Thoughts on "Otaku ni Koi wa Hanaku" Episode 11: "Was it Hard for an Otaku to Fall in Love?"

Narumi is an office worker who is secretly a rotten girl, and Hirotaka is a serious video game otaku. The romance between the two is a new type of romantic comedy that portrays otaku romance in a positive light. This is a new type of romantic comedy that portrays otaku love in a positive light. This is a new type of romantic comedy that portrays otaku romance in a positive light. In this issue, we will report our impressions of the 11th and final episode.

Episode 10, which aired last week, was the Nana-chan episode. I started watching this week with high expectations for the next episode.
This week's episode started with the daily life of the seniors.

During a holiday weekend when they were relaxing at home, they saw a high school girl on the street.
Koyanagi sees her going to school for club activities even on her day off, and she looks back on her past.
Kabakura-senpai then invites her to join him for a hanami next year, to which Kabakura-senpai happily replies, "All of us together, right?
Even I, a viewer of the show, think that he probably meant "just the two of us." But the good thing about Kabakura-senpai is his insensitivity, which makes me want to ask whether it is his concern, naturalness, or bad intuition!
She looks like a yankee!　On the outside, he looks like a yankee, but on the inside, he looks like a girl!　Kabakura has a kindness about her that is not usually seen, and Koyanagi must have been attracted to it.

On the other hand, Narumi and his friends, who apparently didn't spend much time together during the holiday weekend, had bought some things at a convenience store and were on their way to Hirotake's house.
Well, it is easy to imagine that they had prioritized the events they would be attending, but even so, it is still a surprise that they would finally visit their boyfriend's house on the last day of their vacation. ......

Narumi heads home, imagining how he will react, but in fact, this is the first time she has visited Hirotaka's house alone in the daytime. Come to think of it, I usually go with him after work," she says.

I arrived at Hirotake's house without incident, but there was no response from inside when I pressed the intercom.
I put my hand on the doorknob and to my surprise, it was open!
Narumi steps inside with determination.
Then she sees Hirotake's hand on the floor!
Narumi is scared for a moment, but a closer look inside the room reveals a TV set left on, a video game screen, and a shiny kitchen with no signs of use. He was so hungry that he tried to go to the kitchen, but ran out of energy.

Narumi knocks Hirotake up and throws him in the bath, then calls Koyanagi to ask him what to cook for his hungry friend.
She finds leeks and bacon in the fridge and advises him to make fried rice, which he does despite his reluctance to do so without eggs.

She is lucky to have such a kind girlfriend, Hirotaka.
If it had been summer, you would have been in danger of heat stroke and all sorts of other dangers!

And just as the fried rice is finished, Hirotake returns to the living room after taking a bath.

But, Hirotake-kun?

He was naked, as if he had been drenched in water!

His Hirotaki-kun was hidden by the "wotakoi" logo, and he was able to get away with it on the air, but Narumi saw him and said to him

You should at least put on some pants!"

like an old lady (by Koyanagi-senpai), and that was the end of part A. In part B, Sakura finally made an appearance.

In part B, Mr. Sakurajou, who finally appeared in the previous episode, made an appearance.

Mr. Sakuragi was worried about Nao, who had not logged into the game recently, and showed up at the café.

Returning to the senpai's daily routine, we find Koyanagi-senpai reading a BL comic recommended by Narumi.
At that time, Koyanagi-senpai was reading "Hitorijime My Hero" by Arimemeko, which has been made into an anime, and the cover, if it is a special edition, is ......?

Koyanagi, who has been recommended numerous manga and has always found the right one, seemed to have been knocked out by Narumi's BL manga aesthetics and was very satisfied with the book he had finished this time as well.

However, seeing Koyanagi, Kabakura was a little bit ridiculous, saying, "What are you talking about, it's a BL manga.

When Koyanagi was told, "Why don't we just have a normal guy and a girl?

Naturally, Kabakura-senpai responded with

Kabakura-senpai responded with a crisp, sharp reply, like a knife that has damaged everything it touches.

Koyanagi then recommends a light BL manga to Kabakura, who likes girls' manga.

Kabakura, who fell for Koyanagi's trickery, read the manga he was given and cried, "This is definitely a shoujo manga,

Kabakura-senpai, who fell for Koyanagi's trick, read the manga he was given and cried, "This is a shoujo manga for sure.

Manga is a good thing, isn't it?
Also, Kabakura-senpai is very cute.

Meanwhile, Narumi and his friends were in the middle of asking Hirotake the questions they had been feeling while cooking.
Why were there only leeks and bacon in a refrigerator with nothing else in it? And with the clean room and ironed shirts, Narumi naturally cannot help but feel the presence of a mysterious person.

