AWTY 203 - Erotic Print Funeral (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl)

Koi fell. But was it a coincidence? How did I not see the coy girl in front of me? The real mccoy?

Hello and welcome to are we There Yet? In exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, b hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime alcohol induced Fever dream, or as I called it, college.

Those were the days. They were not hungover beyond comprehension.

Every now and then someone was like, I wish I could go back to college. I was like, god, no. I will pay you good money to never go back to those days.

No. Last week I had three drinks at a work event and it ruined my night. I could not fall asleep because I felt so sick.

No, I I think I got the spins like, once. I was like, cool. I guess I'm just never consuming alcohol again because it's so bad. I was just like, it's truly awful.

I went to community college and then to a university as a 25 year old, so I didn't party.

God. Smart move.

Well, yeah, some might say a loser.

Your liver disagrees.

True. I guess.

What non loser show are we watching today?

Oh, yes, I forgot. This is sort of my birthday episode.

Have a buffet.

Thank you.

We're doing it a little late because of extraenating circumstances. A okay by me. And I could not think of anything to do this year. I feel like how could you possibly top a vocaloid seminar? But I thought about it, and we're going to watch the knight is short walk on girl, which is a masaki wasa film. And we all know I love that guy.

Head after head after head after head.

Yeah, he made naruto and what else?

Bleach and one piece. He did the big three.

I'm breaking my chair.

He did the big three. eo. Ping pong. And keep your hands off the a's.

Okay.

Those are the three.

You can't say the b word so casually around me.

I'm so sorry.

Quick distraction. Brendan, is this a movie you heard about with positive associations?

Yes, by proxy. Because we actually know someone who's in it.

Yeah, well, our pal Jackie LASTRA plays the main character in the English dub, which is very exciting. I think it was her first, like, lead role.

She plays the titular girl.

Yes. No name, actually. So lucky you, Brendan. What about you, dugan?

Yeah, I know about it in that context. And that this movie that came out. That's why I know it'd be real.

Impressive if it didn't come out and we got our hands on it somehow.

I lost motsaki. Awesome movie. I looked it up. It came out in Japan in 2017. But I feel like the dub came out in the last, like, couple of years. The dub is new.

I feel like we saw that it was out when we watched tatami galaxy and we were kind of like, oh, I thought it was sooner than that, but it must have been because of the dub came out later.

Yeah.

I think my perspective on time is just so messed up now where I was like, oh, yeah, 2017. It feels like a year ago. It's probably 2017 anyways, no matter what.

So a recent picture of my friend's kids that messed me up.

Oh, yeah.

It was like a ball last time I saw it. Now it's like a sentient being walking around and talking. I was like, that's not right.

Babies do that. It's weird.

Wish they didn't.

They went into people.

I was telling a baby, fill out on that.

I'm gonna need some credible evidence before I just believe in this baby theory.

Let's do some research into the baby thing and watch the movie.

That's good.

Love it.

And then the stork puts it on the bed, and that's where babies come from.

Oh.

All right. I got you all told that. But where do baby storage come from? Sex.

So what happens to this movie?

Yeah, well, let's talk about it. This movie is I feel like masakiwasa stuff falls into two camps that we've seen. We've got like ya ping pong and your enuo. And Enuo is kind of teetering on surreal. The musical sequences are the most surreal thing about it and the fantasy of it. But it's not like Chatami Galaxy and this these are whack.

Yeah. Enuo is just, like, fantasy. It's like, done. You got me. And this is, like it's trip. It's a ride.

It sure is. So let's take it. We open on girl slipping down some champagne at a party in, like, a restaurant. A waiter is at their table asking for their order. And like everybody else at the table, their faces are pink because they're drunk. They've been drinking, but not hers. She's doing good, and it looks like they're at some kind of engagement party. We find out later that the couple did get married. Also, about this movie, there is at no point something you can brush off and be like, that doesn't feel like it matters.

Everything matters.

Everything matters. Everything comes back. So, yes, this married couple, they're married. Great. Good for them. And they're accepting drinks from the guests. And the man, it seems like, is taking them and drinking them all, whereas the woman is just taking a sip and then pouring the rest into a bucket. And girl thinks about how she wants to drink her own way and not the way that elders want. And I took that as that she's.

Ready to get fucked up, I'm ready to get turned.

Yeah. And then we sweep across the room, and there's a guy staring over at her, and he is madly in love with her. He also hardly has a name. He goes by Senpai, and he's been in love with her since he met her last year. We see all these schemes. He's gotten into. He runs into her air quotes often, so often that eventually she'll think that it's fate and not just a coincidence.

That's his whole goal thrill garbage plan.

Yeah. You could just ask her on a date.

My guy saves you a lot of trouble.

Yeah. Then none of this would have happened.

Eventually. She'll just notice me enough that she'll just one day look up and be like, oh, we've been married for, like, three years. Weird.

Crazy. That's how marriage works. You hold hands with someone enough, and then you're married. I know. So he's there with his friend, the director of school operations. I just called him director.

Fancy lad.

Fancy lad. He's a very pretty boy, and the girls love him. But what he really loves to do is get and drag and make men fall in love with him because he's just so pretty. And then he just leaves him high and dry, which I kind of love. fuck, man.

It's a shitty move out of respect. The power play.

Yeah. Make him question it. And then there's another friend there. They call him Don Underwear. His identifying feature is that he hasn't changed his underwear in a year. We find out why later. What a catch.

It's more romantic than it sounds. Don't worry. His reasoning is anyway.

So tonight's the night. Senpai is like, if I can sit with Girl at the after party tonight, I can move into phase two of my plan. So the the married couple is like, time to go to the after party. It's just a little ways down the street, but this is where Girl splits off. And she's like, there's a whole world of alcohol waiting for me. And then we get some opening credits. They're very fantastical. Very, like allison wonderland vibes. Which is very much where this movie goes.

