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Jul 20, 5:56 PM
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Great anime so far! 👌
Jul 20, 11:39 PM
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Alya's sister really did say "ara ara" O_O!!
Jul 21, 1:26 AM

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Reply to rahez
In this episode, Does Masha know about Masachika Kuze is her childhood friend?

While watching, I wondered about her expression when she meets Masachika Kuze🤔
@rahez She definitely thinks Kuze as her childhood friend, which she used to call "Saa".

Jul 21, 2:06 AM
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KingNotSkilled said:
@rahez She definitely thinks Kuze as her childhood friend, which she used to call "Saa".


Yup, Masha speak russian to Kuze, but as far I remember in episode 3. Kuze doesn't reply to Masha after she speaks Russian. So I hesitate Masha knew Kuze is her childhood friend🤔
Jul 21, 11:02 AM
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oohhhh finally, the backstory episode been waiting for this one so we got a see alya backstory on how she became like this leader/perfectionist and we got a Lil glimpse of kuze backstory as well, the ep was good not bad or great but average and I think that alya sis is the same girl as kuze bff....
Jul 21, 12:39 PM
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Aug 2023
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I NEED MY DANCE SCENEEEEE
Jul 21, 9:08 PM
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Nov 2019
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They didn't liven up the dance, they are skipping a lot of things from the original story. Horrible
Jul 21, 10:44 PM
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Гойда Z СВО
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Jul 21, 11:33 PM
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May 2019
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the show continuingly introduce best girl after best girl, not complaining tho
Jul 22, 2:47 AM
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Apr 2020
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peakpeakpeakpeak
Jul 22, 3:01 AM
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Aug 2023
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It's Wholesome! And I was waiting for the episode for one whole week. The characters are really really really cute and pretty, not gonna lie. And the story seems more original. It also seems like the anime won't become those kind of animes where they center everything on fan-service.
Jul 22, 12:57 PM
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Why is the sister going on top of the mc like that. She seems like a degen lol
Jul 22, 5:01 PM
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Nice backsory, so cute
Jul 22, 6:35 PM
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Aug 2023
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more wholesome than i imagined it would be
Jul 22, 6:44 PM
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Oct 2019
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What a BEAUTIFUL episode, I was moved by the dance scene and the whole episode was very good, but I'm really sad for the protagonist's sister
Jul 22, 9:19 PM

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Brought up Alya's ballet and how she could master the simple folk dance multiple times, then didn't show any dancing. What a disappointing tease. Footloose but no dancing at the end.

Alya's backstory makes her a bit petty, but then again there was that one group project in 8th grade on the Silk Road where the other three peopledidn't pull their weight and we got a mediocre score. So she's just like me fr fr.

It turns out Kuze knows every Russian speaking woman in Japan. Masha's not as pretty as Alya's but she's still cute, is fun, and doesn't seem as high maintenance. Might be Team Masha now.
Jul 23, 8:31 AM
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Dec 2021
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I think Macha is his childhood friend, but I'm not totally sure because their hair colors are different. ( ̄^ ̄)
Jul 24, 8:20 AM
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Masha Wins this lesgooooooooooooooo
Jul 24, 5:46 PM

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The FMC's russian sound okay but the rest of them sound more like polish lmao it's endlessly entertaining to listen to them. It's entertaining to listen to non-dub anime with slavic words, being slavic languages speaker myself, like i'm sorry but i never thought i'd hear извини in anime lmao

Also last episode was his sister, what the hell with HER sister now?! Did i miss a harem tag over here???? Before the ending of the episode i wanted to write how the MMC has some leverage and might as well be deserving of the FMC, but what the hell now???
Jul 25, 12:10 PM

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Oh, so it was Alya's sister back then, that's why the eyes are so similar. And we also saw that his parents divorced and that's why he and his sister usually stay at different places. The first part was quite generic this time though and not that funny. You can't just show me Yuki in episode 2 and then have her absent for 99% of episode 3 like that...
Jul 25, 6:11 PM
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Oct 2019
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Can someone tell my why Masha didn't tell Kuze that they knew each other before? Honestly I don't see a reason not to.
Jul 27, 11:23 AM
Supreme Tsundere

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The highlight of this episode for me was Masha, she worked for me when reading, but they really brought out all of her charm in this adaptation, she was so adorable to see, and they make it even more direct here, that she is connected to Masachika, it should be obvious but I don't want to spoil either way.
Masha is such a rascal, testing him with Russian right at the start...

