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This episode felt like the perfect blend of wholesomeness, gay denial, and surprisingly intense emotional foreplay. Ini mungkin episode favorit saya dari acara sejauh ini. The way that it was able to balance the wacky leaps in logic with surprisingly grounded conversations kept me glued to my seat up until the very end when Mai had to come and screw everything up! I’m not kidding when I said I paused the episode and nearly threw something in my room because her presence is going to get in the way of what feels like the real ship of the show. Mengapa semuanya perlu ditelusuri kembali ke wanita ini? At least with Satsuki, it was dealing with a situation that revolved around Mai, but here, this is a situation that is completely isolated from the rest of the friend group.
Granted, there is a theme amongst all of our main cast: they’re all putting up a front that they need to appear stronger than they actually are. Mai perlu tampil sempurna, Satsuki perlu tampak dewasa, dan Ajisai harus menjadi kakak perempuan terbaik yang pernah ada untuk semua orang. I think the show does a good job of establishing that none of these girls have really had an opportunity to let their hair down and be spoiled by somebody else because they’re usually the ones who need to do the spoiling. You could argue that Satsuki’s relationship with Mai ruins this a little bit, and the conversations in this episode retroactively make me hate the last arc more, but I see what the show is going for when it comes to Renako’s relationship with all of these girls. Despite being the most anxious and neurotic, she can present opportunities for these girls to get spoiled in a way that they didn’t think was originally possible, which in turn makes the romantic chemistry that much more believable.
Speaking of believability, the length that Renako will go Dengan tegas menyangkal bahwa dia tidak suka gadis-gadis itu mengejutkan. Gadis ini begitu jauh di dalam lemari, saya ingin dia mendapatkan tanda tangan Aslan untuk saya, karena dia menempati bidang keberadaan yang terpisah. Dia akan melempar kata cinta dengan hasrat seperti itu tentang ajisai dan menarik perhatian terus-menerus pada betapa diinginkannya dia. Dia bahkan secara eksplisit mengatakan pada satu titik dalam episode bahwa dia dihidupkan dengan dekat dengannya. Yang lucu adalah bahwa Rantungo adalah semacam menggali lubangnya sendiri dengan terus mengaburkan garis antara persahabatan dan hubungan. Her claiming it’s up to the people to lay out if they’re friends or lovers was good, but all she’s doing is kicking the football down the road by not addressing her actions, which are VERY romantically charged. Saya tidak menyalahkan Ajisai karena berpikir bahwa Rantungo setidaknya sedikit tertarik pada keintiman romantis yang santai. Both of these characters take that line and constantly skip rope with it throughout this entire episode, from all of the casual physical contact, the sibling role-play, and that entire bath scene. No, Renako, touching somebody on the chest is not the same as touching them on the shoulder, and if you really believe that, you wouldn’t be as excited as you are.
When it comes to Ajisai, I do like how her character is presented. She wants to be spoiled after spending so much time taking care of kids all day, and as an oldest sibling who now works in education…I can relate. I want the arc to go a bit deeper into how Renako might feel about Ajisai as she starts letting that façade break down, because in a lot of ways, Renako equates that front she puts on as attractive. Apa yang terjadi ketika Reniso yang dilihat sebagai yang lebih dewasa dan mampu keluar dari keduanya dari perspektif Ajisai? Ada contoh dalam episode ini di mana saya pikir ciuman akan datang, tetapi itu tidak pernah terjadi. Terlepas dari semua percakapan seksual, nada dan bahkan panggilan langsung, episode ini terasa sangat terkendali. Tampaknya menunggu momen besar muncul. Given how things are playing out, this is probably the final arc of this season, but now that Mai is here, I couldn’t tell you what direction this was going.
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