Love Lab - Episode 13 [END]
Riko comes clean about being a love novice with all the other Love Lab girls. After some appropriate punishments, things continue on as they did before for the Student Council. All's well that ends well. That's a thing too, right?
Riko frets about what will happen to her friendships with the Student Council girls if they find out that she's not really some love expert. Again, her being a "crude tomboy" puts her way above any kind of middle school love expert because she has all this insider knowledge of what boys are like. She really doesn't need to worry. But thankfully for Riko, she finds out her friends don't like her for her love expertise, but for having common sense (in Maki's case), being the "Wild One" (in Suzu's case), or just not being shy about boys (in Eno's case). Sayo doesn't care since she knew from the start, but does like having another person to help keep the ridiculousness of the other three girls down to a simmer.
What was worrying Maki wasn't the love expert lie, but whether what Yan had told her was true, that Riko wasn't really her friend, but was just putting up with her and going with her flow. Maki actually likes that they're on equal footing for the love lab research stuff because they can have fun at the same pace. Still, Riko knows way more about boys than Maki does.
But she still has to make it up to her friends for being stubborn and not owning up to the misunderstanding about why she knows so much about boys (being a tomboy instead of a pretty girl who got their attention) much sooner. Suzu made some special tools at Sayo's request:
And now that they have the Love Corner set up in the underground paper, they can do Love Lab stuff and answer the questions the other students submit to the suggestion boxes. All neatly wrapped up.
Final Thoughts: Love Lab wasn't a deep show, but it did excel at having crazy characters, at least three levels of animated detail to match the present gag, crazy reactions, and hilarious flights of fancy, with a musical score to match the mood. Just a great gag anime reliant on visual gags instead of the usual dialog punchline. I'm curious about some of the boys from Riko's past and whether they have a chance with her, or even the other Love Lab girls, and if there's more material to be plumbed in another installment of Love Lab. I hope so. The characters were all fun to watch.
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