EDIT: Well, to be honest, I rarely choose my favorite character based on his/her personality. I choose based on how interesting the anime becomes BECAUSE of him/her. Throughout all of Hyou-ka, Satoshi is the one with most interest dialogue, whenever he is really. But I love the Empress, she's freaking beautiful, hot and outsmarted the boring/annoying Oreki, most fulfilling moment on the anime so far imo. I would love to see another showdown between the two.
Satoshi is definitely shaping up to a very well-rounded character, I love the fact that he's getting jealous.
Also, when Irisu was at that magic show...hngggghh.
This case's message was all about 'expectations'. Satoshi's expectations of Oreki and Tanabe's of Mune.
In Kouchi's case, she never read Haruna's manga because she was pissed that her friend that never read manga managed to write such a masterpiece. She didn't want to acknowledge that. In this case it's similar to the rest of them.
I guess the only mystery left is why Oreki's sister had "The Corpse of the Evening" manga. Anyway, great episode.
This arc gave us some good Irisu development - I guess she's jealous of Chitanda, of how open and innocent she can be. "Pretending can eventually become reality", she's stuck in her empress attitude, and can't change.
leokiko wrote:
Never noticed that, actually thought her conversation with Chitanda was meaningless.
baaakaaa.
The whole arc was supposed to be about jealousy, talent and expectations, so it only makes sense. We are given little snippets of what Irisu wants to be like (the frog doll, the magic show), but has to always have that cold demeanor.
Huh, that's true. She just had a minor talk and some random appearences so I guess I never noticed. Mayaka and Satoshi's situations were kinda the point I was focused on ;p
leokiko wrote:
Wonder how they will wrap this up, since there's no chance for a second season(not enough material for it and the author releases it very slowly).
I refuse to believe they've adapted the entire series in just 24 episodes, so we could get some OVAs at the least
