K-ON!! 19

With much practice being made, the long awaited school festival as finally arrived. Everyone in the class were busy adding final touches to their props while Mio and Ritsu continue to practice their lines. Mio was however beginning to feel nervous and even forgot most of the lines. Yui returns to the class and advices Mio to write down pumpkin on her hands and then "gobbling" it down to relieve stress. Ritsu knew that it wasn't really something practical but Mio really did went on to try it nonetheless. Meanwhile for Jun, Azusa and Ui, they were finally given a break after attending to their own booth and took the chance to go explore the school festival. Through touring the festival, the girls sees that most of the costumes worn were rather well made and then heard that they were all made by Sawa-chan. Azusa wonders just how many other clubs Sawa-chan had volunteered to design their costumes for. At last, the costumes were finally ready after Sawa-chan's all nighter and everyone were all happy with the quality of the costumes made and the class prepares to step onto stage. Ritsu sees more and more people swarming in to watch their play and was getting excited but that wasn't the case for Mio who was still slightly nervous just right before the real play. Meanwhile, Azusa and the others have already reached to watch their play and Azusa started to think for a moment on how the others have "neglected" their club practices but she thinks that it could be because the school festival would be their last one and it would be right for them to practice very hard for their play. After settling down beside Sawa-chan, the Romeo and Juliet play begins. Mio did somehow obtained some courage and was performing rather well, the only possible distraction for the audience would probably be the tree Yui is in with her head sticking out of the tree's trunk. As the play continues, one of their classmates realised that an important prop was missing, the grave which was to be use during the climax of the play. Seeing how complicated the situation has become, one of the performers leave her role to Yui and heads out to borrow a similar-looking prop from the Occult club and Mugi follows her as well. Yui then took up her new role for the time being where she is now a bush with her head yet again sticking out in the middle. Luckily enough, the Occult club allowed their look-a-like to be borrowed for the play and it was transported back to the stage just in time. With that, the play was successfully completed and the curtains close with Azusa tearing, not because of how touching the play was, but rather about the lack of club practice with the rest. The other girls then went back to the music room and sees Azusa practicing by herself and after knowing how she feels, Ritsu tells her that they would not neglect the Light Music Club at all and will be staying overnight for practice. When night falls, the girls decide to take the chance to take a stroll around the campus and coincidentally found the Juliet's Grave being left behind near some other booth where someone must have thought that the prop belonged to them. The girls later went to thank the Occult club as well for borrowing their prop to them, making the success of the play possible. After some pointless chatter, the girls went to sleep and were called up by Sawa-chan next morning after she, who has now deep eyebags, have finally completed a normal looking T-shirt for the girls after rushing through it the entire night and the girls are now finally ready for their perfomance later in the afternoon.

the play was rather alright IMO and more classmates were given some scenes as well. it was distracting for me when you have some serious and touching scenes being acted out and you see a small Yui's head on a tree and on a bush .___. just to add on, the manga is ending, where we won't get to see the going into Budokan or even their lives after high school as it would probably end in the next chapter being the last, and would most possibly be showing them graduating. nonetheless, this episode was rather OK, well, seeing more dialogues from the other characters is interesting and in the next, the LONG awaited performance it finally here! HTT!!!

