It’s not that she shouldn’t openly pursue him, but the approach this episode felt too rushed to me. I’d rather she retain more of her mysteriousness than practically declare war on Chiwa over Eita. So she still has her facade and ambiguous motives going for her, but it feels like we’ve been shown too much of her dere side all too soon. I get that she’s inevitably going to have feelings for the harem lead (it’s a harem anime for a reason), but the way the last segment of the episode seemingly devolved her into a generic harem member in a very generic harem situation was rather discouraging. Come this episode, it seems as if she’s become just another generic harem member with the hots for the chick-magnet male lead. This is probably the height of her apparent complexity she’s more than meets the eye, and we don’t quite know what she’s like deep down inside. Then we were shown hints that she might be more than just a cold, heartless person. That’s rather one-dimensional, but at least different. We were initially led to believe that she is calculating and manipulative. Despite my saying Masuzu is surprisingly complex, the opposite may actually be true when you think about it. Yet, she still pulls back at the very last moment and claims that it was all an act.Īnd now for some actual gripe. In spite of all her talk of being anti-love, it’s fairly obvious that she’s actually developed romantic feelings for Eita she even goes so far as to steal a kiss from him just to get ahead of Chiwa. It’s almost as if she doesn’t fully believe in the things she says, and despite forcing her behavior to match her words, her true nature manages to leak out sometimes. Take her behavior later on in the episode as another example, when Eita decides to pay her a visit when she doesn’t show up to school. Yet, she seems to realize that what she did was wrong, and even plays an important role in helping clear up the situation.
#ORESHURA EPISODE 1 DISCUSSION FULL#
Her setting up Chiwa with Sakagami knowing full well what would happen, just to make Chiwa hate love, is condemnable. It’s very tempting to call her a “bitch” for her manipulative actions, but there’s something about her that suggests there’s more than meets the eye. While Eita merely does everything in his power to avoid love, Masuzu supposedly actively seeks to make others hate love as well. We already know that she is “anti-love” just like Eita, however there is apparently an important difference between the two. What’s rather interesting from the date fiasco is that we get a glimpse at some more of Masuzu’s character.
To be honest, the message probably wasn’t meant for anyone at all since Eita is just a generic harem lead but I digress. Likewise, it seemed as if Masuzu thought the same thing at the moment, but something tells me she saw Chiwa and Eita making up and realized the message may not have been meant for her. This leads Chiwa to believe that he is referring to her as someone special to him, since he denies that Masuzu is around. Notably, during his battle with Sakagami’s friends, Eita yelled “ she is watching me!” 2 to motivate himself. With the trouble taken care of, Chiwa rushes to Eita’s side, where the two childhood friends quickly make up. Luckily, Masuzu steps in and throws Chiwa a pole 1, enabling the former kendo practitioner to make short work of the gang. But despite activating his chuunibyou mode, Eita finds himself outmatched by Sakagami and his friends, and things start looking rather hopeless. Outraged, Eita storms in and starts a fight with the thugs. Conveniently, Eita and Masuzu had decided to watch over Chiwa’s first date and see what Sakagami and his gang are doing.
It turns out that his “date” with Chiwa was nothing more than a prank, with his friends even placing bets on how long she would wait for him. First off, we find out that Sakagami is a total dickwad. No, I don’t mean that the show itself is bad. Really, this episode was full of bad things. So I guess the only good thing is that Eita sort of made up with Chiwa.
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