However, Narumi's worries were instantly erased.

Yes, the culprit, or rather the helper, of the mysterious series of incidents was his well-behaved younger brother, Nao-chan.
He is really a good little brother.

As for Sho-chan, he was in the middle of talking to Mr. Sakuragi who was studying at a cafe.

When Mr. Sakuragi asked him why he was not logging in to online games as much as he used to, he replied that he did not want to bother his brother who spends most of his time playing games during holidays (he borrows Hirotaka's PC to play online games with Mr. Sakuragi) and that he was working part-time during the long vacations because the number of part-time jobs he had was decreasing. He said that he had been working part-time.
Mr. Sakuragi was relieved to learn that she was not bored with the game, and he gave her a game plan note that he had come up with himself.
This couple is both very healthy. ......
(*They are not yet a couple. (Or rather, there is no sign that they might become one.)

And as for the older brother, who had spent the holidays playing games without a care in the world thanks to his kind-hearted younger brother, Narumi took him out for a rehabilitation session in the name of a neighborhood date.

I know what it's like to eat, sleep, and play games during the holidays, and it's hard to come back to reality when you're living a depraved life.

However, Hirotake is down here because of hunger!
In fact, Hirotake, who is a big eater, could not recover from his fasting life with just fried rice.

After making up for his hunger with nutritional supplements, he was about to go back to his room when Narumi suddenly ran out of the room.
When Hirotake asked what was going on, Narumi told him, "My favorite voice actor is going to appear on live TV.
I recorded it, but I want to sit in front of the TV and watch it. ...... I totally understand that mentality.

The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that the show is recorded.

I'm not going to let you go without me.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard that line in my life as an otaku,

But with one word from Narumi, Hirotake's motivation overflows.

He showed his manly spirit by making a super dash!

I was impressed that you could run that fast, Hirotake-kun!

I was impressed for a short time.
After just a brief dash, Hirotake ran out of energy.

I guess that's the extent of the athletic ability of a game wotaku who spends his days off playing video games.
I can really sympathize with him.

At the end, Narumi, who says he has a shoujo manga brain, asks the three boys who their first love is.
When the two boys didn't answer, she changed the subject to their first love in two dimensions.

The three boys quickly came up with "Nakoruru (SAMURAI SHODOWN)," "Kyoko Otonashi (Mezon Ikkoku)," and "Mr. Doi (Oshidama Rantaro)," while Koyanagi gave Yuki Amami's name, but that is not 2-D, is it? Even if you consider it from the time of Takarazuka's current male actor, it is still 2.5 dimensional ...... If from there he admired Amami and went on to male dress (cosplay), then Koyanagi-senpai is the one who has the deepest karma or .......

The first thing that comes to my mind is that Kabakura senpai, who is now pushing for Sakura-chan ("Card Captor Sakura"), is Otonashi Kyoko (she used to have a crush on her older sister), and that boob star Hirotake's first love is Nakoruru, you say?

When Narumi asked him about it, Hirotake told him that everyone has a pure heart.
He replies with a cool smile, "It 's not like I was born with boobs," to which Narumi responds with an all-out scolding.

Then, when Nao-chan, who says that her first love was a kindergarten teacher, inadvertently says , "My brother was your first love, wasn't he?
Hirotake's first love is Narumi, after all.

The eleventh episode ended with this question.

I thought I was going to go to ......, but what is it?
I thought it was going to be .......

Aaahhhhhhhh, is this the last episode～～～～!
I didn't hear that～～～～!!!!

No, I had a faint feeling from the middle that it might be the last episode.

So I ended up watching the entire last episode of "Otaku ni Koi wa Hanaku" (It's hard to fall in love with an otaku) in rear-view mode.

The final episode had a great sense of closure, so I felt like "It's all over! But I also feel like there were a lot of couples who said "It's not hard to fall in love at all. ......" and some of them never became couples in the first place, so I would like to see what happens to these three couples in the second season.

I'd like to see what happens to these three couples if there is a second season of the show.
Thanks for a great time!

11 "Otaku ni koi wa dakyu ni wa wa danaikai" (It's Hard to Fall in Love as an Otaku)
On the last day of the holiday weekend, Narumi heads to Hirotake's house.
Narumi's imagination is running wild as to how Hirotaka will react to his unannounced visit, but when he arrives at the house and rings the doorbell, there is no response. ......?

<Staff>.
Script: Tomoko Shinozuka / Storyboards: Satoru Watanabe, Hiroyuki Shimazu / Director: Daisuke Takashima / Chief Animation Directors: Kyohiro Yasuda, Yao Araki

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