This week on Do It Yourself!!, as the construction of the treehouse looms closer and larger, the enormity of the task finally begins weighing down on the girls of the DIY Club. Also, Purin pouts a lot. Clearly, the anime knows what I’m here for.
Although it remains stalwartly lighthearted in tone, this is the most seriously that the series has dealt with a very core component of the DIY lifestyle: failure. Think about it; nobody is born knowing how to hammer a nail or work a circular saw. We all need to be taught that, and nothing is a better teacher than screwing something up. I’m sure even the club veteran Kurei has a proverbial pile of woodcraft skeletons in her closet. So Serufu’s and Jobko’s anxieties here aren’t anomalous, and while the girls do try their best to soften the blow to Serufu’s confidence (to little avail), I like that the show itself doesn’t shy away from…
