May 04, 2024
I like to think of myself as disillusioned with Western pop media and more in tune with weeaboo culture, but I have to admit, I'd never heard Koi no Doubles, and I got all the Western song references in this chapter.
As always, our perceptions of ourselves are far from reality.
Michi's got her priorities straight. Cats are important!
Anyway, this was another well-done chapter. It starts off casually dropping that detail about the computer virus, but veers pretty quickly into a standard—one might say anime cliché—heartwarming/depressing impoverished orphanage story. In the middle of that, you get gut punched with a detail about the past wars in this story.
And then you get the events of two chapters ago, rushed through from a different perspective, luring you into a sense of familiarity, letting your guard down for that twist at the end. Nicely done.