English Dub Review: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister “The Amagami Shrine Festival ~Connections~”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

A crucial donor for the shrine threatens to pull support, so Uryu bets they can get even more visitors than before the former shrine owner, the mother of the sisters, was alive.

OUR TAKE

Not gonna lie, my brain is in Neutral right now for what should be obvious reasons, but here we go. After a few episodes basically about establishing who these four characters are and how they’ll interact, along with a sudden supernatural twist that we probably won’t get back to for some time, we’re now here. With all that stuff out of the way, Uryu and the sisters now face their first problem that they must face as a united front, in this case being showing that the shrine can still support itself without the sisters’ mom there to help. This is as much a test for the sisters as it is for Uryu. He’s the outlier who may be marrying one of them (or all of them?) one day so he still has to prove himself as someone who can pull his weight and support the family. But the Asahi, Yuna, and Yae have been living in their mothers’ shadow since she died, with attendance at the temple apparently having gone down in those years. They were children then, they had no way of handling it, but now they all have a shot to prove they can and that they can do it well.

Oh yeah, worth mentioning that the donor who is threatening to pull support is Miemon, the snakey looking head of Kitashirakawa clan and actually the owner of the shrine itself and wants to sell it, so it’s kind of a bigger deal than just someone not sending money anymore. Anyway, through this big task to accomplish, we begin to see how the four work together and how each one of them brings something to the table. Uryu is the brainstormer, coming up with ideas and assigning tasks. Asahi, while young and inexperienced in many things, knows social media and begins laying the groundwork for what will eventually help them get attention about the shrine. Yuna is critical of things, sometimes overly so, but her level head helps things not get too overblown. And Yae is the more creative of the three, needing time to come up with a brilliant idea, in this case doing some artistic koi fish charms that will get people to come. And of course they have to go re-establish connections with the families their mom talked to in the past, which thankfully wasn’t very hard at all. Next week, we’ll see how they do and I’ll try to survive until then!