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Rating: 6.5/10

Impressions:

Ok, so the thing that got me very intrigued this episode was the little upskirt shot of Jun. It looks like he doesn’t have a crotch, so I’m going to just think of him as a girl now. How exactly does everyone know he’s a guy anyway? And what, does he change in the guys’ or girls’ change rooms. Does he go to the male or female toilets? Anyway, this episode the white haired girl is finally introduced. Her name is Shikimori Ibuki, and she’s a pretty good mage. She’s also quite the tsundere and very stubborn. It looks like she’ll be bowling next episode, and hopefully this will loosen her up. I think her voice is far too deep. It’s like Otome’s from Tsuyokiss; her voice was too deep as well. Well, it seems like everyone’s been introduced now. I can’t really remember well the last few episodes, but I know that after this Sumomo-centred episode, there’s still a Jun and Haruhi one, who are both quite important. Yuuma I think also needs one himself, but it’d be fine if his was just merged with Haruhi’s.

Speaking of those two, they haven’t made any progress since ages ago, which means that nothing is actually progressing each episode except a few main characters. This means the progression is taking big block steps and not moving fluidly; developing everyone little by little each episode. Basically, the only thing that happened this episode was the introduction of Ibuki and her slight warming up to Sumomo. Yuuma’s sister tried to become her friend by making her bento’s everyday, but Ibuki rejected them each time. After having a talk with Saya, Sumomo finds out about what Ibuki likes to eat and makes it for her the next day. However, Ibuki knocks it out of her hand when she is presented with it and scolds her. After Saya talks to Ibuki, she feels bad(?) and goes back to fix the spilt lunch with her magic. Then she eats it and exclaims how delicious it is! Well, maybe not ‘exclaim’…So, another useless episode with little Jun and little Haruhi x Yuuma. But it’s not exactly boring, and it’s not stupid, so I’m fine with watching it.

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