Sara Talks Anime

Before I get into my post about the episode, my web viewing finally got the new player on Crunchyroll (or if I’ve had it for longer I literally hadn’t noticed it until now), and god I hate it. I dislike the fact that the fast forward and rewind buttons are next to the play/pause button. I don’t like how the time thing shows “time you’re at/-time remaining” instead of having a reading format that easier to understand. Also, for whatever reason, my “auto play next” setting was set back to being on despite me turning it off back in the old version of the player! Of course that had absolutely no bearing on my watching here, but I’m glad I caught it here and not when I was watching one of those two shows with 1000+ episodes that I’ve been watching!

…sorry about the rant. It’s just, god, the decision was weird.

Anyway, to talk about the actual episode instead of the decision Crunchyroll made with their web player.

This episode focuses on the aftermath of the first episode, with apologies being done. The most notable one is Renato apologizing to Mimi while at the estate for the Rubini family, where we learn that Aida and Placido seem to have feelings for each other. Ooh~! Renato also decides to take Mimi out for a meal.

Eleonora hasn’t taken too kindly to this, however, and manages to kidnap Mimi while she’s leaving the restaurant. Mimi’s strong enough to break out of her ropes once she’s tied up, and she tries to sneak out. Keyword is tries. While she does knock over a bucket and thus makes enough noise to let her captors know that she’s trying to escape. She manages to beat them up, however…and Renato is the one who notices her doing that. Whoops.

But based on the ending of the episode, however, it seems that it actually may not be as big of a whoops as it may seem. What does that mean? I’ll save that for when I talk about the next episode.

Before I get into my opinion of the episode, I feel the need to point out that this is the first time that this series has shown what the animation for the opening credits and the ending credits (as well as this, if I recall correctly, being the first time that the ending theme plays in the series). While there wasn’t anything in the opening animation that stood out to me, I absolutely adore how they did the ending animation. The style for the animation really stood out to me, and the fact that fish are involved in the ending animation, mainly due to the fact that the English translation that I know (Always a Catch!, which is also what I’ve been using as the title in my posts because if Crunchyroll has it, then it must be accurate), it makes sense. I genuinely can’t wait to see that ending animation every week from now on. I like fish. Fish are cool.

This episode was also fun. The setup felt natural, and it’s making me excited to see where the series will go from here! Unless the series decides to throw an absolute curveball, I should continue following this series after Episode 3 airs!

Based on the first three episodes, it seems we have a pattern of “How I [blank]” for the episode titles. I don’t mind this at all, just as long as we don’t get to the lengths of what this name means once you take the Japanese title and translate it literally. Very wordy is not all that good in my book. Sometimes you can do less with more.

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