The S.A. gets invited to Sakura’s school festival.
Impressions:
This episode was great. This show has kind of jumped back into being a lot better then it previously was. Before it suffered a lot from fluff episodes and having the progress made be erased at the end. While that’s still the case more or less for Kei and Hikari, this show has been very interesting regarding Akira. Hell, its almost as if she’s the main character, honestly it’s the most interesting part of this series and I could see this series being good, if slightly shorter, without any focus on Hikari and Kei at all. First they had the history of Akira and Yahiro, and Yahiro actually not being mean, and now we have her dealing with her feelings for Tadase and having to go the marriage interview, while at the same time I don’t know who to cheer for, Tadase or Yahiro. At first it seemed Yahrio was bad but he became a great person when it was revealed he would rather be hated by the person he likes then have that person be hurt by others. I feel sorry for him seeing him not be with her, but at the same time I want Tadase to win as he too has a history with her and she seems to like him. I’m really interested in this series mainly just for that story.
The Hikari and Kei bit is almost not even being touched on at all, but as I said if they keep an interesting focus on Akira, I don’t mind. The “date” they went on never lead anywhere, and they haven’t once actually talked about their feelings seriously. I’ve effectively given up on them and instead am basing this show’s quality on the Akira bit.
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Honestly have been on Tadashi’s side. He can be dense like Hikari, but always tries to help. Like in the previous episodes even if its a complicated situation he goes for the simple approach of just going to apologize. Just in this case he has completely been missing how Akira feels. Really hit home in this one how she has fallen for him, but it will take some directness to settle things. At least the slap at the end sent a real message. Sure he gets hit a lot, but this was different.
I’m just glad Yahiro is improving. Either making yourself a villain to protect someone else or just messing with people’s lives isn’t going to make you a likable character. Its certainly a sacrifice to hurt yourself to protect someone’s feelings. But in the end your hurting that person still by making them have a bad opinion of you. He’s done a good job in this one in terms of mending the relationship with Akira that had been badly damaged over the years. Long as she doesn’t hate him, I think its a win for him.
I’ll put the relationship bit with Tadashi. Honestly though I’m liking this kind of stuff far more than the Hikari and Kei stuff.