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One other week comes and goes with one other girl dragging Hiro further into fishing hell. This time, it’s Kozue’s turn to snatch Hiro’s hand, and she guides him thru the surprisingly costly world of wearing items retail. Damaging Certain Angler has settled staunch into a joyful rhythm at this level, so there are not too many surprises in this episode—though I would mumble there’s no no longer up to one noteworthy one. Regardless, a apt character drama doesn’t want surprises to galvanize, and the writing continues to navigate the waters of the human journey with a refreshing breeziness.
Because the present focal character, Kozue measures up smartly. She’s a familiar archetype: one of those folk that exude niceness in a completely accurate means, and who can worth pals with nearly any one. In other words, she’s the polar opposite of the flighty and irritable Hiro. And, being the incandescent social savant that he is, Hiro naturally interprets her kindness as flirtation. He spends the first a part of this episode below the influence that she’s coming onto him, and the anime does some deft maneuvering with this plausible misunderstanding. Hiro is rarely out of line feeling those butterflies, but the story also reveals the audience how he is guilty for his delusion. Basically the most productive instance is how he reacts to Kozue’s earnest academic tidbits regarding the equipment and their costs. She’s being functional, but Hiro sees this as one more to “be a particular person,” i.e. throw his entire paycheck at a fondness he’s barely scratched the flooring of.
I admire Takaaki as both the figurative and literal avatar of Hiro’s sense of right and wrong. If we account for the story at face worth, Takaaki is the nicest guy within the universe; he can repay a total stranger’s debts and lets him transfer into his home. On the synthetic hand, NegaPosi Angler is telling a account of 2d probabilities, and Takaaki symbolizes a apt aspect of humanity that Hiro had blinded himself to when we first met him. On the synthetic hand, “apt” doesn’t mean “wishy-washy,” and Takaaki, both loyal and imagined, has to be firm with Hiro in command to interrupt his self-unfavorable habits. Blowing your paycheck on fishing equipment is marginally extra guilty than feeding it staunch into a pachinko machine—no no longer up to one enables you to feed yourself with tasty fish—but it completely’s no longer exactly functioning adult habits. Hiro peaceable has rather so much of rehabilitation to head.
Rehabilitation and healing are no longer customarily straight lines, both. Returning to fishing as metaphor, it’s no longer as straightforward as casting your line, reeling in a noteworthy bass, and repeating. It requires success and persistence, and all people goes about it in completely other ways for rather so much of causes. Kozue, as an example, admits to Hiro that she finds fishing largely unpleasant. The episode engages with this thru an unflinching demonstration of how nasty baiting your hook will also be, which Kozue has mastered the art work of disassociation in command to worth. Or no longer it’s a long way a comic scene, but it completely’s poignant too. Lifestyles is fleshy of nasty and heart-broken stuff, but we navigate those blueprint since the apt moments are worth it. It’s a long way also the excitement of a noteworthy gain. It’s a long way also the comfort of a consistent passion. Or it will also be the serenity of spending time with your wife.
That is elegant, Kozue has a crush on Hana! Or no longer it’s good how casually NegaPosi Angler brings this up—so casually it blows previous Hiro. Finally, he did exhaust a apt chunk of the episode pondering she used to be coming onto him, but her language and habits round Hana are indubitably sapphic. Hana doesn’t appear to reciprocate (though they’re positively terminate pals), so it’s too early to bellow whether it will be gasoline for drama down the twin carriageway or apt a gradual-weight sprinkling of yuri. Either means, though, it offers Kozue extra depth and makes her a extra appealing character.
That also isn’t any longer the handiest expression of uncommon romance to be found this week. Their heart-to-heart prompts Takaaki to let Hiro protect his rod, and Hiro in turn has a ball playing round with it. Phallic symbolism aside, their dialog is apt loads extra intimate than any of Hiro’s other interactions. Takaaki completely opens up about what made him drop in fancy with fishing—how his quest to be the finest within the eyes of others morphed into one thing extra private and stress-free. I admire how much the explain leaves within the subtext. Takaaki’s brother will likely form up to be a tragic figure informing his present kindness in the direction of Hiro, but the writing will get this across with out spelling any of it out in words. Or no longer it’s all contained within the small gesture of Takaaki handing down one thing precious to him.
Hiro grows up rather, too. His two noteworthy purchases of fishing supplies are both irresponsible, but they’re completely different flavors of irresponsible. On the birth, he sees the extra costly equipment as a flex. He’s attempting to galvanize Kozue, and he’s also having a thought on the costly reel as a shortcut in the direction of fishing mastery. On the head of the episode, though, there’s been a subtle shift. He sees the equipment no longer as a quickly repair, but as a style thru which he can proceed to fish. At both Takaaki’s and Kozue’s promptings, he realizes that he’s nurtured a fondness for the fervour now, and he desires better equipment as an extension of that. That doesn’t worth it a orderly determination, but it completely means Hiro has licensed one thing that he can thought forward to. He has future plans. He’s decided to embody a life that won’t weighed down by his debts or cancer prognosis. He takes his probabilities and casting his rod out into the tall and unknowable sea, because that is what he desires to admire.
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