 I told ya, the next time, the last time we see that exchange diary, it's really sad. I mean, what kind of friend? We're true friends, like, Toga. Immediately, he doesn't even give a shit. You don't even see him, like, you know, hesitating or thinking about it, he's just like... He doesn't even say anything, he just throws it into the fire and just looks at it, like... We're gonna see a lot of things in this show later on thrown into fire in a similar fashion. Yes, indeed we are. But yeah, I mean, remember, this is the shame show that had 10 billion power curry, right? So the same show that had all that silliness and chuchu who makes a short appearance here, same show, but this is here begins, right, the taste of what is to come. Almost every episode from here on out, except for the few random silly ones, is gonna be like this. And even then, the random silly ones are a lot more sinister as the show goes on. Like, Nanami episodes are kinda disturbing. Yeah, instead of laughing like, ha ha ha, it's not ha ha funny, it's like, hey hey hey. You're like, so that egg is a metaphor for what now? That uncomfortable laughing like, ha ha ha. So Toga seems like the most awesome dude, and we always say like, yeah, Toga, he's the best. He is still best. It is, but this is the episode where you really start to see that Toga is probably evil. Right, well, I mean, you sort of have this just suspicion, like, okay, there's these people who are in his position of power, right? Toga is, you know, way up high. He hasn't done anything outwardly evil, he hasn't said anything outwardly evil. Right. He has manipulated people into doing things that are in his best interest. Yeah, but it's like, you don't know that he's a bad dude for sure, but it's like, you just got it, you're just suspicious of anyone in such a high position of power and someone who's displayed mysteriously, right? When anyone who has mystery surrounding them, you automatically fill in all that mystery with bad intention. Well, at least you should. If you don't, that's why your game master keeps surprising you with villains. Right. So, you know, Toga finally just straight up in this episode is like, I am evil. Yes, every scene where he is in, it'll cut to him kind of watching with that sort of smug look on his face like, uh, yep, everything's going according to plan. Yeah, and at the very end of the episode, he's like, data collected. I'm going to get the power of Dio's and win. Game over. So let's step through what was going on here. Obviously, Nanami murdered that cat. We'll get back to that. That's actually not the interesting part of this episode. That's the straightforward part of the episode. Yes, Nanami murdered the cat, jealous of her brother. We'll give, there's some incest. She pretty much doesn't let anything get in the way of her and, you know, Toga, right? Anything that is between them two, she gave him a cat and then it's like, oh, he's paying more attention to the cat now than me. You're dead. And Utena, you know, basically, Utena doesn't have interest in Toga, right? But Toga set it up so that it would look like it to Nanami that Utena was maybe going to get with Toga, right? By, she even brought him flowers and everything. And she's like, uh, stop paying attention to Utena. All right. So Nanami wants to kill Utena just like the cat. But there's subtle stuff going on here. It wasn't, Toga's plan was not to get Utena to like him or to get Nanami to duel. Those are all just bumps in the way. Those are steps in his grand plan of beating Utena, getting the power of D.O.'s, revolutionizing the world, whatever that means. Right. And you know that Anthe is helping him. And you know that the end of the world is helping him. We know that explicitly now because of this episode. One, Toga had the ring to give to Nanami. No one was like, Toga, where'd you get another ring? Yeah, end of the world helped him out. Hooked him up. Yep. Uh, so Anthe happens to have a gift for Toga on his birthday that is a cat in a box. So that means Anthe knew. Yeah, Anthe knew. It's not how could it be a coincidence that Anthe got Toga a cat. Like she always knew he wanted one. Yep. She's done this before. She's handed people roses at inopportune times. She's known things about people that she shouldn't have known. You should spill in all of Anthe's mysteries also with Sinisteris, right? That's what's a little harder to do. But it's like, no, really, if anyone has any mystery about them, it's bad. It's very easy. The show is not going to be good and pleasant things when the mysteries. The show does a very good job of really intimating you to Anthe. And she's really messed up and weird. But yet you start to get used to her. And because of her friendship with Utena, you'll always overlook her. But pay attention. She was just as deeply involved in Toga's plan as Toga in the end of the world was. She bought the cat as a gift. The box that the cat came in had a bow around it that was the color of Nanami's flower. She was there to make sure the cat was presented when everyone knew that Nanami was hiding in the gazebo, watching everything. And there happened to be an orange rose hanging out there. Yeah, she made sure Nanami saw that they gave a cat to Toga, right? It wasn't like some accident. Oh, it's crazy coincidence. No. Yup. No. So what was Toga's plan specifically? He got her to duel. Right. Well, up until now, you thought he was just trying to get new tennis pants. He... Baby. My heart is on fire. That's what maybe he is. I don't think he would mind that. I think that's a secondary objective. Right. But, you know, at the front of the end of the episode, you're 100% sure he wants to win the duel and just be the winner, right? And as student council president, you think he would have been the winner at the beginning, but I guess Sayonji was? Well, notice already. At the very beginning in the student council meeting, they talk about how in the sequence, per the letters from the end of the world, there is another duel. It is Toga's turn. But Toga now has a convenient excuse to not have to duel. Oh, he got hurt on purpose? Yeah. Oh. Oh. And also notice, despite how nice both Juri and Miki are as people from this point, after they've kind of had their earlier duels, they're still in it to win it. They both are like, fine, I'll duel. Yeah, it's like, I'll do it. Yeah. It's like, wait a minute, weren't you all nice with Utena after your duel? It's like, no, we, you know, you haven't seen, you just saw Miki and Utena sort of hanging out, even Nanami, remember, hanging out. Giant Octopus is coming to the closet. That's gone now. But remember, you don't see them hanging out anymore. No matter how friendly anyone is, anyone who has a duelist ring is in