We’re back into recommendation mode, this time with Enzo’s pick: Yugami Doesn’t Have Any Friends by Jun Sakura. It’s a series that balances a lot of things: comedy, sports, romance, coming of age, rakugo, and more - but do we agree on how well it succeeds? Listen and find out.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:32 Samu’s first impressions and expecting it to be set in college
6:50 Chihiro being a representative of a Japanese ideal vs Yugami standing out for the wrong reasons
10:53 Is Yugami coded as autistic or just meant to be the “nail that sticks out”?
16:16 Why did it never receive an anime - will it ever?
18:02 The balance of genres and topics: romance, baseball, rakugo
22:42 Spoiler discussion begins
22:59 A ‘romcom’ without a lot of romance - should there have been?
25:20 A series that speaks to introverts
28:44 Are we supposed to agree with Yugami’s perspective on life
30:33 Did Yugami soften as a character over time or did we just get used to him?
33:32 Yugami’s speech at the end - why it did/didn’t work for us
37:08 The epilogue scene with rakugo and how it ties to Yugami/Chihiro’s relationship
40:11 Speculating the reason why Sakura Jun never created another manga after this
44:07 Samu’s Recommendation: Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara
46:29 Enzo’s Recommendation: My Little Monster by Robico
49:29 Overview and final scores
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