⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (if you’ve ever lost someone and pretended you were fine)
PEN15 S1E3 “Ojichan”: The Quiet Genius of Letting a 13-Year-Old Grieve Like a 13-Year-Old PEN15 - Season 1- Episode 3
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. Yeah, I’m not okay
Also, Anna trying so hard to be supportive but having no idea what Maya is going through? Peak friendship. Peak awkwardness. Peak PEN15 . Peak awkwardness
1/6 This episode starts with Maya trying to start an anime club to impress a boy. Ends with me weeping into my cereal.
🎧 Best moment: Maya alone, listening to the answering machine message from Ojichan over and over. 💔 Most cringe: Trying to turn grief into a school club pitch.