Since this doesn’t have game-fans it needs to pander to, this series can capture what’s good about the bishoujo genre (romance and melancholy) without bringing what’s bad (the need to do a forced-march through all the game paths, so each characters’ fans are appeased (or at least mollified)).

Episode 7 did give it a nudge it might have needed to avoid becoming treacly (though the flashbacks in episode six, and their implications, may have been sufficient for that). There’s mystery and puzzle to keep you watching to see what’s next, and the characters are (mostly) appealing enough that you want to spend time with them.

Even more than the glass at the end was the news that Mayuko has been with Matsuri for a month or more.