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Hello and welcome to our Read fairy an exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime right hand man.

That's a good one. Yeah, that's the first good one you've ever done.

Wow. What?

Just kidding. You've done good ones in the past.

You don't like my intros? Where I have to do an elaborate info dump just to explain the reference.

Yeah, this one was simple.

Let me read half this wikipedia page so you get this 1975 movie joke that no one saw.

1948? The actor who eventually played professor on gilligan.

Oh, my God.

Clean and simple. That one.

Simple and clean. We're watching Kingdom Hearts. No, I will we're just doing a.

Playstar of Kingdom Hearts. That's my dream.

I will throw myself off the grip of the soratorium before I watch Kingdom Hearts.

Okay.

Damn it. If we had to do it, we have to do the first three games. How do we decide what that means?

No, the villains, dodecagon, whatever. The unraveled joke is square enix.

And Disney wanted more money and then.

This happened and it's perfect.

That's it.

It makes no sense and it's perfect.

Speaking of making no sense, what are we watching today?

Today we're watching as is in the title of the podcast episode. So you guys already know it's midori days, which is a listener. Well, no, it's specifically not a listener recommendation, but it was brought to my attention by a listener.

Have either of you heard of this show before?

No, I have not.

No.

Great. So, yeah, we're at the anniversary of our parasite episode and that's where this was brought to our attention because there's apparently hand based shenanigans that makes it sound like handshops. We can't be sure that doesn't happen. And I'm scared.

There's weird sentient hands. Like, after it got pointed out to me, I looked it up and it's like, I don't I just had to pick it because it was lining up so well with our parasite episode.

It all looks questionable.

Yeah. And it's like, what, 2005? So that's kind of the like it's weird to say old anime, but like, it's the, like, early 2000s anime where it's like I don't know, they just did a lot of weird shit that really maybe doesn't age well.

Yeah. This is also in like, the four kids days where the prime examples were some weird shit.

It's true. I always forget how long ago 2005 was.

14 years, baby. Almost 15.

God.

Where were you? I was in fifth grade.

2005. I was 14. So middle school.

Wow.

Yeah, it was 7th grade.

I think the boy was ten in fifth grade.

And we weren't watching this.

Definitely weren't watching this. No one watched this.

Well, shall we watch it now?

Yeah, let's give it a chance.

No one ever watched this. Let's watch.

So we are going to watch the first three episodes. Hand died.

Hands time. This is a show that exists, and we're gonna talk about it.

Yeah.

Putting it in plain language, that's about.

How we feel, that's that's what we do every week. But this one is particularly I have very little feelings about this show.

Can we all agree, though, that this is just a giant masturbatory? allegory absolutely.

Yeah. They don't make that subtle.

It's your girlfriend, your right hands. There's the show.

You get it. We're going to remind you every ten minutes.

That's the comedy, baby.

Jokes.

You know what?

This is the level we're working at.

I kind of got to respect certain shows like this, where it's like, we got one joke, but we're making twelve episodes out of this. It's like, wow, they're not great. But you went for it, and you worked hard. You put the effort in.

Someone really gave you money to do this.

It always sounds to me how difficult it is to make an animated show. And Japan is just like, but what if everything had an animated show? What if there was no plot to it?

Hey, kid on the bench waiting for the bus. You got an anime you want to pitch?

Masturbating girlfriend. Hand don.

Thanks. Here's your $10,000.

Here's your cut.

Give me an adjective. A virgin? A noun. We're doing Mad libs anime. Okay.

Well, shall we?

Let's episode one.

Yes.

It opens with a flashback, I think it's just, like, a shot of a girl looking at a guy at a train station, and it's got a green filter over everything. And, like, I guess it's a flashback. It's not super clear.

Are we sure this is not your name?

This might be your name.

Absolutely sure this is not your name. Do not put these in the same league.

They can't be in the same hour of auto.

You spit your name out of your mouth. So the girl looking at a guy at a train station. She's looking longingly, so I guess it's her crush. And then it cuts to that guy she was looking at in a parking lot, standing across from some dude in a white suit with his hair just, like, 2ft tall and, like, white and jelt, the holy hell. Like, this is a weird looking guy, and he's a gang leader, apparently. I didn't write down the gang, but he's like, oh, you're combing up my gang. You're coming up my boys. We got to throw dad. And just generic shit talking dialogue. And, yeah, they start fighting. And this one guy who we saw at the train station takes on, like, seven other of these gang members and defeats him single handedly, like, no problem. And we see he was, like, protecting his buddy, who was already roughed up, so I guess he went there to help his friend, who's already being attacked. And then this guy oh, I think it's his friend says, like, oh, thanks, sagey. So we find out his name is sagey, and then it just cuts him randomly asking a girl out, which then goes into, like, a montage of him asking a bunch of different girls out, and we find out he's been rejected by girls, like, 20 times, so he just can't find a girlfriend.

Takaio from My Love Story except Takaio has all of the redeeming qualities.

He's a much better person in every room.

Much better, much bigger. We'll fight, but only well, say he's a good boy. We find out.

Yeah, we'll find out later.

He's rough and tumble. As of right now, he's a rebel.

He's a delinquent dog, whatever his name is.

