Does anyone else like Yamamoto?

RebelPanda said:
I wouldn’t say that I dislike Yamamoto. I expected her anxiety over talking with her classmates to be resolved within an episode or two of her being introduced, like how the majority of conflict in the show is treated.

The fact that she has been in every episode since being introduced and still acts just as miserable as the first is what makes me contemplate why she exists. Are the writers just saving her conflict for the last episode? Do they expect it to be satisfying to see her anxiety resolved?

A character supporting anxiety could be done very well, but here it feels like the show wants us to ridicule her in the way that the main character and his friends do. I wish she was given a bit more of a personal view so she isn’t just some obnoxious witch constantly brooding in the corner.

Kagami said:

I don't even think this show needed to be 26 episodes and I feel like a lot of this content been extremely forced and believe this show is a perfect example of a show going on a season too long. The second cour hasn't really accomplished anything and every episode we see his stupid roommates drinking sake in an annoying fashion and eating food nonstop while the same things happen at his school almost every episode. I like Yamamoto, but her character is probably being excessively drawn out because of bad writing and this show has a lot of it.

RebelPanda said:


I agree the show's length has far exceeded the amount of decent content that it had to offer. There are definitely some good bits like its lighthearted morals, but even those have become more and more convoluted in the recent episodes. So many other shows could have flourished with 26 episodes... yet all this show does is flounder. Not to say I hate it or anything, just that it hasn't proven to be anything greater than disposable entertainment.
Yamamoto is a good example of how this show fails, thanks for putting that into perspective.

wolfwing said:
well I think this episode shows that my early guesses about her were right, that her and the student and teacher are the same person or something like that.

Kagami said:


Same person?

What do you mean?

wolfwing said:


well my theory is that the girl in glasses and the one overly kind teacher are the same person, like she always seems to show up when she's being botherd, in this episode she seemed to appear out of nowhere behind them, like she's a guardian, a magical split personality or something :> There definetly feels a connection between the two.

CG said:
I, for one, agree his show should've been shorter: it would have definitely only benefited from being tighter packed, better paced and rid of all the filler-like stuff that serves absolutely no purpose unless you count making your viewers bored out of their mind or hungry as one.

As to Yamamoto, I don't exactly hate her, and when she was first introduced, I even found her potentially interesting and maybe capable of livening things up because there's no small number of people who do struggle trying to fit in, but by now she's so over the top with her lack of reason and self-pity that I can't really relate to her anymore. If anything, I'm more inclined to regard her as someone who's in need of psychiatric help, and pronto.

I might buy that Yamamoto and Aoki have some sort of "karmic connection" like apparently Chiaki and Inaba do, but I doubt the two are blood related or related in any way beyond that... I'm more inclined to believe that Aoki simply has a nose for sniffing out troubled teens and 'helping' them - because she thrives on 'helping' such people, if you can call glossing over or even exacerbating their problems in the long run help.

TriZen said:
I don't think the show should've been shorter at least for me. I enjoy its episodic nature while sometimes try to advance its main plot. Those fillers are what makes me keep watching rather than the main plot. Yes the "fillers" mostly doesn't have any relation with the main story but I think that's perfectly fine.

CG said:
Well, that's you, and we all know tastes differ. I quite like shows with episodic nature, but not the way it's done in this show, there's too much pointless stuff, including what people mentioned above about food, drinking (is this a cooking show? it looks to me it has trouble deciding), etc. From this season, shows like Kekkai Sensen&Beyond and Kino no Tabi pull off episodic nature much better.

Kagami said:


I don't even think this show needed to be 26 episodes and I feel like a lot of this content been extremely forced and believe this show is a perfect example of a show going on a season too long. The second cour hasn't really accomplished anything and every episode we see his stupid roommates drinking sake in an annoying fashion and eating food nonstop while the same things happen at his school almost every episode. I like Yamamoto, but her character is probably being excessively drawn out because of bad writing and this show has a a lot of it.