When I was introduced to Minami-ke, I was immediately sucked into this world of three school-aged sisters living alone. The format used by production company Doumu of delivering the series with each episode being composed of several shorts worked quite well. The characters were great, the laughs were great, and the series is a favorite

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 13 (final episode) SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Kana tells Chiaki what she learned from Haruka’s friends — Haruka is leaving to go study abroad. Chiaki wants to confront Haruka about this, but after Kana pleads with her not to do so, Chiaki relents. At school, Chiaki learns her friends are aware of Haruka’s plans to

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 12 SPOILER Summary: Chiaki’s feeling a bit warm and pays a visit to the school nurse, Kumada-sensei. Kumada-sensei is happy to see Chiaki because she wants to talk about Chiaki’s homeroom teacher, Tanaka-sensei. She announces that Chiaki’s temperature is 36.9°C (98.42° F) when its really only 36.5°C (97.7°F). Chiaki decides that isn’t bad

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 11 SPOILER Summary: Kana is about to leave school for home when she’s stopped by Keiko and realizes she’s supposed to clean. So she fakes illness and goes home. There, while Touma is visiting, Fujioka comes by to see how she’s doing. She remembers feigning illness and says she’s better and invites him

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 10 SPOILER Summary: It’s a cold, early-spring afternoon as Haruku comes home with Maki and Atsuko, all three carrying groceries. Maki complains about the weight of her bag (which is for Haruka) when the wind comes up and somehow knocks her over, causing all the eggs to break. Inside, Kana is grilling Atsuko

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 09 SPOILER Summary: The Minami sisters have sukiyaki for dinner as there was a great sale on meat at the market. After eating, Kana decides she’s psychic in that she had dreamed about eating sukiyaki the night before and had dreamed of the previous night’s meal as well. Chiaki doesn’t believe it so

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 08 SPOILER Summary: Haruka is doing some shopping at a local shop in the shopping district when the lady of the shop gives her a bunch of tickets to a new pool and onsen resort that’s opened in the next town over. Kana is excited by this and immediately starts inviting “the gang”

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みなみけ～おかわり～ Ep. 07 SPOILER Summary: Its nearly Valentine’s Day and so its time to learn how to make chocolate with Haruka teaching and Kana deciding to turn it into a festival, thusly inviting over Touma, Makoto (as Mako-chan), Uchida, and Yoshino. Kana forces Makoto to dress in a maid costume, which he does in order

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