It’s the beginning of summer. With that, Ohana and her classmates go on a class field trip to a coastal city where many things are bound to happen.
Believe it or not, it’s been a very long time since I went on a school field trip. It just feels nostalgic to see the girls having some fun, especially Yuina, Ohana and Minko. While the episode is mostly about Yuina, there were some funny moments with Minko. One of these involves Yuina and Ohana forcefully reveal her rather cute swimsuit and throwing her into the ocean water. If that wasn’t enough, another boy tries to ask her out and as usual outright rejects him in an aggressive manner. Nevertheless, Ohana, Yuina and Minako just look gorgeous in their swimsuits, which is no wonder why they are so popular.
Of course, I completely forgot about Nako as she scared the crap of Ohana into thinking that she is a kappa. Poor Nako… but then again, she loves swimming so it was predictable.
Besides the fun, we get to learn more about Yuina’s personality. While her cheerful personality is similar to Ohana’s, they have different mindsets. As shown in the last episode, Ohana is emotionally attached with Kissuisou Inn and her friends she work with that she is willing to put her romantic life on hold to achieve her goals. In contrast, Yuina is quite the opposite, as she isn’t satisfied where her life is heading. Apparently, her parents have arranged a marriage with her childhood friend Yosuke, an heir of the Fukouyo Inn. Even if she had some enjoyment being around Yosuke, she is not really interested, if at all with his plans to have her become manager of his inn after she graduates. In a way, Yuina’s situation is very similar to Ohana’s mother, Satsuki sans the craziness since she wants to control her own future and be free.
Also apparent in this episode is the drastic differences of management from the Fukuyo and Kissuisou Inn. Since Fukuyo is big, their workers have to do even more work compared to the amount of work a smaller inn has to do. This is where I highly disapprove with Yosuke’s managing style as he is simply too strict, which makes Sui’s strictness look like it’s nothing. He pushes too much work on the girls with so little pay. To make matters worse, he doesn’t allow the girls to use cellphones or wear any makeup, which lowers their morale even further. This is why I can’t really blame them for quitting, since running an inn is not easy. Without friendship and compassion as seen with the workers at the Kissuisou Inn, you are most likely to fail no matter how successful and big you want to be. Unfortunately for Yosuke, he failed to realize this and things are going to get worse unless he changes how he manages his workers.With Yuina’s answer of wanting a career of her own, hopefully he changes for the better.
Yuina damn that girl is cold! She like has no emotion when turning people down, maybe she is a machine…yes…Ahahaha
Yuina and Ohana got close to some yuri moments huh? Waited for them to kiss lolol hey it could happen! Probably a manga on that somewhere…yes…
New OP! and ED! Awesome <3
I wouldn’t say Yuina is too cold, but then again…. it’s kind of evident that she doesn’t seem to have much romantic feelings for Yosuke. She doesn’t hold hands with him, flirt or even kiss him. She pretty much treats him like a best friend of some sort. It kind of tells a different story compared to Ohana, who has strong romantic feelings for Ko.
As for Ohana x Yuina yuri, FUND IT!
For once, I was glad this episode didn’t focus too much on Ohana. It was interesting seeing the different management style and just how it didn’t quite work, while simultaneously providing a breather episode before the drama really starts up.
This is kind of interesting since I took a college course on management as part of the core requirements for a business major and in the way, Yosuke is too egotistic. He seems to be so gun hold to making Fukuyo the #1 inn in Japan that he threw out any aspects of motivating the employees and not willing to listen to employees concerns with excessive strictness while talking to Yuina, thus making him a poor leader. With this, I kind of expect some drama to build up with this as Yuina wants a life of her own.
This was a pretty good episode, but I see Yosuke’s problem as something different. I can buy the “egotistic” comment, because I think he probably thinks his way of seeing the inn is correct, and therefore everyone should just see it the same way. But I disagree with the “Gung Ho” comment.
I don’t think the problem is that he is too driven to make his inn the best. I think he can be driven with a passion to do that and still be understanding about the feelings of others. If we think back to Moshidora, one of the earliest things they grappled with was what people wanted to get out of the team, including the members (employees). Meanwhile Yosuke doesn’t think about what his employees want out of their time there, and I’m not even sure he has thought about the feelings of the customers, because they probably can’t be happy with all of the yelling going on. He thinks only about Punctuality, Policies, and Labor Costs.
I don’t think he is completely wrong in what he gets angry about either, for example the use of cell phones is arguably rude in that context, and certainly blows the atmosphere of peace that a resort wants to cultivate.
To sum up: if Yosuke wants to create the best inn in Japan, he will need employees that are as committed to his vision as he is. You don’t get that by yelling. You get that by listening.
I may have worded it wrong, but thats beside the point. I know most work places ban cell phone uses, so it’s understandable to get scalded for that. However yelling over other stuff such as the girl’s use of makeup and nail polish is not really that necessarily and pretty much lowers the morale of the workers. Not only that, I feel that he is completely out of touch with the workers as he is not willing to listen to their concerns. This is very important since it affects the productivity and if the boss is unwilling to listen, they just going to quit than dealing with it… Not only that, there is the possibility of the workers complaining to the owners, which in turn will start to question his ability of being the boss.
I agree with you for the most part, he needs to get into the workers shoes in a while and see how it feels before yelling…