Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Part 2

the send-off assembly shot of Saku's face when the baseball captain speaks. no dialogue needed. you just know summer is about to drag something painful back out of him

Haru turning into this cold captain persona after the Ashi loss is going to make the summer arc rough in a good way but also I miss her being loud and happy. Her teammates flinching at her is a bad sign

I did not expect the childhood flashbacks to hit this hard. The festival night with the ladder and the ramune and her promising to be his bride wrecked me. All this time she knew and just kept it quiet

Ten year promise and she tells him his proposal better count. Asuka does not do anything halfway. Also she knew who he was since the riverbank last September and said nothing the whole time

What got me is Saku realizing he can't fix everything for people. He just had to sit there and watch Asuka fight her own battle. That's a different kind of growing up

the summer festival flashback looked genuinely dreamy. soft light and the ramune bottle and the moon over the shrine. animation team put in work on the nostalgic parts

Saku bursting through that door yelling that a dream's end should be decided by oneself. Been waiting for him to actually use all that confidence for someone else instead of himself

The father having a secret rock musician past is the detail that saved this whole confrontation. He wasn't just a wall. He was a guy who gave up and hated seeing her do the thing he couldn't

Asuka telling her dad she'll become the wind that blows toward tomorrow and he just starts laughing. That whole room flipping from a standoff to something warm felt earned

Little Asuka calling him Saku-nii broke me a little. That porch scene where she asks to not be his senior for just a moment hit way harder than I expected

Nanase and the Papico. she clocks exactly what Saku is hiding about the assembly while he is busy playing the cheerful one. she reads him easier than anyone else on screen

that Mai Todo monologue at the start about being her own best friend and the red flame going out got me. a whole episode of people quietly terrified of losing themselves and it lands

some fans found the moon line too poetic but I sat there grinning like an idiot. Saku saying she was the shining moon back to her when she said he was hers. that whole classroom scene wrecked me

the Asuka and Saku riverbed talk is the part this show keeps doing and it works for me but the pretend-love monologues are starting to feel like they're reading poetry at each other instead of talking

I can't stop thinking about Yua saying she realized she was only at that level if she could accept losing to Nanase. that line explains so much about every girl in this show and it broke me a little

The moment her dad just starts laughing after she yells that she is the wind of tomorrow. That whole confession turning into him admitting he wanted to be a rock musician was the part that got me

I came for the basketball rivalry and somehow ended up attached to Yua and her saxophone promise in one episode. she said she'd be by his side more than anyone and I sat there like oh no that's a whole character now

Saku cleaning the pool with Umi for getting chewed out by Wataya-sensei was the funniest punishment setup. those two bickering over whether the height difference is fatal too

Episode ini sepertinya menjadi awal dari Haru Aomi Arc. Untuk sekarang, episodenya masih tergolong decent. Belum ada kejadian yang spesial, tetapi mungkin memang wajar karena arcnya baru dimulai. Namun, aku penasaran dengan masa lalu Chito di klub baseball.

Episode ini masih melanjutkan Asuka Arc di akhir part 1, dengan Saku dan Asuka yang kabur bersama. Sebagian besar episode berisi momen kencan, which is very cute. Namun, entah kenapa, ada kesan sedih, terutama saat mendengar monolog Saku. Dialognya ditulis dengan baik. Ada beberapa adegan yang juga sangat bagus. Memang, perkembangan ceritanya terasa lambat, tetapi sejauh ini masih tetap menarik. Overall, a good episode with a bittersweet feeling.