Last time, during the cross-country race, Kurumi lost confidence in her magic abilities as she could not execute a spell. After talking with Yuzu the previous time, it’s evident that Kurumi has given up being a magician. What will Kurumi do now that she has given up on being a magician, or is she?
From the previous episodes, Kurumi came close to lighting a fire with a spell. While she managed to get a spark as Suzuki was around, she couldn’t execute a spell, and the whirlpool trapped her and her team during a cross-country competition. While Kurumi talked with Yuzu, she felt down as she couldn’t be a magician.
Before the holiday break, Suzuki is nowhere to be found. Instead, Yuzu eventually received a task from Mr. Harris, the teacher that he got the exam papers from Suzuki. Yep, her class thought they would get off easy without doing an exam. However, Suzuki gave them an exam anyway, asking them to draw an array for a spell they wanted to cast. While everyone managed to come up with something, Kurumi couldn’t come up with anything and handed an empty sheet. The funny thing is that the cat, who is the nurse, is proctoring the exam. Wait, is that cat familiar since that purple-haired dog shapeshifter interacts with it regularly?
Maki noticed that Kurumi was still in her uniform. Their class is supposed to have a party and dress as Kurumi doesn’t know what to be. While Maki knows that Kurumi wants to become a magician, she has completely given up. I feel she gave up a bit too early and probably lost confidence in Suzuki, who was not around. As expected, Kurumi is distraught. Of course, Maki let Kurumi borrow her dream.
While Kurumi has fun with her classmates during class, she feels that she is getting left behind. She has no dream after giving up on her magician dream. That is until a Magumi student appeared, Aniku Kuhmah, who transferred into the general class because he felt that he couldn’t be a Magumi magician anymore after feeling that he failed his exam and flunked out. Moreover, he is the only one who couldn’t finish the race despite having all the abilities.
After Kurumi heard that Aniku gave up on his dream, she decided to stay at the school. Yuzu isn’t going back, which makes Kurumi’s time with Yuzu interesting. She eventually talked with Kurumi that she couldn’t go back home to work out her feelings.
While her parents are elite state magicians, Yuzu, despite studying hard, couldn’t qualify for Magumi. That is why she felt she let her parents down and envied the Magumi students more than she could bear. However, her feelings changed significantly thanks to Kurumi, and she changed her perspective and found another way to make her parents happy. Of course, she remembers Suzuki’s words about not giving up, as they can do it, as her father said something similar.
That is when Kurumi admits to giving up being a magician as Suzuki hasn’t returned and couldn’t get any of her spells to work. Yep, she admits to handing a blank exam paper to Suzuki, which catches her attention. Still, it’s understandable why Kurumi might be frustrated as her efforts aren’t paying off. However, she will never become a reality if she gives up now. Of course, Asuka, his brother, and Aniku also stayed behind.
The funny thing is that the two lab-coated Magic Research Club students emerged. They recruit the remaining students to find one of the seven wonders in a dark building. Of course, we see Yuzu defrost further with Kurumi since that talk and tells Kurumi to call her “Yuzie” as they hold hands as she is afraid of the dark.
Eventually, they find a wonder as Aniku wants to run away. I wonder if they can deal with it without Suzuki behind. From the preview, maybe Kurumi regained the courage to do magic again as she finally pulled off a spell. We’ll find out next time.
(Also known as The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians)
@chikorita157 I’d say Yuzu has really grown on me. Could have been so bad, but turned out good.
I’m curious about her two hence girls though. Because we have Yuzu, a citrus fruit, and limone, also a citrus fruit. But the third girls name doesn’t trigger anything for me:(
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Yuzu is certainly an interesting character and it’s nice that she finally defrosted after all that doubt over Suzuki’s magic thing. The question is, can Kurumi pull it off..
Not too sure, but of course Kurumi holding Yuzu’s hand got me thinking about yuri pairings, not getting my hopes up too much since this is not yuri.
@chikorita157 I just like it when they avoid the tropiest tropes. I don’t want some out there artsy stuff, that bores me. I just want 5-10% different, if that makes sense.
Also doing a trope well can save it.
Hopefully we get more Yuzu level writing.
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