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At this level, my expectations for this present have dropped significantly, and whereas I’ve roughly given up on it reaching the heights of the primary two episodes, I’m a minimum of prepared to simply accept it as entertaining. The present deserves its due: this week’s episode is probably the most attention-grabbing in a very long time, because it dives again into some bigger character drama, and the ladies’ relationship could also be examined. In fact, “attention-grabbing” isn’t the identical as “sturdy,” as this new storyline comes with its personal set of issues, and given the present’s general writing observe file, I’m extra apprehensive than enthusiastic about the way it’ll try and resolve them.
It appears like the ladies have lastly gone viral. “How?” you may be questioning. Apparently, they made headlines once they cheerleaded at that baseball recreation in final week’s episode, and other people had been so impressed that the ladies are actually being inundated with cheerleading requests. It’s a bit of foolish, contemplating this looks as if one thing that will solely make native information (and even then, they had been cheerleading at a baseball recreation, which isn’t precisely an uncommon sight). However in comparison with the sooner coincidence that each one of Anna’s overseas buddies are music megastars, this a minimum of feels considerably grounded in actuality, so it’s in all probability not value harping on about an excessive amount of. Both manner, the ladies have lastly achieved web stardom. Whereas issues appear to be going easily at first, they’re working into a brand new downside: they’re getting and accepting too many requests. Discovering the precise stability between protecting your viewers completely happy and never burning your self out is a lesson each content material creator on the web must study sooner or later. When it inevitably turns into an excessive amount of, Megumi means that the ladies restrict the variety of requests they settle for to maintain it manageable, they usually all agree.
That is all, aside from Kanata who does not like the thought of turning individuals down as a result of she feels that even the smallest request could be essential to the one that despatched it (which, whereas good, comes throughout as a bit naive for those who’ve been on the web for some time). The remainder of the ladies are nonetheless on board with the thought of taking it straightforward, however as a substitute of accepting that, Kanata decides to take issues into her personal fingers and apologize to all of the individuals whose requests she’s turned down whereas she performs her private routine for them. It is a good gesture, nevertheless it positively is not wholesome as a result of she’s clearly exhausted from making an attempt to do that – and doing it behind different individuals’s backs is not precisely nice both. When this all backfires and brings the channel’s repute down, Anna rightfully rants at her and it appears like issues might flip bitter between the 2. Hopefully all of this backlash teaches Kanata to not take an excessive amount of on herself and to respect different individuals’s choices – as a result of that is the lesson she ought to study from all of this. But when there’s one factor this present has made clear: It values the spirit of cheerleading above all else. On condition that that is on the core of Kanata’s actions, it is exhausting to say how important will probably be of her conduct right here.
In between all this, we additionally get a scene between Kanata and Megumi, the place Kanata catches her pushing herself too exhausting to stroll once more. With the ladies’ sudden rise, Megumi begins to really feel like she’s dragging the remainder of them down and begins whining about how recovering rapidly so she will be able to cheer with them is the least she will be able to do. It’s not a nasty scene, precisely, however since most of this episode was in any other case targeted on Kanata, it feels a bit of disconnected from every thing else that was taking place. Since this occurs whereas Kanata is overexerting herself, I feel the thought was to point that they’re each overreacting – however since Kanata hasn’t realized that but and by no means makes the connection, she simply comes off as a little bit of a hypocrite. It does appear to be there’s one thing else occurring with Megumi, although, as a result of when everybody will get mad at Kanata, we study that the supply of the ladies’ sudden web backlash was a imprecise however private dig at Kanata about her historical past together with her faculty’s cheerleading membership. Whereas the remainder of the ladies assume that considered one of stated membership members should have accomplished it, the bigger implication is that Megumi left the remark, which begs the query as to why.
No, significantly: why? Kanata and Megumi appear to be good buddies, and even when that Megumi is aggravated that she doesn’t contribute a lot to the group, it’s a little bit of a stretch to assume that she’d take it out on Kanata particularly. It’s additionally potential that she knew what Kanata had been doing behind everybody else’s backs this entire time and figured this may be the easiest way to maintain herself from pushing herself. Given how she feels about not doing sufficient for everybody else, it’s exhausting to think about her deliberately sabotaging the channel to show Kanata a lesson. This might at all times be an intentional pink herring, however that nearly feels too sophisticated for what we’ve seen from the present’s writing. So for now, I’m inclined to take these hints about Megumi being the perpetrator at face worth. Both manner, we’ll have to attend till subsequent week to see how this all performs out—and I’ll admit, that is the primary time shortly that I’ve truly been interested in the place this story goes. After all of the earlier disappointments, I do not belief that vacation spot might be wherever good, however I hope it can a minimum of be one value speaking about.
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