His and Her Circumstances: His Return

His and Her Circumstances: His Return
TV Tokyo
January 22, 1999
Anime, Romance
DVD
C+

While it's nice that Arima comes back, this episode has dubious messages:

• Maho has a 28-year-old dentist boyfriend and this is only seen as a sign of how mature she is.  (No, this is not like "Mrs. Marcia Dentist" on The Brady Bunch.)
• Yukino worries that she's accomplished nothing over the summer but homework, while Arima got taller and won the Kendo championship, neither of them an accomplishment that's going to help Arima that much in life.
• Yukino worries that her life has no direction without Arima, but Maho says love is meant to make you feel uncertain and unbalanced.
• Yukino finds herself more in love and physically attracted to Arima when he returns but she has trouble sharing her feelings until he feels rejected and corners and yells at her.  Then everything's OK.