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「七咲逢編 最終章 コクハク」 (Nanasaki Ai-hen Saishuushou – Kokuhaku)
“Nanasaki Ai Final Chapter – Confession”
Between Ai and Junichi running the girls swim club’s oden booth and Itou Kanae walking away with the Miss Santa championship because Haruka was a no-show, the founder’s festival as a whole didn’t quite have much relationship-related development in it. The two of them were alone together, but too busy serving the endless line of customers that the other members of the swim team were bringing in. As such, there was never a Junichi x Ai moment to be seen in the first two-thirds of the episode, and instead we got some quirky humor from a traditional flavor test by the Tea Club’s Ruriko and Manaka, plus a hammered Takahashi-sensei not too long after.
Needless to say, it wasn’t quite what I was expecting from the big final chapter in Ai’s arc. The only thing keeping me hanging onto a great finish was the preview last time showing her at a hot spring with Junichi, and maybe the full-size Gundam that was on display. (Just maybe.) I wouldn’t say it was a bad start to the final episode in Ai’s route, but it sure went against my presumption last time that her relationship with Junichi was well ahead of the curve. The one thing that I can see transferring onto future episodes though was the focus on Tsukasa again, which gives a pretty unsettling feeling with the way she stares down Ai before finally smiling at her. We won’t get to see exactly what her peculiar behavior is alluding to until a good month later, but I’m already getting the impression that she’s secretly the jealous type. This is the first time I’ve felt that the writers are really pushing some cross-arc foreshadowing, so it’ll be interesting to see what we’re in store for in the final arc of this adaptation.
Aside from a brief cameo of a sub character named Kurosawa Noriko, i.e. the Ayatsuji Tsukasa rival of sorts, the remainder of the episode was more in line with what I was hoping to see. Oddly enough, I didn’t find myself ogling over the sight of Ai in nothing by a bath towel and lying about how she had her swimsuit on underneath, nor her eventual confession that she couldn’t even face Junichi to say. In retrospect, it was likely due to the order in which things happened, as I did get a better feel for the emotion involved when Junichi reciprocated those feelings and Ai drew him in closer before lunging in his arm and pressing her naked body against his. That scene actually had a much more sentimental feel to it than any sort of erotic one in my eyes, so it probably would have had more impact if she done that first and then confessed in his arms.
Had that happened, Ai would have given much better indication that she couldn’t contain her feelings for Junichi any longer and totally went out on a limb in hopes that he would accept them. This is Ai we’re talking about after all, and no man in his right mind would refuse if a girl like her confessed in such a manner. (I dare say he would have to be gay!) Instead, they went with Ai’s usual respectful attitude when it came to the confession where she remained at a distance and was expecting to be rejected. To that approach’s credit, it did continue to stress that Ai wasn’t too confident in herself and that definitely has a very cute side to it. In retrospect, Ai’s story actually felt like it hit the climax last episode when Junichi dove into the pool after her, and this last episode served as more of an epilogue to make their relationship official, which may also explain why I’m feeling it didn’t have as much impact. I’d probably feel differently if I could get in on that lap pillow though. Damn 2D, bring on Rihoko so I don’t have to see Junichi all lovey-dovey with Ai! >:(
Preview
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Hey, I’m wearing my swimsuit, sorry about that.
>:(
– 5 minutes later-
Just kidding
<:O
when she said she had her swimsuit on underneath, i took one look at her bare shoulders, pointed at my screen and shouted “LIAR!” she obviously wasn’t wearing her school swimsuit, and it seemed unlikely that she would have a strapless swimsuit just to conveniently hide under a towel. i’m a little disappointed in junichi not figuring that out, but he is pretty dumb.
He was also really trying to not look.
Nice ending.
It’s good they paid attention to the details such like the swimsuit marks:
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Peeping Deers spotted.
I don’t feel anything special with Ai’s confession at all…
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^She sure looks…sad. No one to accompany her?
I think my train of thought was lost when I saw her in a towel, but it’s too bad 2d ain’t real sometimes.
And, Ayatsuji does look terribly sad. Maybe she has feelings for Junichi? I can’t wait for her arc D:
Ayajitsu is one of the best heroines because you think she’s all charming and nice. Wait till you see what a cunning devil she is. XD
ANIME OF THE YEAR.
