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   "SK"  wrote in message   
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   > Chris Kern wrote:   
   > > Episode 39 - Paired with a youma!? The Queen on ice, Mako-chan   
   > >   
   >   
   > Again, Kunzite is looking for someone graceful and athletic.  Idiot…   
   >   
   > Surely Beryl has to have been told that Endymion is playing both sides   
   > off and on, and she’s content to let it happen, whereas Zoisite got the   
   > axe for slanting orders with regards to Endymion.  Very interesting.   
   >   
   > We never find out exactly where Makoto learned to skate.   
   >   
   > With the exception of Usagi, the others all seem to have at least a   
   > little experience, though none of them looked all that comfortable on   
   > skates.  As for Usagi, well, she’s Usagi… you know how this ends.   
   >   
   > Ami’s reactions here were very, very interesting.  When Misha makes his   
   > appearance, pretty much every single spectator either blushes or has   
   > hearts in her eyes, except for one.  Ami.  To take it a step further,   
   > when Makoto steps out onto the ice and starts showing her skill, the   
   > girls are all cheering her on, but only one is blushing.  Again, Ami.   
   > Make of it what you will, but I have trouble writing it off as   
   coincidence.   
   >   
   > Clearly, the crush at the end of the episode is intended as comedic, but   
   > it does raise the interesting question:  Is Makoto doing this to herself   
   > on purpose, falling in love at the drop of a hat?  Yes, part of it is   
   > that she’s clearly a romantic, but look at the skills she has already   
   > presented with a fair degree of expertise:  Dancing, Figure Skating,   
   > Cooking, Cleaning.  All about as feminine as one can get.  You just as   
   > easily say that a hopeless crush would fit in that category.  Add all   
   > this to how she quickly apologizes for her weight on the ice, and I get   
   > a young woman who sees herself as very manly and unattractive, and is   
   > possibly immersing herself in feminine things to comfort herself and   
   > convince herself that she isn’t the brutish thing that her sempai said   
   > she was.   
   >   
   > SK - reading a lot into things, but that's half the fun of this.  ^_^v   
      
   Ami is always the one to be most embarrassed by the "impurity" of others, so   
   it would not take a lot to set off  her blush reaction. Evidently the blush   
   reaction in the Japanese is very prominent (I read that someplace) and it's   
   also an anime cliché. After saying that, the blushes could be her reaction   
   could be because she sees something in others that is embarrassing ... or to   
   her reactions to her own secret fantasies.   
      
   ten/mark   
      
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