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...She was specifically told not to ride her bike for the remainder of the trip! How shameless! Her motorbike frontier spirit is corrupting her morals...

Another cute episode that focuses on an impromptu roadtrip on her now souped up bike to catch up with her class. Road trips can be a lot of fun if anxiety isn't a passenger, and this captures that trepidation and the wonder of discovery well. I wish there were more to talk about, but Super Cub is really more of an experience than a narrative, as the primary mode of engagement. There's much less dialogue and more focus on scenery and ambience (OST still strong). Her satisfied smile is still cute.

Seeing Koguma navigate with a paper map, I thought this might be set in the modern past, but then the reference to 2012, and I think they have smartphones, so it is probably contemporary. Turn on that GPS, girl!