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| Aika is kinda scary when she's angry... I know this anime has a lot of social elements but this one felt like it was way too talkative. On the other hand, Wataru seems like a guy that isn't afraid to speak his mind. He and his older sister Wataru also seems to have a somewhat complex relationship. |
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| A bit more focus on the sister brother relationship which got a bit out of hand at the hand. Remember kids don't beat up your little brother with a baseball bat. Anyway the main being totally oblivious of Aika's feelings is a bit annoying so hopefully he will realise them soon. |
| How do you deal with your life if your sister is a tsundere and your crush is also a tsundere? |
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| No Rin this episode, shame. Kei parts were nice but still not feeling it between him and Aika. Every time she sees him or talk to him it's always insults or awkward. Must say that the problems the mc is dealing with lack good build-up to make me feel interested in them and doesn't help that the conversations are not something engaging to me. |
| well we can call this onee chan arc though it is only this episode |
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| OK episode with an interesting brother and sister dynamic going on |
| There you have it. You have a sister who straight up bullies you along with your mother (cut from the anime). They are indeed the reason for his none-existant confidence. Last scene just reinforced that he prety much internalized the abuse and doesn't want the status quo to change since he has already given up. Aika cements her position as the worst female lead as well adding physical abuse to the list. Also imagine forcefully interfering with family business just because your crush seem sad that she might be the reason of his brothers mental decline (she is right). Not becuase you are worried about the brother himself but because you just don't want the girl to be sad. What a bunch of selfish assholes. |
| ugh, I'm torn on this show. Wataru seems to be a victim of his environment; dude is abused about his feelings/actions by his sister. so much so that its impacted his outlook. He just wants to move away form these feelings even though he acknowledges that they are still there. Then you have Aika is for all intents and purposes wanted nothing to do with Wataru until she stopped getting attention from him. So, we have a sad, dejected male lead and an attention seeking female lead. Both are assholes in their own right. He was WAY to clingy and she now misses being the center of his world. This sounds like a terrible show on paper... but why can't I put it down? are these characters written too well? Am I looking too much into this? I don't know... but I know I'm going to keep watching to find out. |
| Aika wants him back. She's clearly jealous. It is what it is, I thought he would notice but Wataru still thinks that's not it. Can't blame him though. She's been pushing him away. |
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| Losing half the context during times like this is certainly challenging to say the least. It becomes even more difficult when there are many things that are skipped in the narrative. Hopefully, these omissions are more of a rearrangement rather than outright cuts, and they will prove to be pivotal later on in the story. But let's shift our focus from the missing parts to what was actually shown this time. We got a glimpse of Wataru's outlook on himself. From his expressions, it's evident that he doesn't harbor strong regrets, but that doesn't mean he seeks pity from others. He made a conscious choice to follow this path, and it's entirely his decision, no one else's. |
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| Cutting out the visit to Aika's house and the scene in the student council room makes no sense. These are the parts that explain why Aika is unstable and why Kaede is depressed. Wataru has their sibling dynamic in question. And for me, their relationship is something quite normal, but at the moment Wataru has a lot of internal conflicts, so this is a problem. gtetrakai said: Yes, both are problematic. But that's the point, the development of each one will be shown.ugh, I'm torn on this show. Wataru seems to be a victim of his environment; dude is abused about his feelings/actions by his sister. so much so that its impacted his outlook. He just wants to move away form these feelings even though he acknowledges that they are still there. Then you have Aika is for all intents and purposes wanted nothing to do with Wataru until she stopped getting attention from him. So, we have a sad, dejected male lead and an attention seeking female lead. Both are assholes in their own right. He was WAY to clingy and she now misses being the center of his world. This sounds like a terrible show on paper... but why can't I put it down? are these characters written too well? Am I looking too much into this? I don't know... but I know I'm going to keep watching to find out. |
MaouHeroJul 17, 2023 1:15 PM
MaouHero said: Wataru has their sibling dynamic in question. And for me, their relationship is something quite normal Is it really? Then why the dude has absolutely no confidence in himself whatsoever? Is it self inflicted? Did all these issues of his magicly appear out of nowhere? Why did he ask her to name at least a couple good things about him than? |
Raafalga said: Because he thinks he's an ordinary guy. Wataru has had self-image problems since forever, if the anime doesn't cut it, he'll talk about it in the next episode. It's nobody's fault.MaouHero said: Wataru has their sibling dynamic in question. And for me, their relationship is something quite normal Is it really? Then why the dude has absolutely no confidence in himself whatsoever? Is it self inflicted? Did all these issues of his magicly appear out of nowhere? Why did he ask her to name at least a couple good things about him than? Part of it comes from the shock of "waking up", before the ball incident he was living in the "perfect world", reality hit him hard. |
| Sister focus this time which was sort of interesting. When do we get focus on the main couple? |
