"See you again!" is definitely the feeling I want to walk away from this series with - "Sayonara" is simply too painful to think about. It really does feel like a group of friends I've been meeting every Thursday is going away, and the older we get the more we realize just how great a treasure friendships are. We've been treated to something even better than caffe mochas and bamboo grass every Thursday, and if "see you again" is the message these friends are parting with, I can think of no better reply than to quote directly from Shirokuma-san's (and Sakurai Takahiro's) sublime final ED for the series - "Itsumo arigatou."