Baseball is a sport built on failure. So is growing up.

In this episode, we put two surrealist anime side by side — FLCL and Sonny Boy — and look at what happens when both of them decide to tell their most important story through the vehicle of a baseball game.

One show asks if you'll swing. The other asks if you know what you're swinging into.

Together, they map something true and uncomfortable about adolescence: the inherited identities, crowds that consume the people they claim to love, the umpires who tell the truth and pay for it, and the quiet, devastating act of choosing yourself over the symbol everyone else needed you to be.

This is YGN Radio. Make sure to give life your best swing.