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I really forgot how funny Faiz can be. The double date with each participant having not only their own locked expression but accompanying theme music was just delightful, as were Takumi and Yuuji squirming to stay out of all this ridiculousness.

I'm really glad I decided to watch the show again with you because it's really making me re-evaluate my stance on it. Faiz has lived on in my memory for so long by its worst elements that I'd completely buried all the good. Truth be told, back when I was first watching the show I really loved it up to a point. It wasn't until someone pointed out the tendency towards poor communication that I started seeing it all over the place and my opinion of the entire series soured (not completely, mind you, there's one moment near the very end that I loved and still want to see get its own spin-off series - it involves a frying pan and it is fantastic). That's basically what Faiz has been for me in all the time since then: just a memory of its worst elements and a mental block on all the good. I'm not sure if my revised opinion will hold - I know some of the stuff that's coming up and there's definitely some moments in there - but for now I'm really happy to be seeing this show in a new light.