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Aggretsuko finale... spoiler warning...

Not gonna warn after the first soo....

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....Here’s my thoughts. Now I’ll be blunt I have no patience/and when I wanna know an outcome. I cheat and go to the finale. So that being said what do I really think? THe finale was ... okay. I’m not saying this was the best season. I honestly avoided season 4  for a time cause as much I liked that they gave Haida more center... I didn’t like what it did with his arc. Now I know characters will make mistakes, blah, blah, etc.

But after season 3 I thought it would focus more on them building a relationship/friendship. Not him go to the dark side, blah blah. Point is... to be fair I shipped him with Retsuko since season one. But when season 4/and 5 came ... I kinda saw the criticism they gave with Haida in regards to his shipping.

Again to be FAIR I still ship them. I dunno if you wanna blame the writing or what I just mean. I see why people complained. Heck the finale didn’t make me too excited about their marriage.

Did I want it? Hell yeah I did but it was done so fast I don’t get much emotion out of it. And I’ve seen characters that just elope but the difference I got invested and it made me happy. But that being said I need to watch the whole thing but again I have preferences so maybe thats also a problem.

Anyways anything that bugs me. Uhh the finale felt average, not that its bad but again. Not much. I dunno considering that Netflix made this their finale. I was hoping I’d see what we saw in season 3′s finale all the characters feature. Some HINT that other characters were given a future. I dunno hint Anai became a famous chef. That Fenneko got a partner (yes referring to how some ship her with  Tsunoda. I don’t care a hint of a future or status would had been something), that Retsuko’s old band was still singing. Heck I would have like to seen  Director Gori get married or find “her one”. And yes I know its a lot of “shipping ideas”. Look I’m not good at explaining montages.

But for Gori that was almost part of her story. She and Washimi even had an argument about if marriage was something for her. But we didn’t get that... I dunno why?

Is it because Netflix cancelled on them for real (like Inside Job, Dark Crystal, Tuca/Bertie, etc) and the crew just didn’t think they’d need to do that credits, where are the characters montage? 

Don’t get me wrong I know Retsuko’s the main character but I wanted at least a epilogue of how the others would be.

[ayoitsiris]

HEY FOLKS I HAVWNT POSTED IN TEN YEARS!!! HI!!!

AGGRETSUKO SEASON 5 CAME OUT!!

i have a LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS SEASON so this is your warning for spoilers for the whole show and stuff

okay so first off they went really really really political with this season, which has garnered a lot of criticism for this season. I can’t really blame people for disliking it because it alters a lot from the shows original plot. however, this show was sorta political originally. i mean tadano straight up hates late stage capitalism and the show was made to critique work culture in japan. plus i didn’t hear as much critique when restuko decided to be an idol! never the less i think it’s endearing how the show kinda circled back to the original concern. they used haida and shikabane to show examples of how the way things are going in japan are affecting a wide range of people and how these issues never went away. I mean it definitely came out of left field but frankly i’ve always been a political person so this appealed to my tastes so i can kinda see why people would be upset. ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT HAIDA GETING REDEEMED!!!! he used to be my favorite character but he got super icky at the end of season 3 and in season 4 and maybe it’s because i’m going through unrequited love (as of 3 months right now😒) he was really just amazing this season. I also liked seeing more of his family dynamic and seeing how that kinda made him how he is. he got liberated from that environment at the same time him and retsuko were trying to change japan and it went down really nicely. I feel like now that the two of them are together and we don’t have to worry about haida acting like a nice guy we really get to enjoy their relationship ten fold. I also really enjoyed shikabane. I feel like she really encapsulates the way that the current state makes younger people feel. and how they are encouraged to give up early like that. i don’t really know how to voice my opinion on her but she’s so relatable and oh my god i LOVE her design. i feel like the writing this season was realllyy well done. I also feel like we got to see a little less tadano this season which bummed me out but we saw him a bit so that was nice. ALSO HAIDA AND AGGRETSUKO GOT MARRIED?!?!? I’ve been watching this show since 2018 (i was in like elementary school) and i’m actually so sad it’s over

anyway stan haida in his hard working era 😍😍 love y’all bye

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Aggretsuko season 5 spoilers

i’m like halfway thru Aggretsuko season 5 and these few episodes have turned me into a lowkey Retsuko hater LMAO

is it just me that’s just kinda mad at her for breaking up with Haida AS he’s getting evicted, letting him be homeless and on his own for a WHILE, then getting mad at HIM afterwards and never apologizing for never giving real support?? and all those “Better luck today! :)” messages made me so GRR bc like they felt so passive aggressive while OUR BOI WAS ON THE STREETS STRUGGLING MANNN

