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It’s also frustrating to see that the Tourism Board is similarly stubborn. I guess in some ways I’ve started to associate Shiori’s mindset with Manoyama’s residents’ mindset: resistant to change and stubborn. Is she actually supportive of the changes Yoshino and the old man have been attempting or is she just tolerating them? Maybe she doesn’t care as much if it’s not directly affecting her?
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It leads to wonder about her reasoning for joining the Tourism Board, who seems adamant on changing the town of Manoyama regardless of the local residents’ opinions. After all, her parents and grandparents worked hard to make sure that Sayuri and Shiori were never truly in want.īut now she’s thinking of what will happen to her parents if she were to move out of the house, etc, and it frightens her. And now she’s worried about what will happen 10 years from now after her father brought the topic while they were having a father-daughter talk since she had never gave the inevitable possibility any thought. She is afraid of change as seen by her behavior in episode 6 and 7 where she was willing to lie to keep a house (of which she had fond memories) from being burned down. I also feel like I can’t care about Sayuri’s love troubles with Kamano since she was introduced in this very episode hence she (and Kamano) are like strangers compared to the other girls.Īnd we’re certainly not strangers to Shiori’s mindset by now. Which makes some sort of sense considering how she works in a hospital in the next town over and how she’s planning on moving away closer to the hospital (and Shiori isn’t the type to really talk about things unless it comes up) but this all just feels so abrupt. Sayuri seems to have been brought in without any sort of foreshadowing. The episode ends with Shiori announcing that she’ll be the one to direct the C-Rank Gourmet project instead of Yoshino and that she’ll make everyone in Manoyama happy. The Tourism Board head over to apologize and Ririko’s grandma lets loose on the old guy, saying that the new manju he ordered doesn’t contain any of the local Manoyama ingredients, that Tourism Board never considers what the people actually want, and that they need to take responsibility. Ririko’s grandmother (and the rest of the Board of Merchants) end up getting upset with the Tourism Board since the annual summer festival and the C-Rank Gourmet are both happening on the same date. In short, he basically tells Shiori to do whatever she wants (such a display of agape) and not to worry about change happening in life. He then takes his daughter out for a walk so they can have a heart-to-heart. As a result, the old folk spread the gossip around and cause Shiori’s dad to mistakenly believe that Shiori’s going to be married soon. They even teamed up for a C-Rank Gourmet test run). The grandparents overheard Sanae and Maki shipping Shiori and Kumano together at the grocery store (speaking of which, Sanae and Maki should be together, too.
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It’s like Amagami SS all over again, huh? There’s some sort of sexual tension between Sayuri and Kumano…as well as a possible misunderstanding since both of them have, on seperate occassions, admitted to Shiori that they were attracted to each other back in high school but that they both got stood up. We also get introduced to Sayuri, Shiori’s older sister, as well as her classmate from highschool, Kumano, who recently came back from studying gourmet at France and is now a chef. She also continuously declines being the leader of the C-Rank Gourmet with various excuses.
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Meanwhile Shiori can whip up delicious food with said ingredients, but the result looks bland. However, Yoshino, Ririko, Maki, and Sanae are unable to create appealing (or edible) dishes that incorporate local Manoyama ingredients. The Tourism Board decides to host this C-Rank Gourmet festival where they introduce a unique dish that would be exclusive to Manoyama (in another attempt to attract tourists). Shiori gets another mini-arc starting this week! Family, cooking, and conflicts-of-interest, oh my!