The episode was hillarious from the FIRST second!! LOL! What was that opening scene?? ahaha.... that's NEW! Rather than showing the actual scene of the direct continuation of the previous episode's ending, they had all 4 main characters talking about it to other people in all 4 different places. Omoshiroi!
But I wish I could see the scene they were talking about!
And the way Ryo imitated Mitsuo's "Oy! Matte yo!", was that a monomane of Kimura Takuya in Love Generation?? Haha, I'd like to think that it was
Kimura's "oy! chotto matte yo!" in LoveGene has been very popular recently, as it's being used over and over by a certain comedian who impersonates him, lol.
I really looooove Mitsuo-Yuka small attentive things they did for each other. Like how Yuka bought Mitsuo his favorite pudding, and when his sister wanted to take them away, he tried to take it back. Or how Yuka decided to help him with the bandage and then Mitsuo said "Arigatou"... then Yuka gave him the "its all too late" look haha... Or when Mitsuo said "I reflected on my mistakes..." ...then Yuka said something like "That's good, i hope you can make use of it in your life with your next partner"
And, just when I finally like Akari-Ryo couple coz I think they were so cute in that onsen trip!!!
Akari finally revealed her true nature!! When she started speaking in Aomori dialect, it's like her other personality finally came out, kowai!
Maki Yoko was amazing, she nailed the dialect perfectly (the actress who played her sister did not do too good with the dialect)... it was a dark, serious and depressing scene (such a contrast with the previous scene of the other couple's cheerful bickering), but I think I'm gonna watch that again just to see Maki's acting!
So okay Akari and Ryo decided to give up on marriage... but I really didn't catch everything Akari said because of the difficult Aomori-ben, I can't understand it >_< kuyashiii~ It was such a powerful scene, but I can't understand evrything she said... Then I read the Japanese subtitle, I can finally understand a bit better... but I still don't get a few words... or maybe I simply don't really get what Sakamoto Yuji tried to imply in Akari's words...
First of all, I might understood this wrong... but Akari's sister said something that sounds like their father is still playing around with other women cheating on their mother. Didn't he pass away when Akari was 14??
Second of all... Akari's reasons of enduring Ryo's behaviour. I didn't really get it. So Akari tried to be someone she's not, because she hated the real her, because the real her is similar to her mother who gets easily jealous and so emotional evrytime her father cheat on her mom.... She don't like herself being easily jealous, so she tried to throw away her realself, by speaking in Tokyo-ben and pretend not knowing anything Ryo did... however in the end she felt like she's still the same like her mother... is that it? Then she also said, that in place of hating Ryo, she tried to hate herself. So what does this means? In reality she hates Ryo? Then why did she keep saying she's happy, love him and keep living together with him? I don't really get who she really hate, her mother, Ryo or herself??
haha... so complicated. But now... she said she can't endure it anymore, does it mean she wants to stop hating herself... and get back to her realself again? Or does it because she realized that in the end, being realself or not, if she keep living together with Ryo, it means she's just the same with her mother?
And when I started to like Ryo because he decided to break up with all those women and he truly want to marry Akari!!! He immediately give up when Akari tore up the marriage application, he left the house and then outside, he threw away the wedding rings he just bought, while talking about meeting his lover again on the phone!!!
Some people just can't change!
But I'd really like to know how Sakamoto Yuji would solve this couple's problem. With Mitsuo-Yuka, I can imagine them not changing but they'll try to compromise and understand their difference more IF they'd ever get married again... I guess staying divorced in the end, is a possibility too.
But with Akari-Ryo... Ryo has to change or at least solve his own problem, the source of his cheating problem. Or maybe Akari has to be more honest to herself too.
I think there's more secret to be revealed in the later episodes. Something about Ryo. Maybe he's abnormal or has an illness or something
haha... nah...i guess not.
Maki Yoko is great!
Glad she's taken the initiative and handed in the divorce papers already. Hopefully the love triangle/square will develop quickly.
Ganbatte~~ 
Not that it should get him off the hook.
I know it's gonna happen sooner or later, despite the unexpected development, but to see it really happening... i hate it... but...
