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Originally Posted by Sackett
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I thought that whole scene with Hitagi was clearly symbolism.
The clue was when Araragi said she had locked him up in a cram school.
Hitagi has "imprisoned" him to force him to study. She won't even let him have bathroom breaks when she's there tutoring him. It's all pretty much in keeping with their relationship to a study session in to a roleplay of that kind of thing.
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Pay attention to the dates. Araragi mentions that it's the 30th when imprisoned, and then wakes up the previous morning. It's sort of a "how did it come to this?" thing.
I sort of agree with you about it being somewhat disappointing overall though. I wouldn't call it "painful" but it wasn't particularly good either. I'm giving it a chance to create pay-offs in future episodes though. A lot of the cleverness in Bake came from serious callbacks to previously frivolous comments. We won't be able to tell how clever this episode was until later episodes. And given that the arcs are longer than they used to be, the pay-off may take even longer.