Of course, their art looks good, they’ve been pouring over the skill probably even before they went to High School. But it’s hard to believe that when you can’t see it. Just like Yatora, she had to learn about all the different techniques and improve on her skill. Even Mori said the same thing, she just spends more of her time thinking about her art. I know, I know old habits are hard to get rid of, but it is truly frustrating to see him do that to others, especially when the first episode he talks about how it means nothing to him that people call him a genius.
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Now, that being said, I really do think that Yatora should stop calling everyone that is good at art a genius and consistently saying that he only has hard work. In saying so, I think it helps him get over the frustrations that have come in comparing the two and now they can truly be rivals :^). It’s freeing to hear him say that for both of them. I love that Yatora is able to so boldly say that he hates Yotasuke. Typically, this sort of dynamic would make the two parties straight up ignore each other, but in this case, they become more like rivals (who still can’t stand each other). But I have nothing but art’ sentiment, which I sincerely hope we get to explore more in the future, but at the same time, we have Yatora’s thoughts that Yotasuke is a genius and as a result he’s jealous. First and foremost, we have Yotasuke’s ‘You have everything, but choose art. As much as I want Yotasuke and Yatora to be friends, their current situation doesn’t really let that happen. How much time has passed since he left the cram school? How long has he had these feelings within him? But speaking of the meeting on New Year’s, it’s one that I really appreciate. This one, of course, we start at Winter Break for Christmas and only midway through we join Yotasuke for New Years. I can’t actually tell how much time has passed between an episode or even how much time has passed during the episode. My sense of time for this anime always seems out of whack.
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I think there were a lot of shining moments in this episode, especially in the character interactions and I’m excited to see how they will continue to develop overtime.
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Of course, that has been a recurring idea throughout the anime thus far, but this time around we actually get to hear other characters talk about it and even see how affects them mentally. As always, there was a lot to cover in just this single episode, but if we were to boil it down, this episode really honed in on the idea of comparing oneself to others.