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Can we please get off this bench?

Impressions:

I don't think this really accomplished whatever it was trying to do despite skipping both the OP and the ED this week to fit in more nothing. Presumably fleshing out and explaining their backstory, but it's just "he was nice to her a bit." What I would've hoped to see was a reason why they weren't in a relationship, and what changed their dynamic. Instead, she starts spontaneously doing voices to herself in a park, he overhears her, montage of helping her train to be a VA, current dynamic now achieved. Even leaving aside the absurd contrivances of having an entire recording studio literally handed to them, if they wanted to make it also about him being friends with her brother, he needed to figure much more heavily into this story and their dynamic. I'm legitimately not certain she spoke to her brother more than once in the last two episodes, and he barely did as well. 

Both the steps of him being fed up with her needling him and unable to trust her to be honest with him and her developing a crush on him were far too abrupt and neither had any kind of satisfying epiphany or emotional inciting moment. Built up to these things, damn it. The 'delinquent' music girl also just pissed off across the world in the epilogue montage, with no actual resolution to her stuff, not that she had any development or character to start with. She was as much of a prop as the brother. Give me some drama here. Even if it's minor. Him understanding that it's unhealthy for her to attach to him like a member of her family to 'fix' her brother and tries to keep his distance, or being gunshy because of a failed relationship that he sees repeating with her, something to work with.