Honoka-chan hardly got any screentime or development in Ep 20 and 21 so I’ll just skip over them. In Ep 22, it seemed that Honoka-chan regressed rather than progressed, stuttering again during the track meet when she tried to make small talk with Yamato though her diagnosis of Yamato being far away was spot on.
The most intriguing thing for me in Ep 23 was actually if Miki was hitting on Yamato (when talking about her baton-pass training to the ex-captain) and was she jealous when talking to Yamato about his ambition to be No.1!? After being summoned by Honoka, Nana gives our favourite miko some good advice: Forget about Yamato. The most appropriate (Chinese) song that she could dedicated to Honoka would be Fish Leong’s Happy Breakup (though the Honoka of the Very Secret Diary universe might mishear a crucial line - a pun on “cold breeze” and “cool breeze”, the latter being Suzuka’s name): Continue reading ‘A Very Secret Song for Honoka (Suzuka 20-23)’