When Itsuomi introduces Yuki as his girlfriend, he’s shocked. Not because Yuki can’t hear, or isn’t a foreigner from Itsuomi’s frequent travels, but because it means Emma has to be told Itsuomi is officially off the market. It also means that Shin can pursue her without worrying about hurting Itsuomi. The only problem is, after all these years, Shin finds himself firmly embedded in the Friendzone where Emma is concerned.
It gives Shin no pleasure to be the one to break the news to Emma, he just thinks she’ll take it slightly better coming from him. And yet, when he meets her at his salon after hours, he can’t do it. He should have known he couldn’t, because he loves her to much to hurt her like that. Emma, meanwhile, is totally oblivious, because Shin won’t tell her what needs to be said.
While sitting in the styling chair, Emma asks if Shin remembers him putting up her hair back in high school. It’s a silly question; he’ll never forget that moment, or the day he first saw Emma’s beautiful hair flowing in the hall. Unfortunately, even then, it was flowing because she was running to tell a friend about the new hot guy, Nagi Itsuomi.
Itsuomi and Shin kind of organically became friends, while Shin and Emma started to interact in part because Emma was looking for Itsuomi in places where Shin happened to be. Especially in high school, that can often be how friendships are forged. Shin and Emma sharing headphones, and her giving him a CD of lovely piano music, are memories Shin cherishes to this day.
Touyama Nao is so perfectly cast as Emma’s seiyu. Her voice is so often a ray of sunshine, but as seen with her work as Honami in Classroom of the Elite she can do dark clouds too. Here, Emma is Shin’s sun. He can’t keep his eyes off her, and she might be the first person he tells about his dream of styling hair, not to mention putting her hair up in a classy braid.
Whether due to her own good looks or her ongoing crush on Itsuomi, Emma is ostracized by her girl friends, and she and Shin and Itsuomi become a tight-knit triad and a classic love triangle. Emma declares, without hesitation, she loves Itsuomi “lots”. Yet Itsuomi rejects her again and again, as he isn’t interested in romance “right now.”
Shin tries to find love in one of the girls who asks him out (lest we forget, he’s hot too) but it goes about as well as you’d expect: she starts to pick up on his unrequited love for Emma, and calls him out on it on the rooftop with Emma present. That’s when Shin loudly proclaims “he’ll never fall for Emma as long as he lives.”
Of course, that’s a complete lie, as he was in love with her as he said those words, and has been ever since. Back in the present, Emma’s hair is done, and she praises Shin for being “the one who makes her pretty”. But it’s not Shin’s hairstyling, it’s her love for Itsuomi that makes her more beautiful. Recall how Rin could tell Yuki was in love the same way.
If Shin tells her Itsuomi has a girlfriend, it will break her heart, and the sunshine in her eyes will be clouded. So he doesn’t. Instead, he asks if she loves Itsuomi. the reply is still the same as it was in high school, and just as instant: “Yup, I love him lots!” The thing is, Emma is going to find out sooner or later.
As Kyouya assures him, there’s still hope for Shin and Emma, but the first miles of that road will be arduous. I came away from this episode empathizing a lot more with Emma, who has suffered with loving someone who doesn’t love her that way back for so long, as well as with Shin, who is in the same boat. I’m rooting for these two attractive losers to get together!
It doesn’t look like we’ll be getting into that next week, as Itsuomi proposes a sign language boot camp with Yuki, Rin, and Kyouya. It’s geared toward helping Rin learn more signing so she can better communicate with her dear friend. It’s also another double date opportunity for Rin to ask Kyouya out, or vice versa. Me, I’m looking forward to some warm and cozy Laid-Back Sign Camp!
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