Yeah, I guess it really does. Real quick. The guy keeps running into the girl everywhere. He's and every time she sees him, she's like, oh, sempi. He's like, ah, it's just a coincidence. He could have talked to her at fucking any one of these instances. But instead he says it's a coincidence every fucking time. That just bugged me.

Yeah. He's he's not the most dislikable man we've seen in an anime.

It's not a good one, though.

But he's not doing great.

Yeah.

So she's at a bar where everything is only ¥200. I look steel.

Looked it up. Current price, that's a dollar 45.

That is insane.

Don't trust that bar. Don't trust that good point.

For those prices, I'll look the other way.

Just go with someone you trust. She orders a pina colada and talks about how much she loves cocktails because they make her feel extravagant. And she especially loves rum. There's a guy at the bar who remarks that she can really put her drinks away and he mansplains alcohol to her, but she enjoys it and she thanks him for sharing. And he's like, I love making connections with strangers. It's my happiness. And he tells her about this, like, mystical cocktail that has an interesting history, and the recipe is a secret, even though now you can buy it in any convenience store. The story says that an employee at an electrical company for some reason tried to recreate it, and in the process, he made a dupe of it of sorts. And it's not exactly the same taste as the original, but it's the one that, like, everybody knows. And girl is like, oh, I'd love to taste that someday. We see senpai waiting for her outside, and a guy goes up to him and offers him girls like a brothel, and when he declines, he gets kidnapped. Oh, dear.

Just real quick. It just happens out of nowhere.

Yeah, you just see him get a pillowcase put over his head. The man at the bar tells girl that she reminds him of his daughter, and he's not a great dad. He hasn't seen her in a long time, but tonight was a very special night for her. wink laying the groundwork. It's the girl that got married. And he tells girl to be happy. And I know that in order to be happy, you should always question what happiness is and to always do your best. And he puts his arm around her and creeps his hand into touching her chest, and she just punches him in the face. Good for her. And as he falls, he drops a bunch of erotic prints that he just has on him.

From the groper. No.

Weird. And then we see a girl with star earrings who I call star earring, and a dude with a big chin who is, in fact, same dude. Big chin.

Tatami galaxy girl with star earrings, also from tatami galaxy.

I thought so. I couldn't remember.

Yeah, he was like, this guy looks familiar. I did not recognize that they both were from that.

When he said he was a tango, I was like, okay, he's the same one.

Pretty much everyone in this is from tatami galaxy just in some iteration or another.

Yeah, probably, but so they both appreciate her punching capabilities and say that this guy is known for being a creep and that you should never trust anyone you meet in a bar. Even them?

Especially them.

Yeah. So they sit down together, and star earring explains that the creep guy is part of a club that collects, like, erotic art. And a big chintu man says that that guy's been having trouble paying off his debts, but because he's, like a god, he doesn't care. He's like, I just like gossip. Girl says that she feels bad for punching him. Star earring says that she has excellent form, and girl says that her mom is the one who taught her how to punch. And we get a quick flashback of mom explaining the friendly punch and how with just one punch, she can bring peace to the world. And she says that even though her family taught her a lot of martial arts, the friendly punch is the only thing she can use in public. So who knows what kind of shit she can really do.

Also got a note. He says, you have excellent form. And she explains the way you do the friendly punch is you wrap your fingers over your thumb. And I've always been taught that's the quickest way to break your finger, break your thumb in a fight is to condense it under your fingers and then just squeezing it when you land that blow.

That's not a good one.

No, it's bad.

Yeah.

Which means are wrong as a choke.

It's friendly because you're going to do more damage to yourself than your enemy, their friend.

So either the creep is super weak and it was a bad punch or she's just that powerful. So tangu asks Girl if she wants to join them and she's like, oh, I don't really have much money. And he's like, oh, you don't need any. So they leave the bar, find a pair of pants on the stairs. Star Earring tells Girl that there's a guy who has a habit of kidnapping guys and taking their pants. And as she's explaining that tango was putting the pants on.

Hey, free pants.

Yeah. Who could pass that up?

There's a monster out there stealing pants and it's me.

And then we see sempai and this is what has happened to him. He's in a park, no underwear, no pants. And he's just asking anyone if he can borrow their underwear. And then we see the creep from the bar. He leans out a window and he's like, hey, I'll give you some underwear if you drink with me and listen to my problems.

It's a bad deal.

Yeah.

Even if I need underwear, I don't trust anyone who says they're going to give me underwear.

Yeah, just go buy some.

Yeah.

A real lose lose situation no matter what.

So Girl, tango and Star Earring, they're looking for a place to drink and they end up at this party where everyone is fighting. A guy goes up to Girl and asks if he thinks you should marry someone you love or someone you don't. And he says the right answer is to marry someone you don't. Because if there's no love, then there's no chance of love going away and.

It'S only the logical thing to do.

And he starts sobbing and it's clear that he's been rejected by someone. And this is his goodbye party. He's moving to London, presumably for work, but also, it seems like, to get away from the girl who rejected him. And then they all started doing this weird dance and Girl joins in.

I love it. It's so weird.

Yeah, it's a good one though.

It's like the opposite of that very goofy John Legend walking picture, but like bent forward and ass stick it out.

Yeah. So they leave that party, end up at a smaller bar party, and it's this guy's 60th birthday, and all these old folks are just kind of chattering. It's kind of a boring party. Star Earring tells tangu to liven up the party, but he just does, like, a silly parlor trick. And all the old people are like, that's lame, and they want to be entertained. They notice Girl is wearing a watch, and they all look at it and they comment on how slow it is. She's like, no, it's moving at the normal pace. And then start earring. In tangu, we see theirs and they move faster. And then the old people's move even faster. And I really liked this part because when you're young, time really does feel like it's moving slower. And as you get older, it feels like you have less. So it's just like I dig that. That's a cool little thing that happens.

And it's something we see throughout the entire movie.

