Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka Episode 4 Discussion

I'm betting on the pink haired girl. She has a pretty design for a character who maintains a pretty low profile. The boss lady seems strict when it comes to work related stuff but she seems pretty dense when it comes to other things. Plus if she already knew their marriage was fake she'd probably confront or punish them somehow instead of sending prank calls. That's just my thoughts tho.

Whoever knows that Takuya and Rika are faking their marriage is definitely someone from work. And they're the one who's leaking all the information. Tho I gotta wonder how they got the information that Takuya was going back to his hometown... Would be creepy if they hacked into their phones or something... How can you hate 2 normal people so much?

Anyway, it's cool to see Rika's backstory. It sucks that she didn't grow up with a father and her mother was distant. But maps kept her company. It seems like she has been obsessed with them since she was a kid and has never grown out of them. That's pretty cute. Don't think I've seen a character who's into maps this much so that kinda makes her unique.

Takuya's grandma works as a deliveryman and a farmer? That is one hardworking granny. Considering Takuya is in his 20s and he has older sisters (one of whom looks like she has kids of her own) she's probably pretty old too (unless she got married at a very young age which was common for her gen). Yet she works and also seems mentally healthy. That's wild. Tho I don't get why the grandparents don't live with Takuya's parents.

That cliffhanger was crazy. Can't wait for the next episode.

No where did they say anything about the heat until the end, but I guess all the melons being ripe was a clue.
Like everyone else, the Anon. caller has to be someone from the Agency who wants them to actually go through with the marriage. My money is on the Boss, for now.

I don't see how that "spy" or meddler framed as someone trying to blackmail or have leverage over the two of them (the one who has so far made two threatening phone calls) could possibly have known the truth of their secret plan and arrangement, going just based off all the information we have seen up to now onscreen. Not unless he or she installed some kind of tap on their landline or cellphones (just any electronic device over which they discussed it) or listening devices in their homes.

Now it's gotten to the point where this person is compelling them to take actions they would not otherwise be taking if they didn't feel like they were being monitored. It's obvious that the plan has already gone awry and run out of their control. But even before their secret being compromised in some way and this harasser, even before any of the family involvement complication, I truthfully already felt that that was the case the moment they went public with the fake marriage intentions to the rest of the office crowd and said office crowd immediately didn't react as they seemed to have envisioned in their mind going into it that they would (which is just to take no interest and barely acknowledge it, owing to their status as quiet and mild-mannered asocial introverts at work and effective non-entities, leaving it as something easily naturally forgotten or ignored within days or weeks after the announcement).

But the individual making the anonymous scary phone calls adds another layer to it. It's strange in a way because the show for the most part has and continues to have a very minimal stakes and calm and "chillax" everyday life atmosphere, but then that one element is like a high stakes thriller subplot just left nesting on ice in the background.

This may be wrong, but for whatever reason I do have a feeling that although it's being framed as ultra-serious, I'm probably blowing it out of proportion here and it's probably a mistake to take it literally at face value. Since this is mostly a romcom and not a thriller or something it's probably more likely going to be something silly and dopey or a case of misunderstood noble intentions like said person really just wants to help along their relationship but has to resort to masking their voice and operating in the shadows because he or she is just as shy as them.