English Dub Review: Salaryman’s Club “Feedback”

Overview

Traumatized by injuring Azuma at the Inter-High, Mikoto is powerless against Tonozaki Shiryu and Tachibana Azuma’s doubles team. Azuma, however, confronts Mikoto head-on. With Tatsuru’s help, Mikoto and Tatsuru’s team gradually regains its form. Their match grows increasingly fierce. Can Mikoto reclaim what he lost…?


Our Take

Picking up from the proceedings of the previous episode, the heated finale doubles match continues with Tomari’s Shiryu Tonozaki and Azuma vs. Sunlight Beverage’s Tatsuru and Mikoto. As more of Azuma and Mikoto’s backstory surfaces as the prodigy and commoner, only to fuel and reignite the grievances that Azuma had, which the latter preceded to play badly on purpose as if he couldn’t forget the sins of his past.

At the very least, I’m also glad we got to see Azuma’s side of the story and how he views it as his fault. Constantly being overshadowed by Mikoto and feeling like a burden caused him to overwork himself and be put in harm’s way. In a change in tactics, we later see Tatsuru the Badaryman take the front attack and win some points back, as is Mikoto’s reason to fight back with Azuma’s old habits. That’s Sunlight Beverage’s win on the 2nd set of 3.

Overall, this was a pretty passable episode.  With Mikoto finally being able to overcome his fears but we’ll see if he can keep going like that in the end, he was able to confess how shitty he feels about this whole situation while being drunk. My biggest issue with the show so far is that the actual Badminton matches feel like your watching high schoolers play instead of adults. And finally, The post-credit scene was interesting though Once again, it showed a flashback of Tatsuru and a younger Mikoto playing badminton which may give off possible red flags, yet it remains to be seen if it’ll lead anywhere…