Yeah, right. demon right hand of shows you or whatever the city is anyway. And like any traditional delinquent protagonist who gets into fights a lot, he's got blonde hair, which I found it as a trope because in Japan, apparently you're supposed to dye your hair black in school, so the rebels are really yeah, like, even if your hair is naturally a different color, you have to dye it black. That seems yeah. Japan's fairly conservative, despite all the anime.

True.

Yeah, because some schools just lined up on it. So anyway, we find out he's a loveless loser who gets in the fights all the time, and we just get a montage of him, like, going around his day doing stuff, and he's getting upset about different couples all around him, and he's just like, Why am I single? And it's just sag lying in bed whining about people are scared of him because he gets in the fights all the time, and because everyone's scared of him, no girl wants to date him. And he's like, oh, why can't I just find a girlfriend? And this we hear, like, a little tiny voice just say he's asking if anyone will be his girlfriend. And we hear a little voice say, like, oh, really? And he's like, what? Who was that? What was that noise? And he starts, like, looking around. He's like, I didn't hear it. I thought I just must have heard something. And as he yawns and rubs his face, as he gets out of bed, he hears, like, a muffled scream. He's like, what? I keep hearing this girl. Where's that coming from? And he doesn't see yet, but we see his hand is different. So he eventually just walks down the bathroom and goes to splash some water in his face and just wake up a little bit. And when he puts his hand under the water, we hear, like, screaming again, someone drowning. And that's when he looks at his hand and notices it's a girl.

What wacky what? hijinks will ensue. This boy's dominant hand is a girl.

Now, it's a whole sentient being with its own line of thought. So, yeah, he just, like, freaks out and runs around screaming for a bit, and he runs outside, and that's when we get the opening, which is is pretty standard anime. Nothing too remarkable.

Yeah, it's fine.

It's anime. And once he's outside, he starts talking to her, and she's like, oh, it's real. You can see me. And she's all happy and grabs his face and is, like, squealing and stuff. And it's, like, very excited. And then they stop, and she kind of, like, leans back on his arm, and she's naked. Great.

What? In a show like this, who would.

Have thought within the first five minutes, he got dentistry. So she freaks out and screams and then runs back into the house. But it's still attached to his arm, so she has enough strength to pull his whole body. She pulls him back up to his room like she's screaming the whole time, and he's running into doorframes and walls and stuff because she forgets he's attached to her. She knows who he is because she's had a crush on him for the last three years. And this is where he says, there's nothing romantic about your right hand. Confessing it. Loves you.

Get it? Do you get it? If you don't, you'll hear it again eight more times.

And she says she doesn't know what's happening either. She just woke up one day, and boom, here she is, the same as him. So Sage is not thrilled about this because he can't fight anymore because his right hand was his dominant punching hand. But she's kind of jazzed about this. My bullying fist, my violent insighter. And she's kind of jazzed about this, actually. Like, she's much better than this, and he is. So while he's freaking out and trying to talk himself down, she just starts organizing his room and putting magazines away. It's like, oh, it's easier if you pile them up like this. And then you just throw them out the recycle, like, all at once. And, of course, that's when she finds the big old stash of porno magazines, because apparently this is 1987, and teenage boys just have a bunch of porno magazines still. And as is standard, she gets all I don't know about embarrassed. She's like, oh, this is dirty. This is smutty magazines. We don't need these. And trying to throw them out. And he's fighting for them because, you.

Know, porn not the boob magazines.

Not magazines. No, I need them to you know what? Yeah, you can throw them out now.

Masturbate.

And he's trying to figure out where she lives so he can trust trying to get everything back to normal. He doesn't know how, but he's like, let's just get this over with. She's like, I don't want to. So she's very reluctant to go back to wait. However bad her life is, she's reluctant to go back to it. And then we see. Cut to Sagei's friend goes back to school, and he runs in, and he finds out Sagey's not there. He's like, oh, man, what happens? We get very proper, class rep saying, like, oh, he called out sick because he's a delinquent in all this. She doesn't have blue hair classes, but she's got strong EDA vibes. And then we just get like a random shot, I think it was, of his friend was running around. We get like a random shot of like this weeb with a little figurine confessing his love to her. I was like, all right. I guess that's going to play a part in later episodes.

Yeah, we got shown this too early, probably.

Yeah, he was shown in the opening. So he's going to be a prominent character. And then we get a different shot of some girl in an ambulance. And a woman is looking down onto the we don't see the girl. It's from, like the girl's perspective. And a woman's looking down on her, telling her to wake up. madori. Oh, the title. So clearly something happened with madori that she has to go to the hospital. And then we get siji gets back to his hand's house and turns out his hand is filthy rich. Just like a gigantic mansion with a huge gate and like an intercom system and all this other shit. So he brings up the intercom and he says, like, oh, I'm here to see the young lady of the house. Because at this point, we still don't know her name. And it's like half the episode. And one of the maids answers and it's just like, oh, she's out of the house and just ignores him and doesn't let him in. So then we cut to Sagei's friend walking around. And he gets jumped by these two girls. Like, oh, man. Hey, you're Sagey's friend. sagey is so cool. Can we meet him and just primo dialogue here? That's when he calls Sage. And then we come back to Sage and it's madori. It's the girl that was in the ambulance. I'm just saying it because tired calling her just his hand. They're at the train station. And then it was the same train station that we saw in the flashback at the beginning of the episode. And she's just kind of confessing like, oh, yeah, I used to always watch you, and I had a big crush on you and stuff. And she's like, oh, Jesus. It's weird because you're my hand now. And when they're talking, that's when he gets a call from his friend saying like, oh, yeah, I meet these two girls. They're really cute and they want to meet you. They just laugh and then hangs up. But he doesn't tell his friend really anything. He's not like, come on over. I don't know. He gets real smoke and just hangs up the phone without saying anything.

