10 Second Anime - Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou - Episode 3

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou - Episode 3

Ritsu will raise your rent if you keep teasing her. Mayumi gives her ex a short-lived second chance. Books are Ritsu's weapons of choice.

Heh.

I am liking this format of mini-episodes inside the main episode. In a character driven comedy, spending a little bit more time with all of our boarders, and how they relate to our two main characters in Usa and Ritsu, makes for a relaxing visit filled with laughs.

In the first story block, we see how Ritsu's foible of not wanting attention because it leads to teasing hurts Usa's feelings through a misunderstanding. Wha? A misunderstanding exploding into a chain reaction of events in a comedy? I've never heard of such a thing! Specifically, riding on the back of Usa's new bike implies a closeness between them, which their house mates would exploit for some good-natured ribbing, and it would take her away from reading books on the way to and from school. But she didn't explain it like that, at first. "Absolutely the worst!" is much more economical in speech, but could be taken the wrong way. Ritsu grows a little when she apologizes to Usa.

Usa is so transparent. In a big scene of utter chaos, he only has eyes for Ritsu tearing up in the corner. Mayumi is annoyed that he didn't peek at her underwear. Sayaka's point is a good one, though: if you're not matching your tops and bottoms, then you're not combat ready for the battlefield of love.

Ritsu shows off another personality foible in Mayumi's story block: she only openly empathized with her love crisis because her book had a similar situation going on. But once she's finished the book, no empathy for you!

What kind of man would treat this lovely vision so poorly?

Ah. Someone who takes her to an Italian restaurant when that's her least favorite cuisine, which he should have known if he was paying attention to her when they were going out, which of course he wasn't, because he was seeing two other women at the same time.

Shiro plans early for the coming heartbreak, by making a cool rubber band gun. This was why he came up with the big bubble blowers. All for Mayumi. Aww. Too bad about his fetish obsessions...

Good on Usa for giving Mayumi some reassurance that people back at the house will care for her when she comes back, but saying it in the most disapproving voice a teenage boy can muster. Looks like he's growing too. But he shouldn't have lied about having Mayumi's favorite food ready. Cover all your bases for the perfect plan, Usa-kun!

In the third story block, we see what fake little Sayaka can do to drive men crazy. Sooo manipulative!

There are some tricky gusts of wind on the Kawai Complex block to so arbitrarily pluck Ritsu's book out of her hand, and so accurately carry it into the back of a dude about to punch Usa in the head. Tricksy wind!

I laughed pretty hard at Shiro's suggestion to Sayaka for getting those unwanted men to leave: take off your makeup in front of them. Hahaha! She didn't like that one bit. Reminds me that they chose the plain, mean looking girl in the horror movie as the one that reminded them of Sayaka.

And Ritsu blowing her top for not being able to take a compliment and some gratitude. That's part of her first character flaw where she can't acknowledge a closeness or an attachment because then others would notice it. She's a mix of the kuudere and tsundere, or at least she seems to have a spectrum from cool to tsun-tsun. Is Usa getting close enough to her that she's turning tsundere on him?

Hmm.

We've seen just a little bit of the trouble Sayaka can cause, and how angry it makes Sumiko to bring that trouble close to their house, so it might be time to see a bit more of Sumiko's scary side and Sayaka's hidden side. But we'll probably get a few more gags of Ritsu taking the world inside whatever book she's reading into the outside world, which could have high comic value depending on the book. Whatever happens, I'm ready for my next visit to Kawai Manor.