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Nothing about this stayed in my long term memory, so it felt like a completely new experience. I do enjoy the double act of Megumi and Nago, but it is slightly dampened by the fact that you're absolutely right about Nago being an abusive jerk and the behavior becomes much worse when he's paired with Wataru. Megumi, at least, refuses to take Nago's shit, but Wataru just stands there and accepts it like a complete doormat.

This is part of why I've never really liked Wataru. He's passive and reactionary in ways that make him a complete pushover for anyone with a stronger force of personality. He knows it, too, but his response is usually to sulk in his tub instead of trying to stand up for himself. I always compare him unfavorably to Ryotaro, who also had more of a weenie exterior but had a strong core of resolve and inner strength underneath it. Wataru often comes across to me as weenie all the way down. Not always, but often enough that it tends to frustrate me.

In any case, I'm looking forward to the next episode. It has what is, to me, the single most quintessentially Kiva moment in the entire series.