Shikabane was so much nicer and supportive of him, she helped him get a job and like nudged him in the right direction without just leaving him on his own to “put pressure on him”

ALSO RETSUKO JUST GOT SO SICK OF HIM EXISTING IN HER HOUSE, LIKE GIRL YALL BOTH LIVE HERE, HE GETS TO DO STUFF TOO. THEN SHE **LEFT HIM OUTSIDE FOR LIKE 3 HOURS**

[curestardust]

Dust Watched: Aggressive Retsuko Season 05

Genres: Comedy, Social Commentary // 10 episodes //  S01 (x) | S02 (x) | S03 (x) | S04 (x)

Seeing as this is the alleged (I don’t trust anything Netflix says) last season of Aggretsuko, I thought a normal essay format would be better to express my frustrations with the run of this show.

If you asked me what I thought of Aggretsuko in the beginning I would’ve said without reservation that it’s one of the best anime out there. Unfortunately, with each season, it was beginning to be more and more difficult to recommend this show and this final season was the worst kind of icing on the cake.

Season 5 has some incredibly great moments sandwiched inbetween incredibly dull and non-sensical moments that ruin the flow and make the ultimately great message of this season get lost among everything going on.

I guess it speaks to how much I cared for Haida and Retsuko’s relationship that I didn’t even bat an eye to the fact that they’re dating from the very beggining of this season despite the last season ending on an (another) will-they-won’t-they moment. I never thought the two of them had much chemistry but the show was pushing them so hard that it was pretty much a given that they would end up together.

Haida having suffered a basically complete character assassination in Season 4, turning him from a wet tissue paper to an *annoying* wet tissue paper, almost made me give up on S05 from the second it began as we start out with Haida having taken over as the protagonist. This only lasts a few episodes but these few episodes surprisingly turned out to be the best this season had to offer. Alas, this plot thread still isn’t carried by Haida, but a new character.

Haida, who is now unemployed, spends his days playing a gacha MMO (the horror) where he hangs out with another player called Shikabane. We’re shown one scene of him being sucked into spending a shitton of money on some gacha pulls, which plays a lot less importance than it could have, and on top of that he is getting kicked out of his apartment as his family who’ve been letting him live there for free found a tenant.

This puts us into one of the best short arcs from the whole anime. Haida decides to live in an internet café where he actually ends up meeting Shikabane in person. She is a 21 year old girl, who actually does “live” in a net café. She has no house, nor has any interest in subjecting herself to the fake facade people need to put on in a “normal” 9-5, instead living off of occasional freelance work and sleeping in a net café. But.. is that really what she thinks? Put a pin in that.

From here-on I’ll speedrun the rest of the season with SPOILERS upcoming.

Haida gets himself a gruelling physical job that pays like shit, suffers a bit, Retsuko and gang find out about it, he moves in with her, there’s like 1 episode focusing on how their relationship isn’t sunshine and rainbows, while we get some scenes of how Haida struggles with getting hired (put a pin in that n.2).

The second actual arc is bonkers and starts way too late into the season for it to have a satisfactory conclusion. Haida and Retsuko meet Haida’s family, we find out his dad is a politician and his other son, Jiro, will be running in the election for their Ward instead of him. Meanwhile, Retsuko’s former idol group are hamfisted into the story for no other reason than to force the other half of the plot to happen. A politician from the “Rage Party” saw Retsuko’s death voice videos and thought that she could represent today’s society’s Rage and win a seat for the declining party. Thus a few episodes are spent on FORCING Retsuko to take part in the running against Jiro, we get some minimal social commentary on what this Rage is (put a pin in that n.3). 

Then, I kid you not, we get literally 5 seconds of some papers flashing that Retsuko and Haida are getting married (????), the vote (Retsuko lost), Shikabane apparently being convinced to “get her life together” from a single karaoke session, Haida getting a job (we don’t even know where or what!).... and. That’s it. The final scene is a looping back to the beginning of the whole anime. Retsuko being smooshed in the train while on her way to her normal office job.

Yeah, so, this season was messy enough as is but as a final season, it was even worse. The pacing was catastrophic, it was too slow where it should’nt have been and too fast where things happened we actually would’ve cared about (the marriage??? hello???). 

But really, my main disappointment comes from those few moments where the show shines like it used to.

