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Hidamari x Honeycomb 07 - The Local Stage, the College Stage, the World Stage
While this episode returns us to Yuno as the focus, in some ways, it feels like a continuation of Hiro's story from last week. Ruminations on what it means to be an artist and where the future leads. Yuno's character development has been kind of slow and subtle (it's been spread out over so many episodes, after all), but this episode above all shows that she has definitely become more defined as a person since the first episode of the first season. Her determination to create art under pressure was pretty inspiring, and it was a real treat seeing Arisawa again. As Yuno herself pointed out, graduation doesn't mean the end of things, and in Hidamari, probably won't. Even when the day comes that Sae and Hiro leave, I don't think they'll stop being major characters. It may even mean a chance for more artsy downtown scenes like the ones this episode gave us - it looked Shafty, and beautiful.
Also, Miya must be incredible if she can render a 3D image in paint. The beats of this show are all too familiar by now, but the content keeps changing and moving forward. Another school festival comes, and will go, but for Yuno, this is simply another step forward. But she'll always be the same determined, kinda shy, reflective Yuno that we've known from the beginning, at heart.
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