From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 144 - Shining summer days! Ami, the sea breeze girl   
      
   Ah, the seasonal swimsuit episode.   
      
   >Another Ami episode, with Ando doing the art again. This happens too   
   >often to be a coincidence.   
      
   Ami's consistent reaction to the idea of love and boys has been   
   interesting. In every case where the others girls are going off the   
   deep end in their mad hunt for boyfriends, Ami is always hanging back   
   and the expression on her face is always distinctly different from the   
   others.   
      
   In this episode, Ami gave a long heartfelt talk about her dreams and   
   her vision of love and the future. I'm not sure if her references were   
   gender-free, or if she distinctly spoke of wanting to eventually meet   
   the boy of her dreams. She did say that she would like a big noisy   
   family like Usagi's.   
      
   >The reason Ponko-chan didn't want to say the shortened version of her   
   >final attack is (probably) because it would have been "kintama"   
   >(testicles, but literally "golden ball").   
      
   Now *that's* funny! I was wondering why the refusal to say the word.   
   ^_^   
      
   The dub was OK this time around but the voice for the lemures was so   
   squeaky that you could not understand a word she was saying.   
      
   The lesson for today is clearly about the platonic love of friendship.   
   It also drove the first chink into TE's armor. The idea of simply   
   liking someone as a friend was obviously alien to him (and likely the   
   others in the Trio as well) until he saw it demonstrated by Ami.   
      
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