Yeah. And also later, Girl, we find things out about her that kind of she says things that make you feel like she really is just living in this state of time. Moves slowly for me because of the way I live my life with them in the moment. Yeah. So turns out Girl drank a whole bunch of bottles of wine while they've been there, and she ends up doing the dance from before. And the old people are actually the ones who came up with it, so they're all joining in. tangu is impressed by girls, like, capability to get people to join her. I suppose all the old people offer her more wine because she's such a great drinker. And they talk about challenging this guy to a drinking contest. And she's like, I'll do it. So back with Senpai and the creep. He's getting pretty turt, and the Creep wants him to keep drinking. And The Creep laments that he lost everything. This part is one of those surreal parts where I was like, that probably isn't real, but then it is important later. He had, like, a koi store where he sold koi fish, I think, and a storm came through and blew all of his koi fish away.

So I forgot that entirely.

Yeah, but it matters later.

It explains later parts. Yeah.

So he's like, I started with nothing and made my way up, and now I've just lost it all. Another guy comes by. He's part of that club that collects erotic arts, and he's interested in taking the creep's collection of erotic pictures off his hands. And they explain to Senpai, like, what their club is. The Creep says that there's some guy who wanted to bury him in debt and separate him from his daughter and then take away his erotic prints. It was all part of the plan. And then the guy who came up, who's also in the club, said, I'm going to call your daughter. And we're going to give the print collection a proper send off. We're going to fix all your problems and then back with Girl. They're going bar hopping, drinking up, having a swell old time, collecting people and, like, partying as they go. They meet back up with the couple who got married and that party. We see the erotic art collectors crying over the Creeps collection. Senpai is there, but he's just, like, snoozing on the table. He's not in it at all. They hear the party outside, and they realize that someone girl has challenged someone else to a drinking contest. That someone else. Where did I finally write down his name? rihaku san. He's like this big, like, dude. He just controls everything.

It seems like he seems like a mafia leader.

Yeah.

The people talking about him was like, oh, he's a giant, and koi fish streamer cuts spray out of his mouth and these legends about him.

Yeah, he's like a notorious drinker. And only Girl is the only person we've seen who could dare challenge his appetite.

Yes. So the party starts to encroach on the erotic print funeral.

What a sentence.

Title of the episode.

Oh, my God. So the guy from the party earlier who was clearly rejected by a girl, he comes up into the party and throws up all over the prince. And the Creep throws all the prince out the window, and he sees his daughter, the girl who got married. And the guy who was crying about being rejected is also involved with her. She rejected him. So it's all connected, baby. And this is still only the first half hour of the movie.

It's so much.

It's so much. So tangu says that Rihakusan has finally arrived. He comes up in, like, this boat train. Very cool. This gave me, like, gibbly vibes as.

A three decker train.

Yeah. That floats on water. So he was here to collect the erotic print collection, but because they were thrown up on, that's no good. He sends out some goons to grab the Creep, but Girl interrupts. She tells the Creep to not give up, and he's the one who taught her that. And she formally challenges Rihakusan to a drinking contest, and he agrees. So I think they go on his ship, his boat, his train. And we see a pole with all of the underwear that he's stolen because he's the same guy that does that.

It's all connected.

It's all connected. And they go down this spiral staircase until they reach the room that Rehaku is in. She sits across from him. It's just an old man.

It's a very little old man.

Just a little old man. And he says that if he wins, the Creep owes him double what he originally owed him. And she agrees to those terms. And they're drinking that cocktail that was mentioned earlier, that mystical Dupe cocktail. Every sip she takes, she's really enjoying it. She says it's warming her from the inside. The visuals are all colors and happiness, but everything she says, he contradicts. So she says, oh, life is lovely and wonderful. And he says, oh, it's lonely and painful. And he asks why she drinks, and she says, I was led here by all these people I met. And now that I'm here, I feel like everything in my life has led me here. But he continues to argue that life is just bad and lonesome, and he conks out, and she wins.

She's a freak. He also didn't put up that much of a fight.

No, he's just an old man.

Yeah, maybe the booze or like a high proof or something, but I think it was like, maybe four or five drinks.

Yeah, but everyone is celebrating. We see Girl out on the street now, drinking a soda. Senpai is trying to retrieve his underwear from that pole, but he falls, and Girl sees him with his dick out and punches him in the face. Good, good. But also, poor guy, he didn't want his dick out.

Was it by choice?

Yeah, he didn't mean for this to happen. She's standing on, like, a river, and she notices that all the people sitting around are couples. Start Earring and tangu are also sitting there. And Girl gives Start Earring her sweater when she says it's cold, which is very kind and cute. They see a flyer for a used book fair, and Girl suddenly remembers a book she used to read when she was a kid, and she's filled with the overwhelming urge to find it again, which happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'll just be like, oh, remember the rude giants? I have to read that now.

For me, it is old PC games for young kids, like honka Construction Adventure or whatever.

Why I have two Ice by computer games on my laptop?

We've talked about the jumpstart series too often.

I love it. I can't get enough. So Senpai wakes up. He's got pants back on. He's in the school festival headquarters. It looks like a spy base, which made me think overpowered school council, but I don't think that's on the bingo card anymore.

Yeah, it is.

Okay, cool. There you go.

School council. There you go.

Yeah. This is where the festival operations happen. Pretty boy director is with Senpai. He explains that this used to be the library police headquarters, where they would track down delinquent students. So as a result, they have information on everybody, including Girl. And doesn't Senpai want to know everything about her? And I noticed in the background they have all these tvs with presumably all of the students. And that demon guy from Tatami Galaxy was on one of them.

The director of this movie, he knows 20 people and just recap, even if they're animated.

Yeah, we all know, like, 20 people.

20? Wow. brag.

Maybe like, five.

I know four people.

Yes. Interact with.

I know four. Two of them are in here right now.

Hey. So Senpai gets angry for a second at the invasion of privacy, but then kind of relaxes because he's like, well, yeah, I do want to know stuff about girls.

