AWTY 167 - Prank Date (Interviews with Monster Girls)

What's wrong, takay?

Nothing. It just felt like I bumped into someone super hot, you know? How does someone feel hot?

Shut up.

Hello and welcome to are we there yet? In exploration and education in anime. I'm your anime idiot, Patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dee hollander.

And I'm brenna mccullough. Your anime luis de ponte de loca.

Loca means crazy in Spanish.

I can't promise I pronounce any of that right?

I can promise that you pronounce none of that, right?

Yeah, I didn't see the movie.

What is it?

It's Brad pitt's character from Interview with a Vampire. Right? Getting more cryptic. So even I don't know these references anymore.

Wait, don't you love this audience? If this is.

Isn'T this fun for only me? I'm sure someone out there likes it. They just haven't told me. This is my delusion to live in.

Listen to this. Author of Interview with a Vampire, anne Rice passed away.

I didn't know it was Anne Rice.

So interesting you made that reference.

I was accidentally topical. Fuck, yeah.

My brain. Yeah, that's bad for you.

I went out of my way and I still landed up here.

Do we flush this? Do we start again? We already off on the wrong foot.

I feel okay about it, but if you want to start over, by all means.

I don't have another foot to land on.

We're in it.

We're posting into the end of the year on fumes.

Yeah.

We'Re thriving. So what do we have going on this week?

Well, I'll tell you this week, this is another show similarly to Kakurio Been Breakfast for Spirits. I found it a while ago, but I've been, like, afraid to watch it because it sounds good, but who knows? This week, we're watching interviews with monster girls. Yeah. Have either of you heard of it?

I've heard of it. I haven't watched it, and I haven't had it, like, thrown in my face with just copious amounts of fan art, like I do with a lot of other shows. But also to Tommy Galaxy. I also haven't done a Tunnel, and that was good. I think it's either just not a beloved show or it's just a short show. Usually if they're short lived, like, only twelve episodes and nothing else, most people are like, yeah, it's good, and I move on and there's not a lot of discussion about it.

My wife to this.

Yeah, it's twelve episodes and an ova, so it's a shoddy short.

Shoddy?

Shoddy is a plot, but yeah, I hardly know anything about it. Like I said, I looked it up, looked up the plot, and I was like, that seems nice. Sounds good, sounds good. I also know it came out in 2017, and that's the extent of my knowledge.

Perfect. It's more than we yeah, definitely. We've been burned by Monster Girls over.

And over, but we knew with at least one of them, but then the.

Other ones where it's like, hey, this is a normal show, but also I'm a boner demon for your boners.

Hell yeah.

Dugan, don't call me out like this on my spec script. I'm still writing it.

You need to know that it's not good at this stage.

I know it's not good. That's why I'm still going.

If it goes poorly, give it to a porn company. They'll make it.

I'll put it on Spike TV. They like a lot of shit and trash.

Yeah.

If anything, we were talking about scoobydoo before we started recording. And the name of this show alone reminds me of scoobydoo in the ghoul school when dagging and daphne go to a haunted school full of monster girls. So if it's anything like that, I'm on board.

Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed. Well, since we don't really have any additional info, shall we just get into it?

Yeah, let's watch the first three episodes.

Let's get educated.

Cool, baby.

Oh, I'm so nervous. But oh, it's so good. But I'm so nervous.

It's dancing.

It teeters. It's really like sitting on the fence and it's mostly on the good side.

Of the yard, but that's teetering.

A lot of if he's teetering every once in a while, it's like and he's going to fall.

It's a leaf that is tangled right on the fence of a prison where it just tips into the prison territory. And you're like, don't do it, please, for all of our sakes.

It's like there's an adult video store and there's going to be a bad comparison. Just brace yourself and like, I can't wait. Children's party store next door. And you see someone walking up between them in like a costume and it's like, oh, are they on mascot that's.

Going to be hired for a kid's party?

Or are they into some weird sexual deviant stuff? We'll see. And they're just walking straight and they plow through the brick wall in the center and keep walking through like a cooling man. It's like that doesn't help anything.

Yeah, that's good.

Are you a fun spiderman or are you a sexy spiderman?

Is a fun spiderman. And then you see the butt flap on the back. It's like, oh, no.

In episode one, we start with a shot of a girl humming while she's looking over a view of a city. And then we see a guy walking up the street and we we see her walking up to a school and he sees her and he's like, hey, what are you doing here? And she kind of freaks out a bit. And I immediately was like, this man is my type. He's big and buff and just a guy.

Just a dude.

He's not a guy. He's a biology teacher. I love it.

I cross that beautiful boy on the bingo card and just put beautiful man, beautiful man.

This is a man.

This is a man.

And that's what's so good about him is he's not like a pretty boy anime man.

He's a man, like, even by human real life standards, it's like, yes, this is a person I want to interact with.

Yes. So that's what happens. She freaks out after he sees her, and she runs away. And then we get the opening, which is a fine opening. It's just, you know, usual anime opening. But I was like, if this anime is, like, bad, I'm going to be really upset because this anime is super cute so far. So the place we saw that she was looking into was a school, and that man works there. This is Mr. takahashi, and he's, like, in the teacher's office. And we find out that a new teacher is starting that day, and she's late. Yeah. And another teacher goes up to him and he's like, hey, are you the one who used to research demi humans? And he's like, yeah, I want us to do my college thesis about it, but that's, like, a really delicate subject, and I wouldn't have been able to meet any anyway. And the other teacher asks, Why? And Mr. takahashi says, I just think they're interesting. And he's like, oh, well, cool, because and then the new teacher gets there and she says that she was late because of a crowded train. And Mr. takahashi is like, that's not a very good excuse. And the other teacher is like, well, it is, because she's and then she introduces herself, and her name is saki. She is the new math teacher. And she's a succubus. She's a demihuman math.

Immediate red flag. Just immediately introducing, ah, the sexy character sucks.

She's wearing a tracksuit. Yeah, she's like, all cuddles.

Stop the symptom. I'll tell you what.

Yeah, she is lovely.

