[Saturn Beaver]

Sentaro MOEEEE!!

But seriously, this episode is great.

Spoiler for Ep 1:

First of all, although with the staff behind it this should be a given, but that festival jam session is really amazing, just like all the soundtrack in this anime. I look forward for when the OST is out.

What's great is how in a single episode this anime has done what most other anime let fester for at least 50% of their show, with Kaoru confessing at the end here. I have to give it up to him, at first I was facepalming a bit when I saw the misunderstandings forming, but him confessing as early as episode 3 makes things much more unpredictable now.

Really, the characters here are great, nowhere near being dense as usual, but instead sharp enough to realize each other's feeling except for Sentarou (and how Ritsuko mistook which girl Kaoru likes, though I suspect that that's partly wishful thinking as well - her hoping that Kaoru will take Yurika away from Sentarou, leaving him for herself). I call BS on the topless Sentarou thing though, guy stutters just for asking her out and getting a handkerchief, no way things can go so fast without him freaking out. Personally, I suspect that with the canvasses and all, she was being platonic in asking him to model for her or something.