I am a stalker. You got me there.

Yeah. So one of the library police says that there's this picture book that she's looking for. And the director says, oh, this is a favor, but I would like your help with stuff in the future. Whatever. So sempai wonders where he can find the book she's looking for, and it turns out the exact one that she read as a child is being sold at the used book fair. So he's got to go there. We see girl is already there, and she's like, I'm so excited. I love books. Endless possibilities. Senpai, on the other hand, does not enjoy books. He'd rather experience things than read about them. A kid runs into him and slams his ice cream cone into his crotch. And the kid says, what are you going to do about this? compensate me. And I thought that was very funny. But sempai is like, what? You owe me an apology. You ran into me. And sempai notices Girl, and we see him in the background. He runs off, so she doesn't see him, and she thinks about books and fate and that maybe there's a God helping her find the book she's looking for. Or that maybe that God is on vacation since she's not having much luck. Habeans habeans. I would love to go to this giant scholastic book fair.

It's also like the dead of night. This is after the bar hopping and stuff.

We'll talk about it later.

Yeah.

Times of time is irrelevant.

Yeah. Much like the last three years. I will try my best to keep the names the same, but we'll see.

Don't worry. It won't stay consistent long. After you.

Great. Yeah. So you see Girl looking around, talking to a sweaty, bald man. He is who I connected with the most. And he's saying that there's a lot of collectors going around lately to different book markets and stuff, collecting all these rare books and kind of auctioning auctioning them off. And he says it's bad because it should be like the commodity should be flowing like a river. But the collectors, like a dam. They're hoarding it all the 1% of book owners sort of shit. Yeah. We hate them. And then we see. Yeah, I wrote the kid's name down. ozu is the demon guy from Tatami Galaxy because I ended up finishing Tatami Galaxy and that oh, boy, that messed with my head. But he's like the little child who spelled the ice cream.

Yeah, he looks like him.

We see him running around stealing the price tags off of books, and the sweaty bald man runs after him like I wrote in my books again, chases them off, and he runs into sempai again. Once again spilling the ice cream on his crotch. Again, we see Senpai was like, at a river, like, took his pants off and we're cleaning it so he's just in his boxers. And then we see the kid spills the ice cream on him. Again, same exact thing.

Senpai just can't get any luck tonight.

He also mentioned he had to buy the kid that ice cream he paid for to get put on his pants.

God, there's so much. This movie, it's a great movie. It is a nightmare to take notes on. It's so dead.

If we were just getting to watch this movie, it would have been like, I'm glad I had got to take notes first, because then I could just enjoy the rest of it.

I thought this movie was just about the bar hopping part.

Yeah, me too.

That's my introduction. I was like, oh, it's just about drinking, because that's all the trailer was.

But then that ended. Minute 31.

It's like four more accents.

I had the opposite of D, where I was watching the first two thirds, and I was like, okay, this is tree forward. Okay, I'm getting it. Okay, it's getting deeper in. The harder it is to take notes on.

No, it's rough. Mine is very dead, so I'm going to try and look through Speed Run.

Any percent.

Book owner wants him to come with sweaty. Book owner wants Senpai to come with him because the kid ran to him. So he thinks he's with the kid. He's like, no, I didn't do anything. Don't take me with him. I'm not responsible. Then the old pervert shows up again saying, yeah, it seems like you're having trouble with your lower half. Once again, to trend with you. I'm a pervert. I also have that problem. And then we cut away and we see girl. She's with tengu and star earrings. It's going to be rough for me. They're at the park as well. Why? They got nothing better to do?

Hang it up.

Tengu has big stacks of books saying he's collecting high profile books and selling them to people for people he knows, for high inflation. He's a scalper and sucks. Star Earrings is there with a giant block of ice. I guess they have, like, cold yakisoba, which is the thing. And she's getting very red. Seems like she is catching a cold. We see. And then they are also there with Don underwear. He makes his return. Hey, he's there, just sitting at their table writing a story. He's writing, like, love stories. And a girl is like, oh, what inspired you to write love stories? What drew your attention to that? And he talks about how one day a year ago, back at the school festival, he sat down on a bench and he saw he locked eyes with a beautiful girl across the way. And right as they locked eyes, apples fell from the sky and bonked them on the head. And they fell in love with her instantly. And apples were because of some other school festival event going on, they're transporting a bunch of the apples on the third floor and just spilled them all over the balcony. But it was a very magical, surreal moment and as soon as it bounced him on the head he fell in love with her and then she walked away and he's never seen her since. And he swore on that day that he would never change his underwear. He made a wish at a shrine and I guess his penance for the wish is that he'll never changes underwear until he sees her again. Weird, weird wish. disgusting, weird stipulation but sure that we cut back to sempai and he's saved by the old pervert who is able to deflect the tension from before. And he says that there are erotica prints being sold at a Black auction at this used book market and he can't go himself because he's a shitty guy and everyone hates him. That he's sent sembi in as his proxy to bid on the ironic prince in his place. And then when it gets there, we see like a big tent deeper in the park. We see a few other people lining up for the black auction and we see tengu guys there as well. He's always up to some grift and he's saying he sees sent by come up and starts talking to about the auction being like yeah, there's people who've apparently even lost their life in this auction trying to get what they want. There's a weird assortment of stuff here, you never know. So he gets nervous as they could both get let inside by like armed and max guards inside the tent. We just see the entire tent is outlined by furnaces, like small little heaters and stuff. And in the center there's a giant fire pit with like a lucky cat sort of statue hovering above it. And on top, above the fire pit on top of the lucky cat statue, we see help me with the name. What's the old one? Rehaku sign Rihaku son.

The old man.

The old man. We see the little old drinking man. He's on top of there and he's like waving himself a fan. He's like, oh, you want to get some of my exotic wares? Very well then we got a whole bunch of stuff and we see everyone's asking what they want for and we see he also has ratata tam, the book that girl wants, that setback wants for a girl to get. And he's like, oh, we got this. Does she happen to be looking for if you guys win the contest, you get your prize. The contest is simple. Eat my very hot pot. My very, very hot pot. So we see below the captain, he.

