The Yuriness of Anita King and Hisami Hisaishi redux pt 2 of 2.
Wow...took me forever to get around to posting this. I fail. >_> This is the second part of this post from Saturday. Go there for the background.
Sometime after the end of the last post, Ms Ishii gives the Paper Sisters - or, specifically, Anita - a new assignment.
Being a stalkerpsycho concerned for Hisa, she was snooping around in her shoe cubby at school. In it, she finds a love letter from one of the boys in Hisa's class. Obviously, of course, this means Hisa needs to be protected from the stupid, stinky boys (well, she doesn't say stinky, but the rest...).
To this end, she has Anita enrol in Hisa's school. But, Anita, knowing Ms Ishii is just being a psycho stalker, decides to sound Hisa out on the subject:
Poor Hisa...Dr Freud will get you every time.
So, in any case, Hisa spends the rest of the day in the infirmary, and Anita stays with her. (Aw!) When she recovers, they walk home, and talk, eventually coming around to the upcoming cultural festival.
Diverging a bit from the 'aw, that's cute', there's something odd about the way they're holding hands - they'd both probably look more natural if Anita's hand was the one close to the audience.
Still...'aw, that's cute'.
At this point, the story jumps ahead a bit, and I jump a little further than that, because the intervening story isn't really part of the point of these posts. ANYWAY....
Anita figures out who left the love letters - Hisa's childhood friend, Toru - and decides that, since she's Hisa's friend, and Ms Ishii is not entirely stable, nor unbiased, she would stay out of it, and be conveniently elsewhere while Toru made his confession. We never see Hisa's reaction, but we do see the follow-up:
I really like the look on Anita's face after Hisa asks her to dance - she seems to have put 2 and 2 together really quickly. I feel sorry for Toru, but Hisa/Anita remains impossibly cute.
So...Hisa continues her book, making pretty good progress, but, eventually...
The writer's block hits again. But it's not like she doesn't have a reason to be reluctant to finish the book...
Anita! You've learned how to say the right thing!
:(
So, Hisa finishes her book, and the Paper Sisters return to Hong Kong...Anita doesn't see Hisa in the meantime, but she doesn't quite leave without saying goodbye:
Anita's description of Hisa's book (presumably her FIRST book, not the one she's writing in this story) could apply to this story, too - everyone didn't find happiness, but the story can go on. And, at some point in the future, they might find their happiness.
And that's pretty much the end of the story, in canon - there are two more chapters, but one is a flashback to Anita's origin, and the other's an epilogue, dealing with the Hong Kong based characters. (Plus Yomiko Readman, in her one and only appearance in the series.)