Hello everyone,
Here we are for another post talking about the anime series Denpa Onna To Seishun Otoko that after the landmine of Ano Hana (that we talked about yesterday) confirm itself as the best series of this season till this point with another great episode from both emotional and artistical standpoint.
Yes, because this time for the first time in this series the story is not narrated from Makoto point of view (that by the way I like a lot as protagonist), but from the point of view of the cutest 40 year old aunt in the world! Meme Touwa!
This episode tracked what happened in the last couple of episodes from Meme point of view in her struggle with many problems. First of all we have the fact that she's getting old (but she does still look incredibly good to be a 40 year old to be honest) and secondly the struggle with her past (namely Elliot, her lover from which Erio is born).
If I have to think about problems in this episode it would be the age and look doesn't match much in the characters. This is evident especially after they showed that flashback when Meme was a child and the old grandma was already old.
Counting Meme as seven year old in that flashback we have a 33 years range of time passed between then and now. If the grandma is now 80 (reasonable estimate) it would mean that she was 47 at the time of the flashback that is only 7 year more than Meme now...but somehow she looked a lot older!
But to remain on the positive side, let's think that our Meme has some special gene that allow her to remain young and beautiful indefinitely! I loved her facial reaction to being proposed to be honest!
The last bad note I can say on this episode is that the rest of the cast has been completely forgotten into this Meme centric episode apart from old scenes so we got only some glimpse of Erio and Ryuuko cuteness.
That's all for this week, now we just have to wait for the next episode hoping it is the right time to present us the new gray haired girl that I'm waiting from a lot of time to see!
Before concluding the post, let's review my rankings!
Ryuuko : +23 points (+3 points because her only line was terribly cute)
Erio : +19 points (+1 point)
Maekawa : +16 points (+1 point)
Meme : +15 points (+6 points)
OP Gray haired girl : +0 points (no change as she's still missing from the cast)
See you soon,
feal87