I.
Fucking.
Give.
Up.
My god ... Episode 2 of BRS just overtook Anohana episode 11 by an entire Galaxy of melodrama, stupidity and incomprehensible scenes. Lord have mercy, this has got to be it right? This is the logical conclusion when an anime Okada gets full on Protection from Editors right!?
I mean, the episode started off like a typical Crazykada episode, overblown melodrama that doesn't make sense after single episode where Mato and Yomi had just met but whatever, we got to see that Yomi isn't happy being a slave to Kagari (who would ...) but then the ... Okada (for lake of a better word, as batshit insane just doesn't cut it anymore) starts with Kagari asking asking Yomi to take off her clothe, sending not only a yuri vibe to the viewers, but a creepy uncomfortable yuri vibe ... and of course she picks a needle ... I was half scared that they wouldn't show what Kagari had done to Yomi to let everyones imagination run wild with all the horrible things a creepy yandre could do to her slave, but then I was glad they didn't show it after revealing that she craved a heart at her chest (which is all the more disturbing and honestly would terrify me to no end if the scene wasn't so god damn hilarious because of Mato's dialogue ... or should I say, insane ramblings?) since I just know that they would've shown the two in yuri-esque poses while Kagari tortures and scars Yomi, effectively sexualising torture. Charming.
Of course my laughter died pretty hard when I found out later on in the episode the reason for all this inhumane treatment, the backstory of Yomi and Kagari ... and my god ... my god ...
I'll say this upfront. I have no problem with melodrama. In fact, I'm one of the few people who watched 50 episodes of Letter Bee and loved it, so I don't mind it ... but it needs to make sense, it needs to follow a logic, maybe not the logic real life but at least the logic within the show universe.
This ... doesn't do that. So apparently, the reason why Yomi is enduring
mental AND physical pain, the reason why she's forced in to living a life of hell without being allowed to have a single friend, effectively being a slave who will wipe Kagari's shit if ordered to (which Kagari seems to have gotten that idea in the hospital scene) ... was because Kagari's parents didn't stop her when she was running in the middle of the street. Yeah, Yomi is suffering all of this because Kagari's parents were irresponsible.
Can I just say that the whole flashback played out like a parody? You know, two people important to each other being separated and the one left behind keeps on running after the train/bus/car/etc.? It's usually meant to be played for drama how tragic they are separated but in here they added in ''and suddenly out of nowhere a car appears!''. Man oh man that was funny.
And not only that! Yomi's father even changed his plans for traveling overseas just so his daughter could stay! And the best part in all of this? Kagari wasn't event hurt! Yeah, she got hit by a car, but she got perfectly fine afterwards and was just torturing Yomi, being foul to everyone, forcing a family to be separated (looks like Yomi's father left overseas on his own) and acting like a spoiled brat for no good reason. Fuck even the show acknowledges that! But the answer that Yomi's mother gives, an answer worthy to take down Yui form the X-men anime off the Worst Mother of the Year post?
''But Kagari is so pitiful''
I hate to use the word Bitch. In fact, this is one of those curses I go out of my way to never use. But man, I just blurted it out while I was watching this episode, and I was thankful no one was around to hear me say it. It's at this point I had to pause the episode and try and regroup my thoughts and try to understand what the fuck was going on when Okada wrote this.
I was unsuccessful in trying to figure out what she was thinking.
By this point, I had resigned myself that nothing that could come would top that. It was just unthinkable. Then the hospital scene came along.
Was this an abandoned hospital or something? I mean here were three teenage girls just screaming their lungs out, hitting doors, fighting and creating a scene ... and, no doctors no nurses came along to stop all of this? This thought kept nagging me all the way to the end of the episode where of course no one showed up to ask them to STFU.
I would say something about the dialogue or the revelations that happened, but there was none. Or at least, there were words thrown around, but none of it made sense outside of glimpses into whatever the hell they wanted to convey. As far as I'm concerned, those three got incredibly drunk and made a scene at the hospital. Yup, that's how I'll view it, since it's the only way it could make a lick of sense.
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I like the BRS concept. I really do, I was really happy that it got an anime and what not, even though I raged hard about the time slot but that's not here or there any more. I also happened to like Okada (cue RRR, Recky and Wing going like this:
) back in the days where she had someone who could guide her to the stuff she was good at (writing adaptions of SoL/grounded stories) and even then, I didn't dislike her original work much. But now ...
On a side note, man I bet Okada is hitting herself over using ''True Tears'' as a name in the past ...
