Miss King Episode 8

Family feud

As with the episode of stepmom’s history, I had no interest in the self absorbed bullies of shogi family.😝 That she had the temerity to ask Asuka not to take him away from them😝omg as if she had any desire to do so. I enjoyed Asuka’s reaction to his complete bs monster excuse for deserting his ‘beloved’ family. He deserves the family he now has and they are well aware that he does. My favorite person in this episode was Yuna. She was palpably emanating all her positive energy Asuka’s way. I have no clue why she stayed with the brother, but love is blind. This finale game was not as riveting for me as I expected it to be. Yuna’s reaction was the most stand out for me. Asuka got to tell the shogi world to kiss off after the game but I am glad she allowed herself to enjoy the game and not let it rule her life negatively like her father and Todo did. She plays because she loves it, not possessed by the need to win. I was with her in how anticlimactic defeating him seemed when all was said and done. He gave himself a moment of fatherly pride at her soaring past him, but I could not appreciate it because of his treatment of his first wife and daughter. Once he bodily tossed Asuka out the door and told her to stop playing, he lost any fatherly right to appreciate her competence and skill with the game. This time with her mother’s ashes I didn’t find it creepy like I did with Todo’s dad’s ashes. She was letting her mom know she was going to live her best life and they were acknowledged by the third member of their family at least on paper. Her brother might be less of an ass in future and there is even a glimmer of hope for the dad. His second family may reach a better than tolerate each other stage. Asuka’s family is at the bar living out of the shadow of shogi and ushering in the new era of women joining the game. I wanted Asuka to have some response for her dad, but she was lost in the game still stunned that it was all over and she didn’t find the ecstasy she expected at beating him. She was happy she won the game but at this point I don’t think she really had any more feelings for her dad. She burned them up responding to his written words to Todo and once the game was truly won, there really was nothing she needed to say. The slap of the pieces on the board said everything that needed said between them.I have mixed feelings in how they ended this. They tried to soften the father’s desertion and make his family appear vulnerable. That didn’t work for me at all in both episodes where they visited their histories. The woman that died pining for his sorry ass deserved his acknowledgment in person before she died. That he lacked the spine to include them in his book said everything about him that we need to know. I liked that Asuka’s smile matched her mother’s when she won and Yuna exploding from her chair to cheer makes me hopeful those two will become shogi buddies for life. They can take turns beating up her little brother.😂🤣It’s a good watch even if you know nothing about the game. She wanted to overcome the shitty world her father had left her in and I think she was quite successful with that. She is playing the game on her terms and enjoying it, while Todo can let go and enjoy his family. The burning anger in both Asuka and Todo has been released and whether or not the father has learned anything, they are soaring high above him with no care in their eyes for anything except a shining future.

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