Ichigo 100% TV - 9: Valentine's Chance Encounter / Sweet Painful Chocolate

Title:Ichigo 100% TV
Episode:9: Valentine's Chance Encounter / Sweet Painful Chocolate
Synopsis
Valentine's Chance Encounter

Manaka and Satsuki are out shopping. They bump into Aya who is obviously hiding something in a Ichigo wrapping. Satsuki then thanks Manaka for the great date and she runs off. Manaka tells Aya that it wasn't a date and sorry but he has to run after Satsuki. He gets mad at her for lying and she replies that she was trying to break up Manaka and Aya. (Yikes!) He tells her to stop it and she gets all mad / jealous and says she hates him and runs off. They don't speak for several days.

A few days later it's Valentines day (The day Japanese girls give chocolates to boys). Manaka is depressed because no one has given him chocolates (Aya didn't, Satsuki is still mad at him, and Tsukasa broke up with him.) and goes home. On the way Aya gives him a box of chocolates and tells him it's because he is such a good friend. Satsuki is following with her box but she still thinks Manaka is mad at her so she throws her box into a recycling bin. During all of this Tsukasa shows up at Manaka's house and drops off a box of chocolates.

Manaka goes home and finds the second box and thinks it's from Satsuki. Inside he opens them and Yui comes in. She remarks on how good Satsuki's box looks (Tsukasa is a master baker) and she EATS one of them. (Isn't that an insult or something?) Manaka gets so pissed and to keep them away from Yui he eats the remaining 7 chocolates at once. Which then gives him a nosebleed.
Sweet Painful Chocolate
Manaka goes up to Satsuki and thanks her for the nice gift. Satsuki is so suprised that Junpei would go into the trash and EAT her chocolates (He didn't, they were Tsukasa's) that she's all in love with him all over again. Later, Aya invites him over to the club room so that she can show him how far her novel is.

Elsewhere, Yui is heading home after taking the Oumi entrance exam and notices that she is lost. Tsukasa shows up and helps her home. Yui comments that Manaka got a nosebleed on the chocolates that he ate and Tsukasa smiles and says 'thank you'. Yui is very confused by this statement (As she thinks Satsuki made them) and ponders this on the way home. Later Manaka's Mom tells Yui that for her celebration of passing the test she is making her favorite dish. Yui starts drooling and completely forgets about the Tsukasa incident.

Back to the Club room, Manaka is reading the script and comments to Aya that he wonders who the main guy is going to pick out of all the women (Sound familiar..should be it's Ichigo's main plot!), and Aya answers that she hasn't decided. As Manaka bends over, her script falls to the ground, and as he reaches for it, so does Aya and he grabs her wrist instead. All of a sudden his heart is pounding and his cheeks are flushed. He GRABS Aya and gives her a hug. Then he gives her a really big squeeze that arches her back. Instead of pain though, in her eyes is pleasure. Then the night bell rings and they seperate as if they were caught in a more shameful position. He offers to walk her home. On the way Aya mentions that she has figured out who the main guy of her book will choose and she walks away happy. Manaka thinks that even though they never said 'I love you' he was extremely happy to give her such a close hug. Yui comments that evening (She is sleeping in his bed again) that he looks way too happy. The scene closes with a picture of Tsukasa with a longing in her face. (I guess she is waiting for a call from Manaka).
Comments
This episode is FULL of cultural stuff (Valentines, Recycling bins, and Nosebleeds). I hope you catch all of them as the fansubber did not provide backstory to the legends. All girls are in 100% this time. I don't really like how Satsuki is acting (This is the same girl who practically raped Manaka and now can't give him a chocolate? Nah). This is basically a restart of all the relationships all the way back to the beginning. Aya likes him, Satsuki is willing to die for him, Tsukasa is sitting waiting for him to call, and Yui is just getting into the jealousy phase (She ate that chocolate on purpose).

Is Aya the Mangaka's Alter ego? Everything she is doing seems to point to the first draft of Ichigo 100%. Remember that the Mangaka is a woman.

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