Shigofumi gets the KimiAru treatment this week and decides to include some yuri as well… though don’t expect it to be shown in the same comical way.

Flavor: Sweet

So, this week’s story is about a lesbian tennis player whose mother, after finding herself a new man, abandoned her when she was young… but now she’s dead and she decided to send her last letter to her daughter. The whole episode deals with the girl refusing to accept the letter and Fumika following her around trying to complete her job, so it wasn’t as interesting as previous episodes… but I, personally, thought it was still quite good. I think it’d have turned out better if they had given the yuri stuff more relevance to the overall story, though, since it’s like the same thing could have been done even without the girls love theme.

Anyways, in the end, the lover of the girl convinces her to read the letter and she discovers that her mother had been worrying about her all along… like she’d even secretly go to her tennis matches and stuff. So, yeah, we got a happy ending this time. Hurray.

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Flavor: Mild

Geez, I can’t believe they ruined this scene like that. I was really looking forward to this episode since someone who played the game told me that we were going to get the Nagisa x Tomoya confession this week, but it seems that KyoAni thought that it was too soon for the raburabu stuff to get started, so they decided to screw us Nagisa fans by letting Kyou interrupt the scene with a *****y pointless rant for now. Yeah, I know it’s pretty much confirmed that Nagisa and Tomoya will eventually end up together, but I still found this awfully disappointing.

Well, at least the rest of the episode was quite enjoyable. I liked seeing both Tomoyo and serious Sunohara getting more screen time, though I’m still annoyed at the fact that they keep getting Fuuko out of her usual staying-in-a-coma routine to place her in such an useless and unfunny gag. Also, they finally showed yet another Yukari Tamura loli character Sunohara’s sister this week, so it seems they’ll be focusing on a non-main story arc this time… which is kinda weird considering how much material hasn’t been covered yet and how just nine episodes are left to air from this series.

Yes, I’m talking about the floating shiny dangos.

I’m happy we finally got Kotomi’s conclusion this week, since I was starting to get sort of tired of this arc. Anyways, I didn’t like it as much as Fuuko’s ending, but it was pretty good nonetheless. Just like the last time, this episode was filled with a nice amount of both sad and lovely scenes, but in this case the tear-jerking moments weren’t enough to get me depressed. Still, I’m glad they managed to cover most (if not all) of the stuff that was left unanswered from last week.

Also, I particularly loled at the whole briefcase-passed-on-until-it-got-to-Japan stuff. I thought they’d end the scene with someone saying “miracles do happen!”, but I guess that, in a world where -ghost girls handing out starfish carvings- aren’t that rare, the idea of a teddy bear getting a free tour around the world and reaching its owner completely safe doesn’t sound all that amazing.

Overall, even with all the silly things and lack of tears, it was another great week for CLANNAD. I’m not really sure whose story arc are we entering now, though, so I’m once again looking forward to the next episode.

Also, nooooooo~

Flavor: Sweet

Hah, things are starting to get more interesting. This time, the episode was focused on Hinata and her *****y attempts at snatching Takuma from Hayami. Seriously, after watching this, my hate for this girl has increased by a lot and now it’s over nine thousand.

We also got to see some more flashbacks, which sort of reveal that Hinata stopped being friends with Hayami because the rest of the villagers were already in bad terms with the Kohinata family, but they still haven’t shown us the reason behind all this hate. Also, the building consumed by fire that we saw in some previous flashbacks… looks like it was Hayami’s house.

Whatever, I’m sort of excited for next week’s episode since, now that Hayami has seen the scene at the top of this post, I expect some sort of Hinata vs. Kohinata intense dramatic battle.

Flavor: Sweet

Uh, nobody else is blogging this series, so I might as well write a quick summary for this week’s episode:

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Flavor: Sour

Eh, this series has only been airing for two weeks and it’s already starting to get somewhat boring for me… guess I should’ve expected something like this coming from a show that’s gonna be focused on economics. Both Lawrence and Horo seemed like some quite nice characters, but if they’re going to end up in such situations… it’s like they automatically lose whatever potential they had to become an interesting pair. I wouldn’t mind if they added some romance to the story… that’d spice things up a bit.