Kiniro Mosaic - 5

A moment I'm incredibly familiar with... calling your teacher 'Mum'. Only the most embarrassing thing that can happen to you, and something for which your friends will relentlessly tease you about should they ever catch you in the act. But to make that mistake twice in a row? You'd have to be a Shinobu Omiya to do that.

Shinobu deserves a medal

This episode delves into the past between Shinobu, and Yoko, who've known each other from Elementary School. Though the shenanigans of Yoko being a substitute Onee-Chan was the reason Shino made that mistake, this culminated into being a story about... Shinobu's real sister, Isa-nee. So, the events turn out like this: Shino fails a Maths Test --> Aya tutors her --> Everyone wants to join in --> A Group Study Session is planned --> Shino's House is the meeting place --> Meet Isa-Nee. Having just seen a Study Group, there was no novelty in it at all. However, the original twist was in the group itself, and the expansive variety of given interactions. Still can't figure out how it suddenly turned into a photo shoot from a study session.

Listen up guys, I'm going to get into that damn house, and get that damned autograph

Another stereotype slamming Britain in this episode was that people are rude, impolite, and insensitive. Now while we do have our fair share of people who are genuinely good, and remember their manners, they exist only as a minority. Unfortunately, it's true that please and thank you are 3 words often missing, and the fact we can be rather blunt, and cynical at times. However, this doesn't mean we really don't mean well, a culture cannot be discriminated based off one majority flaw. Credit must be given where it's due, with the show being so interesting I overlooked the lack of British references.

At least Yoko was polite enough to keep quiet

So... Isami is a siscon? Though it's probably a good-natured joke, to be fair, I haven't seen many guys around her despite the fact she's supposed to be some super model. Fortunately, the revelation meant snippets from Shino's childhood were taken, and I admit to having a couple of HNNNGasms. Speaking of older sisters, this leads onto the other main focus.

This says a lot about Isa-nee

The next day, Yoko gets relied on a lot, and ponders if she is just a tsukkomi character, whilst also pondering on how she views Shinobu as something of a little sister. Pies were flying all over the place in the form of graphs, and despite the fact I couldn't understand the meaning behind any of them one bit, I enjoyed how random they each were (not to mention Yoko's shocked reactions). Yoko the Older Sister, Yoko the Convenience Store, Yoko the Means Everything to Aya... she really was the main focus of this episode, something I realized whilst saving up all the screen shots. Heck, even Isa-nee reminisces over her at one point!

I reckon I'd react like this if I got the same graphs from my friends

When a Slice of Life feels like... tastes like something which has been done before, it is instantly cliched, boring and unoriginal. Ok, maybe that was extreme. Perhaps I'll lower that to 'in most cases'. However, Kiniro Mosaic is fantastically original, whilst maintaining the idiosyncrasies partial to the Slice of Life genre. What I enjoy most in this show, something I've come to realize, is the unique stylization. Ironic, considering I had huge doubts in regard to the artwork initially. Anyway, what exactly do I enjoy about the stylization? I'd say I really enjoy the panels where one extreme expression is frozen onto a characters face, while Japanese text waft on the screen to give a rather strong effect. I really hope this will be continued right to the end, and that'll be all. Until next week!

P.S. From now on, I'll be doing a small segment on Post Episodes, which many of you might have missed.

Alice and Shinobu wait at the place where Isami was scouted to be a model, hoping to be scouted as well. They wait for the entire day, but no one comes out to scout them. Instead, Aya comes along, and reprimands them for waiting so long.

That's right, no one scouted these two chicks.
Something is wrong with this world