Just like, this is all the information we have on the show so far. So I'm like, oh, no, you're on thin ice already.

Yeah, but she's not, like, a stereotypical. Like I'm a succubus. She's, like, very flustered and like, I sorry I'm late. So we get, like, a brief explanation of demihumans, and they say as time went on, they became more integrated into society, and there are even, like, programs to help them find jobs and stuff. So we see saki hanging up a sign, and Mr. takahashi goes up to her and introduces himself, puts out his hand for her to shake it, and she doesn't want to. And she's like, It is nice to meet you. Cool to meet you. I'm not going to touch you. Also, I dress this way because I want to be seen as least sexually as possible to avoid anything bad happening so no men can touch me. Thank you. bye.

That's why we're cargo shorts and a graphic T shirt as well.

So no one is too sexually attracted to you.

I got to tone it down for everyone else's sake.

Yeah, I think everybody would be like they would be dead if you were at full capacity. She says, I know you've been staring at me. And he's like, oh, no, I just want to talk. And she's like, no, you're nasty. bye. And then a few days pass, and he runs into her. She's, like, washing her hands at a group of sinks. And he tries to apologize, but she still doesn't want to talk to him. And then the blonde girl from the very first scene calls him over. She's running through the hallway. She's like, hey, you. And then we see a flashback of their interaction from that night at the beginning, which, again, it was just her running away. Like, she was just like, I'm not doing anything, and then ran down the street.

Strange danger.

So she's a new student, transfer student, transfer teacher. We've got it all in this one. And he asks her about the other night. She says that she just got too excited to go to school. She was, like, trying on her uniform, and she wanted to see the school, so she went to go see it, and she ran because he was an old dude coming up to her at night. And she's like, a good teacher would praise me for running away from a creepy old man. And he's like.

Yes, but I'm the creepy old man you were talking about.

So, no, not very nice. I'm not comfortable.

Just real quick, at this point, we now have two separate characters who have my favorite trope of, hey, you seem like a reasonable person. Let me treat you like the world's most dangerous pervert. So, again, I started the show with such low expectations.

So he's like, Why were you calling me? And she's like, oh, yeah, my classmate collapsed.

Oh, yeah, right.

And her name is Hikari. She introduces herself. Her name is Hikari. And they're walking to wherever the classmate is. She's like, I'm asking for your help because I thought you were the health teacher. And he's like, I'm the biology teacher. But the good news is I can judge anybody's health by one look at their face with surprise. This girl has no face. She's a dullahan, which is like a headless horseman. So she's so no, head.

And body are independent entities, but connected.

Yes. So Hikari explains that she already carried the head to the nurse's office. And then we see another girl being carried down the hallway, and we find out she's a demihuman as well. They say she's a snow woman, so she's got, like, snow powers, and she overheated during pe. So she's being taken to the nurse's office as well. And Mr. takahashi says how can you be so calm? Hikari. This is crazy. So many demihumans in one place. And she's like, oh, I'm a vampire. And he's like, oh, cool. Don't say so. After taking the dullahan to the nurse, he tells Hikari that he's, like, in shock about all of these demihumans being in one place. And she's like, oh, do you not like us? And he's like, no, I'm very interested in demi humans. I think they're really cool. I tried to meet one in college, but it never happened. So he's just so happy to have met so many, and she's really happy about that too. She's like, oh, you like us. And then he tells her to go back to class. And then before she goes, she's like, sure. Just so you know, demi humans is a super outdated term. We just prefer to be called demi. And he's like, okay, cool. And then later on, he sees a red headed girl yelling at hikari. He goes over. Hikari says that it's her sister kimari. Yeah, and they're twins, but she isn't like hikari in personality or being a demi, because she's just human, boring, whatever.

Moving on.

Let's never talk about her again.

She's in the opening, though. She must come back later. So Mr. takahashi starts to ask hikari if he can have a conversation with her, and she says, sure, but he expected her to say no. So he's like, oh, I understand what you were. And he's just so excited. And then we see the dulahan. We find out her name is machi, and she is talking to some girls in class, and they're asking her some questions. She says that she walks to school because the bus is dangerous for her. And one of the girls changes the subject. She's like, oh, let me show you this funny video on my phone. But she just like, machi just kind of laughs along, and she's like, yeah, so funny.

Catch. Am I right?

So Mr. takahashi is talking about demi stuff. He wants to know how they live and think. He's willing to learn. He's ready. He's been waiting for this moment so far. He's learned that vampires aren't fans of heat or, like, bright places, obviously. And they're in his office, which is dark and cool. So they start with this interview, quote, unquote, and he asks her how he feels about the qualities that books and things like that have given to vampires. And he has, like, a vampire encyclopedia. She flips through it. Most of it is wrong. They can eat garlic. She's like, oh, yeah, wooden stake through our hearts definitely would kill us. And he's like, yeah, but that would kill anybody.

Yeah, it's not exclusive of vampires. It was always a weird part of the mythos.

Yeah. And she explains that she doesn't need to drink blood either. She says if they're careful about what they eat and staying out of the sunlight, they can get on just fine. And she says she likes liver and onions and tomato juice, and she likes tomato juice because it reminds her of blood. So he's like, oh, so you, like, want to drink blood? And she's like, yeah, I do. The government gives me some.

Government?

Yeah. So the government provides a blood bag per month, and that blood helps her get by. And there are even vampires who can get by on drinking no blood. And he's like, how do you feel about those ones? And she's like, I think they're cool. And she's like, you know, like, vegetarians? And he's like, yeah. And she's like, how do you feel about them? And she's like, he says they're amazing. He kind of respects them for being able to do something like that. And she's like, It's like that. And he says he gets it. He says, have you ever wanted to drink blood from someone directly? She says yes. She talks about the snow girl from before. She talks about how her body is nice and cold, but her blood must be so warm. And she has a moment. She kind of gets lost in the thought and thinks about how great it would be, but she wouldn't do it. And he says that was an erotic way to describe that, but she doesn't notice because she's still lost in talking about it. And he's like, so would you want to drink a boy's blood? And she's like, I haven't been in love. What do you mean, a boy's blood? She gets all flustered. And he says that drinking blood is kind of it seems like it's kind of an expression of sexual desire. And it's at this point that it's like, okay, this show could be creepy, but the way he talks about these things is so clinical. Like, he's just interested in it that he's not creepy. It's like the writing and also the way the women treat him. The girls treat him. He's not horny.