But seriously, the best arc so far. With drunk teachers, more Hibiki screentime, Yukana’s singing, and hot springs with actual bathing, what’s not to love about it? I want an Ai lap pillow!
dont forget Haruka’s drunk dance
Amazing arc and by far my favorite.
Swimsuit tan lines…….damn.
Hilarious how the Gundam started moving on its own as if it was hijacked (like that would ever happen)
Yeah, I don’t think a Kira Yamato could just waltz into the most secure ZAFT facility in the universe and steal a prototype nuclear-fission powered Gu….oh wait.
Problem there is that it resembled the original RX-78-2 Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam over anything AU-wise, lol.
That was a great arc. Ai’s a character that asserts herself a bit which is a nice change. The other plus about Kaoru and Ai’s arcs is didn’t have those absurd, palm face moments but they still did an arguably better job with humor and story telling.
Such a sad day. SO SAD… Last episode of Ai… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! They’re going to add in extra things like they did with the first dvd for Haruka, Kaoru and Sae right?
Yeah,they will add those extras.On a side note, I wish they made an omake where all the girls are vying for Junichi in a comic situation.
Didn’t know they added extra stuff for them…
They do, the last DVD/BD has a major bonus in the form of Show Spoiler ▼
But I guess most of the folks here already know it.
I think that those will be more like separate DVD/BD rather then just a bonus added on. They usually only have like 2 episodes on each DVD/BD (which is obviously less then they could fit) so it’s simply noway they will add several extra episodes just as a bonus.
i think i’m getting excited about tsukasa’s arc. man, what a foreshadowing. i wonder why they put some during ai’s arc.hmm..tsukasa intriques me to no end. and damn, HIBIKI!! of course, my love for HARUKA won’t be forgotten. WOOT! ditzy RIHOKO gets her arc next. i expect some good laughs from it nwei.
oh snap! why do i keep on butchering the words.DX
*intrigues..XD
ANyhow, i agree about how anti-climactic this arc ended.i mean, compared to the last 3’s end,it looks as if ai’s was downplayed.GAHH! nevermind..my main concern would be how come tsukasa was acting that way.guess, she’s the TRUE ENDING? Ahh..NO! scratch that.L0L.
Yes! Hibiki! lol
And what interests me the most about Rihoko’s arc is the fact that we rarely get that much interaction with her at all throughout the other arcs, even when she was talked to. Haruka, Kaoru, Sae, and Ai we all got pretty decent cameos of. All we got were little bits and pieces of her talking with other people, thus we don’t really know what to expect when it comes to getting with Junichi and everything.
This was an awesome end for what it’s worth. Yeah, we didn’t get the same feeling we got with Kaoru or Haruka. That’s because those arcs played more on the dependency on Juinchi, whereas Ai is fairly independent and shows her softer side when with him.
And yeah… poor Bambi is getting a lesson in love too early.
Ai is too freaking hot loooool. Button shirts, HNNNNNNNNNNNNG.
And I swear the closer two ppl are the best couple 😉 https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2004.jpg
https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2016.jpg lololol ah the sensei.
Aiiiiiii ftw, she’ll surely be missed ;A; ahhh can’t believe it’s over!
The Gundam model was weird…
Overall this arc was a appointment, Ai was one of the better girls, but alot of this episode felt like padding. The only decent payoff at the end was naked Ai. Kaoru is still my favorite arc, I had hoped this arc would be better.
Ai’s personality certainly gives her arc a unbelievably sweet and touching ending without it being totally mushy. To put it simple, she grows on you.
Definitely like how the sequence of the last episode was. It was all over the place, and Ai was n4kk3d :O.
From the least known (for me) character to one of my favorites.
Lap pillow with Ai?!?
Call in all the members of the FFF! We’ve gotten hang him at the gollows for that!
hahaha… nice suggestion there 🙂
FFF is a great force in the time of crisis indeed
Seems the cut the kinky stuff this time around. I can kind of understand that as it was pretty steamy and did pretty much make them a couple early on.
