Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 05
Ah, now everything becomes clear: the thing that Porfy’s father wanted to build was his own car repair-shop, so that he could work, while being at home. He manages to finish building it this episode (which is quite fast for a World-Masterpiece Series, by the way, though I’m glad that the creators still showed exactly how Christopher built the shed, instead of most anime which show a bunch of random good-looking pictures).
This episode was mainly meant to develop Porfy and Zaimis. Porfy is really one of these kids who’ll put his entire mind and soul into what he believes, and ignoring the rather important things around him in the process. In this episode, this is school. Porfy basically skips school in order to help his father build his shop. It turns out that Zaimis wants to be a school-teacher later, so he of course tries to stop Porfy, but fails. It’s quite interesting how he doesn’t want to tell Christopher about this, and leaves it to Porfy to tell this for himself. In the process, though, he does avoid Porfy, and Porfy in his turn does start to feel a bit lonely. Corrina makes this even worse, by stealing away Zaimis whenever Porfy wants to talk to him.
It’s an interesting way to get Porfy and Zaimis closer together. The lie was quite a small one, though because it was really given time to develop throughout the episode, it worked out really well.
