The show is getting into a great groove with Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5, as we head in for another episode full of some great slice-of-life scenes. Let’s see how it went in this review!
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5 Overview
Kubo Won‘t Let Me Be Invisible or Kubo-san wa Mob wo Yurusanai in original Japanese is a romance and slice-of-life anime based on a popular manga written series by Nene Yukimori. It is being adapted into the medium of anime by Studio Pine Jam. This young studio has had several notable come out in recent years, notably Gamers!, Kageki Shoujo!!, and Do It Yourself. Click here to read the review of the previous episode in the series!
Kazuomi Koga is directing the show. He has been directly involved in the productions of various anime series in the past, including Steins Gate 0 and Re: Zero. He also directed the second season of Rent-a-Girlfriend. Make of that what you will. This episode is also known as Kubo-san wa Mob wo Yurusanai Episode 5 in original Japanese.
– Kubo san wa Mob wo Yurusanai Episode 5 Review does not contain any spoilers –
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5 Review- White Day
The way the show focuses on Shiraishi’s condition and appearance to the world, one would almost think he isn’t supposed to be as comedic as we think. He has learned to deal with his loneliness over the years and has gotten accustomed to it to the point that that’s all that is natural to him, but let’s face it for what it really is. He doesn’t have any friends because nobody ever noticed him enough to befriend him. He likes being lonely because being lonely is the only thing he has ever known. He doesn’t care about people because he has never been cared for except by one person.
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That one person is Nagisa, of course. She has her own issues, for she can apparently admit her interest in Shiraishi to everyone else but Shiraishi, and she can be playfully forceful with him sometimes. However, she makes sure to keep her pranks and nudges to a normal friendship level and never does anything that makes Shiraishi more than a little uncomfortable. She knows her boundaries and respects his, and most of all, she can provide him with the only natural human interaction he gets.
Being the only one who can (or cares to) notice him, she has become his only source of companionship. Of course, Shiraishi will say that he never asked for any of this, but he did need it not to be a shut-in like many in his position become. Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5 took us deeper into Nagisa’s psyche than we had been previously, and it told us a somewhat different story of how she views Shiraishi. It is not that she is just romantically interested in him- she wants good things to happen to him and for him to retain a connection with normalcy. For him, she is the normalcy.
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This is a surprisingly nuanced take on relationships than you would expect from a show such as this one, and this is also something that makes getting deeper into the show a much more rewarding experience. The more we learn about these characters, their motivations, and their personalities, the more we see how this is far from being the cheesy romantic comedy it appears to be at first glance. You can still enjoy it as one, but you can also delve much deeper into it if you desire so.
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5 featured many extremely cute moments and some decent comedy, enough that you wouldn’t realise where the time went while watching it. The school lunch sequence was very well done and contained much more than you realise at first glance. The cafe scene with Nagisa and her friends was absolutely essential to Nagisa’s character development, and the classroom song sequence that followed was just sweet. The episode’s highlight was the white day sequence, and I adored how Nagisa acted in this section. Overall, the best anyone could ask from this, really.
Verdict
Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Episode 5 was a surprisingly nuanced and fairly fantastic episode that did not get a step wrong in the multiple stories it told. This is a show that sucks you in as it gets deeper.
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