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Summary:

Momoka wakes with a usual uneasiness, wondering who she is exactly. She takes a walk outside while remembering a promise Haruhiko made to her, and is surprised to find Touka there with her. She explains that Haruhiko wanted to show her pink flowers, and expresses her uneasiness to Touka. Momoka thinks to herself that Touka only listened carefully to her, while observing his beautiful eyes. As she approaches him, Touka notices that Momoka is getting cold. He offers her his uniform, which Momoka believes has Touka’s smell. Momoka gets closer to Touka in search of his good fragrance, but Touka suggests in return that it is actually Momoka’s smell. As he gets closer to her, he accidentally bumps her cheek. Momoka cannot stop thinking about this for the next few days, seeing Touka in a different way. Momoka seems to be out of it while Touka talks to her, and she loses her strength after he touches her forehead to check if she has a fever. Makoto expresses her liking of Momoka as usual while walking home with her, but Momoka witnesses Asuna walking hand in hand with Touka before Makoto can suggest what Momoka is feeling towards him.

Momoka arrives home wondering why she is feeling so uneasy, and she is called by Yumiko. While being embraced by her, Momoka notices that Yumiko gives her a very assuring feeling. Yumiko invites Momoka and Touka into a room, where she plans to treat them like princesses. Taking out many colored cloths, she puts them on Momoka and Touka. They are also given jewelry, and the two put lipstick on each other’s lips. Of course, Momoka feels a bit taken back by this. Afterwards, Momoka expresses her confused feelings to Nene, and Nene tells Momoka that she is very in love with the person she is thinking about. She also tells her that what is important is the present time. Touka asks for some of Momoka’s time as she is walking by, and he takes her to a field to watch a sunset. As colors fill the area, Momoka notices that she can see the many flowers that she wanted to see. Momoka expresses that what is important is her feeling of being there with Touka, and that she is certainly alive. Momoka sheds tears as she thanks Touka, and he wipes them from her eyes. She thinks to herself that this kind Touka will never change.

Impression:

I loved this episode so much. I usually speed through the opening sequence quickly to get to the episode each week, but I noticed something quite different this time. I noticed that my raw wasn’t messed up as text was still colored, then it hit me. Touka Gettan was doing another wonderfully artistic episode. The majority of the episode was void of color, and the color isolation really made things stand out beautifully. I actually had some experience with color isolation in a video editing class that I took recently, which made me love this episode even more artistically. Not only that, but this episode was the Momoka centric episode that I was looking forward to, and it had plenty of Momoka x Touka action. Everyone should know by now that I love Momoka x Touka action. I would give a specific scene that I liked, but the truth is that I loved all of them. I will mention that Momoka’s philosophical dialog reminded me of NGE for a second, and that this episode really made her look more mature than usual. I guess that’s what love can do to a girl! I also loved the soundtrack to this episode. I’m not sure if some of it was in the OST, but to be honest I only listened to the OST once or twice. Like I mentioned before, Touka Gettan has me excited all over again, so I am absolutely looking forward to next week’s episode.