Yeah, it's a very interesting dynamic where he is the platonic ideal of typical, quote unquote, normal societal person actually wanting to learn things about minority groups and actually having those good intentions of being like, oh, tell me about this thing that other people would ogle or get super weird about. Yeah, weird.

Yeah. I think the part that does feel like ecky is just because she is like a high school student.

Yeah. She's still a student and he's a teacher, and it's like yeah, it's definitely crossing a line.

Yeah, but if it was dynamics throughout.

These episodes yeah, but if if know.

You they were like, college stage, maybe it wouldn't be as strange.

Have you ever had a teacher call you out for being gay? horny on Maine, though. She's like, what?

Excuse me. So she goes off saying she's dependable, and he laughs at her, and he's like, I'm sorry. I'm being insensitive. And she was like, no, I did say you could ask me anything but time to stop. They both have to get to class. She leaves, turns around and looks at his neck for a second. And there's a shot it looks like she's going to bite him. And he turns around, but she just pokes two pencils into his neck.

Got you.

She makes a pervy joke. And I'm like, the nasty jokes are few. And far between. So, yeah, it's moments like that where you're like but for the most part, it's like, yeah. So Hikari goes to see Machi. She asks if she's upset because she seems that way. She's like, you have it rough. You have to carry your head all day. And at that, everybody listens. And she looks surprised that Hikari is asking something like that, but she says she's like, no, it's not too bad. I get tired of it sometimes. And Hikari says she understands vampires have some problems too, and they start bonding over their demi problems, and then they're hanging out. Machi asks Hikari where she goes between classes, and we don't see it, but presumably she tells her about Mr. takahashi, and he gets a knock on his door, and it's just Matchi's body. I didn't mention it before. Where her neck is, there's, like, a blue flame. She has a note. The body has a note, and it's thanking him for taking her to the nurse, also offering to be interviewed. And he gives her a note back to take back to the head. And they're just, like, sitting outside the door, and they're nearby, and they're like, he gave us a note. And he, like, hears them, and he laughs, and the note tells her to come by any time. And Hikari is like, let's go get a snack. And I'm like, they're friends. The girls are friends.

This is, like, the fun teacher student dynamic of, like, these kids. They're nervous. They want to talk about things, about being different and being minorities, and he's being supportive, and it's good. So that coin just flips real quick.

Yeah, that's episode one.

Yeah. They're sitting outside the teacher's lounge. He opens the door and can already see them. I'm like, you couldn't have just gone around the corner? You're not even 5ft away from the body you sent in on its own. And at one point, takahashi says, like, with the vampire girl, it's more likely demi's are caused by mutations rather than genetics. That's why they're twins. But one of them isn't demi, and one of them is not. And susie said mutation. I was like, Ha. We're in X Men territory.

I'm here for it.

Let's go. So, yeah, we start off episode two with takashi. Enjoy that name because it's the only one I wrote down.

I mean, good for you. Though the others have distinguishing characteristics.

It's the longest name, so I'm proud of you.

Yeah, good.

I wrote it down. Let's see how many times I can say it before I fuck it up, because it'll happen. So it starts off with him talking with Dulhane Girl in his office. And while she's talking, like, her heads in her lap, and he's kind of a bit distracted by the giant blue flame funneling out of her neck, and it kind of just zooms on on it. And I don't know if this was, like, something he could hear or it was, like, emphasizing for us but there was just kind of whales of the damned coming from it. There was just kind of a groan coming from it.

I was like, excellent.

That would be distracting if you audibly could hear it. Like, just like the souls of the Damn groaning out of her neck.

Quiet while everyone's taking a test. And it's just like.

So then we get the opening and we come back to the scene and he asks, hey, how is that flame doing? What that flame do? And she's like, yeah, it's safe to touch. Like, you could touch it. It doesn't burn people or anything. He's like, oh, cool. And he puts his hand in it and feels around in the flame. While he's doing that, we see her getting really uncomfortable and she's like, yeah, you can touch it. But, like, I have a lot of nerve endings in my neck so, like, it feels weird and, like, a lot of pressure. And he's like, oh, God. Like, yeah, you should have told me that part so I didn't do that. He's like, Feel free to just tell me everything and act like I know nothing. And he says, like, oh, well. He starts asking her a lot of, like, just questions and stuff. And he go back and forth and she's like, oh, yeah. Well, my head and body were able to separate. There's no distance limitation. The furthest, it's gone. As I was out visiting my grandparents once and my body was on the train and my grandpa was holding my head and we were talking and our good body went a little too long and the train took off with my body. So it was from this little country town in Tokyo. It was like, the distance. And he was like, oh, my God, it's very far, so there's no limitation there. And he's like, well, what do you do when you need to use your hands? So she's like, oh, well, if I'm eating dinner, there's like a harness where it's like a baby Jordan I should have so cute.

I was losing my mind at this.

If I was a dual hand, I would just be doing that the whole time. I would always have that bjorn on me because why carry it if you don't need to?

Just that's true.

Yeah. I honestly missed that and was curious why that was never brought up as an option.

She says, like, if I'm in the bath, I just, like, tie my head in, like, a towel and put it in like a sling and hang it up while I take the bath for any time she needs to use her hands for stuff. And she says that it's mostly been the biggest hurdle she's had is it's been difficult for people to be comfortable around her. We saw a bit of this in episode one. They diverted the subject topic away from her. But she said, look, my classmates are nice. I'm not being, like, bullied or anything, but they just seem always on edge around me, and they don't seem to know what they can say and what they can't say. takashi's like, oh, have you ever made, like, a joke about it? Have you ever brought up in kind of a joking fashion? Because that could be a sign of showing people like, hey, this isn't like a stigma. You don't have to avoid talking about it. I am AAA hand and ease of attention about it so people know it's okay to talk about it and it's not this, like, forbidden taboo thing. She's like, oh, yeah, I never thought of it that way, but I guess that's one way to get ahead.

