Week 2 🎆 佐々木と宮野 - Sasaki and Miyano discussion thread (Beginner Anime Club)

Welcome to week 2 of the Sasaki and Miyano anime club !

We are watching this show as part of the Beginner Anime club.

How cuter can they get his week ? :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Week 2 Starting August 10th
Episodes 3 & 4
Previous week Week 1
Next week Week 3
Home thread 佐々木と宮野 - Sasaki and Miyano

Vocab sheet

No vocab sheet for now.

Discussion guidelines

This thread is here to comment on your impressions of this week’s episodes and to ask any question you have regarding the vocabulary or the understanding of them :grin:

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  • Any potential spoiler for the current week’s watching need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  • Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  • Any information from later in the book than the current week’s watching (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.

Posting Advice

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  • Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

Membership

Will you be watching with us this week ?
  • I’m watching along
  • I’m planning to catch up later
  • I’ve finished these episodes
  • I’m watching after this club is finished
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I feel like episode 3 was a smidge harder. But I also haven’t been sleeping well lately and I think that’s effecting my ability to focus so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Nevertheless I was still able to follow along in the end.

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Where arm

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Don’t remember exactly which episode but I was watching this the other day for listening practice and had to look this up. Now it’s in my WK lesson queue…

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Yeah, I’ve heard it too, but I think I’ve recognized it because of your message :sweat_smile:

Well, I struggled more with episode 4…

Some comments

Episode 3 was so cute with Miyano realizing he finds Sasaki cool, the white day chocolates and Sasaki taking advantage of Miyano’s sleep to confess.
I loved seeing Miyano realize that maybe everything Sasaki had told him until now was… literal :grin:

Episode 4 was more the “doubting” episode, the best moment for me being Miyano reading exactly what he feels in one of his BL but being unable to realize this is happening to him :sweat_smile:

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Realizing I didn’t post comments for this oops

Episode 3

It was hilarious to watch Miyano walk into the whole “find out if I’m a clumsy kisser or not” thing.

It’s sad to see Miyano’s worst fear of being bullied for BL stop him from talking to Sasaki. At least Sasaki can handle himself and doesn’t let other people get to him.

I do wish Sasaki didn’t decide to avoid skin contact. It doesn’t help Miyano take him seriously about confessing.

With the term ending, we only have one year left with them as classmates? And we have the biggest confession yet!

Episode 4

I’m not sure if this opening is Miyano saying he’s not sure how he feels about Sasaki or if he just feels awkward since he wasn’t supposed to be awake for the confession. At least this maybe means he’s taking it more seriously?

Ask BL for advice on whether you’re falling for a guy, then ignore all the signs and insist that you’re straight. I wish I could tell him that bi people exist.

I haven’t figured out what the cat symbolizes yet.

At least Miyano was able to give Ogasawara advice. And Sasaki is getting back into touching, though it seems more like he can’t stop himself at this point.

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Answer to @PotatoDancer

Yeah, that’s true the sexual preferences in this anime are only thought as “Am I straight or am I gay?” It would be nice to show a wider range of possibilities.

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