Shuffle! Memories 2

Shuffle! Memories is a recap series, half the length of the original with the story split up into multiple parts. Each main heroine gets 2 episode for a total ten, there's one intro episode (the previous one), and one new episode (finally!) at the end for a total of 12.

However, the dividing up of the story does strange and awkward things to the flow of the plot. Kaede Fuyou, the first girl featured in Shuf!Memo, was one of the last to get a story arc in the original series. So now, instead of starting out with some of the lighthearted stuff and then going into the more serious plots (I think the arcs built off of and eclipsed each other in the original), we're going straight into the deep end.

Each character is split up into two parts, so Kaede's entire story isn't laid out at once, but we get a significant enough chunk of it that I'm forced to issue a spoiler warning for through Shuffle! 21 or so. Somehow, I've managed to overtake my blogging of the entire Shuffle! series with the 2nd episode recap of its...recap series.

Not to mention...a recap of a recap? Strange, isn't it.

On the plus side, since it spoils that far in the series I can talk about all the tangentially related stuff in the series now, without spoiling the poor newbies.

There is some vaguely new scenes in this episode, although a large amount of it is in the OP sequence. There's another good thing about Shuf!Memo - there' s a different opening and a different song for each character. Pretty neat!