Sukitte Ii na yo. discussion thread

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Episode 3:

- Haha Yamato is entirely too excited at the idea of going with Mei to get his hair cut.
- Oh that Kobayashi-mama.
- Heh. Yamato cabn't even go outside without being swarmed by women.

- Ewwwww. Aiko just gives Mei the bitchiest looks. Ewwwwwwwww. Someone smack her, please.
- BOWLING QUEEN MEI! XD
- Damn Yamato, just how many girls have you been with? I doubt Aiko is the only one you've screwed.
- Oh, he did it to be nice. Er, or something.
- Yeesh. Aiko is messed up. Don't force your warped values on Mei damnit.

- Yay, a bit of backstory for Yamato. It's kept simple and to the point. Effective.
- They're such an adorable couple, jeeze.

But, stupid Aiko. I hope she's taken out of the picture soon.

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Episode 4:

- Lots of attention on Mei. This won't end well.
- I hear a Komatsu Mikako! Too bad it's just some groupie girl we'll never see again.
- Well Hayakawa is sure shady looking at hell, isn't he? Could they make it more obvious?
- Yamato strikes me as a pretty good judge of character, generally. Yes, he'll associate with less than desirable people because he wants to fit in, but I think he's conscious of what the people around him are really like. So does he really not see what a creep Hayakawa is?
- Mei is assaulting a teacher!
- Yeeeeep, Hayakaa is working for Aiko.
- Or... not quite? They're in contact but Hayakawa is doing his own thing.

- Well, Yamato is getting suspicious about Hayakawa at least.
- Hayakawa's deal defnitely seems to be jealousy. He's just as popular as Yamato, but Yamato seems to get a lot more respect. And so now he's trying to drive a wedge between Yamato and Mei out of spite.
- Wooooooooooow this guy is a creep to the max. Jeeze. Please tell me Mei isn't dumb enough to buy this nonsense. Please.
- HAH YES! Fuck yes Mei why are you so awesome? She's not falling for this shit at all.
- Oooooooooh, Yamato sees through the shit too. And gets very, very jealous in the process. I'm actually totally okay with the possessive way he acted just there, because it's in the context of Hayakawa trying to steal Mei away, and then acting like a brat when she rejects him. A little bit of possessiveness right here just shows how deeply affected Yamato is by Mei.

- Oh yay! Fuuuuck I keep falling more and more in love with Mei. Aiko is bitchy, but she doesn't seem to be a fundamentally bad person like Hayakawa. So seeing Mei step in for her is pretty nice, since it should lead to Aiko joining the good side. Though it might take a while longer.
- Nope, Aiko is already taken care of. Nice.

Gaaaaaaah, so good. Can this show do anything wrong? They even wrapped up a "jealous girl bullying" plotline nice and quick, and got some great development out of it for Mei.

[Damius]

- So, Mei didn’t make friends since she was blamed by her friends about the rabbit death. That was a really long time ago...
- Well, the male lead looks to be the school most popular guy.
- Asami looks great. I already feel sad for her…
- Mei got the wrong idea on who lifted her skirt… He laughed at it and falls in love.
- Yamato goes to apologize to Mei for his friend. The bullying has already started from the other girls against Mei…
- It sure would be fun to know her. I approve 100%.
- And Mei gives Yamato bandages… is it the first time in she gave someone else something since the rabbit isssue? That was a nice scene.
- No….not a stalker…
- Great she called Yamato and he runs to her. His number was really useful.
- Yamato kissed Mei in front of that stalker.

That was really good. I really liked the pace of this episode. I hope it will be this good for all the episodes.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by Damius

- Mei got the wrong idea on who lifted her skirt… He laughed at it and falls in love.

She's making friends in a grossly-underpowered, mundane version of the Nanoha way!

[Fencedude]

Surprisingly it seems this show is going to be about Mei BEFRIENDING all the girls in school.

Not what I expected.

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Originally Posted by Ingraman

She's making friends in a grossly-underpowered, mundane version of the Nanoha way!

Hey, Nanoha's very first BEFRIENDING was when she smacked Arisa across the face at like, age 5.

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Wow there's a lot more kissing early on in shoujo romances than shounen. At the end there, Yamato kissed her more times than I'd expect in an entire series. And some serious words to go with all that. Things move a lot more quickly in general. But they couldn't really have a mutual confirmation of love as early as, say, the third episode. Considering how aggressive that all was, I'd be curious to see how he'd try to play it off.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by Fencedude

Hey, Nanoha's very first BEFRIENDING was when she smacked Arisa across the face at like, age 5.

^^; Forgot about that one...

Well, Mei can smack or use big pink energy beams on the rest of the kids in school to bring them to her side, and I won't mind. ;p

[Damius]

Originally Posted by Ingraman

She's making friends in a grossly-underpowered, mundane version of the Nanoha way!

I definitely need to watch Nanoha as soon as I can... I can't even understand why it's not already done...

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Wow, things are really moving fast in this. They don't both agree that they're dating yet, though. So Yamato sleeps with girls when prompted as well. I wish Mei would've confronted him on that more. I guess they have to take up the length of the series dealing with these issues, though. It wouldn't be right if they were just dating and all was good this early on. What would they do for the rest of the series? Live a pleasant life together? Hmm... actually that doesn't sound too bad. Well this has been good as well, so that's fine.