So last week we discovered that the childhood friend is actually the sister, and this week we discover that the sister is actually the childhood friend, the mind boggles.
The childhood friend is Masha (Alya's sister) but according to Yuki (Kuze's sister) a childhood friend is someone you've known your entire childhood which applies to siblings. In short, the girl that we see in Kuze's dream/memory is Masha.
Eye color can change naturally from childhood to adulthood. Many babies are born with blue or gray eyes, but their eye color can change as they grow older. This change usually occurs within the first few years of life and is influenced by the amount and type of melanin in the iris. As melanin production increases, the eyes may darken and change to green, hazel, or brown. This process typically stabilizes by age three, although slight changes can occur later in life due to factors like aging, disease, or injury.
That is true, and i am a example, when i was born with dark green eyes and blondeish hair, as i grow up my eyes got brown and my hair dark brown, almost black whit glints of Gold here and there
my guess is that hes more likely combining his memories with masha with the appearance of alya. since its mentioned (at least in the manga, but im pretty sure in the show too) that he cant actually remember what the girl looked like. so in a way him combining his previous memories with the appearance of alya just confirms that he is actually into her
@@shield2957 on the novels is said that masachika forgor how the face of the girl was, and there is a scene where he tries to remember her, but grown up alya flashes in his mind, but It looks more like a confusion of recipient of affection than a confusion is his memory
I don't care if her Russian isn't perfect. It's a Japanese anime. Not a Russian anime. Just being understandable Russian is good enough. How many Japanese voice actors are perfectly fluent in multiple languages? Probably none.
Personally, I'm fine with her russian, for the reasons you mentioned. But the scenes in Russia - I was a bit disappointed they didn't bother to find some fluent VAs, since they only used single language. That shit was hard to listen to.
@@FromDkWithLove they probably need to hired a translator to translate the contract from Japanese to English/ Russian. And lawyer to verify the terms and conditions. Too much administrative work and too costly to simply hire a Professional Russian Instructor to check the language spoken for one anime series.
@@bernieburton6520 Imo the biggest issue with the jap VA is that theyre trying to speak russian with "cute" voice like they do with japanese, but it comes off awful to listen to. If you try speaking russian with qutesy voice (like the Aliya's VA) you just gonna sound like an idiot.
The eye color thing could also just be Kuze's brain filling in the gaps of what he doesn't remember. Like, he knows this girl was Russian, and Alya's the only other Russian he knows, so if he doesn't remember the kid's eye color, that could be an explanation. Other than that, eye color can realistically change over time, but the series might just be exaggerating a bit for the sake of plot. Also, I feel pretty confident in saying Kuze never met Alya before middle school, because unless Masha was always living with Alya in both Russia and Japan, Alya would have been in Russia at point, not Japan.
I think what we have here is a Love Hina situation with the childhood friend. I think both Alya and Masha played with Kuze and he's merged them together in his memories.
Spoilers below As much as i wouldve loved that, but no, im a novel reader and his only childhood friend is masha, when they met alya was still in russia, masha came to japan with her dad i think, its been a while
It was starting to remind me of You Were Experienced, I Was Not Not: Our Dating Story because of the main female character having a Sister that the main male character used to have feelings for
Well, eye color can indeed change with age. I think 11-12 years old is time when it stops darkening. Like I had more greenish eyes, but now it's brown.
And I nearly always root for the childhood friend, they’re nearly always my favourite girl. I’m currently watching Shuffle and hoping the childhood friend Kaede ends up with the MC. But with harem anime I prefer all of them to end up with him, everyone is happy then haha.
@@ChildrenOfGielinor Ah, I see that you're a man of culture, as well. To be honest, even I couldn't believe that she would win and I was fine with my headcanon, but the madlads did it.
8:00 What would have happened if Masha had said "There there, Sa-kun"... This mess could only be worse if Masha and Alya had not had their discussion until AFTER this happened. Then Masha wouldn't know that Alya liked him and would have revealed who she was to him.
9:45 It is very common for someone with light hair and blue eyes to have those darken (perhaps significantly) with age. It happened with both my father and brother. They were both tow heads up until early elementary school. After this my father's hair became nearly black and my brother's hair became mid to dark brown.
