This episode has pretty much wrapped up both Kei and Miyako’s arcs. With two episodes to go, I don’t think they’re going to investigate Kyosuke and Kei’s relationship. It would look way too out of place anyway. I was extremely satisfied by this arc’s conclusion. I don’t know if this was an original ending for the anime or not, but whatever, it was beautifully done. Well played, SHAFT, well played.

The script work in this episode was simply brilliant. I really liked the part where Kei was making a series of statements while Hirono was acknowledging them one by one. The voice acting there was simply brilliant. The violin playing in the background only made that scene even more awesome. I like the Hirono x Miyako pairing and all but this part was simply too good for me to pretend/lie and say that the phone conversation the two of them had at the second half of this episode was better than the one Kei had with Hirono.

So, we are left with two episodes to wrap up Chihiro and Renji’s story here. I think two episodes is more than enough but what about Himura and Yuko’s story? Are they going to be addressed at all? Since they’re skipping out on Kyosuke and Kei’s story, does that mean they’re going to skip out on Himura and Yuko’s too? That would disappoint me greatly if that was the case.

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