[Spoilers] Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou. Episode 1 Discussion

The episode was wholesome as how MC cared for the girl and let her stay with him , so that she doesn't stay with creeps like she previously did and who got sexual favours taking advantage of her naivety. Seems like this show will be one of the top shows this season

makes me realize i'm not a nice guy

everyone thought its going to be creepy/weird but its wholesome instead (by wholesome i mean their relationship lol)

Simple, sweet, wholesome. I like it

Crazy how people get judgemental even before watching a single episode of the show

i haven't watched it yet, can someone tell me if the romance is actually between a highschooler and a grown man or did i misunderstand something?

Actually got me intrigued. I have so many questions:
Why did she run away from home so far away?
What did she mean when her parents would be happy that she was gone?
Did she actually let older men sleep with her?
What issues led to her actually being willing to sleep with older men and not feel uncomfortable about it?

i can tell im gonna like this anime a lot

Sayu is kawaii :3

i feel like there will be a dinner bath me joke in this anime

Damn the pacing and animation are pretty good. The source material is fire so if they keep this up it should do very well

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It was pretty wholesome. I hope it doesn't go in a romantic relationship route. Mc is a good guy

Looks wholesome enough for me to keep watching but i dont know how to feel about sayu

I don't know, it was fine

You really feel old when you feel lazy to Shave. Not that I have a rocking beard but man does it grow fast and shaving weekly is lowkey stressful

Jesus, this was creepy. I've heard from manga/LN readers that this story doesn't make the two leads get together, but with how leery the camera was this episode, I'm not sure I believe them anymore. If this isn't actually a wish-fulfillment fantasy about a sexy high school girl being perfect wifey material to a grown-ass man, then why all the panty shots and cleavage leering?

Maybe this is more the anime skeeving things up whereas the manga/LN actually were wholesome. But I'm starting to think it isn't so much "They don't actually get together, honest!" and more along the lines of "The source material just hasn't gotten to the point where they get together." I'm welcome to be proven wrong, of course, but don't be surprised if this ends up going full Usagi Drop on us.

reminds me of bunny drop to some extent.

in my opinion first episode was fucking amazing easily 9/10, looking forward to next episode (possible 10/10)

Enjoyed it! Really want to see what happens between these two characters and what kind of story they choose to tell from it, as there's a lot of directions it could go. Higehiro reminds me of After the Rain, for those who've read/watched it: kinda sus premise that grows into a really tender, wholesome story with a good message about rediscovering what's important to you littered with lovable characters. I really enjoyed reading that, so I'm wondering if this'll end up being similar in some way. See y'all next week!

Honestly with a show of this kind of premise, yeah the fanservice was weird, but I'm just grateful that the main guy didn't do anything deplorable. I like this show better than Dynazeon and a couple of other shows from this season, it has potential to be good at best.

respect to yoshida for not giving in to his desires. also what sayu was doing is obviously not right but shes clearly been through a lot so im not gonna judge her until we know her backstory. i think this could end up being my favorite show this season.

I actually enjoyed the first episode. I thought that it would be boring but it wasn't at all. Also, sayu is sooo adorable.

I was actually impressed by how much I liked it.

Not gonna lie, I was kind of expecting the usual light novel thing of the MC showing the barest modicum of kindness to a random girl, making the girl fall head over heels for him, with the extra creep factor of it being between an adult well into the workforce and a high school girl.

But there was some nuance to the way it dealt with the subject matter. Sayu has been convinced by the absolute scum of adults she's seen during her time as a runaway that being preyed on as "payment" is just normal, something to be expected, so that's the first thing she jumps to with the protagonist here. I don't even want to imagine what her first couple of stays with the adults that took her in were like for her...

