Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?

Episode 7

It's nice to have an episode that goes more into the business side of things. The relationship between our leads isn't making a lot of progress. Our main cast stumbles upon a conflict revolving around the flower accessory-selling business. I'm glad the show utilizes that setup instead of letting it hang in the background.

Due to everything that happened prior, Yu's flower accessory selling business is out in the open. On the one hand, it's nice that Yu is directly interacting with other couples who are in love. On the other hand, students are coming to him for accessories directly, but things have gotten out of hand to the point where people are starting to project their own meaning onto his accessories. The concept of love is front and center here, how it can be beautiful or very exhausting and messy. The show ties current events to something that Himari explained in the past. Part of the reason why she didn't want to be in a relationship was because of how messy love could be. Now we're seeing an example of that play out

I'm a little confused about the major conflict that appears during the last quarter of the episode. I understand that the girl is lying about being forced to pay more money for the accessory, but how exactly did she prove or convince the school faculty that she was forced to pay a lot of money for an accessory that she requested? It's a very specific thing to accuse someone of, but I'm also not sure how they are going to be able to prove that she's lying. Thematically, I think the episode is strong, and I'm very curious about what will happen next week.

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