After a very long waiting, I was finally able to watch the episode and wow, this episode provided a lot of good things for Serena. She won her 1st princess key, she was able to impress a lot of crowd, Ash have shown a lot of support for her as well as praising her outfit at the end of the episode. Miette's teases were also better than the last time and speaking of Miette, I've noticed the change of VA, this time, she sounded mature than her old voice. I really like her current voice more than her old one (Sorry, Old Miette Seiyuu
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Also, when they said that other characters like Shauna, Aria and Grace appearing, I thought that this episode will have a huge crowd but I never thought that what the writers actually did was to simply show them watching on T.V. Man, talk about false alarm
Anywho, I did expect that at least one of them would take notice of Serena's feelings but I never would have guessed that it would be Bonnie herself but I guess she would be a good choice. She may be able to help Serena in her case.
Also, anyone else find it weird that Grace did not react on Serena's short hair? I expected that she might say something but I guess not.
This was a pretty good episode, both for amour and Serena's character as expected. Aside from the obvious hints, I think this have some good AshxSerena interactions.
I'd rate it 10 out of 10.
Congratulations to Serena for winning her first Princess Key!
Also, I've taken notice that a lot of old timers are coming back in this thread. Well, it's understandable considering how much hyped this episode was. Anyway, 'till the next amourshippy episode again, guys.
Well then, I just finished watching the episode and oh boy, there is a lot to talk about in terms of Amour. The rule of thumb is: see an episode with Miette in it, prepare for hints. Serena definitely had more hints than Ash did, but Ash did not not give us anything to talk about. Saying "Serena you're the best" and complimenting her outfit. Again, I would never EVER expect Ash to say these kind of things to a girl due in part to his personality. Is he dense and oblivious? Yes....but for the first time I have hope that he will figure things out or someone will help him along the way to realize HIS potential romantic feelings for Serena (which I think he does have, but if the writers were to go as deep into Ash's feelings as they have Serena's, this thing would have been canon/shot down a while ago). The biggest surprise though has got to be Bonnie and the fact that she finally knows Serena's crush. I'm just envisioning an episode where Bonnie pulls Serena to the side and tells her "I know you like Satoshi" and Serena freaks. All in all, this episode does not disappoint and I have to give a huge thank you to Akemi Omode for her work, you've made all of us Amourshippers proud!
Not to mention that Ash said that Serena was the best during a flashback while he was eating her Pokepuffs again. That was really a great hint from Ash IMO.
I don't think Miette really likes Ash, i think she just wants to see Serena make a move, that's why she told her that she'll steal him from her. I think Miette really cares about Serena and that's why she is doing this, Serena might never confess her feelings because of her shy personality and Miette doesn't want Serena to regret not taking the oportunities she had to tell Ash that she likes him.
After all, Miette doesn't even try to get closer to Ash, she spends all of her time with Serena. Miette is like that friend we had in 4th grade who loved to tease us about our crush and wanted us to confess our feelings as soon as possible.
It will be great if Miette was simply trying to help out Serena through her own way though part of me believes that she does likes Ash. She seemed to be pushy about it while talking to Serena. Either way, this whole love rival will be played out many times whenever she's around.
