Episode 2
So Alice has come to live in Japan with Shinobu, pretty sweet! Lets see how she copes being in a different country.
***SPOILERS***
She brought an Oxo man over with her? Strange girl!
Shinobu's sister is a model which is pretty cool. We get Alice's view on all the characters which is pretty fun. They all still seem pretty funny and normal. Poor Alice has a thing about being short, I did notice in the opening credits that she was a lot shorter, then Aya gets upset by being called flat chested.
Poor Alice felt like she had a rival purely because Shino likes their English teacher, she then ends up teaching the class English instead.
It really is just cute. "Moe" is apparently the word for cute... Am I actually learning something here? I hate learning (mwuhahaha.)
We then start the blonde hair thing, Shino (who is in love with foreigners) wants blonde hair. Would is suit her? Not how Alice imagines it.
So Alice wants to help people when she grows up, Shino wants to be a interpreter and the other two end up fighting. Though Aya seems to want to be a bride.
The four of them are really lovely and I can't fault the anime for what it is. Just fun!
It doesn't have much of a point other then seeing the four of them getting on and doing normal things, but you also get a little peak into learning Japanese and the struggles Alice might have.
I enjoyed this episode a lot, it carried on all the strong points from the first episode but the style also changed a little. Whereas the first episode had a story that went from point A to point B (the story of how Shino and Alice met and why Alice moved to Japan) whereas this one just followed them and showed normal kids jumping from topic A to topic B without much of an in between.
To be honest with you it might not be the most interesting series to blog about as there really isn't anything to it but I have enjoyed watching it greatly. There isn't anything too deep in it just watching characters get on with life.
I like watching it mainly to see the bond growing between the characters. They are four very different people and it is interesting seeing them interact. It is also interesting seeing how Alice adapts to her new life.
To be honest I didn't like the episode as much as the first purely because it kept skipping, not to say I didn't like the episode at all I still thought of it highly positively, but I do like having a little structure and skipping from point to point took me out of it a little. It felt more like bullet points being addressed instead of people naturally behaving, like they wanted to hammer home the different characters and what they are like (including their rather dopey teacher!)
Still a very enjoyable second episode and nothing to worry about, the charm is still there and that is what makes this series a winner, the pure charm it oozes out.
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