AWTY 123 - Milk Economy (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

Music.

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

I'm an anime expert, dee hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime starship, goldfish. Okay, that's a very obscure cut. It's a small animated project that was made a pilot that fund way back on fucking indiegogo or something like oh, my God. Maybe a decade ago. No, like a while ago.

Brendan, look down at the ground. Ground yourself. You're okay?

Oh, it's falling way beneath me. I'm spiraling into the air. I'm old.

Not again.

I bring it up, though, because it is a very good animated pilot that I believe everyone deserves to go or deserves should go watch because it deserves the attention.

You earned it, champ.

It's good for you.

You earned a little treat. And I bring it up because it's a very dedicated, hard working team behind it that worked on that project and really enjoy animation because because that's what we're well, we're not watching this today. We're watching something similar. We're watching keep your hands off the esakai.

That's not it at all.

No. how's it pronounced. Ezochin azocin. You go on.

Yeah. When when I was looking up the show, because I was looking for Isokai, I was like, is this the right one? Because this is just a fully different word.

I mean, clearly from my eloquent intro just now. I'm great at the speaking sounds, so it should come no surprise when I actually have to say a Japanese word, I stumble upon it.

No, I've been playing around with duolingo, with Japanese just just for fun. Just for fun. These nothing else is going on, so I might as well leave this with some skill. But yeah, I truly am amazed. Like, oh, learned all the hiragona. Oh, all these sounds that can be used, and of which the words I'm learning use about five of them interchangeably. I don't know which is which.

Japanese is hard. I also did Japanese on duolingo for a while, and then once it got to sentences, duolingo is especially frustrating because they just teach you sentences without explaining the sentence structure or anything like that.

That's rough.

Yeah, but they've started getting better. They're better with like, hey, pick the tips. And we'll vaguely explain it, but it's still not like, hey, their sentence structure is just completely fucked up with what you're used to.

It's entirely different.

Yeah, I know. Like words. Oh, no, I know how to say, do you speak English? I feel like that's good enough.

That's all you really need.

I would need that. And where's the bathroom? It goes through Japan. I remember finding out some Japanese people even have trouble with kanji. I was like, wow, I can't no, I'm not even going to there's a.

Lot of it.

As I was going through is like, yeah, there's going to be a lot. Sometimes we just have to spell it out to be like, hey, no, not that one. This one just uses a different word.

Well, like in anime, they always talk about, like, oh, your name is this, but it's actually this, and all that stuff.

It's written this way.

Characters.

Yeah.

It'S built for metaphors.

Yeah, like the whole thing in your name with twilight also meaning, what is it? Like, who are you? Or something.

I imagine if I took Du lingo, the owl would just start heavily drinking while teaching me and be smoking like, a pack a day. Like, all right, we're getting through this. I got to get you an A on that test where I don't get paid this weekend. Just real struggling.

Have you tried paying attention to your lesson?

No, not at all. Why would I ever do that?

I'm the only person in the world who isn't constantly harassed by the owl.

Because it's like, Fuck, not again.

I'm just putting it off until, like, 1159 every day of like, all right, here's your daily reminder.

Good luck. The owl reminds me at 520 every day, so that when I get back to him, I was like, no, but I'm off the clock. It's 540 now. I'm done, sir. Get away from me.

Well, does this show have anything to do with duolingo?

No, just trying to get a brand deal. daddy needs to pay rent.

Yeah, really going for sponsorships. Your insomnia boy has been on and off being awake since 03:00. A.m. So weird energy day. No focus in my brain.

So the traditional handler for me is off. The radio is going to be a punchy episode.

It was doomed from the start.

Dugan is the handler. I thought I handled both of you. I just let dugan think that he handled you.

I pretend to handle host things, but then equally get distracted, but just am more egotistical about my role.

You give dug into Xbox controller, but it's unplugged, and you just let them explain. All right, then it's going to be an average show for you. venti.

Yeah, probably.

But yeah, this show is do either of you know anything about this? I know it's got pretty wide fame when it first came out, so you.

Might have heard, I never watched it, but I know about it. And I know, as I mentioned last time, it's masak yuasa. He wrote it, so I'm excited about that.

Yeah.

All I know is what we learned at the end of last week's episode. So yeah, I know it's about an anime club and that's it.

Yeah, pretty much. With shirobako, it was girls starting an anime club in high school and then getting jobs in the field later. This is just like the prequel to it. It's just them. It's still in high school. Different girls, though. But yeah, I've watched it all when it first came out, and it's so good at motivating you. And then I'm so bad at not falling up on that motivation.

Using any.

Excuse to not because it's very entertainment to see how we'll see when we watch the Epstes, but how passionate they are about every step of the process of animating and drawing and creating stuff. And it's very fun to see without the realistic stress of studio. Like in shirobako, where it's so, like, fun in high school. And the stakes are high for them, but low in, like, the grand scheme of things. So it's like they won't be homeless and unemployed and struggling to survive if they fuck this show up.

So it's like, I'm not going to get war flashback.

Hopefully, I can't promise you.

Oh, goodness.

If they use ftp to transfer their data, I'm out.

So instead of spare fastbacks out, I broke it until a cold sweat. So hopefully, if nothing else, very fun and exaggerated. So I hope that'll keep us invested in having a good time.

Yay.

Wait.

So yeah, we're going to watch the first three episodes. The inspiration of the colors. I can see it all in my life.

It's like the ending of 2001 Space odyssey, but entertaining.

What a bold claim.

Yeah. I don't know anything about that movie, but I feel like people have opinions on it.

All right, quick little detail for me. The movie's good. The book is better. The last 20 minutes is just kubrick sucking his own dick. So that's what I'll say.

Got it.

The ending could have been streamlined a lot.

We are laser focused this episode.

No, I like you. Really?

Let's insult kubrick for a minute.

I got problems with cinema. It's weird because I like this show and I'm immediately distracted.

Yeah, I have anger energy for some reason. Also, this is delightful.

I'm in a blanket. I feel safe. Let me lash out at others. Anyway, yeah, let's just get right into it because I feel like we'll have to say episode one once again. I wrote all the names down. This is all subtitled, so I got the names spelled correctly. I'm not going to say them right, so bear with me.

The only name I don't remember is the glasses girl.

Which one has glasses?

The tall one.

KANAMORI.

We'll get into them, but I had nicknames for all of them. Yeah, you have defining characteristics.

Hat, tall, model.

I got model tall in Maine.

