Granting Wishes [10]

What Could Have Been

Dear Diary,

Our plan has suc­cess­fully got­ten Yui off the show.

Kanade and I devised a plan for me to have one-on-one time with Yui. Yui revealed to me she was para­lyzed before death and didn’t get to do much except watch TV. I prom­ise to grant her wishes, and I find out that she wants to do pro-wrestling, soc­cer, and base­ball. Oh this will be fun.

A thou­sands slams into the ground later, Yui mastered a pro-wrestling move she wanted to do. Next up was soc­cer. I con­vinced the guys eas­ily to play soc­cer with a fake let­ter from Ten­shi. Kanade and I made sure Yui won the soc­cer game. Next was base­ball, epis­ode 4/diary entry 4 much?

Yui can’t hit a home run after all of our train­ing. Don’t worry, she doesn’t need to hit a home run any­more because she got to work out her body. There’s just one thing: she wants to get mar­ried. She asks if I would marry her, and awk­ward moment ensues. Luck­ily, Hinata comes out of nowhere and says he’d marry her! Hinata and Yui? Well, they pick on each other, but when did they ever show feel­ings that could relate to them lik­ing each other? Is some­thing hap­pen­ing off-screen I’m not aware of? Or he could be bluff­ing and say­ing all that stuff just to make her go away. I’ll just go with the “off-screen” romance instead.

Wait, Yuri just told me there’s a shad­owy fig­ure afoot. Ser­i­ously? What do we have to deal with now?

–Yuzuru Otonashi

Thoughts

So Yui no longer Tastes Like Dia­betes. She was like Fuko and Makoto for me, as I strongly dis­liked them at first liked them towards their end. I like how they explained why Yui is so upbeat and…Yui now. It was a sweet end for her char­ac­ter, and I enjoyed watch­ing it, along with the comedic antics lead­ing up to it. Know­ing she loves the fact she can move her body now, I would have expec­ted her to par­ti­cip­ate is more of the fights in the series. She didn’t even do any­thing in the whole “Let’s Save Kanade!” episode.

Yui and Hinata? Okay, I kind of see it, but it still felt out of the blue. I don’t recall any­time Hinata or Yui seemed to show feel­ings to one another other than their little argu­ments. Sure, some couples fight all the time, but you can tell they like each other in a crush way at least. For Yui and Hinata, I saw noth­ing but friend­ship. There’s always a chance Hinata was just say­ing that to help her move on, but he’s not that kind of guy.

And Yui wants to get mar­ried? Out of the blue as well. Next thing we know is that Yui’s a fox. I def­in­itely got Makoto vibes from her last scene. Looks like no more Girl­DeMo songs. Darn.

Okay, what’s with the shadow thing? Are we going some­thing like Mai’s route? Is this our final Big Bad? Why aren’t we stick­ing to help­ing the oth­ers move on? I guess it would be too dif­fi­cult to have every­one move on given the amount of epis­odes we have left.

Oh my god, TK can speak Japan­ese? Who knew? Noda can read? Who knew? Guess we have to wait next week to learn more stuff.