Aoki, after the promising end to episode 14, disappears into his usual mostly irrelevant butt monkey mode, and Taichi into his normal plot device function.
It’s certainly no secret that the males are woefully underwritten and so is Yui to a lesser extent, but when things get serious on-screen it really becomes a problem. “Most useless in the group” indeed – let’s see if he does anything with that information, now that Heartseed has thrown it in his face.Īll that said, I think the second episode reveals some of the problems that have intermittently dragged Kokoro Connect down. I’m choosing to ignore the continued hints that Taichi’s sister is a brocon – “true love chocolate” indeed – as purely for comic effect (I hope so) but I like the fact that the show confronted what’s been the elephant in the room all along, namely that Aoki is a serious fifth wheel. The so-called “random” emotional transmissions are an interesting wrinkle, and the added elements of a group challenge and a potential rival for Iori’s heart in Shiroyama give the series some much-needed breadth of plot. This arc seems to have a lot going for it. Iori’s arc is the most interesting of the five as far as I’m concerned, and the additional focus on Go-sensei (or perhaps I should say “You go, Sensei!” after seeing him rip up “You’ve Got Rhythm” on sax) has potential. But on balance things got off to a pretty good start. Kokoro Connect is a pretty erratic show to begin with, and then there was all the ugliness surrounding the now legendary “incident” (I see no need to re-hash it again), which delayed this arc by several months.
It’s fair to say I went into this arc expecting almost anything.
That Heartseed should be a liar is no big surprise, though I suspect he was telling the truth when he said “They’ve taken an interest in me” – though as I write this I don’t know just exactly what that means. The first thought that pops into my mind after watching the first episode of “Michi Random” is “Random, my ass” – because more so than with any of Heartseed’s prior phenomena this one is clearly timed for maximum impact (though the others have hardly seemed random either).
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