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Episode Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san • Please Put Them On, Takamine-san - Episode 4 discussion

Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san, episode 4

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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Apr 25 '25

Takamine's power seemed to work differently when Shirota wasn't able to remember the new alternate timeline. Probably a writing error instead of anything deeper.

That damnable butterfly animation played twice today! It's driving me up the wall.

It feels like the show wants Takamine-san to be sympathetic for the viewer, but given her ongoing blackmail threat against Shirota, it kind of falls flat for me. I don't really care for either of them, and now we're four episodes in without really any other characters to speak of.

If I were to do some backseat writing here to try and improve things a bit, I'd probably * Make Shirota stand up for himself more * Have Takamine naturally develop increased respect for Shirota as he fights back against her control

At least that ED song is good as-is. That "hightail" name-drop always gets me hyped.

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u/ebongreen May 10 '25

I wrote on a YouTube video tonight, in great agreement with you:

I started episode 4 tonight and finally bailed on this show for good halfway through (during the lingerie store scene). My latest concern with it is the protagonist. He’s been under her thumb now for some time, but he’s not adapting or growing in any perceivable way, which is not how humans generally brain. He continues to act as if he can only freeze, vs. (say) fawning (trying to figure out ahead of time what she wants and people-pleasing in the moment), or fighting (pushing back in any way, even verbally, like needling her in some extremely passive sort of way), or f***ing (expressing lust or engaging in double-entendre). All he has to offer us as viewers is panic-stricken anxiety, and that’s not particularly entertaining or relatable. Humans get accustomed to strange circumstances: even abusive situations become “normal”. And this would be an entirely different show if “dommy girl decides she wants a boy with an anxiety disorder”. That could even be an interesting premise along the lines of Komi Can’t Communicate. This show absolutely can’t pull off the level of subtlety and empathy that would require; it’s just bad, and I’m done with its badness.

Also, the swimming animation was terrible. TERRIBLE!!! This show isn’t so bad it’s good, it’s just outright bad.

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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta May 10 '25

All good points, I agree completely.

Out of curiosity, do you have a link to the YouTube video?

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u/ebongreen May 10 '25

https://youtu.be/t74__S1wVTs?si=ykguWaYsiPGGFNB3

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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta May 10 '25

Ah, thanks for sharing that!

I haven't seen videos from that channel before, but I really like this one, so I'll have to check out some more. Thank you!