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Himura takes Yuuko out to buy new shoes, and Kuze tells Mizuki that there can be nothing between them.

Impressions:

This episode was pretty good. There wasn’t actually anything too amazingly shocking or mind blowing about it, but it did set up some very interesting questions about how things are and how they will become. The Kuze situation hasn’t changed too much. It still poses the big question of what Mizuki and Kuze are going to do with their relationship. There isn’t anything they can do to stop Kuze’s death so either they aren’t together, or they are and then Kuze dies. That’s really all there is too it, however HOW that affects them, will be interesting because the end result, the non emotional aspect of this conflict, is already set in stone. I’m also worried about what the hell is up with that teacher. That scene of him smoking in the doorway with Yuuko in her pajamas kind of freaked me out, making me thing there is something not quite right going on between them. Plus the talk he had with Himura seemed a bit too odd. I’m sure her connection with him will have an effect on the Himura/Yuuko story.

It was fun seeing Hiro and Miya in this episode. I just hope that now that they’ve showed them, and Chihiro too, that they will show them again. Hopefully they will include them somehow. However at the same time, I do realize that they aren’t the main focus of this series, so they can’t have too big of a part in this series without negatively impacting things. It did turn out that Nagi was Hiro’s sister, so it was interesting to see that finally get shown. I do wonder if that is how Yuuko came to appear in front of Hiro and Miya at several times throughout the first series, and then in one scene in this series. She seemed to randomly appear, giving advice, and until I saw this series I thought there was a possibility she wasn’t even real, some metaphor, but she is and I’m wondering how she came to know the people. It seems too odd for a random person to appear, give you important advice, and you actually listen.