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Originally Posted by Kaioshin_Sama
Thus completes the grand slam of self-referencing....
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In fact, the self-referencing goes even one step further: Ichiko, carrying the umbrella, was played both in
Munto2 and here by
Shimizu Kaori (Lain), who happens to be on hand to play Hiyori.
And for another self-reference, that line of Konata's to Kagami during the
jiiii.... reading scene that her "face is too close" was said by Sugita Tomokazu to Ono Daisuke during the
Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou live show. I don't know if it has a history before that, but it may. Perhaps it was a Hirano Aya ad lib.
I too find Misao more and more entertaining.
Mizuhara Kaoru is doing a great job with her voice, and visually that may be the best implementation of snaggle-tooth I've ever seen.
Hiyori, too, is a great combo of good animation and a good script. Her ineffectual guilt over seeing her friends in this way was a great touch. And Minami and Yutaka are...just...great together.
The main writer, Machida Douko, is credited with writing both this ep and ep17. And the storyboard is by the old and new directors together: Yamamoto Yutaka and Takemoto Yasuhiro. I don't know whether this means Yamakan is back working on this show, or Takemoto is just finishing an ep Yamakan started before he left. I see from a list of future staff (on 2channel) that neither of the directors appears as director or storyboarder of any future episode.