Life goes on and it seems as if a few months have passed since the last episode. It is December. Nothing much seems to have changed between Kaoru and Ritsouko. Sentaro has been posing for Yurika. I'm guessing that she is a visual artist of some sort but I don't recall that being mentioned before or any mention of the medium in which she prefers to work.
The quartet (Kaoru, Sentaro, Junichi, Ritsouko's father) gets an offer to play on Christmas at a club for American servicemen. Kaoru and Ritsouko each buy Sentao a drum stick for his birthday, which is Christmas Day. Kaoru tries kissing Ritsouko which seems to bother her out and she goes running off.
Kaoru learns about Sentaro's past after they get into a fight. They are both jealous of one another. Kaoru feels very lonely at home, even when surrounded by family. Sentaro, by comparison, always seems to have his younger siblings to keep him company. Kaoru learns in this episode what Sentaro went through growing up. He didn't realize how bad he had it. He didn't know about the abuse Sentaro got from his grandmother who never forgave her her daughter for getting into a relationship with an American, who is Sentaro's father and is (presumably) no longer around.
The gig at the club doesn't exactly go as planned. A drunk white American disrupts the whole show when he starts yelling about the fact that the quartet is playing "coon" music. Sentaro wants to fight but Junichi talks him out of it.
The episode ends with what looks like trouble brewing. It looks like Yurika, who along with Ritsouko came to the club to see quartet play, may be falling for Junichi. I don't like the direction that is headed in but that's not because it won't make the story more interesting or seems unrealistic.
The part of this episode that got me the most rattled was the fight between Kaoru and Sentaro. It was funny sad how they could both only see the good side of one another's home situation.
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