I'm anime only so it's only a theory: Masha knew that the boy from her childhood knows Russian so when she thought/figured it was him she tested her theory by speaking Russian to him.
Well of course, I thought that was obvious she was testing him. I’m pretty sure she’s confident she knows it’s him anyways and sorta confirmed he’s pretending not to understand.
@@OG_ALviKi wouldn't say it's awful, it ranges from meh or bad to really good. Sumire's part from episode one was mostly good, with the exeptions of some really hard words that japanese people would struggle to say, like "serebristie" when she describes her hair, but in the third episode she was speaking a lot better, i assume, that in the first one she was "warming up", since she can't speak the language on the daily basis, but as she continue to speak it she becomes more confident and better at it.
I really wish the snime had shiwn them dancing like mad and giving us Alya's internal monologue during that. Having her thoughts in the show would have given a lot of clolour to her feelings for Kuze.
Kid's are able to pick up languages a lot faster than adults so it's not far fetched for her to have become fluent in Russian after living there immersed in the culture for 5 years (also potentially having some Russian lessons before she moved there in the first place). Also developmentally she essentially went through puberty while over there in Russia for those 5 years and had just recently come back to Japan so its possible even her inner monologue is in Russian after all that time. I live down in So Cal and it was always crazy to me how there were a lot of Mexican people who were crazy bilingual to the point where you'd listen to them talk together and half the conversation would be in English and half would be in Spanish going back and forth seamlessly.
@@ivansolodyankin6820 Nobody cares about Imperial County, which is right on the border with Mexico next to San Diego County which is why I left it out lol
Она с каждым эпизодом говорит лучше и лучше, такое чувство, что в первой серии она как будто разогревалась после долгого отсутствия практики. She speaks better and better in each episode, seems like in the first one she was "warming up" after a long period of absense of practice. (для наших иностранных друзей из вежливости продублирую на английском)
Wait i thought only Masha figured it out in the stoudent council room and only the president Masha and Kuze were there and Masha kept it to herself. However Kuze had a moment he couldn't place yet. I did figured out why Kuze has memory loss, It's the trauma of the divorce. The divorce also left it's mark on little sister and causes her brocon. She lost somany years away from brother that Yuki won't let any girl take him away untill she gets that time back.
Honestly i kinda liked it, the reveal created more tension in the story which was great, btw the series gets way better later on, the first parts were eh the anime adaptation was good but did miss a lot of important character development scenes from the manga, but the later ones are great they start building the relationships pretty well between them, btw i honestly dont understand the criticism for the voice acting like its a japanese voice actor and her speaking understandable russian is perfectly fine she doesnt need to be perfectly fluent
You know Crunchyroll not having comments anymore is really pissing me off. At least we have you to talk about shows we like with because I’m not hunting down subreddits for shows
What I wanna know is how he didn’t notice that it was her lol they made it very obvious she asked him for his name all suspicious like alya has no idea who he is. They can’t get more obvious than that
I would like to point out that my family is proof that masha was always the childhood friend. I have 2 brother and counting myself we all where born woth blond hair and blue eyes. Only my youngest brother still has blue eyes and unless you count dirty blond none of use made it to high school with blond hair. Masha has done nothing to her hair or eyes they just changed as she got older and explains why he didn't recognize her when they met but she did because of how similar he looks to his younger self.
Slight spoilers for the next 2 episodes, nothing major but still just a warning for those don't wanna know. do you want the knife more twisted, in masachika flashback in this episode we are seeing the 4th girl from the anime poster and OP, she is in the LN labeled as the true childhood friend. And to twist the knife even more Maria is not a just a childhood freind, but Masaschika's first love, and the person who made him wanna change. Also very interesting note, thay have changed how he learned russian, he learned to understand it because of his grandfather (on the dad side) is a huge fan of russian cinema, and forced Masachika to watch it with him so that is how he understands it, Maria was the person that made him wanna learn to speak it.
I also felt bad cuz now one os them will get hurt. That said, it was inavitable. Some japanese/russian child did teach him russian, that person would be integrated to the story one way or the other.
So we're looking at another loosing heroine? However, how many anime with a promised girl, but the promised girl doesn't get the boy? I'm happy to see that all these years later, dispite all the hate, that arthors are still borrowing from Love Hina. Go Ken!