Pulls out the dankest weed knowledge, the fattest nougs.

Now we see the lift or lid being pulled off of the fire pit. And it is just like you said, it's a hot pot with a bunch of food in it, but it is extremely spicy. And we see everyone take the first bite. Everyone's freaking out and screaming, except for tango Guy, who's like, oh, that's pretty hot. Cut back to girl. She stops with book child. I'm going so slow. There's so much stops with Book child. He's taking price tags off the books again. He's getting yelled at. And she stops being like, hey, don't do that. You're messing up the books. And he goes, oh, don't you know all books connected? See that girl over there? She's picking up sherlock Holmes, which is written by Arthur kernan Doyle, who was influenced by and it goes into this huge tirade of information that basically is just connecting all the books with the stories, with the authors, with their lives, and like, just saying how everything's influenced by one another.

I loved it.

I reckon, like two of those names, I'm sure they did their fact checking. I won't know, I got that smooth brain. But there's a lot of going on. She's like, how are you so smart? How do you know all this? And he was like, oh, simple. I'm the god of old books.

Hey.

Ominous.

It was real.

She was looking at it.

He's real.

It's all connected. And he says he's here to bring justice to the collectioners and auctioneers who are hoarding the wealth of old books. And he said they should all be brought back to this old book market and they should all be in circulation instead of being price couch. That's why he's taking the tags off everything, because he's like, people should read the books. You shouldn't be bidding them off to the highest bidder just to make a profit.

There should be a place where these books are kept for the public, where they can get them for free.

That sounds like socialism.

Sounds too liberal furniture.

Sorry, you're right.

The American propaganda in me hates it for some reason, and I don't know why. What about money? So Jeff bezos made all his money, books and hoarding the wealth. Anyway, god of old books says he wants her help with a little scheme he's running. And we cut back to Senpai in the tent, eating the spicy food. Everyone else has passed out from eating it. Everyone else has dropped except for him and Tengu big chin man. They're holding their own, but they're struggling. They started losing and seeing weird stuff, like a frog coming out of the hot pot that's eaten by a giant snake that then tries to eat them. It's a lot going on. They're tripping balls. An old man on top, just laughing away, eating a big slice of watermelon. He's chill, he's fine. He's enjoying it. Cut to girl outside, standing by a tree as she unties a string. And we see it's the support rigging for the tent that the auction is being held in. And we see right as tengu guys passing out from the heat, we see senpai's winning the auction. He won the book. He got retentant to tomorrow. He's able to win it and give it to Girl, and he'll win her love finally. And as he's getting it's a book about a train.

And I feel like that anomaly PIA is perfect.

I guess that makes sense now.

Yeah.

There's a lot of stuff I miss just writing down notes. I didn't process it at the time.

It's the little engine that could well stop beating.

We know what it is as it gets the book. We see the tent around them. I like how they did this. It doesn't just fall. It like, dissolves, like, into birds as it all flies away. As girl unties the tent. And we see the god of old book markets there saying, you got to return these books. Stop hoarding them. You a piece of shit. And as he says that, we see all the books that were in the tent, in bookshelves and locked up and stuff. We see all of them open up, and the books fly out and swarm into this, like, giant mass of sparrows and stuff, like in the sky. It's really neat. We see them all fly off, and we see all the books going back to the used book market. And we see the old man loses everything, and he's all sad, but he sucks so good. And we see sent by holding onto his book. He's not letting it go. He fought for it. So he holds onto the book as it gets flowed back to the market with him attached. And as he's being dragged through the market by the book, we see a girl notices him. He goes, huh? Ran to sembi again. What a coincidence. And she talks to the guy, to the old book market, and he's like, oh, yeah, you're looking for that book about the train when you're a toddler. Don't worry. You'll find it soon enough. And then he disappears.

He supports it. He supports their love.

He's enabling it. Unlike into Tommy Galaxy. So I guess that love was between more of him and the guy. Anyway. tami galaxy is wildfire.

We don't have the time.

After the book market, they go back to the table with Don underwear, and we see star earrings. She is very sick now. She is like, very red and kind of passing out. And tangu says, like, well, I didn't get the book I wanted, so I got screwed out of the auction. But you know what? She's looking sick. I should probably take her home. And writers are saying that he picks her up to take her home. We see a bunch of people run in and start building up, like rigging wires and a curtain and a backdrop, and they're setting up this gorilla stage play, and they're just setting it up on the spot. And once it's all set up, we see it is a play about the Cinema Club and a girl in it is exposing the Cinema Club president for being a pervert who is in love with his living like a sex doll, like a live doll sort of thing, and exposing him again from tatami Galaxy. This is the plot line from tatami Galaxy. So if you didn't see that, this is even more confusing than you did.

We have entered the third act where if you couldn't believe it, it gets even more wild.

My part had two acts in it. It's a lot. And he gets exposed for it. They just reenact the time of Galaxy moments. And then it goes into the girl exposing him goes into a singing moment. Talking about the school festival organizer for the school festival here tonight is a criminal causing all the grief and struggles that are going on at the school festival. And then the scene ends, and as soon as the stage gets set up and performed, it gets taken out immediately, disassembled, and they run off. And as a Gorilla Theater babe, I feel like we all knew someone in college who would have done this if they could. And as they take the semblant and run off, we see them. They're being chased by the fancy lad himself, the school festival organizer, Sampai's fancy friends. We find out he sucks. And we see. This time, tengi says as they're running away, tengi says, like, time seems to take longer around Girl. Things seem to go a little slower when everything's around her again, it's all connect. And he says he'll take starring home because she's sick. And he recommends Girl Goes to pick up some moon cakes on the way home. And she goes, oh, I'll pick those up at the school festival. That's going on right now. They always got moon cakes. That's how we get into another act at the school festival. We see Senpai standing there with a booth displaying the book that he got. And he's hope is that eventually a girl will walk by and it'll be another sheer coincidence. And they'll run into each other. She'll see the book and fall in love with him over the book. And they'll get married and have kids. And while he's daydreaming, his entire booth gets disassembled by the Gorilla Theater students. And he's just like, what's happening? And the whole, like, tent is just gone.

