Episode 3, part 1:
KY: Okay, next up is episode 3!
YK: Right!
KY: We’ll pretend we’re in your home theater as we kick back and present this commentary.
YK: Sounds good!
YH: Yeah!
YK: It’s already starting.
KY: Yep! Where’s this?
YK: Yes?
KY: Where’s this?
YH: This is my house. [the underground room]
KY: Your house?
YK: It’s Nezumi’s house, isn’t it?
KY: So this is your house, Hosoya?
YH: Right, exactly.
YK: So it’s Hosoya’s house.
KY: It looks like some vintage place.
YH: It looks vintage?!
YK: I thought this place-- this library-- in the beginning of episode 3 is super pretty.
KY: Yeah!
YH: Yeah, it’s nice.
KY: I thought so, too.
YH: It kinda looks like it belongs in a movie.
KY: The covers on the books are all really cool!
YK: It’s nice how they have this antique look. Same for this piano. Later Nezumi will play the piano a bit with one hand.
YH: He has sheet music on the wall!
KY: Oh, wow!
YH: He’s an artist!
KY: He’s such an artist!
YK: He is an actor.
KY: Yep.
YK: You can see Nezumi’s groin. [after the shot of Nezumi shirtless]
KY: Eh? His groin?
YK: His groin is exposed.
YH: Lift up your pants!
YK: Right, right. You can see the part of the lines for his groin.
KY: Oh, really?
YK: Yeah. You can’t now that he’s sitting.
YH: But looking at him, he’s dressed pretty laid back.
KY: Hey, isn’t something on Sion? [there is a mouse on his shoulder in the shot]
YK: He’s bony. He is Nezumi after all.
[flashback to Karan reading to young Sion]
KY and YH: How cute!
KY: Mama!
YK: Those cherry blossoms are pretty.
KY: Huh?! That’s in English! [the book pages shown]
YH: Oh, my, my!
KY: Doesn’t this take place in Japan? I guess this isn’t Japan, is it? But that was English, wasn’t it?
[flashback ends]
YH: [to Nezumi] Lift up your pants!
YK: Yeah. The petals were--
KY: What about his pants?
YH: They’re slipping down.
KY: Yeah, you’re right! You’re right!
YK: In the closing credits, you see some cherry blossoms.
YH: Yeah, you do!
YK: It was at the very end.
KY: Yeah, they were blooming. [shot of Nezumi’s back] Oh, his back!
YK: Keloid scars!
KY: Keloid scars!
YH: There are his keloid scars.
YK: There they are… It’s a sexy shot.
KY: Isn’t there something behind those scars? Yeah. We’ll get to learn about it bit by bit.
YK: Yeah… Here’s the opening.
KY: Yep! Here’s the opening credits again!
YH: It’s the opening credits.
KY: Ta-da!
YK: What is it?
YH: I like how it feels like we’re passing through the clouds.
KY: Yeah!
YH: It’s like it’s saying the show is about to start.
KY: Doesn’t it?
YH: I always sat by the TV waiting for this.
KY: It’s amazing how it feels like we’re soaring through the sky
YH: Doesn’t it?
KY: when you watch this opening.
YK: We saw this each and every week, didn’t we?
KY: Yep. Well, I have a little something to share.
YK: Uh-huh, okay.
KY: The West District was based off a town called Jerez la Fronter, located in Andalusia in southern Spain.
YK: That is definitely trivia on the show
KY: Yep. Isn’t the west District the place they escaped to?
YH: It’s where Nezumi and the others live.
YK: Right. That’s where Nezumi lives.
KY: It’s where Nezumi and Inukashi live.
YK: Right, right.
KY: It was modeled after a city in Andalusia in southern Spain. By the way!
YH: Yeah?
KY: By the way, where was the city part of Chronos?
YH: You mean where the upscale housing is?
KY: Right. The part of the city where the wealthy in No. 6 live was inspired by ‘Anne of Green Gables!’ ‘Anne of Green Gables!’ It was inspired by the setting there in Prince Edward Island off the east coast of Canada.
YK: I’m not surprised that they put so much thought into their motifs.
KY: Yeah! The motifs are amazing.
YK: Well, back in the episode 1 commentary…
KY: Yeah?
YK: I mentioned how the main city for No. 6 was based off Amsterdam.
KY: Yeah, uh-huh.
YK: We discussed how it was used for its motif.
