I appreciate that this show is modeling good communication between partners; I’ll take as much of that as I can get

that, plus we get some character development for her mom this time; I wonder if this is going to set her up even more to oppose Kuroe’s dad (also, surely that phone call he made is going to factor back in to the plot at some point?)

This episode was strangely fanservice-y; it wasn’t gratuitous or anything but we did get multiple separate moments without more than incidental justification (+ Manatsu’s boob window at the very end??)… I guess it could just be a cute part of the romance, but it was odd enough to notice. (funny that this week’s episode of Love Unseen also had some, albeit extremely tame by anime standards)

does her transformation have a refractory period? … she seems to be able to handle a lot more emotion after she de-transforms