After Nagisa learns of Tomoya’s situation at home, she invites him to stay with her and her family for a while.
Impressions:
This episode was alright. It wasn’t really anything huge, at least not yet, but it does seem to be a good introduction and start up episode into the next arc. Even though this episode itself wasn’t anything too spectacular I really have already gotten quite intrigued and interested in the focus of this arc. The big importance being placed upon family like this isn’t what you normally see in many shows. Even though he’ll end up with Nagisa, come on, that’s obvious, her arc isn’t all about romance it’s really about some things that are really deep and rather complex.
I’m not quite sure what to think of Tomoya’s dad. Although they set him up like this bad person whom Tomoya really dislikes I haven’t seen him be that horrible of a person. They mentioned he hit Tomoya when he was younger and things like that do point to him not being the best person but I get kind of mixed emotions seeing him now. He seems kind of pathetic and lonely. As far as they’ve shown now he’s not a horribly abusive father or anything. Thinking of what he went though, loosing his wife and falling into severe depression and having his son end up hating him and leaving him, it seems like quite the sad situation for him. Although he may have hit him before I don’t’ think that one incident marks him as the scum of human life for ever. I felt a bit sorry for him seeing him in this episode.
I’m really interested in what this hidden past Nagisa has. It seems to be the topic, and title, for the next episode but even without the preview it really was one of the big things that had me really wondering. Nagisa says its something that she thinks she did wrong and when I really think about it anything a child at the age Nagisa had to be I, if they did something wrong its not really a huge fault of their own, they’re just kids. So although it may end up being her fault, whatever happened, it’s not like it could really be something she could blame herself for so I think the importance of whatever this is has to be a bit deeper. Doing something back as a kid when you don’t really know any better, especially someone who seems as nice and innocent as Nagisa, can’t really amount to that much drama. I’m definitely thinking it has to do with Sanae and her teaching as Akio seemed rather odd when he said there were several reasons why she retired. She’s nowhere near old enough to retire from age and seems to enjoy doing it. I’m wondering if this topic will really be the main focus of Nagisa’s arc, or at least one of the main ones. She seems important enough to have multiple layers of things going on, such as her arc being tied with Tomoya’s family issues.
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Regarding Tomoya’s father, it appears to me that everything negative about him has been presented solely by Tomoya himself, so we are likely viewing it through his own colored lenses. Is he really as terrible as Tomoya says? Or is Tomoya simply insisting so?
I also don’t think Tomoya’s father really is all that bad. Both Tomoya and his father are victims of circumstance, but the problem is they haven’t gotten past their agony of the past and moved on as a family. Neither of them are right, but nothing’s completely wrong with them either.
Yeah it’s not a nice situation. No doubt after the incident where Tomoya got hit and thus lost the ability to play basketball things just fell off with those two. Hard to just let something go like that. The current state I don’t think Tomoya’s dad is a bad guy. He just did something that really can’t be forgiven and now there is a major breach between them. Think he would like to at least make things better between them, but some real resistance on Tomoya’s side.
Just not a positive situation there.
What? Am I the only one here who thinks that father who just says “Tomoya is Tomoya. I have no say in his future.” is downright irresponsible? I mean, the teacher came all the way to discuss together with you about your son. Normally, parents would be interested in such talks, but Tomoya’s dad’s just like, シカトし過ぎるじゃないか？！ (sorry, can’t get the English for that).
With incidents like the other day (when preparing dango daikazoku, father talking like some stranger), if I were Tomoya, I would’ve ran to Furukawa’s house since the beginning.
If take account of what Tomoya’s father had done in the past, you think he would say it’s up to Tomoya, I mean look at his “say in his future”, Tomoya’s arm is busted and he can’t play basketball anymore. Although, Tomoya living with Nagisa now is ringing so many alarms.