The Ramparts of Ice Season 2

everyone calling Momoka the devil but the show wrote her exactly like a real insecure high schooler who needs to announce her win. that is way scarier than a cartoon villain would be

Koyuki crying harder than Amamiya while handing him the handkerchief broke me a little. She's comforting him about the exact pain she's carrying. That's the whole show in one beat

Koyuki holding his hand in the crowd and then just freezing up about it later in front of Tsukiko is the most painful thing this show has done yet. She spent the whole night fighting herself and lost

the picture book coloring during the emotional stretches really got me. it makes the sad parts feel like a memory you can't quite hold onto

What would you even be without me is such a nasty thing to say and then they just laugh it off at the end? Did not sit right with me at all

That post credit bit with Miki staring at Minato in the photo is going to live in my head rent free. She's about to ruin something and nobody's ready

Tsukiko reading Koyuki to filth about her own distance causing Minato to drift is the push this show needed. Somebody had to say it out loud

The Kaito sendoff at the train station got me. His brother thanking him for being the only reason he didn't feel alone in that house. That's the kind of line that reframes everything Minato does now

Yota and Koyuki winning that air hockey game while Miki watched from the side was painful to sit through. Everyone is paired off wrong and they all know it

I'm split on this one. Momoka's childhood got me feeling for her and her whole trophy-girl backstory made sense. But then her inner monologue about never letting Minato go flipped it right back to unsettling. Sympathetic and scary at the same time and I don't know what to do with that

Miki lying on her bed then immediately doing a workout to escape her own thoughts is such a specific teenage thing. Girl is fighting her feelings with cardio and losing

The sweater thing ruined me. He wiped Miki's tears without a thought but stops himself with Koyuki because it might be dirty. That pause said more than any confession could

Momoka defenders need to explain to me how someone clocking that her boyfriend's kindness is a wall and then deciding to grip harder is healthy. She's writing her own tragedy and blaming him for it

That moment on the platform with Kaito got me bad. The older brother thanking the younger one for keeping him from being alone in that house. Did not expect to be weeping over a train scene at 2am

I owe Minato an apology. I spent all last season calling him pushy and now I find out he learned to be everyone's caretaker because his house was a war zone. The shot of him quietly eating while his family fell apart broke me.

Fun watch

Tsukiko telling Koyuki to her face that her own walls caused this mess was the slap the whole fandom needed. Not gentle but someone had to say it

The playground shouting match got me and the bit where Igarashi actually insists he was crazy about her back then is what saved it for me. Leaves you feeling like two kids finally cleaned out an old wound

I came into this episode ready to keep hating Igarashi and now I kind of want him to be happy? The bench scene where he finally admits she was just a fantasy to him got me. That apology without apologizing thing he does

the kids silently watching them scream at each other in the playground is the funniest thing this show has done. Igarashi yelling about being crazy about her while a bunch of third graders stare. perfect