Away from home, one needs feel no shame (旅の恥はかき捨て, Tabi no Haji wa kaki Sute) is the eighth episode of the Junjou Romantica anime series.
This episode features the Junjou Romantica couple.
Plot[]
Opens with Misaki being told he is going to go back to living with Takahiro. Misaki believes that he has become a burden to Usagi, so he does not object. He goes to visit his brother in Osaka before Takahiro comes back to Tokyo. At his brother and sister-in-law's home, he realizes this is what a normal family should feel like, but ends up getting mad when Takahiro starts criticizing Usagi. Misaki begins to notice he feels lonely. Usagi is at home and constantly thinking about Misaki. It is revealed that he let Misaki go because Takahiro said that Misaki blames himself for their parents' deaths. Misaki asked them to hurry home and they sped home in the rain and crashed. Misaki does everything he can not to become a burden to anyone or ask too much of them. Misaki phones Usagi from the train station but Usagi accidentally says something that upsets him. He tells Misaki to wait there and turns up three hours later. He drags Misaki onto a different train and tells him he won't ever let him go. Misaki is forced to decide what he actually wants to do, and says that he just doesn't want to cause trouble for Usagi. Usagi asks him to stay with him and Misaki says yes. They spend the night together making love in a private sleeper car. The next day Misaki sees that they are in Sapporo. Usagi says it is a birthday present for Misaki. The episode ends by revealing Usagi's small obsession with Marimo.
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Epilogue: Romantica couple spending time in Sapporo. *Romantica Act 5.5*
Character Appearance[]
Manga[]
- When Misaki thinks back of people who passed judgement over Usagi, Sumi and Aikawa's comments are included with Isaka's.
- After Usagi asks Misaki to stay with him, Misaki thinks to himself that he never knew that being needed by someone would make him feel so happy.
- The sex scene is more graphic.
- Misaki has a violently embarrased reaction to Usagi's sweet, sweet words and convinced himself that Usagi is not Japanese because no Japanese person would be able to say things like that.
- After Misaki asked Usagi why they are in Hokkaido, he imagined that his answer would be along the lines of wanting to walk the vast North together or eating delicious foods together or going to the hot springs together before his bubble burst with Usagi's "marimo" answer.