I also want to give kudos to the way the protagonist himself was handled. The series doesn't deny that he finds her kind of attractive, but he's not dropping all his marbles when she's coming onto him. He's still an adult after all, so of course he's much more concerned with what kind of circumstances a high school girl who immediately jumps to offering sex as payment must have been through, rather than losing his mind at the sight of boobies. And just when I was considering how much of an amazing guy he is for the way he was handling the entire situation, both the narrative AND the main character himself reminded me that there's nothing particularly amazing about not taking sexual advantage of a high school girl in a vulnerable state. I almost felt like an idiot! Of course it's not that he's amazing, but that the other men she's had contact with were all absolute scum! My margin of reference was just too low. I'm too used to so many shows telling me that showing the barest modicum of human decency is the pinnacle of kindness, lol.

I'm actually pretty hyped to see where this goes. Here's to hoping it doesn't just devolve into your usual generic love drama with multiple female orbiters surrounding the protagonist.

Finished episode 1. As a person who has not seen the original work, I feel that it is average to me, maybe the problem has not yet appeared but I think it is okay to continue watching.

Just feel that Sayu's performance was quite contradictory. She'd been wandering for half a year without meeting a good guy. All she met were bad guys but she still kept her innocence?? This looks weird. I went to Wikipedia and found this about her ↓吉田と出会う前は仮の宿を得るために男と性交することを繰り返していた

And sure enough, with the constant temptation, I knew something was wrong.

And Yoshida gives me a good feeling, as if he is raising his daughter.

So it will focus on Sayu's family problems in the following episodes? Let me wait and see…

I liked how the portray the relationship between characters and how Yoshida is willing to help Sayu get over it and teach her values. Sayu had a tough past that we have yet to explore but its clear as day that someonething happened and the events shaped the way she is now. If anyone dislikes Sayu for what she is doing then they are taking things at face value which I was the most afraid of what could happen once anime started airing. Be willing to understand WHY someone acts the way they do and then judge.

Am liking it so far, Yoshida's a good guy, not a fan of Sayu yet, looking forward to this series, looks wholesome as it goes.

I thought this would be some degenerate wish-fulfilment shit but it's actually looking pretty wholesome so far. I just hope it keeps this energy.

It really set the momentum going......way good for the 1st episode

can't say much from the first ep but since a lot of manga/ln readers are saying there isn't any romance between them later (though some say it seems like there will be, idk) i'm actually hoping and praying the author doesn't give into that desire to just make them be tgt bc i literally do not care how much they've been through, it's weird as hell and the main guy would be such a scum bag if he got with her.

to mention the "fanservice" thing, i have two thoughts on that. one, the animators/artists could just be horny as hell and just wanted to market to the horny otaku/weeb that would watch this. the other is that this could actually be deliberate. i'm not saying that the animators are 100% doing this deliberately and not marketing to the fanbase of degenerates at all but considering what i, who does not read the manga or ln, know of her so far is that she doesn't see much worth in herself and caters very much to the "male gaze".

if you're some "LETS MAKE SOME SJWS MAD ON TWITTER" person u probably saw that phrase, rolled your eyes and moved on, but seriously. if you don't know what the male gaze is:

the perspective of a notionally typical heterosexual man considered as embodied in the audience or intended audience for films and other visual media, characterized by a tendency to objectify or sexualize women.

basically in films or other types of visual media, if you see a woman chopped up in the frame to her erogenous parts (the fanservice parts) without her face, then usually it is catering to the male gaze. sayu literally survives off this male gaze and has to objectify herself just to survive. and of course, the animators can show that by literally showing her panties as one of the first shots.

and the fact i was cheering and clapping for a man just being a normal human being- like the fact he even mentioned that ("i'm not nice, those guys are shitheads") like wow. i'm so hoping this isn't going to be a romance between the two of them or i am going to punch the author in the face (she says, in a nice and non-threatening way).

regardless, i hope this keeps going as a "study into platonic/familial opposite sex relationships" and even the "found family" trope because damn i just want these two lonely people to not be lonely anymore, platonically, of course.

edit: this was long but i had a lot to say lmao

edit 2.0: also i forgot to mention this reminded me of a miss kobayashi but heterosexual and without any dragons or magic