Ron Does Stuff

The previous episode ended with a delicious cliffhanger — the guys are told that they’re going to go on one-on-one dates if the person they write on a piece of paper has mutual feelings. Let’s see who gets to go on a date in this episode!

The episode opens with William and Izaya being announced as the first pair to go on a one-on-one date. Duh. The second pair is Huwei and Bomi, and what makes it even more delicious is that it’s Bomi reading it from the iPad. Poor Hiroya, but did he really think he had a chance? Anyway, it’s funny how neither of the pairs seems happy about this happening, and Kazuyuki even asks why isn’t anybody cheering.

Opening credits time!

William and Izaya’s one-on-one date is…inside an ice palace? Is that comfortable? Is the ~conducive~? Let’s see! They’re making their own ice glasses, and if this were me, I would walk out. And to be fair, Izaya doesn’t seem mentally there either. It’s a very quiet date, and not in the fun way.

Back at the Green Room, Jobu and Hiroya talk about who their picks were. Jobu picked William and Hiroya picked Huwei, and now the two of them are together at the Green Room, neither of them being picked. And I honestly think it might be for the better, because this William and Izaya date is not going well.

Izaya is still sulking because of the message he saw in the previous episode, and the ominous music picks up as William explains that it was from someone he used to be in touch with. Izaya’s already thinking how they’re going to deal with it when it happens again in the future, and it honestly is a mature thing to decide on but I feel like the two of you should decide what the two of you are before discussing that? Because as Izaya said so himself, it’s not like he and William are together. But I guess Izaya must be doing something right because William admits in the confessionals that he’s feeling closer to Izaya now.

Elsewhere, Bomi and Huwei are being adorable because Bomi just slipped on ice and now Huwei is holding on to him and supporting him. It’s a little gay rom-com! They go to a little woodcarving store, and Bomi says all the bears are Huwei, and it fits! Huwei does look like he’d give a good bear hug.

While Bomi and Huwei are being adorable, it’s Ryuki’s turn to share something about himself, which is that he likes bad boys. I understand where you’re coming from, Ryuki! But then he says he likes them aloof, and he likes to feel stressed about it, and I start thinking right, right, you’re 20. In my advanced age, I don’t have the time. I don’t have the stomach for all of that. Maybe if I were 20 again!

In the Green Room’s gym, Kazuyuki talks about it being familial love for him for 15 years now. He met his now ex when he was 24, and he decided to make it official right at the time when his now ex was about to give up on waiting for him. He’s recalling all of this to the infant Ryuki and he starts tearing up and I don’t blame him! That’s 15 years! That’s millennia in gay years!

We now leave the Green Room to go back to Bomi and Huwei, who are in a restaurant, and talking about why they picked each other. Huwei’s upfront and said that he was interested in Izaya at first, but he saw that he wasn’t William, and the name that first popped up for him after Izaya was Bomi. Bomi, on the other hand, says Huwei was his only choice. Huwei looks like he doesn’t mind, and in fact says that his opinion of Bomi’s been headed in “a good direction” ever since they met again in the Green Room. They then exchange the gifts they bought each other at the souvenir store they were at earlier, and it turns out Bomi got him THE SAME BIRD STUFF TOY HIROYA GOT HIM, EXCEPT BIGGER. BITCH. At least he immediately tells Bomi that Hiroya got him sorta the same toy.

Once they’re back in the Green Room, Bomi’s displaying the fox stuffed toy that Huwei gave him, and Hiroya is eyeing it. In the confessionals, he says he has ~mixed feelings~ and I almost let out an evil duck laugh.

William and Izaya are the next to arrive, and the cameraman is shady as he focuses on Jobu looking pressed. Hiroya gets some shots too, but Jobu’s pressed face is just. too. funny.

The next day, Ryuki is announced as the shift lead, and he picks…Izaya. OH THIS TWINK IS MESSY. Or maybe not, because the shift happens with little incident, and they even make ¥7, 450! They’re not the best performing team, but it’s not too shabby either. After the shift, Ryuki says Izaya was the first one that really caught his eye. To Izaya’s credit, he gently redirects Ryuki and tells him that he should speak one-on-one with the other guys as well, and not just him.

Back in the Green Room, Jobu finally gets William into the sauna, but is unfortunately told by William that he’ll pick Izaya if he ever becomes the coffee truck shift leader. Even worse, when Jobu asks for straightforwardness, William complies and tells him no, he doesn’t think there’s going to be anything between the two of them beyond friendship. Bitch.

Ryuki and Izaya return to the Green Room and find the guys making gyoza, with the guys deciding that they’ll put a pepper and wasabi in some of them, and the ones who bite into that get to ask a question. Ryuki is the one who bites into one with a pepper, and since he’s a messy bitch, he asks who among the group is already in love. Izaya, Bomi, Huwei, Hiroya, and William said yes, Kazuyuki and Jobu said no. Bomi, Huwei, Hiroya are the love triangle this season, I guess.

As foretold by Jobu in the sauna of heartbreak, William is the next shift leader, and he obviously picks Izaya. They’re disgustingly adorable and happy during their shift, which is maybe why they only earned ¥5, 700. They also talk about how positively they’re feeling about each other after their shift, and the production really sticks it into Jobu by interspersing shots of him moping with shots of William and Izaya making plans for Niseko. Now I really am laughing like an evil duck.

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