That scene where he takes Alisa off to dance was worth of a screenshot to save as an wallpaper, beautiful.

Ricky16 said:
Lol 🤣 that doll definitely represents Alya-san's reaction.

YES, this screenshot I was talking about.

rahez said:
In this episode, Does Masha know about Masachika Kuze is her childhood friend?

LN spoilers, without spoiling outside of what is needed to reply to that.

is also why she tends to behave a lot like an older sister to him, she will spoil him quite a bit, she is a very supportive character, I m very happy they captured her personality so well, the OST was great too.
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Jul 27, 10:19 PM

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Sep 2022
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A cute episode, really like Masha's calm, relaxing vibe. She seems really sweet.
Jul 29, 1:32 PM

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this show is like hallmark movies but for weebs
Jul 29, 2:39 PM
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Jan 2019
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Great rom com so far but i also wish we could just get rom coms without a thousand people liking the mc. show some love to the mc's best friends for once.
Jul 31, 2:31 PM

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Alya's such a hardworking gal. I'm glad Masachika is there to offer a different perspective and take some of that pressure off. Mariya instantly calling out the rom-com tropes is great. She wants that relationship to progress stat!
Aug 6, 12:51 AM

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Aww that was actually a really sweat episode, understanding Alya's backstory this early on i think was a good move since it can explain a lot about her character, personality and importantly, what she sees in Masachika.
I'm also quite happy we get to see early on how Alya and Masachika met, it was equally sweet but pretty interesting how Alya's first impressions changed so much about Masachika in what seems like a short amount of time

I actually vibe with Masachika as the MC, he's shaping up to be a decent and respectable MC in my eyes. He's like, kinda layback were its funny but at the same time can get shit done, has decent morals and awareness, can be funny as shit, but can also take the initiative and has some rizz to him that i feel like can put most SOL MC's to shame.

Oh, well i guess the explanation for why Masachika and Yuki live separately and act as "childhood friends" was what i expected, interested how deep that plot point will go. Equally so on Masha, girl kinda just came into the show listened to Alya yap about how she lowkey likes Masachika, then looked at Masachika once and was like "yeah, he's the one".
Aug 6, 5:31 PM
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this was an actual great episode
there was no unnecessary sexualization of the characters
as soon as i saw the tea i thought it was gonna spill on their clothes to make some sexual scene
but that didnt happen, and when the tea did spill it spilled on the floor at the end of the episode
did this episode have a different director or something? it was just a far better episode than the first two
Aug 7, 12:39 AM
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this was an actual great episode
there was no unnecessary sexualization of the characters
as soon as i saw the tea i thought it was gonna spill on their clothes to make some sexual scene
but that didnt happen, and when the tea did spill it spilled on the floor at the end of the episode
did this episode have a different director or something? it was just a far better episode than the first two
@ToleratedToast6 That's simply how it unfolded in the LN. Nothing more. And that tea scene is an anime original. The novel one was different.
Aug 8, 12:08 AM
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very unique animie. a great cahnge is the stereotypical tropes
Aug 8, 3:09 AM
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Mar 2020
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Alya...-nyan??

Dang it's not only funny and cute but it also hits you in the feels a little as well. And also I just realized it but, are they pulling a chainsaw man and giving a new and different ending theme for each episode??!


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Aug 8, 7:24 AM
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Alya & Kuze's backstory of how they met & their interactions were done really well.
Aug 9, 3:02 AM
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nice love (back)story of tryhard confronting the slacker on detailing their ideals. Kuze such teasing chad. How fast she change from considerate but loner classmate in past, suddenly to tsundere 'friend'.
teddy bear! Alya cat! prez the lion! Kuze rizz stunlocked oneesan. oof his family rough times, then funny airhead sis suddenly became best mom.
Aug 9, 12:23 PM
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Nov 2021
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Why they gotta strech out the story bruh no point in that
Aug 9, 8:47 PM
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it`s very exciting
Aug 11, 1:49 PM
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it just okaye anime
Aug 11, 7:21 PM

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Battle of childhood friends.
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They included the native language with that backstory scene, that was awesome! You don’t often see that in anime. It made the backstory a lot more interesting!

And that scene with the tea where Masha burns Mashachika wasn’t entirely her being a ditz. It’s actually quite understandable, considering what she was trying to do before hand, comforting him and all. In context of that, it’s definitely an easy mistake to make.
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