What did you eat yesterday? きのう何食べた？ S2 Ep 1
My reaction, as soon as I saw Shiro staring at his spreadsheet on my screen, was oh, I MISSED them.
The character development we got up to here didn't get retconned (my biggest fear with any sequel), and I love it so much. That scene at Shirou's company – he's DEFINITELY not going to girly bars, and everyone knows, but the way his boss really emphasised the "he's not going anywhere they've got girls!" … poor Shirou. Also kudos to Nishijima-sensei, I loved his 😑 face in that scene. We see that as a plot point, that's going to come and cause more trouble (or plot development) – I'm excited to see how that goes.
I was genuinely sad about their supermarket closing. Where we choose to shop is such a personal thing, and as someone who hates third-party-inflicted change, I really felt for Shirou here. His indignant reaction to learning the cashier could be friendly! And the way he doesn't learn -- but we do -- that the lady from the supermarket is happy to see him again!
Kenji -- I missed him, too. He's a lot, but he's perfect that way, and every time Shirou and Kenji were on screen together I just kept thinking how much I love these two together.
For the staging: I LOVE how I can see Yoshimoto-sensei's panels in many these shots. I don't remember that as clearly from S1, though I might just not have been paying attention then.
I missed this show so much. Looking forward to trying more recipes, too, when Shirou makes things I can get the ingredients for. ¥30k/month for two adults' food is incredible, I'm in awe. Raw ingredients for food (other than fresh seafood) can be had relatively cheap where I live, my household cooks pretty much everthing from scratch, we rarely cook or eat meat at home, and when scaled, we still don't manage with that little. Gotta take a page out of Shirou's book.