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   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > Episode 41 - I won't run from love anymore! Ami and Mamoru's face-off   
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   Endymion appears in Africa to capture Reika, the fourth of the seven   
   monsters.   
      
   Meanwhile, Urawa is on the run, foreseeing trouble coming.  He contacts   
   Ami who sees that Yumeno Yumeni has disappeared, the fifth disappearance   
   (I guess his power clued him in to the missing cat, maybe?  It’s not the   
   sort of thing to make the news)  He claims it’s a residual power from   
   the crystal.   
      
   Usagi was especially stupid in this episode.  Even when Ami mentioned   
   the possibility of restoring Mamoru (something that’s never really been   
   discussed before) she was still off in her own little universe.   
   Fortunately, she gets very little camera time.   
      
   The Ami-Makoto conversation was very, very interesting.  Makoto is   
   genuinely trying to convince Ami to get this out in the open.  While she   
   may be a bit too honest with her feelings now and then, she can clearly   
   see how bottling them up the way Ami does can lead to trouble.  However,   
   the simple fact of the matter is that there’s just not much there from   
   Ami’s end.  She knows how Urawa feels, and she just doesn’t think of him   
   that way.  Maybe that’s what she was trying to say toward the end, maybe   
   there was more to it.  Ami likes the guy, thinks he’s a good friend, but   
   that’s the end of it.  Whenever they’re together, it’s clear just how   
   one-sided the romantic aspect of the relationship is.   
      
   I loved the “Lost Cat” sign in the middle of the Makoto-Ami scene.   
      
   Those buying into the Ami/Makoto relationship could see this as Ami   
   already having her sights set elsewhere, (and she blushes far more in   
   Makoto’s presence than Urawa’s, or anyone else’s) but Makoto seems to be   
   set on helping Ami get things to work out with Urawa.   
      
   If Mamoru is that tough, why does he spend most of the time making   
   rambling speeches and tossing roses?   
      
   What is it with Mamoru, crystals, and butterfingers?  He practically   
   dared Ami to grab the crystal, then let her do it.  Yes, she did throw a   
   distraction first, but still…  Then again, he was kinda stupid about   
   that with regard to Zoisite too, and Ami’s much more clever than he was.   
      
   ISO:  Inexpensive one-way ticket to Nairobi, contact Nishimura Reika.  ^_^;   
      
   SK   
      
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