It’s episode 19, and Okazaki’s teacher wants to talk to his father because of his suspension. However, this results in Nagisa seeing the true state of Okazaki’s relationship with his father. Meanwhile, the theater club finally gets off the ground, but Nagisa and company are finding it to be a lot more work than they expected. Finally, Nagisa lets Okazaki know of something that’s been bothering her for quite a while.
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The highlights of this episode:
- Sakagami, who is the new president of the student council, holds a vote to allow the theater club and choir club to share Koumura as an advisor.
- Okazaki’s teacher decides that he’s going to go speak with Okazaki’s father so that he may “discuss Okazaki’s future” with him. Okazaki tries to escape from school before his teacher can come along with him, but Nagisa drags him back when the teacher calls for Okazaki over the PA.
- Once the teacher arrives with Okazaki to his house, Okazaki sees that his father isn’t there. The teacher decides that he’ll hang around until he comes home and Okazaki runs off under the guise of going to go look for his father.
- Okazaki soon runs into Nagisa again, who was going to stop by his house since he left his bag at school. They walk back to Okazaki’s house where they find his father and the teacher in a discussion, where Okazaki’s father seems to see what Okazaki did as none of his business, and Nagisa sees fully the state of Okazaki’s and his father’s relationship.
- Okazaki explains how his father no longer sees him as his son. Nagisa decides to ask Okazaki if he wants to live at her house for the time being, in hopes that both Okazaki and his father will see what’s important in being a family after being away for a while. Once Okazaki arrives at Nagisa’s house, she sets him up in the guest room, but he ends up feeling a little uncomfortable being around a family that gets together so well.
- At school the next day, Koumura goes over all the jobs involved with putting on a play, such as lighting and sound. Okazaki asks Nagisa about the play she wanted to do, but she can’t remember the name of it, only generally how it goes.
- Once Okazaki arrives back at Nagisa’s house after school, he finds the place packed with kids, and Nagisa explains that it’s a cram school, and her mother happens to be the teacher. Later, Okazaki is helping Nagisa’s father in the shop, and he explains that his wife used to be a middle school teacher, so she can handle kids. Okazaki asks why she quit, and Nagisa’s father just explains that “a lot happened.”
- That evening, Nagisa stops by Okazaki’s room to chat. Nagisa ends up telling him that she feels like there is something in the past that happened that she needs to apologize to her parents for, but she can’t remember what it was.
- Meanwhile, the robot in the world with no birth and no death starts to assemble a new robot with the help of the mysterious girl…
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This episode seems to confirm that Nagisa’s arc is the only one left, and that we’re now starting to seriously dig deeper into it. Okazaki moves into her house, and we start to open two new fronts in Nagisa’s story line: the fact that Nagisa feels like she did something bad when she was little, and the situation revolving around her mother being a middle school teacher. I doubt that those two things are unrelated. We also have the still unresolved thing with the world with no birth and no death. Perhaps it is related as well?
My initial thought is perhaps Nagisa had a sister whom when she was little did something to that either killed her or put her in a coma, and that sister is actually the girl in the mysterious world. Of course, that doesn’t answer whose consciousness is in the robot. And perhaps this loss of a child is what also caused Nagisa’s mother to stop being a teacher, much like what happened with Fuko’s older sister.
In any case, Nagisa’s arc must be pretty deep to need six episodes, so I highly doubt that even this is the last of the story revolving around her.
I should also note that I like how Nagisa and Okazaki have now become de facto boyfriend/girlfriend. Neither may admit it, but they both act like it. Especially with Nagisa becoming comfortable enough to put Okazaki in his place.
