Although it seems simple enough, Tada still isn’t sure about the definition of “alive”
- Last week, we learned more about Tada’s past self and were introduced to his former spirit which watched over his current self.
- Summary of Episode 6: Tada’s spirit explains that before his accident, he and Linda were very close, and Tada was more attached to Linda than she was to him. Fast forward to present day where Tada and Kaga are invited by Chinami to a welcoming party. However, Kaga is less than excited to be invited, and declines the offer. But Tada convinces her to go, as they, along with Yanagisawa and 2D, are all very uncomfortably sitting together in Golden Time. After Yanagisawa and Kaga get into an argument, Kaga decides to confess his love to Chinami, who casually shrugs off his confession. This leads to Yanagisawa and Kaga being offered to the Tea Club, who are conveniently meeting next door. On the walk home, Tada tells a drunken Kaga that they are no longer friends since she rejected him after he confessed to her. The next day, Tada confronts Linda about their past, then tries to jump off a bridge in the hopes he’ll wake up a new person. However, he is saved by Kaga who then confesses to him.
This combination of images and words is somewhat profoundly disturbing
- My Take: As many of you know, I didn’t find the last two episodes to be too great. Now with episode six, that has changed. Although this episode isn’t on the same level as the first three episodes, it indicates that the show is getting back to that level of quality.
- Does Tada have to yell all of his lines? There’s emoting, then there’s over-emoting. I guess I should give the voice actor some credit; at least he seems like he’s into the role. But it’s starting to make me believe that Tada’s character doesn’t translate all that gracefully to anime.
- Tada is starting to become an emotional wreck. Instead of keeping his composure around his friends, he completely blows up for (seemingly) no good reason whatsoever. He just has so many mood swings. One second he’ll be laughing and the next he’ll be ranting about how nobody should be his friend, or how everyone betrayed him. He’s about as subtle and smooth as nuclear bomb. he makes a great big deal out of everything that happens in his life, and is surprised when everything goes wrong for him. In his defense, though, I will say that it does seem odd how Linda doesn’t ever seem to hint at their past, when clearly she remembers it quite vividly and wants to relive it. We haven’t seen much of her character, but I’m betting that she’s a very closed-off person who is scared that she’ll run off everyone who means anything to her.
- I honestly don’t care much for Tada’s spirit, and I certainly don’t care for it serving as a story-telling mechanism. It’s like the writer sat down and said, “I can make revelations about our main character’s past through witty dialog and interactions, but screw that, I’ll just flat out tell everyone!”.
I don’t know… Last time they got along, it didn’t work out too well
- Yanagisawa confesses to Chinami! This was beautiful because it seems that he did it all out of spite, and that went about as well as anybody would suspect. It was awkward, funny, and Chinami took it like a champ. Well, she took it in a more oblivious way, but at least she took it better than either Yanagisawa or Kaga did! Both of them became so faded in a short period of time, and Tada had to sacrifice them to the mercy of the Tea Club to put them out of their misery! Okay, that whole scene inside of Golden Time was just priceless. Everything about it was perfect.
Dude, you’ve known her for how long? Three weeks or something?
- I am making a note of the (slight) return of the Tea Club. I hope this show will chronicle their strange and slightly intriguing debauchery!
Oh, great. You opened the portal to Hell and must make an offering. I hope you’re happy
- Kaga finally confesses her love for Tada. This does worry me a little bit because we’re only six episodes in to this series, and already what I suspected to happen at the end of the series has already happened. However, I do like how Kaga rejected Tada in episode four, only to confess to him in this episode. It shows that she still doesn’t know her own emotions or feelings for her friends, and it showed that she wasn’t completely over Yanagisawa. Now, it’s a little bit more proof that she is actually getting over him. Can’t wait to see if Kaga goes all psycho-girlfriend on Tada like she did with Yanagisawa (which should have been a huge red flag for him when he met her!).
- I actually feel quite bad for Linda. She doesn’t know what she wants or how to get it. She seems to have good intentions, but things seem to just go wrong for her.
- As I already explained, I did like this episode more than the previous two on substance. But they still try to throw so much at us in every episode, so the pacing is still a tad bit off. But that’s just a minor complaint at this point.