Aggretsuko might be a comedy but it’s just as much a social commentary. Now, the names of generations and how they are seperated differs from country to country but for the ease of things I’ll just use the western categorization.

Retsuko’s original premise is what life is like for “millenials” starting out at their first traditional jobs. How the previous generation still rules how things should be done, the power structure, the fake facade, the overtime. While not exactly translating to the west, it’s an incredibly relatable setting for the generation who was in the same shoes as Retsuko and the show itself explores all of it quite well in the first 2 seasons.

The following seasons became more bonkers, focusing less and less on the office or realistic scenarios and more on the comedy from outside sources. It was easy to kind of forget just how grounded the show used to be.

That’s where Shikabane comes in. Shikabane represents the new generation who just hit adulthood, or as we know them, Gen Z. I’m a late millenial myself, but I definitely saw a lot of how I think but especially how my younger sisters think about the world as it is now.

There is no planning for retirement, planning on buying a house or a car, settling down to have the perfect family while working a traditional job.A lot of young adults have lost hope and the drive to make a future for themselves because they cannot see how it would be possible in today’s climate. Surviving one day to the next, with no particular goal in sight, because it seems impossible. Working a 9-5, putting on a fake smile, abandoning your own personality and *hating* every second of it just to make enough to live paycheck to payckeck is something a lot of them refuse to do. But at the same time, the world is still run by the same people it was 50 years ago. Times have changed so much but they themselves refuse to change. Society is afraid of change. So what else is there to do but... give up?

That is the story you can see told through Shikabane. And in the final episode there’s a metaphorical “torch pass” between her and Retsuko. “My life isn’t what people need to see now. It’s yours.”

And despite how many problems I had with this season, despite how I wish it ended seasons ago, I’m glad Shikabane exists today because she reminded me of what I loved about this show in the beginning. 

I wish I could bid farewell to this show in a better way but hey, it is what it is. And for every Shikabane out there; keep fighting.

My Rating: 4/10

[offbrand-deltatraveler]

Whoever’s responsible for Aggretsuko’s horrible writing (Whether it’s the writers or just Netflix being a bitch):

I’m coming for your ass

I’m leaking your address and pulling a knife on you on your way home from work like the crazy fanboy dude who tried to kill Retsuko. Because just as she “ruined” OTM Girls’ music, you’re ruining this show

Not really (The threats. I’m not really gonna make good on the threats) but I cannot express how done I am with all the poor excuses this show makes to keep itself going when it realistically should’ve ended halfway through Season 3 (Or 2. I wasn’t really paying attention idk)

(Spoilers. Just in general, don’t read this until you finish Season 3)

There was literally nothing wrong with Retsuko and Todano’s relationship. He was right; They didn’t need to get married to have what other couples have. It’s just a piece of paper that was gonna put him in a tight spot he didn’t need. And she should’ve been able to understand that

And she realistically would’ve, considering she never even thought about starting a family until Mr. Tohn filled her head with a buncha nonsense. Telling her to “Make her own choices” when she was making her own choice by QUITTING HER SHITTY DEAD-END JOB AND LIVING WITH TODANO

They always crack Mr. Tohn up to be warming up to Retsuko and make it feel like they’re like non-friends and he’s just trying to help her out but no. He’s nothing but a manipulative backstabbing stuck-in-the-“good-old-days” piece of shit. He’s not her friend, he’s literally everything you could hate about the stereotypical old man and some. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s only keeping her around because she’s nice to look at and makes him tea (Oh wait, that’s because he literally is)

And don’t even get me started on OTM Girls

Say what you want, being a member of the OTM Girls was her destiny. Being on that stage giving the people what they want was a dream that she clearly intended to see through no matter what

Also they were literally the best characters next to Gory

And I know it looks like I’m gonna say she’s in the wrong for leaving after it almost cost her her life,

I’m not

I’m saying that the circumstances surrounding it, and the whole reason it was even in the script in the first place, is stupid as fuck

And to explain that, first we gotta start of with Inui

One day Haida bumps into a girl he’s heard of at work, they hit it off relatively quickly and become really good friends over the next few days, start hanging out what I’d assume is either every day or at least somewhere around that frequency, and they both get all blushy blushy around each other. They clearly have good chemistry, and it really feels like whoever’s running this cesspit of storytelling incompetence is actually planning to make a good decision that would give the arc of Haida having no bitches a decent send-off

