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Gomen ne Seishun ep 8 | Thoughts

gomen ne seishun

Things seem to be going well, but that 14 year old mistake sort of comes back…

November 30, 2014 ・ merkypie

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Episode Highlights

  • Hara’s overemotional fanboy moment just proves that Kankurou is making Nishikido work harder than he’s ever done before on a drama
  • ” I just told you I love you, but then a car came, and then after I confessed to you, after the car came, all you have to say to me is thank you?” Mitsushima deserves all the awards.
  • ” Don’t judge me at first glance “, is it me or is the lyrics to this drama’s theme song are now just being spelt out before us?
  • ” Ah, you like the girls who are reserved and timidly wave from behind their backs, right? I’m not good enough. ” / ” No, you’re fine the way you are. You’re great. You’re perfect. ” — Hara, you’re a nice guy.
  • Speaking of which, this is the first time I’ve seen a girl get friendzoned.
  • ” I’m a catholic, I only date someone that I’m going to get married to! ” — Risa is such a good catholic lol
  • ” How dare you call him a girl, you bastard! He’s a boy! He has a penis! I know! I taught him how to take a piss with it!”, i had a laugh.
  • Again, Mitsushima desires all the awards.
  • Nishikido fanservice: He wears a gakuran for no reason other than to feel pumped

This episode was definitely a change of pace. The story moved quickly and tackled a pretty sensitive issue with enough tact that it didn’t seem awkward to watch. Majority of this episode was spent helping Cosume’s father come to terms with GID and save the school.

Because, well, Cosume’s father is the chairman of the school’s board and, due to witnessing his son run around in a girl’s school uniform and dating other boys, decided to disband the integration project and cancel the cultural festival because its making his son act weird. Cosume, feeling responsible for what happens, tries to act like a “boy” to win his father back but his father just doesn’t want to understand. Hara, though, doesn’t accept this at all and practically goes everyday to Chairman Murai’s home to plead the man to allow the school to hold the festival.

He even brings his students over but it’s all fruitless.

Eventually, Hara along with Hachiya, make another attempt to speak to the Chairman and only when Hara makes a sacrifice for his own job does the Chairman decide to speak to Hara. The teacher then finally figures out why the Chairman is angry. He’s a father, he has a family, and no matter how much material he reads on GID he doesn’t understand why his son is doing this. To him, his son is choosing to live a a woman… but not that it’s actually a mental and biological conflict. The next day, before school starts, Hara makes an attempt to explain Cosume’s situation to his father…

Unintentionally, Hara uses Bluray discs and their cases as an example to explain GID when he forgets the DVD for the movie “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. But the father is too caught up on why the RHPS bluray case is missing it’s disc. Hara repeatedly tells him that the missing BR has nothing to do with the lesson… and here we queue in the best scene of the episode.

Here, Cosume isn’t reduced to a simple comical character. Throughout this drama, Cosume has always been the cute little gay boy cheering on his crush, the big athletic student council president. But in this scene we see that Cosume is a human, a person with feelings and is at conflict with himself because he is truly a woman trapped in a man’s body. Cosume is in tears and I honestly felt so bad for him. It’s not fair and to iive a lie is the worst way to live.

But the biggest moment, I think, is when Chairman Murai’s emotional breakdown after arguing with Hara about the issue of the missing BR. We are shown that an issue like this isn’t black and white,

” This is the boy I’m protecting! The boy that I first held in my arms. The boy that I saw come into this world! I already understand! I totally understand! But this is my son!”

I have to give Kankurou applause. He simply didn’t bring up GID and use it as an excuse to explain away homosexual attraction between characters (I’m looking at you Last Friends). It’s brought up, explained in detail, and we still see a family trying to struggle with the reality of it. I liked that a lot.

Meanwhile, the main story slowly opened up a bit more this episode. Yuko, Hara’s teenage wet dream, came back to town after a 14 year disappearance act. At the same time, the wet dream’s sister, Risa, confesses her feelings to Hara in which she’s completely friendzoned…

The highlight of that moment though is Mitsushima’s performance. She can switch through moods like a switch and seeing her giggle like a little girl when Hara offers his hand for a handshake is just… so… goddamn… adorable oh my god.

Next week, with Yuko back in the picture, it seems like Hara has no choice but to confess that he’s the culprit that caused Saint Mishima to nearly burn down 14 years prior… but before he does that, it looks like he needs to figure out his feelings for Yuko and perhaps acknowledge that Risa is the better choice of the two sisters.

I hope.

The Hara face of tonight was hilarious:

wpid-20141130_224136.jpg” I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years before I even was a principal. Kaba isn’t a prinicipal. No, Kaba became a principal ”

Cue face.