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Rating: 9/10

Impressions:

With my preference of Miyako over Kei, I am of course extremely satisfied with the development between Miyako and Hiro. My fanboy side finds the beach scene immensely cute (and personally, I reckon the implied sex scene isn’t necessary…but then I guess it does serve as a trigger for her emotional breakdown at the end of the episode). I’m worried about how this story’s going to turn out though, as even with whatever’s going on between Kei and Kyousuke, her state after discovering what had happened between Miyako and Hiro doesn’t suggest she’s going to be changing who she likes. I hope Miyako and Hiro stay together at least…

Now for the other side of things—Renji’s finally grasping the true nature of things, and is rightly breaking down. Chihiro’s comparison between her memory loss and repeatedly dying is very true. Essentially, she loses her life every night when she goes to sleep, and starts again the next day. To others, if she remains the same, she can be seen as a continuing existence. But take an example where a person is killed, but is replaced by an almost perfect copy. To all those around him, it would seem like this person is still alive, when in reality, he’s not. But now, Renji has finally discovered that this person is actually dead (Chihiro).

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