Chaser Game W2: Utsukushiki Tennyotachi Episode 7

The drama returns, but in different form than before...

The episode begins by Itsuki waking up alongside Fuyu and Tsuki in bed. Itsuki get up and starts making breakfast. The others get up, eat, and then Fuyu get ready to leave for work. (Where?) Itsuki first forget to give her her bento box for lunch, but runs after her.

Later, Itsuki brings Tsuki to kindergarten, where the staff knows that they’re a same-sex couple but won’t disclose this to third parties . A bunch of mothers take that Itsuki is Tsuki’s mother and invite her to a chat group.

Fuyu is at Dynamic Dreams, taking her old job overseeing development. She’s immediately called to an emergency meeting. At DD, the cheater to the manga order them to cast Fuyu and Itsuki as the Black and White Heavenly Maiden. Fuyu promises to talk to Itsuki about it. At night, Itsuki and Fuyu talk about the drama series they are about to be starring in (so it’s a television series?), which is going to film somewhere on the continent, they promise to take Tsuki with them. A bit of domestic bliss follows.

At kindergarten, the kids should draw a picture of their parents. Itsuki admits to the mothers that she is not Tsuki’s mother, but lies that she is related to her. The mothers are impressed, but say she should get a kid herself.

At DD, there’s a conference call with their Chinese partner, Vincent, who do not like the casting of Fuyu and Itsuki and want to delay production. Fuyu is not too worried, but seems relieved that she is out of the lead role.

Itsuki tells Fuyu that it should be her talking to Tsuki about the probable cancellation of the trip to Asia, because she is the mother. Fuyu senses some discomfort, but doesn’t press the issue. In the morning the neighbor asks Itsuki whether they live together as sisters and Itsuki confirms this, apparently embarrassed about their real living conditions. Meanwhile, the images the kids drew are on display at kindergarten – as Tsuki draw her mother together with Itsuki. Another mother takes note of this. When Itsuki arrives to take home Tsuki, she notices that someone has posted Tsuki’s picture in the group chat, which causes everyone to leave. This is not good…

Meanwhile, Fuyu get the notice that her father has become a Committee chairman. Then she gets a melon from the neighbor – for her and her “sister”. At home, Fuyu and Itsuki debate whether to come clean at the kindergarten, but decide against it because Tsuki would be the one to be bullied. I don’t know whether they can sit this out…

Case in point: not just the mothers are ignoring Itsuki now – they’ve instructed their children not to play with Tsuki anymore.

The two ladies arrive by plane, but we only see their feet.

At the café, Tsuki is sitting there sulking, she doesn’t like kindergarten anymore. Meanwhile at DD, where Vincent has decided to go with Itsuki and Fuyu for the White and Black Heavenly Maiden, after all – but they don’t seem happy about it. Then, Ro Asani, the Chinese manager from the first season reappears. Who hired her?

Itsuki looks for an alternative kindergarten for Tsuki. Then, Fuyu’s mother reappears all of a sudden. She apologizes for the pervious behavior, and she’s fine with them living together. That’s progress. But she wants her granddaughter Tsuki, to “return to her”- saying she won’t be happy with two mothers and the repercussions from that. She apparently hits a nerve in Itsuki with that.

We end on a deleted scene that obviously belonged to the university days.

In this episode, the everyday problems piled on for Itsuki and Fuyu, both having to deal with the effects living together as a same-sex couple can have in a country still as traditional as Japan. It’s a little odd that these problems were all raised at the same time – and in the second-to-last episode, that is – but I’m fine with a little drama, as long as they come to a satisfying conclusion next week.

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