Another character-centric episode, this time focusing on Nako. There's also mermaids, and it manages to work pretty well.
The episode focuses on the disconnect that Nako feels between the way that she acts at home around her family and the way that she acts in public and at work. At home, she's a take-charge person who doesn't think twice about lecturing her own parents and appears to be raising her younger siblings by herself. Everywhere else, however, she's the shy person that we've seen over the course of the show. Nako's feelings on the difference between her "real self" and the shy person that she shows the world are symbolized through a running Little Mermaid comparison, although in Nako's version, she's fine with letting the prince drown.
Her attempt to become more outgoing was interesting even though it ultimately resulted in failure. Nako's shy side is definitely safer in public, as shown by the scene where she was brutally honest to Ohana, tacking on "in a good way!" at the end of all of her statements, as if that would take the sting out of them. Preceding this was the shopping scene, where she bought a new outfit because it made her look like the kind of person that she though she should become, despite the fact that it made her uncomfortable. I think that the point of this episode (or the moral) was that as long as you're comfortable in the way that you act, you'll be able to do your best regardless of if the "real you" appears at home or at work. And I hope that this isn't the last that we've seen of Nako's family either, since this episode showed how important they are to her.
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