Well, his friend says he's coming over to check on him. And he's just like, okay, bring the girls.

Oh, his friend said he was already coming over. Okay, I missed that because of this dialogue. He's just so good and delicious and so he hangs up the phone, and he just starts laughing, and he starts running back home faster than the train. And god, where are we here? madori said she fell in love with sagei because he always protected people who are weaker. That's why he was always getting the fights. So she saw the redeeming characteristics in them when no one else did. And then, yeah, they run home, and sagey runs to his house, and when he answers the door, he like, oh. He also wraps up a dory, like a bandages to make it look like he hurt his hand so people wouldn't see a whole scented human being coming out of his arm.

And as you do.

It'S a solution.

It's better than, like, an oven mitt.

Got to just mummify her.

I have chicken pox and I can't scratch myself.

So I'm wearing these oven mitts just on this one.

I'm looking at your face, and there's no spots.

It's invisible.

Chicken box.

Yeah, it's a new breed of chicken box.

It evolved. And so when he gets home, he takes on the door saying, like, don't talk. Don't blow my cover. I want a real girlfriend, not a hand. And the girls show up at sage's house, and he's like, oh, where's my friend? He's like, oh, he went to the drugstore to pick you up some medicine. He's the least decent friend. But it's also weird he just led two strangers to your house. So as he brings him in, sage says he lives with his sister, but she typically stays with her boyfriend, so he's typically by himself. Child, living alone. Check. bingo card.

Got it.

His parents aren't dead, though. They work overseas.

Did they say that?

They did. Did you watch the dub?

I watched the two episodes dubs and then one episode subbed.

I watched when you watched dubbed? Yeah, I watched this one subbed. So maybe it's just the translation.

Got you, dad.

They leave out stuff?

Apparently so, yeah, he says his parents aren't home, so they're like, oh, you got this place for yourself? He said, yeah, pretty much. And then one of the girls offers to cook dinner for him. She's just very weird that you just like, hey, stranger, let me in and cook you dinner, and I'm in love with you. But, I mean, I guess his hand also did all that.

Yeah, it's also anime, and that sort of stuff happened, so I wasn't caught off guard by it. I was like, sure, okay, fine.

Yeah, I knew this was leading up to something, but I'm like, if these are just girls and they get freaked out and run out when they see his hands, that's just weird. But yeah. So one of them offers cook dinner, and then one of them goes to the bathroom, and while the other one's away, the other girl starts asking, like, oh, do you date younger girls? Like, oh, do you have a girlfriend I could be your girlfriend. And she asks if she can kiss him. And it gets all flustered. And he's like starting to lean into the kiss. And then we see madori kind of moving around in the bandages, like hearing all this. And then right as he goes in for the kiss, the other girl appears behind him with a big old broom and says they're the girlfriends of the guys he beat up earlier in the episode, and they're here to get revenge. And as she swings the broom down, his right hand flies up and breaks the broom. And it's midori reacting and saving him.

Truly the romance.

And when he does that, he kind of freaks out like, oh, shit. She just took a broom to it. The tiny head. She has got to make sure she's okay. Meanwhile, the two girls like jump up are like, we're going to be up. And he's not even paying attention to him. So he runs in. He's trying to get the bandages off, and he can. So he runs into the kitchen and gets a knife. He's like, I got to do it the only way I know how, like cutting you up and get you out of here. And the girls over here this thinking he's talking to them. So they run out scared all of a sudden because, yeah, you attacked a man inside his own home. This is self defense now. Murder is legal. So they run out screaming. And then he uses the knife to just cut open the bandages and just check on the dory. And she's a bleed from her head because she took any injury to her head at all. In an anime, results of blood to the pouring out of the head. It's like wrestling. They got little razor blades in the wristbands and cut the front of their forehead because it bleeds a lot. So he's checking out with dory and she wakes up because she was knocked out. And she's like, oh, are you happy? I kept my promise. I didn't say a word. Is when he gets like, sympathetic, he's like, oh, shit. Come on. You don't have to do that. He saved me. I've been treating you like shit. And kind of realizes, like, yeah, maybe I should be better. To her, she's still a person just attached to my wrist. And he says she can speak up if they're in danger. She's like, oh, well, if you get caught, he's like, we'll figure that out. But after we're not in danger anymore.

I'd rather have someone on the street look at me funny than me get run over by a bus.

