Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT ep. 12 (FINAL)

This show has come to an end but it was kind of bad that I initially didn’t want to write a review about it. It probably gives a hint that a third season is possible but if I were to compare this episode with the ending of the first season I must say it’s not something that I wanted to see. In the first season everybody was kind of ‘happy’ at the end and all characters were present with each one of them having voiced appearance. That wasn’t the case with this episode though where Yozora only made visual appearance without voice, Kobato and Maria were also absent, making it feels like this episode isn’t as important to become a final episode. The second half was fine but it took too much time showing Rika’s raging over Kodaka, only for her to say “I want friends” in the end. That is kind of disappointing to me.

I get this feeling that Kodaka deliberately avoided romance as not to make it awkward when they’re in the club but for me it’s more like he is stupid. I don’t give a damn about he has never had any romantic experience but come on it’s not something that you need a proper experience to do. He can just say yes or no. Please if there’s going to be a third season they better do something to fix that and I don’t want to see this kind of ending again. Also I’m looking forward to see the miss president joining the harem and see how will Yozora deal with it!

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT ep. 11

I’m not going to talk much about this episode other than the ‘sudden’ or “unintentional marriage proposal” by Sena right after they successfully defended their club from being disbanded.

Earlier Yusa from the student council practically forced them to disband the club for violating various school rules. However Yozora successfully challenged Yusa’s arguments using the same weapon, the school rules. At that time I was all behind Yozora and I believe she will make a good lawyer though facing a stranger would cause her a great amount of stress, producing similar simptom when she faces a big crowd. One thing I noticed however is that Yozora seemed to have regained her ‘motivation’.

In the next attempt to shut down the club Yusa however had to face Sena who is also her classmate (albeit Sena was kind of unaware of that fact). However Sena, just like Yozora would go to great lengths to protect, even using her position as the daughter of the school’s chairman to virtually make the club immune from disbandment. Although Kodaka personally found it was not quite right he was relieved that the club will always be spared as long as those two (Yozora and Sena) remained there.

It was right after the confrontation with Yusa that Sena ‘accidentally’ mentioned about marriage and consequently confessed to Kodaka. Kodaka, just like in the previous episode with Rika, once again acted stupid and in denial as if he doesn’t get what Sena said. I don’t know what’s the problem with him. I don’t care if he decided not to pursue romantic relationship as to not to hurt any of the girls but pretending like he didn’t hear anything is very much an annoyance to Rika. Also his indecisiveness actually would trouble the girls more than keeping them in harmony. What a joke Kodaka.

I sure take too much time to update this blog despite all the efforts I’ve done in December last year to keep this blog alive. Although I promised to do a ‘proper’ and better blogging this year I was forced to accept the terrible reality almost to my breaking point. I was supposed to do something for this blog but suddenly my brother in law (who is in the security forces) was called to join the ‘war‘ last month. Since then I’ve done nothing but closely following the updates about the development of the ‘war’.

There’s nothing I could do right now other than praying and giving my support although I’m not sure who is right and who is wrong. Yeah I am sad that something like this happening near me during my lifetime but good thing I still have anime to entertain myself while hoping for the best. For now I’ll keep watching anime while I can and let’s hope that this “mini war” won’t escalate to a full-scale war. I don’t want that to happen, seriously.

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT ep. 08 and 09 are probably the best episodes in this season so far. I’m saying that because Sena has ‘defeated’ Yozora twice. Last week it was Sena whom confronted Yozora because of the way she prepared the script for the club’s movie project and it was her turn to call Sena “Ahoo!!!!” and ran outside leaving the club room, something usually happened to Sena. Even more interesting was she called Sena by her name for the first time when that happens and she was probably doing that without realizing it.

This week once again Sena ‘defeated’ Yozora and that made it the second time. Sena is turned out to be some sort of childhood friend to Kodaka as well, even earlier than the time Yozora and Kodaka first met each other 10 years ago. However that was nothing if compared to the fact that Sena and Kodaka are actually engaged, something that has been planned by their fathers, which is understandable since they’re good friends. Since then Yozora has become very unmotivated to do anything. I know I should not feel too happy about it but she’s been bullying Sena too much and in this season I think it’s fair to say that she’s going overboard although it’s undeniable that Sena sometimes deserves it. For me it’s just that both of them don’t know how to deal with friend because they never had any (other than Kodaka). Kodaka too is also doesn’t know how to deal with both of them since he has never had any friend either.

With only a few episodes left until the end of this season I found myself only able to concentrate on 2, 3 titles. I’m still closely following the development of Vividred Operation and I’m still not satisfied with the fact that the Vivid System’s biggest flaw is only Akane can initiate the ‘Docking’. Not to mention the limited access to the Vivid System when it should have been better if more people are able to use it.

Another anime I found quite interesting is GJ-bu which I didn’t watch until at all until the episode 06 was aired. It’s an ‘ok’ anime though I feels like it was trying to become like Seitokai Yakuindomo (but kind of failed) but it is watchable on its own. I don’t know anymore what else I’ve missed while I’m paying too much attention to the real world. I can’t just stop thinking about it now that my family has already dragged into it. This is probably how people felt when they send their men to the World War II decades ago. I wish people could just stop doing stupid things like carrying around the weapons when seeking peace. I’d say if you want peace drop your weapons. Nobody would want to have a peace talk with you if you insist to keep them.

The wait of more than a year finally over with this aired a few days ago. Just like the previous season it is still as interesting as ever, enough to over shadow all other anime in this season. However at the same time I’ve started to notice a few other things that made me a little uneasy but hope that will only for temporary.

What I like in this first episode:

1. Yozora cosplaying as Sena.
2. Sena’s funny hairstyle
3. Hanazawa-san, er, I mean Kobato-chan!

 

So here are what made me feel uneasy:

1. I started to have some sympathy on Sena. Before this I wasn’t aware of her being a victim because I was too indulged in the fun.
2. Yozora starts to look like a bully to me. Although she denied that she was bullying but the situation was too unbalanced between her and Sena. I started to feel pity of Sena because Yozora hates her just because she was popular although I don’t think Sena was that bad. If anything I think Sena acted high and mighty was because that’s how the boys have been treating her, not because she was an ojou-sama or something. Well isn’t that prestigious school for wealthy people, which means Yozora must have come from a quite wealthy family too?
3. Kodaka still have no balls to go against Yozora and at times I think he allowed her to ‘control’ him, like not even allowed him to call her Sora like he used to be. Sure it might be reasonable to think they couldn’t just go back to how they were instantly but I don’t think it’s a big deal, unless she has a feeling for him or something.

Pegasus (Sena’s father) already raised his concern about whether Sena is bullied in the school or not. Here happened another interesting thing; Kodaka ‘spontaneously’ promised to protect Sena. He has just stepped into the path of no turning back!