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「家庭教師の叔父」 (Kateikyōshi no Oji)
“Uncle the Private Tutor” 「東雲」 (Shinonome)
“Daybreak”
The perfect antithesis to Twilight, Daybreak crashes into the scene. Though sloppy and unprepared, he has amazing luck on his side, thanks to Twilight. I am puzzled as to why someone would hire such a slipshod first timer for an undoubtedly important mission to sabotage the Desmond boys’ grades and subsequently, their family reputation. I didn’t really get Daybreak. What was the point of introducing him for essentially a one-shot-I found him irritating and it doesn’t look as if they will be continuing with him in the cast?
I always inwardly groan whenever Yuri shows up-I can’t stand his sister complex, it’s creepy and in no way funny. Called on by Yor to help Anya study in a pinch, Yuri reluctantly tutors her. He is so annoyingly over the top in his obsession that even Anya can play Yuri, pulling out the whole “I want to help Yor” angle that fires him up. (Yes, Anya does have the whole benefit of reading Yuri’s mind, but as we’ve seen at school, she doesn’t always know how to implement it due to immaturity.)
Yuri doesn’t really get how to teach children at all-blandly pointing things out to them and telling them they’re wrong doesn’t work. You need to make it fun and relevant to their interests. In that sense, Loid was actually much closer to successful, when he tried to teach math using Bondman (although that unfortunately didn’t help much either). Heck, Yuri doesn’t even teach Anya stuff that is supposed to be on the exams, opting for foreign language instead.
I appreciate how the mangaka fleshes out Anya’s power-instead of making it simply a plot loophole, they add layers to it. In this case, Anya is rendered powerless by the new moon and thus unable to cheat on the exams, with which the new moon corresponds. It allows Anya to showcase her own hard work instead of falling back on superpowers, which she can’t use efficiently (yet). I do feel like the new moon weakness was a bit been there done that, given how prominent it is in other stories. It’s not like she’s a yokai or anything where it would make sense for the moon to have direct impact on her powers. Then again, we don’t know much about her powers or her background, so there could be a reasonable explanation, other than her power needs a weakness. But, I’m just being nitpicky here. I do wonder, if her powers wane at the new moon, if they reach their peak at the full moon.
I was so proud of Twilight for recognizing Anya’s hard work and leaving her scores as-is instead of tampering them for a higher grade. I’m sure it also would look suspicious if Anya suddenly jumped high in the class ranking, not to mention the blow it would deal to Anya’s confidence, knowing she couldn’t do well enough to get by on her own strength.
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I feel like Daybreak was introduced as a manifestation to how delicate Twilight’s mission is. A lot is riding on Twilight’s results and anyone can screw the mission up. From Anya’s constant poor academics to a noob at Twilight’s work messing up and trashing his efforts.
Uncle Yuri has always been just tsunadere simping on Yor constantly just ignore Yuri. Outside of that Yuri is nothing more than a gestapo.
As Twilight’s mission requires him to cooperate with Anya every day and Anya’s antics makes Twilight more parental now it’s become a blur. Is Twilight still a spy or a step father? While being a Spy is Twilight’s job, I feel he has evolved into a family man who works a dangerous job to put food on the table for his family.
Twilight certainly is going on a personal journey far deeper than he ever expected when he signed up for the job. It is sweet to see him become more fatherly by the day as he figures out the whole dad business.