Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Ultra Romantic Episode 5 Discussion

animejas said:
The Maki segment in the final third stuck out like a sore thumb and wasn't that great, but the rest of the episode in the Rap arc was good, and the ending was great here, looked fantastic in particular and really the whole rap portion was well-directed in this episode (including the ending too with how that was animated so well). It was nice seeing a switchup with the Miyuki-Chika segments with not only having Miyuki train Chika to train him, but then having the actual rap segments involve Hayasaka and Kaguya like that to help Hayasaka out was cool too.

It wasn't close to being as fun as the Kongming rap episode which was just awesome from start to finish, especially with the back and forth throughout the majority of the episode and with the flows, but this one was a decent enough counterpart to it. It was a good episode overall with a final third that belonged in a different episode from this to be honest, to prevent it from being close to a great one. Although to be honest, while the rap segments were nice here, they weren't again offering the best that the series has offered up to this point. This whole season to be honest has definitely had the weakest first half among the three so far, something about the series feels a bit hollow currently that hopefully the second half should make up for.