this to win whatever it is, destroy the world, whatever's going on. They want it as much as all the other characters want it. Even Utena, who doesn't even know what it is, she knows even less about it. She doesn't even know ends of the world as a thing. She's never heard that term before. Never gotten a letter. She still wants to win. In fact, she wants to win enough to where, notice how she does not even question these duels anymore. Yep, she's like, oh, there's a duel? I'm going to kick your ass. There's no way you're winning. But Toga's plan was so subtle. He got Nanami to duel, and then in the duel, the power of the O's came down, and notice how he watches, like, up, there it is. He's there hanging out. Who's hung out watching? He wasn't hanging out by the bells like he usually does. He's down on the ground, right, right in that arena. Yep, now he was there for two reasons. One, to stop Nanami after he won and got his thing. Otherwise, Nanami would have just killed Utena. And two, he was there to see the power of the O's up close. He saw the power of the O's come down. He saw Utena win the duel with the power of the O's. And then Nanami... Right, he didn't want to fight Utena. He could have just fought Utena in the sequence, but, you know, why didn't he? He probably, he's an awesome dude. Why wouldn't he beat Utena? Because he knows Sionchi's an awesome dude who lost twice to that pile. So she had, he had to get, and he's always been watching from afar with his binoculars. And I guess he didn't feel he knew enough about what he needed to know in order to win. Now he's like, I know what I need to know to win this. And look what happened in the zoo. As soon as he's healed, he's going after it. He is. So Nanami lost the duel, and then pulls a fucking knife and tries to kill Utena. And the power, the power of the O's... She lost right away too, like, bam, you lose. Does not come back. No, it doesn't. Does not protect Utena. In fact, had Toganot intervened, Nanami might have stabbed Utena in the face. Probably, yeah. It was only Toga being there to stop her that prevented her. So he didn't just know that she would duel. He knew, to test his hypothesis, that she would try to kill Utena because he knows she is perfectly capable of killing. Just like she was killing the cat. She's going to kill Utena, right? So why did she kill the cat? Is it so simple as she's jealous? She just, she, you know, I mean the show presents it as she doesn't want Toga to pay any attention to anything but her, right? It's only, her smile is only for me, not for anyone else. Yup, he is her prince. Even if she still gets like a majority of his time, if he spends like a minute with someone else, he's like, she's like, I can't have that. But at the same time, she very rarely, if ever, acts directly. You see her almost being a little bit conflicted. Notice how she didn't just kill the cat. She didn't just strangle it or something. She put it in a box and did something indirect. She pushed it and then it was killed later after it was too late for her to intervene at the critical moment. She looks back at the cat and is obviously disturbed. She's sorry, but at the same time, she almost has to continue to be this ruthless going forward to keep Toga because if she loses Toga. She's got nothing. Then that cat's death also meant nothing. She killed that cat for nothing. That's true too. So she is haunted by this memory. I mean, she was not apologizing to Toga about the duel. She was apologizing about the cat. All right, you can tell by, because while she was talking and apologizing, what were they showing? They were showing the cat killing scene. They weren't showing the, you know, oh, I'm sorry, the stabbing, right? Bringing out the knife. She wasn't sorry for bringing out a knife. And also she's still, she still threatens Lieutenant with the broken knife. Even at the end, even after Toga stops her. So she, there's another kind of creepy moment. She doesn't feel sorry for Lieutenant the way she feels sorry for the cat. Not at all. But incest comes up in the show a lot. I mean, Mickey's story arc, it's there. It's hanging out. There's a lot of incest all over the place. But in this case, remember in her memory, Toga was her prince. He kissed her on the forehead. He saved her from the family. He accepted her gift graciously. They, like- Now he's like, we're too old for that shit. Yes, but he knows. Oh, he knows. It's obvious that when she- Even, he even says that. He's like, yeah, Nanami has sort of a big brother complex. Just says it straight up. Everyone's like, oh, the show is so weird out. No, he just says that literally. Yeah, and then- He knows it. And it's reinforced by everything you see going on. He knows that she has this issue. And he manipulates her. When she tries to stop him from fighting, he leans in and kind of creepily, like, brushes her lips with his thumb, like, oh, long pause. And then we're too old for that. You're not a young girl anymore. But he knows he's using this, and he's going to use it again. He's going to keep using this throughout the show. And this becomes a big theme later in the show. This episode really, that's pretty much all that happened, right? Yeah. Is there anything- But think about the huge revelations. The revelations are that Anthe is helping Toga win her. What does that mean? He is helping her win her in this duel that is upcoming. Even though up until now, Anthe has only ever helped the person who was the current winner, right? But she'll help Toga is the first time she's ever helped someone who is not currently in charge. She's also helping Toga get into Utena's pants. Because when Utena's all sad in the corner, like, oh, woe is me. And they have that conversation, she's the one who- Why did she go visit him? Yeah. She speaks as though she's already read Utena's mind, knows what she's thinking about, and actually suggests to go visit Toga. One, so she can give the cat gift and cause the duel. And two, to help Toga's interest, because in the duel at the end, Toga is the big brother. He stops Nanami, and then he's like, well, this is just what princes do. He needed Utena to see that. That's all he's been, you know, once he figured out that was his, you know, his fine, he was, he already collected most of the data, right? His final data collection was, you know, seeing how the power of deos worked, but also being like, aha, the prince thing is working. Yeah, finally got it right. So he, you know, he pulled it out big time. He's like, yeah, that's what princes do. You know, he did one prince before and he's like, did it work? Prince, prince, prince. It totally worked. Yeah, prince, prince, prince, prince. Prince, prince, prince. It's working. I'll just keep with this.