She's already doing it. Good for her.

She immediately turns into fozzie bear.

And he says, yeah, dual hands are uncommon. It's definitely something people aren't familiar with, not through their own fault. There's only three dual hands in the whole world. And she's like, oh, you knew that? And he's like, yeah, I did my research. I knew you were coming in here.

That's like, nuts to think about because it's also like, they're not her family.

Yeah, that's crazy because, yeah, he says it's not just like, genetics, but still just like the probability of a mutation only happening three times on the planet. It's like and we've watched two other shows with dual hands. I wonder if they're connected. rhett and she gets all flustered asking him. She's like, oh, well, now they're here. Can I actually ask you a favor? I've been hoping to get after we had this talk. He's like, yeah, sure. What do you want? And he's like, can you cradle my head?

Me? She's like looking at his arms while he's talking. I'm like, strong arms.

And when she asked that, we see the flame in her neck just like, explode upward, like into a pillar of fire. It's like, oh, you might be like, hold your head. She's like, yeah. My parents used to do it for me a lot when I was younger, but ever since I got into high school, they said I'm too old for it. But something that really comforts me, and I haven't had it happen in a long time, so it'd be really great if someone else could just hold my head for a while. He's like, yeah, sure. I don't see a problem with that. narrator note I see a problem with that. So he creates to do what he does, and he's just holding your head, and after a few seconds minutes, he's like, oh, yeah, no problem at all. Let me know if you need help. He's like, I'm a teacher. You say this makes me feel safe. If this helps my students feel safe, I feel like it's an appropriate thing to do. But as long as that nosy gossipy vampire doesn't seem saying that, he turns his head and sees the vampire girl just in the door. The door peeked open, and immediately as they lock eyes, she runs out behind her at the window, opens it up and just screams, like, hey, everybody, guess what? I guess it's just like shop, shop. And he starts chasing after her.

Yeah, he does say, though, like, when he's holding her, he does say, like, this actually might not be that appropriate, but as long as no one has seen it, it's like, okay.

Which is also not great, watching no one knows I'm doing this bad thing.

But yeah. So the vampire girl goes, like, running off, like, teasingly, acting like she's going to tell everyone. And takahashi goes chasing after. And I enjoy just the sheer shitty gremlin nature of the vampire girl. She's just a real shit, sir, and I really enjoyed it. So after she gets running off, the dole of hand, like, cracks a joke of like, ah, takahashi, welcome to being a dole hand. Well, once everyone finds out what happened, they'll have your head too.

Ha ha.

And he's like, oh, fuck no.

You kids don't realize how bad this actually is.

So bad. But after that, it's a dual hand of vampire or sitting up. Yeah, I guess this would be a rooftop. I didn't check it off, but now that I think about it, they're up on top of, like, a roof area or like a patio, but they're just sitting on a bench. And dual hand girl thanks, vampire girl for, like, setting that up so they, you know, she has to talk to and stuff and just get that, like, being able to vent a little about it or just informing people about it better as they're walking home. Different scene. But yes, they're walking home now after school, and they see the I'm sure in Japan there's a name for it, but they just keep calling her Snow Woman. And that feels weird.

Yeah.

But yeah, they see the Snow Woman girl.

You can call her frozen. It's fine.

They see elsa, and she's walking home by herself. And vampire Girl runs up and latches onto her because she's cold and she hugs her. It's real handsy. Personal boundaries are good and should be respected. But when they're there, she introduces her to Dullahan. It's like, hey, we're all demi here. You go. Get to know each other. And elsa is like, I got stuff to do. I don't feel like being fondled the whole way back home by and goes off on her own. But as she's walking away, Dullahan vampire talking. And Dolehan catches elsa looking back at them and catches a little their eyes lock up slightly, and eventually they walk home together. And eventually they go there in separate ways. And vampires like, hey, we should hang out more. We're buddies. We're bows over some time. And that night, we see Dolahan getting ready for bed. She's laying down to go to sleep, and she puts her head. In, like a dog house that's next to her bed.

Cute.

You little cubby with a pillow in it.

Yeah, I have a little box like that for jasper. I love it.

And as she's like that, she immediately paused back up, and her body writes out a message on her phone or a text message, and it says something. I didn't write it down because I thought it'd come into play later. And it didn't. But I was like, sometimes my head can't keep up. Feel free to use my body or something like that. I was like, what?

Hello? She's like, I'm going to fucking flirt with this teacher. Better write this down.

Yeah. I wasn't sure what this was for because it didn't come back up later.

So I'm just like, I'm 14. I want to fuck the 40 year old.

Felt like that.

I mean, it's true.

Yeah. So next day we see vampire girl freaking out when they're talking. This is when they're on the rooftop bench. Vampire girls like freaking out little because dulhan said she's like, I kind of like a guy. I mean, maybe want to go out with him. She's like, ooh, dish. Who's the guy? Who he into dual hand is very nervous that she'd have trouble dating anyone because she's a dual hand. And that would be off pudding if I was like, no, that doesn't make you less desirable. That makes you more desirable. There's three of you in the world. You're super rare. And plus, your head can separate from your body. So you can do a bunch of weird, naughty stuff that no one else can do. It's like, okay, there it is, teetering again. And Fan Park keeps asking questions about what her ideal date would be and who's the guy and stuff. Until Hand is like, oh, it doesn't matter. I just want to go out on a date with the guy. And he would just carry my head. And we'd walk along the beach or something. And we'd be able to talk. And eventually we'd be hanging on our heads. We get closer and no, I can't tell you. I'm too nervous. Van park keeps crying and like poking her and like, who's the guy? Who's the guy? Who's the guy? Who's the guy? Who's the guy? And eventually dole hand confesses. Stockahashi is the only guy in this show that has any presence whatsoever. So yeah.

Student. I mean, I get it.

But also we all get it. He's a fine man.

He's an exceptional man.

