This episode focuses on three things, our leads finishing for NEXT, their high school entrance exams and their relationship between their girls. Here’s a quick recap on the episode.
Eiji Nizuma is finishing his manga debut for NEXT and it goes for our duo in which Saiko has decided in using his old art style for the story they will submit for NEXT, namely, Money and Intelligence.
To those who don’t know the plot, it is about using infrared things in selling thoughts to people. Kinda whacked, well, the plot itself is crazy. But hey, they only need 20% of the readers for it to be considered a hit which they thought it is easy at first… until they learned that there are at least 21 titles in NEXT.
Next we have Kaya and Shujin date for Christmas, then they group took their entrance exams for North High in which they passed and it is Valentine’s Day in which the two received chocolate coming from their girlfriends.
At the end of the episode, they learned that their one shot is now part of NEXT.
To sum this episode, this is basically all known anime love story specials rolled into one episode with NEXT as the main course. Based on this episode, it seems that they have covered at least 2-5 chapters of the manga seeing how fast the episode ran.
One thing that I noticed in this episode is that Kaya is getting more screen time compared to Miho but hey, considering that she is now tagging along with our duo, it is obvious that she will have more screen time!
Overall, this is one good episode, though not as good as the previous episodes but this episode adds more to the slice of life concept that this show has. This episode shows more layers on Shujin in terms of his relationship with Kaya as they dated in the Christmas episode. As for Saiko, well, he is still the same Saiko that we saw at the episode when they were doing for their Tezuka Award. As for Kaya, I am slowly getting used to her appearance in the series.