The opening scene of this episode is simply perfect. Yukino and Hachiman are ignoring one another, engrossed (or pretending to be) in their books, while Yui is situated exactly in the middle between them. The frame could not be more explicit. She's caught in the middle, but unable to affect either side. She is neutral against her will.
God Bless Sensei. She is the hero of this episode, and probably of the entire series. Against his will, she has made him serve on the committee for the high school's cultural festival (an exhausting sort of formal school party I probably would have abhorred as a teenager. I do not think I would have flourished in the Japanese school system). Yukino also serves as assistant to the president, and it is by this means their reconciliation will happen.
That is a ways in the future, however. Yukino seems to be picking up Hachiman's resentment, and answers by closing herself off to everyone around her. Rudely, even. Whether it's the constant comparisons people make between her and Haruno or the problem Hachiman has with her, I don't know, but the result is the same. Her walls are even higher and stronger than Hachiman.
Poor Yui sees this and frustrated, bursts out at Hachiman. She knows something is wrong and hates it, but doesn't know why. Even totally ignorant, though, she is able to extract - against his will, most likely - a promise that Hachiman will help Yukino if she gets into more than she can handle with the festival committee. Without Yui and Sensei, the two slugs would be hopeless. They have to be dragged, total dead weight, to any sort of personal growth.
For some reason, Haruno ends up as a volunteer. I admit I do not know the beginnings of the ins and out of Japanese high school, but is it weird that a college student is spending so much time around a specifically high-school event? Particularly when she had already headed it during her own day, and when her sister is de facto heading it now? I am beginning to think she enjoys being a social loose cannon, and take pleasure in the discomfort she causes those around her. She deliberately starts sabotaging the process of planning the festival like a social Hannibal Lector. She's like an anti-Sensei. Her intervention might coincide with growth between Hachiman and Yukino, but it's probably going to be an accident. Sensei cares. I'm not sure Haruno does.
Perhaps Haruno and Sensei were both very much like Yukino and Hachiman are now when they were in high school. If that's the case, Sensei seems to have undergone experiences which altered and transformed her isolating behavior, and now is able to act like a mentor to those who isolate themselves. In Sensei's person, we can see what it looks like when things go right, which means it's possible Haruno might exemplify the opposite.
God Bless Sensei. She is the hero of this episode, and probably of the entire series. Against his will, she has made him serve on the committee for the high school's cultural festival (an exhausting sort of formal school party I probably would have abhorred as a teenager. I do not think I would have flourished in the Japanese school system). Yukino also serves as assistant to the president, and it is by this means their reconciliation will happen.
That is a ways in the future, however. Yukino seems to be picking up Hachiman's resentment, and answers by closing herself off to everyone around her. Rudely, even. Whether it's the constant comparisons people make between her and Haruno or the problem Hachiman has with her, I don't know, but the result is the same. Her walls are even higher and stronger than Hachiman.
Poor Yui sees this and frustrated, bursts out at Hachiman. She knows something is wrong and hates it, but doesn't know why. Even totally ignorant, though, she is able to extract - against his will, most likely - a promise that Hachiman will help Yukino if she gets into more than she can handle with the festival committee. Without Yui and Sensei, the two slugs would be hopeless. They have to be dragged, total dead weight, to any sort of personal growth.
For some reason, Haruno ends up as a volunteer. I admit I do not know the beginnings of the ins and out of Japanese high school, but is it weird that a college student is spending so much time around a specifically high-school event? Particularly when she had already headed it during her own day, and when her sister is de facto heading it now? I am beginning to think she enjoys being a social loose cannon, and take pleasure in the discomfort she causes those around her. She deliberately starts sabotaging the process of planning the festival like a social Hannibal Lector. She's like an anti-Sensei. Her intervention might coincide with growth between Hachiman and Yukino, but it's probably going to be an accident. Sensei cares. I'm not sure Haruno does.
Perhaps Haruno and Sensei were both very much like Yukino and Hachiman are now when they were in high school. If that's the case, Sensei seems to have undergone experiences which altered and transformed her isolating behavior, and now is able to act like a mentor to those who isolate themselves. In Sensei's person, we can see what it looks like when things go right, which means it's possible Haruno might exemplify the opposite.
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