Maine protagon. All right, so we start off. Episode one starts with a young madori ASUK aza suka. Yeah. The last name is Bad Mouth Times. For me. She's the main. She's the protag, she's the hat. We see her in, like, 6th grade moving to a new city with her family and little baboon real Tommy pickles vibes.

For me, I see it.

And when she's like a little car sick in the ride, she's kind of like little, you know, mopey. A little sad about going to a new town, a new city and, you know, got to deal with all that shit. But then once they get to the town, once they get to the city and she sees the apartment, she starts getting excited and looking around because the layout of it is wild. And she starts running around checking out the rest of the city. And the layout of the city is wild. Like, her apartment building is over top of a river. Like, it flows underneath the building and they got like a bridge that overlooks it and stairs that go down into a parking structure they go into a subway, they go into it's hard to explain because it is so visually reliant, but it's just like the city isn't.

Just beautiful solar punk aesthetic.

Yeah, it's it's it feels like it's in the future, but not by much. And it's just like a wild future city and it's not like a typical Japanese suburb or small town or anything.

Yeah, the explanation was like, since it's like partially built over the water, the infrastructure is just fucked. So they just passed to work, like staircases to different levels and just bridges everywhere. So it's just it makes no sense. But they're just trying to keep the.

City from falling into the water and it looks great.

It reminds me a lot of the city and Kill a Kill, the way it's all connected.

I have not seen kill akill.

Okay. Yeah, the city is similar. It's like all on top of each other and then the school is at the top.

Interesting.

Yeah, it's a little different, but similar.

So she's running around and she is being inspired by the city. She's immediately taking out a sketch pad and start doodling everything she sees, like everything she sees, and she is really all shrunk by all of it. So we see her getting excited and being passionate about that. And then one day there's a nasty storm of ruin. So her mom's like, I got to go run out. Pick your dad up from the train station with the car because the storm is so bad. So you stay here and just, like, watch in anime and just like, keep safe. She's like, okay. I love that. She shuts, like, the windows and it's like a storm barricade. Like it's like a metal grate that goes down you'd see in front of stores in like, a mall, and then it's like a heavier metal sheet that goes down in front. It's like, damn help picks this storm, but at least they're prepared for it. Clearly the apartment is built for it.

Yeah, we got the motion. kai juice. Better save them. Sorry.

Feels like it so yeah, she just settles down on the couch and wraps up in a blanket, just gets all cozy and get ready to watch some anime. She just picks what she finds and it's called conan of the Lost Island. And something about it hits her. She just something about it hits a nerve inside of her and she is transfixed to it. She is mesmerized by it. And while she's watching in all the different scenes, her inner monologue is saying it's the first anime she realized was actually made by someone. It wasn't just shot and recorded. And this is all real place. This is something like people put effort coordinated, like these scenes and stuff. And it really woke into a third eye for anime.

I love it because it's like, obviously it's an anime within an anime, but the style is so distinctly different. Like. It's very gibbly esque.

It's very nostalgic. I love it in the Valley. Yeah, it looks great. And it's fun to watch. And then it's fun to see her kind of dissecting it and consuming it, enjoying the feast that is this show. And when she watches that and we cut away to the opening and this opening fucking slaps. I will have no arguments on that.

Yeah, it's it is more repetitive than others, but it's fine because it's gorgeous. It's so catchy. It's beautiful. I love it.

It's very colorful and fun. And then when we come back, we see I just call her dory. That's what I wrote for all my notes. We see Madori on top on the rooftop of the school. Check that one off rooftop. It's got binoculars, and she's just scaling out. It looks like it's like the it's not the cultural festival, but it's like the beginning of the school rush. Club rush. That's it where yet clubs are trying to recruit new people and stuff. So everyone's gathered out front of the school and everyone's out in public bumping up against each other. And she's got binoculars out and sketches it all down. And she's trying to get all the characters and all the people that are having fun down there. And we see her very tall, lanky friend come up, KANAMORI, Mr. KANAMORI. And she brings out just like a lunch for her. She's like, Here you go, madori. I bought you your food. dorian's like, oh, where's my change? She's like, ha ha. Service fee. I'm keeping it. Like, shit, I didn't think about that.

This girl loves money, and I love her.

She's great.

The shrewd businessman.

And she says kind of mary says, like, oh, you're sketching everyone. Why don't you go down there and get a better view instead of having to use binoculars from the rooftop? Majority is like, no, I don't like crowds. I do better. It's easier for me to just stay up here and get a better view from everyone in drawing from a distance. And she's like, oh, kind of worried. The anime club's doing, like, for the club rush stuff. They're showing screening of an anime. You want to come with me? She's like, no, come on. Like, I need someone to go with me. I don't want to go alone. I don't want to feel awkward by myself. And she's like, cool. I don't want to go, though. She's like, what if I promise to buy you a milk. When we go to the bath house later, it's like, make it two and not two profit. Very shrewd. And KANAMORI asks what Midori is looking at all looking at all the time from the rooftop. Majority says she's, like, scouting at the school because once again, the layout of it is so insane. How it's on the waterfront and there's a giant clock on the front of the school, but because it's right above them, they can't really see it that well. So the only place you could really see it would be across the bay. And then across the bay, there's another building with a giant clock that they have to look at because it's easier than looking. They're craving their neck upwards. And, yeah, the rivers go underneath it. And then there's walkways, and then there's, like, valleys in between. Like, there's a river in between two of the buildings. And she just goes on about how insane the school's structure is and how fun it is, and One Day wants to use it for an anime. She wants to create that and have that as the setting because it's so.

I want to go there so bad.

It just looks like a wild art installation, but it's the whole building. She says she wants to use it for the setting of an anime she wants to make one Day. And then this is where kamori agrees, like, all right, fine. I'll go to the anime clover. No, she says, make it four bottles. This is just extortion now. She's like, you want something from me, I want something from you. This is how it works.

Are they friends?

I related too much to KANAMORI. I mean, I've gone on record being a little shit.

It is a very comfortable dynamic. It doesn't feel exploited. She's like, yeah, I'm here with you, but my time comes with a fee.

