English Dub Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend “Getting Ready with the Girlfriends”

Overview

Shino is frustrated and furious about Naoya and Saki’s failure to kiss at the fireworks festival. Saki wins a bunch of camping gear and a campsite coupon, so everyone decides to go enjoy a camping trip.

Our Take

The day after the fireworks festival, at Naoya’s house, a set of camping equipment that Saki won in a contest and a free coupon for a campsite arrive. When the group arrives at the campsite, Naoya sets up the tent, Nagisa takes care of cooking, and they divide the tasks for camp preparations. In the meantime, Shino continues to lecture Saki about her two-timing behavior. After a while, the four are struggling because they are inexperienced with camping preparations. Just then, Rika, Rika’s younger sister Risa, and Rika’s friend Risa appear. Not surprisingly, this camping trip was arranged by Rika.

Later on, she also had her little sister, Risa, join her for this trip. It was here that Mirika told Risa about Naoya’s relationship with Saki and Nagisa and how Mirika wants Naoya for herself. And appropriately, Risa responded by slapping Mirika in the face and demanded that Mirika go and find a better man instead. In some ways, this feels like Risa representing this show’s audience and thinks of her older sister as being crazy, and dumb as Risa’s points were right on. However, Mirika’s plan was already set into motion by then, as the pizza that she cooked earlier had a surprise with potentially dark implications…

Overall, this is possibly one of the few times at the end that might be the first time I was amused rather than annoyed at Mirika’s antics. Sure, Risa is probably the only sensible character in this anime. And you can also argue that Shino is also sensible currently. But part of me knows what’s gonna happen eventually… All I can say about the ending is that What Rika did is a crime but because she’s crazy she probably doesn’t see it that way (never mind that this is an anime). The real question now is, what other underhanded tricks does Mirika have up her sleeve?