Natsuiro Kiseki 3

Dat product placement.

What a terrible episode.

One key point is this scene, our 4 heroines gathered at the big rock after Aizawa has, I assume, called some sort of emergency meeting. Main point of this scene is them talking about how their lives would change if the secret of the rock was ever exposed. The eventual consensus is that the rock's powers might vanish if word ever got out, and they all decide to do whatever they can to maintain their secret. Personally I'm getting very annoyed at how we're supposed to take the girls' random speculation of the rules of this thing as fact, but I'll try to overlook that I suppose.

Dumbest shit ever.

But wait, we're not done here yet, Saki and Aizawa decide, for whatever reason, that they want to get revenge on their friends for the honest mistake we saw in episode 2. So the two of them wish for Yuka and Rinko to get stuck together, which happens. ...Okay...I'll try to remain calm throughout this. First of all, why the hell would Aizawa and Saki want revenge? Let's ignore the fact that the entire misunderstanding was cleared up, and that they both know Yuka and Rinko had purely honest intentions, but wasn't that wish the whole damn reason they made up in the first place? What the hell was the point of getting revenge for something like that? Also why the hell is the rock suddenly granting selfish wishes? Not only did they completely ruin and invalidate that feel good scene at the end of episode 2, but they made Aizawa and Saki look like ridiculous bitches in the process. Aizawa says "Have a nice day together" and walks off to tennis practice with Saki. Good fucking lord Sunrise, nice work.

My Rattata is in the top percentile!

So after that shit, we get Daiki once again questioning Saki's brother, whose name I have still not bothered to learn, about his sister once again. Saki's brother and his friend who i swear I've never seen before, don't believe him and think his eyes are playing tricks on him. Then we get a screenshot that I'm too lazy to post, it's Daiki sitting in a random shed around the area the big rock is in, this shed has a very convient hole in the roof and guess where the girls were flying at? Yup, right in view of that hole, so that's what we're expected to believe, he was just there and conviently saw them through this hole in the roof...wow. Anyway Daiki keeps going on and on and eventually calls the girls witches because he read some stupid book about them, this obviously pisses off our generic brother who shoves Daiki to the ground and walks off along with his even more generic friend.

This current storyline with Daiki is pretty much resolved with all of them trying to actually convince them that they're witches, failing, and Saki just spilling her guts and crying about wanting Daiki and Saki's brother to make up (they had a falling out after the fight.) But wait, I thought the point of all of this was to keep him quiet about the rock? Well it looks like the crack staff at Sunrise completely forgot this point and it is never brought up again. Daiki walks away sad and Saki's brother runs after him to try and cheer him up, and the two run off into the sunset together.

What's that? Wondering how Yuka and Rinko got unstuck? Well...

The rock split them up after this line, that's right, they were separated FOR STATING THE OBVIOUS. Good fucking work Sunrise.


Overall thoughts: This episode was amazingly bad, completely invalidating the events of last episode, making 2 of your main girls look like vengeful bitches, and setting up potential plot points only to completely forget about them or make them totally useless, this episode was amazingly lazy, nothing happened, and that's pretty much the problem people have with the Slice Of Life genre as a whole, way to make those problems even more glaringly obvious.