I have limited time. So they end up going to, like, an auditorium where the anime club is having a screening. And they sit down, and lo and behold, the screening is of conan of the Lost Island, the very anime that inspired Madori. So she's like KANAMORI is like, why is there a whole club devoted to anime? Why is this so special? Why are there as many people here? There aren't a ton, but it's more than I thought there would be just for watching a show. And Madori goes off explaining every shot. They got to angle it this way, and then they have to make it look realistic. But then if it was realistic, it wouldn't work that way. So they have to bend it slightly within the anime and just goes rambling on about her love. Both of anime as, like, the genre of animation in general, but then this particular one, because she's watched it so much and analyzes the scenes, talking about the shape of, like, a ship and how it has to fly. And how it's kind of just hovering and has to use anti gravity devices to do so and just how they have to work out with the composition of the characters and stuff and just going off and off and off. And it's clear she is a big old nerd, but it's very, very and while she's rambling, we see another girl sneak into the auditorium. And then as soon as she sneaks in, like, two sort of balancer looking guys and, like, black turtlenecks sunglasses come running in after her, like, clearly looking for her. And she runs up to KANAMORI and Madori, and she's like, hi, my name is Subami Misusaki. And she says, like, I think she says, like, I'm a fresh year wearing around. I was interested in coming to the enemy screen, but I can't say right now, hey, can I burn your hat real quick? It's like, what? And then they hear the guys burst into the auditorium, and when they look over at them, they look back at the girl, and she's gone. And she stole madrid's hat. And she would just see her running down the stairs like, thanks for the hat. I got to go. And the bodyguard guys are running after her, so we got a chase sequence.

Oh, boy.

And kind of more I was like, well, this is more interesting than anime. Let's see what's happening with her. And they go chasing after her. And to get her hat back, majority sat back. So they end up finding her. The girl, Ms. Hockey on, like, a stage like, that's not being used like a theater stage. And the balancer looking guy called her, and she's kind of just yelling at him, I just wanted to go watch the anime screening. I wasn't going to join the club. Like, you don't have to keep tailing me like this. And mador and KANAMORI are like, well, how do we help her? We got to get her hat back. And looks like she's having a rough time with that guy. What do we do? And kind of morri just hits a button, and the stage below them starts lifting up. And they're like, I guess we'll go talk to her. No, terrible idea.

I can't talk.

I don't do well with strangers, let alone people in general. And they end up just walking up to him, and they're like, oh, I got this cool idea. What if we and she just grabs his archie, and they just start running. They just pull her out of that situation and just start booking it. And so the bouncer looking guy starts running after them. But because it's like, a stage with, like, feeder stuff laying around, they have all these weird switches and stuff. So a door starts hitting them, and the trap door opens, but it's not next to him. So she pulls, like, another one in the background changes, and she pulls, like, another switch, and the stairs he's running up turned into a slide, and then he slides down right into the trap door they opened earlier. So it's like, oh, we got a.

Budget they had for this set.

This school is wild. Yeah.

What is this show?

It looks the way it does because it needs to, not because there's any realism in it.

Yeah.

And they get away from the theater area, and they take a break. And when they grabbed him, misaki. She's drinking strawberry milk. And when they pulled her away, she spilled it all over herself. So she's, like, cleaning herself off and laughing, saying, like, no, that wasn't, like, a bad guy. That's, like, my family's, like, bodyguard. My parents sent him to follow me to keep me from joining the anime club. He's not, like, a criminal or something. You weren't rescuing me.

Imagine getting hired for that job. She's like, hey, follow my daughter around all day and make sure she doesn't watch anime.

Make sure she doesn't enjoy the things she's passionate about. It's like oh, wow. I mean, you're paying me, so I will, but like, wow.

Hey, she's smoking a big blunt, but that's not on the list of what she can't do. Is this cool? Yeah, as long as it's not, like, a narrative rapper.

Skisky on the rapper. She got to get away. Here, take my crack plate. And so they get away from him, say, well, you got strawberry milk spilled all over you. And it's like, well, we got to go clean that up. And it's like, wait, you wanted to join the anime clubs? Like, yeah. My parents want me to be, like, an actress, so they're trying to keep me away from animating and stuff I'm actually excited about. And while they're talking, it just gets louder and louder, and we hear, like, a crowd just kind of approaching, and they turn around, and they see just everyone leaning out of doors or windows, like, waving at mizasaki and cheering and stuff, like, hey, let's get away from all of this. This is a lot of people, and we got to get a laundry mat to get you cleaned up. So they lead her to this little laundry mat that's kind of tucked away from everywhere else, and it's, like, really compact and just definitely looks like it straight out of, like, spirited away with all these pipes going in and out of the building and this big air conditioning unit in the doorway that you have to crouch underneath to get in. And we see Msizaki is like, I like that she talks. She sees, like, a cat sleeping in, like, a doorway. Be like, oh, hey, little buddy. Is this where you sleep? Inventory is like, that's where people sleep. You just walked into someone's house because they had the door open. She's like, People live down here.

It's so small. What? Oh, my God.

This is the size of my cat's house.

She's clearly the out of touch rich girl, but not in a shitty, mean way.

Yeah, she's really sweet.

Not in the way you all know that rich anime girl.

Costs $7.

So they got a laundry mat. And he's, yeah, they take her shirt off and throw it in. And while they're waiting for the laundry be done, they just go upstairs to the little lobby area to just sit down and relax. And they're like, oh, yeah, the bath house is connected up here too. So we sometimes go there. And she's saying mizzaki saying, like, I love this building, but buildings are so hard for me to draw, especially something like, so unique as this. And they're like, oh, you draw? She said, oh, yeah, I want to be an animator. And she pulls out her sketchbook and shows them both. And looking through it, there's a lot of character designs and figure drawings like that. Yeah, and a lot of details about the specific movement of characters and stuff. And while they're looking at that kind of more, just reaches into madrid's backpack and pulls out her sketchbook and hands it over without even asking. She's like, what? No, don't show her. It's like no show up. You're an artist and animator as well. I'm showing another nerd. And when they look through Madori's sketch pad, it's a lot of, like, image and storyboards, and it's a lot of concept art, and it's a lot of very detailed stuff, but it's a lot of broader world building stuff than rather, the characters. And they both end up being pretty impressed by each other's work. Like, oh, wow, you're really good at this. Oh, yeah, but you're good at this, which I'm terrible at and stuff. So it ends up just being two animation nerds just kind of gushing over each other and freaking out.

It's very adult already. Get it? Come on. I don't have all day.

It's episode one. It's not even close to a quick burn. It's not even a slow burn. So Madrid is like, Wait, what if we do a layover? It's like oh, what's that? And she pulls out a page from her sketchbook and a page from Mizuzaki's sketch pad, and she lays them over the top of each other. So it's like a character drawing from one and a background to the other. And they mix them together and, like, oh, wow. That actually looks really cool.

Wow, that looks like a thing.