Yeah, kind of. And he said he's still a girl and she has to protect him no matter what. And she is all happy and hugs him. And then I talk to him. He's kind of like bachelor running around embarrassed like his house. And that's when his friend walks in. He's like, sagey, what the fuck are you doing? And apparently doesn't see his hands because he doesn't find out about it. And then madori is happy and falls asleep with sagey because she's thrilled about this situation and he is not. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much episode one ending. Pretty standard of an anime. Oh, I took notes that there was this fat cat throughout the whole show and aggressively gets more bandaged up like a mummy. And by the end of the episode, he's fully wrapped up in bandages. And I thought it would pay off because we see him a bit. And he's also voiced by the same guy that voices goku in Dragon Ball Z. So I thought it'd be prominent character. But no, it's just a weird running gag, I guess.

Yeah, I was going to say something, and now I already don't remember what it was. This show melted my brain a little bit.

Just seeping out a little.

Yeah.

I'm concerned for my mental well being where I'm seeing shows like this. And I'm like, okay, I guess just.

Go along with it.

I'm no longer surprised. I'm just like, of course. All right.

I was just going to say I can't even imagine the kind of stuff this awakened in people. Just like, huh, cartoon?

No, I don't want to look at the sex product online. Based off the show.

Cartoons are wonderful worlds of imagination that can express very well in different forms of art media. It's created a lot of fetishes, though. Like animation is the origin for a lot of fetishes.

Yeah. So let's keep talking about it.

So just continue.

Keep going with it.

Yeah. So in the beginning of episode two, a woman, presumably midori's mother, is by her bedside. And she's like, why won't you wake up, Midori? This one I did watch dubbed because I was taking notes on it. And boy, is the dub good.

Yeah, it's her.

I find mador I try so hard. I find Madori's voice so grating, though. It's rough, but she's small.

Of course, her voice has to be about five octaves higher than every other character in the show.

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I'm like, that doesn't OK. All right.

Let's go through the checklist of how high her voice should be. She's a girl. Check.

Check.

Small.

Young. Check.

Young. Check.

She's small. Oh, not double the octaves. Higher.

Higher.

Small. Check. No, smaller. Check. Smaller.

She's smaller than you think. Is she a child? No, smaller. Okay. So it's morning. madori wakes up with sagey still snoozing. And she opens the curtains. And she's like, oh, what a beautiful day. I'm waking up next to my beloved. I'm going to make him breakfast. And she drags his sleeping body through the house to the fridge, which she opens and finds that it's full of beer. Yeah. With a message left from sage's sister that says, do not drink. And she's like, it's then that she's like, oh, oops, I dragged you through the house. And then she says she'll make him breakfast, and she tries to get an egg out of the fridge. Where did she get it? I don't know.

A chicken, I assume.

Yeah, there's a chicken in the other chicken with the department of the fridge.

With an egg on its wing.

And instead of carrying it to the stove, she drops it on his head.

Just some silly humor for you.

Yeah. And then he heads out to school, and there's a little girl in the first episode that's like, super. She's like, oh, yeah, I skipped over her weird part. And she sees him again, and she calls him on a chan. So she's like, Hi, big brother in the English dub. And he's like, don't call me that. And he's like, hiding his hand behind his back. And she's like, what have you got back there? And he's like it's nothing. And she's like, I know what it is. It's a dirty magazine, isn't it? Ha ha. And then she starts running away, and she's like, I always tell you, I'll do whatever you want me to. And I'm like, this sucks. Yeah, you suck.

I wrote down the line because they caught me so off guard. You don't need a nudie mag. I'll come for you any time.

Yeah.

What did they mean?

I don't know, but the only she's a child. Yeah. I can't think of anything good.

She doesn't even wear a school uniform yet, so that means she's still in elementary school.

Because they're not like they don't do, like, the oh, I'm in love with you, like, sort of like the innocent child idea of love. teasing him sexually, saying, hey, you have a pornomag, and I'll come for you. It's like, no, don't.

Because he also don't do this afterwards. He says, now I got little kids flirting with me. So I'm like, okay. So it wasn't me not understanding what they meant.

Like it was that's what you were going for.

At least he's not into it. Good for you.

The best redeeming characteristic.

And then I forget how it comes about, but madori shows him that she made, like, a little shirt dress that says, I heart Sage. And he's like, no, you had to wear the bandages so people think that you're just my hand, but you're hurt. And on the way to school, he says that they're going to try and go back to her house again. And she gets sad because she's like, oh, you think I'm a bird? And yeah, it kind of is a little bit.

Yeah.

And then they get to school, and people see that sage's hand is all bandaged up. So immediately, rumors start flying about what this boy has been up to because he's got a reputation at school. And among this, like, chatter in the classroom, the class rep who was in the first episode, she comes in and tells a girl and she's like, he's not that scary. He's just a guy that likes to beat people up.

Yeah, that can be scary.

What's not scary about that?

Yeah, it tries to be that thing in uu Hawkisho with that girl that's known youth k. Yeah. And she's like, he's not scary, but this girl is just mean. That's the other thing about this show that I noticed. Pretty much every other girl or woman character that's introduced in this show aside from madori, is extremely unlikable.

She's not saying that he's not mean. He's just, like, misunderstood. It's like, no, he's a delinquent and he's an idiot.

He sucks.

And she's like, oh, what are you going to do? Kick my ass? Fuck off. It's like, whoa, chill. You saw I had a bandaged hand and you're challenging me to a fight?

