Congrats, Dragon Maid and Co., you got me to tear up this week. The plot of each segment is simple: Shōta wants to make his dad a Father’s Day present but the homonym of ‘father’ and ‘breast’ in Japanese confuses Lucoa. The following segment shows what happens when Kobayashi catches a cold and Tohru wants to cure her while also confronting the inevitable fragility of humans. Last, Ilulu attempts to return an abandoned doll with Taketo.
The first segment is okay, I just generally find the Shōta x Lucoa segments to be pretty weak because they require me to ignore how much I dislike their fanservice dynamic. It also feels redundant because both Lucoa and Ilulu’s sexy shenanigans are predicated on the same idea of “we don’t understand why our big titties are seen as sexual uwu” ad nauseum. Outside of those scenarios, like Lucoa’s bath scene, are cool with me. It’s the shoving…
