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Originally Posted by Benigmatica

Spoiler for Episode 7:

Good point, but the episode kinda sucked to me... as if it was rushed with no resolution or an epilogue. Heck, they didn't kissed in the end.

Anyways, let's hope that Muroto's arc is better!

No resolution and epilogue? Sanehara finally able to smile in front of Kazuya and she begins to take picture of people, though from what shown on the anime it's only Kazuya pictures. And the date on the beach and pictures shown on Sanehara's room are more than enough for the epilogue, it tells us that after the hill scene they are in relationship and always spending time together (Sanehara's birthday, choosing heart frame on photo sticker, summer festival, New Year). I can't speak for others, but for me it makes up the lack proper confession and kiss scene.

Though the "I like your smile" and putting her hand on his pocket and then hugs her are more than enough for indirect confession. But I do think that it'll be better if on the boat Kazuya calls her by 'Hikari' and she calls him by 'Kazuya-senpai" >3<

Originally Posted by Kanon

Oh my god. That's a side of Sanehara I wish we had seen in the anime. Thanks for posting these.

Yeah, the episode quota boundary limit us to know more about the girl, the game are the only way to get to know them >.>

I only use my memory here, but here are some more trivia of Sanehara:

• Everyone calls her by 'Sanehara' or 'Sanehara-san' because she asked for it. The only exception is Kazuya where on her route calls her by "Hikari" after the confession, and Rina which calls her "Sane-chan" where she can't go against Rina because Sanehara is big fan of Rina's handmade cooking.
• Her eyesight are actually bad and she's wearing contact lens. On the game when learning this fact player get option how to react, if you choose "Why don't you wear glasses?", her response would be, "Senpai, do you have glasses fetish?"
• She hates English (the language) very much due to childhood trauma. I don't quite get the dialogues on this event, but on my understanding it's because the foreign colleague of her parents who come to visit and live with them for short amount of time. That person is always talks loud and cheerful, making the little Sanehara learns some basic daily conversation such as greeting, etc. She begins to talks like that in her school and gets attention from her friends, it becomes a very embarrassing memory for her. After telling Kazuya this story, he teases her when she's about to leave, saying "Sanehara, SEE YOU!"
• Before trying to make her laugh with the costume (on the game it's not a cat costume but dog), one of his attempts is introducing Sanehara to Kanon, because Kanon is a cheerful girl who always smile, not only when her picture is taken. At first Sanehara still bothered by it, saying she's actually dislike to take picture of girl more than a boy (referring to her girl friends incident) so she only formally have introduction with Kanon. But later after she's warming up to Kazuya and begins to have faith in people's smile once again, she becomes friend with Kanon. Kanon asks Sanehara to play tennis together but Sanehara doesn't want to because she hates wearing cute tennis wear like Kanon, and everytime Sanehara takes picture of Kanon, Kanon always use her "Usa Peace" pose
• She has 1 older brother who already a college student. Her brother never made appearance though, only mentioned when Kazuya asks who Sanehara gave cholocate to on Valentine's Day (which she says she gives it to her father and that older brother). But on the date on theme park, on the Zombie House player can asks Sanehara to scream specifically, where one of the option is to scream ala younger sister (she then screams, "Onii-chan help meee!!").
• Other than taking picture of Kazuya and Kanon, she also willing to take picture of Katsumi. In fact she's asking Katsumi to take picture together, since she says to her Katsumi is also important person who made a place for her in Photo Club. Katsumi recognized Sanehara who often took picture with her cellphone, so she approached Sanehara and asked her if Sanehara interested to join Photo Club. Katsumi then lend Sanehara her DSLR camera and Sanehara very interested about it and she bought her own digicam shortly after.

Originally Posted by RX-78GP04G Gerbera

Spoiler for episode 7:

Yeah, it felt way too rushed for it to really be comparable to Amagami for me.

Only the parts with Sanehara and showing her past made it more enjoyable to watch as we actually get to know her better and why she is the way she is. We never really got such a thing with Haruka, though. She just came off as the "perfect (childhood friend) girl" who just happened to like the main lead since they were kids.

The bits with Kazuya acting weird made it feel more awkward than funny compared to Junichi acting a similar way with Sae in Amagami. At least Sae didn't mind how Junichi was acting and accepted his help as an "instructor" from the beginning whereas Sanehara definitely appeared annoyed the first few times, so it felt a lot more forceful on Kazuya's part, with (probably due to the rush) Sanehara's sudden 180 with the cat bit seeming random and out of nowhere given her earlier, colder receptions.

I still would've much preferred a much more paced and developed arc, as with all the girls. Sadly, obviously, we're not getting them.

It doesn't feel like an omnibus format given there's no sense of a "reset" to the beginning, but it also doesn't feel like Yosuga no Sora's branching either as there's no sense of this taking place somewhere before Haruka's branch, and we don't even get any interacting scenes with the other main girls at all, like they were all just pushed aside because the company thought we'd never be able to tell that Sanehara was the focus this time.

We do get past story of Haruka that tell us how she becomes the school's idol she is now from the tomboy little girl who like to play soccer. It's because little Kazuya's suggestion that she should be act like proper girl (growing hair, wear skirt, etc) so she can have many friends like Kazuya back then. Also because their promise that Kazuya will marry her if she becomes more beautiful in the future.


For the interacting with other main girls part, we hardly get that the actual game anyway. This is based on love sims not VN, so if we already get into specific girl route, the other girl hardly make appearance at all. Even on the Amagami the other main girls never had important role when they appear on the arc they aren't the focused girl. There is rare exception on some routes here on Photo Kano for that though.