Amagami SS #14.

I continue to like Rihoko and I also continue to believe that the payoff of this show is going to be the arc of class pres Tsukasa. Every cameo she has makes me like her more. Her first appearance in ep. 1 had me hooked. ANN lists this show as 26 eps, which is reinforced by the fact that the OS changed after 13. MAL does not list an ep count. I hope Tsukasa gets any and all the extra eps. for her arc. (Of course, too much anticipation breeds disappointment, right?)

It seems that the pattern here is that in the 2nd ep of each arc there is a major ecchi event. For the first two, it was kissing in weird places. But I guess because Sae and Rihoko are kouhai, that must be unseemly for them.
 


I think it is quite telling about Japanese culture that both this and Kimikiss are set in the junior year. If you think about it, that's quite often when almost everything important happens in seishun dramas. Other examples are Rough, Cross Game, Katsu, KOR, and I"s. It's probably because high school senior year in Japan is a nightmare of cram school and studying for college entrance exams (which are different for every college), and that leaves no time for ren'ai. It's quite a difference than in the US, when all entrance exams a college applications are finished in the first half of senior year, and you can basically coast to the end in the 2nd half. (In my high school we didn't even take final exams in the 2nd semester senior year, unless we needed them to improve our grades.)