March Comes In Like a Lion Episode 21: Chapter 43: When the Cherry Blossoms Bloom / Chapter 44: Small Murmur

expanding on shimada's hometown provides excellent context for his communal motivations and kindness. transitioning from that into the domestic warmth of the kawamoto household, specifically highlighting the ideation of traditional sweets, is wonderfully done.

hinata has my whole heart, her pov this ep was perfect fr. and hearing them talk about their late mother was so touching, and watching the whole japanese sweet making process from the start was peak

shimadad is really an amazingly written character, tbf everyone in this anime is very well written but he hold a special place for me