you really think so?
Phew! Finally caught up! The firefly-in-flower thing was absolutely gorgeous and so romantic. And the scene parallels the one in the OP - with the latter showing the red thread which many Northeast Asian cultures use to depict the fated love between a couple. Feel so sorry for Honoka-chan but she’s put up a good fight, now all that remains to see how she’ll lose Yamato and how badly she’ll be hurt. Sigh.
Yamato and Honoka-chan are now officially a couple. The rest of the gang finds out - Ninja Miki overhears, Yasunobu observes and Daimyo Suzuka Asahina is reluctantly informed of this latest development by her faithful, beautiful but unfortunately no-yuri-crush-on-her camo-lovin’ shinobi spy. Honoka-chan confesses to stalking Yamato and later gives him a token to mark him as her property. However events intervene and tests Yamato’s resolve while fraying Honoka-chan’s nerves.
While I do broadly agree that Yamato being a chump by treating Honoka-chan as a consolation prize, I also can’t get too peeved with him since it is well-established that he reacts to the immediate situation without thinking about its consequences. Also after being rejected thrice already, he has started to see Suzuka as being out of reach with her serious attitude towards the regional tournament and her third place 173 cm high jump.
This was the episode that caused me to jump onto the bandwagon. More appropriate title might have been: Honoka Strikes! Sub-title: And the attack of the bukkake carp. Further note: At the pond, Honoka-chan says, "Koi ireu deshou?" which means "There are carp here, aren’t there?" but "koi" is also a synonym for "love".
I also particularly enjoyed Ren and Kabitzin’s comments on Suzuka and Honoka’s fashion styles.
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Ep 02. Saw Akitsuki-kun at our shrine today! Very good. He didn’t see me in my miko outfit. Not so good. And he was eating croquettes with some girl. Time to go for practice with Beretta-san in the sewers again. Not Akitsuki-kun’s girlfriend yet.
Ep 03. Akitsuki-kun is the same class as me. Yay! But he turned down my okonomiyaki invitation to run errands with Asahina-san and ended up catching a cold. Would have started plotting to get rid of her but it gave me the perfect opportunity to visit a bedridden Akitsuki-kun. Now I know where he lives, thanks for Hattori-kun. But turns out *that* woman is living next to him. Attempt to seduce Akitsuki-kun with cooking was ruined by Hattori-kun and Saotome-san. Wanted to introduce them to Beretta-san for first and last time right there and then but don’t think Akitsuki-kun would have liked the mess. Still not Akitsuki-kun’s girlfriend yet.
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