English Dub Review: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki “The characters who become your friends after you clear a hard event usually have high stats”

Overview

With Nakamura’s birthday coming up, Fumiya asks Izumi to go shopping for a present. Aoi and Nakamura’s friend Takahiro Mizusawa tag along on the shopping trip to the mall. While at the mall, Fumiya is tasked by Hinami with making two successful group suggestions, which he is struggling to do…



Our Take


This episode mainly felt like an introduction to Mizusawa’s character. I think is interesting. His character is so different from the titular Tomozaki. Aoi’s wise mind is also enlightening when you think about both her knowledge about games and being a general life coach. And it’s clear that Fumiya is getting a lot better at reading people, especially Izumi. Their friendship is really nice and refreshing, especially seeing the trust Izumi puts into him.


We also see more of Fumiya’s communication and social awareness skills get better today. His conversations are so much more lively now than they were at episodes 1-2. He’s still awkward and they aren’t by any means fluid, but he’s making progress which is the purpose of the series even if it feels like a teen drama at times.

Overall this episode excelled with its relaxing atmosphere & character progression. There may be subtle hints of Fumiya being slightly jealous at this Mizusawa dude but that remains to seen what direction it’ll take in the later episodes. At the very least Fumiya hasn’t stopped improving…