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Poor Tayura.

Summary:

At the start of the new year, Kouta reminisces over the past year’s events and wonders how is grandparents must be. His thoughts are interrupted when Chizuru comes into his room to greet him, however, dressed in a kimono and wanting to spend time with him as his girlfriend. Kouta agrees that Chizuru’s kimono looks extremely well on her, but he quickly has her come under his kotatsu when she begins her typical acts. In the meantime, Tayura struggles about asking Akane out to the day’s events. While Kouta attempts to carry out his New Years activities, Chizuru only constantly interrupts him with her flirting. Chizuru eventually has Kouta remove her kimono, revealing that she is actually wearing a school swimsuit underneath. In other places, the other school students meet with each other for the day’s activities.

When Chizuru starts to prepare some food for Kouta, he starts to believe something like this isn’t so bad. Kouta finally expresses that he was happy that Chizuru came, and Chizuru takes the chance to present a game when the conversation runs silent. Lying that not following the game’s instructions would result in many horrible things, Chizuru successfully has Kouta massage her. After many moves allowing Chizuru to get close to Kouta, he starts to believe that she has altered the board. Chizuru stops Kouta from fixing the problem, but Nozomu appears before she can take action. Nozomu removes her own kimono through Chizuru’s example, but there is no school swimsuit underneath.

Both Chizuru and Nozomu accompany Kouta to the day’s festival later, acting in their usual ways. Tayura eventually catches up to the group, and since he is alone, he tags along. After the group receives varying fortunes, they meet Omi and Mio. The rest of their friends also appear to give greetings, but Akane has her usual warnings for Chizuru. To prevent the two from arguing any further, Kouta brings the two sake to drink. After several drinks, Akane becomes quite drunk. Tayura does his best to please her during the day’s activities, but she passes out before he can present her with a gift. The entire group decides to visit Kouta’s house at the end of the day, greatly disappointing Chizuru who had other plans.

Preview: Woah, ninja!

Impression:

Why is it that the people who want normal relationships in these types of shows always get screwed over? I’ll be rooting for Tayura from now on, since Akane is probably my favorite character in this show. As far as the New Years theme of the episode went, I thought it was done pretty well despite it getting pushed aside for the usual ecchi fanservice. This episode really felt like a Hidamari Sketch episode to me, even with the way some shots were done. This whole show just has a unique feel to it, and despite all the bad rap it’s getting, I have to appreciate it for that reason. I also loved things like the chibi transformations and the boys’ expressions while looking at their fortunes and the such. Starry eyes are always fun too. It looks like the next episode will be getting back to the main “plot”, with the introduction of yet another new character. I would say I’m expecting some type of twist, but I know the plot will just follow its usual formula.

Sorry this is late by the way, even though I doubt many of you care about hearing my excuses anymore. I was at a show last night, since that’s what us anime bloggers like to do - rock out. I was busy during the day too…and tired. Give me back my summer!