Today’s episode is: Don’t Cry, For the Snow will Surely Melt.
Today’s episode could also be called Hatori’s past, because that is exactly what we learn when Tohru goes over to pay her promised visit. Hatori tells Tohru how unusual it is that someone like her should know about the Sohma curse, and he wants her to leave Shigure’s house. Momiji explains that Hatori used to have a girl friend named Kana and they even became engaged, but Akito became enraged forbade the marriage and hurt Hatori’s left eye. Kana was devastated, and Hatori ended up having to erase her memories of him. Tohru realizes from this that Hatori is really trying to protect her. This is also her first inkling of the curse side of being one of the zodiac. We see Hatori’s zodiac form when Tohru slips and he catches her – the year of the dragon . . . in the form of a sea horse^^; We and Tohru also see Akito really for the first time, though we don’t actually meet him.
Interesting question Kana put to Hatori (and then Hatori to Tohru) when snow melts, what does it become? Both Kana and Tohru have such an optimistic answer: spring!
Strange as it may sound, I think this was the first time in while for me where an anime made me start to cry. To see something as beautiful as Hatori and Kana’s relationship be hurt so terribly… I just wanted to hang Akito.
But as usual, Toru cheered us all up by the end by reminding us what comes after the hard snowy winter.
And BTW, it’s a pleasure to read your blog. =) I just stumbled upon it today looking up reviews on Mahou Shoujotai Arisu. It’s nice to see someone that finds interest in a variety of shows, not just mainstream, such as Detectives Poirot and Marple. So if I randomly comment across random posts for the next few days, my apologies, some of us fanboys are like that. xD