I will say this is timely that we watch this, because there's a sign for the festival that says, this is the October school festival.

So hey, we played this all along.

Yeah, I definitely knew that when I.

Picked I didn't go to the poster in the back. I was having an aneurysm trying to follow. As Senpai is there, his fancy lab friend runs up and he's like, I'm going to catch you one of these days. He's like, all right, buddy, come back with me. To the headquarters, and they run back to their base. And he explained to them that the theater crew is known as the Cadre of monte cristo, and that they are a group of road click theater students who go around disassembling unpopular stands, using them as stage material to build further plays. And he says their plays are exaggerations and mixes of lies and truths, and that everyone who's seen the play has had their life fundamentally altered in some way, and it's his duty to try and stop him. He's got to catch these rogue agents. They're criminals. And then we see, while they're talking, a monkey in a policeman uniform and a cockatiel right up on a silk way.

That's not even a lie.

No, it's what happened. The cockatiel talks to him, saying, hey, boss, we heard there's reports of a Running Kotatsu running around the school festival giving away free nambi, which is, I think, another form of hot pot. And they say, we got to stop them. They're giving out free food, and they're unlicensed. They might be getting people sick. And Fancy Lad is like, I got too much going on with the codger. monte cristo, you take care of this. And the monkey salutes, and the cocktail says, Got at you. And then they ride off of their segway. This is the movie now. Just keep going. We're not stopping.

Just keep rolling.

Meanwhile, we cut to girl. She's at a booth at the school festival. It's like a shooting game. She wins a giant, like, carp backpack. Like, it's like one of those carps that you have, like, streamers of in festivals. And it's just like a giant backpack, and she wears it. It's great. I don't know how this comes into anything.

She likes it.

It's fun. And she's walking around looking at all the different booths, and we're getting highlights of them. Again, a lot of tatami Galaxy references in this montage. And while she's walking around, she sees Tengoot big Chin man himself. He's at the running Kotasu. Of course he is. He's the schemer. So she sits down with him, and Don Underwear is there as well. And she's like, oh, what's going on? It's like, oh, Don Underwear still writing his stories, but we're just here giving food out to people and trying to have a good time. And as they're talking, the cops show up again, and they chase after him. Or you're unlicensed or unregulated. And we see as the Running couttsu runs off, we see the cotter vante Crystal crew appear right after them, saying like, oh, no. The stage crew is like, oh, no. The actress is out today. We can't have the actress that we had scheduled. She got arrested in the last sequence. We got to figure out something new. Girl, you're standing here. Can you be in her play? Here's the script. And she's just reading it. And while she's reading it, they're putting her in costume. And then when they finally finish the costume around her, she goes, Don, I got it memorized. I'm in. She's just up for anything.

Yeah, that's her whole thing.

Yeah. And we see that in the play that they're reenacting. She's a durama, which is like the little statue guys. Also a theme that's going through on throughout the whole movie, like a reoccurring theme. She's dressed up as that. And she accuses the director of the school festival organization, the fancy Lad. She's accusing him in the play of getting sick while he was hanging out with the Bedroom investigation committee, which were the bunch of perverts collecting the old erotic art.

Yes.

And she's saying that he's also a pervert by being an association with them. And that's how he got a cold, because she could trace back the cold from them. And he's like, yelling back in the play, saying he's not guilty, all this other stuff saying they're criminals, blah, blah. They're basically just a play of what's actually going on. And she sings about how she wants to reunite with her love, the cadre of vante cristo himself. And then while the play is going on, it's wrapping up. And we see the Fancy Lad himself and sepai trying to fight their way through the crowd. But the crowd's getting bigger each play, each time they do a presentation. So it's getting harder and harder for them. So they're fighting their way, trying to stop them. The sage crew gets away, and then we cut back to the headquarters with the Fancy Lad and sepai as they start piecing together all the clues. And they're like, hey, wait a minute. We found out that the author is the one organizing all this stuff. So we stop the author of the play. We can stop this whole thing. And then they catch videos of security cameras where the stage crew sets up, and they notice that the running kotatsu that's running around with the Tengu guy and Don Underwear are always at the places right before the gods of monte cristo crew show up. So they catch them on video, like the one group running away and the other group running in after them. And they see the duramas, the little statues that the Don underwood drops are the dead drops for the stage crew. That's how he's communicating to them of what the play will be.

We have our ready arnout. We're making the connections.

Peppe, sylvia. peppe, sylvia.

Pepe, sylvia.

They actually have two maps of this university grounds, and they lay them over topic trip. It's the same location, and it keeps happening. They have like 50 incidents. I'm like, how do you not catch him after 50 times? It's a bad group. But yeah, they realize that Don Underwear is the one who's creating all this. He's the one. He's the author of the play. He's the one leading all this. They got to stop. And fancy lady think, we got to stop him. Especially because they have the last scene coming up. And supposedly it's a love scene. And that's when Senpai realizes if girls in the play, she has to do the love scene. I got to stop him. And now he's invested.

Oh, boy.