What does that remind me of? And they start sketching on a little bit, adding a little more details to, like, blend it in a little more so they seemed like they're one drawing more. So and KANAMORI asks, she says, hey, do you want to make an anime? And both go, what? What are you talking about? Well, you both love drawing, and you both want to work on animation. You should make an anime. And Mizzaki is like, I can't join the anime club. My parents forbid it. And kind of moore's, like, cool. We'll start our own. You won't join the anime club. You'll join our anime club.

Basically, it's a lie club.

Like liars and kind of moore. He says, like, I'm not an artist in any way, but I can help with other things, like funding or keeping stuff on track. And they're like, Why are you interested in why would you want to start an anime club if you're not interested in anime? She's like, well, a famous fashion model like, Mizazaki starting her own anime sounds like an easy way to rake in that sweet cash. It's like, really? She's like, yeah, really.

She is famous already, so I can write these coattails.

Yeah, very ambitious. And the two artists start sketching away, and they see, like, another doodle they have, and it's a little machine pod. And Mizzaki starts doodling on it and expanding on it further and further and figuring out exactly what it would do. And they think it would be what it would do, what it would need around it, the setting in the world that it would fit in, and all this other stuff. And they're drawing more and more and more on top of it. And while they're sketching away, we actually transition into a conceptual drawing world where it's all real sketchy and stuff and watercolor. And one little detail I love about this setting, because we go to this kind of concept art world a lot is all the sound effects are made by the voice actors. They're all just them making those, like, doing their own foley for it. And I thought, that's so fun. It's an incredible detail. Yeah, that's so much to it. And in the concept world, it's not them drawing, it's them physically building the machine. Now they got, like, tools and engineering hard hats and stuff like this. So they're actually building the machine now, and it ends up being this, like, dragonfly type ship. And the little pod that started out as the cockpit for it, and they just expanded and expanded from beyond that. And while they're working on it, we see misaki's bodyguards start running in, chasing after them. They're like, oh, shit, we got to go. And they start rushing for take off and unlatching the foot guards and stuff and taking away the fuel pipe and stuff and letting it so it can take off and fly. And then once they're up in the air, they're really enjoying themselves and up. The guards have their own ship, too, so it turns out to be like a dog fight in the air chase sequence. So we got both ships flying around, and they're flying through the city still. It's still like the city they're in, but it's like, exaggerating. The skyscrapers go up to the sky now, and we see midori starts. Like, we got to escape them somehow. There's, like, a tight alleyway up ahead. We'll fly through it. Our ship's too big. It's like, no, we'll fly sideways. And as she's getting closer to the alleyway to flip sideways and fly through it, one of the wings break on the dragonfly. So Mizzaki and kind of married like, shit, we got to take care of this. And just leave the ship, like, go outside of it and grab onto the door and then hang upside down from the door to shift the weight so the entire ship will flip sideways to get through the alleyway. And we see them fly through, and we see the ship chasing them crash into it and explode. And once they make it out of the alleyway, they straighten back out. And it's just this massive universe in front of them as the background of the rest of the city. And it's just this very all inspiring scene. And once they get inspired by it, they got to snap out of it and like, oh shit. What time is it? And they realize they kind of got swept up in their doodle, and they've been actually drawing for a lot longer than they planned to. I don't think hours, but yeah, a lot longer. And they're like, oh, God. Mizzaki is like, I got to fucking go. I got to watch something on TV tonight. Some interview of what she said. And they're like, oh, can't you just tape it? She's like, no, I got to watch it live. And then I watch it taped. Like, I got to watch both. And she's like, I got to go. And they're like, well, we'll show you the way to the station. Since we showed you how to get here, we'll show you a quick way to get back to the station. And they run out. And I love the majority of like, how fast can you run? Was it 200 km or something?

100 meters in 1 second?

Yeah. How fast can you run? 100 meters. And Mrs. ziggy says, when I was a kid, I can do it in 1 second. And I'm not good with metric, but I'm assuming that was because when she was a little kid, she was exaggerating like, I'm so fast. I can run this fast.

Yeah.

And she still kind of has that mentality of I can do insane superhuman stuff just because she wants to and has that imagination still. Inventory is like, I can do it in 8 seconds. Well, last one there has to buy all the other ones like milk. And Kamamari is like, all right, guys, this is ridiculous. We can't run that fast. And if anyone whoever loses there has to buy all the others two bottles of milk. And that's how it's going to be.

We're going to go.

And she just takes off. Like, she gets, like, the jumpstart.

She's got the height advantage.

She got the long legs, the big old legs.

There's just such a strong milk economy in this.

It's really heavily focused.

I want to try this milk. It's just plain milk, supposedly, but it must be delicious. I don't even like milk.

We did see strawberry milk, so we're working with some flavors.

There's variety.

Yeah. For the part, it's just plain. Yeah.

Kanamori likes the regular one.

She likes the milk. Got them big bones. She's got a fuel.

That's why she's so tall.

It's got to be it's the milk. This show makes it look great, but I can't imagine a worse scenario of being in a hot, humid bathhouse drinking milk. That sounds repulsive to me. Delicious. Yeah. So they take off and they start running for the train station. And then it cuts back to the laundry mat of their washing machine finishing up. And they took off without even grabbing mizuki's music. I almost made it. I almost made it. The model, they take off without even getting her shirt. So they're running back and they're all in a full springs. And then we get the ending. Also a catchy tune, also catchy bob of a song. And it's just a lot of concept drawings, a lot of sketches and stuff. And it's just really fun to see the characters running around through them.

That's episode one, but yeah. So we pick up an episode two. The model is climbing out of a sewer because she has to escape her handlers. And they're walking around. They're talking about main girls, like camo backpack because she's all decked out in her camo hat and backpack. She has a theme, but she's talking about it like, yeah, I took all of my money from New Year's to buy it and saved it all up. And the model of girls like, oh, wow. So it's top end. So it's like ¥100,000, right? And she's like, no, my holiday money was ¥2500. And she's like, that's a lot of money. Oh, no, I'm dealing with the pores.

I think Victoria says we're working folks, so it's a lot more modern.

We're blue collar.

I do love Connor Morris backpack. It's two sneakers, like walking. It's really cool look.

But yeah, there's always just a thread of her just being like, oh, I have no idea how money works. So they go to start their new club, actually register it and get it official with the school. But main girl gets cold feet because she's like, no, they're just going to tell us to do the anime club. Why don't we just do it? Cut out the middleman, but tall girl pushes her through. They go into the teacher's lounge, talk to a teacher, and just say, it's a vague film club. That's your borno club.

