10 Second Anime - Majimoji Rurumo - Episode 8

Majimoji Rurumo - Episode 8

Rurumo's "friend" Harulily comes to visit. She sees how hard Rurumo is working and that she has grown a little as a person too.

Heh.

This wasn't a typically outrageous episode, mainly because we were following clumsy Rurumo instead of Ero King Kouta. More like taking stock, to see how far Rurumo has come from the perspective of someone who knew in the Underworld.

Harulily's familiar wasn't very expressive. Did she pick this quiet cat because it reminded her of the expressionless Rurumo?

Frenemy was what we were supposed to think of Harulily when we first met her, but she's more like an exasperated friend trying to provoke a reaction out of the clumsy quiet Rurumo and got into a rut playing pranks and forgetting why she was trying to provoke Rurumo in the first place. She remembered when she saw Rurumo blush a little as she responded to Kouta and that brought out a bit of jealousy as well.

Hmm.

Harulily was a good friend after all, who cares for Rurumo. She's also surprised that Rurumo doesn't know that granting Kouta's wishes shortens his life, and with Kouta knowing this caveat for the magic tickets, she may be training for many years. That fits Rurumo's pattern since she's always been the slow one, and she's already spent several years in prison too.

When Rurumo told Harulily that she finally had an idea about the first thing she would do when she became a witch again, and that it was to thank Kouta for his help in finishing her training, I got that almost-everything-but-not-quite feeling that Japanese story telling likes to invoke. Perhaps Rurumo's story is a special case where she can become a witch and Kouta gets to see that happen. Harulily knows, just like Chiro does, that Rurumo would rather get stuck in a holding pattern instead of killing someone to achieve her goal, so all she can do is root for her to find a way to happiness. Bittersweet, tinged with regret, is where the story would normally go, but with Kouta involved, and all the strange things that happen around him, Rurumo may just find that bizarre path to the impossible.