I really enjoyed this episode personally. Hiro and Miyako have a great chemistry together and I think they make for a very cute couple. I’m also still loving the artistic liberties that SHAFT is taking with these episodes. These obviously wouldn’t fit in your usual anime series but I think that they look great in ef.

I was actually taken aback by Kei’s lacking of cooking skills personally. I thought she knew what she was doing when she bought that cookbook…but, yeah. On the other hand, while Miyako also took the initiative to cook for Hiro, I was not surprised by the fact that her food was actually edible, oddly enough. Before I forget, I’d like to note that the scene of Hiro telling Miyako about the dangers of cooking improperly was absolutely hilarious.

With the strong focus on Hiro’s story this time around, we’re probably going to get a lot of Renji and Chihiro time next episode. I wouldn’t mind that at all as long as nothing “out of the ordinary” happens like what happened in this episode when Renji decided to ask Chihiro if he could kiss her. I was totally not expecting that request. He’s a brave man, that Renji.

While I’m sure we all threw up the ‘Navigator’ view once in a while back in the pre-3.2 days of Eclipse, I can’t say that I’ve opened it up much anymore. With the working set support in the ‘Project Explorer’ view, the ‘Navigator’ is just way too disorganized for me to stand. The only time I ever pull it up nowadays is for a quick view of all the files in my projects (usually for the .* resources that are hidden by default by filters). This is all fine and dandy for us veterans but the presence of two views that seem to offer identical but not actually identical features is a nightmare for new users.

So, if you will, please join the discussion on bug 208693 and voice your opinion on the topic!

I can’t get over how awesome the music from the Touhou games are. I’m really liking “おてんば恋娘” right now and I dare say that I’m probably spending too much time enjoying the tunes instead of working on my novel.