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 7

In the town, Ryoushi is greeted by a Ryouko in a dress, resulting in Ryoushi getting whacked after exclaiming how cute he thinks she was. It turns out that the Otogi Bank has a new request where it was first started by Hanasaki Jin, who has come to the Otogi Bank to make a request for them to help find out who was going into his house everyday to clean his house and even prepares food for him. With the spy cameras installed, it was easy for them to discover who it was, and it turns out to be Jizou Ami, a student of their school. After confronting her with visual evidence, she explains that Jin had lent her an umbrella one rainy day and she was too embarrassed to thank him face to face and had used this way of thanking him. Under Ringo's advice, Ami finally found courage to express her feelings face to face to Jin but he had not look at her once in a romantic way. Jin however tells Ami that her way of repaying him was too much and would like to do something in return for her, which Ringo then suggests to them to go on a date. Ryoushi and Ryouko were then asked along to go with a double date to make Ami less nervous. Seeing how stiff Ami was still after walking beside Jin, Ringo tells Ryouko to hold hands with Ryoushi and to act as a model example to the two. For the request, Ryouko then forcefully grabs Ryoushi's hand and walks in front of the other two, successfully bringing them to hold hands as well. In the cinema where they watched a sad movie, Ryoushi had brought with him a handkerchief to aid Ryouko when she tears and Jin also helped to wipe off the tears of Ami as well, so did seem like a doll, being all stiff. The double date continues where Ryoushi and Ryouko look more like a dating couple rather than the other two, whether in the pet shop or in the arcade where the two rarely spoke to each other at all. The group then reach the park where they were suppose to have their picnic but Ryouko takes her leave temporarily, Ryoushi follows as well, leaving Ami and Jin alone on the picnic mat. Ryoushi discovers Ryouko trying to save a cat on the tree and after reaching it, the branch breaks and they both fell in the shallow river. Ryoushi sees the situation and dives in to save Ryouko. The cat was safe and Ryouko had passed out for a moment and when she wakes, she does not recognise Ryoushi at all and Ryoushi suspects her to be suffering from amnesia after probably hitting her head on the bottom of the river. Luckily, Ryouko still remembers her own name but had her mindset when she was 13 years old. She calls Ryoushi "Onii-san" after thinking that he was older than her which did made Ryoushi happy for a moment. After seeing Ryouko might have caught a cold, Ryoushi goes forth and hands her his shirt which was drenched and when Ryoushi was anticipating a wack from her, Ryouko thanks him instead and Ryoushi is kinda happy when she's being honest. Jin and Ami weren't talking to each other and had a wierd atmosphere without Ryouko and Ryoushi but Ringo covers it for them by telling Ami that it was part of the plan. Ringo later receives a call from Ryoushi where he tells Ringo that Ryouko has become cute and the line was cut off before he could actually make some sense in his words. The duo then settle down on a bench and Ryoushi helps to relate the current situation to Ryouko. She learns that she was actually older and that when she asks about their relationship, Ryoushi tells her that they were companions and Ryouko had initially thought that they were in a relationship. Ryoushi suggests yet again that they should go to the hospital but Ryouko drags him into town. While doing that, Ringo sees a happy Ryouko dragging Ryoushi along and thinks that she must have been to tired to be seeing something impossible happening. The duo went into town were enjoying themselves like in a genuine date, eating crepes and shopping but when Ryoushi mentions about the visiting the hospital again, Ryouko stops and seemed reluctant to go. Ryoushi then pats her head, telling her that she was probably feeling scared that she was all alone but he would always be there by her side and protect her. It then started to rain and while taking shelter, Ringo calls Ryoushi and tells him that Ami and Jin had left together under an umbrella and Ryoushi suggests that they meet up as it would be easier to explain the situation. In a family restaurant, Ryouko was eating her ice cream while Ryoushi explains the siutation to Ringo and Ringo proves it when Ryouko does not recognise her. While they were discussing on how to recover her memories, Ryouko sees that she was being ignored by Ryoushi and leaves, telling Ryoushi that what he said to be by her side all the time was all lies. In the rain, Ryouko ponders over Ryoushi's words and had thought he would be caring towards her and when she turned, she hit someone and fell to the floor where she sees Shirou in front of her. She starts to feel scared after seeing that familiar face once more but was kept "conscious" after Ryoushi called out to her again and then helped carried her back up. Shirou stops them in their tracks and started to talk about the relationship he and Ryouko had in the past. Shirou tells him that Ryouko was labelled by the others as a liar after he tried to force himself on her but the others did not believe Ryouko's side of the story and that was why she had transferred school. Ryouko breaks down and Ryoushi quickly takes out his slingshot but was sliced through within a split second. Ryoushi tells Shirou that he does not care about how Ryouko was in the past and would protect her from now on and that he will continue to hunt him down for what he had did to Ryouko in the past. Shirou leaves after the commotion and Ryouko's memories returned later in the day. Ringo tells Ryouko that it was a pity that she had lost her memories while she was having amnesia and when she tells her that they should go and eat, Ryouko decides to pass and tells Ringo that she already had crepe. This then gave her away as she had ate the crepe while having amnesia which means that the still retained all her memories during the whole time and then, Ringo smirks. The result was seen in the next day in school where Ryouko was forced to wear a ribbon to prevent Ringo from spilling the beans and when Ryoushi said that she was cute with it, he receives the familiar wack from Ryouko once again.

a rather decent episode and Ami and Jin were probably real side characters where the episode mainly focuses on strengthening the understanding between Ryoushi and Ryouko and also we got to see a different side of Ryouko, and Ryoushi as well. It was really cool when Ryoushi tells Shirou that he would definitely hunt him down, a totally different him and a side of him that we all probably wants instead of his timid side. he gets pretty serious when it comes to Ryouko eh. and of cos we get to see Ryouko's soft side as well, which wasn't bad but did felt a little wierd where she's all honest, unlike being a tsundere. so probably the series would be heading towards Ryoushi hunting down Shirou (which isn't bad i presume) and hopefully an ending that we would all like at the end...

oh and Jin and Ami seemed to have been together after that with Ami still preparing food for Jin in his house O.O