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Excellent.  Just Excellent.

Are you okay being center fielder, then?

There’s something about this scene that is just perfect.  The pacing, the interjection of the music (which always appears only when it drastically contributes to the sincerity of a scene), perhaps just the way that it’s carried out so quickly instead of being stretched out to fill time like a series of less quality might.

We also learn that there’s more to both Azuma and his superficial-at-sight brother, as many of us have expected.

This is such a great show.  If only I had all the episodes at my fingertips instead of having to wait a whole week for each new one.

Well, at least I have Touch.  Which is equally as wonderful.  Speaking of Touch, I’ve become addicted to the show in ways that have only occurred in Maison Ikkoku and Honey and Clover.  And for all of the faults that the main character and the show itself may have, it is hard not to sympathize with the main character.  And yet what I love about the show is that he doesn’t wallow in his own despair.  He keeps his exterior seeming carefree as always, and somehow that accentuates the air of sadness around him.  I usually watch one episode on my way to and back from university (I ride a one way, one stop only bus directly to my university) and on days when I don’t have class, usually I sneak in an episode before bed.  But lately I’ve felt like staying up just to watch the next episode.