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I thought the romantic development in this episode was fine... maybe a bit on the slow side, but not nearly to the extent everyone here is claiming. But then again, that might just be because I have such fundamentally different views on romance from everyone else...
So, instead of talking about that, I would like to award Junichi some points.
First off, he turned down Umehara's request for a "video watching session" so he could spend time with Rihoko. (Considering this is after he refused to go somewhere with Kaoru so he and Umehara could ogle at girls in an art book...)
And second, for Rihoko's sake, he seriously takes up the art of... making tea. He even practices it at home! That's an awful lot of dedication for someone he claims is "just a friend", if you ask me.
Add to that his first-episode act of widening the fence-hole for her, and Junichi has won more points in this arc so far than... well, in all the other arcs combined...
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