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Chiyuki offers him a free warning that Yanigada is more a porcupine that a lamb, but that could hardly have prepared Ikuto for what was coming. And while he doesn’t hire the lad, Kenji-san does send him to one of his former designers who’s started his own company – Yanigada Hazime ( Suwabe Junichi). She more or less shames him (hey, it works) into going back to her father for another chance. She isn’t only doing this for her own sake – it’s clear she genuinely cares whether Ikuto chases his dream. However, Chiyuki does redeem herself quite a bit by refusing to let Ikuto wallow in his disappointment and give up. That she stayed silent and let him do it was not her most endearing moment as a character, but it serves as a reminder that she’s only human and still a kid. Ikuto mans up here and takes the fall for what happened, and I honestly was hoping Chiyuki would put a stop to that right then and there. He scolds his daughter in Ikuto’s presence, and declares that she has “no talent”. But it’s for his daughter that Kenji saves his ire, and he comes off quite differently than he did in the premiere. Once Kenji finds out Ikuto is in high school – it turns out he believed otherwise because Chiyuki lied to him and said he was in college – he immediately rescinds his job offer. If a happy ending in the first episode seemed a little incongruous, it’s because it wasn’t actually either.
That surefire knowledge is his bliss, and only he can make the decision as to whether he can – and will – follow it. One can see the competing impulses at war in him – common sense and humility struggling with ambition and the surefire knowledge of what it is he wants to do. Campbell said “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” In a quite magical and affecting way, we see Ikuto and Chiyuki doing that – especially Ikuto, it must be said, and especially this week.
I don’t use that language coincidentally, because Runway is a story that puts me very much in mind of Joseph Campbell and his notion of “following your bliss”. This week was a reminder that when they come true at all dreams don’t come true without serious blood (literally), sweat and tears, and that not everyone is a kind soul trying to open doors for you where you didn’t know there were doors. And goodness me, what a tonal shift we got after last week’s ending, which made Runway de Waratte seem like a feel-good story about two plucky kids taking the world by the throat. The characters here are really winning and quite interesting and believable.
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Not having any emotional connection going into this series doesn’t mean I don’t care about what’s happening – it just means I can do so without any preconceptions. There’s some serious quality on display here at every level, and that makes all the difference. But then I have no baggage with Runway going in – I’ve never read the manga, I care not a whit about the fashion industry in real life, and the show is employing no trickery or short cuts to get the job done. It’s rare that my feelings for a new series are so straightforward and clear-cut. Like it both in the critical and personal sense, as in feeling real affection for it. There’s nothing too complicated going on with me here – I really, really like this show.
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