The one thing that bothered me the one girl who seems to show a different personality depending upon who she's with and what she's doing I don't like the way they drew her so that for a moment there just for a moment you don't realize there's this fourth character that we didn't even know about until oh yeah has a sister. However you feel bad about the the childhood friend I'm worried that the other girl is actually his biological sister from a divorce he doesn't realize
Yuki almost made me think that this was a really good show. When in fact this is just a good generic romcom, tho a lot of effort was put into it. Theres a lot of these kind of romcoms so this anime isn't one of my must watch this season since there's just so much good animation for a lot shows this season. For this subgenre i think "make heroine ga oosugiru" is more unique this season.
i hate the part where this is only a one cour anime (for now) and ep 1-4 is about volume 1 and mostlikely we wont reach my favorite chapter (v5c1) within the 12 episodes
I’m glad I don’t know Russian. I could’ve guessed it was bad because they do the same thing with English, but it’s more bearable since I can’t really tell.
Technically sylphie isn't his childhood friend. He talks about his real childhood friend at some point early on. Even if you only take his new life, they are all his childhood friend. Even still, I had my arguments against each of the pokemon girls getting with rudeus, just seems sylphie fans don't like analysis of her.
@@otakuspirit Andrew have you any video explaining why you don’t like Sylphie? You mentioned it in another video recently and it drove me nuts that you didn’t say why.
im pretty shure it was more about her being chill with rudi joining the princesses fight, instead of trying to keep him out of the war he openly said he wanted no part of?
@@otakuspirit i mean if u only consider his new life, rudeus didn't saw roxy as his friend but as his shishou/goddes, and eris and rudeus were cousins that never stablysh to be friends. The only one he called friend was shylphie
@@mattersondoomyeah, it’s just denial. Sylphie is by far the clear cut childhood friend. To be fair, she didn’t have to compete with another love interest because zeros was out of the picture and Roxy wasn’t one yet. Sylphie is great, though, I love her.
Merging multiple childhood friends into a single one that was your first love in your memories? Shit, I've seen that before and I did not like it at all. LOL
So last week we discovered that the childhood friend is actually the sister, and this week we discover that the sister is actually the childhood friend, the mind boggles.
The childhood friend is Masha (Alya's sister) but according to Yuki (Kuze's sister) a childhood friend is someone you've known your entire childhood which applies to siblings. In short, the girl that we see in Kuze's dream/memory is Masha.
Eye color can change naturally from childhood to adulthood. Many babies are born with blue or gray eyes, but their eye color can change as they grow older. This change usually occurs within the first few years of life and is influenced by the amount and type of melanin in the iris. As melanin production increases, the eyes may darken and change to green, hazel, or brown. This process typically stabilizes by age three, although slight changes can occur later in life due to factors like aging, disease, or injury.
That is true, and i am a example, when i was born with dark green eyes and blondeish hair, as i grow up my eyes got brown and my hair dark brown, almost black whit glints of Gold here and there
my guess is that hes more likely combining his memories with masha with the appearance of alya. since its mentioned (at least in the manga, but im pretty sure in the show too) that he cant actually remember what the girl looked like. so in a way him combining his previous memories with the appearance of alya just confirms that he is actually into her
@@shield2957 on the novels is said that masachika forgor how the face of the girl was, and there is a scene where he tries to remember her, but grown up alya flashes in his mind, but It looks more like a confusion of recipient of affection than a confusion is his memory
Hey mates I am not gonna read those
I don't care if her Russian isn't perfect. It's a Japanese anime. Not a Russian anime. Just being understandable Russian is good enough. How many Japanese voice actors are perfectly fluent in multiple languages? Probably none.
Personally, I'm fine with her russian, for the reasons you mentioned. But the scenes in Russia - I was a bit disappointed they didn't bother to find some fluent VAs, since they only used single language. That shit was hard to listen to.
@@Cyrsztof I imagine it would be difficult to find VA's fluent in Russian who live in Japan.
@@jackmanleblanc2518 Still not as hard as finding ones fluent in English.
@@FromDkWithLove they probably need to hired a translator to translate the contract from Japanese to English/ Russian. And lawyer to verify the terms and conditions. Too much administrative work and too costly to simply hire a Professional Russian Instructor to check the language spoken for one anime series.
