The Best Episodes Directed By Hiroshi Haraguchi

Hayakawa Rou is in love with Morinome Shinako, who hasn’t moved on from the late Hayakawa Yuu, Rou’s brother. She visits their home back in Kanazawa.

Shinako calls off going back to Kanazawa for the new year. She and Rikuo make plans to spend it together.

Ino decides to challenge herself by participating in the Earth Science Olympiad. It's her first real step forward as their club president. As their second semester comes to an end, the club celebrates Christmas and New Year's together around a warm hot pot followed by star gazing. Yet as they're excitedly looking up at the winter diamond, Ao suddenly begins to cry. She says everything's all right, but...

Aoba Suzukaze sleeps in and may be late to work. Will she arrive late and get in trouble? Or will she prevail? However, that's not the only challenge in her way. She's also having difficulties with the 3D model. Can she get the approval from Ko?

Aoba Suzukaze thought she was done with the villager project. However, Umiko Ahagon comes to her with some problems. The models she designed are filled with errors, and no one at her department told her about it. Umiko shows frustration toward Aoba, but more so toward her supervisor, Ko Yagami.

The deadline for the game is right around the corner, so everyone at the company is staying over night after night to meet the tight schedule. However, Ko Yagami recommends Aoba, Hajime, and Yun to go to the Tokyo Game Exhibit during work hours. What is she thinking?

Senko's Izakaya welcomes Nakano after a rough day at work. Later, Nakano decides to visit his mother and father.

Alya is sent by the student council to mediate a conflict between the soccer and baseball teams about the use of the school fields. When the conflict comes to a standstill, Masachika saves the day and makes an important promise to Alya.

Senko shows Nakano her amazing massage skills. Later, Nakano misses the last train home, but gets some help from Shiro.

Preparations are underway for the school's athletic festival. Izumi-kun was hoping to avoid being placed in the highlight event, the boys and girls mixed relay, but unluckily enough, that's exactly what he's chosen for. But Shikimori-san and all of their friends end up on the relay team with him, so he feels like it'll actually be fun this time. The gang wastes no time starting to practice for the race, but it doesn't go so well for Izumi-kun and Hachimitsu. They refuse to give up, continuing to practice until the day of the festival comes. Hachimitsu seems to be in very low spirits before their event starts...