You can't put it in a daunting like that in front of a bunch of horny high schoolers. How dare you?

So dangerous. He needs to be fired. I mean, more than one reason, but that's one of them.

For his own safety. And as soon as she says it's Takahashi, vampire immediately pulls out her phone and starts calling someone. And she starts freaking out. Like, no, you can't do this. Not what are you doing. And the next day, we see they're all at the vampire's house. We got vampire. We got doulahan. We got Takahashi. And vampire girl says, we're going to do an experiment today where we're going to see how the duel of Hand does with her body and head separate. So, Takahashi, you're going to take her head and go out shopping for the day. I'll take care of her body back here. Before they even really know what happens, she grabs the body and throws it inside and pushes them out the door. So they're off on a date, teetering on that line again. And while they're walking around, dual hand says they're seeing if her head alone can go on dates while the vampire is trying to figure out what her body is saying back home. Because the body can't talk. She's trying to communicate with, like, charades, and they're seeing how she can get through life, depending if she needs to surprise her body and stuff. So that's the disguise they're using for this date with a teacher. And eventually we see her body back at the house, pulls out a little notebook, and writes down that saying she's having a great time. That's great. I didn't realize you could write without your head. That's a neat skill you've learned. And while she sent her, she's thinking like, oh, they're having a great time. That's good. Wait a minute. I could ruin this.

What if I put sexual assault into the equation?

What if I ruined my friend a good time and also violate her body?

Wild.

That's what she does. She lays down on the table in front of her and just lines up her fingers and stabs her right in the tents. And when she does that, I'm sorry for laughing.

The way you said it was terrible.

I hear that a lot. Back on the date, Dole head starts freaking out, just like, screams, like, oh, God. He's like, oh, what happened? She's like, I thought of a funny joke. He's like, must have been real funny. He just screamed out of nowhere. And as the date continues, her walking a little bit dull. hand's like, oh, can we stop for a minute and get a little motion sickness? Like, oh, yeah. I didn't even consider that. So they stop at, like, a little cafe, and they get, like, drinks, and they're just sitting there talking for a bit. And they talk about elsa, the classmate, and how she looked worried when she was walking home the other day. He's like, yeah, I've been trying to reach out to her because I know she's a demi and trying to talk to her about that stuff, but she kept avoiding me and stuff. And I figured it seems like she needs someone to talk to. So she's trying to offer an ear.

But can you imagine seeing a large man walking around a town with just a tiny head that speaks?

Yeah, because they say only three in the world. So, again, he also didn't know that she existed at the school. So you can assume in this town, people are like, oh, no, that man has a real severed head.

What the fuck?

Don't worry, it's fine.

Yeah, it's not like that's. The Dolahan girl, we all know her.

He needs to be, like, wearing a sign that says, this is okay.

I mean, it's not technically dating a child.

He's an idiot, and he shouldn't be doing this. But he also doesn't know that she's like, It's a date. They shouldn't be hanging out outside of school. But he's also not thinking that it's romantic.

See, it's not a real date. It's an experiment. And the experiment is we're on a date.

Why did you it's a practice date. It's fine.

It's just a prank, bro.

It's a ball.

It's remind YouTube channel. Don't worry about it.

We got Lopez.

You just got prank dated.

But yeah, while they're sitting at the cafe talking, and Dolehan realizes, like, oh, she needs to go to the bathroom, and back at the vampire's house, her body is, like, freaking out, and vampires like, Wait, what are you doing? And the body stands up, and as she stands up, she gets up too quickly and slams her shin into the table and just, like, crumbles over and isn't like the field position. Oh, no, what happened? And gets up and slams her leg and the table and also falls over. It's very dumb. It's happened multiple times in shows we've watched. I love it every time.

Yeah, it's just a screw that has a few moments where it's just dumb as shit, and it's so funny like that. And the thing with him being like, she doesn't have a face. Hilarious.

Yeah. I can tell with one look at their face, immediately she doesn't have a face.

Exactly.

It has good moments, but it's right in that line. So she gets the vampire or vampire girl gets the body up, and guys are to the bathroom. And right as she's doing that, her sister comes home, and it's like, what's happening? Oh, yeah, it's my friend. She has no head. It's like, cool, don't worry about it. I'm going to my room. Because once again, not common. And then back on the date, takahashi says he might reach out to elsa to see how she's doing and might try and interview her as well. And while he's saying that, they're walking along the coastline, just like in the ideal dream, that duel inappropriate. And Takahashi talks about that she might have been getting motions like this earlier because we're not aware of it, but our body is always automatically adjusting our head and our eyes with the neck to balance it out. So when we're walking, it's balancing itself. But when your head is separated from her body, when someone else is carrying your head, your body is not automatically adjusting to that. So that's why she might have gotten motion sickness. Kind of like in VR, where if you're in VR and you're moving physically in VR, but your body is telling your brain that you're not moving, that's where you get the motion sickness of the disconnect. There so similar to that. And eventually they finish up their date. They get back to Vampire's House, and they all thank each other. They're like, this is a very valuable learning experience to learn about doolahan. And definitely not an inappropriate date between a teacher and their student.

Definitely not.

No. And dole hand runs off. She's like, thanks for a good time. bye. And runs off. And once she's gone, vampire girl mentions like, hey, Takahashi, check this shit out. And then it hard cuts. So we see the next day, we see Takahashi talking to the principal. Talking to principal, saying like, hey, we have a dual hand student. Part of the schooling uniform is you have to have a tote bag sort of thing that every student has to carry around their books in. She's got to carry her head around as well. So what if she gets special permission to have a backpack so that way she can easily carry her head in books without having her hands full? principals like, Ha, I never thought of that. It's a good idea. Takahashi is like, I'm not her homeroom teacher. I don't want to over set my boundaries. Now he says this, now that there's.

An authority figure that fired me, I have to establish I would never do anything like that.

Hey, Prince, I came up with this idea while I was on a date with those students.

What if what did you say? Nothing.

Sunset walks along the water. You're turned on. bye.

Why are you so aroused? I got to go.

I will fight the children. Do not arouse him yet, and I hope it stays that way.