@@bernieburton6520 Imo the biggest issue with the jap VA is that theyre trying to speak russian with "cute" voice like they do with japanese, but it comes off awful to listen to.
If you try speaking russian with qutesy voice (like the Aliya's VA) you just gonna sound like an idiot.
ok but that lion looked dead ass exactly like the prez could open his phone with that plush 🦁
The eye color thing could also just be Kuze's brain filling in the gaps of what he doesn't remember. Like, he knows this girl was Russian, and Alya's the only other Russian he knows, so if he doesn't remember the kid's eye color, that could be an explanation. Other than that, eye color can realistically change over time, but the series might just be exaggerating a bit for the sake of plot.
Also, I feel pretty confident in saying Kuze never met Alya before middle school, because unless Masha was always living with Alya in both Russia and Japan, Alya would have been in Russia at point, not Japan.
I think what we have here is a Love Hina situation with the childhood friend. I think both Alya and Masha played with Kuze and he's merged them together in his memories.
Spoilers below
As much as i wouldve loved that, but no, im a novel reader and his only childhood friend is masha, when they met alya was still in russia, masha came to japan with her dad i think, its been a while
I could see this happening as both girls are only a year apart
Masha is my comfort character, she started the emotional rollercoaster than stumped me sad ever since the cliffhanger of volume 8
? What do you mean
@@RuilinLiang-bg3qq which bit are you confused about? I can't really explain if I don't know.
@@Mesonoxian2 oh sorry I just wanted to know if I can read the volumes online
It was starting to remind me of You Were Experienced, I Was Not Not: Our Dating Story because of the main female character having a Sister that the main male character used to have feelings for
This is why childhood friends always lose 💀💀💀💀☠️
In both of the first two episode reaction videos I commented with my theory that the Russian friend was Alya’s sister. I claim victory!
Well, eye color can indeed change with age. I think 11-12 years old is time when it stops darkening. Like I had more greenish eyes, but now it's brown.
Me too, hair also darkens, i had hair closer to blond, today is almost black
And I nearly always root for the childhood friend, they’re nearly always my favourite girl. I’m currently watching Shuffle and hoping the childhood friend Kaede ends up with the MC.
But with harem anime I prefer all of them to end up with him, everyone is happy then haha.
Me too😊
Yo, someone watching a GOATED OG that actually has the balls to commit to a heroine and not do the 'harem' route!
@@ChildrenOfGielinor Ah, I see that you're a man of culture, as well. To be honest, even I couldn't believe that she would win and I was fine with my headcanon, but the madlads did it.
8:00 What would have happened if Masha had said "There there, Sa-kun"... This mess could only be worse if Masha and Alya had not had their discussion until AFTER this happened. Then Masha wouldn't know that Alya liked him and would have revealed who she was to him.
9:45 It is very common for someone with light hair and blue eyes to have those darken (perhaps significantly) with age. It happened with both my father and brother. They were both tow heads up until early elementary school. After this my father's hair became nearly black and my brother's hair became mid to dark brown.
im FUMING dawg, this hurts mah soul
I just have to rewatched all the episodes now geez
Damn dude, this anime is so good and the ED song is perfect.
Indeed
I'm anime only so it's only a theory:
Masha knew that the boy from her childhood knows Russian so when she thought/figured it was him she tested her theory by speaking Russian to him.
Well of course, I thought that was obvious she was testing him. I’m pretty sure she’s confident she knows it’s him anyways and sorta confirmed he’s pretending not to understand.
I love how the best russian was from the store keeper who had 1 line
I asked someone who speaks Russian and they said her Russian is correct just with a strong accent. Regardless, I am enjoying this show.
Some words are correct. But in general it's awful to listen to because of forced cute voice by the VA.
@OG_ALviK In the end it is just and anime.
@@OG_ALviKi wouldn't say it's awful, it ranges from meh or bad to really good.
Sumire's part from episode one was mostly good, with the exeptions of some really hard words that japanese people would struggle to say, like "serebristie" when she describes her hair, but in the third episode she was speaking a lot better, i assume, that in the first one she was "warming up", since she can't speak the language on the daily basis, but as she continue to speak it she becomes more confident and better at it.
