Wait a moment. I'm seeing sparkles. That's never a good sign in a show.
What They Say
Episode 7: “It Might Have Gone in…”
Early in New Years, Shiina sprains her foot. She hurt it while cooking for Yuuto, who, a day before, had found the hair clip that she dropped in the river. Sawamura and Abina comes to visit poor Shiina, but they bring Yuuto along as a surprise. After having a fun time together, everyone goes home, but Yuuto comes back, worried about Shiina. Yuuto makes dinner for Shiina, whose foot still hurts. It’s quite a sweet moment, and Shiina, who is interested in Yuuto, takes pleasure in it.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Ah, poor Shiina. The third wheel in the relationship of Yuuto and Haruka, she longs for his touch, but he's just out of reach.
Except for today. For today, while Shiina was supposed to met with a friend, her friend canceled and that leaves Shiina alone. Surprisingly, she runs into Yuuto, and the two walk around town together, as Yuuto is returning home with groceries for his worthless sister and her drinking buddy. While they are walking together, Shiina's special hairclip gets lost in a stream, and Yuuto, even though it is very cold out, walks into the water to get it. It's a heartwarming moment that affects Shiina very strongly.
And so, she decides to do some cooking, since, as we know in anime, the highest worth of a woman is her ability to cook for her would-be man (how very enlightened and modern). Unfortunately, while Shiina is doing a little happy dance, she kicks her foot into some furniture and injures herself. It would look to be a bad start to the year.
Except that when her friends Ryouko and Mai come over to visit her, they bring along none other than Yuuto. While visiting, they play a card game in which the loser has to pay a penalty for losing. Yuuto, naturally, loses, and Ryouko forces him to give the three girls massages. Unexpectedly, he appears to be very good at it. And so the three girls, especially Shiina, get a rather sensual massage. The trio leave, but then Yuuto comes back to help Shiina, since he's worried about her. And so, Yuuto stays to make dinner for Shiina, who can't really do too much for herself because of her injury.
Such a nice guy. And gosh darn it, Shiina is so cute. They make such a nice couple. Except that…isn't there already an official couple in this show?
In Summary:
It's nice that we got to see a little more of Shiina, the potential rival for Yuuto's affections, though he's largely oblivious to her feelings for him. So, we get to see further into Shiina's yearnings for him, while also being provided with yet more evidence of Yuuto's basic kindness and decency (if he were any nicer, it would be revolting). There's some nice humor here, and a whole big heaping helping of schmaltzy romance, even if it is largely all a matter of one-sided yearnings, not that Yuuto is unaware of Shiina's physical charms. What comes of this is hard to say, for at the end, we see Yuuto walking with Haruka as normal.
Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
Review Equipment
Apple Mac Mini with 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
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