


KUZU NO HONKAI EP 2 SERIES
Sex Scene of the Week: Other shows have the word of the week, tokusatsu series have the monster of the week, and Kuzu no Honkai has the sex scene of the week. It is truly a remarkable thing to be able to empathize through shameful similarities such as being unable to hold a basic melody with your vocal cords. I was so relieved to see that the two protagonists were about as tone deaf as I am. Karaoke: I love karaoke, but my singing skills are not something I am proud of. Love Dynamics: Since we are getting too many people liking each other, I thought I’d make a diagram. Now we have a few more people engaged in the love dynamics which makes things interesting enough to have me make a love diagram that I’m sharing with you in the Highlights section. The first episode was about two kids finding comfort in one’s another embrace as a substitute for the one they can’t have. If you think about it, Moca is doing in her mind what Hana and Mugi are doing with each other. It hurts so much, because I end up recreating him in my own mind to fit my needs While we could have easily discarded her feelings as a child being possessive about her childhood crush, the scene where she fantasized Mugi kissing her, and her quite mature approach to what her fantasies mean, put her on the map as a character that has more to offer to the show. Everything from her nickname to her chicken-stealing abilities scream of a love that she wants to get physical, but is eventually more romantic than erotic. Our little princess has an almost comedic quality to how she approaches Mugi. We also meet Moca, Mugi’s childhood family friend who has a not-so-innocent but certainly a bit childish crush on him. Once you fall for someone, it has to be them

And since Ecchan doesn’t, what reason is there for us to do it? Love is love, and Ecchan doesn’t question what she feels just because Hana is a girl. Every line of dialogue could have been used if Hana was a boy instead of a girl, thus making her feelings have a natural quality to them. It felt just like any other high-school romance, and I credit that to the writers. Her true feelings about Hana come as natural as any other love interest we have on the show, and I for one wasn’t perplexed at the possibility of a lesbian relationship in the show. Ecchan is the quiet but sexy type, a girl who understands her friend’s situation (if only she knew) and cherishes every moment that she spends with her.

We meet Ecchan, Hana’s only female friend with whom she used to spend more time, but people change and circumstances change as well. Kuzu no Honkai spent a whole episode building on the main theme of the series, love, and the people with whom we will probably spend watching most of the time during the season. Is it really the wish of a scum to be with the one that he longs for more than anything, or is love a little bit more complicated than what we would like it to be? Episode 2 of Kuzu no Honkai established all the different love pairs that we will have to deal with for the rest of the season, or at least I hope they did, because they are already too many.
