two in one episode of Bargain.

Buy one, get one free. And tomo makes it a point that she's going to be the new student's arch rival and is practicing her, like, devastated fall whenever her rival would accuse her or say something back to her. So she's, like, falling all over to the desk for some reason. And the new students introduced as ayumo. ayumo? Yeah. And she's from osaka. Why is that important? Because everyone calls her to that, and her nickname is now osaka by everyone. And apparently osaka apparently osaka is just Japan's, Texas, because they lay this accent thick in the dub. They really lean into it for some fucking reason. And this whole time, Tom was kind of, like, mad at ayuma saying, like, you're in a posture because you're not as rowdy as people from osaka would be, and you don't have octopus balls in your lunch. Like people from osaka would be and they're just like, this is the stereotype of osaka. Why aren't you like this? Basically, it's kind of like ayoma is just kind of like I don't know, man. I'm just me. I kind of space out from time to time. That's about it.

You can't be from Texas. You're not wearing overalls and spitting tobacco, basically.

And we just see aemo in class kind of talking about herself and kind of getting distracted and ends up zoning out. And she's telling her that's the difference. But yeah, she's kind of just basing out. And timo comes up to her and ask her about the pizza meals in osaka, and if those are true, I guess that's a thing they eat, like pizza with rice. But since ayuma never did, she's confused. And that's when toma just says, like, her name is now osaka. Everyone just calls her osaka from now on. And that's the ending to episode one. Okay, girl, a lot of stuff happened, but also didn't.

Sorry. I'm looking up osaka Pizza. It's apparently like a savory pancake type thing with different ingredients, kind of like pizza.

Japan loves pancakes. Oh, and we get the ending.

I love pancakes.

Who does? We get the ending and it's just all the main characters, like, walking through a field of flowers, and then they turn into, like, cheeby versions of themselves and fly up through the sky and then pans out. That weird orange cat thing is just watching them. It's a weird ending.

Yeah, it's a weird show.

Yeah.

So we get the next episode and we start to follow around osaka as she's getting used to the school and we are introduced to her a little bit more. So we start off with her at a crosswalk, sort of fantasizing about, oh, everyone in Tokyo is so patient. Everyone's waiting for the crosswalk in osaka. Everyone just crosses whenever, and it's mayhem. And as she's thinking about this, like, everyone else crosses, and she's still just standing there and misses it because we learned that she's super duper spacey. She's going into class and she meets Chiochan, and she's sort of taken aback by such a smart kid being ten years old and on the same level as everyone else because she is known in her old school for being spacious and not the brightest bulb. And we get this little illustrated as she's fumbling with the soap in the bathroom and drops her handkerchief in the sink and gets it all wet.

I out loud went all very physical reaction.

Yeah, it's weird because she's kind of the sad sack character.

She's the eor.

Yeah, which I don't blame her because she just started at the school and everyone's like, hey, you're a heck.

And she's like, oh, fuck, you're a country pumpkin. But then she also was lost in her own thought and just didn't use the crosswalk and had to wait for the next cycle. Yeah, so it checks out true.

But yeah, we also are further illustrated while she's paying attention to a lesson in class. And she starts just like, slowly swaying from side to side, like looking around the room, and someone's like, hey, what the fuck? And she's like, you know those eye floaters? I'm just watching those.

This is probably one of the most relatable seats in an anime I've ever seen.

I don't know if she says in the dub, but in the sub she just goes, all right, good luck with that.

Okay.

All right. So, yeah, shortly after, as the lesson continues, there's a cockroach that is running around and we the big action sequence. Yeah, there's a cockroach and everyone's freaking out.

Brendan always talks about the big budget fight scene.

This is a show.

Can this classroom full of girls take on a cockroach? So we get the hypergirl who leads the front of hunting this thing down, rolls up her textbook and just chases it, smacking everything and everyone in her path. And she finally gets it and then brings it up to the teacher. And he's like, hey, so I got a bug on my textbook. What do you want me to do with this?

The shows where everything's so disconnected are actually the harder ones to do episodes about because we have to consult our notes so much because it's not a clear through line of a plot.

It it also just feels weird because it's like so this funny skit happened.

This is very visual.

Anyway, you should see you should really watch it. You should have been there.

Does the anime audiobooks suck?