But he says, like, yeah, since I'm not the homeroom teacher, can you just say, this was your idea? When you bring it up to the homeroom teacher and he's like, oh, yeah, sure. He's very considerate of you. And we see. Everything was overheard by the suckers teacher, who's like, maybe that Takahashi guy is not so bad. And that's episode two.

Well, we zoom into those hard eyes and start an episode about her. So our math teacher, Saki, she wakes up at four in the morning. This episode has a lot of just her internal monologue as she sort of explains stuff. So I may gloss over some scenes because she goes about her routine. But yeah, she wakes up at 04:00 A.m., and she's talking about, yeah, I'm 24. I'm single. Weird that this teacher is younger than me. It gets me every time.

I know someone who's 23 and teaches a college course. I know, right?

Anyway, okay, 24.

No, 23. Sorry.

So she's like, yeah, I've been alone. I've always been single. But that's because I'm a succubus, and it's rough. It sucks. So she's taking the train into school, like, the first train of the day. She's awkward around people on the train platform. She gets to school, and the principal comes in and is like, oh, you're here so early. I'm always impressed by your work ethic. You're always the first one in, last one out. You're always cleaning and making sure everything's tidy. You're doing great. She's like, yeah, that's great. All right, I got to go by. And she admits, yeah, I'm always cleaning because I have to get here first thing. I cannot be on a crowded train with anyone, so I need the most empty trains. So I'm just so bored waiting around at school, I might as well clean. So she comes into school and sees Takahashi, but he's talking with machi about the new backpack, pretending it wasn't his idea. And Saki is like, oh, he's so hot, though. Just hot and considerate. And those arms.

God.

Wish you would shave that goatee bar.

Or grow out a beard.

Yeah, choose.

Yeah, you're in a half measure right now. You got to commit to something. Okay, make sure it's me.

But he's a facial hair centrist. Pick a side.

My left ring finger is so naked. Takahashi. Oh, my God.

What are you going to do about this?

And she's avoiding him. Still hasn't bridged that gap, but knows he seems like a decent dude. We see a student talk to her. Just another the boundaries in the school are so great. Where a student comes up is like, hey, help me with this math problem. Cool. Thanks, teach. Hey, why do you hide such a rock and bod under those modest clothes? Why don't you wear the sexiest shit teacher that just helped me with basic algebra?

Hey, math teacher, why don't you come into school wearing lingerie and showing off those great agents?

What's with that?

What's? Not with that.

But we explain or she explains not to the student.

God. Please, God.

Sentence. So she in her internal monologue, explains that succubai have an aphrodisiac effect where they're too sexy, and that makes people turned on.

What?

What a wild.

Yeah, it's very high fantasy. If you need me to walk through you, please ask anyone else, but damn it.

Hey, Steve, what does turned on mean?

No. Please listen to our hentai episode for further context. But she cannot have physical contact with any guy. Problematic?

A little.

And she can't dress or reveal her actual body. And we get an example where she's walking down the hallway, and a student turns the corner too fast and bumps into her, and she panics and runs away. And that boy is like, oh, weird. I'm so horny right now. What just happened?

But I mean, for teenage boys, that's normal to just, like, all of a sudden be horny.

Yeah. The realistic expectation is he already is horny when turning the corner bumps into her.

And just explodes.

Just his head bursts. Okay. So yeah, we get that effect. And that's why she avoids the trains. If she bumps into anyone on a train in a crowded car, they're going to immediately be horny. And that's going to be an uncomfortable ride. So she just avoids it altogether. We also see she has the problem if she falls asleep near someone, they have sexy dreams because suck you buy are like dream monsters. So she dozes off on the train home and then a couple down the car, the guy wakes up and he's like, whoa, I just had the horniest dream. And his girlfriend's like, bruce, why would you say that?

We're in public.

What the fuck?

Keep it to yourself. But she says because of that, again, very difficult. She can't live in, you know, like apartment complexes, cities, any crowded place near neighbors every night. They would just be having wet dreams. And she's like, no, I can't be responsible for that.

What's wrong with that? Better than nightmares.

You're doing more for your neighbors than I do. Yeah, it's a nice thing also with her just going over like how difficult it is that she has to do all these precautions and stuff. She must really fucking love math because I would not deal with it in the city.

Yeah, just be a hermit, be a farmer, just work out in the country. But no, I'm just so devoted to these kids. Oh, I have to teach these kids.

Mold the minds of Japan.

I'm horny for numbers. Like, everyone in existence is horny for me.

Jeez.

But yeah.

So she finally gets home. She's beat because it's like an 18 hours day for her every day. And she starts to just let loose. She has some drinks, she's partying, and she's in her head like, yeah, this is why I'm never dating anyone. That's a real fucked up dynamic to get into. To be like, hey, you can't not be attracted to me. Let me now enter into a committed relationship with you. It's just weird acknowledging a very strange power dynamic that should be respected.

Respected?

Yeah, not in the show. And she's like, yeah, it's never a level playing field. I can't do that to someone because there's also an element of do they actually care about me or is it just my sex powers? I ask myself the same thing every day.

Damn these six powers. Damn you.

But we see. The next day, Takahashi is typing up notes on his interviews with the monster girls. Stop me. Have you heard that one before? And vampire Girl comes in and sees what he's typing as he's typing up stuff about vampires, biting connection to sexual attraction. So she immediately gets all embarrassed. He's like, hey, so yeah, it's weird, but I am doing research. Will you talk about that? And she's like, this is so embarrassing. But yes, teacher, I will talk about my sexual arousal with you. Okay. So as he's talking, he's like, yeah. So there's different levels to it, right? Naturally. Everyone has different sexual attraction styles and all that sort of stuff. But is drinking blood, like biting? Is it, like sex? And she's like, oh, a teacher just said sex to me. I should be running out of this room. But he is so hot, I guess I'll stay here and be embarrassed. And he senses that. And he also is like, oh, fuck. I probably shouldn't be asking a student about their sexual attraction. And she's like, Let me show you. And kisses him on the cheek again. That fine line gets finer and finer every scene.

