Futakoi 9

  
  
  
  

Still somewhat sick, Souju has a dream about Sara and also Nozomu ("onii-san"). At school, preparations for the festival are going on, with Nozomu's class doing a "Horror Cafe" (a mix of the ever-popular bakeyashiki and kissaten).

Back at home that night, Lulu and Lala tell Nozomu that Souju wasn't there that day either. So he's a bit worried about her.. Souju and Sara talk a bit about Nozomu at home while Souju draws a picture of him.. The next day, while shopping for things at the department store, Nozomu runs into Souju and they go to the roof to talk a bit. Souju tells him about some pastels that Sara gave her then told her to become an artist. They're her takaramono, she says. Nozomu invites both her and Sara to come to the festival.. Souju talks with Sara about it, but Sara is against it, saying there are better places to have a date. How about a date where all three of them would go? ;)

And they do show up at the Horror Cafe where Nozomu's working. Sara's not very pleased with the place, running off a litany of complaints to Nozomu. Keisuke surprising her doesn't help things either.. so she continues on. So Nozomu takes Souju and Sara around the festival and they end up at the Magic Cafe that Sumireko and Kaoruko's class is running. Sumireko and Kaoruko appear on stage doing a transportation act using Lala and Lulu (pretty easy to do that one with twins...). Souju suggests that she and Sara try it out so they go up on stage.. and with some bad timing, the meganekko twins show up and talk with Nozomu. Once again, Sara screams at him to get away from them from on stage ;)

Finally, they end up at the art club's exhibit, where Souju takes a turn drawing portraits of people, and Sara's actually calmed down for a bit. The Ichijou twins come in and Souju starts drawing them, and also asks them about their relationship with Nozomu. Then she breaks some sad news... next week she and Sara are going to be moving away, but she doesn't want Nozomu to know... after that she suddenly collapses..

But she's okay, just a bit of anemia. But one of the pastels from her box is missing. So Nozomu goes dumpster diving to search for it and everybody else joins in and he eventually finds it, bringing a smile to Sara's face (kawaii~)...

Lula and Lala tell Nozomu that Souju and Sara dropped off a picture of Nozomu at his house earlier on. Kaoruko and Sumireko show up and tell Nozomu that Sara and Souju are leaving today, so he rushes off towards the train station, but can't make it. So he moves to a spot near the train tracks where they'll see him. Some of the rest of the gang is there to see them off as well.. One day they'll be able come to back to the town...

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Noooo! Why did Souju and Sara have to move away? (*cries*) ;) Anyways, this was a pretty enjoyable episode (seems to be with me that length of summary sometimes corresponds with how much I liked an episode), though with that bit of bittersweetness at the end. Too bad there'll be no more cute Souju or cute/angry Sara in this Futakoi series. But! I'm hoping that they'll play a bigger part in ufotable's Futakoi series which will be starting in the spring. That would make me very happy to say the least ;) btw, ufotable's Sara and Souju character designs are the only ones up on the spring Futakoi's site, so I've made a little comparison pic for y'all to have a look at.

Next time, in the required Christmas episode, the focus looks like it'll shift back to the Ichijou sisters. We'll see what happens...