Overcome by feelings for Haru, Shizuku finds it difficult to concentrate and her chest hurts when she’s near him. Distressed by her plummeting mock exam scores, she aims to jettison unwanted distractions. She refuses to participate in her friends’ attempts to solve the problem Ooshima’s lack of friends. As Ooshima falls harder for Haru, Shizuku tells Haru she’s no longer attracted to him, and wants to focus on her future and studying.
This week Shizuku gets a rival in the shy, quiet, but cute Ooshima, who is particularly prone to feverishly quick internal monologue and the occasional outburst when Haru misinterprets Shizuku’s words. Ooshima finds herself in the middle of what she thinks is a lovers’ quarrel. But Shizuku doesn’t care about the potential competition Ooshima offers. By episode’s end, she’s decided to regress a bit, in light of the negative effect her attraction to Haru is having on her studies.
Shizuku remembers a night she was going to go see fireworks with her family, but her mom was too busy, so they stayed home, and she studied. She never got any goldfish, and the pot in the yard stayed empty. She learned to enjoy studying. She wants to be busy and successful like her mom, and right now, she doesn’t think she can achieve that when she’s constantly thinking about Haru, so now she’s trying to convince herself that she’s not interested anymore. It’s logical, but it leaves us a little cold nearly halfway through the series.
Rating: 7 (Very Good)
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