[Tasdern]

Spoiler for How the plot weaves along.:

What I find so amazing about this episode is how well we were played with.

We all know his is going to be a serious episode and we all pretty much knew that something was going to happen to Sayuri. But it opens with the Ayu and the jam. Did you hear the music during that scene? Then we get a big build up with the jam being scraped on and we are all wondering how Ayu is going to react - and we don’t get to see!

But here’s the genius, every single one of us was wondering about Ayu and the Jam all through Sayuri’s story! We are but up with anticipation but then we do find out, it doesn’t overshadow anything, it just plays into the Yuuichi-Ayu relationship. Very well done.

We all were expecting something to happen to Sayuir. She S-L-O-W-L-Y gets to the school, with the cute ant-eater no less and then we still don’t get to see it. We see it reflected in Mai.

This is art.