The pregnancy thing would be ridiculously lulz if it were real since… Oh wait, they DID do it last episode -_-” Silly me…

Hopefully, Kinn won’t be a DOUCHE and finally let her into his heart. I don’t see him getting with anyone else anyways.

It’s frightening at how relationships in this series at moving at light speed.

First a sudden engagement, followed by a 2-week marriage, now there’s a pregnancy scare @_@

And Chris comes off as a creepy stalker. She reminds me of Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. I’m happy to see that they’re phasing out Kotoko’s high school friends with her passing the nursing exam.

The pace of this series is at neckbreaking speed. By the end of the series they’ll be celebrating the birth of Kotoko’s and Naota’s grandchildren @_@.

I can’t help but think that the producers are missing out on a lot of moments and potential for romance/comedy by speeding through the relationship. It’s a bit disappointing, imo. But Machiko more than makes up for it. She’s needs her own spinoff series where plays a conniving matchmaker or gives rabu rabu advice.

Things are going to heat up once Kotoko goes to Nursing School. Why? Because there’s a THAT guy there. He was in the preview, even.

Naoki’s never had serious competition before, but now there’s THAT guy! *evil laughter*

With the frequency Kotoko gets stomach complaints, when she really does get pregnant, they’ll just pass it off as her having ate too much or something.

@Crusader

I get that. It’s just that in this series, there’s really no build-up, no anticipation. Naota went from going to marry Chris to asking for Kotoko’s hand in marriage in literally 2 episodes. Then they get married by the end of the 2nd episode. They never even went out on a date first. He kissed her 3 times (2 of which she was actually aware of) and now they’re coming back from a honeymoon with a pregnancy scare.

It just doesn’t add up! The series seems to be venturing into more of a “slice-of-life” romance, which is very odd because it gets a little hard to follow when they fast-forward through all the relationship development.

I am interested in seeing how this series will end though. It’s just weird following it watching it go from A to B to F to Z.

@Shin The cop in Hawaii did think she was a lost little kid…

The pace really is starting to seem pretty fast, the source material is clearly a nicely-developed story but I am starting to feel like I’m missing something. I hope they do justice with the ending.

@L-chan: I think L-chan makes a very legitimate point. I mean, in terms of laughter and pure entertainment value, Itazura no Kiss completely fills up the meter of joy and happiness. I mean, despite all the flawed and rushed story flow, I fully enjoyed the marriage, as well as the “From Chris to marrying Kotoko” in 2 episodes.

Nonetheless, I just have this rather niggling feeling at the back of my head that tells me that the series is somewhat giving the original manga a huge disservice. I mean, the show is a romp but I know it could have been epic if it tries to be a bit consistent with the timings.

@Otou-san: I cannot disagree with that. The pacing is like a snail trying to run like a cheetah and eventually dropping almost everything in order to get there so fast. Nonetheless, the snail is darn pretty, if you get my drift.