It even gets to the point where she wants to come over to his house to hear him play the bass, and offers to cook for him. Hell, he’s closer with her than he ever was with Retsuko

And then along came those stupidass guitar lessons

Then fastforward to her almost being killed

And it’s not the fact that she left because she was almost killed. It’s why she was almost killed

If she didn’t leave OTM Girls, the show would’ve wrapped up. She’d finally be able to quit that stupid day job of hers and chase her dreams, and considering she was part of a rising idle group, she’d probably be traveling all over the world (Hell, she traveled to the capital just the other day). Which would leave Haida to eventually have to get over her and get together with Inui

It’d be a happy ending for everyone

But it wasn’t. Because shows like these can never just quit while they’re ahead can they

And to solve that problem, they make some crazy obsessive stalker dude try to kill her literally last fucking minute as an excuse

They gave us two possible happy endings and didn’t make good on any of them. TWO

And they couldn’t even at least make good on the bad one either. Instead they decide to end it off with possibly the most cringy and borederline problematic conversation I’ve ever seen two Sanrio characters have. And I’ve seen literally every part of Onegai My Melody where King, Hiiragi, or Shiroyama are on screen

As well as Keroppi’s Hello Kitty impression (That one’s not problematic though I just can’t watch it without dying inside)

I will never forgive this show for not only portraying Haida like a dismissive jerk during his song, as well as making him confess for the second time at the most inopportune moment imaginable, but also making Retsuko tear into him for absolutely no fucking reason (Well, kinda. She did have a reason, but comparing someone who’s supposed to be a friend to some crazy stalker who just tried to kill her is shitty no matter who you are and what you’ve gone through. Not to mention the whole “*Laughs in his face* You’re only brave because some app told you to be” thing. And on top of all that, she doesn’t even apologize after the fact. Neither of them do, for that matter)

But hey, at least something’s gonna progress now. Haida has confessed to Retsuko twice, and there’s no way they’re not together after something like Season 3’s Ending, right?

He’s confessed to her twice, saved her from an attempted murder, is said to be her soul mate, is WALKING HER HOME EVERY DAY, and they’re still not together

Yo Haida, Baku called. He wants his fucking Doggone Loser Beam back

Put this man under the Tapir Punishment and have him do the hunk episode. Fucking hell

Unfortunately I can’t go any further than this because I haven’t actually finished the first episode of Season 4 yet, but yeah. Fuck Aggretsuko, it’s Headcannoned Timeline Rewrite will be legendary in comparison

[fetus-cakes]

unsorted Aggretsuko season 5 thoughts (with plenty of spoilers) part 2

Sanrio is too fucking chickenshit to commit to the themes they themselves introduce

{@charlie-b-t  I didn’t see season 3 because the ending of season 2 bothered me so much

Season 1 ended a little oddly but I didn’t have enough info to form a strong conclusion I ended season 2 feeling as though the show was preaching conformity. The boss being the one to convince her to stay at work after being abusive towards her and completely jaded felt so Tonally wrong I didn’t wanna see a single other episode

And then Everyone said the feeling of season 3 was off, so I am satisfied with my decision The show makes me feel uneasy, like I’m being hunted, maybe a pleasant looking snack that if I sit down to eat a box will fall on my head}

Exactly, ultimately their goal is conformity

it's a show about a woman who is into death metal, but they make particular choices to make sure she doesn't stray from the path

{(charlie) It’s like… yeah you might like unusual things and be non traditional because times have changed but that’s no reason not to be a productive citizen. Don’t dream of stardom, don’t step too far out of line. Find a man to settle down with, work an honest job, you can try unusual things but ultimately the best thing to do is conform

Like she’s 100% gonna end the series right where she was at the first episode but she’ll be happy about it because she’ll realize there isn’t actually anything More out there

It felt very realistic that she ended up in so many miserable situations but in the end it feels like that was a trick against the viewers.}

I would have been okay with an ending in which she's married and pregnant but only AFTER she has character development where she learns marriage is about having a partner that you trust and not just an escape from a tedious job

{season 1 " i wanna get married only so i can quit my job'

her season 2 boyfriend: quit your job and ill take care of you, but i don’t believe in marriage retsuko, suddenly: if you wont marry me then you arent really serious about me so ill go back to my job

it felt like the tone of the show was that she was looking for shortcuts and she should keep her head down and work at an unfulfilling job and then eventually become a housewife that works at an unfullfilling job

it didnt feel like it really matched her personality or wants. they had not previously established that she had a connectino to the concept of marriage outside of a way to quit work}

yeah her dreams of marriage and kids should have been developed better! She could have evolved to see marriage as an escape or just "something adults are supposed to do" When she broke up with Tadano would have been the PERFECT to show her inner thoughts on this too bad they expect us to swallow that marriage has been important to her all along, even though her feelings in the first season were clearly about escapism

