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Didn´t notice that at the verybeginning!! Now I understand the weight thing and somehow her parents worries and after this incident I can almost be sure of what will happen next.

LMAO with that terrible trolling the girls are making to poor Wien

Yeah :D "I'm okay" -> seriously isn't okay, everyone should understand that.

Ending was bad, fall from horseback :/

So this time Sawa is going emo and even worst dieting like crazy
someone should punch this girl with Pink Hammer of Reason
she seemed to be most normal there (ok other people were Wien and Konatsu so it's not hard).

But it's nice to see that Wakana moved forward
she really turned into nice character :)

Did anyone else see that ending coming? It wasn't hard: Sawa wants to be a horseracer, but she's already about a foot too high for that. She's throwing up everything she eats in order to lose a lot of weight really quickly. And of course, she collapses in a dramatic fashion.

A couple of things: 1) her father is right about how unrealistic her career choice is, but he's being a ass about it. That means by the end of the arc, Sawa's passion for riding is gonna somehow convince her father that he's wrong
2) she just fell of a horse face first at full gallop onto gravel. That's like doing a faceplant from a 35mph car. Why isn't she dead or horribly mutilated?
3) the guys are getting the shaft in this series. once the chairman showed up, I'm predicting the final arc will be focused on Vice-Principal.

An episode centering around Sawa.Just what I wanted..

I agree with Sawa's father about it being stupid her wanting to pursue horse riding proffesionally rather than going to college, getting a job and supporting the family because it is true the chance she will come a professional horse rider is incredibly slim. However he seriously handled the situation with her in all the wrong ways which is really what caused everything to go this bad. Her dad is almost as much in the wrong as she is in this situation.

Nice research on those.

EH? REALLY? Yeah I agree she needs to realize what you mention and perhaps do find a balance between her love for the sports and its realism along with her realism of her current situation. Body and family wise.

wien has some grammar issues while writing the letter,
out of curiosity i stopped the video when the letter was shown and he wrote it in german
with some minor mistakes which a native speaker would never make...can't blame the japanese for that, i know they tried their best x)

You don't talk about girls and weight in the same sentence, that's a lesson you should never forget for the rest of your life haha

Sawa's dad is a douchebag, I do understand him but he could have handled it better. Konatsu is so wrong with her intuition and Sawa had that accident now, hopefully she didn't receive an injury that prevents her from horse riding.

You totally nailed it sir! :D

Sawa...

To be honest she was always the one I cared about the least of the five (and still is), but still... While it looks like she will be physically okay, I hope she is able to recover mentally.

Wonder what was up with that person meeting the headmaster. And what the Deputy Headmistress was going to say about the club.

Wanted to add on a bit to my last post since I was tired when I posted it.

This episode was a bit of a step down from Wakana's arc, but I guess it is sort of hard to top that. Something about the drama didn't sit well with me.

I like the girls of this series, however as a girl myself I actually find myself relating to and sympathizing with Wien the most. His loneliness and lack of a place within the group has been kind of depressing, and seeing him acknowledge that in this episode as well as hint to being an orphan or something of the like makes me just want the absolute best for the guy.

But wasn't the first arc kind of a Konatsu arc?

I view the episodes so far like this:
Episode 1: Intro to characters and Konatsu arc.
Episode 2: Konatsu arc resolution first hints of Wakana arc.
Episode 3: Intro to Taichi Badminton Arc and Wakana arc and new club formation arc.
Episode 4: New club formation resolution and development of Wakana arc.
Episode 5: Resolution, at least initially, of Taichi Badminton arc, Wakana arc acceleration, introduction of Sawa/Taichi romantic interest, and first hints of Sawa arc.
Episode 6: Wakana arc resolution and intro to Sawa arc.
Episode 7: Sawa arc acceleration, Wakana's song arc introduction, Principle drama arc introduction, Girls troll Wien mini-arc introduction, and Konatsu vs. Vice Witch II introduction.

There are also several hints at a future Wien arc that has to do with the "Yang" person that he writes letters to, but I haven't really figured out when or if poor Wien will get his day in the sun. (Which probably equates to being totally depressed, so perhaps it would be better if he didn't! LOL!)

I was also really glad when one of the girls mentioned that Taichi has an athletic scholarship! (Of course, he still has to pass the tests to get into the college. Don't know if that will be an arc.) I assumed that 8th in the nation as a senior would be enough to get him a free ride somewhere, but it is really neat that the writers went to the trouble of adding in that one conversation confirming it!

I am really impressed with the attention to detail in the writing of this show!

Thanks for the info!

Well, that would be appropriate, since Wien is not a native speaker of German. Yes, he lived in Austria for 12 years, but his first 5 years or so were in Japan. One would think that he would have had to learn German when he moved there, since he already would have been a native Japanese speaker. This means he really has no native language at this point, as he used German for most of his life and doesn't have a firm grasp on his native language any more. My wife's cousin adopted a child from Kazakhstan when he was 5 years-old. He is about 13 now and you can still tell that he isn't a native English speaker, but he doesn't really remember Russian that well either from what I can tell.

Episode 1-5 Konatsu>Sawa
Episode 6+ Konatsu=Sawa

Combo assault on Takana FTW
Sawa Strip Show
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Ending T_T

5/5

Evil, evil creators..

tall people just tend to be heavier naturally and i guess there's a really strict limit on the weight for jockeys. horses can't run fast with heavy jockeys D:

i wonder how are they going to end this arc. will sawa give up being a jockey to pursue music? will her injuries be serious enough to make her father ban her from horse riding? or will she lose enough weight to be accepted for a trial?

Malnutrition and sports is a very dangerous combination hope Sawa is alright.
Seems there all pretty busy with there future careers but Wakana and Wien still haven't found something they like yet judging from the looks of it.
I can understand Sawa's parent's concerns but even if Sawa's sport career where to fail she can always switch career to something else as long as she is under 30 it should not be a problem.
Tho i don't think working for the government is a good idea but that's looking from a European point of view.

That choir club president was a bitch not just acting that way towards Konatsu but her friends as well and then the way she ordered Tanaka to get out of the way.
I was surprised he even listened i would have expected some sort of comment whether she couldn't ask things normally.

BTW, no one mention the sudden appearance of Chairman. I wonder what's his plan here, and that he said he has a "plan". It seems like his plan requires the principal to be the principal of the school as well.

I smell something fishy here, when he said he '[had] removed some of the roadblock along the way" ...

Ow hell, that fall at the end didn't really look all that dangerous, but horse was already galloping so that'd normally be something to worry about. Preview shows Sawa being allright though so i'm cool.
Her dad is quite an ass about the matter, even if it's a hard way. Sawa is pretty admirable doing whatever she can to achieve her dream, but it seems everyone will have to straighten her up with that emo attitute she's started showing now.

Kinda makes me wonder why Sawas' dad is so against the idea of her riding professionally. Plus, I really hope she gets her shit straighten out, because Wakana isn't bitchy anymore, but I don't need you to go all emo now! I guess you already forgotten what Wakana told last epiosde?

Also looks like Wiens time in Japan isn't all fun and games like I thought. Maybe some character development is in store for him after Sawa? I sure hope so...