“Could you hold on a minute before you continue?”
CONTENT WARNING: SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS!
I’m sorry, it’s literally going to be impossible for me to talk about this episode without talking about the ending of the episode more in depth than I usually do. That’s literally where my brain has latched onto for this episode, and if I’m going to talk about this episode, I’m going to have to talk about the ending, but because the ending is technically spoilers…yeah, I think I’m fully justified with this warning.
Before I get into the episode, though, I decided to check MAL to see if they have an episode count down for this series, and since MAL has it down as 9 episodes, I am going to finally treat that as the official episode count. With that, that means that after this episode, there are only three episodes left. This series ending won’t have a huge impact on my activity here, as I already have three other shows that I’m covering this anime season, but man, I’m going to miss this series once it’s done.
We start the episode at the bar, with Victoria talking to the barkeep. Here it’s made clear that he’s on Victoria’s side, and even gets her a sweet treat on the house. Considering that we had a scene in a previous episode where the barkeep seemed like he would’ve thrown hands just because someone refused to take Victoria’s no as an answer.
Within this episode, we also have Victoria, Nonna, and Clark going out shopping at a market. This does ultimately result in them getting to eat sweets, and Victoria even gives a treat she bought to take home to someone who seemingly wanted that exact treat but came too late.
This episode also introduces us to an older gentleman that decides to take care of a horse for Victoria and Nonna, and even managed to figure out that Victoria isn’t an ordinary person! He doesn’t have any qualms with her, however, and even offers to help her out if she needs it! It’s so cool to see this in this episode!
There’s also more continuation of the plotline of the royal family looking into Victoria, with Victoria deciding to turn down giving one of the princes self-defense lessons and deciding to handle with telling him that on her own. The parts that feature this plotline felt so disconnected from the rest of the episode.
Let me try to explain it this way to help you picture it: You’re a botanist, and you’re categorizing berries. You take the plotlines where Victoria gain allies–let’s say these are your avocados–and include them in your list. The content with Victoria, Nonna, and Clark going shopping? Well, they stop and eat sweets on their journey, with one looking like the same kind of sweet that the barkeep gave Victoria earlier in the episode. These could be your oranges: may not be considered berries to the casual botanist, but have that core that has them be berries.
This felt like a culinary artist handing a peach to a botanist and insisting that it belongs with the berries on the botanist’s list. If there was more that actually continued this plotline in the episode, I wouldn’t have minded this as much, but since there’s literally like one scene (or two back-to-back scenes, depending on how you cut your scenes) focused on this, it feels so out of place compared to the rest of the story. I know we already had content regarding this in Episodes 4 and 5, but those were more of the main focus of the episode.
One could argue that it’s the same with the point my brain has really latched onto. However, since Nonna is the force that grounds this entire series, and again my brain latched onto this point, I’d say it’s the exception that proves the rule.
During one of Victoria’s tutoring sessions with Nonna and Clark, visitors come in the form of a noble family that realize how similar Nonna looks to how their daughter would’ve looked if she survived to be Nonna’s age, even saying that they want to take her in. Victoria tries to turn them down even when Nonna’s offered a one week free trial, but Nonna decides to give the trial a go.
You know it’s bad when you see the anime rain of doom and despair.
Anyway, my brain is probably way too drilled into Detective Conan at the moment to really be thinking about a plot as a mystery at the moment, but unless I’ve missed something from the previous episodes, we’ve yet to see any evidence that proves that this family is telling the truth. While there also isn’t any evidence to prove that they’re lying, I still believe that we should treat what these people say with a grain of salt.
However, I have a feeling that something is going to be their downfall: Nonna’s preferred lifestyle. She’s been stated to have a lot of energy and might not be able to easily do the noble lifestyle. Hopefully the future episodes give us a good answer to all of this that is satisfactory.
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