Yay, we can finally talk about this episode!
Spoiler:
Most of the episode is an amalgamation of skipped portions of Book 1 slightly rewritten with a new subplot of Taiga secretly taking pictures of Kitamura.
I really liked this one, her personality was much sweeter and it made it much easier to connect with her this time around rather than what they did in the last episode where they had her be mindlessly violent, albeit they did have her attempt another dragon kick to Ryuuji's face. Another surprise was how they finally brought up the "Secret" earlier than I expected, that Kitamura already confessed to her last year and she rejected him. Since they skipped that scene in the second episode I thought they'd save that for much later, I was happy they got it out of the way earlier than expected.
And finally, Ami next episode, yay! It even appears that they'll have her introduction remain the same as in the books despite speculation (Mainly by me
) that they might drastically change it. Overall I think the series is back on the right track.