Anime

Marin went full Bocchi mode when she learned she gained weight.

The park ~~date~~ scene is so cute. Marin is so happy there.

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It’s impressive how much the show can mix up its art style and level of detail. Lower res for the anime bits. Super high detail/realistic lighting for the camera bits, etc.

It’s been interesting getting to see more of Marin’s life/friend group and how they look in on their relationship. There’s that contrast between Gojo’s fears of how people judge his interests with how relatively reasonable everyone has been. It feels like that girl from his childhood was the anomaly, although it could also be that it was more common and most people just grew out of it after a certain point. That was kind of my school experience. By sometime in late high school the people who used to be bullies just kind of stopped. We didn’t suddenly become friends, but they didn’t go out of their way to cause problems for me either.

It makes me wonder if that girl is going to show up again for some character arc that reckons with their past or if that’s just not something the show wants to tackle now that it’s settled into a groove.

Just marry her already!

I probably shouldn't take it so serious, but 50,000 calories? How? At first I thought it was a translation error, but the manga has the same number. Then I thought it was small calories, but that'd be 50kcal, which is nowhere near enough to even live. Are both the translated manga and CR wrong? Or is it just exaggerated for comedic effect? (I'm guessing the latter)

Edit: the 50,000 itself is the joke. That didn't come across to me in the anime, but that manga does make it clear

This episode was good, I can only echo the sentiment around here. You are unknowingly dating, kiss already!

I hope they don't leave us hanging too much. We had some nice, cute scenes in the past where we thought they were about to go official.