Oh, no.

But he's like, so that's vague. If you can be more specific, there was a feature film club. So if you want to make a live action feature film, yeah, we can definitely do that. And they're still beating around the bush like, oh, yeah, we can do a film live action, but we can work.

In that film nonetheless.

As that teacher is like, okay, let's find you an advisor. We get just this very cryptic teacher. I assume he opens up. We learn more about him later. I just love twice no good.

You really don't learn much about him.

Ben. I love it. It's great. He just walks up. He's like, my shoulders hurt. I guess managing a club will help destress me. So he's like, okay, welcome aboard. You just happened to be in the break room at this time, and now you're fully committed to yourself.

Okay, I'll take it.

No arguments here. So they get their club space, which is this old falling apart warehouse. But it's so big, it's so cool. It's just like a utility building in this city of mostly falling apart utility building. They're like, yeah, just pick wherever. Yeah, there's an abandoned bakery if you want to use that, but it's fine. We can work in the warehouse. But they start cleaning it up. They're looking at all the holes in the ceilings and walls and they're like, hey, typically club budgets are like ¥150,000. So like fifteen hundred dollars. And most of this money is going to go to repairs. So we have to figure something out because literally I can see the sun. But they start sort of dipping into their imagination on oh, it's going to be a fancy Hollywood studio with vending machines and tables. And here's a soundstage, but they're all just getting way ahead of theirselves.

This did give me a flashback of like studios.

Yes, we've been like, oh, no, they're cool.

Upon first impression. I also went to nickelodeon studio for the open call for Blues clues. And that's a really cool studio to go to because there's just cool art everywhere and like a really big courtyard. So I was just like, wow, that's the fun part, isn't it?

That's the dream part. Yeah. They say like a club's budget is this. And then the advisor comes in. He's like, yeah, but you guys ain't really a club hit. You haven't proven yourself, so you don't have any budget. So good luck.

Yeah, you just said you want to do a thing with no proof, so yeah, you really got to work hard to gain our trust. But as they're going through fantasy stuff, they slip back into anime fantasy land. And Main Girl has a propeller skirt, which is basically just like a helicopter backpack around her waist. So they start talking through the logistics of how it would work and the counter rotations and all their concept art going through. And naturally she falls through the railing on the second floor to the ground below. But luckily Tall Girl was filming it. Sure, yeah, she was ready for every inevitability.

She was already taking a video of the holes and stuff to figure out what they have to fix and stuff.

Yeah, but she captures the footage and is like, okay, I think we just secured our funding. We're going to take this to basically just whatever sort of America's funniest Home Videos.

Yeah. Japan's funniest Home Videos.

Just selling her out immediately. And they're like, yeah, we can get some money. And that's our renovation budget. So that's taken care of. Don't worry. It's uploaded. Someone will get back to me eventually. So they go back to the teachers, and they're like, oh, wait, no. It's dangerous for kids. We will take care of this. Don't you worry. We can take care of this. And as tall girls like, yeah, I have a video if you want to see it. They're like, don't send that anywhere. That's accident liability for us, so don't do it. And they're all like, oh, fuck.

It's already uploaded.

I hope no one gets back to me. Just no one buy it. So, yeah, they have their funding for some renovations, so that helps. But they're still got to get to work. So they next day go back. They plan to start, but the model girl moved in some old couches from her place, and they're sort of having a little party to be like, hey, yeah, we got space. We're a big time company now. Show biza. So she casually mentions that these are ¥3 million couches. So super duper expensive. And main girls like, oh, no, I accidentally stabbed one with a fork. I ruined this.

It's a big deal.

So tall girls like, hey, we need to start working. We need to do something. So they're like, okay, let's start figuring out and the two girls that are into the animation are getting, like, hyperbogged down with the specifics of like, oh, I need a gritty style of realistic rotoscope. Just like, way too specific for, hey, what are we doing?

Already lost in the weeds.

So tall girls like, how about a genre? Can we pick what type of movie we're going to make? Can we start somewhere? Because right now we have nothing. And they're like, oh, you can't box up my creativity. I got to let the juices flow. That's how my nonexistent work. I've never done happens. So they're going through it. And in her head, tall girls like, I can't stifle their creativity yet. I don't have their money yet. So I guess I got to work with them and just really takes on the studio producer role of, I'll give you the funding, but we get to squeeze every penny out of this.

Even when they went to talk to the teacher the first time about starting the club, there's already an annual club. How are we going to get it done? God. Morris says we'll settle this with money or violence if it comes to it. I was like, a true production icon.

Very practical.

The exact person you want on your side. They aren't. Oh, no. What a hazard. So they're talking about all the production stuff, and they're like, okay, let's start. What equipment do we need? What do we need to make this? Because in getting like, hyperbogged with specifics. They're like, oh, we need this special type of paper with clips, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, we don't have a desk. We're currently writing on concrete floors. Let's start with asking for a lightbox desk. So they go back to the teacher and they're like, okay, don't drop that. We need anime making supplies. We have to be more submerged. So they go in and main girls like, yeah, so we're making an anime and oh, fuck, it's all gone immediately. So immediately drops that they need a lightbox desk for animation. And the teacher's like, I specifically told you, it has to be live action. You can't do this. But tall girl gets very intense. And the anime club is for anime research and appreciation. We are a production team. We're doing something fundamentally different by actually making a show and just getting very intense of like, these are different things. So that you want to say, okay, all right, fine, you win.

Do you want to stifle student creativity and outreach for success? This sounds like something that should be brought up to the pta.

Oh, no, not the parents.

The parents that don't want you doing this. Anyway.

It was a double bluff.

But yeah. So he's like, okay, just go to the anime's old storeroom of their old shit. Take what you need. So they go down to a very cool on the river windmill building where the blades are just like out over the river, which is that just looks like a video game, like platformer hazard. Yeah, imagine Crash bandicoot dodging out of the way, going down.

I was imagining very Final Fantasy where it's like, yeah, put a window on this building. Why? Fucking why not? All right, fair.

It needs something.

Yeah, it's boring. Make it interesting.

