Episode
Strawberry Panic: More Than Best Friends
Overview
Yaya's incident with Hikari causes her to fear that she has lost Hikari forever. An effort by Nagisa and Tamao allows them a reconciliation and another chance at being best friends forever.
Details
- Series
- Strawberry Panic
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2006-07-03
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
More Than Best Friends is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Strawberry Panic. It aired on 2006-07-03. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 13: The Roar of the Waves
Hikari finally gets a chance to be on a "date" with Amane. However, Kaname and Momomi again try to tear apart the new bond between them for Spica's sake at the Etoile position. In the midsts of all this, Yaya's feelings for Hikari grow even stronger, and she eventually vents them by suddenly kissing a shocked Hikari.
Episode 15: Heroine
Everybody at the Strawberry Dorms is pitching in for the two plays in Astraea's Drama Festival. The main play, Carmen, is the focus of everyone's attention as everyone awaits the announcement of who is to be cast as the lead roles. The second play will be Romeo and Juliet, prompting a furious rock-paper-scissors and thumb war tournament between the second-years for the role of Romeo. Tamao is asked to write the script for the performance of Carmen.
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Episode 12: Summertime
The month-long summer holidays have started, and most of the students residing in the Strawberry Dorms are going home. This leaves Nagisa, Shizuma and a couple of others left behind. Without the interference of other students, Shizuma makes her move on Nagisa.
Episode 16: Behind the Scenes
While everyone is still preparing for the show, there seems to be some internal struggling concerning Kaname and Momomi with the others. Later, after suffering two show-stopping events, all the students involved with the play band together and put on a show the other students will never forget.
Episode 11: Meteor Shower
Nagisa, accompanied by most of her friends, go on a short trip to the beach during "summer school". While there, everyone finds their own ways of having fun with each other, and they even get to participate in a test of courage later on. Meanwhile, Nagisa is just starting to discover just how much she misses Shizuma.
Episode 17: Secret
While all three schools eagerly await the election of a new Etoile couple, Nagisa learns the truth behind this tradition and receives an unexpected invitation from Shizuma in order to find out more information about Shizuma's late partner—the deceased Etoile.
Episode 10: Private Lessons
Nagisa starts to prepare for the mid-year exams by getting tutored by Shizuma in French.
Episode 18: Storm of Love
During a rainy night in Shizuma's villa, Nagisa finally learns about Kaori Sakuragi, the Etoile that died. However, she also makes a painful discovery of exactly how close the two Etoile were, and how their shared past is still far from being a mere memory.
Episode 9: Memories
The "Seven Mysteries" of the Strawberry Dorms are mentioned. Nagisa and Tamao start to investigate the first mystery: "The Girl of the Hallway", despite Nagisa's terrible fear of the supernatural.
Episode 19: Refrain
Miyuki recounts for Nagisa the events of the past few years concerning Shizuma and the now-deceased Kaori, whom they have both grieved for the past 3 years. As she tells her story, she also touches on the effects Nagisa's coming and passing had on both Shizuma and herself.
Episode 8: Hydrangeas
Nagisa offers her favorite umbrella to Kagome but does not give her name. Later, Kagome gets help from Chikaru and her friends, and they start to try to find out who gave Kagome the umbrella. Meanwhile, Tamao tries desperately to fulfill her fantasy of walking under an umbrella together with Nagisa.
Episode 20: Confession
In the aftermath of Shizuma avoiding everyone else, a cheerful Nagisa pushes on with her life, but then falls into a state of depression and ponders if coming to Miator was a good idea, which causes Tamao to recount just why Nagisa is so important to her. Meanwhile, Nagisa's first and second year friends, concerned with her mood, decide to band together to cheer her up again. Tamao tells Nagisa of how she was lonely in her dorm room before Nagisa came, Tamao then opens the door and the others come in bringing cookies. The episode ends with Tamao talking to a sleeping Nagisa, and confessing her love to her before kissing her.