What more could you want?

!Well, this episode offers plenty, withMonogatarisusual slick and polished style.

Watching Flirtys vapidly gregarious display makes Nadeko Prime a little envious.

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The schools palette turns to all reds and blacks in this particularly striking scene.

One copy down, three to go.

Then Nadeko gets a call from Kanbaru(CAMEOBARU!

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),and they have this wonderful exchange when Kanbaru asks if shes doing well:

Yes.

Im still alive.Thats great.

While Nadeko insists she isnt, she does own up to having not gone to school in a while.

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Sodachi, no stranger to truancy, assures her her life wont end just because she skips school.

Nadeko and Sodachi also exchange contact info, and she promises shell be there if Nadeko needs her.

Its a super-sweet and charming encounter, and it motivates Nadeko to redouble her efforts to find Meek.

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While Meeks return to 2D feels imminent, the Wrathful andGodNadekos probably wont be so easily neutralized.

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