Did I just see Exia or RX-78 out there? 🙂
The last part of the episode was still epic 🙂 A great thank you to Ai’s grandfather for having that private hot spring 🙂
Swimsuit tan was epic 🙂 But Junichi is surely slow to figure out Ai has nothing underneath…
Lap pillow for the win…
My first thought was Exia.
it would be way cooler if they could build something like 00-quanta though… this makes me want to see the movie now 🙁
A bit disappointed in the last scene hmmph. She couldve at least call him by his name and not the same “senpai”. Skip the next arc pls lets move on to the Class rep arc lol. kiddin =P
All I can say is I can say its the best but I enjoyed it.
ackk… stupid me
I replied on the wrong person and even have a typo in my last sentence
was supposed to be:
“All I can say is its not the best but I enjoyed it”
Divine, you captured my words exactly with the festival – just wished there was more relationship/character development in that part. The hot springs scene was a nice finishing touch – I reckon it’s the best of all the girls we’ve seen thus far. I never really expected to see Nanasaki act the way she did throughout her arc – I guess that goes to show that you never should judge someone until you get to know them 😀
Now onto Rihoko’s arc! Perhaps my most-anticipated arc of all. I seem to have a soft spot for childhood friends. It’s sweet, I guess?
yeah, that’s true.. childhood friends tend to be unlucky (almost all).. so go rihoko. 🙂 but i like them all. i have a sweet spot for all of them. hahaha.
ah see i’m with you, i think she’s gonna surprise like Kaoru, i’m hoping for a heartfelt i’m on your side even though the world gives you a hard time angle, also Rihoko’s character design was in the promo shot of Divine’s preview actually caught my attention when i was checking out the animation style, girls with over size sweaters ftw!
Ahem…
drunk teacher going hnnnnngh at her dreams = WIN!
Miya snatching Sae for a sleepover = WIN!
Naked hotspring confession = ULTIMATE WIN! (nice tan lines too…) talk about steamy scene…
Ayatsuji-san seems to have most complicated personality of all the girls, expect some bumpy ride with her – but for now enjoy Rihoko clumsiness show.
I would’ve become a 10% Tomoki with the naked hotspring confession.
A very nice and sweet ending for Nanasaki.
Now I would like to see how Rihoko’s arc goes.
A story about childhood friends is very interesting and would even be better if is has some drama.
Awesome Hibiki 😀
https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2002.jpg
This episode proved another personal theory of mine:
Near-flawless characters can be really great. But it takes flaws and issues to draw out true awesomeness, and create the most intensive personal involvement.
Ai is near-flawless. She is independent, smart, kind, assertive, and she has a cute teasing streak. Perfect girlfriend material. You’re blessed if you find someone like her. And watching her eps were an all-smiles and no-wincing affair for me.
However, I can already predict that the Ayatsuji arc will create much stronger reactions from the viewers. Looking forward to her 😉
Oh trust me, Tsukasa is anything but flawless. It’s what makes her so interesting. Hence why I can’t wait for the next arc to end.
mandatory fap fap fap
Yukana really has a nice voice. But I’m looking forward to the next arc. Ryoko Shintani is one of my favorite seiyuu.
This makes up for last week’s hippie episode.
This episode was packed with pretty much everything without losing sight of the main characters. I can say… I am happy for kinky hot springs!
Ayatsuji and Ai made up for… what was it? whatever. Ah yes, did I smelt Ayatsuji’s arc?
I am truly interested in Rihoko’s weird friends, the long haired girl and the bespectacled girl who speaks in a VERY loud tone.
Oh! look at the way he is fondling Ai’s thigh! sure it is nice to have a girl huh!?
Ai lap pillow ftw. x] Ah, I wanna see Ayutsuji’s arc already. o-o
junichi’s such a lucky bastard….
https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2028.jpg
Just as planned.
if that was the actual plot line then Ayatsuji would have had to show up the misunderstood herione after all and save Junichi lol
lol at the gundam when it started to move. I guess it sensed some zaku’s near by.
How come there is no Hibiki path!?!?!?!? This is a travisty!
A sensei path would’ve been nice as well, kthx.
Agreed. The more I see Hibiki, the more I wish there was at least an extra arc with her. And come on, there’s gotta be an obligatory sensei path. It’s like…routine, lol.
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RX-78 GUNDAM or RX-0 Gundam Unicorn because it’s white
almost forgot, that mecha also appeared in Haruka Morishima Arc….
