Lol! Noe slow blushing when Shin tells her he likes her (before the camera gets on her) is legendary. Something that will be set in stone in anime history.
I wonder how they could find such ideas one often another.
And since we know that at the end there has to be a cliffhanger no matter what, they threw us perhaps the bigger one this time. If anything, the most beautiful so far. I was expecting something from Aiko, but probably not this much.
I wonder how Shin will react to this. Before this episode he had 0 girls, now he actually has 2, none of which is the one he really wants. That's for being busybody, I guess.
Shin actually made his move towards Noe when Jun "threatened" him to break up with Hiromi if he he didn't. But that leaves the usual doubt: Shin didn't really act out of spontaneity, or out of impulse. He acted not to space out Hiromi and Jun. However, lately he seems to have noticed something in her despite her whimsicalness. Of course not even 1/10 as deep as his feelings for Hiromi.
Hiromi distanced herself from Shin, despite his timid approaches. I found it funny that Noe offered Hiromi the lunch she gave to the chicken before. Her chances went down a lot but I think it's something temporarily inevitable.