A real rollercoaster ride. Things go from bad to better to great to awful to better to not so great. The episode opens with Sentaro lookings like he is going to run away. Kaoru doesn't let him sneak away. The two fight but it is a one-sided fight and it wakes everyone. Sentaro is unable to sneak off.
Sentaro's father returns. He has gifts for everyone. Things are starting to look up. It seems as though his father may have learned to accept him. Senataro and Kaoru start practicing for the music festival. Ritsouko joins the act. She is going to sing. I love this part. Watching her practice singing "My Favorite Things" while Sentaro and Kaoru accompanied her was very moving for me for some reason. Everything seems to be looking up.
The night before the festival Kaoru leaves the practive space beneath the record store. Minutes after he leaves Sentaro notices Kaoru left behind some sheet music. He jumps on his motor bike and goes after his friend. While speeding down the road after Kaoru he gets hit by a truck. Kaoru and Ritsouko don't find out about the accident until the next day, minutes before the music festival is about to begin.
Kaoru rushes to the hospital. He gets the bad news and then gets worse news as he learns that Sentaro wasn't as hurt badly as his sister, Sachiko, who was also on the bike and suffered a head injury. Things went from bad to awful for a few minutes there but then Sachiko wakes up. Things are only good for a minute or two before it is revealed that Sentaro has disappeared.
Maybe a few too many twists and turns in this episode. Where the hell did the motor bike materialize from? I don't recall Sentaro owning such a vehicle. His family is fairly poor so it doesn't really jive that he would just happen to have one. What was his sister doing riding with him on the bike. He ran after Kaoru. It was a very last minute thing to do. It seems a little odd for her to be on the bike with him, except to increase the drama factor on the show by having a big reveal where it turns out that she's the one who got seriously injured. Then she pulls through and seems fine. WTF?
Okay, despite all my questions after the fact these thoughts were not going through my head as I watched the episode. I was moved by it, I did enjoy it, but I do wonder if it would hold up during a second viewing considering all these thoughts.
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