So, yeah, we we see them out at gym class where osaka is lamenting that she was the slowest runner at her old school. And she's like, not today. Not with this ten year old in this class. I'm not losing to a literal child. And then loses to a literal child. So she's feeling all dejected. And they break up to play volleyball. And Sukaki is a volleyball champion and is just destroying and osaka is really looking up to her. And she's like, oh, I need to be the cool girl like that. She's who I'm going to latch on to and emulate. So they then break off into groups and just practice passing the volleyball. And we got way too long of a sequence.

God.

Just chio and osaka.

I loved every second of it.

Throwing the volleyball and missing and just hitting each other in the face. But they do it like eight times. And it's like, okay, this is too much.

I wrote in the notes. I'm like, oh, they're practicing the ball, serving the ball back and forth to each other. And they're terrible. Like, they're so fucking bad.

And I love they they run off to get it, and the other one's like, are you okay? And she's like, yes, I'm fine. And then it just keeps happening. They're both so bad and so dumb. I love it. I don't watch a lot of TV at all, let alone anime. That makes me laugh out loud. Like, I'll think something is funny, but I won't necessarily laugh. But there are things in this show that made me laugh. And this was one of them, especially when they showed, like, the panned out part and they were much closer than I thought they were.

Yeah, this is around the time where I was like, oh, this is the seinfeld of the anime. Because it's. A show about nothing.

Yes.

Nothing happens. There's literally nothing.

See, I was getting sort of like Charlie Brown peanuts vibes of just these, like, very specific scenarios of just kids doing kids stuff and just being more.

School focused, I suppose.

Yeah. I don't know.

Anyway, so it's lunchtime, and everyone's munching and crunching on their lunches. osaka is struggling with her wobbly tray because she's so uncoordinated and unfocused. It's taken her a while. She has a weird fixation on she very cleanly, breaks apart her chopsticks and needs to show it to everyone at the table.

That's so cute.

But, like, she doesn't say anything. She's like, hey, chio.

Did you guys not get, like, the show note that said, Why?

No.

Okay. So in the subs, there were, like, show notes that explain some of the jokes, like why they're funny to people, like Americans watching it. So it pretty much just said that clumsy people almost can never break their chopsticks cleanly. So, like, the fact that she did it, she was like, I'm not clumsy.

Okay. Also with these, I'm also wondering about the quality of the show. At least the ones I watched might not have been so great and might have been even, like, fan, dubbed or subbed. Because at least this episode I watched subbed. The subtitle, font and color were terrible, and it made it actually harder to understand, especially when multiple people talked, because there was no clear way of differentiating the character's dialogue. So I'm skeptical. I feel like I might have watched a bad take on this show. So my opinion of it might be skewed a tad.

Interesting.

Yeah.

But yeah. So they're eating their lunches, and one of the girls has just a very spicy a Red Hot Chili Pepper croquette.

A lot of croquettes in anime.

Not enough red hot chili peppers, though. I'm surprised we didn't get any in the digimon.

Dick dancing, though. flea, the Bases of Red Hot Chili peppers voices donnie and the Wild thornberries. If we ever cover that show, for some fucking reason, I feel like I.

Knew that deep, deep in the recesses.

Of my mind, those deep nickelodeon cuts.

I know so much about, they're stuck in there. I don't know my dad's name, but I know this.

It's true.

So she's eating this very spicy croquette and offers it up to osaka, who is intrigued by the bright red color of the inside of it. And they all warned her, oh, it's very spicy. There's cayenne in it. And when she didn't realize what it was, they're like, oh, yeah, it's like a foreign delicacy. Not saying it makes it extra, extra spicy having two types of pepper in there.

Yeah, she was more saying, like, oh, I'm not good with spicy stuff. I shouldn't have that. And the glasses character is just kind of like, oh, no, it's great. It's got cayenne. And yeah, played that up as I feel something special and clearly hinting that it wasn't spicy to make her eat it more.

So naturally it goes poorly.

What a twist.

And immediately she gets the spicy hiccups. So the rest of the episode basically devolves into all of them trying to get her to stop hiccuping. So they get her a drink at a vending machine, they plug her nose and ears and try all the folklore remedies to fix hiccups, trying to drink it off of chopsticks. The very hyperactive girl tries to do the heimlich maneuver on her, hitting her.

In the back, trying to get rid of it that way.

Someone says, oh, yeah, I think it's like an irregularity with your diaphragm which is right below your lungs, which hypergirl takes as a challenge to punch her in the solar plexus to get her to stop hiccupping.

Oh, I don't I don't know if you guys ever had the wind knocked out of there, but it's it's terrible. And it just floors you up for a good, like, five minutes of trying to catch her breath back.

