You should be able to solve this

Rejoice! All this little drama regarding the love polygon should finally be over. The girls have finally accepted the fact that Yuuji is just spending some time with Konoe, and that they’re all finally taking steps forward. Finally.

Summary:

Class starts with an announcement from the teacher that there’s a pop quiz the next day that will test every subject. Ogata and Ike organize the entire group to study at Satou’s, after having Yuuji ask Shana and Yoshida. They all agree, and gather to study.

Before all the girls and Ike arrive, Satou, Tanaka and Yuuji try to convince Margery to leave Satou’s house as to not cause unnecessary trouble. Too drunk for words, she refuses. Thankfully she does, because she proves quite useful later on.

Ike’s ladies

Everyone settles down and starts studying. Yoshida, being the smart one she is, decides she’ll skip the studying and instead cook for the rest of her friends. They all eat dinner after a bit of studying, and while washing the dishes, Ogata and Yoshida bump into a drunk Margery =0 Oh the drama, the development =0 Ogata questions Margery’s relationship with Tanaka, since Ogata obviously feels threatened. Margery says that there’s nothing special going on, it’s just that the guys admire her. And while she’s at it, Margery throws in a few love tips which Yoshida also listens to intently.

Meanwhile Konoe and Shana go out to look for Ogata and Yoshida, since they’ve been missing for a long time. They come across the still unwashed dishes, and attempt their own jab at doing a proper job. Konoe, being the princess she is, and Shana, being the inexperienced flame haze she is, completely fail at the task and end up blowing up water everywhere. This also relieves the tension between everybody, and things go back to normal. Yoshida tells Shana the wisdom Margery imparted on her, and they both finally get over their jealousy of Konoe =0

Thoughts:

THANK YOU MARGERY, I THINK I MIGHT LOVE YOU. It doesn’t rival any Noto role, but still, you got the girls out of their love polygon funk and we can finally put an end to that drama. I’m glad it’s finally over, it was made of DO NOT WANT and kill me now.

Margery, once again, gives some advice to Ogata. The first time should’ve been during the onsen OVA, although I’ll admit I forget what exactly she said since it’s been so long. But Margery’s proving to be a character that isn’t just sitting along in the sidelines getting drunk. Or maybe she still is, but at least she got us over this part. I couldn’t be happier. Her little love wisdom thing also confirms the fact that she’s essentially a big sister to Satou and Tanaka. And no, the guys aren’t into siscon >_>

Shana and Yoshida should hopefully be fully back to normal starting from next epi, or at least they won’t be nearly as annoying as before. However, judging by the episode preview of 07, it doesn’t look like there will be any real progress regarding Konoe’s origins, so she’ll remain and cause trouble for the ladies for a little longer.

On that note, I have to constantly remind myself that Konoe isn’t a lifeless doll. Her quietness and need for everything to be done for her is typical of a doll, yet when she went to look for Ogata and Yoshida, I was reminded acutely that she was a normal human by most standards. It’s nice of her to be concerned, and it makes me wonder if Hecate is capable of feeling something like that, should they prove to be separate entities [which I think they are].

Unfortunately, looking at the next episode’s preview, it would appear that we’re not quite out of the woods yet. Now it’s Ike’s turn to toil with his relationship with Yoshida, which should also affect the previously established love polygon.

…So when can we get back to swords, fire, and killing? I’m not a shounen addict, but seriously, I’m not watching this series for the intricate webbings of a high school drama. That’s like watching School Days for the romance. Now certainly you can have SOME drama in Shana, but looking at the stats here, it’s clearly unbalanced. We have 6 episodes so far, the first one of which being a recap episode, which basically sets us down to 5 episodes. Of those, the past 4 episodes were devoted to the love polygon, and the only fighting we got was between the girls and Yuuji. Ok ok FINE, you can count in training if you REALLY want to, but that hardly changes anything. And the fight with the flame haze that controlled fire rings? He literally died less than 2 minutes after his first attack. Additionally, 50 seconds of that “fight” was spent on him helplessly crawling over to Konoe, attempting to eat her power of existence. The only reason the fight lasted so long was because of Shana’s wanting to test out her theory. So looking at it, we have: recap, fight, love polygon, love polygon, love polygon, love polygon. And the next episode is Ike’s little drama.

Shana is not pleased

So are we going to advance the story with some killing or what?

//Soda