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Revolutionary Girl Utena Ep 1-2: Troupe Tropes

Content Warning: Physical AbuseThis week we start a new show! But first, Sarah and Joe catch up on what’s been happening. Joe has gone to the opera and Sarah considers her reality tv watching diet.Then we start Revolutionary Girl Utena with episode 1 and 2. Our hero Utena is a simple middle school girl. She goes to class, hangs out with her friend, gets involved in duels, climbs a million stairs, gets engaged. Normal stuff!

My Happy Marriage S2 Ep 12-13: Gun to a Swordfight

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.

My Happy Marriage S2 Ep 9-11: Sweet Dreams

As we approach the end of my happy marriage we ask ourselves, are they ever going to get married?? IRL Joe is prescribed to be a Corolla driver forever and Sarah is dangerously close to finishing all of Survivor.In my happy marriage we learn some Naoshi backstory which really changes Joe’s mind about a few things. Fortunately, Miyo has decided to be a woman of action and hatches a plan to save kiyoko, with the help of…some kind of little boy version of him. It’s weird.

My Happy Marriage S2 Ep 7-8: Non-Canonical Child

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!

My Happy Marriage S2 Ep 5-6: Could this be a Trap?

We hit the halfway point this week! And speaking of hits, Joe tells us about his new car problems and Sarah remembers her car trauma. Boo cars, we don’t like.In my happy marriage, we speedrun our way through the plot. We learn some troubling news about Miyo’s new bestie that caps off in some pretty cool fighting. The illusion guy does some illusions. As one does.