Tag: romance
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Last time, Rintarou and Kaoruko scheduled a study date for Saturday in the hopes of helping Rintarou pass his midterm exams. Saturday morning, Rintarou wakes up early and takes the train. People on the train are scared of him two separate times in this episode, and it really shows how tiring it must be for…
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This week, it’s time to prepare for that school anime staple, the cultural festival. Gojo and Marin’s class decides to do “Russian Roulette Takoyaki” and err, I have some concerns. I’ve had takoyaki before and liked it, but would I really want to eat takoyaki when some percentage of the fish balls have a giant…
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Last time, Sakuta had just met up with the mysterious Touko Kirishima, the mysterious singer in a Santa suit. Touko reveals that she’s been giving out Puberty Syndrome as “presents,” so Sakuta naturally asks her to cut it out with that nonsense. Touko agrees, because she’s already done with it: she’s gifted Puberty Syndrome to…
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Last time, Rintarou and Kaoruko decided they weren’t going to let the beef between their two high schools interfere in their friendship, but this episode shows that becoming close may be more difficult than they thought. Chidori Public High School. Rintarou and Usami are excited for the upcoming Sports Festival, except there’s a problem: the…
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Last time, Amane promised to show Gojo and Marin some boobs, and in this episode, he delivers. He takes them to a huge cosplay specialty store with a dizzying array of supplies, including fake plastic boobs. Amane puts the plastic boobs on Gojo, so of course Marin has to squeeze them, then Gojo reacts like…
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This is the conclusion of Uzuki’s arc. We start at a Sweet Bullet concert, pre-show: the girls get some snacks to eat. I’d make a bad joke about idols not eating real food, but I don’t think Japanese celebrities have the same problems with starving themselves to death that we have in the US– I…
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This episode deals a lot with academic snobbery, and I’m actually really sensitive to that. I went to a really highly-ranked high school where a lot of the kids were overachievers who were planning to go on to Ivy League and Tier-1 schools. A lot of these kids thought they were destined to be the…
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We return to the Halloween Karaoke party. Gojo has just spit out his drink after Nowa asks if he and Marin are dating, and unlike most instances of this trope, he actually did get soda all over himself. Gojo loudly denies that he and Marin are dating, and Marin pulls him out over to the…
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Last time, Idol Uzuki managed to read the room and Idol Nodoka was shocked, and this has somehow become Sakuta’s problem. We start off at college, and Mai is on campus for once. She’s rocking some glasses and an atypical (for her) hairstyle, and I think she’s trying to camouflage a little. Everybody at Yokohama…
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It’s time to check out HIDIVE’s sole new show this season, Bad Girl. High schooler Yuu has a massive crush on her upperclassmen Atori, but can’t seem to get the older girl’s attention. She eventually decides that the problem is Atori’s role as the school’s Public Decency Officer: Good girls who follow the rules must…