Get to know me. Maybe God and his friend from the first episode, I think his name is mia, but at a certain point in my notes, I just kept calling him bud.

Yeah.

So he comes in and he's like, hey, sagey, people are saying that you took on a whole car of yakuza gang members and you beat up everybody and the car.

I did like the animation of him punching through the car into the driver.

And then we find out that the class rep's name is ayasa and she thinks some mean shit about him where she's like, he sucks. And it serves him right that he's so isolated from everybody. And it's like, what is your damage with you? And then I don't know why I liked this so much. saji is on the roof and Midori is, like, ranting about how mean ayase is, and he brings his hand up and he has, like, a snack to open. And she just, like, absent mindedly helps him open it. And there's something about that that I just loved that she was still ranting and just helped him open it. I just thought that was cute.

Yeah. He didn't have to ask her to do it or didn't have to be addressed. They're already used to it.

And then from down below, he hears some thugs approach, and they're like, sagey, come fight us. And he's like, I'm not going to do that today. And then he hears iase standing up to them and telling them to leave. And they laugh at her and they're like, we're just going to take you with us. And then she says that she hates delinquent. And then one of them slapped her across the face. And then they start dragging her off and literally no one is helping her. And all I could think of because the show made her so unlikable was like, I wouldn't help her either. Why would she stand up to them?

I think at least in the dub, one of the guys in the crowd is like, oh, it's like the snooty ritual or the stuck up girls being taken away.

It's.

Like, all right, good. They make it a point of saying, yeah, everyone else thinks she's kind of stuck up too.

Yeah, it sucks. Sucks. And all of the girls are made to be unlikable because I don't like her either.

I think Madori's mom is not the worst. The 5 seconds we see over. Yeah, sorry, I'm stretching.

She seems okay. And then Sagey comes and he saves her. He kicks instead of punches because his legs are good.

Get them good.

And then she watches this happen and Ayasa kind of you can tell she's going to catch feelings, but then of course, she doesn't let him know that. She's just like, fuck you. Why did you save me?

He's still a delinquent for fighting, even though you saved me from being kidnapped.

And then we see Sagey's friend is at an arcade. And then the gang members gang up on him and take him. And then it's after school, and Sagey finds a note in his locker that says, we have your friend. If you don't come to this place at this time, we're going to beat him to death. So Sagey is like, well, I got to go rescue my only friend, the.

Only person who doesn't think I'm a piece of shit and doesn't tell me.

That daily and isn't my hand.

Yeah. So he runs. And I also sees the note too. And then we get a part of the gang beating on his friend while they're waiting for sage to come save him. And he is running. He is trying to get there on time. And then he's like, okay, after that, we'll go to your house. And then we get Ayasi walking and thinking about sage. And I was just like, I don't care. Don't care about her.

It's very unlikable.

Yeah. And then this was the funniest thing is that she's just like, I don't like him. I don't like him so much. I have to go tell him or else I won't get it out of my mind. And she runs to go find him, as if her opinion matters.

Yeah. I think she says something like, I have to go tell him my feelings so I can feel better. Wow. It's a very selfish feeling.

I have to go tell him how much I hate him or else it'll eat me up inside. He has to be the one that feels bad about this. So he gets to the place and he kind of just gets knocked down right away and doesn't fight back. And then eventually the leader says, just stop. He's not fighting back. This sucks. Let's go.

This high schooler with a super deep voice and a full on goatee.

Yeah. These are men.

These are men.

Looks like a boy. These are men. And his friend kind of gets mad at him and he's like, why don't you fight back, man? And then he says that he didn't want to start a fight because he was worried about other people getting into it, which was weird. I feel like they're trying to make him likable, which is great. He doesn't want to fight back because he's whatever. But who would have gotten involved? There's no one around.

I think they were trying to say they scouted out the school and saw who sage he was hanging out with and then kidnapped his friend because of that. So he didn't want them to hang out around their school and take other students that he might interact with because of that.

I think none of it makes sense.

Yeah, it's all garbage.

But this is where you're supposed to be like, oh, he's a soft boy. And then Ayasi also hears this. So if she's like, oh, he's a soft boy, my love. And then the next day, she pushes her desk closer to his because everybody else's desks are pushed far away from him, because that seems nice. And then madori catches Ayasi staring at him.

Hussy. Coming after my man.

She is catching feelings who to thunk wow.

The person who is mean at the start of the episode the Sunday yeah.

Who'Da known?

Never would have she's she's catching feelings and these tiny, tiny hands.

And then it's after school, and Sagey is walking back to Madori's house, and there's the weird moment where he's walking by a boy, and then this boy just, like, privately recognizes him, where he's just like, oh, isn't that the boy that madori? And then, like, trails off, and then we don't see him again, if we will, or if he was just a plot device. And then he's told at the house that madori isn't home again. But then his mom his Midori's mom sees him on, like, the video intercom thing, and she's like, oh, you're Sagey. Let him in. And he's like, how does she know me well? And then she leads him up to Midori's room, where she's been sleeping for three days. One coma, and then her mom opens, like, a music box on her nightstand where she just has pictures of Sagey.

Not creepy at all.

No. And she's she's too afraid to talk to him, so she just admires him from afar. But she's been in love with him for a long time.

