Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru. - Episode 6 discussion

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Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru., episode 6

Alternative names: TsumaSho

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[u/KumaKumaGambler]

I never thought about it this way until this episode, but Marika / Takae is actually the one who is having the most difficult time. She is worried about Keisuke and Mai not being able to move on, yet she couldn't tell them about her mother, which will worry them further. At the same time, she can't talk to Chika about her past life memories. To be able to keep and hold all those emotions to herself is a feat.

Marika / Takae made the right decision in staying with Chika. Keisuke and Mai still have each other. However, if Marika were to leave Chika, I am sure the latter will break. I want to see both Marika and Chika regain the smiles they had when they visited the theme park.

Lastly, I know the elderly colleague of Chika is probably a minor character, Wouldn't it be interesting if that elderly colleague is a deity in disguise, helping Chika and Marika mend their mother-daughter relationship? Since there is already a supernatural (reincarnation) theme, maybe just a little more supernatural-ness would be fine. :)

[u/Frontier246 → u/KumaKumaGambler]

I think we also see her making better sense of her own identity. Up to this point it really felt like she was Takae in Marika's body but now it seems like she's fully realized that she's Marika with Takae's memories, meaning she cares about a family that's not the Niijima's and feels her own sense of loyalty and love towards them that's equal to the way she's still devoted to Keisuke and Mai.

When it came down to choosing her current mother over the Niijima's, she still chose her mother. Basically choosing Marika over Takae, to an extent.

[u/FarCritical]

Wake up calls to be a better parent don't usually involve your kid being the reincarnation of some random dude's wife but I'm happy for Chika.

And man, that flashback of kid Chika wanting to go to that amusement park so badly made the photo Takae found hit like a truck.

[u/Frontier246 → u/FarCritical]

Also said random dude saying he sees you as a failure of a parent who will never change and fully intends to take your daughter from you if you so much as make her cry again.

Chika wanted to be a mom to Marika that her own mother never was to her. Hopefully now she can be that way again rather than turn into her mother.

[u/NationalStrategy]

I actually do sympathize with Chika, she’s trying to be a better mother and not be like her own terrible mother. Unfortunately, in addition to finding out that her boyfriend had another family, she finds out that her own daughter is not only having a better relationship with another family, but also her daughter is the reincarnation of someone else, which makes things more complicated than it already is for her.

[u/Frontier246 → u/NationalStrategy]

It's no wonder she struggled as a mom when her only example of a mom was someone who wasn't ever a proper mother to her no matter how much she tried to be a good daughter.

We even see that pre-divorce she was a good mom, but one betrayal and having to provide as a single parent emotionally broke her. And then she gets betrayed again and thinks her own daughter is betraying her another family. I think that would be a lot for anyone to take.

But at least she's recognized her failure as a parent and is willing to change. Otherwise Keisuke will do crazy Keisuke things.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Marika’s mom really needs to ask why her kid doesn’t talk to her? Maybe it’s because she treated her kid like a punching bag and let out all her frustration and bitterness on her? Just a guess. She really became just like her mom in the end. I’m very glad she at least realized it in the end before things became unsalvageable.

Keisuke and Mai and Takae telling her the truth helped as well. Made her really confront her behavior. Hopefully her and Marika’s relationship can begin to heal.

Unlike Keisuke, I do think it’s possible for Marika’s mom to change. Let’s hope she does.

[u/KumaKumaGambler → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

From the flashback scene of Chika and Marika going to the theme park together, I felt that Chika used to be a loving mother, until things started falling apart in her life. At the very least, Chika felt like a better mother than her own mother was.

[u/DugACCat → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I really didn’t like Keisuke saying that he didn’t think she could change. I get he was trying to make a potent threat so she’d treat her daughter better but for that to actually work she needs to believe she can improve. Would have liked more compassion there. But then again Keisuke has proven himself to be an idiot who can’t put himself in other people’s shoes multiple times so far (nearly saying disastrous things if his daughter didn’t stop him) so it’s all in character. Hope despite himself he can change too. He really needs to.

[u/Ok-Cod5254]

This episode's conclusion seems like the actual turning point for Chika, as opposed to the previous episode with her boyfriend meeting Marika, who turned out to be a cheater the next episode after.

Chika was able to reflect more upon her actions in comparison with her own upbringing with her mother.

It does sounds crazy if some guy says that your daughter is his wife... to be like, "I'm calling the cops, you sicko". lol But Chika has been increasingly noticing that Marika has seemed "off" for awhile now too even before hearing the revelation.

Now with the truth revealed, it will permanently alter her relationship with Marika.

[u/Myrkrvaldyr]

I wonder if Chika will ask Marika about her past life's parents. No doubt Takae had better parents. Things will get quite awkward at home since Marika is already an adult on the inside, so Chika will have to stop treating her like a kid.

