HonoTsuba moments, ey. Well, anyway, this episode is... pretty chill? I can't exactly say that it's a filler since the subplot here was pretty crucial both for A-rise and μ's. It's also a pretty important segment for both fans and casual watchers. Even I wondered back in the day what exactly made μ's as it was then. I took a while to understand it, too, even after Honoka figured it out. So it really makes me admire the way Honoka gets those eureka moments in the series like this one. I was actually thinking it would have been their call phrase as a group before performing, which the actual one revealed in this ep took me by surprise back then. We also got to see more of Tsubasa, of course. I truly understand how she feels about everything, especially after the Preliminaries. It wasn't that they didn't work hard enough or tried enough. Far from that, actually. I just think that, too, that the stars had simply aligned in the direction of μ's. A miracle on its own, along every one of them, that made it possible. Anyway, the Nico Nico Nii phrase for picture taking was really cute. I wonder how Nico convinced them to do that lol XD