With Nao’s help, Arika lands a job on the castle construction site. She unwittingly touches Mashiro’s rawest nerve but saves her from another Nagi trap. With Mikoto, they enter the secret passage that Shizuru had stopped Rado from exploring and find an organ that shatters Arika’s coral gem, Mashiro’s ring, Natsuki’s wine glass etc etc., sends a big beam up into the sky to be seen by Miyu (I bet her little bird is called Alyssa) and then reveals a Mikoto-shaped spirit. Black Letter Man No.2 attacks them with his Slave but Nina uses two gems from her pendant to power up the Blue Sky Sapphire Robe FTW. By cooperating and forming a contract to survive the ordeal, Arika and Mashiro establish a warm rapport. See also: Kurogane, Random Curiosity, the usagi incidents. Continue reading ‘Mai Otome 07′
Lisianthus and Nerine use emotional blackmail to force Rin to ask Asa out on a date. Ituski ups the ante by planning a date for them to Cupid Land. Rin’s absorption with trying to stick to the plan only results in Asa becoming acutely aware of his unease. She tries her best to have fun with him but finally gets angry with Rin when he says that he went on this date with her for Sia and Nerine’s sake. See Omni for his review and screencaps.
A bit surprised that the opening and half-way eye catches reverted to the Happy Fun pre-Ep 12 ones, given that this episode was emotionally quite heavy. The next episode will probably see a return to the black background with shimmering episode title and nekkid girls eye-catch.
Analysis, speculation on Asa vs. Kaede and 117 screencaps follow. Continue reading ‘SHUFFLE! 18′