Splashed in the cover of Newsweek Japan, March 2007 issue, is a picture of a blond meido with the words 「萌える世界」, roughly translated as “World Moes” (「萌え」 appended with 「る」 to signify that it is used as a verb).

Heroines turned deities
Aeris and Tifa of Final Fantasy VII
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Art by Tujiki Nao from Doujinshi Stationery Collection I

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All the participants of the concours are gathered by Kanazawa-sensei, where they are given printouts with the information they need about the upcoming concours. The theme for the last competition is “Something you’ve let go” (something like that… ^^;; ) And well, based on the past episodes, we could see how Hino, Hihara, Tsuchiura, and [...]

The change in Hino’s performance has been the talk all around the school, and both students from the regular school and the music school share the same opinion that it would be better for her to just quit. The teachers are also saying that the present concours is full of trouble, most of which are [...]

Hino asks Tsukimori to teach her how to fix her violin, which surprises Tsukimori (gladly surprised) because Hino decided to play the violin again. He tells her to meet her the following day at the train station… then Tsukimori proceeds to practice in the room. Inside, he gazes at the window and remembers the first [...]

Hino goes to the school garden to return the violin to Lili. Lili appears hesitantly, saying that he couldn’t face her, after the pain he brought her because of the violin he gave. As Hino was about to return the violin, she remembers Tsukimori’s words and hesitates for a few seconds… and then Kana-yan’s cat [...]

Hino contemplates on the harsh things she has said to Tsuchiura… and while inside the faculty room, she glances at Kanazawa-sensei’s desk, seemingly having some doubt if she’s going to tell Kana-yan about quitting the concours. Yunoki on the other hand, has already told Kana-yan that he’s quitting. Kana-yan tells him it’s quite sudden and [...]

As was seen from the previous episode, the strings of Hino’s violin breaks before she finishes her performance. Everyone saw the sad look in her face as she left the stage in a hurry. Yunoki, who was to perform next, was saying how Hino caused everyone to be affected/perturbed (especially Hihara, Tsuchiura, and Tsukimori). But [...]