No, good doesn't work. Yeah, they start talking about even more folklore methods of like, you have to pass it on to someone else, give them the curse of the hiccups. And they talk about how it hasn't gone away for 2 hours. And they're like, oh, yeah, go see a doctor because you're dying.

If you have hiccups for a whole day, you could die.

And someone very callously mentions like, oh, yeah, you should get it checked out since you have all those brain problems. And she's like, motherfucker what? And just like the anger of someone calling her stupid, she loses the hiccups and passes them on to chiocha, who is also going through all the things. Everyone's like, well, we have to start at square one since it took everything to get it to stop, so let me punch you in the solar plexus. Ten year old Child I took this.

When they said there might be something wrong with your brain. Like there might be a medical issue wrong with your brain. I thought that was them trying to scare it out of her of like.

You might be fucked in the head too.

At least that's what I would immediately be scared. I wouldn't be insulted if someone's like, oh, yeah, your brain is fucked. Like oh, no.

But it might be a translation thing.

Yeah, I took it since this whole episode has been her being like, yeah, I'm slow, I'm spacey, I'm losing to this ten year old at a lot of stuff. So I took it as the other kids being like, hey, you suck your brain's bad. But yeah. And then she falls asleep in class and that's about it.

Okay, but I think there's a scene in that episode that I love very much that you didn't mention.

I think it was right after the hiccups because I have notes on it too.

Is it the bean knowledge scene?

Yeah, well, my subs were saying Grain of truth.

Yes, I skipped over that. That was very weird.

I love this part so much. No, because I think again, I think it was a thing in the translation of me getting translation notes, being like, this is why this is funny.

Yeah.

So I guess in Japan, trivial knowledge is called bean knowledge.

Okay?

So she's trying to make a pun with glasses girl saying something, saying some random fact about soybeans. And so she says, yeah, you know, it's bean knowledge. And then she stands there and waits for the glasses girl to say something. And then the glasses girl is like, what? And she's like, get it? It's soybeans. So I wanted you to say, well, that's bean knowledge. Get it? And I was like, I love it.

Okay, that makes so much more sense than the scene I watch.

All right?

In the dub, they just fully retranslated that joke. Yeah, it was about, like, grains of rice and it being, like, a grain.

Grain of truth. Well, even the subt I watched the subd, and it was still, like, the translated, I guess, script and didn't have all these caveats because she was like, wondering, are snails bugs? I guess that's like grain of truth, because grain rice are grain. It's like, what?

I'm trying to remember what the exact phrase is in Japanese. I know mae means bean. So it's like mama chiki or something like that, but just was so cute, it cracked me up.

We also had her asaka dreaming about messing with chio's pigtails. And when she lifts up one, it goes up the same time, and she's like, oh, experiment number two. And she like, detaches both of the pigtails. It's like, oh, weird. It's like, experiment number three. And chio comes up like, oh, I got a gift for Christmas. I go, what is it? She opens it up, and it's two more pigtails that she detaches her old ones and put new ones on. And osaka is just like, what the fuck?

There's like a fun mechanical click as she puts them.

She's like, what's happening? And that's when we see osaka wake up. And it's like, oh, it was a dream.

Yeah. There were things in this episode that made me laugh.

That's episode two.

Yay. Episode three starts with chio visiting the pe. Teacher, whom I never got the name of.

I just wrote pe. Teacher.

Yeah, me too. So she visits her, like, in the teacher's lounge, and she's getting her school swimsuit. And then the English teacher comes in. ukari comes in, and she's like, hey, pe. Teacher, are we going to go out drinking tonight? And I'm like, oh, my God, I.

Just want to get fucked up at that bar by the train station tonight. Oh, hello. Ten year old girl.

Coming in. It's like, looking to get turned, looking to get fucked up.

And then the pe. Teacher is kind of like, hey, let's not talk about this.

Can you fucking not?

Yeah. And then Yukari sits down at her desk, which is a complete mess. She has no organization. And the pe. Teacher is like, you should clean up your desk. And Yukari is like, there's a system, thank you. And then she's like, oh, yeah, let me have the dictionary back that I let you borrow. And she pulls it out from the bottom of the stack, and the books are about to fall, and chio catches them all, and they're like, oh, hell yeah, chio. Good for you. And she's like, can you help me? And then they all fall on her, the poor baby. And she's like, Ms. Yukari, please clean up your desk.

And then more stuff falls on her.