That line is gone. Yeah, that lines, like, a mile back.

And just to be like, see? Is that the sexiest thing? Me kissing you teacher? And being like, oh, no. I guess it varies. Weird. Okay. Never do a physical display if affectionately vet to me ever again. So she leaves, and he starts wondering how other demmis feel. I wish all the demmis in your life weren't children. This would be a better dynamic. But moving on. Okay, so we see saki and machi are walking together. Saki is carrying a box that a different teacher asks machi to carry instead of her head. So she's helping out, and they're just putting away books in the library. So while they're there, machi is like, oh, so just as demi's here, let's talk. So you, being a succubus, must have all the luck with the fellows, right? And Saki in her head is like, no, I've never felt the touch of a man. Sure, yes. I have my own things. And machi is like, oh, well, I have a crush on someone. Can you help me? Sure. Okay. What's up? I have a crush on Takahashi. And Saki in her head is like, oh, fuck, me too.

She went from, I never want to be near this man to, Boy, I sure am in love with this man real quick. Which I think we all did, but still.

Yeah. So I realize I just skipped over this part in my notes.

My favorite scene in the whole yes, sorry.

This is a very important thing. So as she's discussing, like, I can't touch a man or else I'll get him all too horny. She's walking down the hallway and trips, and who's there to catch her but takahachi?

He takes her hand great.

Holds her hand, helps her up, and she's like, oh, fuck. The one guy I didn't want to get all horny. Oh, no, wait. He doesn't seem horny at all. He's just like, oh, watch out. slippery floors. All right, teach, I'll catch you later. And walks away. And she's like, maybe people with, like, low sex drives or, like, ace people. They don't feel the sex magic. And then we cut to him immediately turning the corner and just, like, grabbing his heart.

He's like a fuck.

I need to fuck right now, let me tell you. Brendan, you asked me earlier to tell you what turned on means. This was so scrumptious. The way he was backed up against the wall, like, bending his knees, and he's like, jeez, it's fucking Christ. I was just like, this is it. I never want to watch anime again. This is it. This man is perfect.

And somehow they found a way to be so horny and so respectful. How can you do that in the same moment?

I just lost my mind. Like, you're kidding right now with her.

That she's like, oh, maybe he's not interested in me, which makes me interested in him. Like, ah, she's in the negging. I get it.

And he's into edging to pretend I'm.

Not horny all the time around her, around everyone, apparently. Okay.

Never mind.

I know. I just had to make sure. Okay, so Saki and machi just admitted that they both have well, machi admits that she has a crush on Takahaki, and Saki in her head is like, oh, yeah, me too. So we see takahachi walking down the hallway and sees Ice Girl and sees Frozen, and some boys are talking to her. One asks her out, and she's like, oh, I got to go. And runs away. And Takahashi goes up to the boys and is like, oh, you scared her away. I've been trying to talk to her for days, but she's always just so flighty and hard to get it hold of.

So I've been trying to grab her.

Yeah, get a hold of he was like, I've been trying to talk to her one along and just talking to the boy. I'm like, you shouldn't be saying this to students, man. Yeah, just everything in the scene felt weird and wrong.

So back to Saki amachi, they're discussing. amachi is like, how do you be cool and confident? Because dating is such a sophisticated man. I don't want him to think me a child is too childish. That would be crazy ridiculous.

And instead of saying, I don't think this is right, child, let's talk about it.

Let's explore how this can work. She's like, yeah, you know, most adults, they are also childish and lying to you. You need to fake it till you make it because most adults don't know what they're doing. Still the most freeing actual advice for anyone out there. Hey, no one is grown up. No one's sophisticated. We're all bullshitting and just hoping super hard you don't ask any follow up questions. And she's like, well, does that mean you, teacher are faking it? And she's like, no, I am genuinely coolest.

I'll never tell it in her head. She's like, yes, absolutely.

But they also just think about, oh, does that mean Takahashi is faking it? Yes. He's hiding how horny he is for soccer. Just more talking about changing her hair and blah, blah, blah. It's a big old conversation of a student talking to a teacher about how to get with another student. So I'm going to gloss over the rest of it. So we see Ice Girl walking out of the school and here's girls gossiping about her. Did you hear that boy asked out Ice Girl? She's so snotty. She's so snotty and will never get a boyfriend even though we just mentioned that someone asked her out.

I feel like that trip happens a lot. No one would ever date her, which was prompted by someone trying to date. I feel like that happens surprisingly a lot.

So undesirable as someone who has the power to reject others. So it starts raining after school and Vampire Girl is so excited because it's cool and not hot and sunny out. So she's jazzed. And Takahashi goes up some stairs and is like, it's getting cold up here. And finds Ice Girl sitting sad in the stairwell. Oh, no. And that's where we end episode three.

Yeah.

Time to sweep her off her feet.

Respectfully going to add you to my nasri of Monster Girl, my Monster Girl collection.

Here we are.

So yeah, this is a weird one.

This is probably the most conflicted. We've all been on a show.

Yes. Like this show, the intentions are so good. Their heart is clearly in the right place. Because at its core it is like, hey, let's have a teacher care about all these minority students. Having direct correlations of Vampire Girl feels more bite attraction to girls and not boys. Dolehang Girl has mobility issues as someone like with a disability and they start to address those things, we see just all these dynamics. Like the weird concept of a government providing blood to vampires, giving necessary supplies to minorities in need. A weird just fantasy concept. Yes. So like the intentions are so good. Takahashi has such English theater teacher that just connects with all the gay kids. That is the dynamic they're going for. And then they add so much like teacher student romance stuff that is just very uncomfortable. Even though it is like the side of things of like students having crushes on teachers. It happens. Hot people become teachers too. It's an epidemic we don't talk enough about.

We're doing our best to stop it.

So that thing of like, oh, a relatable thing, a student having a crush on a teacher. Cool. We are all on the adult side of looking at it with the teacher's perspective. So it just has a very uncomfortable element to it.

