Golden Time - 05 [HorribleSubs]



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Well...the whole "spirit of Tada Banri" is lame, but necessary so we can understand his missing past. I still think it is stupid, but without a Regaining All His Memories at Once "I remember everything!"-type cliché, there's not really a good way to do flashbacks, considering this series is only from his viewpoint, with occasional cuts to Kouko being lonely.

I wonder if anyone else in the series thinks that its weird how Linda only refers to Banri by full name, and everyone else is addressed normally. Considering she was probably his girlfriend, she's a good actress. She either convinced him in his addled state to follow her to Tokyo, or she got caught in her own lie and had to attend school in Tokyo herself if she was going elsewhere.

As for Kouko, now that she can finally be herself, she's a little crazy. Her angry wrath toward Yana after being rejected is funny, but her clingy, neediness toward Banri is a little creepy. She's doing girlfriend-like things with the matching mirrors, but adamantly stating that they are friends after he confessed to her. I think it is largely because she doesn't know how else to act. She's been stalker-girlfriend to Yana for so long, and I doubt she had any real friends in the meantime. She's just been focused solely on him, and doesn't know how friends act with each other, so she's forced to fall back on girlfriend-tactics. It's funny and pathetic at the same time.