ShouJoe

Content Warning: Discussion of Sexual AssaultThis week, Sarah and Joe did not go on trips and don’t have nearly as much to say. Joe’s but news is that he watched the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Sarah is maybe done with social events for a while. Real exciting stuff. In Hana-Kimi, we wrap up our beach arc with some not so great developments with Makita. We are not loving that. But then we jump into our final arc of the sports festival. That’s right, its dorm v dorm in an athletic/other event style team games. And we finally, finally get some time with Nanba and find out what his deal is!

We return this week with our 100th episode! Wow! That’s a lot of podcasting! We celebrate our 100th episode by completely forgetting about it and instead Joe talks about making a sandwich and Sarah talks about the upcoming season of Survivor. Then in Revolutionary Girl Utena it’s time to meet Juri and her tragic backstory that for once, correctly does a love triangle. You love to see it. Then Utena and Anthy switch bodies in our wacky second episode. Then lastly, Saionji gets more screen time as he decides that he is the protagonist of the show actually. There’s no way he’s being manipulated by friend, right? No way, Friendship is eternal!

Its back to school life for Utena in our latest episodes. But in the real world, we catch up and talk about our various goings-ons. In Revolutionary Girl Utena it’s time to party! Anthy gets nominated to be dance queen and becomes friends with Nanami, sure hope that goes well for her! Meanwhile utena gets more quality time with Touga because her memory is worse than we expected. Then we meet the rest of the student council starting with nice boy Mickey. He says he won’t duel Utena, so I guess we’re safe this week!

This week we say goodbye to Miyo and the gang until the season 3 specials. In real life Joe is cat sitting for his GF and learns the dangers of letting a cat physically sit on you. Meanwhile, Sarah has been hanging out and watching some horror movies. Then we talk about American animation studios for a solid ten minutes, as one does.Then we finish off My Happy Marriage, we wrap up the Naoshi arc rather easily as Arata remembers that he’s a good guy actually and Miyo and Naoshi try to change each other’s minds. Then in the finale, Kiyoka and Miyo set their affairs in order so they can retire to a nice quiet life with each other. Next time, we watch Revolutionary Girl Utena, which you can watch here.

We begin to close in on the end of season 2. But first, Joe recounts his ski trips and Sarah updates us on her survivor re-watch progress. Then we talk about anime a little bit and how meaningful genre distinctions are in reality.Then in My Happy Marriage, Miyo gets put in the witness protection program and she must stay at the Royal Palace?? What?? That’s right, it’s two episodes of hanging out and talking. Exactly what we’ve been waiting for. We meet the ministers of the government and as expected they suck. We also get some ominous rumblings about a traitor in the government and someone needing to be sacrificed cough cough Arata… We’ll see how it goes!

Happy new year everyone! IRL we go over our holiday events and plans as we round out 2025. Here’s to another year with the ShouJoe pod!In my happy marriage, we’ve got more parents. The B plot becomes the A plot and we get a new bi-specticaled baddy. Then Milo gets a new friend and we learn that being a woman in the army isn’t so great.