And then more stuff falls on her. And then we find out. chio kind of finds out and tells all the other girls that the pe. Teacher and Yukari went to high school together. They went to that high school together, which is cute. So they've known each other for a really long time. And then, as I put it in my notes, energy Girl and Glasses Girl have also known each other for a very long time. So Energy Girl is like, all the secrets I know about glasses girl. And she tells this story about one time Glasses Girl left some bread in her desk, and it got all moldy, and then it gets stinky and gross and it had its own ecosystem. And then it cuts to, like, a few minutes later of the glasses girl telling everyone else that that wasn't true.

This whole elaborate story, it's like, oh, no, it was all bullshit.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised.

I was kind of surprised by while she's telling the story, we get, like, the little animation in the background of these moldy alien creatures dancing around and causing ruckus behind her. I'm like, that's some of the better animation we've seen in the show. There's a lot of detail for just this weird background joke.

Yeah. And then the girls ask the pe. Teacher what Yukari was like in high school. And she's like, Well, I could tell you this one story. And then the English teacher starts walking by singing about a love letter. And then the pe. Teacher is like, never mind. So ukari obviously has something over the pe. Teacher. That the pe. Teacher doesn't want anyone knowing.

She's got some dirt.

She's being blackmailed.

True. Friends blackmail each other.

True. And then we cut to, like, some boys talking about whether they prefer Yukari or the pe. Teacher. And one of them is like, oh, yeah, the pe. Teacher, definitely. And Yukari is right behind him, and she's like, I'm hot.

Why not me, teenage boy?

And then there's, like, a couple of girls talking about how the pe. Teacher is easy to talk to. And then Yukari runs up behind them, and she's like, who wants a teacher that's easy to talk to. That's me. I'm the easy to talk to teacher. And I put ha. That's me. As a teacher.

I can be your best friend.

I went through what you went through. Not even like that, though. I would just be like, hey, I know what you're going through. I can help.

They won't believe you because they're teens.

I know it's the rules, but I'm forcing them too. That's why I want to be a guidance gunner.

Oh, that may not be a good reason to be to have.

And then ukari realizes that the pe teacher plays games with the kids. So she's like, that's why they like her. They play sports together. So Yukari gathers our main cast and they go to play. Oh, no, this was a better scene than that. They're like, talking in the classroom, and Yukari just opens the door, and she's like, Basketball now. And then they're like, what? And she's like, Come with me.

Get in the gym. Toss the rock now.

Toss the rock.

Ukari is by far the most manic cartoonish character out of this whole show. Like, Buy it leaves and miles.

This episode is so funny because it's mostly about her. Yeah, just doing some wild shit. So they're gathered in the gym, and I forget what the name of yukari's team was.

I thought it was just like, Yukari team, but then it was cool. soccer's team had the name.

The other team was called the Sea slugs. And osaka says that she's like, we're the sea slugs. And the two girls behind her are like, what? And then osaka again is like the sea slugs. And then they're like, yay, sure.

Don't you want to name it something cool or cute instead? She's like sea slugs.

I love sea slugs.

Sure.

But so Yukari is like, Ha, let's make this interesting. Whoever loses has to buy the other team drinks. And they're like, what? Can't we just play? And she's like, no, there's no fun if we're not competing for anything. dumb teenage girls.

Bukari is the shittiest person.

I love her.

Hey, kids, let me teach you about gambling.

And then they're shown playing, and Yukari is just holding the ball up over chio's head, just bullying her.

So mean.

Like, she's like, I'm just going to hold it up this high until they give up.

It's too short. You can't touch the ball.

And then the pe teacher sees this happening. So she goes into the gym and she's like, chio, I'll tag you out. I'll play for you. And then they win. She dunks on them real hard. Well, she dunks on ukari real hard, because at this point, it's just them competing.

I was wondering, are the teachers wearing pantsuits track suits? That's what I thought it was. But then I got a good look. It looked like they had collars that went around where the zipper would be. It seemed like it was like a flat collar and, like, broad shoulders. It looked like a shirt up suit.

Pretty sure they were track suits. I don't know. So they lose, and Yukari has to buy the pe. Teacher a soda, and they're out by the vending machines. And then the pe. Teacher is called away for some reason, and Yukari shakes up her soda. And then the pe. Teacher comes back, and she's like, hey, I actually have to go. You can have that soda. And Yukari is like, what? And then she pauses for a minute, and then she opens the soda anyway.

Why?

It's so funny.

She knows what will happen. She did it.

The comedic timing in this show really just got me. Like, some of the pauses were so long, and I was just like, I know what's going to happen, and I can't wait. And then we get to see the teachers outside of school.

