Kanojo, Okarishimasu Episode 9 Discussion

zcv45 said:
Ruka need to just stop. She is right on what they need to do but wrong in how she is trying to get it done. To stop the facade and I guess introduce the "real girlfriend" they can easily do it. The solution is pretty simple.

1) Mizuhara gets less and less involved. Give this phase about a month. This makes it less weird for when they break up.

2) Tell their grandmas they broke up. Without step 1, this would be weird if a lovey dovey couple suddenly breaks up.

3) Give a couple months at least before introducing Ruka. or... not if Kazuya don' like her

Problem here is that Ruka and Kazuya are too dumb and keeps burning each other's bridges by lying. Instead of falling back on a more reasonable lie, they go for the most outrageous stuff.
The "problem" of upsetting grandma is a non-issue. Mizuhara and Kazuya made it a bigger problem than it needed to be. He was alone before and while disappointed, she was fine as is without Mizuhara. Yes breaking the bad news would hurt her, but only temporarily.
The longer the lie goes on the more fond grandma is of Mizuhara and the greater the pain when it falls through.

The ultimate problem here is that do Kazuya really want to 'break up with Mizuhara' and do Mizuhara want to hand him over to Ruka. but even then it could be solved.
They break up, and if the two truly like each other, they can get back together. Officially. It isn't unheard of for couples to break up and get back together anyways. No one would be suspicious nor upset that it happened. Maybe the grandparents are sad for a little while but hardly world ending. By their age, they experienced far sadder things in life.

Additionally Mizuhara doesn't have to be cut completely from grandma's life. They can still be 'friends' and visit. Grandma might even be more accepting since it wasn't those dramatic horrible break ups but a mutual agreement to end Mizuhara and Kazuya's relationship.

But Mizuhara and Kazuya lack any backbone and decisiveness. While Ruka and Kazuya have the IQ in the single digits.