Meanwhile, we come back to Girl. She's running around the stage crew and she finds out, yeah, Don Underwear is the one writing all of this. He's hoping to write plays enough to become famous enough to get the attention of the Apple Girl he fell in love with. This is all ploy to get her attention. And then while they're running around, senpai comes up with the idea of replacing Don underwear in the final scene so that he's the one who can kiss Girl in the love scene instead of Don underwear. So the crews aren't trying to set up fancy ladding. Sempire running after them, is trying to arrest them. And that's when Senpai realizes, hey, I don't want to stop this play. I want to get into it. So he immediately stops, turns around, pants his fancy lad, burns his underwear pants and then runs off ahead of them to try and slow them down. And we see he gets up to the top of the roof that they're running up to. rooftop check tenu guy sitting there with the kotatsu eating away. And he's like, I caught you, I can be in the play. And tengui is like, oh, no, no, the play's not here. The play is over that way and points across the way. And we see they're already building, like, the stage, like, further away. And some guy's like, shit, I gotta get over there, and jumps on a zip line that's on that building for some reason. I guess Don underwear used it earlier. So we see a girl starts to play, she's on stage and singing her song and reveals Don underwear comes out. He's in like a king outfit and confesses his love. And he recounts the story of him falling in love with the Apple Girl and leading all up to this moment. And he's all he's doing it in the play, like, through song. Meanwhile, we see the Fancy Lad and his group of no, specifically fancy Lad and the monkey on the segway with the cockatiel running up a staircase. And he's like while up the staircase, he's by a window and stops and looks out and sees the play is already going on, still has no pants on. Who needs them at this point? And he sees Senpai zip lining down to the play to try and intercept the kiss. Senpai flies in, kicking Don Underwear off the stage, replacing him on stage. He starts singing his own song about his love for Girl changing the play as he goes, saying how he got the book for her, saying how it's fate how they ran into each other all the time. She's like, oh, it's coincidence. He's like, no, it's fate. We keep doing it. It keeps happening. It's more than coincidence.

Definitely not on purpose.

Definitely not a stalker. He leans into trying to kiss her for, like, the final scene. Trap door opens up underneath of him, and he falls through. And then as he falls through, don Underwear comes back up on stage, finishing the rest of his song. And he's singing out to the crowd, to Applegirl, saying he'll never forget what happened to them. He's also saying, like, don't worry about the guy that just appeared on stage. He's not part of the move faster. And then we hear someone yell out. And at the bottom of the stage, we see it's Apple Girl. She jumps up on stage, joining the show, joining in on the song. And that's when Don Underwear goes up to her to confess his love.

Oh, boy, something's coming.

I'm going to set the rest of the show out.

Lay down.

Yes.

Okay, so here's the dilemma. We're at the hour mark where we start wrapping up so much. I have three pages of notes, so this is going to be very condensed. I applaud you on your expediency. I could feel your heart beating out of your chest.

I wrote those notes. I had to say I'm fair.

Okay, here we go. So Apple Girl finally jumps up on stage, and she's like, ha, it's me you've been looking for. And surprise, it's the festival director. He dresses up as women so the.

Guys will fall in love.

Don't examine that. But he's like, oh, yeah, you've been wasting all this time. And don. Underwear is like, I don't care. It's not the girl. It was the destiny of having two apples fall on our heads. I'm just trying my brain is taking these notes and is in real time condensing the zip file of the delivery to my mouth to say it. So the festival director feels misunderstood, but he'll love Don if he can accept that he's a man. As they're about to kiss the play director, the ginger that brought the lady and girl into the play. God, too specific.

We didn't even talk about her.

Yeah, she's like, But Don Underwear, can't you see I put on all these plays because I love you, even though I'm not Apple Girl. And remember we said there were koi?

The koi that got blown away in the storm felt like a goof.

Yes.

They're relevant now because they fall from the sky and hit Don Underwear and ginger director Girl on the head at the same time. Oh, change the fate. You don't need to love Apple Girl anymore because you have koi girl.

Thank God.

Didn't even understand the scene. Okay, now I get it. Okay. Yeah.

So, yeah, they finish out the show. True love wins. Not where you're looking for it. Great. We then see Senpai catches a cold. He's like, all right. I directly confronted girl. I was about to kiss her, and it didn't work out. That seems like fate is telling me, be alone. So he goes home. He just wallows in his sickness.

His room. Same as the tatami galaxy. All right, go.

So we go to Star earring girls apartment, where their girl and whatever big chin.

Yeah, Jay leno.

J leno. The crimson chin is there. And they're like, okay, yeah, here's the sickness. And this leads into a chain of, hey, this person has a remedy. Go visit them. So she ends up visiting a bunch of people because pretty much everyone we met tonight got this cold.

It was at the same time. It developed in the same amount of time.

Yeah. So she's walking around. She's like, oh, I feel left out because I'm not sick. There's a community of sick people, but I'm not part of it.

Fuck you.

And they say it all leads back to Rihaku, where she started the night doing the drinking challenge with them. So she goes and visits him and remedies.

God, it really is a fetch quest of like, go see this person. Here's an item. Go see that person. Here's an item. And she just has a backpack full of stuff by the end of it.

Yeah. Eventually crimson Gin gets sick. And then visiting Rihaku, we hear his tragic backstory about, he's such a bummer because he was raised in a world where if you don't take, you will be taken from. And she's like, no community. Even though you got people sick, just think about it. Even though you're not spreading like positivity, you're still a member of the community. So it ended up like, I visited all these sick people. They ended up giving gifts to each other and passing things along that wouldn't have happened without you. And his cold heart melts, and he's feeling better.

Three sizes. That's it.

And he's like, oh, well, now that I'm feeling better, there's someone even lonelier than me out there. Go find your destiny. So, yeah, then we see Senpai truly just having a fever dream where he's lamenting his life. He's like, odd. I'm not good at school. I'm not going to get a job. I might as well go to grad school and just push it down the line so I don't even have to think about a career. Just, like, wallowing and stuff.

Too real.

And we go into his brain, where we see just like, Council Chambers. This is a long sequence. I'm leaving it there because who cares?

I do want to say he has brain cowboys. He's got the brain cowboys.

I wear beyond real quick.

We got time. The brain cowboys are from atomic galaxy. They're essentially a representation of penis, of the shut of sex. Yeah. Wow.

This is allison wonderland part.

Yes. This is where they truly lose all narrative and just go fully surreal. So girls going to go visit him, and he learns from his brain, and he's like, hey, girls on her way.

