English Dub Review: Tonikawa Over The Moon For You “Rings”

Overview

During the ruckus at the Kaginoji house, Nasa and Tsukasa pledge their love to each other at a church. After Nasa reports to Kaname that he has finally proposed, she points out that he still doesn’t have a ring.  Although he doesn’t take much notice at first, Nasa gradually becomes more self-conscious about the importance of the ring and the marriage status that comes with it…

Our Take

Well thanks to this episode, I’m starting to realize how much of a marriage tutorial this anime comes across, as it’s definitely giving off some slice of life vibes from it than anything else. For example, I now know the fundamental difference between engagement and wedding rings (As someone who is actually married, I genuinely wasn’t aware of this.) But at the end of the day, it’s the thought that counts, and the choice they settled on were mutually perfect.

Aside from the Ring subplot, His new wife now wants A TV to watch movies, and we learn a bit of Tsukasa’s personality in the process as we see other sides of her having a taste in both art and even pop culture. Not to mention Tsukasa also seems to know a bit of fashion, not that I find it surprising though. She is quite knowledgeable even if we still know little about her past, but at least we learned in the previous episode that she has a sister.

Overall, this show is progressively getting stronger each week. It remains refreshing on a consistent level for doing the complete opposite of everything that’s wrong with bad shounen anime romance tropes that have infamously been done to death for decades. No will they/won’t they love triangle bullshit, no one-note annoying characters, and especially no glorifying double-standard abuse bullshit at the male lead’s expense whatsoever. I also dig the fact that this episode even went as far as to get away with referencing movies, celebrities, and pop culture stuff you normally wouldn’t hear in an Anime without having it parodied it in some way.