Hmm, it’s not so clear to me what the obvious loophole is. There’s 2 reasonable loopholes that come to mind, but neither strike me as something that Akane would so viscerally react to. (This is not an invitation to explain, as that invites spoilers-camouflaged-as-theory.) The abstract visual does bias me slightly towards one explanation.

Also, the guy at the end… I almost laughed. Maybe that’s intentional, I can’t tell.

I just realized the title of the show is a play on Ningen Shikkaku 🤦.

I got a chuckle out of the middle one.

The middle one I could find somebody mention online before the episode came out, the other two don’t show up at all. So the middle one I think is from the LN, the other two might be anime original (or maybe just not funny enough to post online). I have a feeling these are just referencing LNs this time. The cover arts feel inspired as well.

• クラスの１軍女子に、赤スパ投げられてます！
• 借りた部屋にJKが付いてきたけど、食費が高くてもう限界です。
• 銀河皇帝の娘さんは、丁寧な暮らしを望んでいる。

4. Engage Kiss
5. Silent Witch
6. 86
7. WORKING!!
8. This one is apparently in the novel, so it’s probably not a direct reference to an A-1 anime.
9. Vividred Operation
10. Kaguya-sama
11. Persona
12. Watakoi

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2173684

There’s so much going on in this episode, lots of jokes. I liked the cafe scene with Yanami.

Ah, friends. Of course. Friends.

looks at the genres on MyAnimeList

Genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life

Little did I expect that this anime is about 2 asexual people becoming friends.

It was great to see he finally getting his moment, to see him pulling that move from the Tokyo Blade manga out of nowhere and making the crowd go wild.

It’s always nice to see the underdog succeed with hard work and dedication. And in this case, it’s an underdog story for a side-character that began back in the previous season, so it has more impact compared to if Melt was introduced for this arc.

If this was real, Melt’s sword kick & flip performance would be absolutely insane to watch, compared to his previous acting. I guess the show shows this with the Sweet Today’s author’s initial dumbfounded reaction.