This is the twelfth and final episode of the 2nd season of the Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san anime series.
Characters[]
- Nishikata
- Takagi
- Mina Hibino
- Yukari Tenkawa
- Sanae Tsukimoto
- Nakai
- Mano
- Takao
- Kimura
- Hamaguchi
- Houjou
- Tanabe-sensei
Scenes[]
Summer Festival (夏祭り)[]
Nishikata and Takagi meet up to go to the summer festival. She mentions that she's looking forward to seeing the fireworks with him. On their way there, Takagi suggests that they're on their first date and that strangers around them would assume so by looking at them. Nishikata denies this as he sees it only as her way of teasing him during the festival. They agree to make a game out of it. Nishikata repeatedly loses when strangers around them call them a couple. Takagi offers him a chance to win if he does romantic things that couples do on dates.
Meanwhile, Yukari, Sanae, and Mina prepare to go to the festival dressed in traditional yukatas. When they arrive, Yukari describes it as a perfect location for a couple to confess their love.
Nishikata sees various couples at the festival and feels uneasy about behaving the same way with Takagi. He challenges her to a game of goldfish scooping, which he ends up losing. While they're eating, Nishikata offers Takagi some of her food. She accepts and hints that she wants to be fed romantically, which Nishikata feels too uncomfortable doing. They play a game of ring toss, which Nishikata loses. They exchange prizes that they won from the game. He gives her a hairpin, while she gives him a mask.
As the festival starts getting more crowded, Nishikata tries to hide from his classmates so as to not be seen with Takagi, who walks on. Kimura and Takao, however, recognize him easily. Kimura notices that Nishikata is holding Takagi's purse and urges Takao for the two of them to leave. In the process, Nishikata loses track of Takagi and he runs off to find her. Takagi realizes the same thing and attempts to find him. Unable to do so, she heads uphill to a shrine, thinking he went there for the fireworks display. As the fireworks start, Kimura spots Takagi and realizes that she's looking for Nishikata. He notifies Nishikata who rushes uphill. As the fireworks end, Takagi spots Nishikata running to meet her. Nishikata holds her by the hand, saying that way they won't get split up again. Later in the evening at the beach, they light up a pair of sparklers that Nishikata brought in hopes of winning at least once. Seeing it as a romantic gesture, Takagi tells him that he hasn't been losing at all. As Nishikata's sparkler extinguishes first, she declares it her win.