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Even for a series that soft-pedals the conflict as much as this one does, what passed for drama this week was really a tempest in a teapot.
It looked for a while as if we might get a Miu-centric episode this week, as we found out in the beginning that her animal rescue club was in danger of being axed by the school because it was encouraging students to keep pets on campus. That would have been nice for me as Miu is my favorite route here, but alas things shifted to the likable but much less interesting Angie for the rest of the episode. At the very least, I love hearing Japanese actors pronounce “Angie” and I could listen to it for hours. As for the content of the episode itself…
More so than in quite a while I find myself honestly, genuinely confused by what was happening for much of the episode. I don’t really get why Angie was so distraught when she bumped into Uryuu and lost her little maid tiara. I don’t really understand all the talk of a maid competition and how that got started, and just exactly what got Angie off on a bender about Shingo-san being her “rival” as a maid. So the payoff at the end felt a little forced, though I think the implications are obvious enough – when Angie says she wants Shingo-san to be her master, she wants more than a master.
Much more obvious were the continuing allusions to Shingo’s character from Sena and Angie. He’s in a little bit of danger of getting a halo the way things are going, but it is refreshing to see a male lead in one of these things who’s genuinely kind, smart, mild-mannered and not oversexed. I thought the little scene where he gently nudged the desks together before Mukunashi (himself a pleasantly normal and considerate lad) walked in and slammed his desk into the group was a nicely subtle way for Sena to notice just how different Uryuu is from the others guys. That was really the theme here, how Uryuu is special, and though Sena and Angie were seeing it in different ways I think they were both ultimately seeing the same thing.
I’m still not sure if the anime is going to go through the motions of exploring the other girls as serious possibilities, or simply acknowledge the inevitability of the Sena route and let things runs their course. We got a tease of an Angie route this ep, and it looks like a tease for a Sana route will come next week, but I don’t know that they’ll ever be explored as real alternatives.
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belatkuro
November 4, 2011 at 4:49 amWas that the implication of those desks part? Thought it was a random part. Or I didnt just get it. And I find it weird that these girls generalize that he's different just because he's nice to them when it could be that the other males could have been just as nice given the same chance. Uryuu's the protagonist I guess…
I felt like this was a part of another route and they're mixing stuff up and I was right. I read in MAL forums that they're kind of like doing it Clannad s1 style. Mixing up routes but eventually ending up with the main heroine at the end. May work or not but with how this episode felt rushed and forced I'm not so sure.
djmaca
November 4, 2011 at 4:59 amhttp://lh3.ggpht.com/-39WJPQBBrho/TrMLFz7wUHI/AAAAAAAAZ0I/Ax9y-JEPNBE/%25255BZenyaku-ACIFT%25255D%252520Mashiro-Iro%252520Symphony%252520-%25252005%252520%25255B720p%252520h264%252520AAC%25255D%252520%25255B7A140642%25255D.mkv_snapshot_06.28_%25255B2011.11.03_14.11.26%25255D_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800
Nice LOLFace. I like their format on giving each girl some screen time every episode rather than how it was one girl per arc in say, Amagami or Yosuga No Sora. Nice episode, but aren't they going too fast?
Fencedude
November 4, 2011 at 7:30 amI really liked how they're developing Airi. It really is apparent why she's starting to like Shingo, and we're getting to see her dealing with the feelings developing. Now, the show would become an instant classic if they hook up before the end, but I'm not going to count on it. But damn that would be awesome.
As for the rest, Ange's story is…meh. Whatever. Who cares? Sana toned back down, she's still got a mouth (though noting compared to certain other characters this season) but her only big explosion was against Ange, and considering how tactful Ange was trying to be, it seems Sana's just got a hair-trigger on a few things, and will lash out at anyone who treads on them. Identified subjects include Miu~~ and her boobs.
Looks like we'll get some service next time, which is nice. The show is very pleasant, but it is an eroge adaption, so I expect some goddamn skin occasionally.
deafvader
November 5, 2011 at 10:00 am@Enzo: At the end Angie uses the word Danna for Master. Like Goshujin, it means both "master", "master of the house", and "husband".
admin
November 5, 2011 at 9:57 pmThanks – good clarification.
elior
November 7, 2011 at 9:54 amlooks like we will have a little fanservice in this week episode