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June 1st, 2012:

Sakamichi no Apollon Episode 8

A lot of stuff about Jun this week…political activism and whatnot. Also an explanation for his state of depression. Still…I’m just gonna put money on him eloping with Yurika (because her parents disapprove), and move on to another topic. Sentarou finally finds out that Yurika is out of his reach, and with some hints from Kaoru, he figures out that Ritsuko has feelings for him.

Honestly, I’d prefer he didn’t try to act on anything, because it almost makes me feel like he’s settling on Ritsuko after being heartbroken…kinda lame. Or maybe I would just prefer Ritsuko with Kaoru. Yeesh…it seemed to get clearer this week which one Ritsuko would choose, but it just keeps getting murky. For now, I guess I’ll stick with the triple friend zone ending.

Medaka Box Episode 9

This week’s episode features Medaka facing off against the chairman of the disciplinary committee, Unzen Myouri, who appears to be the big enemy for the rest of the series. An interesting opponent because he is theoretically at her level (in the legendary class 13). As I said before, I was expecting one episode per disciplinary committee opponent, but it looks like all three were taken down at once.

So I guess I have to revise my theory. Shiranui brings up the vice president position in this episode. So I’m going to go with: next episode starts a battle between Medaka and Unzen, which completes in episode 11 with Unzen joining the student council. The final episode is then just Unzen doing a job as VP. But we’ll see…