def one of my favs of the season.

mentioned last week how i liked tsubaki’s confession scene and i like its continuation here. kvin from sakugablog has a twitter thread about this anime and mentions the weird way this show uses the traditional shoujo anime “sparkles” that float around the screen and act as transitions, using the beer from the beginning of the series of as an example. i liked how the tears were this episode’s usage of the shoujo sparkles and in particular, there was that one tear that floated in front of the flashbacks.

how runa was animated throughout the dinner was really fun. my favorite bit was when akane was holding runa up and had her hand over her mouth to keep her quiet and runa is just hanging there.

doesn’t feel like a show i should hold my breath for a s2 and things feel nicely tied up and full circle here, but it’d be a pleasant surprise. in any case, it’d be fun to see inori minase in more roles that use this voice (although i do like her usual asmr-y or lively genki voice roles).