3/6 Anna trying SO hard to be supportive but accidentally being dismissive? That’s the messiness of 7th grade friendship.
The way this episode went from “let’s make an anime club” to me sobbing in 22 minutes… 😭📼 PEN15 - Season 1- Episode 3
PEN15 S1E3 “Ojichan”: The Quiet Genius of Letting a 13-Year-Old Grieve Like a 13-Year-Old 3/6 Anna trying SO hard to be supportive
This episode captures that specific middle school feeling — when your heart is breaking but you still have to pass a note in class and pretend everything’s fine. The raw phone call with her dad? The drawing of Ojichan as an anime hero? Yeah, I’m not okay. The raw phone call with her dad
One of the most underrated episodes of the season. It’s PEN15 at its best: raunchy and silly one minute, quietly shattering the next.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (if you’ve ever lost someone and pretended you were fine)
2/6 The way Maya replays her dead grandfather’s voicemail — “Ojichan loves you” — is maybe the most devastating 10 seconds of TV that year.