Da Capo Second Season 2
Opening: 「サクライロノキセツ」 (sakurairo no kisetsu) by yozuca* - I've had this stuck in my head ever since I watched this ep yesterday morning. It's probably my favorite of the yozuca* songs I've heard. ♪雨上り歩く並木道 サクライロノキセツの中で♪
Ending: 暁に咲く詩 (akatsuki ni saku uta) by CooRie - It's CooRie. It's good. 'nuff said.
While Kotori warms up the girl who showed up drenched in the rain at the end of last time, Jun'ichi gets some clothes for her -- from Nemu's room. The girl finally tells them her name, Aisia, after eating a bit then falls asleep right there, exhausted. The next morning, Miharu gets another surprise as she finds Aisia in Jun'ichi's bed -- Asakura-senpai ga onna no ko-san ni henshin shichatta desu~~~~~~~!! (Asakura changed into a girl!). That's Miharu for ya ;)
Jun'ichi explains what happened as Aisia comes down with a very cute green ribbon in her hair. Aisia gives Jun'ichi a map -- it's a map of the island with some places marked, but it's unreadable. Even though the map's not much help, Jun'ichi goes around town with Aisia trying to find the place she wants to go instead of going to school. Along the way they run into Moe-senpai -- still as much a nabe-lover as before, she is ;) They get away from her lecture only to get stopped in front of the school by Koyomi-sensei, who is not too happy at all with Jun'ichi. But after he compliments her cute baby they manage to get away. Kotori saw Jun'ichi and Aisia go by...
Jun'ichi and Aisia still haven't managed to make any progress, and now it's around lunchtime and both are hungry. Jun'ichi uses his little bit of magic to conjure up something for Aisia to eat. Thankfully, Kotori's skipping the rest of the school and brought some of Jun'ichi's favorite yakisoba bread for him to eat. So the search goes on...
...and as evening comes they still haven't found the place Aisia wants to go. Kotori and Jun'ichi take another look at the map... Suginami pops up behind them, pointing out that what's written on the map seems to be in a language from northern Europe, Sweden or Finland, perhaps. Wait, how'd he get there!? He knew something was up by how Kotori was acting. He calls Aisia "like a beautiful girl that slipped out of a picture book". Typical Suginami ;) He'll help them out since there's no mystery he can't solve. He points out that Jun'ichi's been missing something on the map -- there's a name or place written there. Y-o-s-h.. n-o.. Yoshi.. Aisia says "Yoshino". No way...
...yup, the place Aisia was looking was the house where Sakura stayed right there next door to Jun'ichi's. But she's not there to see Sakura, she's there to see Sakura's grandmother (which would be Jun'ichi's grandmother as well). Well, looks like he'll have to take care of Aisia of now since she came to see his grandmother. After going back home, Aisia notices Jun'ichi's worn shoes and produces a package out of nowhere. Inside, two little shoes... so that would mean... she seems to be a magic user like Sakura. She then calls Jun'ichi "goshujin-sama", "master"...
But not as in "He Is My Master" ;) Isn't there a better word than that to use in this case, Aisia? Something like 師匠 shisou or 先生 sensei (both meaning "teacher"). They had to use it on purpose to make people think things, eh? (^^;;) Anyways, seems like she's calling him that since thinks she can learn a thing or two about magic from Jun'ichi. Dunno about that, but we'll see.
Stripey (and Moyism, too, I guess. What the heck were you on when you wrote that?), if y'all won't take Aisia, and nobody else wants to cheer for her for now I will ;) She seems to be something of the quiet type and a bit shy. All that adds up in my book as very kawaii~ [insert the usual expression here]... and yes, even though it's a Aisia festival around here I do appreciate all the Kotori so far, too ;)
The chances of Kotori or anybody else will end up hooking up with Jun'ichi don't look too high judging from Jun'ichi's reaction when he went into Nemu's room this time. Seems he can't change his siscon ways quite get her out of his mind. So as Omni mentioned, it looks like we're going to see Nemu show up back in Hatsunejima sometime. Maybe Sakura, too?
Careful Matthew, as moyism rightly points out.. Aisia's jailbait.. lol! :) Actually I find her really kawaii too.. it's just that she needs more personality (which will come with more eps, I'm sure) and a set of gym-wear ~ala Kotori~ to snag my heart. :) If she had gone "Nii-san" instead of "goshujin-sama", she would have won my vote instantly. I mean what's D.C. w/o some sis-con right? ;)
And thanks for the summary... clarified some lines I wouldn't quite catch :)
In my defense, I was either extremely bored or lacking sleep when I did my DCSS 2 entry ;)
Stripey, come on... Aisia has like 10+ other ways than "nii-san". If nothing else, didn't Sister Princess teach all anime fans the MANY variations of "older brother"? I, personally, would have liked to have heard "onii-chama" myself. (if it helps, I was re-watching all of Dokkoida esp when they parody SisPri)
Good review as always Matthew. Needed some type of translations for Suginami's lines and your review helped a lot! Now just gotta wait for the next episode...
*counting down the days until DCSS 3*