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「身体が、熱いんです……」 (Shintai ga, Atsuin Desu……)
“My Body is Hot……”
All this talk about Gentou and Akiho kissing on the legendary rendevous cape (ouse-misaki 逢瀬岬) during the first sunrise of the new year, and all we get from Yuuto and Haruka is a peck on the cheek. It was the perfect moment with the perfect setting. Can you say, weak sauce? -_-;
I jest, but it’s hard to overlook the opportunity they let slip by. It was also New Years of all things, following their first shrine visit of the year (hatsumoude 初詣で), where they both received awesome fortunes (courtesy of Mika and crew). While this outcome does keep things innocent between them, Haruka was feeling all hot and bothered lying on top of Yuuto in her underwear. Why she had to take off her kimono completely just to re-tie her obi is beyond me, but it did allow the two of them to get caught up in the moment. It’s a shame they’re never able to go through with a kiss though, and even more of a shame that I already know it’s not going to happen. They’ve teased us with this routine long enough that I’ve long given up on expecting anything out of it. Instead, I simply wait for how they’re going to be interrupted. Consequently, it was a banner falling on Yuuto’s head this time. Next time, it might be an airplane. Now that would be a real shocker!
The rest of the episode was pretty standard affair, with Haruka being dragged around by her juniors before finally getting to spend some time with Yuuto alone. The biggest surprise to me though was the appearance of Himemiya Miran in the actual show. For some reason or another, I’ve been under the impression that Himemiya Miran and the Chocolate Rockers are an actual pop group, but it turns out she’s a character created for the Nogizaka Haruka world. My misconception here has blinded me from realizing that it’s been Nabatame Hitomi singing the opening theme for both this series and the original. It’s pretty sad that I only realized this now too (and not a year ago), but I’ll cast that off as simply “not caring enough to bother taking notice”. Hitomi voices Yuuto’s alcohlic sister Ruko as well, so the thought of her being this anime persona as well was the farthest thing from my mind. In my defense though, Hitomi wasn’t explicitly credited in the original opening single. Anyway, Miran has a cameo here more than anything else, running into Yuuto and Haruka while hiding from her manager.
Lastly, it looks like Shiina isn’t completely down and out quite yet. Her new year’s fortune has her re-energized over a prospective sudden development in the romance department. Hopefully this translates into some more screentime for her at the very least, since she’s been sidelined for most of this sequel. In any case, it looks like the pace of the series has drifted well back to its season one roots, which is a nice change from their early flurry of fan-service.
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Looks like a good episode.
Shiina is still doesn’t stand a chance though. Any screen time she’ll have will be wasted screen time, but that is just my opinion.
Wow, I just learned a new word (yandere)!
yandere ftw
Lol, yandere.
They really kicked it up in this one. ~Yandere~ GDIT…
“All this talk about Gentou and Akiho kissing on the legendary rendevous cape (ouse-misaki 逢瀬岬) during the first sunrise of the new year, and all we get from Yuuto and Haruka is a peck on the cheek. It was the perfect moment with the perfect setting. Can you say, weak sauce? -_-;”
Yyyyyeeeah, I gotta admit, that was indeed a bit of a letdown. ^^;
Same here, they’ve been dragging with their relationship for so long that I was just counting down the seconds to when they’ll finally be interrupted.
For f***’s sake, just get on with it and start dating already. lol Even the girl’s father, supposedly the biggest opposition in these sort of comedies, has been pathetically nerfed by his wife, so what else are they waiting for?
I thought the singer of the OP sounded like Nabatame in the beginning, so it came as no surprise that it’s really her.
While Nabatame is used to doing wild and mature roles like Ruko, Yukiji from Hayate no Gotoku and Margery from Shana, she is just as capable of doing younger and “less wild” girls, like Yuma from ToHeart2 and Feena from Yoake (the anime with the concentric cabbages).
Though like Divine, I was lazy to do any further research before as well.
(The Japanese wikipedia entry has already credited her with the singing of the OP for the 1st series as well, also under the “Chocolate Rockers” name. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%83%E6%9C%A8%E5%9D%82%E6%98%A5%E9%A6%99%E3%81%AE%E7%A7%98%E5%AF%86 )
It’s not uncommon for singer seiyuus to assume a temporary group name for an anime OP/ED if they want to sound trendy. A recent example would be the K-ON OP and ED (credited to the “Sakura High Light Music Club”). Even the ED for this show is performed by the five girls (Noto, Satou, Shimizu, Goto and Ueda) under the group name “N’s”.
You would figure that with all the manga and anime that Haruka reads, she wouldn’t be that naive, unless she watches mainly children’s anime, she may not be totally aware of her feelings and what they mean. Of course, Yuuto’s indecisiveness doesn’t help matters.. Shiia on the other hand knows that she likes Yuuto and is more knowledgeable of the world and relationships. Shiia would have a good chance of winning Yuuto’s attention but we know she never will. She show is names Nogizaka Haruka after all. Plus Haruka is loaded but Yuuto doesn’t seem to let that effect his feelings.
Ow that was too close :3
https://randomc.net/image/Nogizaka%20Haruka%20no%20Himitsu/Nogizaka%20Haruka%20no%20Himitsu%20Purezza%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2023.jpg
Hinamori Amu… cameo? XD
A fanservice scene that works again. See, Diomedea? If you want fanservice, at least do it right and make sure it would make sense.
And hey, a kiss on the cheek is a start. At least, you know, it’s a kiss.
as long as it doesnt have the disappointment ending of the series like princess lover. u can count on me to watch this everyweek
LOL. That was so close. >_<
My GOD. The subs are taking forever!
It’s like the 12th and 8th episodes of Kanamemo all over again…
In case no one gets the reference: Kanamemo had subbed epiosdes uploaded by monday, but episode 8 took until wednesday, while episode 12 took until thursday.
I know it only passed one day, but still, it’s annoying.
Is it me, or did the animation look really stiff this week?
*sighs*
I found this episode to be a little predictable. It’s not bad actually but like Riddle said, when things finally look like it’s about to move on, you can count ‘3,2,1’ and hey, it’s the expected interruptions. I just hope it ends cleanly…
Mika and the maids may think they’re helping with the relationship, but it seems more to me like they’re only making Haruka and Yuuto more uncomfortable.