Summary:

The episode starts off between October 1984 and December 1985 where George and Shannon are holding out a date at an aquarium. George has confessed that he was interested in her after all this years that she had met her as a servant. Shannon was delighted at this and blushed afterwards.

On December 1985, Shannon broke a mirror at a small shrine located at Rokkenjima. She yelled to the skies that she had fulfilled her promise and now it is Beatrice turn to keep hers. On October 1984, Eva’s family had visited Rokkenjima for a meeting. While the meeting was taking place, Jessica and Shannon were outside the garden talking about George’s personalities. Jessica noticed that Shannon had liked George based on her actions.

While they were chatting, George has noticed them and decided to join in the conversation. Eva noticed George talking with the servant and started to threat her. Shannon decided to reflect on her feelings on why a furniture like her was given a heart than can love other people.

Beatrice suddenly showed up in front of her and told her that she make George fall in love with him for all eternity. In exchange for this, Beatrice told her that she must break a small mirror at a small shrine near the shore. Shannon has rejected this and told her that bad things might happen if she broke the mirror. Beatrice gave Shannon an option to change her mind if she wishes to so she gave her a golden butterfly ornament. According to Beatrice, it has the power to grant her wish if the mirror at the shrine is destroyed. Kanon saw this conversation but Beatrice had left.

On August 1986, at a beach on Rokkenjima, Shannon had thanked Beatrice because of her magic so she decided to return the golden ornament and told her that she would not use it anymore because she believed that they should be the ones putting in the effort to make their relationship last forever. Meanwhile, Jessica has invited Kanon to join her at a school festival. Kanon noticed that jessica acts differently in school compared to her usual self in the mansion.

Back home at Rokkenjima, Jessica told Kanon that people can change themselves to something they want to be and that he should stop treating himself as something as a furniture. But Kanon couldn’t accept this and insisted that humans and furniture cannot love each other. Kanon relaized that Beatrice was just playing around with the couples by giving them false hope.

Preview: Episode II-II – “Early Queen Move”

Thoughts:

What a lighthearted episode to start the 2nd arc. We got ourselves focused on the character development of this series which was pretty much absent in the first arc.

Between the 2 pairs, I prefer the Shannon and George pair the most because 1.) any character being voiced by TEH RIE = win and 2.) Even though Yu Kobayashi is awesome, Emo-Kanon is just plain annoying for making poor Jessica cry ;_;. The lack of Tsurupettan was a bit disappointing since the song they used in the anime didn’t add the epicLOL randomness feel of the scene. I remember laughing hard when I got to this part in the novel. But yeah, at the end, I guess it’s okay. At least they still used Jessica’s VA to sing the song. ヽ(´ｰ ｀)ノ

Next week, a special guest will appear as the 2nd round finally starts! Again, I can’t wait! XD

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