Now that Hinami knows Mimimi told Tomozaki she liked him, she suggests he focus on the event map with Fuuka, since he’s technically reached his goal with Mimimi. That said, he can always work backwards with Mimimi in terms of events. He certainly has no shortage of face time with either girl! Seeing him having a lively chat with Fuuka causes Mimimi to interrupt and give him a friendly reminder that he did agree to do a comedy routine with her.
When they meet up after school, they barely discuss the routine. Instead, Mimimi wants Tomozaki to understand that she does like him, and not just the way she likes Tama. At first she felt that way, but after telling him, she realizes that this was the one person who gave her the opportunity to try to break out of her “always second place” mentality. Tomozaki owns up to not quite knowing what to do, but does insist she’s not being annoying.
I do wish Mimimi had been able to get a little more out of him, but she’s clearly worried about being a bother, even though she’s no such thing. Meanwhile, Mizusawa, Hinami, and Tama are cast as Libra, Alucia, and Kris, and Fuuka adjusts their dialogue and personalities to match. The more Tomozaki learns about the Kris character, who was only able to fly with Libra by her side, the more he realizes the character is based on Fuuka herself, who he introduced to a new world.
The one question mark is Princess Alucia, who Fuuka feels is too perfect and needs a weakness like the other two mains. But while she’s hardly a social butterfly, Fuuka doesn’t fall for Hinami’s pat answers in their interview for one second. She can tell Hinami is hiding something, and perhaps therein lies Alucia’s—and Hinami’s—weakness: an inability to show her true self to others…perhaps even not knowing who her true self is.
Tomozaki’s seen the Hinami Aoi behind the “mask” she wears at school and when hanging out with friends, but that could well be just another mask; masks under masks. He and Fuuka get permission to speak to a classmate from her middle and elementary schools.
They don’t learn much, but they do learn she once dated and dumped a prominent boy in their middle school, and while her grade school friend recalled she had multiple little sisters, her middle school classmate is positive she only has one. My first thought was a macabre one: did she lose a sister, did she blame herself, and did she vow to become perfect at playing the game of life as anyone has ever been to honor her?
That’s a lot of speculation, but it’s fun to speculate! Meanwhile, Fuuka still has an ending to write as rehearsals begin, Tomozaki still owes Mimimi more of a response to her feelings, and should probably get started on those event maps for both Fuuka and Mimimi. He’s got a lot going on!
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It looks like a curveball was thrown as I thought that I had it all figured out and that Aoi herself was the Tama to someone else’s Erika prior to this episode, but maybe Aoi lost a sister due to suicide given Maebashi was confident that Aoi had multiple sisters. If that’s the case, it was Aoi’s younger sister, twin sister, or older sister who was the Tama to someone else’s Erika, and Aoi became the sociopath she is because she failed to protect one of her sisters back in grade school.
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