The one irk I had with this episode, however, was AtsuyaвЂ™s role. Like Hanabi discovered last week, Sanae learned the greatest clarity can often be found in failure. For all that Sanae is broken, her commitment to trying with Hanabi was the strongest thing she has yet done, a testimony to her change and a showing of the depth of her affection. ItвЂ™s actually quite sad on HanabiвЂ™s part, as the poor girl does not understand the extreme difficulty Sanae faces in trying to forge a platonic relationship with her. It wasnвЂ™t until this episode that Hanabi actually came onto Sanae herself, and at the very end-begging to remain friends-willing to use Sanae for herself. Peanut gallery seating lets us know Sanae was the (ab)user up to this point, with Hanabi largely accepting her advances out of confused loneliness and guilt. Both girls were under the impression they had singularly used the other for their own selfish benefit. Particularly amusing during the breakup too was both HanabiвЂ™s and SanaeвЂ™s misunderstandings. For such a morally repulsive character-next to Akane of course-to realize her futility and act on it is quite impressive, a good bit of redemption in the face of unpleasant beginnings.

Sanae knew all about the unlikelihood of Hanabi ever loving her, but I never thought she would accept it and move on this quickly.

ItвЂ™s therefore not too surprising SanaeвЂ™s change of heart this week initially threw me for a loop. It was SanaeвЂ™s refusal to stop which was probably the most damaging aspect though, as she knew what she was doing was wrong, but forged ahead nonetheless. SanaeвЂ™s relationship with Hanabi was arguably KuzuвЂ™s most provocative, propelled in part by SanaeвЂ™s aggressiveness and willingness to literally use Hanabi for her own ends. Instead, however, we received a weeklong respite it seems as the remaining loose pairing end in Hanabi and Sanae was properly concluded, yuri and all. With the confessions out the way last week, I had an inkling the fallout of HanabiвЂ™s and MugiвЂ™s decisions would occur this time around.

Kuzu no honkai eng sub