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And so what makes this worth watching has begun to peek through. Some good character motivations, some world building, and the Unit 7 girls are remarkably more than simple caricatures at this stage with unique desires and a mutual understanding of their duties. Kyouka isn't perfect, and her growing relationship with Yuuki like the scene at the parfait shop rounds her out as a normal person beyond a typical authoritarian ice queen quite well. During the rewards, they are also exchanging information and bantering back and forth in ways that melt me, instead of the one sided teasing you'd expect from trashy scenes like this. Yuuki hasn't fleshed out into his full character, but at least he isn't the bumbling virgin archetype who freezes up completely around women and can still think and talk in compromising situations, including a little perv here and there.