The reason she hated her job in the first season is because working for a living in general sucks and her boss was shitty; as the seasons passed her boss gained some character development and became less shitty, but the show never addressed how she felt about the tedium of working for such a large company after that character development

she clearly likes accounting and it's more than just a job she took to pay rent

she had an opportunity in the first season to quit her secure, stable job to help with the accounting of her friend's little import shop, but it was super risky and in the end Retsuko stayed at her job for the financial stability

it's not a bad choice to make! just like breaking up with Tadano because he has different goals about marriage and children is not a bad decision either

but both times the showrunners failed to tell us how Retsuko feels

does she still resent her job? does she appreciate it more? has she given deeper thought about what marriage means to her now that she found a partner that's super compatible but is non traditional? there's hints and implications but I really wish they would spell out some of these things

{exactly, they don’t tell us which makes it feel like the show thinks 'this is obvious'

and its in contrast to them normally showing us exactly how she feels about everything, but whenever its time to conform she has no thoughts about it}

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Hey. Hey you...

Go read Superstar Associate Manager on webtoon!!!!

It's SOOOO GOOD!!!! and this is the ONLY webtoon I've had my sound on for the musical episodes because it's just *chef's kiss*!!!!

Synopsis: (from Webtoon)

Hoyeon Cheon is an associate manager at Korea Capital, a finance company where his career is stagnating. One night, stuck with the cleanup after a long evening of karaoke with colleagues, he decides to sing one more song. Little does he know that the ghost of the wild-child rock star Jihyeok Han has been waiting, hoping to find the perfect vessel for his superstar aura…

The first season is out full and the second season is on going now and needless to say I binged the whole thing up to the current episode in like 3 days and aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! It's very underrated but my goodness is it so WORTH IT!!!

Without giving much of spoilers:

The main cast is suuuper adorable and they are very supportive and trusting of each other to where they are practically family 😍😍😍 (my heart!)

And the MC and his ghost pal have the best banters 🤣🤣🤣 and ghost pal sticking up for MC and watching over him like a guardian deity is peak cuteness overload!!!!

The villains are truly villainous and the main cast are top tier underdogs without being too cheesy or obvious.

Honestly the vibes is Aggretsuko meets sports anime like Salaryman's Club (latter one I highly recommend if you haven't watched it yet!) meets a music anime story and ///>.<//// SO GOOD!!!!!!

Just wholesomeness all around with a very catchy plotline!

Here's to hoping season 2 is just as a banger as season 1 (and given the arcs hinted at end of season 1 I'm sure it will be!)

So go read it and give this wonderful story some love!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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What a husband

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I literally could not stop myself from redrawing this scene

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OKAY SO I JUST FINISHED WATCHING AGGRETSUKO IN LITERALLY ONE DAY BECAUSE I HAVE NO LIFE AND I LITERALLY FORGOT TUMBLR EXISTS SO I DOCUMENTED ALL OF MY REACTIONS AND THOUGHTS ON MY FACEBOOK

I literally haven't slept since yesterday, and I've been awake for like 31 hours cause I can't stop thinking about this show,,,

Anyways here's screenshots of my reactions

Also I can't do the "Read More" option on mobile so uhh sorry for the long ass post lmao

[lastoneout]

I think that a lot of the takes I see claiming that Haida and the others were being "abusive" to Retsuko by forcing her to come out with them and talk about her feelings kinda come from the same anti-recovery mindset that is concerningly prevalent on this site.

Like the show could have done a better job of showing us how long it had been since Retsuko got attacked, but we can assume it had been a long time given that she was running out of leave and was at risk of losing her job.

So yeah immediately after she was attacked she deserves to hide and take time off and just be sad and scared and feel all of her emotions. But trust me as someone who has Been Traumatized, eventually you have to start taking steps towards healing and Retsuko wasn't doing that on her own. She was wallowing in her fear and refusing to take even the smallest step in her recovery. Her coping mechanism, like almost all coping mechanisms born out of severe trauma, was no longer helping and had become actively harmful to her life and relationships.

