Mahoraba 17

  
  
  

Okay, kids, make sure you don't sit too close to the TV... maybe... no maybes!

チビ珠美ちゃん可愛いよ、珠美ちゃん！！（≧∇≦）

Tamami was much more cute than scary when she was smaller :)

チビ梢ちゃん可愛いよ、梢ちゃん！！（≧∇≦）

And we can't forget about Kozue-chan, either :)

Now that I've got that said, this time we took a look back at Tamami-chan's past and how she met (and fell for) Kozue-chan. Tamami-chan was quite a different Tamami-chan before she met Kozue-chan. She was a genius, a perfect kid who could do anything, but she wasn't happy at all. Didn't have any friends, either.. Well, that was until she met a strange girl called Kozue in 4th grade and things went from there :)

And soon, Tamami-chan came to have a certain feeling when she was with Kozue-chan, a feeling different from anything she'd felt before with other people. And one day she finally said what she felt to Kozue-chan, otherwise known as doing the "kokuhaku thing" on this blog. Kozue-chan replies back with the same, that she likes Tamami-chan as well, a whole lot. And they've been best friends, or perhaps more than that to Tamami-chan, ever since.

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But the entrance of a guy named Shiratori into Kozue's life will make things difficult for Tamami in the future as some of y'all have mentioned in the comments, and as was seen in the episode when she ran off after "hot stuff" told her that Shiratori went home with Kozue. Yes, that will eventually happen and Tamami-chan will have to come to grips with it, but we'll talk about that more when that happens.. This is probably my favorite chapter in the manga and it worked well in making this one of my favorite episodes in the anime as well.

Next time, "Nyaanyaanyaa". So that'll probably be the story -- the only one in the manga -- where Johnny and his human, Haibara, are the main characters ;)