Oh boy, this series just keeps delivering. This time, it’s the time for Noe to get some major development. You don’t often anime where people date each other, even though one of them is in love with somebody else (except when said person wants to manipulate the other, or the anime is called Saiunkoku Monogatari, of course), and here in True Tears, we’ve got two of these couples now.
Shinichiro is still in love with Hiromi, but now that the two are possible siblings, there’s no way that they’ll ever become a couple. And to try and forget this, he finally asks Noe to start dating him. It’s here where he finds out that Noe has really been in love with him. Then, when he tells this to Aiko, she finally loses it. I guess that she was fine while Shinichiro had no official girlfriend yet, as she could lie to herself a bit. But now that he’s actually dating someone, it’s much harder to just try and ignore this.
This was also a major episode for Shinichiro himself, as with that kiss, he must have figured out that Aiko likes him too. In one episode, he was forced to see that there are more sheep in the ocean than just Hiromi (I think I got that proverb wrong, but I don’t care at the moment). What would really be interesting for this series is to see it break away from its harem roots, and have Hiromi seriously fall in love with Noe’s brother. That would be quite interesting.
More fish in the sea. Generally speaking, there are never sheep in the ocean. XD
(I’ve made much worse flubs when writing in my second language, so I understand and mean well, though I have to say that was pretty funny)
I must say I’m kind of wanting Hiromi to end up with Noe’s brother. It would be interesting than have her go chase Shinichirou like other girls , that would be boring. Although I would say there is a possibility she is a true heroine in the end.
I strongly suspect that at next episode, Shinichiro’s mother will tell Hiromi that she ‘could have been’ but ‘IS NOT’ biological daughter of her husband, She probably will also say, although Hiromi and Shinichiro is not biological sibling, she still don’t want anything happening between them.
Hmm, I can’t imagine a genuine Jun X Hiromi pairing. Both was just so fixated on their loves that it’s hard to thwart the inertia with the remaining 6 eps. I don’t see a basis for their loves either since the common grounds they share is rejection from taboo love and that is hardly a healthy starting point. Of course if PA works can pull it off convincingly, it’d surely be spectacular. 🙂