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As they and their friends endure the jealousies, fears, longings, victories, and enmities of high school with all their attendant drama, Arima Soichiro and Yukino Miyazawa discover the real sources of their love. Yukino calms the demons of an unhappy childhood that still haunt Arima; his gentle strength reassures her, eliminating her need to demonstrate her superiority over the people around her. The now-handsome Tonami learns that the grudge he's nurtured for years over the way Sakura mistreated him when he was a pudgy little boy is a sublimated desire for her to accept him. As this funny yet accurately observed series concludes, director Hideo Anno (Evangelion) deconstructs his characters' world, then rebuilds it with greater clarity, noting that the love that links Arima and Yukino will continue, even as the circumstances around them continue to change. (Rated 13 and older: minor profanity, cartoon violence, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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