Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ 13: So Sayuri isn’t perfect…
Posted in Anime, Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ on Mar 13th, 2007 By Runningkid


Thoughts: So Sayuri wasn’t the perfect girl everyone imagined her to be, even she can break down when there is too much pressure. This show seem to love using lighting effects, in this episode there so many scenes with the sun setting it’s untrue. Although a lot of things seem to have happened, but there is barely any character development. Both Mina and Tsukasa didn’t get much screen time, minor scenes that did even matter. I’ve probably said before, this show has potential but at the moment it seems to me like a lot of useless stuff is happening.


Summary: Everyone is busy preparing for the cultural festival, Riku enters the classroom looking for Sayuri. Busy working Sayuri did not notice Riku’s presence, when she was finished with the paper work she consulted Sakurai about what the council was going to do. Looking rather scared of Sayuri’s serious attitude he pretended that he already prepared something huge for everyone. With that done Sayuri finally notices Riku, she asks if the class has decided on the event they were going to hold at the festival. Unfortunately the answer was, no. Back at their form room, the room was in chaos, the boys wanting to run a maid cafe and the girls refusing.


At lunch, Riku offered to help Sayuri with her heavy workload, although it was a lot of work Sayuri’s reply was that she can manage it. Before Riku could inist on helping Doujima and the others called him over for something they wish to enjoy with him. Sitting on the bench outside, they crowd round the magazine of models in swimsuits, while Riku doesn’t seem to care he is suddenly kidnapped. It was the drama club, the sensei wishes Riku to ask if Sayuri wants to participate in a play, since she has talent. However Riku refuses, he believes Sayuri is under a lot of stress already and she will not have time for that. To “persuade” Riku into accepting the offer, they used their “Dance of feather” to tickle him, they succeeded.

After class, Riku tries to approach Sayuri to ask about the play, however she was too busy being swarmed by other pupils asking for instructions. At this time, Mina sneaks next to Riku asking if he would join her for her practice session. She was rejected, because Riku said he was very busy. He apologized and dashed out the classroom after Sayuri. Again Sayuri seemed to be very busy, being swarmed by other pupils. Just before Riku was going to ask about the play, Tsukasa jumps on him and refuses to let go because they were lovers. Behind Tsukasa was the drama club, with a rather threatening look. Shaking Tsukasa off Riku heads towards Sayuri, just as he was asking the question Sayuri shouts and tell everyone to shut up. Silence, everyone was in shock, the perfect student have done something rude. Immediately Sayuri apologizes and runs away.


It was noon, Riku was still looking for Sayuri but with no luck. Meanwhile Sayuri was sitting in a room staring out the window and into the sun. She makes a paper airplane and flies it out the window. Outside Riku arrives at the tree where he and Sayuri first met. Suddenly he caught sight of a paper plane which lands in front of him. He wonders where this had come from, he looks in the direction of the plane and see Sayuri at a window. He rushed towards the classroom, there Sayuri was surprised to see him. Sayuri apologizes for her actions earlier, she also asks for Riku to keep this place a secret since this was Sayuri’s hiding place. Sayuri also explains that she like to keep herself busy and she would love to be a part of the play.
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