EPISODE CONTEXT

Episode 39 arrives directly after the emotional milestone of the characters' graduation in Episode 38, functioning as a structured cooldown before the series shifts into its final stretch of side stories and expanded character work. As a confirmed recap episode, it sits outside the main narrative thrust but serves as a tonal bridge between the concluded school arc and the looser, character-focused episodes that follow. The remaining eight episodes move beyond the central storyline, making this a natural, if unhurried, dividing line in the series.