An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess Ep. 4: Bertia playing matchmaker

Guess we’re doing stories for the capture targets already. But there’s a good reason for this! To avoid Heronia falling for anyone but the prince, Bertia needs to eliminate Cecil’s competition. In other words, she needs to start playing matchmaker. The funniest part, however, is that she’s the biggest reason why Heronia and Cecil won’t get together. On the other hand, what will Cecil do? Apparently, she’s been trying to fix him up with the heroine for a year now. Surely, he must be tired of this by now. He clearly has no desire to even get to know Heronia. I would personally like to see him take a stronger stance. I would like to see him make it very, very clear to Bertia that he will not entertain the thought of getting to know Heronia. Yeah, yeah, it might be amusing to watch Bertia screw around and fail. But I’m a “cut to the chase” kinda guy, so I want to see the prince be more active than passive.

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The Ramparts of Ice Ep. 4: Imprisoned by the past

We pick up where we left off last week, so Miki confronts Minato directly and asks him what he thinks of Koyuki. At first, he says he pities Koyuki, which is partly true. Miki proceeds to call him “sanctimonious,” so he quickly course corrects and says he’s interested in Koyuki for some other reason. It’s totally not love, though! Hmm. Well, I do agree that the pity thing doesn’t explain the whole story. After all, Koyuki is happy with Miki and Giraffe Guy, so she isn’t alone all the time. If Minato merely pitied her, then he could probably find sadder, more pathetic targets lurking around the school. So why does he insist on knowing whether or not Koyuki is dating Giraffe Guy? Why does he want to personally worm his way in when Koyuki already has friends? Not only that, she has been relatively indifferent to Minato’s attempts to close the distance between them. It’s not love, he says. But he’s being real fishy.

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Everything Else: Spring 2026, Week 3

Wow, that’s messed up.

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I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Ep. 3: Yuu, the interloper

Again with the peanut gallery caring way too much about Yuu simply greeting Maki. Oh yeah, sure, kids totally react this way to two people potentially being friends. I’m sorry, but I don’t find this scenario remotely realistic. This is anime’s form of humble-bragging. “Ugh, now everyone thinks I must have done something to her! Being friends with the hottest girl in class is just so hard!” But fine, we’re in bizarro world where kids can’t even have lunch in peace. Taira in You and I Are Polar Opposites complained about school having a social hierarchy. This show takes that concept and pushes it to the extreme. As a result, Maki has to take the two hottest girls in class somewhere quiet — a place where they can eat their immaculate bento boxes in peace. See, you gotta hang out with the losers from time to time, ’cause they would totally know all the best lunch spots! On the other hand, if their classmates were that surprised to see Yuu and Maki simply inteact, one of them probably would’ve tailed the group there. But shh, let’s just brush that aside for now!

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Witch Hat Atelier Ep. 4: Qifrey sucks

Coco wants to redo the seal on the shoes Agott had lent her, but she still can’t draw steady lines. As we saw last week, give her tools similar to what you would find in dressmaker’s shop and she excels. Give her standard pens and she doesn’t excel. Only now does Qifrey finally decide to take Coco shopping. He’ll finally let her pick out her own writing instrument, which feels like what he should’ve done in the first place. I dunno about this guy, man. Even if I assume his intentions are good, he seems like a sloppy instructor in general. He does not strike me as an adult who has it together. If it weren’t for his looks (I’m told he resembles a certain beloved JJK character) and his VA, would viewers be so tolerant of his foibles?

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