hey all! just wanna let you know I decided to continue on with the series after this episode and have now completed it 🥰 can’t wait to share the rest with you! (I also keep accidentally referring to Slippery Girls as an anime so I’m so sorry for that lmao)
Just found your reactions to this series today. I’m so glad you decided to watch this season through to the end. I can’t say enough about what a beautiful story this series is telling, and I love that a series that from the outside looks like nothing but an excuse for fan service is actually about one of the healthiest relationships I’ve seen portrayed in any form of fiction.
This is the episode where the differences really sunk in for me. It's the smallest thing, but it's that Marin paid for the materials. That simple moment of emphasizing friendship and equality over the usual 'chivalrous' tropes, treating Marin as a person, rather than as a goal or trophy.
Their relationship is built so well, that's just the start and it keeps going in respectful ways non-stop. People freak out episodes like episode 2, but I always like to remind that, while the show won't shy away from fan-service, it always happens in believable ways and more often than not it's actually just natural (can't take measurements without being in undergarments).
The first two episodes set things up as interesting, but this episode is where I really got invested in the relationship between the two of them. Marin's fast declaration of friendship, and her serious appreciation for what Gojou's already doing, really endear her to us, and we also see Gojou's competence start to shine as well. Sad conclusion I came to: in Gojou's flashback, he's referring to seeing the dolls for the first time as when he went to his grandfather's place - and I think he means to live. I'm pretty sure that that scene took place soon after his parents passed on. So it's not just a little boy being impressed by craftsmanship, it's also a child in mourning finding beauty and a sense of direction to his life. - and that's when the little girl he's trying to show this beauty to yells at him for it, and says she hates him. It's no wonder that those twin events shaped his life so much.
The interesting thing is Swallowtail is a real shop the author visted for reference and they allowed her to use it in the manga/anime. So it seems it is depicted quite accurately.
I think you're going to like this show even more as it goes on, and Gojo and Marin develop as individuals and in their relationship. They're both completely genuine. Gojo isn't helping Marin because he's trying to get with her, and Marin isn't stringing Gojo along to get anything from him either. They're both just having fun doing something that they're passionate about at this point.
I love how Marin blows right through the "oh it'll be too awkward, we can't be seen together" trope and pretty much says without words, "ffs pull your head out your ass boy and let's just go shopping! 😁👍🛒"
@@chriswhinery925 The fanservice in Episode 2 also serves a narrative purpose of showing us how Gojo is viewing things. When he smacks himself out of it for a good chunk, he's actually very professional and put-together and the fan service doesn't resurface until he gets flustered again. Even when he.... *ahem* rings the doorbell, no attention is given to that from the viewer's pov because Gojo didn't notice. He only noticed Marin's reaction, but because she never tells him what caused it, he doesn't get flustered. I enjoy that the fanservice was largely in service to the story.
hey all! just wanna let you know I decided to continue on with the series after this episode and have now completed it 🥰 can’t wait to share the rest with you!
(I also keep accidentally referring to Slippery Girls as an anime so I’m so sorry for that lmao)
Just found your reactions to this series today. I’m so glad you decided to watch this season through to the end. I can’t say enough about what a beautiful story this series is telling, and I love that a series that from the outside looks like nothing but an excuse for fan service is actually about one of the healthiest relationships I’ve seen portrayed in any form of fiction.
This is the episode where the differences really sunk in for me. It's the smallest thing, but it's that Marin paid for the materials. That simple moment of emphasizing friendship and equality over the usual 'chivalrous' tropes, treating Marin as a person, rather than as a goal or trophy.
Their relationship is built so well, that's just the start and it keeps going in respectful ways non-stop.
People freak out episodes like episode 2, but I always like to remind that, while the show won't shy away from fan-service, it always happens in believable ways and more often than not it's actually just natural (can't take measurements without being in undergarments).
One of my favorite parts of the episode is the symbolism when she pulled him out of the shadows. They are the best couple hands down
UR SO RIGHT FOR THIS!!!! omg 😭
The first two episodes set things up as interesting, but this episode is where I really got invested in the relationship between the two of them. Marin's fast declaration of friendship, and her serious appreciation for what Gojou's already doing, really endear her to us, and we also see Gojou's competence start to shine as well.
Sad conclusion I came to: in Gojou's flashback, he's referring to seeing the dolls for the first time as when he went to his grandfather's place - and I think he means to live. I'm pretty sure that that scene took place soon after his parents passed on. So it's not just a little boy being impressed by craftsmanship, it's also a child in mourning finding beauty and a sense of direction to his life.
- and that's when the little girl he's trying to show this beauty to yells at him for it, and says she hates him. It's no wonder that those twin events shaped his life so much.
The interesting thing is Swallowtail is a real shop the author visted for reference and they allowed her to use it in the manga/anime. So it seems it is depicted quite accurately.
I think you're going to like this show even more as it goes on, and Gojo and Marin develop as individuals and in their relationship.
They're both completely genuine. Gojo isn't helping Marin because he's trying to get with her, and Marin isn't stringing Gojo along to get anything from him either. They're both just having fun doing something that they're passionate about at this point.
I love how Marin blows right through the "oh it'll be too awkward, we can't be seen together" trope and pretty much says without words, "ffs pull your head out your ass boy and let's just go shopping! 😁👍🛒"
Just to point out, *"Swallowtail"* Wig shop actually exist in Tokyo.
I have heard that the real Hina Doll shop that the writer went to for research sold out of the type of doll Gojo keeps in his room.
He had a very particular kind of dream. The kind that make you feel weird the rest of the day. Especially if you know the person
All I want in Season 2 is for there to be a moment where one of Marin's friends makes a move on Gojo.
Episode four is where i started loving this show.
I'm glad you completed it already ☺️.... Can't wait for the other episodes ❤❤❤
There aren't any other episodes that are anywhere near as heavy on the fanservice as episode 2, at least by volume.
Yeah there are scenes that border on episode 2 levels of fanservice but those scenes don't make up 80% of the episode they're in lol.
@@chriswhinery925 The fanservice in Episode 2 also serves a narrative purpose of showing us how Gojo is viewing things. When he smacks himself out of it for a good chunk, he's actually very professional and put-together and the fan service doesn't resurface until he gets flustered again.
Even when he.... *ahem* rings the doorbell, no attention is given to that from the viewer's pov because Gojo didn't notice. He only noticed Marin's reaction, but because she never tells him what caused it, he doesn't get flustered.
I enjoy that the fanservice was largely in service to the story.