Episode 10 – Narenare – Cheer for you! –

With all the issues Kanata has brought about along with her antics over the previous couple of episodes, I used to be fairly shocked by how this week’s episode began. Specifically, Anna determined to close down the PomPom channel as a result of she in some way realized that Kanata was proper about how their focus ought to have been on fulfilling each request they got, regardless of how small, and to realize that, they’re going again to working domestically. I mentioned final week that I wasn’t an enormous fan of how every part was resolved as a result of I didn’t get the impression that the present felt Kanata was doing something fallacious apart from pushing herself, and this beautiful a lot confirms that. Whereas I can perceive the sentiment behind why the ladies wished to close issues down, it didn’t really feel like they really had any issues working exterior of the issues Kanata attributable to going behind their backs and pushing herself to exhaustion. This simply makes it really feel like there wasn’t a lot of a lesson for Kanata to start with, and between this and the remainder of what she’s given on this episode, I’m solely getting increasingly more pissed off with how her character has been dealt with.

However earlier than we get to that, we no less than get to see how the opposite women are coping with the slowing down of issues. With the channel shut down, we get a montage of them doing their informal cheer routines and some interactions that spotlight how a lot they’ve grown or gotten nearer to one another. However since quite a lot of the character arcs we’ve gotten with them both fell flat or ended with out the ladies going via any actual change, I didn’t really feel a lot for this sequence of occasions and it didn’t actually land for me in the way in which the present clearly anticipated it to. It didn’t assist that components of this characteristic a number of the worst animation we’ve seen from the present to this point. Although PA works If you happen to end the sequence early, there’s in all probability no hazard of it visibly melting down in the previous couple of episodes. It was distracting sufficient that I am fearful about the place else it may minimize corners.

Returning to Kanata, she tells Megumi that now that she’s left every part with the cheer membership behind her, she’s determined to seek out one thing new for herself. This one thing ostensibly stems from a need to learn to dance, as when she sees a woman from her cheer membership named Miyabi doing it, she nags her to develop into her instructor. This additionally in some way leads to Kanata rejoining the cheer membership, which, even placing apart how a lot it instantly goes in opposition to her earlier dialog, simply appears like an odd transfer to make at this level, as in any other case it could have began to really feel like she’d gotten over it. This additionally brings again a few of my earlier points with how the present has dealt with Kanata’s whining, as she retains claiming that she nonetheless cannot “fly” the way in which she needs to, even after we have seen her carry out completely good gymnastics and cheerleading routines in earlier episodes. Her fall final week was the worst factor we’ve seen her battle with shortly, and even that felt extra like she was distracted by her combat with Megumi than a direct results of her situation. I assume it’s higher than nearly utterly ignoring it, nevertheless it appears like one thing the present ought to have portrayed far more persistently than it has up to now.

My largest drawback with the episode is discovering the id of the nameless poster that Kanata accosted. Since Kanata spent a lot of the episode harassing Miyabi, I used to be anticipating her to be the offender, however as an alternative it seems to be one other lady within the membership named Mari. The cheer membership members actually didn’t actually stand out, so I wasn’t even positive if this was a personality who simply blended into the background an excessive amount of to note or if it was somebody we’d by no means met earlier than. However it seems we did see her as a result of she’s really the lady concerned within the incident that brought about Kanata to whine. This can be a stable twist on paper, however the issue right here is that we haven’t actually seen or heard from this character exterior of the one scene she was in, and this reveal had so little buildup that I had to return to the primary episode to even bear in mind who she was. The one actual impression of that is the way it impacts Kanata, and regardless of the post-credits stinger giving us a montage of how shut the 2 was once, all I may take into consideration was how little the present had completed to make me care. I am guessing Kanata’s earlier incident will lastly come again within the finale, however the present has handled her character so poorly to this point that any curiosity I had in her is basically gone. At this level, the one huge factor I am wanting ahead to is that this present lastly ending.

Judgement:

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