Dang if only it was sub in the morning(GMT +8:00)
Sae arc my favorite followed by Haruka and then the waitress. This was my least favorite of the arcs. Looking forward to next one with the clumsy girl Rihoko.
ahhh~ just like in the manga I’ve read, sweet ending indeed.
anyway, Rihoko next week! yay!
Anyone connected with Hibiki always ends up with towels and now no towels at the end…
I’m surprised that although all of them are super beautiful girls, NO ONE IS TAKEN YET that Junichi can take his time wiggle in their hearts.
https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2015.jpg
Can the creators please make an arc involving her? because I like her
The Game does have a teacher end.
http://pastebin.com/T97YkmaQ (major spoilers)
Damn, I want a lap pillow too! ლ(‘w’ლ)
Perfect ending episode for Ai, loved it! She was already my favorite girl just because of her personality, but this just made her pretty much a lock for #1! The hotspring scene was really cute and sexy at the same time, and even without a time-skip the arc ended nicely with a good sense of closure. I’m going to miss Ai next arc!!
Not bad. i mean “that was a great arc”. for me this is the best arc so far. as for me of course. i wonder how the osnanagimi-arc and Incou-arc will be. i think that Tsukasa Ayatsuji is just a ordinary girl because she see other girls very deeply. grr very hard to explain. looking forward to Rihoko Sakurai(Ryōko Shintani). Ryōko Shintani havent heared her voice again since i played galaxy angel visual novel. Milfeulle clumsy perso ≈ Rihoko clumsy peros. i wonder.
This was the best arc so far and I likes how it ended but I enjoyed the manga better. So if anyone would like to see more of Ai I would read Amagami Love Goes On!
My favourite arc so far, and only becouse Ai. She’s smart, cute, nice, ect.
Next is Rihoko… I just can’t imagine a plot-like plot with her, but that’s why I’m not a writer, just a bored scholar.
That aside, I’m now waiting for Tsukasa arc, becouse ******** (I don’t want to spoil anything)
Just hoping I can stop with the “Don’t confuse her with 3D gils” mantra, cause it’s getting troublesome to repeat it endlessly when I watch AmaSS.
Finally, I wander what would Tomoki do in that “hot spring situation”XD
Haruka is my favorite arc 🙂
but of course! HARUKA is just too AWESOME! her arc is my fav. too. L0L.
This was my favourite arc, i really don’t want to see it end. I was hoping they would should us a time skip in the future like with Haruka, but none the less I thought the ending was great.
Zaku helmet in Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai, legs, foot and the back of the head of a Gundam in Amagami SS. Just emphasizes more (to me, anyway) a) 00 movie still not subbed b) can hardly wait for more than a month for Unicorn (ep 2 this 30th) to be subbed
Love the whole episode, Ai the offensive girl.
This show works in mysterious ways… Exactly 6.48 minutes into every episode so far I’ve thought to myself over and over again “why the hell am I watching this?” … Only to find my answer in the second half of the episode… Particularly this one… HNNGGGHHHH
Exactly 6.48 minutes into every episode so far I’ve thought to myself over and over again “why the hell am I watching this?”
I think this answers your question…
cant wait till Ayatsuji’s arc >.< she seems pretty interesting from the first ep till now (interesting as in how little she gets involve, yet, involved.. if that make sense).
imo, morishima stole the stole with her gluttoness 😀
+1 for Ayatsuji.
Only problem is how they will manage to fit the more complex story of Ayatsuji into only 4 episodes…
Best arc evaaar
So the next ep they are doing a complete Role Reversal letting Rihoko take the lead? This could be fun.
The girl that won the Santa contest is Hot! I wonder if there is going to be special about her?
Probabaly get to see her a bit more next arc, she was the one with Rihoko a few times during Sae’s arc, like outside the restaurant Sae works at.
If a high school guy and a girl alone naked in the hot spring kissing, I am pretty sure it will lead to sex… Yes my mind is impure but come on be real in present day society unless they live isolated from the rest of the world they will know those stuff. Remember that Makoto from School Days, he screw everyone he could and ended up being stab. Anyway getting back to Amagami SS, did you see how Sai is so totally useless without her coach?
GUN….DAMU!!!!!
I rather enjoyed the pacing for this episode, the ending was sweet too. Like previously mentioned: I want an Ai lap pillow!
