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Originally Posted by Triple_R

I can't help but find what you're writing here a bit ironic, as I found Episode 3 to be incredibly melodramatic.

What can you call Jiromaru's attempted suicide scene other than exaggerated, and sensationalized?

Because of how it was presented in a thoroughly comedic and hammy light, it lacked an air of seriousness to it, at least for me. To me, it very much felt like a mockery of the sort of heavy drama that borders on melodrama that you sometimes see in a Jun Maeda work. But whereas Maeda comes right up to that melodrama line, but usually is skillful enough to stop from going over it, the Jiromaru attempted suicide scene marches head-on into, well, cheesy melodrama. That's how I find it if I try to take it seriously anyway.

But why try and take something that's presented in a comedic light seriously?