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Blood-
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Episode 6
Okay, pop quiz: when was the last time in an anime you saw two adult couples get together for a social night out? Take your time, I'll wait here while you think. *files fingernails* Yeah, exactly. You probably can't. We've all seen plenty of anime scenes of work colleagues getting together for drinks en masse, but two adult couples having a night out? There are more hen's teeth in the world than anime scenes like that. I loved it. And it looks like Cat Boy is not going to be getting the Anemone (the girl from Middle-aged Online Shopper) treatment and become an adoptive kid. Aw, too bad, I would have enjoyed that, but I guess it wouldn't have been a practical arrangement having two guardians who pop in and out of the world regularly. |
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Thesarum
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A nice chill-out episode, and I agree with a lot of the previous posters that these are at least as good if not better than the more action-y fantasy world sections. Yes, a pair of adults doing adult (no, not that sort of "adult"!...) things like arranging to go for drinks and dinner after work just as neighbours and friends was great. Marie is, of course, a bundle of excitable cute energy at almost all times that stretches a little the definition of "adult", but who can complain when she's getting herself so motivated to clean and study?
Marie and Kazehiho have such couple energy, I'd honestly doubt their new friends mental faculties if they did buy the whole "just a relative" thing. Marie going over unattended? It's nice for her to make new friends, but is she going to keep the hat on the entire time? That's a whole pile of social faux-pas. I can almost see the librarian just rolling with it though. |
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Errinundra
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That had me spinning out the whole time, though I thought the same with the librarian. And, yeah, I enjoy the Japan episodes much more. |
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Piglet the Grate
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Yuki, Itsuomi, Kyōya, and Rin (Yubisaki to Renren / A Sign of Affection). Plus the bonus of going to Costco together. |
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Edjwald
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Oh, was that a real question? Dahlia in Bloom, a recent, underrated slice of life isekai IMHO. The first of many such occasions occurred when Wolfred and the female lead have a meal in a tavern after she saves him in the forest.
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*ding**ding**ding* - Winner, winner, chicken dinner. I actually remember that scene now. If I was Edj--, er, I mean if I was super jailhouse lawyer pedantic, I might say that college students, while technically adults, are still in a special category before poop gets adult real, but I'm not, so I'll accept it. As for my esteemed colleague's Dahlia in Bloom citation, I haven't seen the show myself but the question was when have you seen two adult COUPLES have a social night out, not just a single couple enjoying a date night. Oh, by the by, I had the same hat thought others have with respect to Maria getting together with Librarian by herself. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Do the couples in Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku count? They're also co-workers, but their socializing wasn't office related. I can't remember if they actually went out though, or just partied at each other's homes.
On topic, I'm less concerned about the hat which could be considered a fashion choice, than wondering how they'll communicate when there's no translator between them. |
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Edjwald
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D'oh! It's true, adult couples are rare enough, and finding anime where they double date is made tougher by the fact that so many recent anime with adult couples are about them keeping their coupling a secret for one reason or another.
Sing Yesterday for Me had a double date on New Years, but one of the couples was angsty and pointless like so much of that show, so it wasn't exactly fun. |
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Blood-
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Yes, your example counts, Gina. That's another one I had seen myself and forgotten about.
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smurky turkey
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Episode 7 may have been an otherworld episode but it was cute enough to be just as charming as a Japan one. The only exception was a certain corrupt adventurer who is going to be an issue before they can start spelunking. Besides that there was Mewi being fluffed and Wridra being invited to visit Japan. The latter is a bold choice considering she was talking about burning down a village for fun.
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Edjwald
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I hope the dragon's shape change magic has a few more bells and whistles. Wearing a yukata to cover a big honking tail probably won't work as well as wearing a hat conceals Miri's ears.
I seem to recall there was a shot of somebody hiding behind a pillar in the first episode, and I don't think it was one of those lizard man guards. I wonder if it was this magic using doink. Somehow, no matter how big a magic using stud he is, I don't see him being in the same league as an ark dragon whatever ark means in that context. I keep thinking arch dragon. And yeah, the further our leads progress as a couple and the more I invest in them as characters, the less it matters which world they're in entertainment wise. The Japan episodes still have a bit of an edge though. |
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Blood-
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Episode 7
I was surprised that Kazehiho extended the invitation to Dragon Lady after she threw her hissy fit for a number of reasons. First, what makes him think he can bring her over to Japan? He stumbled onto the fact that he can do it with Mariabelle by accident, but what makes him think he can willy nilly do the same with anybody else? Second, how in the hell does squiring around a dragon lady in Japan seem like a good idea? And third, why would he want a third wheel during his hot spring hornfest with a tasty little elf? Geez. Gonna have to deduct some intellect points of him for that one. |
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Errinundra
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I'm still part way through episode 7 but this moment gave me the biggest laugh so far in 2025.
- The boy is much smarter than he looks, and the elf is exactly as smart as she looks, you know? And you might think of them as children... ... but they're living together. (General uproar.) - Elves these days sure are progressive. |
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Gina Szanboti
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As soon as they realized Dragon Lady wanted them to come, I knew her eggs had hatched and she wanted to show off her babbies. She'd been lamenting that no one would see them hatch last time we saw her. I did get a chuckle at the babby shenanigans going on in the background, like climbing Kazehiroho and chewing mom's hair and general rolling around.
I was less enamored with Marie's insistence on Mewi adding "nyan" to his sentences. Not only was it embarrassing for him, it doesn't even make sense since she's hardly fluent enough in Japanese for such verbal tics to be cute, especially since he's speaking neither Japanese nor the common language, so she doesn't even know what he's adding "nyan" to. |
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Thesarum
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"It's not like that!!!" Guys, look: yes it is. |
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