So the fourth episode of Netoge No Yome wa Onna no Ko Ja Nai to Omotta? opens up on a scene wherein Nishimura and Ako are standing by some
vending machines and Nishimura is drinking a soda. Ako is looking for her
wallet and then remarks that she’s lost it, but says that it’s fine, that she
can just sell some items from her inventory to afford one. Nishimura is then
quick to point out that because they’re not currently in the MMORPG, she can’t
just do that.
As Saito-Sensei says in the following scene, Ako might really
be getting worse instead of better from being in the club, though it seems like
her mental state might’ve really just been put there to establish the club. I’m
guessing that we’ll soon move on from this plot point and onto others as we
have two different, important elements in this episode.
The first is that Segawa is likely going to be outed as an
Otaku and kept from maintaining her image as a regular high school girl cause
Goshoin is just not having it and, plus, Nanako, who is Segawa’s pink-haired
best friend, actually followed her to the club here and found out her secret.
Segawa, of course, denies everything, and has a small break-down which results
in her not showing up the next day.
This brings us to the next element. After Segawa does not
show up for club and Goshoin doesn’t either, presumably to attend Student
Council meetings, Ako and Nishimura go on a sort of date. It’s a strange
construction of scenes because they get on an airship, jump off of it, get
swallowed by a whale, and all sorts of other random things. At one point they
even find Nekohime-san and see that she’s accrued a group of guys from her
guild that are hopelessly in love with her and will protect her at any costs. So…that
was something. But then we are shown how Ako and Nishimura met in a flashback. In
this flashback, Ako didn’t know how to play the game, and Nishimura helped her
in that regard, which then led to her stalking him for a large amount of time
until she eventually joined his party, bringing us to the current point of the
story.
Honestly, this was likely shown because that exact same
thing happens to him, but with a new girl named Sette. She is introduced via a
pretty cringey Ecchi scene reminiscent of tentacle hentai that seems like it
was put there to fulfill a minimum requirement to have the show qualify as
Ecchi in regards to its sub-genres. So in this scene, Sette appears through
some bushes covered in tiny octopu, and then Nishimura sword-slashes the
various enemies off her to find that she has no clue how to play the game, just
like Ako before her. He explains this to her and Ako gets jealous, to which
Nishimura replies remarking on how he helped her, and cannot just leave her
alone without knowledge of the game. We later find that Ako’s jealousy was
valid and justified cause Sette shows up the next day clinging to his arm, much
to the party’s surprise and the episode just ends. Like that. Like a serial or
something.
Honestly, this episode was alright, though it feels like the
harem version of a bad cute girls doing cute things show. There is currently a
central plot, but it’s likely to be overrun by other ones and it all feels a little
out of place. I just wish they’d finish one arc before beginning another one. I
am not a fan of loose ends, haha. Still, at least they’re switching it up, even
if it’s very slowly. But anyway, that’s about it for this one.
Thank you all for watching and I’ll see y’all later.
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