OH NO THAT'S SUPER CUTE, I'M SO DOWN FOR DOING THAT THROWBACK

and while I'm taking most of my stuff from the manga canon for Xiaolang, there is a part in the anime where he gets super excited to meet Sakura's dad because he's an archaeologist, and having someone similar in Rec (who's older + wiser) to look up to will be really sweet! Although if he ever meets her at the campus library/some science meet, he'll probably be hella flustered and unable to keep his voice down so he'd just be like

DR. LUTECE I'M REALLY FOND OF YOUR ESSAYS ESPECIALLY THE ONES ON ADVANCED PSYCHICS ALSO PLEASE LOOK AT MY ROBOT PROJECT???

spoilers Xiaolang has no chill