review of pot

Going back to rewatch the first eps of tenipuri, if only to remind myself of why I actually like this show.

And, you know, it really is clear (most especially in light of the tradtionalist on the filler-ep staff) that Echizen is set up as unsocialized. At least, un-Japanese-socialized. He's terminally blunt, and has no idea what gestures to return to, say, a social apology. He refuses the forms of self-denigration that are so much a mainstay of junior-senior interaction. And he invariably looks people dead in the eye, especially if he has any reason to think they might be competition. The first couple episodes really go out of their way to emphasize this--he even manages to rub Momo, who is far and away the easiest-going senpai he meets, a bit the wrong way. Momo, being a sweetie, doesn't make a big deal of it but does take note of it.

Which only increases my tendency to consider the filler eps, especially Senbatsu Etc., as a completely different continuity.