【海外の反応】クラニカ10話、ついにマキ＆ウミが両想いに！告白→ファーストキスで正式カップル成立、海外「勝利は我らのものだ」

Maki and Umi are finally lovers, and they sealed it with a kiss! Rejoice, brethren, victory is ours!

It’s not a drill! Maki & Umi are now official in only 10 episodes. That was a simple but earnest confession. No drama, but Maki still poured his heart out. Love the part where he acknowledged that they’ll have fights but would still be there for her. Furthermore, they went one step further and have their first kiss so soon. Good thing there’s no Asanagi-mama to interrupt things this time.

Any romance show that gets the main couple together before the final episode deserves praise, especially that we get a real kiss and get to see them go from basically a couple to a real couple over the next two episodes.

Really like Maki and Umi’s development as a pair. I remember at the start, it really felt like they were just good friends, not just placeholders till they become a couple. But gradually they both grew together and the payoff of them officially getting together feels earned.

Although I still don't entirely agree with Maki's attitude, because it could have had serious consequences, I understood his point; it's not about their parents loving each other, it's about them being okay so everyone can smile in the end. And finally, he confessed to Umi; it was simple, but it's impossible not to feel the impact after all the difficulties they went through growing up.

because it could have had serious consequences I don't think he was actually asking them to get back together though. Remember that this little plot comes after his talk with Umi's dad in the last episode, and the message from him about how "kids are allowed to want what they want & throw tantrums" was repeatedly hammered home in this one. As Maki told Minato, he's just "making trouble for the adults" and throwing a very late tantrum (he explicitly acknowledges said lateness right after) to get his own feelings off his chest & move on from that entire divorce episode which was hanging over his head (and his love life) like a depressing cloud. The whole thing was for his own mental wellness. And if a couple of adults get inconvenienced by it, well he's a kid, that's just what kids do.

Disagree. The point was so Maki could express his own wishes for once. As a kid, he never had the opportunity to be selfish and just let himself become lonely. That takes toll on one's mental health. The point wasn't about his parents being okay, it was about him being allowed to want his parents to be okay.

His parents divorced on Christmas Eve. It was the 1 year anniversary of their divorce. So it was a significant date for him. He mentioned it in his thoughts at the end of episode 9.

Loved the episode, but I can't say I really like Crunchyroll's translation in this episode about a certain word that was used in multiple cases. It's the word "わがまま" / "wagamama". The jisho dictionary definition itself is "selfish/egoist". It was good and all in Umi's case where it was translated into "self-centered" or "to want something", referring to her wish to make up with her friends. However, what bothered me was that the word was translated into "tantrum" in Maki's case (which also ended up being the title of this episode), referring to Maki's "tantrum" to his parents to get back together. I admit that I don't really know either a better word for Maki's context, but "tantrum" felt too childish here. Furthermore, the word, being used in both Maki's and Umi's cases, was supposed to draw parallel between the two, with the difference that Maki's "wagamama" went unfulfilled whereas Umi's went fulfilled. That's what's missing from the translation due to the word being translated differently in both cases.

Props to Umi though having to listen to Maki tell his dad he loves her before he's properly told her to her face, and then keeping it together for several hours probably stewing on it before he seals the deal. (ngl kind of get the vibe Maki and his dad have similar taste in women)

One thing I don't really get. Why did Maki plan the whole divorce meetup thing during his own school Christmas party? The one he so desperately wanted to attend that he ended up making a deal with the student council. That just doesn't make sense to me. To make everyone's schedule is line up for those 15 minutes at that exact moment sounds incredibly stressful. We barely got to see the all important Christmas party as a result even tho they had to pull several strings in order to get Maki to be allowed to participate, I figured that would have been the highlight of the episode then. I do love this show, but at least the first half of the episode just felt kinda off to me

Yuu really is the magnet that attracts attention like it's nothing.

Meanwhile Nina is that perpetually single girl who can't keep a boyfriend to save her life but is just there for the fun vibes.

So Nina's failed relationships is a running gag? The funniest character of the show and with Yuu and Seki It wasn't an easy task

Gosh, the drama in this episode was abysmal.