Love Through A Prism Ep 2 & 3

Unfortunately for Lili, things were pretty rough for the first day of class. A sketchy leftover pie for breakfast, failure to ride a bike when she thought it’d be easy (she quickly learned it wasn’t), and then drawing unwanted attention from the infamous three “S” (Stacy, Shirley, Sara, the problematic trio). Each of them are after a guy: Shirley’s after Arthur, Sara’s after George in Sculpture, Thomas from Stained-Glass. So naturally they were jealous over the fact she was talking to Arthur (or rather, was approach first by the said guy), who happens to be Shirley’s target. Those brats knocked her over and stole her blue pigment to try and spoil her assignment. But thanks to Kit’s generosity, he lent her his blue pigment (or rather, to be more specific, it was Ultra marine, which also happened to be a VERY expensive pigment!) so she could complete her assignment.

Though I will confess: I did roll my eyes thinking, “idiots” when they took that from her. After-all, the sky isn’t always blue. It can be green or black from a nasty storm, pink and purple, yellow and orange for sunrise and sunset, there could also be a rainbow. In short, there’s a variety of colours that can be used for it. But go figure, when one is fixated simply on what’s in front of them, which was the case with Lili and many of the other students: They only thought to paint the sky blue as they saw above them. So in hindsight, Lili lost opportunity that could’ve given her that spontaneous push she needed to potentially approach the painting differently than she had.

Of course the one person who didn’t do that, was Kit. He never intended to paint it blue to begin with. From the get go, he was both on the ground and looking at it. What he painted was a bird in a puddle that reflected the sky above them in the hour of dusk or dawn. It’s no wonder that he secured first place. The runner ups, which consisted Lili for second place and Peter for third, both painted the blue sky above them, and nothing more.

Although Lili managed to nab second place, Professor Brant had explained to her that her weakness at the moment is being too by the book. And to her credit, she knows that much, which was why she wanted to take the opportunity to study abroad in the first place.

Meanwhile Kit is the very opposite of her. He draws freely and spontaneously. He will drop everything to stop and do a very quick drawing of whatever caught his eye. And it’s usually the unexpected little things that he finds beautiful. From spotting a butterfly in the field, or a cute little robin on a branch over the river, and then the beautiful field of lilums he read up in a book. For Kit, drawing is a way of preserving beautiful memories.

And as eccentric and a blunt as Kit is, he’s honestly not a bad guy. Sure he has said some stupid things to Lili (like how she reminds him of his horse, Aphrodite), but he has also said some good things too. Although he doesn’t care about the rankings or the fact he’s at the top of the grade, it’s no empty words when he tells her that she’ll be able to get first place.

The most mysterious part about Kit was when he told he doesn’t have the freedom Lili thinks he has. There was a moment when she grumbled about how men has more freedom of choice than women, but for his own case, Kit said that’s not true. It is interesting to find out more about his background, though one could certainly sense there’s more to him than meets the eye, especially given that he talks about the ‘lack of freedom’. Smells like nobility if anything (not to mention, we know he has a horse). But considering how he sort of dresses like a slob and his eccentric ways, he certainly dodging the ladies who are more interested in making headway with the nobles at the academy than pursuing the arts.

Lili also came to learn that Kit is in-fact Human and has his own shortcomings. It was actually encouraging for her to see that he’s not in-fact the kind of genius artist who can do anything. When he tried out using her takake brush to draw, it was so sloppy that it actually made him feel embarrassed. It was really adorable actually. Naturally this is actually Lili’s strong point, so when she wants to draw something quickly, using a Yatate, (traditional Japanese writing utensil) is actually the best way to do quick drawings on the go.

It goes without saying, Lili and Kit’s bonding session in these two episodes has been very charming. The spontaneous adventure Kit dragged her along to find flowers said to be in a cave god knows where turned out to be a fun one that allowed her to take in the sights and experiences she had once only seen in paintings.

Although Lili sees Kit as a strong rival, she has come to appreciate the way he approaches art and understands there’s a lot she can learn from him. There were a couple of instances when she did try to share with Kit about why she have to get first place, but typical Kit got distracted the moment she almost does!

Either way, I’m really looking forward to seeing their relationship progress!

With that said: After watching episode 2 and 3, there’s one thing that became abundantly clear to me. The pace this show is formatted to be binged-watchable. Apart from a 43 seconds intro, there’s no real OP or ED Themes, episodes are formatted in a way where it feels like this is more of a multi-episode movie if you get what I mean? They are absolutely maximizing the time, and are delivering the best quality of which they can catered to the pace they’ve set themselves to follow.

For that reason, I can tell this is going to be a tricky one to cover. Not because it’s difficult to write about, but it’s so hard to slam on the breaks and stop watching to write up the post before moving onto the next one! But I also feel due to the way the series has been arranged, it will make a lot more sense to write most entries in double, or even triple posts since it feels more like a “conclusive episode” as episode 2 and 3 were. So that’s pretty much how I plan to approach this coverage.