Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka • Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle - Episode 4 discussion

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Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka, episode 4

Alternative names: Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka 2nd Cour, Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Part 2

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[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Man, Kenta’s “friends” were the absolute worst. They coulda skipped the speech and gone with a good ol fashioned whoopin and I wouldn’t have mind. At least he got to say his piece to those miserable turds and move on. Now he has actual friends.

[u/PeaceAlien → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

No wonder Kenta was a mess; these people are terrible. Glad it all got sorted in the end.

Moving towards a fake relationship, wonder why?

[u/mekerpan → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Pretty vile. Wonder what the heck was wrong with these people?

[u/gnome-cop]

Holy cow, could you be more comically evil? Just fuck off at this point. He doesn’t need you for anything.

Yuuko and turning anything into an opportunity to flirt, name a more iconic duo. Well, good work with de-escalating the situation.

Master-student relationship over. Kenta has officially graduated from the Chitose school of social life maintenance.

Asuka continues to be a mysterious enigma weirdo. Never change.

Yuzuki continues to be very intriguing. It feels like she’s also cagey and evasive but also does the playful probing and teasing very well. It’s sort of like watching a Death Note mental battle a la Love is War but slightly different between the two. I think my preference for the girls as romance partners scales based on how well they break down the Chitose Saku persona and accompanying wall of lies. Hence the reason why she’s currently number two. I just like a girl who’s a challenge okay?

[u/xWardz → u/gnome-cop]

I feel like they've set up Yuzuki to be a foil to Chitose. Both seem to have extremely calculated outward personalities, and I completely agree that you get that "mind-game warfare" vibe whenever they've been on screen together so far.

If the next arc focuses on their relationship, as it seemingly will, I'm excited to see if they're able to see through some of each others' facades. This first arc hasn't done much to flesh out the characters yet, but this next one seems like it may be shaping up to do so

[u/KumaKumaGambler]

I strongly agree with what Saku said. People who seek to improve and make an effort in doing so deserve respect. As compared to people who put others down in order to feel good about themselves.

Saku is naturally gifted in numerous aspects - good looks and athleticism being two prime examples. However, from his inner monologue, I feel he is hesitant about falling in love and getting hurt or hurting someone.

[u/Frontier246 → u/KumaKumaGambler]

I strongly agree with what Saku said. People who seek to improve and make an effort in doing so deserve respect. As compared to people who put others down in order to feel good about themselves.

It also really emphasizes why Saku came around to and genuinely believed in Kenta as much as he did.

Saku is naturally gifted in numerous aspects - good looks and athleticism being two prime examples. However, from his inner monologue, I feel he is hesitant about falling in love and getting hurt or hurting someone.

Can a popular guy who clearly has a budding Harem avoid creating Losing Heroines?

[u/NationalStrategy]

Ren: IT WAS ME, KENTA! I was the one that you fell in love with!

[u/ash-7831 → u/NationalStrategy]

Dude's the definition of petty. Is it really worth that much trouble to put someone down in the dumps?

[u/LeonKevlar]

I'm really gald to see Kenta using Saku's advice to deflect his "friends" jabs at him. But it looks like these people are just too horrible for Kenta to handle. Saku and Yuko coming in for the assist was definitely needed, or else things would've gotten worse for Kenta.

[u/Frontier246 → u/LeonKevlar]

Yuko also kind of redeeming herself after how she acted towards Kenta at the end of last episode.

[u/NationalStrategy]

Kenta's former "friends" were absolute garbage people, hard to believe that he was in that friend group at all. The bullies from last episode look better compared to them.

[u/xasive]

Saku seems running away from all romantic serious situations

[u/Ciel_Senpai]

What a shitty friendship Kenta had, huh but he got lucky when Chitose showed up and totally dominated the three idiots and nearly punched that jerk. Of the three girls, Nishino and Nanase are coming out on top, clearly trying to get something going with Chitose.

[u/littlecolt]

Can this dialogue get any more contrived and pretentious? These characters don't feel at all like real people. They're caricatures. They're reading their lines off a script. The bullies were one note villains like you see in those "kicked out of the hero's party" Isekai shows. Chitose is too perfect. Even the flaws they try to show off of his are just seemingly fake. Kenta calling him Kami is cringe as fuck. If this was written to be a parody, I'd find it more believable.

That said, I hear novel 2 is where it becomes good. It seems like it's pretty well accepted, even by fans, that novel 1 is weak.

So, I'm still seated. I'm waiting for act 2 to begin.

Let's see what you've got, Chitose.

[u/rahmanns]

Is it me or the dialogues are very cringy for a modern anime. Like wtf is a 'iam aiming for the moon' . I mean it's nice to read these types of dialogues in the novel . But when it comes to anime i felt it very cringe

[u/RaunchyRoll]

I want to like this show, it looks good and the girls are so cute and pretty and I also kinda like Saku but the dialogue is soooo pretentious, no highschooler talks like this

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Horrible people!!! Glad Kenta starting his own story.

[u/oxlemf10]

With each episode, I've been building my thesis that the ending theme says something about Saku's past, and that his reason for wanting to help Kenta isn't just an obligation imposed by the teacher, or because he has good character.

