Anyway, methinks Kagami has a bit of an issue with admitting she, too, has a wistful, romantic etc. side. (Especially to Konata, who’s all too willing to make fun of it especially given Kagami’s usual haughty dismissal of such “silly stuff”.) Or that Konata’s pretty much her best and most important friend. I’d say all that ties to her minor obsession with maintaining a (self-) image of level-headed no-nonsense rationality and reliability, which “role” she’s probably been playing so long (quite possibly at times in direct denial of what she’d *really* want to do or be) that she has no real idea of how to behave otherwise. She also seems to have a general problem with admitting any kind of “weakness” (which she seems to define rather widely), which hints of possible insecurity issues. Could well be that a central reason to why she sticks to her guns so stubbornly in regards to that front (and in spite of full well knowing her close associates full well know it’s bit of a Potemkin village) is that it’s the only yardstick she has to define herself by – and unconsciously fears that should she let it slip completely there wouldn’t be much left underneath. A troubling enough idea for anyone, nevermind now a teenager (as some degree of identity crisis and angst is pretty much part of the textbook definition of that age).

@Zyl: Alas, I can’t claim credit for the CHILD reference thingy. It’s one from under Everything Else I Need To Know I Picked Up From Okazu… ^_^;

Oh, and “Rice cake goes whee!” has to be one of the Defining Tsukasa Moments. It crystallizes something very essential about her, methinks. :3
(It also reminds me of Fuuka’s random magnificiently bad puns in Yotsuba&!; as one scanlator put it, “she’s just awesome like that.”)

Side note: I actually managed to miss a good portion of the in-your-face Keroro reference arc. Shameful. I must clearly train more.