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This scene works on a great many levels, most obviously with the gorgeous cover of Evans’ classic recording. It would be no exaggeration to say this was my favorite confession scene in anime, and that’s saying something as there have been some great ones. It was this trio’s 1959 debut LP “ Portrait in Jazz” that Kaoru was looking at in this episode, and for which the song he played for Ritsuko, “Someday my Prince Will Come” (written for Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”) was recorded. After playing on Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (along with Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly, among others) – arguably the greatest jazz album ever – Evans founded arguably the greatest piano trio ever with Scott LeFaro on bass and Paul Motian on drums. He’s probably my favorite jazz pianist ever – his restrained, delicate melodic lines unlike anything that had come before and a huge influence on this who would follow right to this day. Now I’ll be the first to admit I have a bias here – I absolutely love Bill Evans.

But the second half was the best 10 minutes of an already great show so far, culminating with the confession scene.

I was pleased with the first half of the episode, but nothing was especially thrilling me – it was just really good. You can see examples of this in the work of Nagai Tatsuyuki, who demonstrated it to perfection with Ano Natsu de Matteru earlier this year. In boxing they say that the last minute of the round is more important in impressing the judges than the first two, and so it is with anime – the lasting impression comes from the final act. In other words, the critical thing is that an episode has to finish better than it starts – the section after the eyecatch is the most important. One thing that strikes me is that really great anime directors have mastered the art of intra-episodic pacing. In the end I grabbed my head with both hands and as soon as I snapped out of it, immediately jumped backwards to play it again. I can’t recall many instances where I’ve been so thoroughly gobsmacked as I was after that confession scene – I didn’t know whether to be speechless or shout out my approval to the universe. I almost feel as if I shouldn’t defile this episode by even trying to talk about it, but I guess that’s my job – and the hard part at the moment is to do it without gushing like a smitten fanboy, because that’s what I feel like. Why does everyone make this anime thing out to be so hard? Just do it like that.

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