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Shin goes after Hiromi when he sees her riding off with Noe’s brother.

Impressions:

GOD DAMNI! This episode did absolutely nothing but make the case for Shin and Hiromi ending up together stronger. It advanced that a LOT and I’ve expressed before but I know I won’t be able to stop expressing how I will effectively HATE this show if it ends up that way. If he ends up with Noe I will love the show but all throughout watching this episode I just kept screaming in my head. More and more things just hurt the chances of this showing being great for me.

It seems pretty much confirmed now that Hiromi ISN’T Shin’s sister. At least it seems confirmed in Hiromi’s mind and I think she told that to Shin, though I’m not sure. Either way that alone kind of lifts a pretty big roadblock off of them getting together. The only tiny glimmer of hope I can see in this though is that Shin’s mom doesn’t seem as much of a bitch now so perhaps it won’t be that horrible for her if she weren’t to get picked, having a non blood related family. However, that’s just my desperate grasp at straws, I’m still convinced Hiromi will win, which sucks.

What I’m finding really interesting though is the continual use of metaphors in this show. They haven’t really touched on the whole tear metaphor lately. They kind of established that earlier in the show but they haven’t kept it as a main focus so it’s kind of died in importance for now. However the focus on the metaphor using Raigomaru, Jibeta, and flying seems pretty prominent and it’s really intriguing. It seems obvious that Shin is Raigomaru and the way I interpreted it from Shin reading the book he’s written so far is that Hiromi is Jibeta. Noe said Jibeta can’t fly and Noe kind of yelled at a confused Hiromi a while back that she couldn’t fly either. In the book Raigomaru gave up flying to be with Jibeta because he saw how sad it was she was alone like that. That doesn’t fair well for my hopes for the show. There was another metaphor with flying that also doesn’t faire well. Noe seems to know Shin loves Hiromi. It was so sad seeing her talk with him near the water. She said how he could fly, but not here. Perhaps meaning he will be able to fly but not with her. HOWEVER, this may be me reading too far into things and trying desperately for some hope but if you put those two metaphors together it doesn’t exactly point towards Hiromi. If he Shin give sup flying it would be to be with Hiromi, but Noe said he could fly but somewhere else….however she was sad about it. I don’t’ know, perhaps I’m reading too far into these metaphors as it don’t make crystal clear sense either way, but they are defiantly one of the things I’m trying to pay attention to the most.