Shuffle! - 17: An Obedient Feeling

Title:	Shuffle!
Episode:	17: An Obedient Feeling
Synopsis
After Sia's alternate character has taken control of her, she forcefully takes Rin-kun on a date with him, skipping class and standing up Asa who has to carry the load of their previous shopping tour to school alone. When Asa gives Kaede the wrong idea about what could have happened to Rin-kun, things begin to get out of hand.
Comments
[2007-09-18, Devil Doll:] A painful episode with a decent ending. The whole thing felt so wrong right from the start - this isn't the Rin-kun we've known so far (breaking his promise to Asa), therefore Sia should have failed much earlier (such as during her obscene threat making the police go after Rin-kun). Then again, she drew the right conclusions from her debacle by telling Rin-kun the truth and formally confess once again, enduring the expected non-acceptance. (Note this is the first time Rin-kun turned a girl down! Nerine didn't ask for a reply to her confession, and neither Kaede nor Asa confessed so far. Primula still isn't considered a contender.) To my surprise Asa-senpai is in the leading position at this point of the story, taking it easy that Rin-kun broke his promise to help her. Kaede is overly worried about Rin-kun and begins to make more and more mistakes because of this; both princesses have put themselves out of the focus for various reasons. It's interesting to see how similar these princesses are in a way, which explains why they play fair with each other and how much a person who accepts them for what they are will mean to them. (Actually this doesn't let their home realms appear that positively if they didn't find enough friends there, given their privileged positions. Rin-kun should be aware of this and remain in his own world. ;-) So if nothing important would happen in the near future, Asa could actually start dating Rin-kun now, with everyone's consent... including mine. ;-) I fast-forwarded through most of this episode during my rewatch.

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