This year is turning out to be pretty exceptional for romance fans! The last scene in this episode was touchingly sweet and open, a clear enough progression when you watch Koyomi and Hitagi's rapid character development in the twelve short episodes, but nonetheless unexpected (to me, at least) because of the story generally moving away from the Hitagi-centric direction it started off with. I was quite wondering by this point when and where the starry night of the main ED was going to occur.
I rank this episode's climax right up there near the ToraDora! "mo ichido..." scene and the final 'rescue' scene in Spice and Wolf 2. I hope their romance is explored further in the next three episodes and not relegated to the background again!
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