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Kei decides to go to Australia and see Chihiro, and we find out more about what happened in the past between Himura and Yuuko.

Impressions:

This episode was great. It revealed little by little some more things for both stories, and most surprising was actually that a large portion of this episode was focused on characters from the first season. They spent a lot of time on Kei and Kyosuke, and Kei seeing Chihiro which is pretty much separate from the two big stories this season has. A big question that was raised in this episode though was what the hell is it that Yuuko has in her bad. It was impotent enough to hit someone over, and for a character like her that doesn’t seem to be an easy thing to provoke. She also had a weird interaction with Amamiya-sensei about it, holding it up to his throat like it was some weapon. I really want to know what the hell that is.

I have to say I’m still a little bit confused as to where everyone actually is, and it was always that way. When I first watched the first season, I didn’t think that any of it took place outside of Japan. But now it seems they are revealing, and that it’s important, that half of the story takes place in Japan, the other half in Australia. It seems that Chihiro and Renji were always in Australia. That then means that both Himura and Kuze, are in Australia too, since adult Himura takes care of Chihiro, Renji talked to Himura several times in first season, and Kuze is their neighbor. That also fits with this season’s present, of adult Himura and adult Kuze talking to each other. That means Nagi, Kei, and Miya throughout the first season were in Japan. Which explains why the letter Kuze got earlier in this season from Nagi was an international mail. Then I guess Mizuki recently moved to Australia, seemingly at the beginning of second season. Therefore, it seems that Yuuko is always, or has always been, in Japan. As in the first season she talked to Miya and Hiro, but never Renji. That begs the question, again, as to what the hell happened in the present day between Yuuko and Himura, but more on that in the next paragraph.

So, WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YUUKO!? Throughout the first season, not knowing anything about her, I thought Yuuko was a kind of metaphor, people talking to themselves or their inner thoughts, and so on. She appeared out of no where after all, seemed to have profound things to say, and disappeared into nothing as well. However we didn’t see any of that…Until now. In this episode when adult Yuuko was talking with Kei, we actually see her vanish into nothing but feathers….WHAT THE FUCK!? Is she dead or something? We never see her do anything in the present other then talk, really. She seems to always be based in Japan though, while Himura, adult Himura, has always been shown in Australia. Yet in the first season they are both shown in identical looking churches simply saying that they are waiting for someone. It’s very intriguing. Right now, I do have to say Yuuko’s story seems like it will be the better story or more interesting story, however at the current moment Kuze’s is more interesting simply because things are happening with it. Yuuko’s story is too shrouded in mystery to be great yet, but I can easily see it becoming great.