4/6 Also: the scene where Maya imagines Ojichan as an anime mentor while she fights a shadow monster? Brilliant visual metaphor for grief.
2/6 The way Maya replays her dead grandfather’s voicemail — “Ojichan loves you” — is maybe the most devastating 10 seconds of TV that year. PEN15 - Season 1- Episode 3
#PEN15 #Ojichan #MiddleSchoolWasWeird #Hulu 4/6 Also: the scene where Maya imagines Ojichan
3/6 Anna trying SO hard to be supportive but accidentally being dismissive? That’s the messiness of 7th grade friendship. It’s PEN15 at its best: raunchy and silly
One of the most underrated episodes of the season. It’s PEN15 at its best: raunchy and silly one minute, quietly shattering the next.
Maya wants to start an anime club at school — partly because she loves anime, partly because she has a crush on Gabe, and mostly because she’s trying to process the recent death of her Japanese grandfather, Ojichan. Anna supports her (while also trying to seem cool). The club pitch goes predictably badly. But the emotional core? Maya listening over and over to an old voicemail of Ojichan saying “I love you” in Japanese.