Somehow all the senpais gives me the creeps.

Oops, only now did I realise that I accidentally missed watching SP ep 7.  Anyway, in ep 13, the hardcore lesbians are back. Momomi and Kaname are thus far the only ones where we have openly seen their lesbianism. Kaname wants to interfere with Amane’s running for etiole, and thus kidnaps Hikari when they have a date. Luckily, Yaya happens to rescue her. But kaname tells yaya that only love can stop another love.

Hikari and Amane enjoys their date at the beach, but all the while, Yaya is wondering about what kaname said, and whether she should have let Hikari go. When Hikari returns, she has a sakura shell as a gift for Yaya. Yaya was so surprised that she kissed Hikari. Hikari’s first kiss isn’t by Amane!

oops. slightly too explicit for me. The fight that happened to the neighbours was absolutely hilarious though.

In ep 14, the girls have a midnight tea party again. But Hikari is conspiciously missing. When Yaya requests to stay overnight, it becomes obvious that something happened between yaya and hikari. It reaches to a point where Yaya is even skipping choir practises. But Tamao and Nagisa helps to bring them back together, through the thing that they have in common.

Tamao and Nagisa brings both of them together where they first met, the place which holds all their precious memories.

So you get Yaya and Hikari going back to being good friends. Which is a pity. I kinda like the idea of Yaya and hikari being together after this 2 episodes. Like i said, the senpais gives me the creeps.

You also have the story of the red string. I wonder if Nagisa actually knows the meaning of tying the red string together. But the episode does hint at Nagisa and Tamao getting closer together… even sleeping together on the same bed!

A short summary of the episode:

Summer school is over, and the only people left in the strawberry dorms are Tamao, Nagisa, Shizuma, and Miyuki. Tamao initially does not want to go home, because she’s wary of what would happen between nagisa and shizuma.  However, when shizuma  and miyuki asks nagisa to do some studying of french together,  tamao leaves for home. But not before tying a red ribbon charm on Nagisa’s right wrist.

Nagisa has a chat with Amane during a break the next day. Suddenly she falls, and we find amane ending up above her. Shizuma  arrives later, and warns her that she should be choosing someone from spica.

Next are a series of intimate scenes between nagisa and shizuma. But shizuma stops, when suddenly she gets a flash back from the past. At the same time, nagisa’s red ribbon falls away.

Heh. Light hearted and cute. I like. Besides, the characters look a lot better now, with all of them not in the same uniform.

It’s the rainy season. Nagisa, on the way home from the library, meets a girl (Kagome + Oshibaru the teddybear) who is without an umbrella. Kagome says that oshibaru would get wet, when Nagisa offered to share umbrellas with Kagome. Thinking that there’s one more person, Nagisa lends her the umbrella, and runs home in the rain. However, they didn’t get to know one another. Thus the umbrella cannot be returned.

Kagome waits for nagisa at the same spot the next day, but meets kizuna instead. Led by Chikaru, the transformation club turns into a secret investigation club, and aims to help find the owner of the umbrella.

At the same time, Nagisa is without an umbrella. Which means… every girl is just waiting to share an umbrella with her. Especially Tamao. Yet by chance, they don’t get to share umbrellas until the very end.

Many light hearted scenes in this episode

Chikaru + Transformation Club
Tamao + Sharing umbrella
Kagome + Oshibaru
Hikari + YaYa + Tsubomi
Harassed librarians

One of the best episode so far.

I can’t figure out the significance of the scenes involving etiole. TOo many possibilities. Also the scene involving the horse rider. *blur*

The episode focuses to a large extent on the mystery of etiole. You start to wonder if etiole has any sinister intentions at heart. Etiole continues to seem like someone with many deep secrets. Every single “would be kiss” gets interrupted, to the point where you are just anticipating the interruptions.

This episode has Nagisa and friends on a hide and seek, but she accidentally crashes in on a meeting of the school council presidents. Here she discovers Etiole’s irresponsibleness, and when she later meets a group of 1st graders, resolves to make Etiole fufill her responsibilities. The mystery of Etiole deepens further as well.

The series seems to be developing to a point where it tries to appeal to do many people, yet doesn’t really succeed. Not quite a shouju anime, yet not quite like mai otome either.

I still can’t get past the fact that the girls in the show all look alike. It’s definitely a down point for me, seems to show poor design effort. The pace for this 2 episodes were slow as well.

Each episode seems to be ending with some mystery though. I’ll still be following to find out what it is, but it’s not something that I’ll eagerly wait the release of eachweek.

On Astraea Hill, there are three girl schools; St. Miatre Academy, St. Spica Academy, and St. Le Rim Academy. In the corner of the site, there stands their common boarding house, “Ichigo-Sha”.

Astraea Hill – it is a sacred place where men cannot enter…

Aoi Nagisa transferred to the 4th grade(*) of St. Miatre Academy by some reason. On the very first day, she met “Etoile”, Hanazono Shizuma. Etoile is the leader of the whole students of the tree schools, and she was a girl of admiration. She has a large power and trust, at the same time, she must shoulder heavy responsibility and duty proportional to her power. Nagisa was fascinated by Sizuma’s beauty and she was frozen. On the other hand, looking into Nagisa’s face gently, Sizuma put her arms around Nagaisa’s shoulders and her face was approaching to Nagisa’s face…

Taken from animenfo

In episode one, you have Nagisa who transferred to a new school, and basically, ep 01 recounts her first day at her new school. Nagisa seems like your typical blur and slow school girl, who would end up being the topic of much laughs. This ep is mainly about Nagisa meeting her roomate, and also meeting the mysterious Sizuma, who as expected, turns out to be Étoile. Episode one starts off slow, however, the ending of the episode seems to show that this series has a lot of promise.

But generally, nothing extraordinary. Your typical anime story in an all girl’s school, with the show hinting of things that will go on between the girls, especially nagisa and her roommate. Should most definitly be a good comedy show though, we’ll know more with later episodes.

The only thing i didn’t like was that all the girls seemed to look the same to me. And I mean REALLY look the same, even the hair style. Maybe that’s cause too many girls were introduced at one go. But i’ll definitly be following this series

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