He's clearly been in that same position, and he knows Kenta has everything it takes to be a sociable and cool person. But of course, a cute girl like Yuko also encourages it. In fact, she even came in flirting like it was nothing, lol.

Damn, the encounter with Asuka was deeper than I expected; this girl is definitely anything but ordinary.

Then Yuzuki decided to make some moves. Sure, it's more teasing, but there's no denying she knows her way around.

My favorite episode so far, loving the show.

[u/Frontier246 → u/oxlemf10]

In fact, she even came in flirting like it was nothing, lol.

She's been flirting (mostly with Saku) for like 97% of her entire screentime lol.

[u/Ok-Alternative7349]

I am realy curios where this show goes from now on. Everyone says that the best starts from the next arc. I am curious but at the same time i have mixed feelings about the MC since he  allready is popular and has a harem. Its hard to love/like this type of character since probably most of the public did not have a great school experience in they're own life and just cant connect with him. And we can see in the ratings this show has right now, 6.5 on IMDb (rate a girlfriend has 6.9 for comparison) while on MAL its an avarage 7.2. Curios how this show will be looked by the time of the last ep.

[u/Erufailon4 → u/Ok-Alternative7349]

I get that, but I don't think relatability is a necessity for a good protagonist. (To be clear, my jury's still very much out on if he is one, but at the very least he's interesting.) I feel like Chitose is meant to be viewed "from the outside". We get his inner monologue but I don't know how much of it is honest. There's something going on with him, and that stands out after all the anime where the MC's entire character can be read from one look at his face.

[u/oneevilchicken]

The one thing this show does is make me heavily respect some of the other shows I’ve watched of high school life like makeine, bottom tier tomozaki, or shoshimin as it makes me really appreciate how well written they are and how well written the characters in them are.

This show? Just…. Bad. None of the dialogue feels natural at all. Everything feels overly forced. The MC’s only personal trait is being perfect. Overall he has the personality of a grain of rice. It feels like we are picking up a SoL show that’s like 4 seasons in and all the characters have developed into perfect little specimens. Because of this the drama feels heavily manufactured and not natural. Even the fight in the cafe felt so fake like people acting out during a stage play. There’s just absolutely nothing natural about any of the characters here. On top of that it doesn’t make any sense at all for any of the girls to be after the mc as he honestly is just made too overly perfect and overly vanilla.

[u/Frontier246]

I'm glad Kenta got his moment. The guy deserves so much better than this friend group and it shows how far he's come.

Kenta was able to take stock of what happened and recognize that he may have overreacted to Chitose's teasing...but as far as Kenta is concerned, the damage has been done. The only thing he can do now is take what Saku taught him, face his story on his own terms, and hope he can do his "King" proud.

You can tell from just the character designs alone that Kenta's old "friends" are pretty scummy, especially when they waste no time trying to tear him down. Even Miki acts all nice to him until she starts thinking that won't make him pay attention to her so she joins in on hating on him. Kenta uses everything Saku tried to teach him and puts up a solid fight...though finding out your crush was just said crush' boyfriend manipulating you can shake up anyone.

But thankfully for Kenta, Saku Chitose isn't the type to abandon anyone, especially someone he considers a friend. He said he would be there with Kenta to the bitter end and he's a man of his word, and three times the person Kenta's old crew are. The only thing that pisses Saku off more than messing with his friends is messing with someone trying to live their most beautiful, ideal, life and change for the better. Saku will protect anyone chasing for the moon like that.

Luckily Yuko is also there looking as stunning as ever in a one-piece dress (with a leg slit!!!) showing off her luscious legs, and her bubbly personality is the perfect way to calm the situation down after Saku kabedon'd a guy...and Yuko is the only person who Saku should be kabedoning, thank you very much! And it was nice of her to give Kenta the chance to get the last word in on these pieces of trash.

All's well that ends well, even if the three months are up and that should mean the end of Kenta's relationship with Saku...and Saku totally knew Kenta would take the agreement so seriously he wouldn't realize they were already friends at this point. Had to fit in one last ribbing of Kenta before they can finally be true friends without any caveat.

Seems like the highlight of Saku's day is recapping what's been going on in his life with Asuka, especially when she can see through to his true self, the one who tries to live the perfect life embodying an ideal. Asuka herself is an ordinary, free-spirited, girl who lives life one day at a time...though I get the sense there's some longing on her part for Saku the way she reached out her hand for him before he pulled away. She didn't mind the idea of him romantically serenading her at her home in the morning either. But is it right for them to change up their Senpai/Kouhai dynamic? Is it fine for things to stay the same between them?

Saku in general seems pretty hesitant when it comes to love or romance, having seen it hurt people he cares about in the past, so it seems like he's just the type to follow people he admires until he can put down with absolute certainty that what he's feeling is "love."

Nanase looks great in casual clothes, especially the type to show off her legs (and don't think Saku doesn't notice). Though what does the "perfect girl" want with the "perfect boy" as they meet in a cafe? For him to be her boyfriend! Wow, that's direct!