Sanda Ep. 3: Answers leading to even more questions

Recently, things keep falling down around Sanda. The kids speculate that this phenomenon occurs whenever a kid lies near him. Amaya further theorizes that this is how Santa can tell the difference between nice and naughty children. Essentially, whenever Santa nears a naughty child, things will magically fall to the ground or break. Um, sure, I guess that’s one way to avoid just giving Santa omnipotence about everyone’s behavior. Just earlier, Sanda had an incident with a fellow classmate. He plucked a stray strand of hair from her head, but a pencil case started jostling when she said thanks. It then completely fell to the ground when she called him sweet. I can only assume that she secretly despises him. To be fair, even if someone has something in their hair, I wouldn’t get into their personal space and pluck it myself. I dunno if I’d be grossed out if anyone does that to me, but I would definitely find it weird.

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My Awkward Senpai Ep. 3: Girlfailure

Kannawa and Kamegawa are asked to plan an after work drinking party. Someone in the office is getting married, so everyone wants to celebrate. Drinking is… not my thing. If you wanna do an after work dinner with the team, I’m all for it. I’m not the most social person, but bribe me with some good food and even I can force myself to hold a conversation. Getting drunk and feeling drunk, however, is not my jam. I actually lucked out on this front. A lot of Asians get really flushed after drinking alcohol. It’s a genetic thing. During my freshman year in college, my friend wanted to go out with a bang on everyone’s last day in the dorms. Well, one can of beer was enough to have him writhing in misery. I don’t have that problem. I can drink as much as I want. I just never want to be “under the influence.” But enough about that.

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Dusk Beyond the End of the World Ep. 3: Are we starting to jump the shark?

Honestly, I am kind of disappointed in this week’s episode. When we last left off, Amoru had betrayed Akira and Yugure, but she was the only one to get captured by Marlum, the flamboyant version of Caniss. They look exactly alike because they’re cousins, okay? Don’t you look exactly like your cousin as well? I sure d-… no wait, I don’t. Not one bit. But I digress. Anyways, Akira naturally wanted to save Amoru, but this flied against Yugure’s “operating principles,” so she refused to help. As a result, Akira accused her of being a heartless android.

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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Ep. 2: Rushing through this second life

When we last left off, I wanted to see more of Konoha’s — that is, the real Konoha and not the fictional, idealized version of herself — reaction to her own writing. Does the adult Konoha still like what the teen Konoha had written? And if not, what would she have done differently? Obviously, she’s going to have to change significant portions of her own story in order to prevent her own death as Iana. But what else would she have changed?

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