It’s good to know that everyone feels the same way. =P Episode 05 – The Truth of the Classics Club and Its History I am suffering from sleep deprivation and this episode didn’t help me counter that one bit. The episode was a weird one that had made it seem like this were the last episode of the series and that the show was over. Naturally… it isn’t. Believe it or not, this “laid back detective/story-telling” series is slated for 21 episodes + an OVA. Whether my new found revelation (due to this episode) of the potential series structure for the show is a blessing or a pain-in-the-arse is left to be seen. Review So, it seems like we are done with the “main” mystery. Due to the lack of English information on the series, I had gone about watching this show thinking that this whole story about Chitanda’s uncle is meant to be the main plot driving the series. With another 16 episodes left in the series, I am glad that ill-drawn conclusions about the series structure was proven wrong. Hopefully, what one can draw from this is that the series may end up having a typical mystery arc-by-arc structure. Structure thus far: Episode 1&2: Introduction to the characters and mini mysteries + glowing eyes Chitanda Episodes 3-5: Arc 1 (?) – Mystery behind Chitanda’s tears and the Literature Club (aka, introductory mystery to the series) + Oreki’s slow change in attitude. Episode 6>: Hopefully this marks the start of something decent. If I were to take a step back and give the series the benefit of the doubt that they were simply trying to slowly escalate things, I am definitely going to be holding out hope that the next arc would be better than this. The Episode Don’t get me wrong. If you think that I am enthusiastic about the series and that I have changed my views on it altogether, I assure you that this episode had me in tears due to all the yawning done on my part and not due to me getting all emotional. The episode had a slow build up with lots of dialogue and pretty animation can only do so much to help it. The tension had reached it’s peak during the whole Pun/Reason-Behind-Chitanda’s-Tears scene where it was finally revealed that Sekitani Jun was simply doing a shout out of – “I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!” Just kidding, all jokes aside, as I know that many of you are probably not watching the series, I shall start at the beginning with a brief explanation of what had happened in this episode Episode Summary Skipping past the starting bit of Oreki doing his usual “bored of life” stint… Oreki receives a call from his sister who gives him a cryptic explanation of the event that had occured 45 years ago and had left it at that. It was hinted that the festival was not something to be seen as being heroic or positive...
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