Journal with Witch Ep. 9: Missing mom more and more every single day

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After posing as a runaway girl in last week’s episode, it’s back to school for Asa. She tells her clubmates that she got a nasty cold. In her absence, another girl has been chosen to play with the band, so she mutters under her breath, “It’s not fair.” Does Asa need more time off from school or does she need some semblance of normalcy? The latter hasn’t really been working out. The school finally has her speaking to a counselor, but Asa isn’t very receptive to the idea. It’s actually pretty surprising to me that this is the first time we see her receive any sort of mental help, and I’m a little wary of the fact that it’s linked to the school. To be fair, the counselor seems nice enough from what we can see. Even so, and maybe this is just my cynicism speaking, I would always wonder if they have my best interests at heart or the school’s. It’s like with HR, y’know? Are you here for me or for the company?

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You and I Are Polar Opposites Ep. 8: Street lights

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Don’t you hate it when someone randomly hits you up after ghosting you? All you can think is, Oh no, what the hell do they want now? Considering how it’s Azuma’s ex-boyfriend, dude’s probably just looking for a quick hook-up. He knows she won’t throw a fit, so he probably figures why not shoot his shot? The problem with Azuma is that she under-reacts, but this makes her the perfect polar opposite for Taira. Sure, he’s an overthinker, and there are lots of underthinkers among the cast. But his main problem is that he over-reacts to everything and everyone around him. Girls giggling off to the side? They gotta be making fun of him! And Azuma is the direct opposite of that. She refuses to take offense; she just goes with the flow. Sadly, that also makes her a doormat — the chill, easygoing girlfriend that usually just ends up being second, third, or fourth priority. And it’s infuriating because she knows she deserves an apology from her ex, but it doesn’t take her more than a couple seconds to get over it. Girl, c’mon. Where’s your self-respect?

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Frieren Ep. 34: Humanity is a sitting duck

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The episode opens with demons slaughtering an entire village and its inhabitants. A man cowers in hiding. A child probably cries his or her last cry. A woman attaches a message to a carrier pigeon, but it isn’t for help. It’s too late for that. All she can do is seek vengeance for the fallen, hence the episode’s title: “A Demon-Slaying Request.” Seeing all of this, I can’t help but wonder about the nature of this world and where demons even come from. I don’t like how demons are portrayed in this series, but fine, let’s grant that they are absolute evil, no questions asked. Why are they surging in power again? And why now? Why did humans sit idly by and allow this to happen to themselves again? After Himmel defeated the Demon Lord, why wasn’t there a campaign to expand northward and completely annihilate demonkind? They, the demons, were presumably at their weakest point, no? Unless, of course, demons just spawn in like a video game. There’s so little that we know about this world and how it works.

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Sentenced to Be a Hero Ep. 8: Walk and talk, walk and talk

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A bunch of holy knights were supposed to back the gang up in last week’s episode, but Kivia’s crew never showed up. Obviously, someone sabotaged them, but who? It doesn’t take long before they instantly clue in on the adventurer’s guild. They thus hatch a plan to kidnap the guildmaster for questioning. You know how Dotta has sticky fingers? Apparently, he can even steal a grown ass man. It wouldn’t be the most audacious thing he’s tried to steal; just before he was sentenced to be a hero, he tried to abscond with a dragon in order to save the crown prince. So swiping a guildmaster should be easy, right? Not if he’s flanked by an army of child assassins!

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