But yeah. So they go in. It's just a dusty old warehouse full of old anime making stuff. So they get all caught up with how everything works. They see that this building, the windmill, powers like a camera stand that helps you animate backgrounds and stuff like that and get motion in it. But they immediately get all distracted by all this stuff. They find the desk, and the desk has a half done sketch of the windmill spinning. So they're like, practice time. Okay, we have our materials. Let's figure out how it works. So they basically just finish this animation, get it done, and go through the technical things of like, oh, yeah, the perspective, all this. But then they get it done and they're like, okay, it needs something else, the wind. And this sort of inspires them jumping back into their anime fantasy world where they're like, oh, all the buildings in this densely populated city blocking the wind so this building doesn't have power. Let's blow it up. They crash a motorcycle into the building and plant explosives and blow it up so a breeze can come through. And then they start flooding the river, so it overflows and all that stuff. And yeah, it's a lot less complex than the initial one that we saw of them, like, fleeing the attack chopper. But it is still beautiful as they're, like, sailing down the river, going through this beautiful city. But then back in the real world, it starts raining, and the teacher is like, hey, you were supposed to be here for, like, five minutes. Can we go now?

Because them drawing it and going into that fancy world was just an excuse to draw wind. Like, oh, do we just do lines? Do we shoot debris blowing in the wind? No, we have to do more. Okay, here we go.

All right, good. Working with scope. All right.

Yeah.

So they head home, but tall Girl has an email. She got a deposit of ¥30,000 for the video, which airs on TV that night. So everyone's like, oh, fuck. And that's where we end episode two.

Yeah. So episode three starts with midori and Misazaki putting a sign up on the club building. They made a logo studio Azochen, which azocan, I guess, means film club.

Yeah, basically.

Yeah, because in the subtitles, they translate it once and then every time after that, it's just azochen.

Yeah.

So Midori and Mi suzaki are constantly getting ahead of themselves and a tall girl, because I still don't remember her name. kanamori. Is that it?

Yeah. kanamori.

Yeah.

Okay. kanamori reminds them that they still have to get everything that they need, and before they even do that, they have to fix up the building. And Madori is like, oh, no, we're fine. But then Conamori is like, no, we're running out of time. This teacher has backed off of us for now, but if he thinks about things, like, logically, he might change his mind. So we have to do something to convince him that we're worth keeping.

I bullied him, and that only bought us so much time. Once he realizes he's the adult, I backfires. Yeah.

Once he's like, hey, they can't tell me what to do. That's literally my job.

What the heck? So they're talking about fixing up the building, and Connor, he is going on about everything they need. And the other two get distracted by a butterfly. And then Madori says that they spent most of that ¥30,000 on tools to fix up the building. So they, like, take the time to say a prayer for the remaining money, and then they get distracted by a raccoon dog.

To be fair, if we were out somewhere and we saw a little raccoon dog pop his head in somewhere, I'm following him like that. I'm done. That's all I'm doing today.

The only difference is that all three of us would care about it, whereas.

There'S no kanamori here. It's just all we're all the door chasing after it.

So kanamori puts her foot down, literally, and she's like, we're going to finish the repairs today. So they get to it, and Misasaki and kanamori are inside, and they talk about or Misasaki is talking about how cool Midori is. And she's like, it's so impressive that she, like, offered to patch up the holes on the walls outside. But kanamori is like, it's just because she wanted to play with a drill. She compared it to she's like, you know when it was clean up time in elementary school and that one kid would always run to the closet for the broom, but it wasn't because they wanted to sweep. It was just because they wanted to have the broom. That's madori accurate. So now we're in a space fantasy, and it's more detailed than, like, the concept world amadori is imagining. She's fixing up the outside of a spaceship when in reality, she's wearing a rusty bucket and spray painting on the side of the building.

And she's not even supposed to be spray painting to begin with.

Yeah. And Connor, he's like, what? Connor, he's like, what are you doing? And the Misazaki is like, nah, that's cool.

That seems fun. Damn it.

And Connor Morris is like, okay, forget this. You two go up to the roof and fix the holes on the roof. So they get a ladder. The two of them go up there. They look at the view. It's a pretty nice view. And then conno morri sends up a piece of metal. I guess it looks like glass, but it's like, rigid like the old metal.

It's like sheet metal, but yeah, it's like, transparent for some reason.

Yeah, I think it's just like a plastic patch.

Yeah.

So she sends up a piece, and the other two are in space fantasy time. And Midori has, like, a whole spacey club room planned out. And she talks all about it, and it seems really cool. And I was like, I'm not going to get bogged down in the details of this because there are too many and it doesn't really matter.

It's a lot of details.

Yeah, it seems cool. So back to patching up the, quote, spaceship. And they imagine that space debris are coming at them, but it's actually hail. It started hailing. And they go to get off of the roof, but the ladder fell. So they call out to conno mori, and she goes to get them. And then she goes to get out through a window, which I thought was weird because there is a perfectly fine front door.

Yeah, this wasn't really shown that well. I think she was building the desk inside in front of the door and accidentally locked herself in, I think. But yeah, it wasn't really clear why she was trying to go through the window instead.

Yeah, that makes sense. So in the fantasy, this is translated as, like, she's, like, going through a bunch of different chambers. To get through, she has to unlock the emergency lock, and in doing so in real life, she like, busts through.

A wall like the koolaid man. She just runs through the sheet metal wall.

Yeah, I smell the dime outside.

Me money.

She puts the ladder up just to find that Midori and Me suzaki have already gotten down because they slid down a pipe on the side of the building. And she's like, great. Okay, Madori, you owe me more milk because of this. Look at me. I burst through the wall for you.

You owe me a week's worth of milk. It's like, oh, that's seven milk. That's dismezive. She's like, no, I'm drinking two a day. That's 14.

That's why she could burst through the wall, because her bones are so strong. That milk.

She's just a tank.

Yeah, I love her.

And they're, like, admiring the work they did for the day. And the advisor shows up, and he says that club budgets are being deliberated. So they're like, we got to make something to show that their club show that our club is worth investing in. So the next day, they're like, at lunch, and I love this thing. They just walk up to a speaker and say what they want, and then the lunch lady just gives it to them.

Yeah, it felt like a weird, unnecessary amount of middle management with, like, a device, because the lunch lady makes it.

Like they can order literally anything.

Yeah. They say what? I think kanamori gets, like, seven croquettes and, like, a red bean pea'bun, and that's it.

And milk.

And milk. Always got to get that milk.

Yeah, it just seems great. I love that.

How do you make a chowder without a milk?

Because it's, like, more of showing that it's in, like, a weird future almost, but also not really.

Yeah, it's neat.

