Kotaro Lives Alone – Episode 2

 

In the second episode we learn why Kotaro speaks like he is so much older. He is mimicking the speech pattern of a cartoon character Tonosaman. Also, Kotaro starts acting very weird because the public bathhouse that he likes to frequent is closed. As a result, he goes out of his way to avoid his neighbors and others because he is fanatically concerned about hygiene. Karino and Aktomo try to help him overcome his worries. Later Kotaro goes to enroll himself in school.  During the lunch hour he spends his time showing off his Bento lunch meal to other students. I watched the episode several times but couldn’t really figure out what the moral was, because so many different things were going on.

Once again, there was a lot of familiar dialogue. I recognized the kanji for child (子). Also whole phrases are now more comprehensible to me. For example, when Karino was running to join Kotaro at school I recognized this phrase だから　来なくてよいと言っているwhen Kotaro was telling Karino that he didn’t need to come. I didn’t understand all the grammar, but the context clues helped.