Is there any no. Okay. Just popped in my head. Sorry.

No.

Having a crush, an unrequited crush does not automatically make you an incel. It's been three.

That's true. Three years staring at a man for three years.

She has pictures of all, too.

There's definitely some stalking stuff going on.

That isn't quite ins.

Not on four chan yelling about it.

She's not watching red pill videos.

She's not yelling at me for not seeing the joker yet.

She's not calling me a beta male gun.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, because her mom knows about her crust on Sagey, and then that boy sagei walks out.

That boy.

So it's like everybody knows majority, like, proclaiming it from the mountaintops. Except for two sagey, I guess.

Anyway, yeah. So he tries to show her mother that she's safe. She's just here. But she holds onto his jacket, and she's like, no, I don't want her to know. So her mom goes to get some tea, and she's like, oh, why don't you talk to madori? If she can hear you, I'm sure she'd be happy to hear your voice. And then he asks madori why she didn't let her mom see that she was okay. And she's like, I just don't think she can take it. And then Sagey is like, okay, well, let's try something to put you back in your body. How about I just touch you to you and we'll see what happens? And she's just like, I don't know. And he's like, Why? And she's like, okay. Okay, I just will you go out with me? Like, now you know all this stuff about me. Will you go out with me? And he's like, I'll think about it. And I'm like, what? You're obviously into her. So he removes the blanket, and oh, my God, she's naked to see her tips.

Crazy.

If your daughter was comatose, why would she be naked in her bed?

Why would she be naked? And then why would you leave her naked, comatose body in a room with a boy that you don't know?

Yeah.

This is your fault, mom.

Majority.

Yeah, we found a way to that's what I'm saying. You're unlikable. Yeah, fair enough.

So he's like, okay, I'll close my eyes. You just like, touch yourself.

Once again, masturbation.

And of course, she just goes straight for her own boob and just smooshes herself into it, trying to do anything for this to work. And then her mom and the maid come in.

Whoa. Crazy. Who could have seen this coming?

It just looks like he's just groping her boob. He gets chased out of the mansion.

Yeah. I like that. The mom faints almost immediately as she opens the door.

Forgot about that.

As the door is still open, like.

Just seeing the back of him, not even fully seeing what he's doing.

Yeah.

And then we get a shot of Madori's mom crying over her daughter's body, and madori christ, too. And she's, like, writing in her journal about how she doesn't want her mom to be sad and that she's okay. She's with her beloved Sagey. And that's when the episode ended. And I was like, oh, okay. It's a good entry point, that's episode two.

Yeah.

What was the line that you thought was questionable, Brendan?

Oh, the one the little girl says that like, oh, okay. Yeah, that definitely made me pause and be like.

All right, cool.

Are we making the best choices with our lives that we can? Because as of now, said yes.

The legalization is like, this is good. I'm okay with this.

This is good.

This is good. Shit. People want to hear this.

Okay, episode three. Sorry to embrace myself to talk about the show. So we start off with the pervert cat out in the rain and in the alley. Sure, everyone's a pervert. Everyone's a pervert involved in this show. You can name any character in this pervert descriptor and just get a character name. So the cat sees a lady walking in the rain and freaks out, trying to get out of her way. And we see Sagey is counting money, talking about my allowance. Finally, I can spend money and feel like a human again because I've been so poor. And madori cooked a heart shaped dinner for him out of hamburger steak. And she's like, oh, I made you this lovely meal. This is great. And being a true piece of shit, he's like, this sucks. Let's go out to dinner.

Well, he says this is good, but now that we have money, let's go out to dinner.

Yeah, still shitty.

Watch the dub. Maybe he's shittier in the dub.

No, he was like, yeah, this is fine, but I'll treat us to food. After she cooked a full meal and he took one bite and was like, oh, so Burger King.

Hey, steak is cool and all, but what about I know you were working.

On this for the last 2 hours and I said nothing because I'm literally attached to you. But now that you served it, the second the plate touched the table, I have a real hankering for some za.

Let's go to banny's.

Banny?

No, she has to give him a handgun, which would be her job.

I was wondering.

Any job she does is logistics job. Okay. I can't even fully commit to this shit. Okay.

Anyway, just breeze.

Yeah, we can run through this real quick.

Yeah. So the mysterious woman walks in, and it is Sagey's sister, Rin. And of course, she immediately starts kicking his ass, takes his allowance money is like, hey, fuck you, nerd. As he's trying to hide midori and wrestle back the money, he gets knocked out cold, landing on midori behind his back. And when Rin tries to pin him, sees madori and freaks out.

I was off with my intel comment about midori, but what if this whole show is about incels, saying it's better to stick with your right hand than to be weighed down by any of these unlikable and unredeeming women.

So it was made by it was.

Made by an incel.

I believe that that's a theory.

I can get that's making sense now.

As I'm thinking, yeah, because surprise, his sister sucks too. She doesn't get better in this episode. She's hot.

But that's my point.

Which I mean, that's probably how incels feel about women.

She's either hot and mean to me or not hot and still mean to me, but I get any of them stupid.

All of these women's problems.

I await the angry emails from incels. anyways, we don't want you anywhere.

Is that too strong? Is that too hard of a stance?

I think the show can agree on that.