So they're talking about what they're going to do for the presentation, and they say that they're an association, not a club yet, so the most they can ask for is ¥60,000. So conno morri says that they should do something big and spectacular over focusing on quality, something that'll knock the judge's socks off. And they have 55 days to finish their animation. They got to come up with a script. And Madori is like, oh, I have some ideas at home. So after school, they take the train, and the train is filled with ads of misa zaki.

She's famous.

She poses for everything. She's sponsored by everything, and some girls recognize her, and they come over to shake her hand.

The one girl is wearing a slipknot hat. Yeah.

And she's like a completely different person when she's interacting with fans. She's really, like, well mannered and sweet and not feral.

Yeah, she's not like a gremlin. Exactly.

I love it.

So they get to her apartment. Madori pulls out her concept books, and they look over their options, and there's, like, a lot of detailed work that's very, very nice, but too complicated for what they're trying to go for.

Yeah, I think kind of worry says for 55 days, if they want a five minute short, the number of frames they would have to do is, like, 3600 a day for 50 days straight with no sleep. With the crazy. Yeah. Something insane. They're like, all right, it's not five minutes. It's now three minutes. Like, cutting that down immediately.

Yeah. So they decide on the setting of, like, a primitive looking city that's just, like, cubes stacked on top of each other. And Madori is like, you know what this needs? A tank.

Thank you, Madori.

So she goes off about a tank she designed and guantamori.

This is a very adorable tank. I love this little guy.

It's based off a rice cake.

It is?

Yeah. She says it's based off the rice I forget what it's called. Cake bun. The little niragiri like the little rice onagiri based off like that. That's why it's, like, really round. And when it fires, it rocks backwards because the cannon shoots it so hard, it rolls it backwards, so it has to be round to recoil correctly.

It's so little, it falls over every time it shoots. It's so cute.

I love the cat.

So Conamori is like, Misasaki, can you animate that? And she's like, yeah. I'd have to practice, though. I've never animated smoke or fire before. I'm more interested in animating people. Like a girl sliding down a yeah. The side of a hill. And conno mori is like, well, we have to make something spectacular that would be impressive to anyone, like something flashy. mne suzaki is like, well, this is impressive to me. I know what goes into this kind of stuff, and I think it's cool. She wants to do something she cares about. No sell outs here.

I won't compromise on my first piece.

The only thing I've ever done.

And then we get she talks about how animators will, like, keep a sword with them, and then we get, like, this little part of an animator swinging a sword around to figure out how it should look. And miszaki says that animators are like actors in that sense. Like, anything they animate, whether it's a dog or a cat or the ocean, it's the animator acting in some capacity. And I think that's lovely. I've never thought of it that way. Like, obviously, like, when they're animating characters, I think of it in that way, but not, like, inanimate objects in the way they should be animated.

I am the wind. I know how it goes.

Got to use reference.

Got to be the marble.

Anyone that tells you you can't use references, the fucking idiot animators use them all the time.

Yeah, don't feel bad for using references. I use them all the time.

Yep.

And then conno morri decides that they should work on something that they care about, because if they don't, it won't be good. Like, logistically, it won't be good because if they try to make something longer and flashier. It's not going to be complete. But also she wants them to work on something they care about because then they will put in the work.

They'll be motivated because they'll be yeah.

So then they layer some stuff together. A girl on a cool background, they're like, she's got to have a sword. She's going to fight a tank. How? Who knows?

With a sword. You know how those are great on tanks?

Yeah. Works all the time.

And Madori gets excited about the idea of her having an oxygen tank and mask to imply that she comes from another planet. So then by that implication, she can take advantage of the gravity of this other planet and jump around and stuff. And they're getting really excited about it. And Connemarie is just standing to the side worrying about the cost of animation paper.

Can we make it ourselves? It's just three holes.

And we see some samples of the animation. Like some of it is more detailed than others. And then some of it is like super sketchy and it's hard to describe. It's just a cool sequence of a school girl fighting a tank. And they have her run to the high ground so the tank can't get her. And then just as they're about to clash, they'll leave everyone on a cliffhanger. And that's when the episode ends.

Yeah, I love even in the little storyboarding we see of them doing at the very end, madori says, like, oh, the tank has two barrels in the front, like two guns to shoot from. And even in the storyboarding sequence when it shoots at the girl with the sword, you see two different types of ammunition coming out of it, like a standard ballistic shell, and then like a long range missile coming out of it and stuff. So even that detail that was just earlier in the episode that she offhandedly mentioned gets carried over into the storyboard.

All of these sequences are so super cool, but I had a lot of trouble taking notes on them because I was just like, there's no way to.

Describe this very visual.

And have you seen anime? No, not like this, how this show is an anime, but like, how anime is anime, you know what I'm saying?

And it doesn't feel useless to talk about it, but at the same time it's like, oh, well, this isn't actually what's happening. Like the whole space sequence, I was like, obviously they're just fixing the roof and this is just a fun little thing. And I don't know, it was hard for me to describe. It was hard to take notes because I was just like, they talk so much about things. Like, obviously I missed a lot of stuff.

Yeah, there's a lot of information being thrown at you all at once, both in the fantasy settings where I'm in space and I'm spray painting this electrostatic paint spray on it so it doesn't corrupt the shit. Madori talks a lot. And then there's also the technical jargon of the actual animation process. So there's just a lot of info being thrown at all at once. And then, yeah, we are doing a disservice because it is so visual. So no matter how much we describe it, it is better to see it for yourself.

Yeah, it's great to watch, but hard to take notes on.

Yes. So that's episode three. Are weeb there yet?

Yeah, this definitely works in tandem with sherbako of being sort of the dreamy before the reality of having I think, just like, going into the show, like most shows, I try to go into it with a mindframe of like, okay, I'm a person who has seen zero anime. I think this would genuinely be a great show to be like, hey, if you're interested, let's watch an anime about people talking about how great anime is and how it works and why it's not just a jumble of action, but actually talking through, like, okay, we're in the logistics of this world. It's great, and it's also beautiful in and out of their fantasies. So it would be like a great introduction even. It's not so obtuse and up its own anime, but that it's indecipherable for someone new. If you go into it, like, yeah, these kids drawing cartoons, that's all you need. So you can take someone who has no experience and be like, okay, here's something cool. They're actually going to talk through it, like, really storyboard out these, like, fantasy sequences as you watch them, so you can see the thought that's going into it and get that insider perspective and yeah, I think it really works on that level.

Yeah. Before watching it, I don't know why, but I always thought that Connor mori was the main character because everyone I.

