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EP. REVIEW: Non Non Biyori Repeat

I just watched last week's episode (since it just became free on Crunchyroll).

I noticed that, if you combine the chronology of the first season and the second season together, Hikage returns to Asahigaoka from Tokyo a whopping three times from August to October, the first time being for summer break, the second time, in mid-September for o-Higan (Buddhist equinox holiday) and Tsukimi (moon viewing), and the third time for Natsumi's botched attempt to hold a school festival (date unclear, but it seems to be October).

I would have thought that they could have just explained Hikage's presence in episode 9 of Repeat as her being there for the School Festival (even if it's a little early in the chronology), but, nope, her older sister Kazuho makes it clear that Hikage returned in this episode specifically for o-Higan whilst Hikage had to be persuaded on the phone by Renge and Konomi to come back to Asahigaoka yet again for the "School Festival" in episode 9 of the first season (with Konomi only getting Hikage to agree by claiming Kazuho would pay for her trip).

Hikage making two separate trips back to Asahigaoka after summer break isn't really a continuity error, but given that it's a long trip (~6 hours by train each way, although a lot of that would be waiting at various stations when transferring between trains) and that Hikage appears to stay in Asahigaoka for several days each time, I gotta imagine Hikage's not too popular with her teachers at high school for her frequent absences.

That said, I didn't think the scene with Renge and her drawings was all that cute. There really was no need for Renge to keep hitting Hikage on the collarbone, and if I had been Hikage I'd would get kicked her in a corner. If you don't curb that behavior Renge will grow up to be some violent bitch!

Yeah, I'm personally wondering if the shot from the first season's opening where the other girls are dressing Renge up in a kimono for what, I presume, is a Shichi-Go-San ceremony (November 15th), will be expanded upon in a future episode.

　二條院におはしたれば、 紫の君、いともうつくしき片生ひにて、「紅はかうなつかしきもありけり」と見ゆるに、無紋の櫻の細長、なよらかに着なして、何心もなくてものしたまふさま、いみじうらうたし。古代の祖母君の御なごりにて、齒黑めも まだしかりけるを、ひきつくろはせたまへれば、眉のけざやかになりたるも、うつくしうきよらなり。「心から、などか、かう憂き世を見あつかふらむ。かく心苦しきものをも見てゐたらで」と、思しつつ、例の、もろともに雛遊びしたまふ。

　When he returned to the Nijo-in he found Murasaki waiting for him. She was growing up as handsome a girl as one could wish, and promised well for the future. She was wearing a plain close-fitting dress of cherry color; above all, the unstudied grace and ease of her movements charmed and delighted him as he watched her come to meet him. In accordance with the wishes of her old-fashioned grandmather her teeth were not blackened, but her eyebrows were delicately touched with stain. "Why, when I might be playing with a beautiful child, do I spend my time with
an ugly woman?" Genji kept on asking himself in bewilderment while they sat together playing with her dolls.

...you have a very strange interpretation of sibling interactions.