Glasslip Episode 02: Bench

Love troubles are starting. Friend circle is about to break. The fantasy factor is introduced. That’s basically what 2^nd episode of Glasslip is about. 1^st episode was an introduction, 2^nd is when things really start to kick off. There's a lot I want to talk about, but first, let's take a look at the screenshots.

So direct

How to date someone: talk about chickens

You will fall into his charms soon

Definitely, Sachi likes Yuki

Calendar says: July and August 2014

Yeah, that happens if you stop spinning it

Nice house

Chopin's Nocturne Op9 No2
Kakeru knows how to relax

Voices again

Checked, it isn't the one from the Opening

A wild David appeared!
Touko sends out Sachi!

Sachi rules

You're right

Escher's Day and Night
So Kirinkan is a museum

Here come's the eagle...

What?

Guess my theory was wrong

Oh, so that's the point on the glass!

Deja vu moment

That train freaked me out

Fateful meeting

Guess we won't figure it out till some episodes later

Sachi suffers some illness? D:

She reminds me of Mei from Another
NOW PUT IT IN YOUR EYE!

Rivalry

Wait till he beats you on a legit race...
...and in love affers

This will hurt very bad...

Take the fanservice

D:

Wait, I'm just realizing something...

The fact you're the one who is proposing it will create misunderstandings...

Indeed.

Sachi doesn't give a f*ck

...

Ouch. 

How to refuse someone in Japan: DOMO

Yeah... pretend you didn't heard anything

Prediction...

...became true.

Love hexagon starts to shake. Yuki’s confession to Touko was pushed by two factors. First, the rivalry he has with Kakeru made him confess before he does. Second, Touko wanting dates to be allowed in the group in order to help Yanagi confess to Yuki, something he misunderstands and finds on it an opportunity to confess to Touko.

When it comes to Yanagi, she wanted to confess to Yuki for similar reasons. She knew Yuki wanted to surpass Kakeru, so she decided to confess before Yuki does it to Touko.

On the other hand, we find that Sachi suffers from some illness as she goes to the hospital regularly. The first seconds of the Opening show the members of the crew when they were younger, and we can see Touko and Sachi being the closest friends so that’s why she protects Touko and the group from Kakeru, as she’s the one who cares the most about the group and she knows Kakeru is the sparkle who will ignite all the trouble. Another thing we saw on this episode is that Sachi looks at Yuki silently, being this shown for the second time, it almost confirms she likes Yuki.

Footage from the Opening

Another details I want to point out are the fact that the anime happens on the very summer we’re in and more cultural references. This time there were two cultural references, the 1^st one being Chopin’s Nocturne Op9 No2 and the 2^nd one being Escher’s Night and Day.

One thing I didn’t give too much attention last episode was the conversations during dinner at Touko’s house. I realized that what happen between Touko and Kakeru happened on a similar way when Touko’s parents were younger. Last episode they were talking about chickens and this time the talked about their date at the Kirinkan.

About symbolic elements, the eagle shows up during Kakeru and Touko’s conversation at the balcony and another symbolic element I found out are the wind chimes, as sometimes they are shown individually during the episodes and together during the Opening. There’s 6 of them, so I guess they represent the protagonists as well.

Footage from the Opening

But, most important thing on this episode is that we found out what’s Touko and Kakeru’s relation. What I thought were voices from some flashback, happened not to be true but the opposite. Those voices come from the future. Also, we discover the purpose of glassmaking on the story, when Touko stares at something sparkling she can hear these future fragments.

From what I understood, Kakeru is able to hear Touko’s future voice while Touko is able to hear Kakeru’s. Then, when they are together, they can hear their own voice as well as see images from the future.

Footage from the Opening

But there’s something in this puzzle we’re missing. The first time Touko heard a voice was at the Summer Festival, the same day Kakeru arrived to the town. If she was able to hear his voice when Kakeru was around, how could Kakeru knew about it when he was outside? My theory is that Kakeru went to the town because he heared something bad is going to happen to Touko’s crew. The train from the prediction gave me bad feelings, maybe an accident or maybe is just the trip the crew is going to take the next day for hiking. We will have to wait.