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After leaving us hanging there last time we get.... Kanna wanting to show Ryuuya how much better she's gotten at juggling (^^;) Well... it takes her all night long to finally juggle. But she did do it so Ryuuya praises her for her effort. Same as last time...

神奈さま可愛いよ神奈さま！
Kanna-sama kawaii yo Kanna-sama!

Plenty of kawaii Kanna to go around :) While Kanna sleeps she talks, saying some very suggestive things as Ryuuya tries to wake her up... but she was talking about food. And Kanna must be an animal lover or something since she finds another furry thing to chase around :)

Been a while since I've talked about AIR here, hasn't it? I still haven't managed to finish the game, though... orz... Anyways, not going into big detail here... We start off with the same scene from episode 8 of Ryuuya, Kanna, and Uraha being pursued by soldiers and Ryuuya kicking some serious butt. After that we get into the things we didn't see in episode 8 as they go on their journey to see Kanna's mother. One thing to say...

神奈さま可愛すぎる！！
Kanna-sama kawaisugiru!

You could pretty much call this episode the Kanna-sama summer special. Kanna cuteness all the time :) But plenty of funny stuff from Ryuuya and Uraha as well.. mostly teasing Kanna since she's such an easy target :P

A preview for the AIR Summer special was shown after the recap episode (13). Definitely looks to be rather silly as the director said, but there was some of Ryuuya swordfighting so maybe not completely so.. I wanna see more of Kanna taking on that chicken, lol ;)

Okay, I'm gonna jump the gun a bit and write something now since I have to, or else I'll go crazy thinking about things all by myself. Spoilerific screencaps later ;) Click to read if you feel so inclined.

Misuzu wakes up to find Yukito gone, and just Sora with her in her room. Though he's gone she'll do her best.. She walks outside with Sora, though it's tough on her, and goes to her favorite vending machine to grab some juice.. as she decides what to get someone comes up and pushes a button -- it's Haruko. Sora doesn't quite remember show exactly she is...

Back home, Haruko tells her about what she was doing over at Tachibana's (Misuzu's father's) place, trying to make it so that she'd be her child now... But Misuzu says she'll be fine by herself and faints.. In Misuzu's room, Haruko says she'll take Misuzu to the hospital so they can treat her, but Misuzu says it's nothing they'll be able to cure -- she learned that from Yukito. She says again she'll be fine by herself, that her and Haruko should go do their separate things.. Haruko comes to feed her some rice, but Misuzu doesn't like it too much, then starts to cry. If they get too close then Haruko'll get sick, too.. Misuzu cries, falling in into mother's -- Haruko's lap.

The day before the closing cermeonies for this school term -- Mizusu walks down the street with that crow on her shoulder. She thinks a bit, and she gives it the name そら. She sees someone sitting at the place at the beach where she always looks at the sky...

Quick thoughts for now... Dang.. that was good stuff, tying together the summer arc with what's going on in the present. Watching Kanna as she went up into the sky, arrows flying at her, the monks' spell binding her, and then finally crying and disappearing... that was hard to watch...

...So she's our winged girl who's dreaming those awful dreams in the sky all alone.. and Uraha and Ryuuya turned out to be who I expected them to be, as Uraha learned how to do those puppet tricks and Ryuuya helped out, all so their children might find a way to save Kanna sometime down the road...

...And 1000 years later we ended with Misuzu befriending a crow that seems to be... Yukito, I guess? Seems Potato has an interest in him, judging from the next ep preview ;) Anyways, see how this all plays out next time in ひかり -- light. If I have any more thoughts I'll add them later, along with the summary :)

Okay, I just watched the sub to check my comprehension, and I understood most things but I lacked some vocabulary (as is usually the case) to understand some details. It would help if I'd keep a list of words I have to look up, wouldn't it? ;) Quickly summarizing what went on this time...

Kanna's been moved from place to place, never staying long enough to really feel like she belongs anywhere, always alone. Seemed like those around the palace where she was kept even felt scared of her, a 翼人, supposedly a messenger of the gods with awesome powers. She has no idea what a family is like since she's never had one...

Here are the lyrics for the full version of 「鳥の詩」 by Lia. Have fun singing along if you've got the song :) I'll forego a translation for now as songs are rather difficult things to translate well. Perhaps I'll do that later ;)

Corrected the bit I missed there at the end ;) I'm lacking in knowledge of Japanese history of that era so we'll see how I do with the next episode.

Got a lot to get through this time as we learn more about Yukito's mom, and what's going on with Misuzu, and the doll, etc., etc. ;)

Yukito looks after Misuzu after she got a bit dizzy and fell. She doesn't want to go to the hospital or anywhere, just rest a bit. Yukito goes over to her desk and takes a look at her 日記 (with pictures). Nothing but what she did with Yukito is written in it. Yukito tells her to not write what happened, but what she wants to do in it -- he'll make sure it comes true. So Misuzu says she wants to go to the beach with Yukito...