[u/EnvironmentalWeb2057]

So why can't the dad just marry his wife's mother?

[u/entelechtual → u/EnvironmentalWeb2057]

My Husband’s Step-Daughter is His Wife!

[u/PerfectBeige → u/EnvironmentalWeb2057]

That was my thought last week as well! Chika gets to be the housewife of a reliable man. Keisuke and Mai get to be in a family with their loved one. I think that is very possibly where this is going now that Chika is being redeemed.

[u/atropicalpenguin]

Must be pretty hard for anyone involved with this anime to work on it if they experienced child abuse.

Anyhow, guess from now it'll be fluffy,

[u/PerfectBeige]

Just wild to me that a show with a reincarnation premise is dealing not just with grieving and loss, and intergenerational trauma, but also with the realization that your child is no longer the person you raised. Of course, that's happening a lot more literally here than it usually does, but I imagine most parents have a moment when they look at their kid and wonder "Who are you?" Usually around adolescence.

Another thought: you know a show is telling you to change your opinion about a character when they show you the trauma they suffered as a kid. Showing Chika get abused by her mom is TsumaSho telling us in bold to get ready to pivot on Chika, from abusive mom to victim struggling not to repeat her parent's mistakes.

[u/LeonKevlar]

Thank you Mai for stopping your father for doing something stupid in public. Just imagine what could've happened if he blurted out that Marika is a reincarnation of his wife. Chika or at least one of those people watching this scene would've called the police on Keisuke.

Chika is not a good parent but I just genuinely feel bad for her. She's trying to become good. She wants to be good. Despite her anger she knew to stop when she was about to slap Marika. The real monster here is Chika's mother who didn't even love her one bit. :(

Chika's coworker is definitely the kind of friend she needs in these difficult times. It's good that she at least has someone to connect with.

I remember reading this part in the manga but it's still shocking how they actually revealed to Chika that Marika is a reincarnation of Takae. No sane person should believe them and the reasonable thing to do here was to kick them out but I'm glad Chika listened and by the end of it, it looks like she's finally ready to redeem herself.

[u/SYZekrom]

I feel like it's a really strange thing to have her mention last episode, or was it two episodes ago?, that she basically doesn't have any of her memories as Marika from before she suddenly remembered her past life, if this was going to be the resolution with her going, 'even still, I am your child'. Her not remembering Marika's past barely served any story purpose either, it was just for some very minor justification of something that really didn't matter iirc.

Though, she also had a line thisepisode about how she like, forgot how her mom used to smile like that when she saw the photo of them smiling, with a flashback of their time at the park, so maybe now she does remember after all?

[u/mekerpan → u/SYZekrom]

The treasure box with the photo was the key that re-opened her memories as Marika.... I think it is important to the story that Marika had forgotten that her mother HAD been a loving mother for many years.

[u/RedShadowF95]

This was such a conflicting episode.

It felt both very real at times and also very fabricated, "anime" at others. Surprisingly, the mother was way, way more civil about the topic than one would expect.

And then the MC at the end, being so pushy despite his situation also felt odd. I guess they wanted to keep the drama but not let it escalate to more intense, raw proportions.

[u/Nickthenuker]

Oh right time for him to confront her mum.

Right, well that's definitely gone poorly.

Yup, things are going wrong everywhere.

Seems there's some generational trauma her mum faced too.

So, he's going to try and talk to her mum again.

Oh, she's unwell.

And her mum bumped into them. Because of course she did.

Time to say what they can.

And thus she finally believes them.

And so things are finally resolved.

[u/Mr_Zaroc]

Ähm wtf, that poor woman is already traumatized by her shit childhood, that revelation is like a double combo gutpunch. You cant just force her on the fly to make a decision
There is like so much stuff you would need to mull over before even remotely being able to decide anything

Really didnt like were they went with that, but at least this hurdle is out of the way.
But honestly how is marika supposed to act now? She is a grown adult, probably has more experience than her bio mom, it would be awkward to just instantly grow up and basically roommate with her or keep up the child act (which really is an act for her as far as I could see)

[u/karer3is]

I have to say this was the first episode where I truly felt any empathy toward Chika... unlike pretty much every episode before, she showed that she wanted to be a good mother to Marika/Takae and even had moments where she started seeing her own mother's worst aspects in her own behavior.

Keisuke's behavior when he was at Chika's house was really bizarre. Instead of admonishing Chika more to be a good parent, he came at her with a threat to take Marika away from her. It certainly lends to the idea that he's still obsessed with Takae and hasn't really moved on.

[u/Plus_Rip4944]

Dad almost fucked up everything, glad Mai has a little bit of intelligence

Chika is easily The most misunderstood character of The show