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    Daaaaamn; My dress up darling came back with its best foot forward. I’m actually impressed by how much Shinohara Keisuke seems to be reimagining the visual approach took with season 1, going for more abstraction and less realism in logic, yet still keeping himself loyal to the volumetric and realistic design proportions of season 1.

    What Shinohara has pulled off here feels as if a whole new director jumped into the chair but tried to keep some of philosophy of the old artist; it’s really cool how that effect has been achieved. I’ve seen some not prefer this new approach but I love it!

    — “One of the things this series does best is show teenagers acting pretty realistically like teenagers, and that includes the avalanche of sexual tension and how it effects them.”—

    Yeeeesss!! This!! And that it also demonstrates through character action (not expositing to the audience) what a healthy love language looks like between an introvert and an extrovert, right down to the pace of conversations, positive affirmations, reciprocity to acts of service; it even has down how the sexual tension would look (despite some of the anime-isms tied to it)…..and that’s EXACTLY why I agree with you full-send that the show is kneecapping itself by not allowing the couple to also express their intimacy sexually.

    It’s not like there’s an in-universe religious morality preventing them from doing so. It really just feels like a result of the series being shackled to the serialization tropes of this romance subgenre: “can’t push that boundary too quickly; gotta keep baiting your audience with the will they/ won’t they as the bi-weekly hook; maybe next week they’ll finally hold hands y’all.”

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