Tomoya, Sunohara, and Kyou play basketball against the basketball club in order to show to the choir club their motivation in hopes of getting the advisor.
Impressions:
This episode was pretty good. Its still hasn’t reached full blown drama of an arc but its defiantly setting some interesting things up. They haven’t really had a single girl they’ve focused on for a couple of episodes which does make it different, and a bit interesting. To seem them focus on the guy was something they don’t do a lot. The episode had a lot of humorous parts to it too. I thought the very beginning where they mentioned the joke of last episode with Sunohara loving Tomoya was still funny, and even though it wasn’t a pure humor moment I loved Tomoyo confronting Kyou like that, saying bluntly that she must like him and so on.
This episode focused a lot more on Tomoya himself then I thought it would. I found one of the most interesting parts of this entire episode was when he was knocked down and all those thoughts were going though his head like there’s no point in doing this and he’s pathetic, then having that broken by Nagisa. Kind of metaphoric but also just interesting in its own right showing the kind of things Tomoya is going though.
I’m really interested in where the show is going to go now. I know a lot o people have said that this focus on Sunohara, the basketball match, and then kind of Tomoya fits into Nagisa’s arc but it seems odd that they would have her full arc right now. However when I saw the preview and it really mainly pointed to Tomoya, I wasn’t sure. Nagisa definitely seems like the girl who has the main arc, she’s the Ayu of Clannad in a sense that she’ll be the girl he likely end sup with, meaning her arc will be last. However it seems like if they were to put some kind of focus on Tomoya as the preview suggested such as him thinking about his future and his family, that it would fit with Nagisa’s arc. I was hoping that even if this basketball thing is in Nagisa’s arc that perhaps they moved it up and would still have her arc last, but with Tomoya being focused on more I’m not sure. They are definitely merging and splitting game arcs. I hope they do save her arc for last though; perhaps do about half of it now and then focus on Kyou and Tomoyo and then finish off Nagisa.
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This episode was pretty good, it’s just in between the serious and the comedy moments. This is also a good chance to flesh out Tomoya and Nagisa in terms of their relationship. Even though her appearence in the series is short (For now atleast), Sunohara’s sister is really cute ^^.
Well if she’s leaving we may not see a ton of Mei which is too bad since she was a cute girl.
I think they simply have been working in bits of Nagisa’s arc along the way. No doubt she will be the girl that he ends up with and is just keeping a constant presence. By the time we’re closing in on the last episodes we should have done most of her arc and will just need to finish things off. Interesting how they worked in how sad things are for Tomoya, can’t play a game he really enjoyed and had a lot of depressed feelings. But Nagisa as we’ve seen has given him something or at least will be able to help him.
Feel for Sunohara in a way. Sister stops by but pretty much ignores him during the time even though you could see he did want to spend some time with her. Just hitting himself multiple times with that clay doll got that point home. Plus as the comedic relief friend doesn’t really have a girl you see him ending up with even though he is a pretty good guy. Hope things turn out alright for him even if he doesn’t get a ton of focus moving on.
Feels like with little sight of Nagisa in the preview we may move into Kyou’s arc now.
A good episode..
But, even though the episode is about Sunohara and Mei..
Both of them don’t interact with each other much do they..
I wonder what next episode is about…
@FlareKnight: Heh, Kyoani must have felt the same way as you cause they did made Sunohara reclaim a bit on the basketball game. In the VN game, Sunohara was totally worthless in the basketball game.