The Love Wagon stalls
Ainori took a turn for the worse last night. Asa-chan got Dengue Fever in Myanmar and has to retire. He’s been on the show since before I started watching over a year ago, and his progression has been wonderful to watch. He went from a nerd who couldn’t make eye contact to a confident and centered (if goofy) kind of guy. Waiting for him to hook up was a big reason I kept watching the show, when nobody else interested me.
But now, he has to retire. I’ve finally gotten interested in the new characters, so it’s not as though I’ll stop watching. But I’m really going to miss Asa-chan. He, more than many of the Ainori crew, deserved to go home with a nice girl. Hopefully he’ll be awash in a sea of action upon his return to Japan.
(Maybe Biank can stalk him in his Kyoto fish shop now. Mwa ha ha.)