Aggressive Retsuko season 3

 Time for some more cute SanRio... with not so cute stories.

Retsuko remains a fun series, so it's time to have a look at season three.

She has discovered the joy of virtual reality gaming, where she lives a live with a unicorn prince charming.  Her hobby costs a lot of money, and while looking for a way to get some extra income, she gets in a car accident by accidentally reversing.

Her collegue in the meantime also buys one, and quickly is amazed as well by the game system.  Retsuko meets with her "victim" in the caffe, to make a settlement.  Anai takes a very drunk Haida home to his place, introducing him to his girlfriend.  Retsuko's victim, Hyoudou, gives her an extra job she was looking for as an accountant, as he brings her to a concert of the idol group OTM.  Here she is hired to become a manager of the group, her pay serving to pay of the debt of the car accident.

The star of the group, Manaka, though is a very arrogant and unlikeable girl, treating Retsuko as her personal maid.  She realizes that as the band makes no profit, this will be a long job to get them on profit course.  She is send to collect an open debt, as she tells Washimi that she has a debtproblem due to her own fault.  Wahimi wants to loan her money for the debt, but she refuses, bending double on both her jobs to get out of her pickle.  In the meantime, Haida meets Inui on the workfloor, taking a liking to each other.

She sells her VR set in order to pay of a piece of the debt, as well as trying to start a social media channel.  Starting to press their own buttons, this also works off a lot of the merchandise costs, as well as making an official channel for the group.  In the meantime, Retusko is starting to have fun in this additional job she is doing, and actually getting paid for it.  This gives her the feeling she finally got paid in life for something she feels like she actually earned it.  She gets seen by Hyoudou in the karaoke, as Retsuko tapes a fresh episode for her own channel.

 

This inspires him to have a demo made for the OTM Girls in a metal style, and replacing Manaka in the lead with Retsuko.  She refuses, making Manaka sing the metal version during their concert.   But last moment, Retsuko does jump on stage, giving birth to "aggressive Retsuko".  But it turns out to be a success, the band selling out at various underground concerts and their profits rising.

Inui keeps getting closer together with Haida, who has been following Retsuko to find out what exactly is going on, even meeting with her ex-boyfriend to get relational advice.  He is in doubt between his intrest in Retsuko and Inui's intrest in him.  Haida goes to watch one of her concerts, as the girls are taking lessons to learn music instruments for the band.  He takes his grievances out with Fenneko, when he gets a message from her, to help her out learning to play guitar.

 

 

But she is being stalked by an OTMGirls fan, who takes pictures of her all along the way.   Inui comes to his house, but finds a tissue of Retsuko in the bathroom, and leaves for home, saddened.  Retsuko's boss finds out she is in OTM, summoning her to his office.  He wants to lend her the money so she quits the group, but she refuses as she sees them as friends and they chase a dream.  

She stands up to her boss, stating it is not his business as it is a private matter.  Haida seeks out Inui again, in order to apologise.  At the next concert she meets her biggest fan, aka her stalker, who scolds her for her music and says she is out to steal money from her fans.  He keeps following her, tacking and uploading a heap of pictures even to the place she works.  He follows her after work, attacking her with a cutter knife, but Haida interferes and smashes him down.  Inui helps him, realising he has made his choice.  

During a dream in the hospital, she realises it made more of an impact on her then she thought, and as she reflects back on her past, she knows she has to make the best choice for herself.  Haida takes her out for karaoke, trying to bring her back to her old self.  She tells him Haida doesn't know her at all, so het starts singing metal to her.  Reawakened, she knows what path she wants to follow...

This was another fun season of the anime, and one I will continue watching on and off for that fun little break in the anime roster for sure.