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š§ Best moment: Maya alone, listening to the answering machine message from Ojichan over and over. š Most cringe: Trying to turn grief into a school club pitch.
3/6 Anna trying SO hard to be supportive but accidentally being dismissive? Thatās the messiness of 7th grade friendship.
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This episode captures that specific middle school feeling ā when your heart is breaking but you still have to pass a note in class and pretend everythingās fine. The raw phone call with her dad? The drawing of Ojichan as an anime hero? Yeah, Iām not okay.
2/6 The way Maya replays her dead grandfatherās voicemail ā āOjichan loves youā ā is maybe the most devastating 10 seconds of TV that year.
The way this episode went from āletās make an anime clubā to me sobbing in 22 minutesā¦ šš¼ š§µ š§ Best moment: Maya alone, listening to
PEN15 S1E3 āOjichanā: The Quiet Genius of Letting a 13-Year-Old Grieve Like a 13-Year-Old
One of the most underrated episodes of the season. Itās PEN15 at its best: raunchy and silly one minute, quietly shattering the next.
6/6 PEN15 isnāt a comedy with sad moments. Itās a drama wearing a silly middle-school disguise. āOjichanā proves it. Thatās the messiness of 7th grade friendship
5/6 No one saves the day. Maya justā¦ cries. And Anna leaves a message. And thatās enough.
1/6 This episode starts with Maya trying to start an anime club to impress a boy. Ends with me weeping into my cereal.
Hereās a social media / blog-style post developed for PEN15 Season 1, Episode 3, titled ā balancing humor, heart, and the cringe of middle school. Post Title: PEN15 Season 1, Episode 3 (āOjichanā): The One Where Anime, Grief, and Growing Up Collide
4/6 Also: the scene where Maya imagines Ojichan as an anime mentor while she fights a shadow monster? Brilliant visual metaphor for grief.
Also, Anna trying so hard to be supportive but having no idea what Maya is going through? Peak friendship. Peak awkwardness. Peak PEN15 .