Junichi is randomly given free tickets to an amusement park by a weird advertising person. And of course Junichi invites Ai. He invited Ai’s little brother as well, but he’s not coming, so it’s the two of them.

After a few rides the two go into a haunted house, where Junichi shows off his manliness at not being afraid of the fake mummies that jump out. Even when he gets scared he knows that he can’t scream in front of Ai. For some reason he starts to hallucinate about people he knows. As they go into the ‘main attraction’ of the haunted house and a mummy jumps out, Ai turns into a bowl of Ramen… just before Junichi was about to eat her, she turns back to normal.

She’s annoyed that Junichi tried to eat her… but she forgives him because it released out much of the stress that’s been bothering her lately.

They’re at the swings where they first met, and so Ai thought it’d be fun to swing on the swings together. And it’s there where they share their first kiss and Ai then runs off.

Next day at school, Junichi’s acting a little weird, but Ai is perfectly normal. She tells Junichi to wait for her after school to go somewhere. But when the swimming club finishes their activities Ai didn’t appear. So Junichi heads to the pool only to see an upset Ai running away. Ai jumps back into the pool and Junichi jumps in after her even though he is still fully clothes.

She isn’t picked for the fifty metre backstroke, but the reason she ran off was because she didn’t want anyone to see her cry. She forgives him for seeing her cry and asks if he wants to help with the swimming club’s Christmas festival food cart thing. He obviously agrees.

Hmmm… a rather… odd… episode. No other way to describe it really… There was that dodgy medieval jester like person giving out free tickets to the amusement park. He has an untrustworthy moustache! Hehe…

Free tickets are suspicious now anyway, either that, or it’s very unrealistic. You don’t get free tickets for amusement parks, unless you need to pay for things inside like rides. Otherwise it’d be suspicious as you’d suspect there’d be something weird going on. But if it was free and there’s nothing wrong then that’s just too unrealistic, no amusement park would do that, they’d lose too much money…

Anyway, something dodgy went on in that strange haunted house. What the hell happened there? Everything was so normal until Ai turned into a bowl of ramen… happens all the time doesn’t it… strange place, kinda makes me wanna go there… could be fun

I had a feeling that Junichi fell asleep or something and was seeing things, but then I thought when you think that the girl you like is a bowl of ramen, you’ve seriously lost it…

Another thing about the amusement park part. I somehow got the feeling that her brother was being ‘nice’ to her by not tagging along with her and Junichi so the two can be alone, either that, or she didn’t mention it to her brother at all and was the one who wanted to be alone.

I thought Junichi finally did something half-manly for once when he jumped in to help Ai at the pool even though he still had his clothes on. Not exactly an amazing thing, but best I’ve seen from this guy. Much better than pretending not to be scared at the haunted house.

So yeah, freaky and eventful episode… Ai turning into Ramen, a daring first kiss and a touching scene at the end. I’m losing hope of getting background story from Ai now, but whatever, I loved this episode and I’m just looking forward to see how this arc’s gonna end. I get the feeling there’s gonna be more snow, I love snow!