Is it me or do Ai’s breast look a bit bigger at the end of the episode? Or maybe the shadows just make them pop out more. Anyways! Looks like a great episode, can’t wait to see it myself! 🙂
Feeling the holidays! https://randomc.net/image/Amagami%20SS/Amagami%20SS%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2008.jpg
Wait a mint am missing something here.
Please tell me does this show go for one girl for a number of episodes and then stop the story there and start again with another chick?? or are all episodes connected in the story??
Please some 1 reply depending on what type of show it is I might watch it or might not.
mannnnn……… even though i love this ark i kinda hate the fact that the ending did not have a “10 years later scene” like in Haruka’s ark ( ok i will admit that i am a sucker for this kind of romantic stuff to the extent that i wanna know they are guaranteed a happy future together)
btw this ark is still my second favorite ( haruka is the Loveliest) pun intended.
ps: dun know u u guys know of not but apparently every ED single album they release has a character monologue for its respective char. i found Ai’s char monologue on UTW’s site and they have others too. (but Ai’s is the only 1 in vid format…. not even Haruka’s) below is the link to Ai’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepxgR6aeik&feature=player_embedded#!
Wow, that’s so sweHNNNNNNGGHH
I hope you’ve remebered Amagami SS episode 3, there’s a Gundam too before that
yay, i’m psyched. it’s finally Rihoko’s arc.
Say good bye to Ai, and welcome Rihoko instead. Don’t get me wrong, but I don’t feel motivated to see Rihoko’s arc after what we got with Nanasaki. Please, let me like her Kamisama.
lol at Gundam went berserker 🙂
Good thing I haven’t finished reading Amagami: Love Goes On! yet, or else I wouldn’t enjoy the TV adaptation of Ai’s arc.
A wasted Takahashi-sensei and the “Gundam” (or was it an Arm Slave?) were nice comedic distractions, but I liked how an oden bowl would be the key to smoothly defusing tension between Ai and Tsukasa. (At least for now — it is Ai’s arc after all.) And of course, I absolutely loved the last third of this episode. (The hot springs scene delivered! Hell yes!) Needless to say, we got our Squees, WAFFs, D’awwwwwwwws and HNNNNNNGs. Plus an interesting mix of scenes from Ai’s Best End and her not-so-Bad End. (I guess having alternate endings that all show how much she loves Junichi only reinforces her “Ai is love” image.)
Well, it’s a new arc next episode, and although it will feel like it’s in the way of Tsukasa’s arc, I hope Rihoko’s arc would prove to be fun to watch anyway.
Based on the game spoilers, this arc has a bad end?
There are bad ends for all the girls in the game, but that doesn’t mean there will be a bad end in the anime for anyone. None of the bad ends are School Days bad anyway, so no need to animate them really.
School Days bad ends FTW. Makoto deserves it though.
The only glaring bad ends come from Sae, Haruka and Tsukasa. Not School Days bad, yes, but those bad endings will make you feel like a heel. Meanwhile, Rihoko, Kaoru and Ai’s bad ends all involve forgiving Junichi somehow, so they’re not exactly that bad of an end.
Amen to alternate continuities… We can’t have the Amagami cast going “Nice Boat” on each other now, can we?
I wonder if we will get the manga special animated?
Show Spoiler ▼
Opps, wrong room…
The thing I still find it weird is Ai still call him Senpai in the end which is weird if they already gotta that close, should they be call each other by first name then.
One last thing I am sure all of us viewer wanna know is, whos was the girl that stood him up on last christmas.
But honestly if they follow the manga truthfully Ai arc would have been perfect, not that is bad in anime but just feel like something is missing.
The manga is not made directly off the original script which would be the PS2 game, in which arguably the Ayajitsu arc is the best and most fun because… well, you’ll find out.
Damn 2D, bring on Rihoko so I don’t have to see Junichi all lovey-dovey with Ai! >:(
my exact same thoughts. :))
but i disagree with what you said about how she should have confessed. i think it suits her well with how everything went.
Gahahaha, 101st! Sorry, I just had to do it. Anyway, I want more Ai. I have lost my reason for watching this show now (Ai). Ai is love.
the bad thing is the epiloge is the bad ending of the game lol