English Dub Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend “A Place for Three”

Overview

Naoya, Saki, and Nagisa search all around the school for a place where they can eat lunch in peace, without anyone finding out that they are in a relationship…


Our Take

Well, that was quite the ridiculous lunch break. Good thing that they found a safe place to eat together. I may be overthinking things but if they wanted to eat lunch together couldn’t they just say they are friends and since she makes such amazing food she offered to cook for them? Seems much simpler than this. We also get to see Saki’s desperate attempts to become useful to Naoya a lot in this episode. She obviously loves the dopey bastard but has almost no redeeming skills. She has to work to “win” even though Naoya doesn’t seem to care about those aspects.


Saki’s mistake was comparing herself to Nagisa; given the insecure mind of a teenager, that’s not how it works. Everyone is good at something you just gotta act yourself and do what you’re enjoying and I’m sure that Naoya does feel the same with that said, the version of Naoya in Saki’s mind doesn’t line up correctly with the actual one, she might actually end up losing if she keeps this up.


Overall a fun episode, but the humor and proceedings progressively got. the wacky ridiculousness is off the charts and I can’t help but laugh about it as usual. The whole “looking for a lunch spot” was just stupid, yet funny. From multiple roofs to restrooms and they settled for the gym storage. As for the Saki subplot, she seems very desperate about her love for Naoya and has come to acknowledge that she hasn’t done anything, but she doesn’t need herself to compare with Nagisa in every aspect, and while “chest insecurity” has become quite normal in every rom-com, the joke itself is all a matter of execution which makes each reaction to this particular brand of cringe humor stand out…