And then she gets off.

There's a whole bunch of bullshit. Even trying to describe it is not fun for you, the listener.

It's not worth explaining.

Yeah, she gets there and is like, oh, hey, you have my book. Sick. Want to go on a date? And they go on a date.

I don't know what's happening, but I also know what I know everything that's happening. It makes sense. But it is just an extremely visual sequence of nonsense that would suck for an audio medium of podcast.

When she gets there and finds the book and they're talking, it is a very sweet, tender, calm moment after all the ridiculousness that's happened. And then, yeah, you see them go on a date together. So it's just a story of like, boy meets girl and they fall in love. But boy, is it wild.

Boy, howdy. Go for it. Did she always have an apple hair clip? I noticed that at the very end, but I didn't notice it throughout.

I don't know.

Are you asking me if I remember a single specific detail about this movie? And it wasn't even one of the memorable ones? If you're like, yeah, monkey. You know what? I'm going to be honest with you. When you were talking about the monkey in parakeet, I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about. I couldn't remember after this movie. I finished watching this immediately before we recorded it. And you want me to know if she had an apple hair clip on her date at the end of this movie?

She is always wearing the apple hair clip. I just looked it up. She has it in pictures from before.

Thank you, dee, for reassuring me. dugan, you were also entirely correct to yell at me. That's fair and understanding. I like how you didn't understand the monkey and parakeet on the segway and you just went with it. You were just, let's go. Let's try.

If I ask questions, it's going to grind us to a halt.

It did take me to their second appearance to realize that it was a chimp and a macaw or parakeet or whatever.

We haven't gotten a bird right. We've set a different bird every time we bring it up.

I think it's a macaw because it talks. It also talks in full sentences. So who the fuck cares anyway? We're here. That really is how it ends. They go on a date sequence of cool visuals, and then they go on.

A date and then they're like, oh, we can talk to each other about what happened on your half of the night.

Yeah. They say it was only last night, but it felt like a year. And having watched it, I agree. That felt like a year of my life.

And based on this conversation, them telling each other the other half of their night will also feel like a year. Yeah, this was a joy to watch. But holy shit, is this. Terrible to describe.

Yeah, I loved it, but I'll have to watch it again because I do love how the whole movie is literally just about all the connections that people.

Make all the time.

I do like that the end is just them, like, getting together, because that's kind of all it's all what it's leading to. You see, there each side of their night, and obviously, sempai is the one who's trying to romance her. She's not really aware of it, but by the end she's like, oh, I do like him. And then they're just sweet. They're really sweet to each other. And yeah, I think it's interesting the way time is because yeah, the night feels long because of all of the things that happen. But also the cold thing is like the weirdest part because people get sick during the night and then by the morning they're better.

Yeah.

So it's like this weird cosmic cold.

It's just all hitting me at once. It's like a marathon. And then you actually stop to take a breath and it's like, oh, my body's dying. It shouldn't have been put through that. No human beings should be put through this on a regular occurrence. And now it's all hitting me. It's like it's exhausting. Yeah, there's so much going on. Yeah, I agree with you. It's a great movie. It's really cool. It sucks. I planned on watching this movie at like one and a half times the speed because I ended up watching it late. But like, God, that's not feasible. You probably have to watch it at half speed to get everything that's happening because it's so dead. And with tatami Galaxy, because I ended up finishing that series, a lot of the same things going on, a lot of the same themes and plots and thought connected. This is what titanic Galaxy should have been. I think we said it on that episode where tatami Galaxy would probably work better as a movie than a series. And I think this proves that theory 100%, because this was a lot, but it was good. titanic Galaxy is the same thing. The first episode we see of titanic Galaxy is the next 14 episodes of tatami Galaxy. And then the last episode is the different one. So I understand why you do that with the story, with the repetition, especially with a story like that. But I also did not need to see the same story done that many times. But with this, it's like three acts that are all very similar, but different in their own ways. And it's good.

Yeah. The way to put it, succinctly, is if you are interested in watching to Tommy Galaxy, watch this movie first. If you like. It good news. You'll expand on some of the weird bullshit that pops up here when you watch the series. And then you can go, oh, that thing that made no sense in the movie. Now it makes sense. Oh, now I have, like, a full episode, and I can see why there's a boob shaped rocked wall. I can see why there's discussion of this big chin god. So that is your action plan. We saved you. This was all, hey, we got to the end of this night and it was all worth it, baby.

I do think it's interesting when I saw this also in Your Name and weathering with you, they take place in the same universe. And I think that's an interesting thing that both of these filmmakers have done.

Like the Marvel cinematic universe.

No.

Sorry. I ruined it.

Not really that at all. Who's excited for the Chair movie that makuto shankai is making? Anybody? Me?

No.

Chairman?

No.

Anyway, no, I liked this a lot. And I'll definitely have to watch it again, probably with Paul, because Paul would probably really like it.

Yeah, this is great. It's really cool. It's just the way they play with the visual style. We've said it before, messes up. aki uasa nails it every time. He's the director of the movie, but the creator of the series both to Tommy Galaxy and this one, tomi hiko morimi. He made both of these back in 2004, 2006. I'm guessing that was a bad period, first time, because both of these movies have really, like, shut in intrusive thoughts, like with the brain sequence of those, like, intrusive thoughts of senpai. Like, it was very reminiscent of the time of Galaxy and stuff. And I'm like, man, this is insightful and cool, but it's definitely a guy spiraling through depression and self doubt and a lot of anguish internalized. So here's something he's sort of shit out in the last 15 years and.

And I certainly fear my internal thoughts if we don't end this episode now, sorry. If there's a series you would like us to watch, you can send your recommendations to us. Arwaverriet@gmail.com is our email, or you can reach out to us on social media at areweebevariat on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

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I'm sorry. Okay? Is that what you want me to say?

No. It's never good enough when I say it.

It was my birthday.