KY: Is that right?
YK: So the West District and Chronos used similar themes.
YH: Yeah!
KY: I’m not surprised they went to such lengths since the towns were so pretty.
YK: Yeah.
KY: And now… [credits end, changes to scene of Sion in the bath] Ah! He submerged!
YH: He submerged?!
YK: He-- he didn’t submerge!
KY: Submerge!
YK: He was diving.
KY: Diving?
YH: Uh-oh! There’s an ominous shadow! [the spot on Shion’s neck]
YK: No one’s noticed it.
YH: Isn’t this the same thing that Yamase had on him?
KY: It’s already evolved a lot.
YK: There aren’t any vaccines. It’s really evolved.
KY: It’s evolved, hasn’t it? Here you can see Nezumi’s rough house clothes. They’re rough looking. Yeah. That’s his look for when he’s home.
YH: That’s what he wears around the house.
KY: Yep!
YK: It’ll happen soon now.
YH: He only has hardcover books in this room. They’re hardbacks! Hardbacks!
KY: They’re hardbacks.
YH: Yeah. He seems to store a bunch of them.
YK: They look kinda like antiques.
KY: Yeah.
YK: He’s so classy!
KY: I bet there’s a bunch of treasure hidden in there!
YK: I wonder if anyone other than those rats have gone to Nezumi’s house before.
KY: No, I don’t think so.
YH: Probably not!
YK: I can’t see him bringing anyone in.
KY: I’m pretty sure Sion is the first he’s brought home with him.
YK: You mean aside from those rats-- the animals, I mean.
KY: Ah, aside from those little guys!
YK: But no people.
YH: It’s because he’s an actor.
YK: Right.
KY: Paparazzi would come if people found out where he lived.
YK: Probably! He can’t let his guard down! [shot of the mouse on Sion’s shoulder] He’s cute!
KY: My!
YK: The rats are so cute!
KY: The rats really are adorable!
YH: They’re cute!
YK: Squeak!
KY: Sque-squeak!
YH: Isn’t the robot rat kinda-- kinda round?
KY: That’s a robot rat?
YK: Yeah, yeah. His eyes dilated and went “clink, clink.”
KY: They made a noise, didn’t they?
[“I’ve spent years snooping around with these,”]
YH: What for?
[“looking for No. 6’s Achilles’ heel.”]
KY: Using what? For the Achilles’ heel!
YH: Wow! The way he said that was awesome! He said it a tad dramatically.
YK: He sure did.
KY: He was dramatic!
YH: Is Sion wearing sheans-- er, jeans?
YK: What’s “sheans?”
YH: Oops! I got tongue-tied.
KY: Sheans!
YK: Right. He probably borrowed some of Nezumi’s clothes.
YH: Right.
KY: Good catch.
[spots appear on Sion’s hands]
YH: Oh, no! It’s spreading!
KY: What is that?!
[“Wh… What is this?”]
YH: What the heck?!
YK: This is a bit different than with Yamase, isn’t it? It is different.
KY: The symptoms are different, aren’t they?
YK: That’s probably why they noticed it. But it only appeared on his neck…
KY: Right!
YH: It probably spread quicker. He’s in trouble! This is bad!
KY: Slowly-- Oh, that’s scary!
YH: The way he’s suffering is completely different.
YK: Well, his screaming right here…
YK: I got it in one try!
YH: Right, right. It was really tough. You got it after one take.
YK: I got it in one take.
KY: Yay, Kaji!
YK: The lip syncing here is amazing. Incredible!
KY: He looks like he’s really suffering.
YH: Run in circles, rat!
KY: Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack!
YK: The rat’s panicking.
KY: It’s a panicking rat!
YH: That, there! That emergency kit!
KY: The emergency kit?
YH: The emergency kit!
YK: It’s familiar?
YH: Right!
KY: Yep!
YK: Uh-huh.
YH: It’s like the one from four years ago.
YK: Isn’t it?
KY: The imagery is amazing.
YK: Yeah! He’s sinking… [Sion is in the weird red abyss of pain]
KY: Sinking…
YK: And then he gets stung by a bee!
KY:The pictures depicting what he’s going through are amazing!
YH: Yikes!
YK: It pulls at your senses.
KY: You can tell it’s eating away at him. Eek!
YH: His blood vessels are popping up! Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes! Yikes!
KY: The curse is spreading…!