Xebek\’s Blog

Everyone participates in the parade for the school festival, Shana and Yoshida both trying to win the contest in order to be able to talk in front of the school to Yuji.

Impressions:

This episode was great. I’m still surprised a bit by how much this series really draws me in and makes me care even when not much happens at all. Really, the only thing that happened in this episode was the cliffhanger at the end, the entire thing was them going around in the parade. Even the almost confession just happened at the end. However even though a majority of this episode was pretty much just dragging things out it had me very interested in what was happening. I’ve probably said this in 80 percent of my posts but I love romance in anime and I’m just ecstatic with the amount of focus this second season has put on romance. I nearly screamed out loud when Shana was interrupted form confessing to Yuji. Now it’s not going to happen fro some time because even after all this happens Yuji will likely ask what she was going to say and she’ll say nothing or something like that. GAH!

The other really big thing in this episode that just shocked me was when Konoe thought something was up when she saw the wind. When she saw the wind she freaked out like she knew what it was and that it meant something special in regards to all the mysterious things going on. I was surprised because even though there is obviously something suspicious about her looking like Hecate they haven’t really shown anything, not even to just the viewer, about her being anything other then human. Other then doubts and suspicions she hasn’t shown anything except for being more mysterious because of her being sick. But now this is an event that points to her knowing some hint, so it’ll be interesting to see if she plays a significant role in dealing with Pheles.

The next episode seems pretty massive. Just from the preview it says and shows that Pheles attacks, Margery finds out about the silver (or sees silver and thinks its someone, not necessarily finding out its Yuji) and what’s almost more surprising Tanaka sees Oga die, or at least burn in flames and such. I was expecting those first two to happen, the Pheles thing rather soon and the Margery finding Silver thing eventually but I didn’t really even think of them having one of the side characters die because of all that’s going on. It was sweet seeing Oga and Tanaka together both having feelings for each other and all and even though their relationship or just their overall point in the series wasn’t that big its still a sad and surprising thing for one of them to die. I wonder if they are going to come up with some way of saving her though magic, as it’s a possibility. Either way just the general topic of something like that happening is surprising and will be interesting. As far as the other things, it just seems massive that both would happen at the same time. I thought they would be dealt with separately but it really seems as if they are going to happen at the same time which makes things even more stressful.