Childhood friend never wins. yeah its just like that.
I really wish the snime had shiwn them dancing like mad and giving us Alya's internal monologue during that. Having her thoughts in the show would have given a lot of clolour to her feelings for Kuze.
Kid's are able to pick up languages a lot faster than adults so it's not far fetched for her to have become fluent in Russian after living there immersed in the culture for 5 years (also potentially having some Russian lessons before she moved there in the first place). Also developmentally she essentially went through puberty while over there in Russia for those 5 years and had just recently come back to Japan so its possible even her inner monologue is in Russian after all that time. I live down in So Cal and it was always crazy to me how there were a lot of Mexican people who were crazy bilingual to the point where you'd listen to them talk together and half the conversation would be in English and half would be in Spanish going back and forth seamlessly.
What is So Cal? South California?
@@ivansolodyankin6820 Yes. Usually talking about San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
@@AICW ok, thank you very much!
@@ivansolodyankin6820 Nobody cares about Imperial County, which is right on the border with Mexico next to San Diego County which is why I left it out lol
She’s either a childhood or a homewrecker I wonder who the first love that stack as well
As for the native Russian, the whole Vladivostok segment was so hilarious. but I have to admit that Alya's voice actress is doing a great job
Она с каждым эпизодом говорит лучше и лучше, такое чувство, что в первой серии она как будто разогревалась после долгого отсутствия практики.
She speaks better and better in each episode, seems like in the first one she was "warming up" after a long period of absense of practice.
(для наших иностранных друзей из вежливости продублирую на английском)
Wait i thought only Masha figured it out in the stoudent council room and only the president Masha and Kuze were there and Masha kept it to herself. However Kuze had a moment he couldn't place yet. I did figured out why Kuze has memory loss, It's the trauma of the divorce. The divorce also left it's mark on little sister and causes her brocon. She lost somany years away from brother that Yuki won't let any girl take him away untill she gets that time back.
Honestly i kinda liked it, the reveal created more tension in the story which was great, btw the series gets way better later on, the first parts were eh the anime adaptation was good but did miss a lot of important character development scenes from the manga, but the later ones are great they start building the relationships pretty well between them, btw i honestly dont understand the criticism for the voice acting like its a japanese voice actor and her speaking understandable russian is perfectly fine she doesnt need to be perfectly fluent
You know Crunchyroll not having comments anymore is really pissing me off. At least we have you to talk about shows we like with because I’m not hunting down subreddits for shows
What I wanna know is how he didn’t notice that it was her lol they made it very obvious she asked him for his name all suspicious like alya has no idea who he is. They can’t get more obvious than that
There is another for the season, check out "Koi wa Futago de Warikirenai." An absolute gut punch, for the sisters and childhood friend trope.
We even have a Anime this season called to many loosing Heroines 😓
Great episode
Enough about the past. Live in the now!
My brain isnt braining
I would like to point out that my family is proof that masha was always the childhood friend. I have 2 brother and counting myself we all where born woth blond hair and blue eyes. Only my youngest brother still has blue eyes and unless you count dirty blond none of use made it to high school with blond hair. Masha has done nothing to her hair or eyes they just changed as she got older and explains why he didn't recognize her when they met but she did because of how similar he looks to his younger self.
Slight spoilers for the next 2 episodes, nothing major but still just a warning for those don't wanna know.
do you want the knife more twisted, in masachika flashback in this episode we are seeing the 4th girl from the anime poster and OP, she is in the LN labeled as the true childhood friend. And to twist the knife even more Maria is not a just a childhood freind, but Masaschika's first love, and the person who made him wanna change. Also very interesting note, thay have changed how he learned russian, he learned to understand it because of his grandfather (on the dad side) is a huge fan of russian cinema, and forced Masachika to watch it with him so that is how he understands it, Maria was the person that made him wanna learn to speak it.
The eye color and hair color thing is easily explained as realism because both of those "baby" pigments tend to change as a person grows up.
First they do a fake out were she is actually his sister and then they are hitting use with: a loosing heroine
JUST TAKE BOTH GODDAMNIT
I also felt bad cuz now one os them will get hurt.