Yeah, I think that can be a stance that we make. Please, if you identify as an incel, I don't want to hear from you. anyways.

Anyways. Absolutely.

She sits down, sees that there is a small lady attached to her brother, and starts questioning, like, hey, what the fuck? She seems to accept it pretty quickly. Basically, Majority is like, yeah, I fucking love your brother. And the Rin goes outside, and two motorcycle dudes are out there. And they're like, hey, Rin, you're back in town now. It's time to party. And she kicks their asses for being loud because her whole thing is just fighting people. For fighting people.

Yeah.

So sage says that this was her old high school gang. And ren is like, hey, gather up the boys. We're going to the spa. sage is paying for it. And terrible. sage is like, no, the fuck I'm not. And gets knocked out by ren and thrown on the back of the motorcycle.

And girlfriend on a date, please.

I need to throw away her home cooked meals so we can go eat processed foods. So he wakes up on the back of the motorcycle being brought. midori has a small motorcycle helmet, which I don't know how that happens.

I was wondering about that.

Maybe Rin got it for her.

Someone had a little, like, chihuahua helmet and just put it on it.

I was thinking there were those ice cream helmets you get, like, baseball games were from, like, Dairy Queen that you ice cream out of.

Yes, definitely one of those. So they go to the spa. Everyone's eating and getting drunk, and the gang starts showing off like dumb tricks of like, hey, I can do a suplex. Look at me. Hey, Rin, look at me. Look at me. Mom, look at me.

Do you love me yet?

But Rin is super drunk at this point and is super unimpressed and is like, hey, fuck all you people with your lame, like, party tricks. Let me show you some real fucked up shit. And yanks midori out and shows it off to the gang. They're all freaking out, but midori and sage play it off like midori is a ventriloquist dummy. So she just holds still. And everyone reaches out and starts grabbing at her and being like, oh, she's so soft. She's so realistic. Let me touch her tit. Does she have panties? And so Sagey is like, hey, knock at the fuck off. And pushes everyone back and starts a drunken brawl. And everyone's fighting everyone some good wholesome fun to make you forget about the touching it's. The next day, sage is taking a bath in one of the spa rooms and apologizes for yesterday. And Majority is like, it's fine. We manage that all right. No one suspects anything weird. Hey, let me help you wash your back. And starts scrubbing them and then drops the sponge and it's like, oh, that's fine. I'll just use my body and just rub up against you because my towel absorbs some suds. Ha, ha. I'm sort of half dry humping you. Great. Good stuff.

Like I said, I'm kind of impressed they're able to work all the schlocky tropes of anime into this with a character that's like one 10th her size and attached to his hand.

Yeah.

It's all for the kink, baby.

It's impressive how many hoops they try to jump through to just to make this work.

It shows you the dedication to the formula where they're like, okay, let's take any strange bullshit, but still hit the checkpoints that we have in any show.

Yeah.

So naturally, Rin walks in naked because it's a spa. And Sagey is like, oh, hey, Sister, can you put your fucking tits away?

Yeah, this was weird.

Yes.

I think this might be our first genuine technically not incest on the yeah.

I was about to say, yeah, this is definitely a justification for that. Box check.

Good.

But she's like, yeah, it's co ed. chill out. You're a girl. Anyway.

Ha, ha.

Fun stuff. They get into a bath together.

Cool.

And they're all just naked soaking in a tub. And madori is asking questions about their childhood together. Of course, talking about how they took baths together as a kid. Didn't need to introduce that aspect to it, but sure.

No, there's the whole thing of, like, women's breasts don't need to be inherently sexual, but I feel like that isn't a stance that this anime, Majority Days is taking. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Based on every other woman we've seen up to this point, these breasts are.

Made for sexual safety, baby.

Literally.

Madori says, oh, my God, you have such a great rack when she walks.

In because you're so well proportioned.

Yeah.

Your figure.

We've gotten titties in every episode so far.

Yeah. We have seen bare boobs in all three episodes.

Yeah.

We got it from Wonder about the next nine.

We'll never know.

Yeah. Especially the circumstances where these titties are brought out. It's a naked small girl on first day of, like, knowing her as a hand entity. We have naked Coma girl just there for a site gag of touching her boob. And sister.

That's it.

Sister. Didn't need it.

Sister at a hot spring.

I was going to ask if we should put Naked Coma Girl on the bingo card, but I'm honestly upset by how often that might get checked off.

Yeah. I don't want to know how frequently that happens.

Yeah.

I can only think of one other, and it's not even from an anime. I've seen all of what is it, evangelion? Yeah, there's one scene that I know about for sure, and it's that scene with the naked coma girl.

They have a spaceship that's powered by a naked sleeping girl on a tube.

What the fuck yeah.

That's a weird one.

All right. Yeah, let's move on. We're almost there. We can almost throw this in the garbage. So they're talking about their childhood and how sage used to be this quiet loner who always got bullied. He can't swim, he's a loser. And we see a flashback of him getting picked on, like fighting back tears. Rin defends him and is like, hey, stop being a little piece of shit. Actually defend yourself. I'm going to train you. And we get a little fight training. montage. Just a week of these kids doing like rocky level shit, and he goes to fight the bullies. He loses, of course, because he was training for a week and there were four of them. But it sort of instilled the spirit of never giving up and especially standing up for the people who can't stand for themselves. And sort of gets the foundation of why he wants to help people and recounting the story. segey tries to drown himself to get out of it. I don't know.

