Oh boy. I am so. Utterly. Excited. about this new episode of Girlfriend. So. So excited. Can’t you see my face?
You see that face? All the excitement.
Well, I better start the recap before I get too excited and explode.
So the episode starts out with a new group of people. The student council people. I mean technically we saw them for like 10 seconds in episode 1 but I don’t count that.
Apparently the cafeteria staff is stuck on vacation due to bad weather. And they traveled to Easter Island of all places. Weird.
So..the entire cafeteria staff went together on vacation to the same place? That’s weird. I mean like…everyone from my department doesn’t go on vacation to the same place at the same time. That’d just be silly. But regardless, now the student cafeteria is closed. OHHHH NOOOOO.
So the vice principal comes in to tell them to inform the students that they’re going to have to bring their own lunches as the student store got a bit overrun.
Then..sigh…the student council president (aka captain retard) decides to make the suggestion, “HEY! Why don’t WE make lunches instead?”
Everyone else has the standard, “um, no that’s a stupid idea.” to which she responds “No! come on! let’s do it!” The vice principal then chimes in that that’s a great idea and they have all the food ordered so if they didn’t use it it’d go bad.
So….so why the fuck did you ask them to tell them to bring their own lunches to begin with? If you knew you had that food and it would go bad, why didn’t you…oh I don’t know, go to the culinary club first and ask them instead of jump right to “tell everyone to bring their own food”? Oh fuck this is going to be one of THOSE episodes that I bitch at a lot isn’t it? Aw fuck.
So they all begin to work on making lunches for everyone. The problem? The student council president is a useless sack of crap.
List of failures
She can’t peel potatoes
She can’t divy out portions
Christ, SHE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO BOIL WATER
Everyone gets understandably irritated at her for being fucking useless, but it’s okay, because everyone forgives her because she can make tea.
At one point they even ask each other
and then they just laugh it off.
NO! NO! That is a LEGITIMATE QUESTION! How did that that USELESS BITCH become the president? She sucks at EVERYTHING except making tea. EVERYTHING.
TELL ME!
Oki guessed free blowjobs. I’m going with free blowjobs.
(sigh) So then on top of that, even though they’re supposed to be emphasizing students to bring in their lunch, the president thinks it would be a fantastic idea to say fuck that and ask more people to come and overwhelm the volunteer staff! Seriously. Fuck you, you idiot.
The episode ends just how you think it would end. They make it through and everybody’s happy. But unlike this normal trope and they discover something that the president’s good at, nope, she just sucks. End of episode.
I don’t know what they were trying to convey in this episode. That it’s okay to suck at everything as long as you can make tea?
The vice principal gets sick of her shit quite often but after a cup of (what i suspect drugged) tea, she always calms down, thinking she has the best intentions.
See, here’s my problem with that. She always volunteers them for shit that would be really difficult and inconvenient for them. And because she sucks so much at everything, they end up doing all of the work. And she just compiles more and more crap on top of them, to the point that they’re completely overwhelmed and then she just throws more crap on top of them all with a smile asking “please”?
She has absolutely no business being a leader of any kind and if she were the prime minister of Japan they’d all be dead within a week. Oh well, at least they’d all die drinking nice tea.
This episode was STUPID. Not only have we not seen a dude yet, but all it did was actually create a character in this show I hate. That’s right. Girlfriend actually made me feel something towards a character. And it was pure Ire. So…good job I guess.
All I have to say is, please dear god tell me that I won’t have to deal with this idiot again….please?
Episode 4/10
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
-Hideki
I agree with free blowjobs.
Hello. Just wanted to tell you that there will most likely be no dude in this. This isn’t named “Girlfriend” because there will be a boyfriend, but because it’s adapted after a dating sim that’s named “Girlfriend (Kakokari)”. Said game does have a main character…sort of. You never leave first person and he doesn’t have a name or a voice. Same with his actions – you decide everything, no dialogue path and no action is taken without you giving the command first. They’re trying really hard to make it seem as if you, the player, are the main character. And this decision to include no important male was made as to not upset the players of the game that don’t want their waifus falling in love with some random anime original character. Unfortunately, the game isn’t translated so my info might not be 100% accurate, but I think I studied it enough to present it like this.
Anyway, don’t let that info dump make you think I actually like this anime. I just wanted to clear things up. Your reviews are hilarious and fit this dumb show perfectly. Keep them coming please :))