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English Dub Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend “Hot Spring Tropes”

By David King

October 19, 2022

OverviewNagisa spends her time on vacation with Rika to try to keep Shino from finding out that dating both her and Saki…Our TakeContinuing from the previous episode, we get a lot more fan service in this storyline this time around. For a guy that says he cares about Saki, Naoya seems to be awfully concerned about accommodating for Nagisa. It’s like he wants to get caught by Shino who progressively knows the truth even if it took her a while to process everything. On the subject, we also got to see a lot more of Shino in this episode and, we got to see how she truly feels about Saki as her best friend. If anything, she might just be the single sane person in this show. The way Shino questions Naoya if he was two-timing and naming everything that will work against him and destroying Naoya with facts was hilarious. And finally, the deep dive into Nagisa’s character was pretty interesting. It definitely gave her more depth. It’s quite a sad backstory about how Nagisa wasn’t good at anything no matter how much time she puts into it which leads to her having confidence issues until she meets Naoya…Overall, this was a pretty fun episode with a lot of cringe/misunderstanding humor you’ve come to respect in a genre like this. Somehow this episode kept getting funnier and stupider the longer it went on. From Naoya falling into Shino’s bath to the girls walking in at the worst possible time. With one episode left, I’m curious about what direction this could take.