Let’s ‘watch the fireworks in my bed.’
Impressions:
This episode would’ve worked so much better had the segments been in reverse. Start with being separated from him with your weird gaslighting fangirl and creepy friends, go into reconnecting for her birthday, end with the birthday sex. Speaking of which, anime, please. Inviting a dude into not just your room, but to strip down, and get into your bed to ‘watch fireworks’? Come on. This is a far cry from misreading signals or the like. A chaste little peck and then smash cut to something else entirely at about five minutes into the episode is so lame. If that’s where the episode had ended, you could’ve absolutely at least left the insinuation that they actually did something there. I don’t understand why this show is so terrified of the absolute minimum physical affection in a relationship, especially when there’s so much potential humor to be mined there.
Otherwise, very uneventful, and its refusal to also develop the other characters bites it when it separates them. I’m pretty sure this weird fangirl is that same one we saw before, but I honestly couldn’t say that for certain, and there’s probably more humor in the dude trying to run in a wedding dress than the rest of that whole segment, though part of that is also her being unable to run in… boots. Yeah, boots are harder to run in than wedding dresses, apparently. Likewise, his dude friends are… certainly characters that exist and make loud whining noises or just emit a monotone hum. This was something that should have been solved ages ago, or at least addressed the same way as it did her little sister, by physically throwing them into bodies of water.
