Episode 5 of Netoge No Yome wa Onna no Ko Ja Nai to Omotta?
begins with a continuation of the scene wherein Sette rushes to Nishimura’s
side in Legendary Age and the party is slightly perplexed by her presence.
After introducing herself and saying she’s there cause of Nishimura helping
her, Segawa offers her aid, only to be rejected in the most brutal way
possible.
Because of her jealousy against Sette, Ako suggests that the
club play a different, more exhilarating game and Goshoin finds an FPS for all
of them to play called Ultra Force. Immediately, they are all thrown for a loop
when they are massacred because they have no experience with this kind of game,
but Ako, surprisingly, excels and saves them, making it seem like she might be
better suited for this than the MMORPG scene where she met everyone.
The next day, Nishimura is in class sleep-deprived cause of
how late they kept playing Ultra Force, and you can see Ako peeking into the
classroom. After Nishimura spots and confronts her about this, we get the
wonderful response where she basically shows us that she’s back to confusing
video games and real life, except this time it’s more dangerous cause Goshoin
told her to associate the enemies with normies, so now she’s basically thinking
about murdering every normal person ever. Fun.
It is here that Nanako pops into the scene and asks where
everyone was yesterday, because they weren’t at their usual place. It takes a
second, but then Nishimura notices that Sette is Nanako’s in-game persona,
causing Segawa to spiral out of control again, and Nishimura is somewhat
shocked because of Nanako’s analyzation of Rusian versus Nishimura. However,
because of Nanko’s playful flirting, who ends up being the most shocked is Ako,
who immediately exits somewhat upset because she feels she’s lost her husband.
Afterwards, she skips school, causing everyone concern, and
then tells everyone via the game that she’s quitting school to focus on LA and
then disconnects. At this point, Nishimura attempts to connect with her again,
and succeeds, only to be told that she’s going to try and max her character out
and reincarnate because she no longer wants things the way they are.
At this point, Segawa pleads with Nishimura to get her back
and he agrees, and ends up visiting Ako personally to convince her to return.
He even runs into her mom and she hands him the key to her room, which ends up
being a mistake cause Ako’s one of those sorts of people. You know the ones.
Anyways, after saying he’ll quit school for her, he gives her a speech which
convinces her that the game is fun, but real life is too, and she then returns
to be with all of her friends. Back at school, Nanako helps her with the girls
in her class, talking all about Nishimura as the boyfriend she’s newly acquired
and the episode ends on a happy note.
At the end of the day, I think this episode was a vast
improvement from the last. While we keep seeing that Nishimura clearly cares
for Ako and no real movement is made in that plot, I am starting to feel like
this show has a similar core to that of BOKU WA TOMODACHI GA SUKUNAI. For those
who never bothered with that show, it had a very similar core cast of
characters. All of the characters were incredibly bad in social situations and
create the Neighbor’s Club to help them learn how to make friends. What they
don’t end up realizing is that they do become friends just by being in the club,
and that is similar to what happens here.
When the show begins Ako is friendless, Segawa, presumably,
has only Nanako, Goshoin is alone, and Nishimura has his crew of otaku.
However, by this episode, we can see that not only are the main characters good
friends with Segawa admitting to her liking Nishimura, but Nanako even helps
Ako ease into the social structure of the school. Because of the way this
episode ended, I’d like to see Nanako become better friends with Ako and
proceed to make the core cast of characters larger. Even without a central
plot, the show can succeed.
Still, that’s it for this one. Thanks for watching, and I’ll
you all later.
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