And I think this is where tumblr/the internet's flawed ideas about how friendships and trauma work come into play, because everyone seems to think that it would have been best was for her friends to just, I dunno hover around waiting for her to reach out? Not talk to her about what had happened? Let her shut them out until they never saw her again? Yeah that wouldn't be a good thing.

The idea of tough love gets misused a lot but the truth is you do eventually have to face your trauma head on, get your emotions about it out, and reach out to your friends so they can help you get better. Retsuko wasn't doing that. She also wasn't in a place where she felt she could freely express her emotions, as we've seen that she only seems comfortable doing that in the context of the karaoke bar, which her friends recognized. So they forced her to come with them to her safe space and would not back off until she started processing her trauma!

(And this actually is an interesting call back to her relationship with Tadano because when she was scared and stressed out from everything that happened in s2 and in a depressive episode and he just enabled her. It's a good thing she got out because that could have gone to a really fucking dark place. I've seen people who had mental issues who were enabled and a lot of them NEVER recovered fully.)

Sure it might seem like Haida was being mean, but I think that was kinda the point. Retsuko needed to get angry, so Haida pissed her off! She needed to know that her honest ugly emotions weren't going to scare her friends off, so he showed her his honest ugly emotions! She needed to know that she wasn't alone, so he told her that he would support her no matter what she decided she needed to do!

And also I doubt Haida actually expected Retsuko to return his feelings, it seemed more like he was being vulnerable to show her that she was allowed to be vulnerable too. He was using his confession as a catlyst because he knew it would make her angry enough to get her talking about the *real* problem. And at the end of her rant she wasn't even mad at him anymore, she was crying and yelling because she was getting down to the root of her trauma and letting it all out. And then, when she was in the throws of her deep, ugly feelings, when she was the most vulnerable she's probably ever been, Haida reached out and showed that he(and by extension her friends, since it was established that he was representing all of them) wouldn't leave her.

The healing process is ugly. It's not "uwu soft give them space and hugs and let them hide away taking self care days until they eventually feel better on their own". Trust me I've tried that shit it does not work. You gotta yank the bandaid off and face your emotions and deal with them before they ruin your fucking life. Retsuko's friends SAW that she was going down a path where she would end up hiding away in her mom's house for the rest of her life until she was broke and alone and stepped in so that didn't happen. Because honestly sometimes people do use their trauma as an excuse to never get better and that's not something you should enable! They were being good friends!!

Anyway yeah, the ending was good. It showed an honest, deep, uncomfortable reality of dealing with trauma. I def think there are places where they could have done better, I think they relied a little too much on comedy when they didn't need to, but honestly this is how healing works and I think a lot of people need to fucking get it in their heads already cuz if you honestly think that what Retsuko needed was to just be allowed to hide away in her mom's house until she lost her home and job and all her friends in the name of ~recovery~ than you really need to examine your unhealthy ideas about mental illnesses and trauma. Its hard, it's uncomfortable, and sometimes it requires the people you love to slap you upside the head and tell you to get your shit together. That's just how it works, and I'm glad Aggretsuko wasn't afraid to show us that.

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today!!! i binged all of aggretsuko season 3 and i did NOT. realize. how much i needed sassy Haida in my life,,, what a fuckin RIDE though, right?!

[multiples-fandomswontkillme]

I'm sorry to say this y'all but it had to be said

The sexual and romantic tension between Haida and Tadano? Fucking incredible.

Like, it started as just "oh you're that one guy who's friend's with Retsuko, my ex girlfriend, right? What's up? You love her, right?" And suddenly they are??? Hanging out in a fancy restaurant (on a private table with fancy decorations included) all alone??? While they drink wine and eat expensive food??

It felt as if like Gori just crashed their date. And when Gori insisted on setting up Haida with Retsuko in her app, Tadano just when?? "Let's pretend I suddenly don't know what an app is so this woman stops insisting" and legit when oh wow an app?? Those are hard to do right?? The guy created an general IA and goes Oh wow let me see

And the stares???

Geez, sorry, that was just... God, that tension was there, my man. We cannot pretend it wasn't. I'm just sayingggg

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Season 3 is out..it was so good to see these two again. Punch them back

[childroyalty]

Everyone’s talking about Haida choosing between Retsuko and Inui.

Did y’all not watch the same show as me with the obvious homosexual tension between Tadano and Haida?? Dude took him on the same Hokkaido date as he did with Retsuko and booked a fancy room for the two of them with sparkling wine and all. As a gay myself, I’m telling you, Tadano be hungry for some hyena till Gori showed up and third wheeled between them.