Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie Episode 9 Review – Taste of Friendship
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie's ninth episode stretches the series' good run, and brings back a little more of the show's characteristic lightheartedness. The episode opens with an interesting question: why does Shikimori seem to dislike Inuzuka, or become guarded against him?
The answer is much cuter than one would think, and the show does a little something to humanize Shikimori a bit on the tail end of her immense display of incredible, almost unintelligible levels of empathy for a romantic rival.
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The context is fairly simple – Inuzuka suspects that Shikimori dislikes him, and has noticed her tendency to treat him like a romantic rival whenever he and Izumi are together. On this day in particular, Izumi happens to be sick, so he sends Inuzuka a text asking if he could take notes for him until he's able to return to school. Shikimori is dismayed to find out through the grapevine that her boyfriend has fallen ill, and to make things worse, he didn't ask for her help regarding something so important.
Shikimori often feels somewhat insecure in her relationship, especially when it comes to doing or being enough for Izumi as a girlfriend. His closeness with other people, Inuzuka in particular, triggers her possessiveness, something which can be considered an extension of her highly competitive nature. This is evident when hearing that Inuzuka will be taking Izumi's notes – Shikimori is determined to make better notes for her boyfriend than she'd even make for herself, showing her resolve to lose to no one when it comes to «earning» Izumi's affection.
After school, Shikimori asks Inuzuka if she could accompany him to Izumi's house to deliver the notes for the day, and on
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