10 Second Anime - Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou - Episode 5

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou - Episode 5

Sayaka hates her exes. Usa gets his first kiss (on the elbow). Ritsu shares a book.

Heh.

Usa and Ritsu walking into a scene of chaos? We've seen that setup before.

Sumiko's reputation is well earned, as we see with how quickly she defuses a drunk and amorous Sayaka.

I agree with Sayaka that Mayumi's sweet lips may heal many wounds, but I need to remind you, she is mai waifu. That is all. Rage all you want.

I liked how the discussion about saving files on hard drives as an analog for remembering bad behavior from ex-lovers relied on Windows XP.

Usa is only now confirming how well Sayaka knows Ritsu, and she still sent him into a tizzy last episode with being pushy for a lonely girl's sake. Well, evidence piled upon evidence can only help you Usa.

Sayaka may not be just a tease with her boyfriends, or maybe she's only willing to share "deep kisses" with Mayumi...

I don't really blame her, though.

I like the continuity of this show. We learned recently that Ritsu tends to take on the personality of characters in books she's reading, or insert herself into the story somehow, so seeing her go crazy with a water rifle, while dressed up in a cutesy raincoat was all sorts of alright.

Speaking of continuity, I wondered when Ritsu would take that big step of sharing her inner world of books with Usa, and kyaa! We get a half episode about Usa and Ritsu discussing a detective story, and having different opinions about it. The biggest smiles we've seen from Ritsu so far was when Usa started reading her book, and when Ritsu found out that someone could have different thoughts about the same thing. Poor Usa, thinking this a bad thing, but Mayumi notices he's feeling so bad about it that he's not even looking at how happy Ritsu is.

After her own misadventures with a housemate trying to steal a kiss, I can understand Mayumi being bitter about the springtime of youth between Ritsu and Usa. Their first kiss! On his elbow!

I think Usa should be glad it worked out this way, because his first elbow kiss could have been from Sayaka instead...

Geh.

I should just call this the Mayumi Mai Waifu section for this show.

Aw. We know Mayumi's heart isn't ready for a new relationship because her tops and bottoms still don't match. I mean, that's why I was looking at her underwear beneath that wet t-shirt. ... I was!

Hmm.

I had a lot of fun watching this episode. That bizarre made-up story they all created while hanging out reinforced their characterization, while making sure that we know Usa is still our straight-man narrator, even without the voiceover, and even inside the story itself. Shiro let us in on his profession as a writer, so I'm looking forward to seeing how many of his books Ritsu has already read, and Usa's reaction to finding out he's the author of one he's currently reading. That kind of stuff has to happen to comedic effect. Judging from the preview, maybe he writes children's books?

It's an interesting thing to see a story revealing character, as opposed to developing it, because I don't see Usa changing all that much, while Ritsu is beginning to seek Usa out to talk about the book. We saw how hard she had to push herself to even bring it up at the end of the episode, because she had to push into Usa's and Shiro's conversation. But while Usa might not be developing this episode, his circumstances with Ritsu are, as they share a common interest in discussing the same book. Usa is the epitome of two steps forward, one step back.