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This week the sun sets! But first, we catch up on what we’ve been doing. Sarah’s been hanging out with coworkers while Joe has been slogging through HunterXHunter.

In the Rose of Versailles, we cover a lot of ground. We finally meet Fersen and see how his love (?) affair with Marie might cause problems. Then we spend some time with Andre and his feelings. Lastly, our favorite prince and princess get a promotion as King Louis XV finally bites it!

Welcome back! We hit one year this week and we’re jazzed about it. We recorded a bonus episode on Jurassic Park that you should listen to if you haven’t! It’s a good movie! Then we jump back into The Rose of Versailles.

We wrap up our Du Barry drama with a very plot light, but stylish episode. Then we go to Paris, where things are, uh, not great. Oscar stops an assassination attempt and we’re introduced into some more young women from a distant royal line. New schemers are in play!

We hit one year! A whole 52 weeks of releasing the pod, we celebrate by watching Sarah's favorite movie, Jurassic Park (1993).

Life continues and so do ours. IRL we catch up on our lives, Sarah has been watching the HBO series Insecure, while Joe has watched a bunch of mech anime (surprise surprise).

In The Rose of Versailles, we get our first taste of palace politics. Marie Antoinette becomes top dog at court and uses that power to immediately pick a fight with the second most powerful woman, Countess Du Barry. Oscar is content to sit back and watch the firework, up until she and her (not dead) mom get dragged into it. How will Oscar get out of this one? [ETA till French Revolution: 19 years]

Welcome to our fifth show we’ve covering, the classic The Rose of Versailles (1979)! But first, we catch up on what we’ve been doing and watching. Then we talk about Dandadan and why we not super hot on it.

Then we jump into the past and meet our main character Oscar as she decides if she will venture into manhood or womanhood! Then we meet our second lead Marie Antoinette as she is given away to France. Good thing no evil dukes are around to mess things up, nope, never…

We return for the season 1 finale of Chihayafuru! We did it, well, at least the first season.

We go over the last three episodes where Taichi gets completely destroyed romantically. Then we watch the Queen Shinobu defend her title and are introduced to Master Suo, a guy no one likes.

Then we go over our feelings on the show so far, do some rankings, and talk about things we hope to see in season 2.

We will not, however, be watching season 2 immediately, because we’re going to watch The Rose of Versailles, which is available on most of the free streaming services. We’re excited about this one so please watch along with us!

We’re back and its time for some Karuta! In the real world, we went to an anime convention together! In skip beat cosplay! It was fun! Check out our Instagram for some pictures (hopefully we have them soon).

In Chihayafuru, Taichi has one last shot to make class A. Can he do it or will Arata torpedo his run by outclassing him? Also can Chihaya pass or tests? Then we go back to a tournament, where Chihaya is playing a literal child then a literal office worker. We ask questions like, is anyone in this show actually friends? Do we know what friendship actually is? Is Joe just watching this show wrong? Answers and more on this episode.

We’re back, and the anime is good this week! But first we talk about the rather disappointing The Lord Of The Rings anime movie along side some other stuff.

Then in Chihayafuru, Chihaya starts asking the big questions, like, is Karuta a strategy game?? Taichi realizes he’s going to be left behind, and Tsutomu guides us through the best game of Karuta to date!

This week we are together in person (apologies for any mic weirdness). We run down our 2024 year and think of some goals for 2025! Surely, it'll be a good year, no reason to be pessimistic or depressed about it.....

In Chihayafuru, we move onto the individual stages. We learn who that weird girl was from a few episodes ago (spoiler, she's weirder in person) and Taichi feels he'll never catch up to Chihaya or Arata. Then we get a recap episode which we gloss through.

Happy New Year ShouJoe listeners!

Happy Holidays to all our lovely listeners!

We have a not so festive episode this week. Joe’s got the Flu and Sarah has been busy with things but we manage to spend a lot of time talking about random stuff anyway.

In Chihayafuru, we finish up the regional tournament and jump right into nationals. Chihaya’s family troubles are resolved, Kana recites a poem, and Arata and his big hands finally re-enters the story.