Yeah, it's very strange just because this is does Takahashi participate in inappropriate? Like the the date, the quote unquote date? Like yes, he does. Does he also seem like just really stupid? Yes. And I think the romance of it is so one sided. Like the only time we ever see him express any attraction is the part with the sucky vs. So it's like he is not horny for these teens. Again, I say yet I desperately hope that he never is, because is he enough to make me want to keep watching this show? Absolutely. I love him.

That's exactly your type.

And if his relationship with Sake is the one that gets developed over the course of the twelve episodes, I will not I already thought of a fan fiction for them if it's not something they discuss in the show. Like, I don't know. I love this big, dumb man.

He's a biology teacher, but he is himbo in, like, common sense.

Yeah.

And I like, dumb in oblivious sense.

Yeah. And I do understand him asking strange questions to hikari about being a vampire, and the sexual attraction stuff feels uncomfortable. But me, someone who just did a project about sex and interviewed ten people about it to me, in my head, like, relating to Takahashi not being attracted to this kid is just trying to get information to me that didn't feel as weird. Her reactions to it, of course, make it feel icky because she's a child, but you know what I mean? Because I'm in that mindset.

Yeah.

It's like, I know right now in this scene, he's not attracted to her. And I have to keep saying that, which is annoying, because I hope to God that it never happens.

Yeah.

I think not being in that mindset, I can say. Yeah. They make it very clear that even when she kisses him on the cheek, she's clearly very flustered and nervous about it. He brushes it off as like, I get your point. I guess kissing isn't as big of a deal as sucking someone's blood for a vampire, like, in a romantic thing. And he brushes it off very easily. And if someone was doing, like, researching something or studying or interviewing people about sex or sexual orientation in certain groups sure. If you're not their teacher and they aren't 14.

Yeah.

I mean, that's where the issue comes with.

Yeah. Especially him being their teacher. Because people interview teenagers about sexual attraction. It's a thing that happens. There are plenty of research papers about that kind of thing. But it's that he's their teacher and he is in no official capacity doing.

This research project for his pet project.

Yeah. In my really practical brain of, like, I know now, if you want to do something like that, you have to go through the International Review Board or the Institutional Review Board or whatever it's called to actually do a project like that to make sure everyone is being safe and ethical. Like, in my head, I'm like, this shouldn't be happening across a lot of lines here, but I love him. God, I love him. He's so hot.

Great character, those lines.

Yeah. This really made me think of comparisons. There's a tiktoker I follow the paper Pat, who is a black American who is teaching English in Japan to kindergarteners, and he just talks a lot about, like I know for a fact. That I am the first black person that these kids have seen. So the questions they ask me are understandably to Americans and people with exposure to black people. Very offensive of like, hair colors, chocolate stuff and all those sorts of things. But he's like, no, they are kindergarteners. So I know there's no ill intention. I'm literally the first of a category that they're seeing. Naturally, they're going to be curious. There are those elements of like, yeah, there are three dulihans in the world and you're not going to ask them a bunch of questions as a ban of science. So there is that also, like, cultural element of like, hey, coming from a Japanese perspective, let's learn about this thing we have no exposure to.

Yeah, like, long story short, it's like he's just going about it the wrong way. Quit your job, talk to some people about doing a real research project and then it'll be okay.

Don't be their teachers. And they come to you and hang out in your office during class and you hang out with them on the weekends.

He's just dumb, but so hot. I can't get over this man.

He is a hymn in the common sense category.

He's book smart, but nothing else smart.

Because in high school, at least for me, we have, like, a study hall period. And I always went to the same teacher with all my friends, and we hung out to the point where we even went back and visited that teacher. After we graduated. We developed such a rapport, but we also made sure we wrote down list. He's like, oh, I got the story to tell you. No, wait, I'm a teacher. I can't tell you the story. So he wrote it down. When we graduated, we came back, he said, yeah, we got pissed trunk this one time down in Jersey City. It's like, okay. But he kept that professionalism of like, I'm a teacher, and when I was in high school, I'd go to the gym under the workout room and underneath their gym in the building. And sometimes I'd bump into some teachers there who were, like, head of, like, the track team or something, and they would also be working out. So I would be spending some time with teachers, like, outside of our school dynamic. Here's a wild notion for you all. I didn't fuck any of them. We were able to beat both people in the same area without just immediately trying to fuck each other, which is an impossible dynamic in anime, but it's one sided.

It's just the girls being like, God, it's one girl. It's just machi being like, I want.

To fucking, and then vampire girl just being a Chaos agent. That's also an element.

Yeah, yeah.

She mostly just gets flustered by the questions and then likes to just surf shit off, which I can respect on a great level, but yeah, it really rides that line of, like, unexpectedly horny.

And I'm going to write it along with it. I probably will finish this. It's not very long, and I really want to see more of this, man.

I will wait for your report to continue.

Sure. Just to get that, I am I've made it.

I'll say yes. This has all the best intentions. It just has some serious missteps. So I I will go with what you're trying to do rather than what you did.

So far, we're like two and a half out of three with dola hands appearing in our anime so far. So they've all been like, ugh, okay, watch yourself. I got my new counselor.

Well, well, what will we be keeping our eyes on next week?

Next week is my pick, and I have to apologize for my last pick both to YouTube and to the audience at large.

Can I get that in writing, please?

No, you know I can't write. So to celebrate the end of the year and the holidays, we got a lot of Christmas anime. We've already discussed that. Sometimes anime has, like, one episode of, like, episode twelve is the Christmas we're not going to watch. We done it. We discussed this already.

We burned through it too fast. We did bad.

So instead of being a thematic holiday one, I'm picking a show that's ongoing and has immediately jumped into my top ten, possibly top five anime of all time, if not just shows of all time. So I'm picking it as a very good treat and a palette cleanser and a redemption arc for myself. So next week, we will be watching ranking of kings.

Hooray.

All right, if there's a show that you rank highly, not too high enough that you'll yell at us for not liking it, you can send those recommendations to us or email is arwibariat@gmail.com. Or you can reach out to us on twitter or instagram at rwebariat on both.

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I can't stop thinking about him.

Keep professional distance from professor birch.

Hey, teacher. Leave those kids alone.

Thank you.