That said, it was inavitable.
Some japanese/russian child did teach him russian, that person would be integrated to the story one way or the other.
Pulled a Love Hina.
So we're looking at another loosing heroine? However, how many anime with a promised girl, but the promised girl doesn't get the boy? I'm happy to see that all these years later, dispite all the hate, that arthors are still borrowing from Love Hina. Go Ken!
childhood friend syndrome... still gonna lose whatever you tried its like a curse or something ...
My boi, hair colour, and eye colour can change from young to adulthood.
well i already had a hunch alya had a sister in first episode.
The one thing that bothered me the one girl who seems to show a different personality depending upon who she's with and what she's doing I don't like the way they drew her so that for a moment there just for a moment you don't realize there's this fourth character that we didn't even know about until oh yeah has a sister. However you feel bad about the the childhood friend I'm worried that the other girl is actually his biological sister from a divorce he doesn't realize
My guess with Alya is as a biracial, she got looked down upon when young. So she's driven to prove herself. Or maybe parents drove her to.
The mother of the childhood Russian friend was blonde. The sisters’ mother is Japanese
I hope he tells her and soon befor the damage done drives h3r away
There are more details in the light novel (original) then the manga (adaption).
One word: YOTSUBA!
Yuki almost made me think that this was a really good show.
When in fact this is just a good generic romcom, tho a lot of effort was put into it.
Theres a lot of these kind of romcoms so this anime isn't one of my must watch this season since there's just so much good animation for a lot shows this season.
For this subgenre i think "make heroine ga oosugiru" is more unique this season.
Thats what i thought too bro honestly the plot would have been better
Lucky guy he gets the sister too harem hurra
Its rough but я тебя люблю would kill me. Had to reanslate that my self btw
i hate the part where this is only a one cour anime (for now) and ep 1-4 is about volume 1 and mostlikely we wont reach my favorite chapter (v5c1) within the 12 episodes
Childhood friend losing trope.
maSAchika so SA-chan
NTR is big in Japan
Thats my problem ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
TEAM MASHA
Nisekoi all over again lol
The Russian during the Vladivostok scenes is so painfully bad that I was cringing the whole time. >.
I’m glad I don’t know Russian. I could’ve guessed it was bad because they do the same thing with English, but it’s more bearable since I can’t really tell.
@@BuddyChyYeh... It ain't fun listening to this anime as a russian speaker.
@@OG_ALviK makes sense.
im pretty sure that kuze (not even remembering her name) is remembering her haircolor wrong. i could be wrong tho
That’s definitely possible, but it’s very common for people in Japan to dye their hair. Her hair color usually isn’t natural if I’m not mistaken.
spoilers from the light novel, masha is the childhood friend
also, its mentioned that foreigners eye and haircolor change in both the manga and light novel
alya did not meet masachika before middleschool
Is it me or like they skipping sooooo many manga scenes...
Mushoku broke the trop with shylphie as a Childhood friend who won and u didn't like it 😂😂
Technically sylphie isn't his childhood friend. He talks about his real childhood friend at some point early on. Even if you only take his new life, they are all his childhood friend.
Even still, I had my arguments against each of the pokemon girls getting with rudeus, just seems sylphie fans don't like analysis of her.
@@otakuspirit Andrew have you any video explaining why you don’t like Sylphie? You mentioned it in another video recently and it drove me nuts that you didn’t say why.
im pretty shure it was more about her being chill with rudi joining the princesses fight, instead of trying to keep him out of the war he openly said he wanted no part of?
@@otakuspirit i mean if u only consider his new life, rudeus didn't saw roxy as his friend but as his shishou/goddes, and eris and rudeus were cousins that never stablysh to be friends. The only one he called friend was shylphie
@@mattersondoomyeah, it’s just denial. Sylphie is by far the clear cut childhood friend. To be fair, she didn’t have to compete with another love interest because zeros was out of the picture and Roxy wasn’t one yet. Sylphie is great, though, I love her.
Merging multiple childhood friends into a single one that was your first love in your memories? Shit, I've seen that before and I did not like it at all. LOL
Just to clarify I don't think that's what's happening here, but I can see this theory being possible and it gives me flashbacks.
if he were rudy, he'd take everyone including his sister