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Given how a lot emphasis the primary three episodes positioned on Kanata and her psychological state, I used to be anticipating a follow-up to final week’s cheer routine and whether or not or not it cured her. Whereas I’m not all that stunned that the subject appears to have been placed on the again burner in the interim, I’m stunned that it wasn’t introduced up in any respect. In actual fact, Kanata herself barely speaks this complete episode. As a substitute, the main focus shifts completely to our favourite kissy Brazilian, Anna, as we be taught extra about her, and whereas this actually isn’t a foul episode, I’m unsure learn how to really feel about it both.
Since we did not know a lot about Anna aside from her need for web stardom and her tendency to kiss each new woman who comes inside 10 meters of her, this episode provides us somewhat extra perception into her private life. We be taught that she’s fairly near Nodoka and her household (though I could not fairly inform if she actively lives with them or simply drops by unannounced) and that she works part-time at a report retailer that pulls lots of foreigners. The shop means loads to her and he or she’s fairly near the proprietor, YJ, which is why it comes as such a shock to her when she learns that he is determined to shut the shop and provides away his data. Anna would not deal with this nicely, and we be taught that she’s so connected to the shop and YJ as a result of he helped her come out of her shell when she was youthful.
On the time, she was coping with the lack of her father and different individuals discovered it exhausting to method her, as they have been normally too fearful of her, as a result of she at all times appeared indignant or, extra seemingly, as a result of when the opposite children began speaking behind her again, her answer to get them to speak was to kick them within the face with capoeira (and truthfully, receiving capoeira is an expertise that may in all probability strike worry into the hearts of most individuals, not to mention youngsters). Nonetheless, after Anna ended up in YJ’s retailer someday and have become a daily buyer, he inspired her to strive speaking to individuals extra, and this finally helped her change into associates with Nodoka, so she’s not too completely happy about him giving up the shop after he did a lot for her. Whereas Anna struggles to discover a answer, the remainder of the ladies do their greatest to assist her, and Kanata means that they need to make supporting the shop the main focus of their subsequent cheer video.
I am truthfully fairly torn on all of this. On the one hand, it is a fairly strong character drama, and I like the way it fleshes out Anna as a personality, turning her from a one-note oddity right into a extra plausible teenager. The give attention to her truly advantages Nodoka’s characterization somewhat. We see that when it is simply the 2 of them, she’s far more sarcastic and visibly exhausted by Anna’s basic enthusiasm. It means that she is perhaps placing on a little bit of an act for the opposite ladies for something that does not contain maintaining Anna in test, and I am curious to see if that comes up later. The draw back to all of that is that, as strong as it’s in and of itself, it feels somewhat odd to fully drop every little thing about Kanata’s story for now, and it makes me far more fearful about how that may play out. It would not assist that it appears like we cannot get any decision to Anna’s story till subsequent week’s episode, so it is exhausting to say whether or not it’s going to be satisfying sufficient to be well worth the whole shift in focus. I actually did not suppose this episode was dangerous, however such a drastic change in perspective does make me somewhat extra involved about how nicely the entire story will finally end up, so I am hoping subsequent week’s occasions will give us one thing to assist assuage these fears.
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