Kimagure Orange Road, TV episode 12

Original synopsis by Pat Conley
Amended by Joe Zubkavich
Proofread and typeset by Brian Edmonds

America ryuugaku Sayonara Madoka
(To America!! Good-bye Madoka!)

Ayukawa's sister gets married amid much thrown rice. Madoka catches the bouquet. In the paper, near the wedding announcement, Kyosuke reads terrible news: it says Madoka will be returning to America to attend school there. Hikaru complains openly about Madoka leaving, but Kyosuke is too affected to say anything.

Packing up her things at home, Madoka plays the piano and remembers all that she will be leaving behind. At home, Kyosuke can't sleep.

The next day at school, Kyosuke meets Yuhsaku, who is scuffed from just having gotten into a fight defending Madoka's name. Saddened, Ayukawa plays her saxophone. The wind blows her music sheets across the room, and somehow she knows Kyosuke had been standing outside the door. On the roof, they hold a goodbye banquet for Ayukawa.

That night, everyone's waiting for her to arrive at Abcb for her surprise going-away party, but she doesn't show up, so everyone sets out to look for her. It turns out that she's been waiting at Kyosuke's house for him to come home, but since he hasn't shown up she leaves to go to other places she remembers. They both end up at the playground at the top of ``the stairs'' and talk amid cherry blossoms. ``I knew you'd be here'', he tells her. On the swings, Ayukawa talks about how much she loves the city they live in, but how much she's looking forward to seeing New York, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, etc. Kyosuke tells her, ``Ever since that time on these stairs...since that time I've loved this city the best.''

After the tension breaks, Ayukawa laughs and says, ``Did you really think I was going to America?'' She has decided to stay. At the airport, everyone sees Ayukawa's sister and her new husband off to America.

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Kimagure Orange Road, TV episode 12

Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.ca> October 17, 1998