Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara – 04 – 05

Would you like a floating robot girl? Yes or No?

 I’m back for more Kanojo ga Flag! This will probably end up being an every-other-week series for me and Fosh (although unfortunately Fosh is sick this week, so it’s me solo), because they just don’t do a whole heck of a lot in some of the episodes. But when they do, it’s definitely fun!

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Maybe Needs Some Work

We were GOING to win, and then after this we’re nowhere close

I’ll say it right up front: the week-long sports festival was some pretty bad storytelling. Day One: “Oh yay, we’re so awesome, we’re crushing everything! Every event is tailored to our people’s specific abilities!” Next scene: “If he blocks this kick, they win everything!” *fail* ONOZ! Next Scene: “I can’t believe we’re in 8th place with one day left, woe is us.” Whuuuu? How’d they go from wrapping everything up with one event win to 8th place and everyone dejected. It was just really poor all around, total discontinuity. And then the pathetic “It’s ok, I’m going to die but instead I’ll lose so I get kicked out of school and stop making everyone sad soon” from Souta. This episode was really just bad all the way around. On top of this really undramatic drama, we have a kinda infodump with Ruri that makes no sense, where some program was made in 1938 (it’s definitely “Showa juu-san”) by another Ruri shows a hologram about Quest Hall. This was really a poor effort, and almost no fun.

Dates for Everyone

Mom has the right idea, although Akane needs to learn what kind of ‘showdown’ to expect

The 5th episode was quite a bit better, even the parts with the story. Of course, a lot of date episodes are pretty iffy, but this one worked better than most because there wasn’t any fighting between the date partners. They split up the time and didn’t interfere with everyone else. That gave us time to have fun with Megumu, who’s totally the best date out of all of them. Or maybe that was just the best because of the bystanders. “Isn’t she so cute, pulling on her boyfriend’s arm?” And meanwhile, Nanami’s totally acting like the married guy whose wife is out of the house for the weekend and is trying to convince himself how great his time without her is. It’s one of those things that’s “yeah, I can do what I want and it’s cool and all, but really I want my loved one back.”  At least she dresses up well for her bachelorette time.

Back to being a disappointing – but at least well-dressed – tsundere

But I’m just not feeling the interest in the deeper story, even in episode 5. I mean, it almost seems like an excuse to just add another girl, instead of actually do things. And if you come up to a giant box, you OPEN THE BOX. Not “oh, I’ll get that later, what’s the light over here?” I know I wanted more story depth, and it’s felt like there’s been more story depth, but it feels like they’ve just been glossing over it too much.

Sure, just ignore the giant box and go out the crack in the wall with the ominous light

Extra Date Flags

“It must be her first boyfriend”

All the Onee-sans want some kissing

Okiku-nee is a cheap date

I thought Terminators had to come through naked…

I have to say that at this point, I’m a bit frustrated and disappointed with Kanojo ga Flag. There’s been almost nothing with the flags going on, bar Rin’s yandere flag. And the extra depth that I’d hoped for from the story relating to the secret of the world. At this point I can’t really tell if it’s as bad as Little Busters or not, because there’s not really anything there yet. So far the best thing has been Megumu, and I don’t know if it’s because HanaKana’s playing him so well, or if it’s just playing off the trappy nature of it, but either way, it’s the best character and relationship in the show. I just hope the joke doesn’t grow old. And I can’t escape the thought that Nanami is supposed to be the OTP, yet she’s almost doing everything she can to avoid Souta, which just points to this show ending really ambiguously (gosh what a surprise 😐 ). I like Nanami’s character, it’s just hard to believe that the tsukkomi is the one who’s supposed to win the harem.