From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   >Episode 175 - Aim to be an idol! Minako's ambition   
   >   
   >There are several episodes in this season that deal with Minako's   
   >long-standing ambition to be an idol; this time she has some actual   
   >idols to hang around with and see what it's like. Here she finds out   
   >it's a lot harder than she expected. I guess she should just become   
   >one of those swimsuit "idols" in the manga magazines instead.   
      
   Actually, I think it is pretty tough work even for swimsuit idols. If   
   those SI specials are any indication, there is still endless hours of   
   full body make-up, re-takes, running, posing and all sorts of things.   
      
   >Umino and Naru don't appear at all in this season -- the best   
   >assumption is that they went to a different high school.   
      
   That's a shame. On the plus side, it seems that the Mako-Ami moments   
   have returned. There are two different scenes at the cafe and both   
   times Mako and Ami are sitting together. They were also together when   
   the girls showed up to peek at Usagi's manga strip.   
      
   BTW, speaking of those cafe scenes, both times Minako shows up, hip   
   checks Usagi into the next seat, then helps herself to Usagi's drink   
   with Usagi looking on with helpless indignity. Only truly good friends   
   could treat each other like that. I just had to smile. :)   
      
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