Don'T really know memes on her and highlights her a lot. I think it's because I'm trying to think of a character that does something similar for people who haven't seen her. Like we said, very tall. She's got big eyes, but just small, like, dot pupils. And then her mouth is just like the teeth that just go down to the end of her head. So she doesn't have, like, a lower jaw. A lot of times she doesn't have the full mouth, it's just teeth. So she's very visually striking compared to the rest of the characters. So it's easy to just grab her and be like, you know who she is, either from the silhouette or just the face.

Yeah. Also, we didn't mention it because it's so inconsequential, but the teacher's lounge isn't a swimming pool, like an unused swimming pool.

I was trying to figure out what was going on. I didn't pick that up. I was like, that's a baller ass room. But why is there, like, a bridge over the top?

Yeah, it struck me when they were, like, looking down on it, it was a shot looking down on it from above. I was like, that's a swimming pool. That's an empty swimming pool. What the heck? I love that.

That's interesting.

I love these random things of like, they just keep building new stuff that like, the old stuff just goes unused or they repurpose it into something like this. I just think that's so cool.

And, like, especially for every other anime about a club, you see the same teacher lounges, the same club rooms, but being like, no, they're in an abandoned windmill by the river. They're in unused swimming pool converted into a teacher's lounge. It just makes it so much more interesting to see rather than, okay, yeah. Oh, there's a chalkboard on that wall.

Interesting how the chalkboard is black instead of being a dark green like most anime. Interesting. What variety.

A bold choice.

I wonder what that symbolizes.

The upper dark struggle of the main kit. No.

Yeah.

I didn't even realize it was a swimming pool. It definitely looks different. It's definitely striking. Like, ooh, why is this, like, the layout? Like, it is. That's cool. I never realized this is the second or third time of watching it. Yeah, I didn't pick that up. That's really interesting. And, yeah, I was worried about being bogged down with information for any newcomers. For either who are familiar with the anime but not familiar with the animation process, or for people who aren't familiar with anime at all and having just this stuff, like, hurled at you because it is just a ton of information. But I think it does give you perspective because we saw Mizasuki was clearly a fan of animation and appreciated the stuff that is hard to do in animation, like the very realistic, slow, methodical scenes. But for most people, that's just like, oh, why spend all that time drawing that when you could just take a live action shot and film it versus the big, exaggerated fantasy explosions, which like, yeah, that's animation. And she's like, no, that's easy to do. You can learn how to do smoke and fire effects a lot easier than slow, methodical single shot takes of a character. So I was worried. I think we've talked about it before with another show. I forget exactly which, but there's been making something for fans of animation and making something for people who understand animation. We see that with music all the time, where it's like, ah, this is the musician's musician. We're on a technical level, it's incredibly impressive, but from, like, I guess, superficial level, it's kind of just jargon and no one can really understand it.

Jazz versus smooth jazz that's playing your Uber. Oh, no. Giant steps. Maybe the chord progression every, like, four bars. It's like, no, we just want to see pretty stuff.

Yeah, I've heard that with stand up comedians a lot, where it's like, ah, he's the comedian's comedian, which means he's not very successful, but he's breaking the structure of jokes. So comedians appreciate it, but the audience doesn't.

It's dead silent in the room, but you hear from the back, just that I get it.

I'm doing from one guy in the back just going, yeah. So I was concerned about that because I am both a weeb and a big fan of animation. So I'm like, this lines up perfectly for me, but I'm not sure how it would for anyone coming to it with different eyes. So I'm happy to hear from you digging that you did enjoy it, and it kind of shows you how to appreciate the animation once you're watching it because they do go into bigger and crazier stuff later on and they show you all the work that goes into it.

Yeah, this is definitely good and inspiring for the animation folk out there.

Yeah, this was really cool.

It was also just great seeing, like, the character is so passionate about their hobby, because I'm by no means an artist or an animator, but I was like, after watching it, I was like, I got to fucking do something. I got to use this energy. I'm motivated, I got to do something.

I got to draw something.

Those are the best shows. I can do this, I should do.

This, I should do this. Not even, like, specifically withdrawing. I'm just like, I got to just use this energy. I'm amped up. I got to find a hobby and do something with it. So it was just really fun to watch and it was motivating, as I do with the teacher we see later in the season. They come in and work on a weekend at the school, and the students are supposed to be there on the weekend, so they have to have their advisor come with them. He just hangs out in an abandoned car playing, like, 15 Game Boy games for all weekend. He does nothing, and then he's just, like, chilling and vibing the whole time. It's like, he's great. He's a great character.

He's sick.

Yeah. We know nothing about him and we never will.

Just the teacher equivalent of the old dog that just sleeps on the floor and does nothing else.

Exactly. He's the old guard dog that doesn't get up anymore. But I'm glad to hear you all enjoyed it.

Yeah, I'm glad we loved this show and we can keep this love flowing next week for our valentine's Day.

What a good takeaway.

Yeah. Let's live in the moment and not power through, but yeah. So we are going to keep it nice and light and romantic for valentine's Day. We're going to watch the original fruits basket. Fruits basket. I always forget where the plural goes in the one that makes slowly sense.

Want to say it's both? Isn't it? Fruits basket? Oh, no. Fruits basket.

Yeah, fruits plural basket. singular.

Okay.

So, yeah, as you can tell, we know a lot about this show.

Quick, Mr. peabody, get the way back machine. We're going. Oh, gee.

But yeah. If there's a show you would like us to watch, you can send your recommendations to us, our email is arwibariat@gmail.com or you can reach out to us on Twitter or Instagram. Are we there yet? On both. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan.

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Oh, shit.

Yeah. On my own channel, which is honey underscore D. And honey on all of them is spelled H-U-N-N-I-E. Nice.

Good. Thanks so much streams here, because I fucking have it takes a lot of energy and I use games to relax. I don't want to do it anyway.

I understand.

I'm just a coward. Someone's going to be like, hey, you're bad at this. And then I'll never do it again.

Start cry immediately end the street.

Start crying.

Instead of the usual shit I plug, I'm going to double back and replug starship goldfish, which is the animated pilot I talked at the beginning of the episode. It is about a dumbass hymbo in space and his robot dad taking care of him, protecting his ass from his own mistakes.

You had me at robot him.

Both and it is on YouTube. You can look up starfish goldfish or you can look at sam's Sweet Milk, which was the original title of it, and I highly recommend watching it. It is, I think, incredibly well done. And it will also give you an idea of what cartoon pilots are out there and what does and doesn't get picked up and how much of an actual profit is to actually pitch a show like that. So give them a check. They deserve it.

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

I want some milk so bad.