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Given the emphasis the first three episodes put on Kanata and her mental state, I’m looking forward to some follow-up after last week’s cheering ceremony and whether it healed her. While I’m not too surprised that the topic seems to have been dropped for the time being, I’m surprised that it hasn’t really been mentioned at all. Heck, Kanata himself barely speaks throughout the episode. Instead, the focus shifts entirely to our favorite kiss-happy Brazilian Ana as we get to know her better, and while that certainly doesn’t make for a bad episode, I’m not too sure about that either How to feel.
Since we don’t know much about Anna other than her lust for internet stardom and her tendency to kiss any new girl within 10 meters of her, this episode gives us a little more insight into her personal life. learn. We learn that she’s very close to Nodoka and her family (although I’m not sure if she’s actively living with them or just has a habit of showing up at their place unannounced) and that she works in a record store Part-time jobs are many places visited by foreigners. The store means a lot to her and she has a very close relationship with the owner, YJ, which is why she was so shocked when she learned that he had decided to close the store and give away his records. Anna doesn’t take this well and we find out that she is so attached to the store and YJ because he helped her break free when she was younger.
In those days, when she was dealing with the loss of her father, it was hard for others to get close to her because they were usually too afraid of her, either because she always looked angry or, more likely, because when the other kids started going behind her back Talking over her, her solution to getting them to talk to her is to kick them in the face with capoeira (hey, to be fair, being on the receiving end of capoeira is an experience that would probably terrify most people experience, not to mention children). However, after Anna accidentally walked into YJ’s shop one day and became a regular, he encouraged her to try talking to people more, which eventually helped her become friends with Nodoka, so she wasn’t too happy to see him abandon the shop . As Anna struggles to find a solution, the other girls do their best to support her, and Kanata suggests that they should make supporting the store the focus of their next cheering video.
To be honest, I’m miserable about it all. On the one hand, this is a pretty solid character drama, and I like that it fleshes out Anna’s character and turns her from a slightly eccentric person into a more believable teenager. The focus on her even benefits Nodoka’s character development. We see her become more snarky and visibly exhausted by Anna’s enthusiasm when they’re alone. This suggests that she might do things in front of other girls that don’t involve Anna’s domination, and I’d be interested to see if that’s touched upon in the future. The downside to all of this is that, even though it stands alone, it feels a little weird to completely abandon everything about Kanata’s story for now, which makes me even more worried about how this will end. It doesn’t help that it looks like we won’t resolve Anna’s story until next week’s episode, so it’s hard to know if it will ultimately be satisfying enough to warrant a complete shift in focus. I certainly didn’t like this episode, but such a drastic change in perspective did make me more worried about how the whole story would ultimately come together, so I’m hoping next week’s event will shed some light on that. s things.
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