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Mei comes back for a visit and tries to get Nagsia and Tomoya to act closer in their relationship.

Impressions:

I do want to say I still consider episode 22 the last episode, since this one is even labeled as “Extra Episode” but this was still a very nice addition. I was really surprised because I thought this would be a lot more of some comedy only OVA like episode but instead it really was more like a 23^rd episode. It wasn’t an OVA, it really was an episode that completely came after the last episode and dealt with the romance they left off with. I’m just surprised and extremely pleased with the amount of romance focus this had and how it really focused on something that affected more or less the whole series and wasn’t just some extremely random and pointless comedy bit.

I absolutely loved Mei to death. She is one of my favorite characters in this show, and this doesn’t even have much to do with her being a loli. I just thought she was absolutely hilarious, the way she got customers to the store by saying there was a cute girl there and then mischievously saying that people will come bringing interested was great. It wasn’t just something where she didn’t know that that would draw in those kinds of people; she knew the guys would fall for something like that. Very cleaver and awesome. Plus her plan and script for Nagisa was great. Although in the end it is better for her to take it slowly and be herself it was still great. The plan thing in general, not even regarding Mei, was absolutely hilarious. I found myself continuously laughing and just kind of chuckling at how Nagisa was acting. It was extremely cute to see Nagisa act that way. She was incredibly cute trying to do these things she was embarrassed about herself and doing several clichéd things, saying she screwed up, and trying again.

I’ll have a separate post talking about After Story soon, so no comments on it being revealed at the end of this episode here.