What teachers outside of school?

I know. It's like they have lives or something. It's like they're beautiful. 20 somethings living in the city.

Makes sense.

I know. So the pe. Teacher is, like, in her apartment, and then there's a knock at the door, and she goes to get it, and it's ukari. And she's like, hey, what's up? I'm going to hang out here today. And the pe. Teacher is like, you never come over anymore. And then Yukari kind of looks around. She's like, yeah, they're doing construction at my apartment. And she goes over to the pe. Teacher's bed and just sits in it. And she's, like, poking the pillow. And she's like, this pillow is so squishy. How much was it? And then the pe. Teacher is like, ¥10,000. And she says, you bourgeoisie piece of.

Shit, get out of here.

My favorite line.

Yeah. Just so good. It's so funny.

I will say that before she starts investigating the pillow, yukari just sort of gets in the bed and goes to sleep.

Starts falling asleep.

What the fuck? It's just like, Wait a minute. This pillow is weird. And that's when she starts, like, poking it and stuff. It's like a memory foam.

Yeah. And then she does. She's just like, I'm just going to test how much I like this pillow. And then she goes to sleep again, but, like, real asleep. And then it's like a little bit later. Same day, pe. Teacher is sitting on the floor reading while Yukari is just napping, which is cute. lesbian gold. And then there's another knock at the door, and the pe. Teacher has gotten a delivery from her uncle in hokkaido. And hukari hears hokkaido, shoots up out of bed, runs for the package, and just starts ripping it open. And the pe. Teacher is like, what are you doing? And she's like, I know what hokkaido means. It means seafood. It means crab. It means delicious food. And then she opens it, and it's a sculpture of a bear.

I like this bear.

And then she's like, what the hell is this? And she's like, I don't know. My uncle sent it to me. And then she's like, bullshit. She calls the pe. Teacher's uncle, and she's like, what are you doing? And she's like, I'm going to ask him to send you something else because this sucks. And then the pe. Teacher takes the phone from her, and she's like, sorry, wrong number.

I also loved that the delivery guy is just standing there watching this. But the logo for the delivery company is the cat that was biting the girl in the first episode. Really very angry teeth cat.

I didn't notice that.

Love it. Yeah. The delivery guy is watching them fight, and he's like, I need you to sign for this.

Please let me leave.

Please free me from this prison.

And then again, it's like later in the day, and they're shown just sitting on the floor of the pe. Teachers apartment, and the bear is broken. And they're just like drinks. Let's go. Drinks. Just that casual. And then they're walking down the street, and the pe. Teacher is like, so where are we going to go? Here or here? And then Yukari is like, whatever. You're paying for it anyway. And she's like, what? And she's like, I'll get you next time.

Bullshit. I never created that.

And then there is this scene is quality. This is a man, a blonde man with blue eyes walks up to them, and he's speaking gibberish. And he's just like, huh? And then Yukari bolts out of there, and he's just like, the subtitles just say blah, blah, blah. Just speaking gibberish.

The dove did the same thing.

Yeah, so he's American, and he's just speaking English at the pe. Teacher, who does not know how to speak English. And she's like, hold on. My friend knows how to speak English. And he's like, what? She's like, hold on. And she's like, Yukari, what the fuck?

Help me out here.

And then she drags Yukari out, and they start talking to each other, and they're just having this conversation. And then they start laughing at her. And then she's like, what did you tell him? And then Yukari is like, yeah. He says that gym teachers in America are also stupid.

Just so cool. But the whole time, the pe.

Teachers like, what the hell?

The whole time, they're still just saying, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's so good. Cracked me up.

Peak comedy.

And then we're showing the high school girls, osaka, and two of them I forget which. Is it the glasses girl and energy girl?

Yeah, because they're like friends.

Yeah. So they meet up on the street, and then osaka is so cute. She says something about wanting to treasure the moment. And they're like, Are you moving again? And she's like, no, I just read somewhere that you should treasure every meeting that you have with your friends. And I was like, oh, how dare.

You be so pure.

It's so cute. And then they're just in the middle of the sidewalk, and they just start yelling, this is our chance. Just like, over and over again. And then there's one of those long pauses. And then yukari and the pe. Teacher are just shown. They just walk across the screen fighting with each other, and the high school girls do not acknowledge them. And then there's another quick pause. And then they're like, well, let's go home. And then yukari and the pe. Teacher end up at a grill, and they're drinking and eating some food and having a nice time. And then there's just a sequence of the pe. Teacher teaching Yukari how to hold chopsticks because she's been holding them wrong her whole life, I guess. And she just can't pick up her croquette.