It's because before she told the story, rin pushed his head down into the water so like, he wouldn't hear her being nice.

Oh, got you. Okay.

And she just held it down the whole time she was telling the story, which was like minutes.

Okay, cool, I missed that part. They wake up the next day, he just straight up passed out after getting drowned. So he wakes up, everyone left, and they leave him with the bill for twelve rowdy gang members who destroyed everything. So all that allowance money is gone and he has to set up a payment plan.

Great. Love my sister.

Good stuff. Good things.

Yeah, I hate that thing of like, I'm shitty to you, so you learn how to stand up for yourself. It's like not dog.

No, you can teach me all this shit, but also teach me self worth and not want to die all the time.

Yeah. She has like a brief endearing moment where she defended him as a little kid, but then she's also the reason he doesn't know how to swim because she drowned him in the bathtub so much when they had baths together. So it's a game that's a long lasting damage. Cool.

Great fun. So, yeah, as they drive back, Rin is thinking that Majority girl is good for him. But I will never say anything nice in the real world. So I guess I'll just send him the middle finger emoji later, just as a reminder. And then they're back at the house, they're taking another bath. He gets out, but his towel falls. Majority sees his dick, but we don't get to.

I call that sexism. Show me his dick.

That's definitely something where they're like, yeah, these tits are sexual, but we will never show you a dick. That's gross.

Well, she even says, I like finding out these new parts of you that I didn't know before. And then that's when he stands up in the towelfall, she's like, but I didn't want to know that part of you. So even she doesn't want to see.

My breasts twice, but I don't want.

To see your dingle, even though you need to go to the bathroom sometimes. So we're glossing over all the times where she's just, like, plugging her ears, closing her eyes while he's taking a shit.

That'S probably so difficult to not be able to wipe his butt. I was thinking with his right hand.

The biggest hurdle of this show is, like, reteaching yourself after 18 years of having to switch hands. Now, that's got to be a pain.

I want to see that part of the show.

He's a struggle.

Jim trying to learn how to do.

Stuff with his left hand.

He's like, oh, scissors. This is simple. And he flips the scissors over. He's like, but no, it's not.

I have to buy left handed scissors.

I have no sympathy for him needing to use so many right handed scissors. You all can get over that shit.

Are you left handed?

Yeah, I'm a leftie.

I probably knew that. Like, I probably I don't see you right very much, but I'm sure I knew that.

But not Daniel.

Yeah, I'm a digital boy these days.

I don't see you tight.

It really ruined us.

I just remember you had that ergonomic mouse when we entered. I was like, I can't understand how this works.

I mean, that's not a left handed factor. It just uses my right hand for that bizarre.

Anyway.

But yeah, that's the show. There's, like, a scene where they go to bed, but who cares? anyways, we're done.

Take a hit.

Thanks for not recommending this to us.

There's a reason it wasn't recommended.

Yeah, I don't know.

This is some anime bullshit, and that's why I picked it.

Yeah. Are we very animated?

I'll ask it.

No, we're obligated to say it.

Sorry. It's not the worst show we've seen. It's not like cringy. Well, it's cringy, but not like the perma cringe that some other shows give you where the entire time you're just like, oh, fuck this. But it's like everything you're doing is obvious. You're not doing it well. All these women are so mean and such unlikable characters, except for madori. And you still spend sagey berating her all the time. It's bad. Don't watch it.

Yeah. It took me this long to really just think about it in the way that it's just like every other bad anime romcom that exists, except she's small and attached to him. That's the only difference.

Which is, like, is that infantilizing her just because she's so small? Or is it like I don't know the right word for it, but she's taking care of him now and cleaning his room and during his chores.

It's demeaning. And she's supposed to be injury because.

She has no agency of her own except when she's doing chores. For him.

Yeah.

I do want to look up what happens in the end and if there's ever an explanation for any of it, but am I going to watch this?

Nah, you're going to do some cop out like some coma Wish shit.

I don't it was a tree the whole time.

I wanted it to be like a spell. I wanted her to be, like, a witch. And she did some weird stuff with some crystals and this is what happened.

She was doing, like, a weird ritual, but then a bird flew outside her window, so she turned to put her hand down by accident. So she switched bodies with the hand?

Yeah. Maybe she wanted to switch bodies with him.

Yeah, it's missed.

Then it would have been, like, your name.

Wait. No. That's just parasite. We just made your name is parasite in your name? Because in Parasite Migue is going to invade his body, but then fucks up, and then he gets stuck in his hand. Wow, there really are two better shows than this one.

I can't believe I mentioned your name. Your name twice. This freaking episode, we'll beat it out.

We'll bleep it out.

Yeah.

Not great.

Bad stuff.

Bad, believe it or not.

All right, so what's going on next week?

Next week we're watching a show that I have seen clips of but never watched, and I only just recently found out that this was the title connected to the clips. It's called Monthly Girls Nose. ocky, koon. And we're going to watch the first three episodes because I don't know anything about it. I hardly know anything about it.

Wonderful.

Yeah.

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