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Originally Posted by judasmartel

Spoiler for Curious Question about Mimi:

Since it's stated that Mimi is the daughter of a friend of Subaru's father, does she live with Subaru or is she living somewhere else?

Spoiler:

Originally she was going to live with Subaru as her father (whom apparently is an otaku BTW) like Subaru's father Ginga has work stationed in Hawaii. Though before she even moved in Mimi's father managed to find work in Japan so she ended up never living under the roof of the Hasegawa resident.

Spoiler for Start 3Q, Keishin - 21, Suzuritani 14:

ST would be more likely to field in Miyu, Aya, and Rena. Likewise, KS would be more likely to field in Tomoka, Mimi, Airi.

Spoiler:

I don't think Keishin will field in the 5th graders in the 3rd quarter, it's not Subaru's style to go unorthodox/outside of the original plan when faced with a surprise tactic, not to mention Keishin is also in the lead which would only mean Subaru would've been reassured that his game plan is still sound. As Subaru's usually pretty reactionary so he'll wait out to see what the effect of the Suzuritani's change of line up will mean before making up a counter plan. I think 3rd quarter would see Suzuritani with their new line up closing the gap or even over take Keishin first, at which point all of Suzuritani's cards would have played out, and then we would see Subaru using the aces up his sleeves.

Spoiler:

My question is: If you were Subaru, what lineup would you use for the 3rd quarter, provided you can't substitute players unless injured?

Here's mine:

PG - Saki
SG - Mimi
C - Airi
SF - Tomoka
PF - Masami or Kagetsu

Spoiler:

For something a bit more unorthodox plus taking into consideration that they would probably have to take on Miyu, Rena AND Aya in the team at the same time I think it would look a bit more like this:
PG - Saki/Mimi
SG - Tomoka
C - Kagetsu
SF - Hinata
PF - Maho/Masami

While matching Airi up with Aya seems to be the most logical choice, psychologically speaking though Aya has an advantage because her desire to prove herself against Airi is much stronger than Airi which drove Aya to work extra hard to begin with. It was hinted that Hinata has a trick up her sleeve against Centre players so it makes sense to use Hinata to stop Aya's streak and damage her confidence first before pitting Airi up against Aya. Also with Kagetsu as Centre this gives the two sisters so team play opportunities.

For PG I think both Saki or Mimi would do the job well enough. With Suzuritani's make-shift team it probably won't be that difficult for either Saki or Mimi to make good play.

PF is the more difficult choice. Maho is more athletic and has a track record of playing well under pressure while Masami has the more potent weapon of long range shooting, however it's questionable whether Masami will have the same opening chance to take her signature shot when Suzuritani is likely going back to man-to defence now due to the make-shift team (the main reason Masami got so many shots in the 2nd quarter was because Rena wasn't playing defence at all, so it was essentially 5vs4 in 2nd quarter). So I think Maho seems to be the better choice. Also Masami still seems to have a bit of issue playing with Saki, so if Saki is PG I think Maho should be PF. But if Mimi is PG then Masami can be used instead.

Also we have some visuals for the anime versions of the 5th graders


Looking pretty good. Keishin has all the cute players.