Boy, did I feel nothing but bad for Nagisa throughout this entire episode! Episode eight of Girlfriend, Girlfriend didn’t have the best start; the first third, which basically amounts to a game of keep-away from Rika, definitely felt like the weakest and most drawn-out segment of the episode. The only real redeeming gag was in just how hard Rika seemed to justify being infatuated with Naoya’s more unremarkable traits, which honestly didn’t feel as funny as it could have been. Last week I kind of had a feeling this episode was going to get right to the point of Rika’s feelings and how they would actually fit into the whole dynamic. We’re not quite there yet, but while there were definitely some points that meandered a little bit for the sake of having that resolution happen next episode, I do think a lot of the gags afterwards made up for that.
I couldn’t help but feel like…
