So I’m watching Clannad After Story 20 and I come across the Best Part of the Episode, in which Fuko visits the Okazaki household riding on her Wave Of Cute. So, I window it to take a printscreen, and I find that Rome, once again, had tossed me a pair of messages -

mDuo13: Seen After Story 20 yet?
mDuo13: If you haven’t, do.

I figure when new episodes of After Story get released my (or our? I wonder) Radar-O-Cute beeps wildly and I immediately download and watch the episode. Unfortunately, my Key-brand Depressometer was disabled in the process, and the last thirty seconds struck a blow to my heart.

I knew something was up. They have four more episodes to go, after all. I’m expecting a nice build-up to what I expect to be a miraculous climax.

I really, really hope she doesn’t die. She’s too young and too cute to pass away.

This post was originally an ode to Hidamari Sketch x365, having just finished it off two days after the guys at SpoonSubs released the last episode. Why is it so good? Why did the show never fail to envelop me in a blanket of warm slice-of-life goodness? Why are Hiro and Sae so damn lesbian and why do I find such a pairing so amusing?

But then I watched episode 9 of Clannad After Story and it flashed back to a handful of scenes in the original series that involved Nagisa Furukawa, and I wept.

There’s certainly enough space in my heart for both. I can’t say yet that a single Nagisa can stand in for my love of the wonderful Sunshine Apartments crew. There’s a good chance that she might, as I bear witness to After Story, and perhaps weep some more.

Oh, and I watched the first episode of Toradora!. It was okay.