#chips meta

I like how they showed their regression this ep! Kazuki still doing chores around the house because it’s been ingrained in him to always be useful to himself and the people around him, but not having the heart to cook anymore because he’s missing that extra voice that told him his food was yummy :(( Someone before said cooking is Kazuki’s love language and yeah it’d be hard to show love when you’re missing half the people you usually show it to.

And Rei going back to all his bad habits, binge gaming late into the night and smoking. With the addition of him sleeping with Miri’s duck oughhh. Love their little rooftop rendezvous scene and Rei giving Kazuki his lighter, there’s some symbolic significance there I need to unpack(symbolizing their capability to change or foreshadowing for the second half of the ep where Rei gives Kazuki hope they can change? :0 He’s literally giving him light. Or maybe foreshadowing for the next ep, they’re gonna burn down the Suwa mansion lmfao)

Also their conversation outside the safe house! As I said before, Kazuki is willing to let go of his happiness because he’s used to it and doesn’t want his loved ones to get hurt because of him(again), while Rei wants to fight for it because this is his very first happiness. They really carried it through this ep which is awesome.

(I do have a little nitpick and it’s Kazuki wanting to put Miri in an orphanage. Since he’s an orphan himself you’d think he’d be wary of them due to personal experience 🤨 And maybe Kazuki’s change in opinion could have happened over a longer period of time but budget time constraints yada yada)