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English Dub Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend “Fireworks with the Girlfriends”

By David King

November 13, 2023

OverviewEveryone’s at the fireworks festival, but Naoya and Saki have been separated, foiling Shino’s plans. Instead, Naoya has ended up watching the fireworks with Nagisa despite their plans to the contrary.Our Take Picking up from the previous episode, Naoya briefly has a small yet sweet moment with Nagisa who almost blows it when they added all lovey-dovey around one of their classmates, the pair makes their excuses and left before any more suspicion arose. Either way, the two of them had a nice chat, along with some funny parts that made me laugh, before Saki arrived on the scene, which Nagisa choosing that time to leave so that the pair can have their own time together.Saki being able to smell other girls’ scent on Naoya was hilarious, but their chat with the convenience store bought fireworks that Naoya rushed out to get after the main fireworks show ended did have Saki speaking out her honest thoughts to Naoya. While the pair didn’t kiss, predictably, I’m glad that the two of them had a nice honest chat with each other, so you can tell that they got closer to each other than ever before. Overall, this episode ended up being more serious than goofy/funny since Saki explained how she felt. Unfortunately her things didn’t exactly go the way Shino and Saki envisioned, but now Shino is left wondering if Saki is serious about Naoya. In the end, it felt like a back-and-forth of “Are you happy with our relationship as it is?” and their response could be summarized as “As long as you continue to be as good a person as you are and continue to love me, I will be the happiest.” Now we just have to see how Mirika gets down to work and Shino starting to think if it’s worth putting up with it. As for the next episode, I look forward to see where it goes somewhere down the line…