
Wow, that’s messed up.
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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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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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Ame’s parents bickered a lot. The mother seemingly retaliated by trashing one of the kid’s stuffed doll. Its sad, dark eyes looked up at her while the cold, bright “eyes” of the car waited to ferry Ame away. The doll would then take on a Rosebud-like significance the child. Even years later, we would see her use the doll as an online avatar. Maybe this is why reincarnation and transformation became so important to Ame. It would be too cruel to think that her doll simply died and left her forever. If it could reincarnate, on the other hand, then it is still out there somewhere, living a new, better life. Meanwhile, Ame’s father takes her to live with her grandmother. She seemed like a nice, gentle enough woman.
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Unfortunately, this means a lot of exposition. Some exposition is necessary to grease the wheels and get the story going. But I think this show could’ve done a better job at pulling back the curtains. Ah well. So what are we learning in this week’s episode?
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