A lot of croquettes, though.

Yeah. And then Yukari gets stupid wasted and she starts talking about how she's going to marry into money. And the pe. Teacher is like, okay, maybe you should stop. And then she just keeps drinking. And then the pe. Teacher is like, all right, let's go. And she carries her out into the street. And then she barfs off camera. And then the pe. Teacher puts Ukari's arm around her shoulders and she's like, let's go. And then Yukari is like, believe in yourself. And I'm like, Hell, yeah. Yukari.

It seems like an average night for a teacher, at least my teacher.

Yeah.

Okay, we're going to watch a video today.

Teachers get drunk.

Hell yeah.

That's sad.

I went to public school. It's cool. So did I. I went to a very poor public school, apparently.

But yeah, that's episode three. It was pretty much just about Yukari, and that tickled me.

Yeah.

She is, like, the most fun character we have because she's just the worst.

It's also not hard to be the best character in the show when there aren't a lot of good character.

I think every character has her perks.

I was not thrilled about this show. I was very bored.

I'm going to say it again. I said it before recording. I'll say it again. My name is Brendan, and I don't like to have fun.

Not that it wasn't fun. It just fucking nothing happens.

Yeah, it is hard.

Pretty much. Lucky star.

It's hard for these, like, non narrative, like, mumble cory sort of just very loose scenes with a premise of they're all in the school because, yeah, it's fun and cute, but to watch it long term, like we did watching three in a row, it just all runs together and it all blends and gets very hard to talk about.

Now, I understand what you guys didn't like about Dragon maid. I get it now.

I liked Dragon maid.

I think watching this, I retroactively like Dragon maid a lot more because there is more of a through line to it.

You're acting like you've won something. Brendan, I didn't recommend this but I won't fight hard for it. But I just thought it was nice.

Yeah, I don't know. I enjoyed my time with it, but I don't think I would continue.

I think you're all right to go. I think it would be good in, like, shorter segments of Snippets, especially with because this was made what did we say, like 2004?

2004?

I don't know if it's a recent trend, but there's been a lot more short form anime, like one I watched send you, which is five minutes. And then there's an opening and ending sequence, too, so there's actually only like three minutes of actual content or so there's been a few anime wishes that are five minutes long total per episode. And I think this could be good. Or maybe like a ten minute one or just a shorter segment so we can get these sketches. You can condense them and you don't have those just long, drawn out sequences of them playing volleyball for way too long, and you can still get the little Snippets without having to just like I don't know, it was cute, I guess, but there just was no substance, at least for me. So maybe if you could just concentrate some of those better. I also fully admit it might have been the dubbing and translation. As we said, Danny, you had the little notes that explained things better. So that whole bean knowledge bit would have been a lot funnier if I had any context for it.

Yeah, this is something I would probably since it is not sequential, this is something I could watch, like a YouTube compilation of the best moments because I feel like I have seen a couple just, like, scenes out of context that do work as standalone things. I think I saw like a Truth or dare sort of segment where they're playing like a weird game. But yeah, I feel like watching the moments is good. The show is not structured enough, but.

Slowly, especially with me seeing everything of memes and just snippets of it kind of like the best parts of it. I've seen the scene Rosaka plays with gia's hair and it pops off and she attaches new ones. I've seen that and I was like, oh, that's what this whole show is like. No, that was like a very particular dream sequence that isn't like the rest of the show. At least the three episodes we saw.

Yeah, that part is very like pop team epic.

Yeah, that's kind of what I saw at the show.

I feel like Pop Team Epic is kind of the comedy is more like adult in Pop Team Epic.

Pop Team Epic has very aggressive comedy, but it's similar. Yeah, that was our take on it. Make your own opinion. See what you like about it.

So thank you, aj, for sharing this with us.

At least I had a good time.

Hey, I had fun too.

Yeah, I had time. So.

Yeah.

Stop talking.

Brendan. Talk about something else. What's going on next week?

Next week we're going to watch it's kind of slice. It's actually very slice of lifey. But it's a newer show because we've been watching a lot of, like, decade plus shows lately. So I figured we'd bring us up to date with a Netflix original. Excuse me? Netflix original. agra suco. Is that how you pronounce it?

Agri.

Agriso.

Yeah.

And it's the life of a red panda office worker who is a big death metal screamo karaoke singer at night. And that's the basic premise of it. It's very good.

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I never was going to that's.

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