If Honey and Clover was my favorite series reflecting college life, then Manabi Straight would be my favorite to watch as a high school student. Power messages of Going forward and achieving your goals, and of friendship.

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A slow start recap by Mikan. I didn’t like it, but maybe I just don’t like hearing Mikan’s narrative voice. haha. And I do wish for an episode with more stories of the festival preparations, but we jumped straight into the festival itself.

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Man… I haven’t watched this series for such a long time, and only after starting to watch it did I realised that I actually missed it so much! I’ll bet that if I was actually personally involved in the plot, I’d be touched to tears very often.102

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If what you set out to do together with your friends fails to achieve its purpose, does that mean the whole process was meaningless? This is basically what this episode is trying to tell us and I must say it was a good reminder for myself.

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The cancellation of the school fair is official announced. Of course Manabi doesn’t take things lying down and starts organising a fight back in return. Things get tricky though, when it’s revealed that Aikoh’s Superintendent is manabi’s brother’s new gf.

It’s not easy being the teacher who supervises the student council.

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We now learn that Manabi’s actually an alien who can deploy barriers and enclosed spaces and project images into people’s mind. Or maybe not.

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