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| So bro’s sister and the girl he like are both tsunderes, no wonder his life so stressful. He can’t get a break at home or school lmao. As soon as I go praising this show last week, they start skipping content and losing me with the pacing again. It feels like so much backstory was cut out of this episode that would have contextualised Wataru’s home situation. It’s clear he’s a victim of emotional abuse and that’s why he has such low self esteem. Even at the end, after that heart to heart, he’s comfortable keeping things as they are because of how he’s given up. Sad To make things worse, Aika comes and starts physically abusing him. Like damn bro just can’t catch a break. I feel like this story has some potential with the complexities of the characters, but the adaptation is squandering any of that. |
Marinate1016Jul 17, 2023 2:23 PM
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| For someone supposedly so perceptive, he's actually pretty damn stupid. This shit makes no sense. The "banter" is so painfully awkward. That 2 layered acting is cringe inducing trash. This is trying to imitate oregairu's subtle portray of relationships and bunny girl senpai's character dialogues and failing miserably. |
| Aika got that Hulk strength to be pulling him out of the classroom like that. Jesus this show gets worse every week. Cliche's are fine but my goodness this is cliche to an extreme. The Sibling issues seemed to come from out of nowhere. Very weird. =/ Lack of Rin was unfortunate as well. |
SoraSenpaiJul 17, 2023 4:21 PM
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| It summer and its hot but at least the school has air cooling. Sajou sees Aika in her summer outfit. Sajou sees some of the photos from when that guy went to Aika's house but Sajou out here sending the pics to the sister of someone lol. Sajou is talking with other girls when Aika comes and drags him away and throws him against the wall, damn she's angry. Sajou now trying to figure out what is going on and gets called to the student council room to talk with one of the councils or something and the council thinks that Sajou changed because Kaede. Sajou goes up to the rooftop to meet with Kaede and Kaede is also worried about his sudden change i guess, but out of nowhere Aika & Kei show up, basically they followed Sajou and Aika doesn't even know why, will this be an 180? will Aika end up following Sajou? Anyhow Kaede turned back to normal. Sajou grabs something from the store before returning home and when home Kaede is as expected on the sofa with her phone and Sajou says sorry for his rudeness and when he says that he is about to eat all of it but the sister takes it from him and this guy ends up taking photos of her, well then. I guess you could say this was an rather complex episode. |
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| damn the camera kept going back to that one girl's legs. some bro-sis bs. the way aika didn't care about him before but wants his attention now is toxic lmao i say cut her off. |
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| The mc is developt himself to become a better person but everyone tell him to be a loser all his entirely life Like real life bros... Like real life..... |
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| lol, how does the show get worse and worse each week? literally, in every aspect, from story to art, it's going down in quality. |
| I enjoy the first two episodes, but this is just awful. It feels like a climax without any build up, and all of these weird talks and decisions are just painful to see. |
 Can we get... Incest ending? :'( |
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| I'll never understand these sibling relationships they show in anime. |
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Roychop said: If you're looking at this from the perspective that his previous behavior was unwanted (calling it "bad behavior"), then you're not paying attention. Do the other students treat him like an actual stalker? No. Do the girls think he's a creep for constantly harassing this poor girl? Again, no. Everyone else could see that while these two had a very unconventional dynamic, that they enjoyed their interactions together, even if that boiled down to him being overly familiar, and her telling him off. So, as dumb as it sounds, these two were "friends" and then due to his sudden revelation, he pretty much started completely ignoring her. Just try to imagine what sort of mindfuck that would be for her, and then add on top of it that she's too dense to understand why she's feeling depressed and frustrated by the situation. Once again Wataru gives a very valid reasoning for why he is keeping his distance, and the other girl he's around just doesn't freaking get it and keeps making it all about Aika and comes off like she wants him to go back to his bad behaviour. Speaking of Aika, she's just annoying, and she had no right to meddle in his talk with his sister, especially when she's always being rude to him herself, and the sister was guilty of it too, but oh sure he's in the wrong. That one guy friend with the two girls (and those 2 girls themselves) are just as unlikable as everybody else and one wonders why Wataru wants anything to do with them or anyone in this show. The sister ironically became more likable by virtue of feeling her attitude was causing issues...all undercut by the end because they have to keep the character the same for the sake of jokes. The so called pretty boy meddling in Wataru's personal business got on my nerves too, and acts clueless when told why he (Wataru) quit going after Aika even though it was plain obvious. Wataru not knowing Aika likes him is justified given how she always acted and how now she's giving mixed signals. It's really her fault, I can't blame him. I think that's it for me. Gave it 3 episodes, but aside from the MC himself, and maybe the two minor girls from last episode, I can't stand any of the characters. It's sad too cause I liked the idea. Who knows, maybe something similar will be made down the road that's written better. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
Kuukan_Kyomu said: That's a really good point. Of course, since he's dense enough to think Aika actually hated his "stalking", he wouldn't see the correlation. If it irritates Wataru that Kaede's sudden change is her way of feeling regret after years of being a bad sister to him. Then the same thing also irritates Aika with Sajou's sudden change because it is his way of regret after years of chasing/stalking her. In my opinion, this episode shows why Aika is mad with Saijou by the analogy of Sajou's situation with Kaede. And the irony is Sajou didn't realize what Aika is currently feeling even though he feels the exact same way with her sister. |
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