Another great Kana episode. I wish next week wasn’t the last episode, as a manga reader there is so much to happen!
Might be time to try out the manga for me!
Dunno what the etiquette is for posting episode threads here, but didn’t see anyone else post it so I went ahead and did.
Can’t believe the season is almost over already…!
Today’s MVP: Aqua’s tracksuit, which evidently makes a beanpole like Aqua look believable as a professional bodybuilder. In other Pieyon-related news, Takeo Ootsuka is the second VA to perfectly imitate another character’s performance in this show; I certainly wouldn’t have suspected he wasn’t Pieyon from the voice alone…!
Kana facing her previously failed music career made her feel so much older than a character who’s just started high school. She’s had 3 careers, maybe more, before embarking on B Komachi. So each of those careers only lasted 2-4 years?
Kana is the cutest. Her trying to get over Aqua, and then falling for disguised Aqua is just so adorable.
They also stretched the two or three chapters this episode covered really well. Can’t wait for the finale.
This show is so well-made.
Not a huge fan of the implied quasi-incest. Ruby says that her Doctor was her first love. Aqua is that Doctor. Her biological brother is now her first love. And then there’s Aqua implying in previous episodes that Ai, his current body’s biological mother, was his first love. If there were some deeper meaning behind that, I wouldn’t have any criticism of it, but this is a fairly run of the mill high school dramedy focusing on the entertainment industry (if you ignore the magical realist reincarnation elements). So, it just comes across as very peculiar and somewhat unsettling character window dressing.
As much as the Yosuga no Sora fan in me would love it to be otherwise, I’m pretty sure Ruby’s romantic feelings for the doctor will vanish in an instant if she ever learns his current identity.
I’m sure the whole thing of the two of them knowing each other’s identities was avoided so it can be a big story point later, but seriously, how have they gone so long without talking about it? They both know that they were reincarnated, and for years they were each the only person the other could talk to. I know Ruby pretended to be someone older to appear more senior, but how did Aqua at no point mention that he was a doctor, or that he knew Ai previously?
Yes, that element of the show is remarkably contrived. Imagine living with another person for 15 years, with a shared experience that is literally physical evidence of the supernatural. And you don’t…talk about it? To try and determine the nature of what happened to you or if you have some kind of shared quality that maybe explained how or why it happened? Really? I mean, anime fans complain incessantly about how much they hate artificial drama derived from misunderstandings that can be cleared up by a 30 second conversation and this right here is like the atomic bomb equivalent of that.
Yeah, that’s definitely a plot point that I’ve had to file under “Just don’t think about it.” It’s totally unjustifiable logically, so I don’t bother trying.
I’m definitely happy to accept the explanation of “this is what the author wanted to do to make the story happen” as the definitive explanation for it. It’s a work of creative fiction. Some elements just need to exist for the sake of the story actually happening and being entertaining. It’s just annoying because it’s a decent show and that particular element kinda glares at you. I’d imagine it’s one of those things that’ll be significantly less pleasant to deal with on rewatches, since your brain will be screaming “this entire subplot hinges on these two assholes being pathologically incapable of basic human communication” at certain points.
Really liked this episode, and was thinking Pieyon was more muscular but I didn’t get it until MEM-cho mentioned that they have the same stature…
I really hope that either before or after the performance we will get a Aqua+Kana make-up arc. I don’t want this season to end with regrets.
And I want more happy Kana shots
This anime is super underrated and honestly it needs to be fixed. The writing and plot are top tier.
Eh, it’s one of the most popular anime of the season and is almost universally acclaimed, I wouldn’t call that “underrated.” Wouldn’t mind it being AoT-level popular so I could talk about it with normie non-anime-fan friends, I suppose, but that’s a big ask for a (supposed) idol series.
This is what I mean by under rated. I feel like there are lots of anime that should be just as recognizable as dragon ball and People dont know it exists.
