Valentine’s Day is here, and the boys who don’t have girlfriends want to ban obligatory chocolates so they don’t get the wrong idea or their hopes up. Meanwhile, Yamada chooses the sweetest (no pun intended) way to give Ichikawa chocolates: by playing “chocolate shogi” with him and resigning, thus pushing them all towards him. While this takes a lot of effort and courage on her part, Ichikawa seems not much more than bemused.
The more he thinks about it, the more he wonders why Yamada would give away her precious snacks, and chocolate no less. After school she grabs him and they both watch Hara giving Kanzaki chocolates, leading Ichikawa to wonder why they did it at school, a “place of learning”, when there are plenty of off-school hours in the day to do it.
Yamada isn’t satisfied she’s spent enough time with Ichikawa today, so she hops on his bike and asks for a ride. That leads to a trip to the konbini so she can buy a heart-shaped chocolate-filled bun. She asks Ichikawa what kind of chocolate would make clear it wasn’t obligatory. Ichikawa says he honestly might not know unless he was told so.
Back in class, Adachi thought if the chocolate was heart-shaped. Going off of that, Yamada presses her bun into Ichikawa. When she pulls it away it leaves a glob of chocolate, and she leans in for what Ichikawa thinks might be a kiss. Instead, she presses her finger on the chocolate and draws a heart, liking the excess and then jogging off.
Remembering what Yamada said about “being a boy for the day”, Ichikawa runs back into the konbini and buys her some “Meltykiss” brand chocolates. He just happens to bump into her because she was pondering whether to give him a chocolate cupcake she made especially for him. He leaves before she can do it.
No matter; Yamada makes use of every hour of the day she can. Just as Ichikawa is cursing himself for giving her something so embarrassing, she texts that she’s outside and wants him to come with her as she walks the dog.
After “gambling” at the vending machine and “winning” black coffee, they sit at a park bench. Yamada starts bringing up all sorts of conversation topics in quick succession, which Ichikawa immediately picks up as weird. When Yamada says she is weird, talk finally turns to chocolates.
Yamada asks if he got any chocolate, and he said no, discounting the chocolate she gave him. He asks if she gave any, and she makes clear she didn’t give out any obligatory chocolates. Ichikawa then has another sip of his bitter black coffee and owns up to lying about not liking sweet stuff.
This finally gives Yamada an opening to give him the cupcake, and even Ichikawa can’t fail to notice there’s something different and important about this chocolate, especially when she says, summoning all her courage, “It’s okay to get the wrong idea.”
She splits the cupcake in two, eats her half, and starts to sob because she “couldn’t get it right.” But after having a taste, Ichikawa admits it’s legit good. Yamada asks for another hug, and Ichikawa gives her one as she sits, making him the taller one.
Back home, he takes another look at the cupcake with the powdered sugar stenciled design at the proper angle so he sees what he couldn’t see on his face earlier: a heart. Yamada gave you chocolate. She said she wasn’t going to give anyone obligatory chocolate. She knows a heart means the chocolate means something. This chocolate has a heart.
The episode title, “Yamada Likes…” can’t quite finish that phrase, but it’s pretty doggone clear who she likes!
Remember the self-important dick who used other girls like tools to try to get closer to Yamada? I’d honestly forgotten him, and so did Ichikawa, bless him. Adachi seeks advice on a White Day gift for Sekine, who hasn’t broken it to him that the chocolate she gave him was only obligatory, but isn’t about to turn down a gift!
Adachi goes to this guy, whom he knows to be “popular with the ladies”. Everything this guy says is curtly contradicted by Ichikawa, who inadvertently lets on that he got chocolate too. As Adachi heads off to practice, Ichikawa is left with this guy.
When Yamada beckons and waves to Ichikawa, this guy is about to wave back, but Ichikawa blocks his wave with his own very emphatic wave. Yamada blushes and slams the window shut, and before you know it is rushing in to rescue Ichikawa from this guy. She waves back at him, but pointedly doesn’t say matane (see you later); she says sayonara, which has more finality.
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