I’m crossing my fingers that this ends up being as fun as it appears. I’m a huge fan of BAND-MAID and they did mocap for certain scenes, so my interest is piqued!

So it was her younger self that told her to draw...

But they're like Akiba Maid War cafes.

The drumming game that Grace/Dad is skilled at is a long-running rhythm game series Taiko No Tatsujin whose blurred mascot, Don Wada makes a brief appearance. Here's a short of someone playing the game blindfolded: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pw1jFjPfPGM As an aside, traditional taiko drum groups are pretty fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKqBy2uJ34

When to bottoms meet…

The music is really over the top in a good way. I ROFL so hard when it paused to give way to Grace reading at the fan cheat sheet.

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love has this. Who's to say?

I don't know what to say I lied There's a lot to unpack in this episode. There's one singular theme, though: everyone is on the verge of breaking down because of their exes. Starting with Uika, who has been on the back burner for the last couple of episodes. Thanks to Soyo posting on CRYCHIC's account, Uika pried into CRYCHIC through Anon. She didn't seem too happy learning that CRYCHIC is going back together. On top of that, she learnt Ave Mujica was formed as a rebound from CRYCHIC. Her fantasy of being together with Sakiko had now been shattered. She'd do anything to form Ave Mujica back together. She even thought of throwing Mutsumi in anger. [image: 8e06bf33-fccc-4d83-bd80-008442e6a4a7.webp] Sakiko is still filled with guilt of breaking Mutsumi after forming Ave Mujica. She was determined to fulfill her wish to bring back CRYCHIC together, even after having her resolve in episode 7. She wasn't really keen on getting back together either, but her guilt is what fueled her to grant Mutsumi's wish of getting CRYCHIC. [image: 2c5a87a1-8418-45b7-90b5-d1b54f37db27.webp] CRYCHIC being back together meant death for Mortis. Kinda ironic that her character role was one who not fear death, and she was determined to bring Ave Mujica back to prevent her from dying. Because Ave Mujica was disbanded because of her inability to play a guitar, she had been honing her guitar skills, thanks to Umiri. While Mutsumi is still unhealthily attached to CRYCHIC, because the Mutsumi-chan we knew only exists for the sake of CRYCHIC. In the end, Mortis accidentally "killed" Mutsumi and now pretending to be Mutsumi in order to bring Ave Mujica back. [image: 5ca6907a-333b-4284-9458-e50cb8f99cfc.webp] Umiri's case was a little unique, she shouldn't have that much attachment with Ave Mujica. When Ave Mujica disbanded, she was shown to be unaffected. Her resolve was only started after watching CRYCHIC performing together. Either because of jealousy since she couldn't connect with her other band unlike them or Taki's comment or it was her impulsive behavior that we explore last episode (her buying beauty product and her only drinking protein shakes as sustenance). She is seen as someone untrustworthy by Taki and Nyamu. To gain back that trust, she even had to quit her 50 other bands. Funny that Umiri only started acting up after Taki commented on her both being emotionally distant from Ave Mujica and untrustworthy (I'm definitely not biased with my UmiTaki goggles). [image: fe82687f-b60b-41b3-a3d8-b9de995cc02f.webp] Umiri also parallels Soyo from last season. Both are bass player trying to bring back their former band member after listening to Haruhikage on episode 7. Nyamu, on the other hand, didn't crash that badly. She was still haunted by Mutsumi's acting and had a hard time auditioning. Umiri also kept bothering her to join Ave Mujica despite her having no interest. Same with Umiri, she didn't have much attachment to Ave Mujica, so she has no reason to join back. Thanks to that, she is the only sane person to stop Ave Mujica and criticize how stupid they looked. [image: 9b47f7ad-1a64-45eb-975a-a1bac98cc0c1.webp] Gotta give it to the OST in this episode. They enhance an already stressful scene with an anxiety-inducing OST like a ticking time bomb. This was the most intense episode of Ave Mujica yet, and we will probably see the climax next episode! (same with It's MyGO!!!!!) Yes, Raana, they are a bunch of interesting girls. [image: 9da557ae-759b-41ae-9402-a29ba1015135.webp] @[email protected] [image: 571d0b6e-978a-4e85-89bc-c0303cdeea5c.webp]

This episode focus more on Sakiko and Mutsumi/Mortis side, with Umiri and Nyamu only got some screen while Uika is nowhere to be seen (I truly fear what she'll bring, clearly she is not okay) Raana, the stray cat of MyGO, is able to befriend Mortis by just a single night. Compared to Soyo who had been with her 3 days and nights by her side in her house. We got character development for Soyo, from an egoistic manipulator to a blunt caring friend who clearly cares for Mutsumi/Mortis circumstances. [image: 1feee602-0312-4936-9b2d-d5015327c1cb.webp] Sakiko finally adopting her Oblivionis (Forget) persona by forgetting about CRYCHIC, Ave Mujica, and even Mutsumi, pretending like everything hadn't happened. Now I wonder how the other Nyamu with Amoris (love), Umiri with Timoris (fear), and Uika with Doloris (grief) [image: 479f741f-f5fb-49df-b496-27da7556a7ae.webp] We got a little glimpse of Umiri's side of the story. Umiri only started to care after Taki was upset that Umiri didn't care about her band, especially Mutsumi/Mortis. Unfortunately, this is the only UmiTaki moment we got, no lovely dovely couple 😔 [image: b558b39e-9eb0-4da2-a6f9-4573b492e9cc.webp] I love Sakiko, but I fully support Soyo to gobsmack Sakiko after saying that! Please save us Soyo! @[email protected] [image: 177018a0-d807-424f-ad71-c3a10f4d4200.webp]

I keep expecting the bad guys to do something to obstruct their work but nothing happened.

As somebody who doesn't like spiders i was dreading this episode 😅

Their target audience personified

Despite some troubles Kenichi seems to be settling into his new home, but slow life still evades him. Primula refused a marriage to a noble family to chase after Kenichi. She got what she wanted and Kenichi accepted her into the family. Whose idea is it to practice fireball inside a wooden house?!

I need some LN junk. Give me these licenses...

Anama read Kenichi correctly. He uprooted himself from the town without telling anyone. While perfectly reasonable (he wanted to avoid being traced by nobles), it was quite a cold thing to do.